Bad Day for News

[david63]

Turned the TV on tonight for the news and:

- Plane caught fire at Heathrow
- Train crash in Paris
- Nail bomb attack in Tipton
- Woman and child found dead on Dartmoor
- Lee Rigby's funeral

Must be one of the worst days for news for a long time

[Kendhni]

Looks like it was another Dreamliner that caught fire .... I have a feeling that the 787 could be a major thorn in the side of Boeing

[Boris+]

When it rains sometimes I think that it is 'mother nature' cleaning the pavements and watering the wild flowers for me (glass half full syndrome).

So, when there is a stream of negative news, I look at it with the same glass half full syndrome and think that it is going to make any good news which follows even more appreciated.

It won't be long now and the news will turn to the birth of a royal baby, and that will be something lovely to hear about.

Meanwhile, there is always the top item of our news every morning - how long to the next cruise!

Keep calm, cruise on - and don't let the news get you down. Every cloud has a silver lining.

Em

[suespud]

When it rains sometimes I think that it is 'mother nature' cleaning the pavements and watering the wild flowers for me (glass half full syndrome).

So, when there is a stream of negative news, I look at it with the same glass half full syndrome and think that it is going to make any good news which follows even more appreciated.

It won't be long now and the news will turn to the birth of a royal baby, and that will be something lovely to hear about.

Meanwhile, there is always the top item of our news every morning - how long to the next cruise!

Keep calm, cruise on - and don't let the news get you down. Every cloud has a silver lining.

Em

Sorry Boris, your post reeks of "I'm aright Jack" so bugger everything else.
When there is much sadness in the world, it does no harm to reflect and have a little compassion.
How long till my next cruise/holiday, wouldnt enter my head after hearing and reading sad events.

Just my opinion of course.

[GillD46]

Turned the TV on tonight for the news and:

- Plane caught fire at Heathrow
- Train crash in Paris
- Nail bomb attack in Tipton
- Woman and child found dead on Dartmoor
- Lee Rigby's funeral

Must be one of the worst days for news for a long time

A really bad day indeed.

Boris, I'm not sure what the sliver lining could be after the above news?

[Boris+]

I have my glass half full, and making the most of what is in my day; and sometimes I look for a silver lining. So for example, a rainy day is a nice day for puddles; I am most certainly not going to let situations which are completely beyond my control get me down. Don’t ever presume that I don’t care - I just try and look on the bright side.

Maybe the plane fire and the train crash will lead to enhancements in safety for passengers and workers alike - but until the reports are available, nobody really knows. Maybe the people who did the nail bombing will be caught and punished and prevented from causing any more harm.

I'm not willing to go into the depths of 'silverlining-ology' because some folk might be offended.

However, I have to look at the sunny side of life; it’s the only way for me. It keeps me purposeful and cheerful and whilst this harms absolutely nobody, it sometimes does some people a lot of good at the same time.

So, with chin up and counting my blessings - it's a lovely sunny day.

Em

[Jacknian]

Boris, I think it's a lovely way to look at life, I will try to be as optimistic as you.

[Boris+]

Hi Jacknian,

Sometimes it is difficult or hard, but I try and be cheerful - but not to the extent that it becomes an irritation. A rainy day makes me hope to see little children with wellyboots on jumping in a puddle, similarly a windy day means I can go out and be almost certain that I'm going to look a mess and so is everyone else, so it's silly hat on and get on with it!

Autumn brings leaves for dogs and children to play in, and early Spring brings the hunt for the first wild flowers.

For my own part, I find that by being 'glass half full' keeps me cheerful and hence better able to help others.

Em

[Silver_Shiney]

I liked the comment on the news last night that the tossers who butchered that poor lad have made him the martyr. Whatever the state of his personal life, he was still a hero, and nobody deserves to die like that. This has backfired badly on the jihadists. That said, as much as I am no friend of Islam, I detest the seemingly tit-for-tat attacks on Muslims and their properties. I hope young Lee's family are now given the privacy they need to grieve and get their lives back to a degree of normality. They say time heals, I think it just makes the event less difficult to bear.

What has made the Paris train tragedy even worse is the report that some people turned up to loot the victims and stone the rescuers. What is this world coming to?

It's bad enough that Katherine Hooper was ill enough to take her own life, but to take the lives her two kiddies as well? I understand that she was known to the welfare authorities - do lessons need to be learned here?

Thankfully no-one was hurt in the Dreamliner incident but I wouldn't be surprised if orders were cancelled and transferred to Airbus.

[Kendhni]

What has made the Paris train tragedy even worse is the report that some people turned up to loot the victims and stone the rescuers. What is this world coming to?

That is one of the most vile acts. I often hear a news report saying that false calls have been made to get the police, ambulance or fire service out so that some low life bottom feeding scum, often fueled by alcohol, can throw stones etc. at their vehicles. The sentences for people caught doing that are often little more than a few hours community service .. personally I believe that needs to be toughened up, significantly, with heavy fines, plus custodial sentences.

I remember years ago a friend of mine, who was a medic in the army, telling me of an incident whereby in the middle of a riot one of the rioters had got hit by the land rover he was travelling. He had jumped out to try to help the man, who was badly injured, but the violence was too much and they had no choice but to retreat and leave him in the road for his friends to help ... the man later died in hospital.

My friend however was 100% convinced that if he had have been allowed to treat him, then he would have survived. BTW allegedly the man was the one that had thrown the petrol bomb that burst over the windscreen causing the land rover to swerve .. so poetic justice?

[Silver_Shiney]

My friend however was 100% convinced that if he had have been allowed to treat him, then he would have survived. BTW allegedly the man was the one that had thrown the petrol bomb that burst over the windscreen causing the land rover to swerve .. so poetic justice?

While the loss of any human life is a tragedy to the family and friends, one might be forgiven for thinking "oh dear, how sad, never mind". He obviously hadn't thrown the petrol bomb as a love-gift.....