No point in buying a newspaper then ...

i had three babies ,,,never had any pain relief either ,,,,,tough or what ?? :D
 
Ricardodaforce said:
. Over the past 24 hours the Obama administration has threatened action if Assad uses chemical weapons. Who invariably hangs onto the USA's coat-tails in these situations? The UK.
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Hence i choose now not to read too much until something happens. This situation in the past has affected me and my friends rather too much. you learn in our life that wait until something happens or we would be fruit cakes with worry over what is going to / maybe/ might happen.

As for being to blame, i do not buy the red tops and in fact i tend to get the news i do from the bbc web site and or the News on the Television. I agree with you about the press but how are you going to change that?

As i said for once a good news story instead of other rubbish, maybe not what every one wants to hear but we are all different thank the lord..
 
donutagain said:
i had three babies ,,,never had any pain relief either ,,,,,tough or what ?? :D
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Either your tough or your foo foo is the size of a dustbin lid :D





Leavin:exit:
 
No one here is making light of it by saying it's just a little morning sickness. Everyone has wished her well but said that they don't welcome the excessive coverage it will attract. I'm sure the condition is stressful enough without a hundred journalists camped outside awaiting the latest scoop. The press is invasive, excessive and needs to learn when to back the **** off. We don't need daily or even weekly updates on her condition. It's great that she's pregnant, not great that she's unwell, but do we really need to get such comprehensive coverage of her pregnancy?

The fixation of the media on the lives of celebrities in this country is baffling. I can't understand what goes on in people's heads to make them so fascinated with the lives of others. You want to make sweeping statements about genders? Well in that case it's women that perpetuate our invasive paparazzi press.
 
TriggerHappy said:
The fixation of the media on the lives of celebrities in this country is baffling. I can't understand what goes on in people's heads to make them so fascinated with the lives of others. You want to make sweeping statements about genders? Well in that case it's women that perpetuate our invasive paparazzi press.
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Couldn't have said it better myself :thumbs:
 
big soft moose said:
But one reason why a lot of people don't understand the situation is the media giving prominence to 'fluff' news - the royal baby, i'm a nonentity get me a career, whether one footballer called another a bad name etc

and serious situations like syria affect everyone like it or not - for example the ongoing unrest in the middle east is one reason why petrol is £1.33 a litre rather than sub £1 , and that affects everyone, even if you don't drive it affects you through the price of food and everything else
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Thought that was down to our theiving government.

I dont have a huge interest in the baby although am a staunch royalist, likewise I dont really care about Syria. The UN are inneffective and no-one is actually doing anything. All talk and bluster. If you want an end, send troops in.
 
Sending troops in wont achieve a thing.
 
To get back to my OP:

A mere 13 pages of Kate et al. in the Daily Wail!

Thirteen lines would have been sufficient.
 
Yellowbelly said:
To get back to my OP:

A mere 13 pages of Kate et al. in the Daily Wail!

Thirteen lines would have been sufficient.
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No-ones forcing you to read about it at all, so why are you so agitated about this?
 
MartynK said:
No-ones forcing you to read about it at all, so why are you so agitated about this?
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Read my OP. Why should I be agitated? I've already explained I have little or no interest in the Royal family.
 
Yes, I am sure the Mail would otherwise have been absolutely stuffed full with factual investigative journalism at its finest
 
cambsno said:
Thought that was down to our theiving government.

I dont have a huge interest in the baby although am a staunch royalist, likewise I dont really care about Syria. The UN are inneffective and no-one is actually doing anything. All talk and bluster. If you want an end, send troops in.
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This is laughable on so many levels.

Highlights being: 'I don't really care about Syria'; 'staunch royalist'; 'If you want an end, send troops in'.
 
TriggerHappy said:
No one here is making light of it by saying it's just a little morning sickness. Everyone has wished her well but said that they don't welcome the excessive coverage it will attract. I'm sure the condition is stressful enough without a hundred journalists camped outside awaiting the latest scoop. The press is invasive, excessive and needs to learn when to back the **** off. We don't need daily or even weekly updates on her condition. It's great that she's pregnant, not great that she's unwell, but do we really need to get such comprehensive coverage of her pregnancy?

The fixation of the media on the lives of celebrities in this country is baffling. I can't understand what goes on in people's heads to make them so fascinated with the lives of others. You want to make sweeping statements about genders? Well in that case it's women that perpetuate our invasive paparazzi press.
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I bet you that Kate and Wills hate the press coverage too. The only reason the press do it is because it sells papers. People enjoyr reading and seeing it. We may not understand it, but everyone is different. There are many people who are gobsamcked we spend so much on lenses, and that we are happy carrying heavy equipment round and being out at 6am when its -5 to get pictures, or to hide in a bush to snap birds!
 
PMK said:
This is laughable on so many levels.

Highlights being: 'I don't really care about Syria'; 'staunch royalist'; 'If you want an end, send troops in'.
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Why? I am a royalist, others are republican - can we not hold views?

Syria, I dont care much about. The whole region is constantly fighting each other as well as civil unrest internally. Reporting it in place of the royal baby will do nothing! Does it have an effect on me, maybe, but can I do anything about it - NO!

As for the troops - I guess it was flippant, but aside from sending troops in how will things change? Guy in charge wants to stay and keep control - those on the street want to get rid of him. The politicans spout hot air and nothing changes. Does anyone here actually have an idea what to do and what may work rather than send in troops? Hindsight is a wonderful thing. Iraq may not have appeared a victory, but had we done nothing who knows? Maybe one of his sons would have taken over and done a China - become westernised! Maybe though, they would have in the last 10 years developed more weapons, maybe even nuclear ones and wiped out most of the middle east? With hindisght, had people listened to Churchill, and acted around 1936/37, the second world war would not have happened!

You hear it all the time, when NKorea tests a missile, we send a statement saying how outraged we are in the strongest possible terms!!! Well, that told them, I bet they are scared now!!!
 
And lighting up the mood a little bit, here's my take on the happy event. Sorry, but I just had to do the cartoon.


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Lmao nice one Ian.
 
Nod said:
While there's little doubt that she's carrying a potential future heir to the throne,
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This is why it's such big news around the world, unless Charles or William croak it she's carrying the future King or Queen!
 
admirable said:
This is why it's such big news around the world, unless Charles or William croak it she's carrying the future King or Queen!
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in fact unless charles and william both croak it, she's carrying the future king or queen for about 60 years time (unless the monarchy has been abolished by then)- and fine his or her birth will be a newsworthy occasion, but why is every facet of the pregnancy news ? - so she's suffering morning sickness, well who cares, and who's business is it except hers anyway
 
admirable said:
This is why it's such big news around the world, unless Charles or William croak it she's carrying the future King or Queen!
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As Pete said, even IF Charles and WIlliam croak, she's carrying the future heir to the throne....provided the pregnancy continues as viable.
 
Yellowbelly said:
Read my OP. Why should I be agitated? I've already explained I have little or no interest in the Royal family.
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So just read the bits that do interest you.:shrug:
Me personally, I don't read news papers, don't watch the news and certainly couldn't give a stuff about Syria. Now where's my copy of Autosport.:D
 
nilagin said:
So just read the bits that do interest you.:shrug:
Me personally, I don't read news papers, don't watch the news and certainly couldn't give a stuff about Syria. Now where's my copy of Autosport.:D
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Probably in my bathroom :)
 
nilagin said:
So just read the bits that do interest you.:shrug:
Me personally, I don't read news papers, don't watch the news and certainly couldn't give a stuff about Syria. Now where's my copy of Autosport.:D
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I suspect you'll give rather more of a stuff if the whole region kicks off into a massive war and they start having to ration petrol due to oil shortages (or just the price goes through the roof)
 
big soft moose said:
I suspect you'll give rather more of a stuff if the whole region kicks off into a massive war and they start having to ration petrol due to oil shortages (or just the price goes through the roof)
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Filling up with diesel once every three weeks:thinking:, nope still don't care.
 
nilagin said:
Filling up with diesel once every three weeks:thinking:, nope still don't care.
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If I only had to fill up every three weeks then I probably wouldn't care either.
 
what does it matter what news is on the front page (or first half) of the papers? All the news is still being reported just in a different order, just turn the flippin page or wait 5 minutes and watch the relevant bit to you on the tv!
 
PMK said:
You can hold those views, but people can also questions those views.

It's just strange to me, because what the Royal Family represents is utterly undemocratic - you're supportive of a superior bloodline, that just seems bonkers to me.
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Well, one could argue that they do no worse a job than the people we elect. In any case, we have an undemocratic way of being governed by Brussels!

Last survey done said that the majority people support and like the royal family, so keeping them would be the democratic thing to do. They give a lot of happiness to people. Just ignore them if u don't like them, in the same way millions like eastenders - I just don't watch it.
 
nilagin said:
Filling up with diesel once every three weeks:thinking:, nope still don't care.
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viv1969 said:
If I only had to fill up every three weeks then I probably wouldn't care either.
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I bet you'd both care when the grocery deliveries couldn't get through due to the lack of fuel!
 
Nod said:
I bet you'd both care when the grocery deliveries couldn't get through due to the lack of fuel!
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So the answer is???? I don't really care as I cannot control it. Putting it ahead of a royal baby will make no difference.
 
you can't control kates morning sickness either - so why do you care about that ?

personally i feel that we have a duty to learn about and understand key global issues, so that we can tell when we are being lied to by politicians, and can make an informed choice at the ballot box, and more people would do so if the red tops weren't so full of dross and fluff

On your earlier point about "send the troops if you want to make a real difference" I agree if its intelligently applied - in this situation sending a small number of expert troops to assist the rebels with key tasks is probably not that bad an idea (it worked in libya to an extent), however getting ourselves and the US embroiled in a full scale invasion and war is a terrible idea - and may well be what the Assad regime wants, because the rebels will lose their popular support if they seem to be puppets of the ' great satan' - plus all sorts of AQ type nutters will turn up to fight on the regimes side, and we'll shortly find ourselves in a no win situation just like iraq
 
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gumbo-67 said:
But on another note isn't it nice to have a feel good story for once? she may not be feeling too good i have to say.
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send her one of those 'flash' mob videos ;)

I cant say the news of a pregnancy is affecting my access to more important news much.
 
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