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

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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.

The biggest miscarriage of justice in UK history? People still suffering now, with not settlement on the horizon? Of course it is a very huge, current and ongoing news story. YABU

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.

What’s the other one?

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

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

YABVU

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

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?

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.

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.

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.

This!!

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

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

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

The only reason I roll my eyes at the post office scandal is how hard they're trying to drag fujitsu into it. Yeah, the software had errors, but it was the post office that refused to consider that, lied to thr victims saying "they were the only ones" that had a discrepancy pop up (when they absolutely weren't), etc. Computer programs get glitches and errors, we all deal with it every day I'm sure at work, that's why we need humans who are on the ball overseeing the use of it and being switched on enough to not let computer programs make decisions for them.

So hearing about it repeatedly does make me sick, because the post office is continuing to shift the blame. Fujitsu has accepted their part with their glitchy program, but the post office is still shying away from appropriate accountability. It's the humans failing at the jobs that caused the problem, not a buggy bit of software.

But besides that, no lol.

I will never understand how anyone can turn a blind eye to human suffering like this. Again, think about how lucky you are to be able to turn it off. I would hate to look back on this period in time knowing I turned away and did nothing.

People’s lives were destroyed by the post office scandal. Just switch off if you’re not interested but using the word “bleating” to describe someone still talking about this horrible miscarriage of justice - well, YABVFU.

I can't watch or read anything about animal abuse, specifically cats.

There hasn't been a time you or I have been alive where there hasn't been some kind of human suffering. Unless you're a world leader there's very little you can do. It's perfectly fine if someone wants to turn the news off. It really makes no difference.

Still waiting for the other one being
“ bleated on about” OP.

I haven’t watched the news for ages now, you do get weary of the same things day in day out.

Sadly you have a point. But I will still try. I believe I can make a difference even if that difference is tiny in the grand scheme of things.

Imagine if everyone who turned the news off did something. A charity donation, a letter to an MP, attended a protest... it's easy to feel helpless as an individual but when individuals stand together, that's when things can change. I don't have much hope of this ever happening but that doesn't mean I'll give up.

The phrasing of all of this doesn't make sense

Weary? Annoyed? Bored?

even if you feel all of those things, the Horizon scandal is absolutely worthy of any coverage that it's getting. But you haven't expressed yourself properly in the first place so.... try again? Third time lucky perhaps.

I don’t know what will happen me, but I feel
like this about all the news.

All of those things really aren’t going to make a difference. A protest, a letter to an ineffectual MP or charity donation won’t change what’s going on.

Yes, I know how important it is. Am genuinely interested in any breaking news / updates but when it is yet another half or whole hour of the actual news being replaced by more of the same I just roll my eyeballs and turn off. I am not a heartless cow.

But the other one will make it seem like I am. It is a lot more niche but is the constant wheeling out of the 'heroic friend' Kevin Sinfield (re Rob Burrow / MND), doing Good Things. And the calls for him to be canonised or similar 🙂
I think it is to do with the sickening reverence for / fawning over someone who is making something very important all about THEM. I know that research into MND is crucially important, and the effects of it are devastating but as soon as I hear the name Kevin Sinfield I cannot get to the remote fast enough to switch it off. And I know I am probably the only person alive who finds him a bit of a grifter.
That subject could be a bit more of a northern / regional obsession, tbh.