Is the media trying to turn us into a nation of drama queens??
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Is the media trying to turn us into a nation of drama queens??
Oh.. a bit of water.. "The Great Flood".
What a load of utter crap. I've been wanting that dam to burst all day just so that the news have something actually worth reporting as a "disaster". Some houses get destroyed.. I'm sure they can kick the **** out of that in the form of interviews of owners and "Disaster" weekday evening specials for weeks..
Yeah, its a pain in the backside, but its simply inconvienient to everyone other than the two families who have lost someone due to the weather.. but hell - Big Picture Time... a tropical storm thats hit South Asia has killed over 200 people in Karachi alone over the weekend.
Ugh.
What a load of utter crap. I've been wanting that dam to burst all day just so that the news have something actually worth reporting as a "disaster". Some houses get destroyed.. I'm sure they can kick the **** out of that in the form of interviews of owners and "Disaster" weekday evening specials for weeks..
Yeah, its a pain in the backside, but its simply inconvienient to everyone other than the two families who have lost someone due to the weather.. but hell - Big Picture Time... a tropical storm thats hit South Asia has killed over 200 people in Karachi alone over the weekend.
Ugh.
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its the way they work
You arn't just upset you're "devastated"
there isnt a bit of snow in the offing its a "severe weather warning"
and you dont keep your dignity you must go on a european tour to raise awareness rather than looking for your missing child.
Death to the media!
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You arn't just upset you're "devastated"
there isnt a bit of snow in the offing its a "severe weather warning"
and you dont keep your dignity you must go on a european tour to raise awareness rather than looking for your missing child.
Death to the media!
astraboy.
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Oh.. a bit of water.. "The Great Flood".
What a load of utter crap. I've been wanting that dam to burst all day just so that the news have something actually worth reporting as a "disaster". Some houses get destroyed.. I'm sure they can kick the **** out of that in the form of interviews of owners and "Disaster" weekday evening specials for weeks..
Yeah, its a pain in the backside, but its simply inconvienient to everyone other than the two families who have lost someone due to the weather.. but hell - Big Picture Time... a tropical storm thats hit South Asia has killed over 200 people in Karachi alone over the weekend.
Ugh.
What a load of utter crap. I've been wanting that dam to burst all day just so that the news have something actually worth reporting as a "disaster". Some houses get destroyed.. I'm sure they can kick the **** out of that in the form of interviews of owners and "Disaster" weekday evening specials for weeks..
Yeah, its a pain in the backside, but its simply inconvienient to everyone other than the two families who have lost someone due to the weather.. but hell - Big Picture Time... a tropical storm thats hit South Asia has killed over 200 people in Karachi alone over the weekend.
Ugh.
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Not sure what the reason is behind your post and can only suspect it is to further your own Asian/religious agenda.
In virtually every Pakistani newspaper there is no mention of the storms/floods in England, however every newspaper and news service in that region is carrying the news regarding the storms in Karachi.
The Daily Mail - Daily News from Pakistan - Newspaper from Pakistan
Pakistan Times - Pakistan's First Independent Complete Multilingual Daily E-Newspaper - June 26, 2007 - PakistanTimes.pk
In virtually every Pakistani newspaper there is no mention of the storms/floods in England, however every newspaper and news service in that region is carrying the news regarding the storms in Karachi.
The Daily Mail - Daily News from Pakistan - Newspaper from Pakistan
Pakistan Times - Pakistan's First Independent Complete Multilingual Daily E-Newspaper - June 26, 2007 - PakistanTimes.pk
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Oh.. a bit of water.. "The Great Flood".
What a load of utter crap. I've been wanting that dam to burst all day just so that the news have something actually worth reporting as a "disaster". Some houses get destroyed.. I'm sure they can kick the **** out of that in the form of interviews of owners and "Disaster" weekday evening specials for weeks..
Yeah, its a pain in the backside, but its simply inconvienient to everyone other than the two families who have lost someone due to the weather.. but hell - Big Picture Time... a tropical storm thats hit South Asia has killed over 200 people in Karachi alone over the weekend.
Ugh.
What a load of utter crap. I've been wanting that dam to burst all day just so that the news have something actually worth reporting as a "disaster". Some houses get destroyed.. I'm sure they can kick the **** out of that in the form of interviews of owners and "Disaster" weekday evening specials for weeks..
Yeah, its a pain in the backside, but its simply inconvienient to everyone other than the two families who have lost someone due to the weather.. but hell - Big Picture Time... a tropical storm thats hit South Asia has killed over 200 people in Karachi alone over the weekend.
Ugh.
3 dead
1000's forced to leave their homes
Section of M1 motorway closed
Railway lines
100's of homes flooded and ruined
dozens of cars wrecked (imagine it your pride and joy)
businesses unable to trade
Simply inconvienient? have some compasion will you.
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Yes, as a born and bred Norfolk, white, pagan boy..
..I'm using it to further my Pakistani Islamic aims.... jihad.. kill the infidels..
But you raise an interesting point..
..That 3 people killed, some water-logged cars and a few ruined carpets isn't prehaps as newsworthy as 200+ killed in Pakistan, 400+ killed in SE Asia and tens of thousands being made homeless; and thats not just until their house insurance pays out either.
My actual point was simply the utter-ridiculousness of the extreme tabloid nature of the media reporting regarding a bit of heavy rain, and that I am at a loss to know how they would react to a true disaster. Which, frankly, this isn't.
2004 Tsunami - Disaster
1906 San Francisco earthquake - Disaster
Great Fire of London - Disaster
Pompey - Disaster
Soggy wallpaper in Sheffield - hmm....
And using your own kindly provided list, Which one of the above truely matters? Three people have tragically died due to some unusual weather. The rest of it IS nothing but inconvenience.
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Oh.. a bit of water.. "The Great Flood".
What a load of utter crap. I've been wanting that dam to burst all day just so that the news have something actually worth reporting as a "disaster". Some houses get destroyed.. I'm sure they can kick the **** out of that in the form of interviews of owners and "Disaster" weekday evening specials for weeks..
Yeah, its a pain in the backside, but its simply inconvienient to everyone other than the two families who have lost someone due to the weather.. but hell - Big Picture Time... a tropical storm thats hit South Asia has killed over 200 people in Karachi alone over the weekend.
Ugh.
What a load of utter crap. I've been wanting that dam to burst all day just so that the news have something actually worth reporting as a "disaster". Some houses get destroyed.. I'm sure they can kick the **** out of that in the form of interviews of owners and "Disaster" weekday evening specials for weeks..
Yeah, its a pain in the backside, but its simply inconvienient to everyone other than the two families who have lost someone due to the weather.. but hell - Big Picture Time... a tropical storm thats hit South Asia has killed over 200 people in Karachi alone over the weekend.
Ugh.
you have a valid point here. what i particularly liked was how, according to ITV News and the VERY DRAMATIC AND DASHING MARK AUSTIN, dame shirley bassey "had a brush with death" when her chopper had to set down in a field on her return from glasto because of the bad weather. actually, the real story was how the chopper set down in bad weather and the first thing this national treasure in diamante wellies did was go for a pee in someone's house - the bathroom hopefully.
her helo looked fine to me. a "brush with death" is a crash-landing from which you luckily walk away [or running a b&b in gwent only to find that ps lewis has just made a booking]. as david coulthard will testify to [crash-landing that is, not running a b&b in gwent and finding ... etc].
the big problem is that as a nation, we can't, don't and won't prepare ourselves for jack sh*t. even for half inch of snow on the motorways. pathetic i'd say.
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Already heard some guy on the wireless this morning saying that *climate change* meant more of this *inclement weather* ......
Then I was speaking to my mother and we both agreed that nothing was different, in terms of weather patterns, to when we were younger. She was born in 1936 .....
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Well there's a surprise then. More softening the public up for the 'no pain no gain' green tax measures coming soon in the name of 'saving the planet'.
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As for global warming, we have a slightly unusual weather change whether it be a cold snap, heatwave, prolonged rain, and it's blamed on climate change... course the climate is changing, it always has done and always will, we have to adapt to it!
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Got to say the media are the problem here. Sure it is newsworthy and more than an inconvenience to some, but hardly worthy of continual coverage and being named 'The Great Flood'.
I was watching ITV and the BBC earlier and you can almost sense that they want this dam to give way as it gives them so much more to get stuck into especially human tragedy
I remember their coverage of the Tsunami, they were almost salivating as the death toll rose, I'm surprised one of the channels at least didn't construct a Blue Peter style totaliser for the number of dead with a target of several million so they could milk the bloody thing for a few months at least.
Finally a headline one of the tabloids today 'Britain flooded and it will keep raining until the middle of July' - how do they know that, most weather forecasts can't even get right what weather we are having right now.
I was watching ITV and the BBC earlier and you can almost sense that they want this dam to give way as it gives them so much more to get stuck into especially human tragedy
I remember their coverage of the Tsunami, they were almost salivating as the death toll rose, I'm surprised one of the channels at least didn't construct a Blue Peter style totaliser for the number of dead with a target of several million so they could milk the bloody thing for a few months at least.
Finally a headline one of the tabloids today 'Britain flooded and it will keep raining until the middle of July' - how do they know that, most weather forecasts can't even get right what weather we are having right now.
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Not saying that global warming is man made or anything as I truly don't know, but the climate is definitely changing and to deny it just to suit your own political agenda is daft.
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I was watching ITV and the BBC earlier and you can almost sense that they want this dam to give way as it gives them so much more to get stuck into especially human tragedy
I remember their coverage of the Tsunami, they were almost salivating as the death toll rose, I'm surprised one of the channels at least didn't construct a Blue Peter style totaliser for the number of dead with a target of several million so they could milk the bloody thing for a few months at least.
I remember their coverage of the Tsunami, they were almost salivating as the death toll rose, I'm surprised one of the channels at least didn't construct a Blue Peter style totaliser for the number of dead with a target of several million so they could milk the bloody thing for a few months at least.
astraboy.
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Well all I'll say on the matter is; thank God none of the UK's councils are in charge of flood control measures over here
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Maybe if it happened to you, you'd think a bit different.
3 dead
1000's forced to leave their homes
Section of M1 motorway closed
Railway lines
100's of homes flooded and ruined
dozens of cars wrecked (imagine it your pride and joy)
businesses unable to trade
Simply inconvienient? have some compasion will you.
3 dead
1000's forced to leave their homes
Section of M1 motorway closed
Railway lines
100's of homes flooded and ruined
dozens of cars wrecked (imagine it your pride and joy)
businesses unable to trade
Simply inconvienient? have some compasion will you.
Every year, without fail, somewhere on the coast gets flooded. Cars get washed away, people lose belongings, roads and railway tracks are under water. Its happened for as long as I can remember. Heck, I remember watching about 100 cars floating around a particular sea side car park about 20 years ago.
It happens inland too. The river spey burst its banks this very Christmas, causing massive flooding and damage to homes, farms and businesses. Part of the main line railway from the South to Inverness was washed away. Cars were damaged, livestock drowned.
Did it make national headlines 24/7? No...
Perhaps because it wasn't England?
Probably.
To the orignal poster. You're sick of it? Try living in Wales, Ireland or Scotland (and maybe Cornwall ) and see what it feels like to have your own "disasters" largely ignored.
Its somewhat ironic. Thankfully, despite the media's apparent efforts to bring doom and gloom upon us all, we British seem pretty good at shrugging it off and getting on with life even if large sections of the UK population couldn't prepare for a storm in a teacup.
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Whilst there are some parts of the media who are 'hyping' it up to a degree, when you're caught up in it you realise what a massive disaster it is.
Anyone who hopes the dam bursts in a fookin moron. I hope they're stool next to it if it goes.
Anyone who hopes the dam bursts in a fookin moron. I hope they're stool next to it if it goes.
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Clearly Big Brother is more pressing news for people like you. Here you go fill your boots
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First of all I feel for the families who have lost their loved ones to this. But I do agree that this is no disaster, only a huge inconvenience to most involved.
I come from a village where it does flood from heavy rain fall, and as I have mentioned above is an inconvenience to us. However, this village has also suffered a true disaster where a whole generation was lost from a coal slag collapsing on top of them.
The media ‘overhypes’ so much these days. It is news worthy but over reported as something it’s not.
I come from a village where it does flood from heavy rain fall, and as I have mentioned above is an inconvenience to us. However, this village has also suffered a true disaster where a whole generation was lost from a coal slag collapsing on top of them.
The media ‘overhypes’ so much these days. It is news worthy but over reported as something it’s not.
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Two major UK cities have suffered large scale floods. Had it been London I'd like to see how the southern poofs would have coped. We'd never hear the end of it.
Fact is it's cool to show disdain for incidents these days for some reason.
Fact is it's cool to show disdain for incidents these days for some reason.
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First of all I feel for the families who have lost their loved ones to this. But I do agree that this is no disaster, only a huge inconvenience to most involved.
I come from a village where it does flood from heavy rain fall, and as I have mentioned above is an inconvenience to us. However, this village has also suffered a true disaster where a whole generation was lost from a coal slag collapsing on top of them.
The media ‘overhypes’ so much these days. It is news worthy but over reported as something it’s not.
I come from a village where it does flood from heavy rain fall, and as I have mentioned above is an inconvenience to us. However, this village has also suffered a true disaster where a whole generation was lost from a coal slag collapsing on top of them.
The media ‘overhypes’ so much these days. It is news worthy but over reported as something it’s not.