To be really scared by this Sun headline.

[hopetobehappy]

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.

I hope you feel better this morning op, I always find worries have often subsided in the cold light of day.

I wouldnt be worried op. There is nothing about Russia on the Finnish news papers and until there is you do not need to worry.

I feel a lot better thanks pizzapop , but coming on here last night helped an awful lot. I guess my next big worry is the US elections, it's ridiculous I know, I wish I wasn't like this, but for now I'm ok. . Thank you everyone.

yAB completely U to even consider the Sun as anything remotely sensible. It is a rag. Please go and read something more sensible

lynnm , hopetobehappy & MrsTP

I've just walked into the bathroom with full intent of starting work. I moved the tools in there. I've found the stopcocks.

I've just rung my wife up at work to tell her I'm not doing the bathroom today as I don't want to start a nuclear war and I think Armageddon may ruin the weekend.

She seems perplexed by my reasons.

Don't read The Sun or the Daily Mail, they are bad for your mental health,

Just think about it that way OP, Russians have far too many assets in the West to risk losing the lot.

Also, where are their wives going to shop and their children go to school?

I'm sure a wise woman or two behind the officials will set them right.
If they bomb London what will happen to Selfridges and Harrods? Unthinkable.

I worry about the US elections far more than Putin. But as others have said, we have lived through worse (1970/80s for me) and are all still here today. OP the media are really trying to instil fear, sensational headlines sell their papers. don't read them.

NC so as not to out myself...

I work for the MoD, and trust me war is totally not imminent.

We're no closer to war with Russia now than we were at any point over the last 5 years.

Thanks Justarandonuser. As an anxiety sufferer that is really reassuring

Why aren't people really really anxious about the catastrophe of global warming? Far more imminent - in fact, it's happening.

But oh yes, it just affects all those people over there. Not us, here.

Why aren't people really really anxious about the catastrophe of global warming? Far more imminent - in fact, it's happening.

Very good point.

Don't panic about WW3, it's not going to happen! Everybody panics

Panic about climate change, it's happening now! LOL pass me some coal

Selfridges was bombed by the IRA inthe 70s - it's still there though

That's because their wives and children didn't have accounts there, I suspect, NotRight.

I did post like about global warming, animal extinction above.
I refrained for posting about AB resistance, didn't want to scare the daylights out of OP.

Panic about climate change, it's happening now! LOL pass me some coal

That made me chuckle because it's so true. There's an issue locally about a company wanting to carry out open cast coal mining. They reckon it won't have any negative effects whatsoever on the region and that there's still a lot of future in coal

OP, the way I manage my anxieties is to embrace the fact that, thus far, life has a mortality rate of 100%.

I think catastrophe will come slowly, without us noticing. Just that certain things will get harder, or more expensive. Like antibiotic resistance - we'll start to get more infections which can't be treated. It won't be a pandemic - just more people affected, imperceptibly. Water and power will become more & more expensive. Bits of the world will become less safe: disease, flooding, civil unrest.

The kind of post-Brexit xenophobia & outright racism here in comfortable cosy UK will become more "normal" and we'll either have to suffer it, or have the wherewithal to retreat from it.

And more brown people will suffer more flooding, storms, and disease somewhere else in the world. But they're not "us" so let's read stupid stupid newspaper headlines & spend our energy worrying about something that's so so important.

Ugh.

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

Thanks for that flyawayfar, happy weekend everyone!

There is nothing about Russia on the Finnish news papers and until there is you do not need to worry.

Ah, but remember Finland doesn't really exist