Removing myself from current affairs

xi

I am considering refusing to read/hear/watch any more depressing stories.

I want to censor my life to just happiness.

I want to be the guy that everyone looks at in awe :eek: because I never heard of IMF,Rehn,banks,ghost estates,recession and yesterdays poor murdered children.

I only want to watch fictional TV.

what are my chances?

Caco

Slim to none if you keep coming back to AH!

Senna

You know it wont actually make bad things stop happening.

KeithM89_old

xi wrote: »

I want to be the guy that everyone looks at in awe :eek: because I never heard of IMF,Rehn,banks,ghost estates,recession....

Yea no one will do that...

Kylo Ren

Well I'd suggest to firstly......PICTURE THE CONCERN AD ON TV WITH THE CRYING, STARVING BABY!!!!! Game over my friend.

xi

Senna wrote: »

You know it wont actually make bad things stop happening.

Sure, I just don't want to know anymore.

Brendog

I decided to watch nothing but TV once.

They found me 2 months later in tattered clothes, covered in feces and continually mumbling Simpsons quotes.



Best 2 months EVER!!!!

alwaysadub

So basically you're gonna have to stay in your house for a fair while. But alone, in case anyone else mentions things. And tune out pretty much most of your TV stations.
Don't turn on the radio either..

Let me know how that works out for ya..

Posy

xi wrote: »

I am considering refusing to read/hear/watch any more depressing stories.

I want to censor my life to just happiness.

I want to be the guy that everyone looks at in awe :eek: because I never heard of IMF,Rehn,banks,ghost estates,recession and yesterdays poor murdered children.

I only want to watch fictional TV.

what are my chances?

I don't blame you. I've stopped reading the newspaper and have been watching a lot of my DVD comedy boxed sets. I still know the country is up sh*t creek though. There's just no escape.

tommyboy2222

You won't be able to experience happiness unless you've experienced sadness.

xi

alwaysadub wrote: »

Let me know how that works out for ya..

Would love to, but boards would have to be OOB

IvySlayer

I thanked your post, thanks make me smile

DeVore

Then dont come on here and complain when your house is being taxed through the roof, your kids cant get that operation they need and you cant afford the taxes.

Stay awake, stay informed and VOTE.

DeV.

xi

DeVore wrote: »

VOTE

Not worth a hat of sh1t come next week, Doh (must stop myself reading),i failed at the first hurdle, for shame.

Right, ignorance begins now.

Mrmoe

The problem is that we are basically passengers in the car that we own that is being driven by somebody else who is drunk and isn't qualified to drive. We are strapped in the back seat and the best that we can do is to shout and roar at the driver to stop driving for the ditch. Until a general election is called we have no power so we might as well sit back relax and accept what is coming. It is liberating in a way.

goose2005

Well, everyone in Ireland ignored economic reality from about 2001-2008 and that didn't work out very well. As a citizen I think you have some responsibility to know and act re. current affairs.

Sticky_Fingers

goose2005 wrote: »

Well, everyone in Ireland ignored economic reality from about 2001-2008 and that didn't work out very well. As a citizen I think you have some responsibility to know and act re. current affairs.

What the hell are you talking about dude, sure didn't all the people who truly matter get their soft landing while floating down on their golden parachute onto a bed of money and pensions. Perhaps you should go commit suicide like all the other doom and gloomers who are really responsible for the death and skinning of the Celtic tiger by having the gall to speak the truth.

* Runs back into cupboard where I write my tabloid column


** Yeehaw 500th post, go me, to Canada

Jenroche

I think it's unavoidable to ignore all that's happening but I do understand where the OP is coming from. I have stopped buying newspapers because I refuse to live in a climate of fear generated by the media. I do however, watch the news a couple of times a week to keep up to speed but yeah, if you kept on watching every newst/current affairs programme on tv you'd end up slitting your wrists. Keeping it to a minimum is best all round.

Cabaal

I used to enjoy listening to Matt Cooper in the evenings but then in the mornings Dempsey on Today FM started going on about politics and dispite people txting in telling him to STFU he wouldn't and kept going on about some compaign he wanted to start so I finally had enough.

I've not stopped listening to Today FM full stop and alot of the news in general, I now listen to either audiobooks from my ipod connected in the car or Lyric FM.

Dispie people saying its almost impossiable you'd be surprised just how little news in Ireland you can hear/see if you watch recorded stuff off Sky, Download/Stream TV shows and listen to audiobooks.

I find my mornings and evenings more relaxing now

cml387

I think if you want to live in a place where you are completely isolated from all that's going on around,and live in blissful ignorance of the true situation, you should move into the Taoiseach's office.

itac

I'm with you on this, I rarely watch the news anymore, life can be difficult enough at times without taking in extra misery. As Jeroche said, it's unavoidable at times, but it's easier to deal with the news when you can choose what you want to absorb, instead of listening/watching minutes/hours of misery!

Just gotta keep on remembering the things that make you smile, the people you love, the silly things that make you laugh, and happy memories...(g'wan the bit o'red:D)