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AIBU?

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To feel a bit sick(ened) when hearing about certain subjects?

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RedRec · 14/08/2025 10:21

Title shamelessly inspired by another thread. Is there anything you see or hear, eg on the News, that has you reaching for the off button lightning quick?

Mine is the frigging Post Office Scandal. Still being done to death. Just turned off Woman's Hour when Anita Rani started bleating on about it. Sick of hearing about it over and over again.

I have another one but would probably be run out of town for mentioning it.

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Enigma53 · 14/08/2025 10:55

What’s the one OP?
The women abused by Al Fayed?

Helpmeplease2025 · 14/08/2025 10:52

I turn off anything about Palestine. Same goes for blocking people on SM who post about it. Especially when it’s people telling other people how to think/behave

LifeOfAShowGirl · 14/08/2025 10:52

Ellaalltheway · 14/08/2025 10:27

What’s the other one?

I don’t feel like that about the post office scandal tbh, it’s still ongoing.

I’d put money on it being the situation in Gaza

Enigma53 · 14/08/2025 10:50

IntoTheFringe · 14/08/2025 10:28

Aren't you lucky to be able to turn it off? Some people have to live it.

YABVU

This!!

Enigma53 · 14/08/2025 10:49

The Post Office scandal; the BIGGEST miscarriage of justice and you are wondering why it’s still being discussed?? Good job you weren’t involved OP.

Sosickofarrogance · 14/08/2025 10:38

I know I feel nauseous when I am very saddened by something that I can't actually do something about. Very upsetting stories in the news and sad events in my local area affect me this way, but like someone said upthread, when I do feel irritated by hearing about something too much, I try to remember that there are those for whom it it is completely endless.

The post office scandal has had mass coverage but the impact of it is enormous. Maybe try to look at it from the unrelenting impact for those involved, perhaps that's the unspoken story.

RhaenysRocks · 14/08/2025 10:33

But there's a massive difference between being bored / uninterested with celeb gossip and a situation like the PO scandal with raised some pretty fundamental questions about how our society operates. I mean, you can not "do politics" as much as you like but then you don't get to complain when things are corrupt, shitty, slow, broken.

CurlewKate · 14/08/2025 10:31

No- I still want to know what’s going on with the biggest miscarriage of justice in British history. Where no one has been compensated or gone to prison. Why wouldn’t I?

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RedRec · 14/08/2025 10:28

Comedycook · 14/08/2025 10:25

I do sometimes turn off the radio or TV news when certain subjects are being discussed... I'm usually weary of hearing about it rather than sickened though.

Yes, more weary. I chose sickened because of the other thread title (about people/celebs)