...to think the world is imploding?

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Libya.
Ireland.
New Zealand.
Greece.
Berlusconi.
Condems.
Tunisia.
Egypt.
Bankers.

So many BIG stories in the news, all clamouring for our attention...

2012 is coming innit

I actually can't watch the news without wanting to implode myself, infact dh has insisted on watching it tonight and quite frankly am too depressed. I know its life but quite frankly.........just pleased my friend has left libya safely.

May advice is to stop reading/watching the news.

Problem solved, next

And MN has gone slightly bonkers lately...

How has MN gone bonkers - can you give a few examples?

I could but then I might end up disappearing like various threads and various people... Too risky...

you could say the same about any year

we were all going to die of aids in 1985

The end is nigh, folks. You're in denial if you think otherwise.

Kerry Katona booted from D.O.I should have been on that list, OP.

OFRS one-upmanship

for some reason, your OP made me think of

think it was your list

end has been nigh for centuries. there's always something.

mankind is always on the brink of exterminating itself.

We're really very stupid indeed.

I agree. Watching the news in the last couple of weeks has been the most depressing thing ever. There doesn't seem to be any let-up, just one crap disaster story after another.

The next disaster on my prediction list...

Katie Price Will Marry Agaaaaaaaaain

Don't be mentioning Ireland in that list. we might be short a few bob, but have come through worse. don't you know we are gods chosen people? when the world ends all that will remain will be ireland. that is why there are snakes everywhere else, because you are all marked as bad. we dont have any snakes so we are marked as good. My grandad told me that so it must be true

and we'll all have a nice cup of tea

Lol eddiemccready my gran told me that too only my nans version was the irish people would be saved if they returned to mass

Can bupcakes please not lower the tone by bringing slebs into this discussion.

< goes off to wring hands... >

Jordan Takes a Third is on the Mayan calendar, you dolt.

I felt exactly this way today. I haven't actively taken in either news or newspaper since DD was very ill two years ago, but I was compelled to read about Libya and the NZ quake today, plus a local rag which had a front page story about child abuse. It left me feeling very, very sad and hopeless. There's a song that has always touched me by Everything But The Girl, not sure if it's a cover, but one line goes, 'it's time to hold your loved ones while the chains are loosed, and the world runs wild'. That's pretty much my philosophy now. We can't do great things, we can only do small things with great love, like hold our children that little bit tighter and do our best to send them out there with everything they need.

Oooh, SEA, did you mention a cup of tea???

Sevenkey, I was singing that dong to myself today.

It's called 'the night I heard Caruso sing'.

The preceding line is 'I've thought of having children but I've gone and changed my mind, it's hard enough to watch the news let alone explain it to a child'

Misspent 90s

Oh FGS, lighten up everyone!