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Original poster

To be really scared by this Sun headline.

194 replies

hopetobehappy · 27/10/2016 20:21

I've just had an awful scare and I'm so frightened, need calming down. Just scrolling down Facebook and there's a Sun headline....Nuclear war could be imminent, troops sent near to Russian border. It's so so scary.

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AnnieOnAMapleLeaf · 27/10/2016 21:44

The Rothschilds conspiracy? Seriously? Hmm

megletthesecond · 27/10/2016 21:45

Well said bowie. It's Murdoch. He has money and games to play. He just has a bigger stage to play it out on.

glueandstick · 27/10/2016 21:47

One of the Rothschild's estates produces some cracking wines.

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hopetobehappy · 27/10/2016 21:49

Does Murdoch own all the newspapers that carried the headlines that scared me?

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IPityThePontipines · 27/10/2016 21:51

My niece is doing law apparently they keep mentioning that a big war is on the horizon when doing the world/euro politics bit.

What? Is this what we've been reduced to? Gems of wisdom from people's nieces! It's bad enough when people quote their own husband as some wise oracle...

Also, whoever mentioned the Rothchilds upthread is providing further proof that MN has indeed got lots of far-right posters these days.

Therefore OP, do not read other MN threads on this, as they are probably equally full of nonsense.

DoYouRememberJustinBobby · 27/10/2016 21:57

Actually the other MN thread I posted has a lot of differing opinions.

mymilkshakes00 · 27/10/2016 21:58

Even if it's true. Worrying won't change anything. Just go on as you would and pray for a quick end if a nuclear war does break out.

pizzapop · 27/10/2016 22:00

Yeah recent threads on this have actually made me feel better, some knowledgable rational posters rather than fear mongering Australian old men.

MumOnTheRunCatchingUp · 27/10/2016 22:03

a very quick end mymilk

LittleOldWineDrinker · 27/10/2016 22:09

You are being unreasonable for reading the Sun in the first place!

BowieFan · 27/10/2016 22:10

As an aside, can I ask you how old you are, OP?

I grew up in the 70s and 80s, when schools were full of "Protect and Survive" posters, telling you how to hide under your desk in case of a Nuclear attack. Our school had the general siren on top of it that would give the four minute warning in case a missile was launched. We had regular drills about what to do, where to go etc.

I think if you grew up through that, when there actually was a chance of it happening and we came to terms with it, scaremongering headlines don't bother you. My dad was alive during the Cuban Missile Crisis, when we were actually very very close to being at Nuclear war.

I think you're probably too young to have experienced what we did, and so are scared of it happening. We grew up in a time when it was much more likely to happen, and it didn't. Therefore, I am much less likely to believe it ever will happen.

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hopetobehappy · 27/10/2016 22:15

I lived through all that too Bowie and was very scared then too.

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FlyAwayFar · 27/10/2016 22:20

YABU for reading the Sun. It's a disgusting rag. Any newspaper which needs to feature naked women to sell its so-called "news" deserves to be recycled without being read.

The Sun claimed that an adult interpreter was one of the child migrants trying to defraud this country to whip up nasty xenophobic racism.

Don't read it. It's not news, and they blatantly lie.

Saci · 27/10/2016 22:25

It's in the Guardian as well. But YABU to be worried about it. It's the same old, same old. Here comes WW3 scaremongering.

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hopetobehappy · 27/10/2016 22:25

I don't read it though fly, the headline just came up on my newsfeed on Facebook. I didn't even dare click it on.

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DaphneCanDoBetterThanFred · 27/10/2016 22:25

Antifrank I've heard similar. But my uncle's dog's best friend's owner's next door neighbour is high up in the Navy, and says Ed Balls in a glittery salsa outfit is our only protection against a nuclear bomb. The sparkles will confuse the bomb's targeting system and Ed Balls' high kick will whack it all the way back to the Kremlin.* So it's all good.

*Well, why not. It makes as much fucking sense as anything printed in the Sun.

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hopetobehappy · 27/10/2016 22:27

What, you mean the Guardian said ww3 was imminent too?

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Original poster
hopetobehappy · 27/10/2016 22:27

I mean nuclear war?

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SwedishEdith · 27/10/2016 22:28

But why would you pay any attention to anything the Sun says? Surely everyone knows this by now.

Now, if you'd talked about chemtrails....

IPityThePontipines · 27/10/2016 22:29

Among their many wicked deeds:

The Sun tried to take photographs of Freddie Mercury when he was on his deathbed

That is the sort of utter, utter scum they are.

LovingLola · 27/10/2016 22:31

I have iodine tablets that my parents were given donkeys years ago to use in the event of a nuclear bomb...there were 7 in the packet - one for each of us...wonder are they past their use-by date?
And on a more serious note - no I would not even consider the Sun a newspaper, never mind pay any heed to what is written in it.

PacificDogwod · 27/10/2016 22:31

I didn't even dare click it on.

That is your problem: out of control anxiety ruling your actions.
NOT some shite headline landing in your inbox unbidden.
And get rid of FB too Grin

Seriously, seek some anxiety management help and become discerning where you get your world politics information from.

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RoseGoldHippie · 27/10/2016 22:34

Top stories in the Sun now include a boy with a tongue the size of a tennis ball and a charity dingle update.

I don't think you need to worry

That being said OP when I was very young I was reading the sun at a friends house, the headline main page spread was advising the sun would likely explode imminently (this was about 18 years ago!) I was so scared as was only a child. I learnt from then that it is absolutely the worst rag out there!!

FerretFred · 27/10/2016 22:34

WW3 imminent? I hope not. I've just put a new kitchen in and I don't want the bugger scratched .