Today's Peeve Of The Day, Tuesday 19th November. (reputation, high school, Illinois)

[AksarbeN]

{{{{What!!!!}}}} After stocking up on a years’ worth of food & water then having it buried and hidden so no one would find it but me and now I’m hearing that the world is not full of doom and gloom……………….. I guess I’m going back to McD’s for a big mac and fries… and see if I can make it through the day.

[Ketabcha]

Molly looks so comfy. I suspect she is a gentle soul and I love gentle souls.

I have to admit that I started playing a game with the few folks in my life who are doom-and-gloom types.
I simply start singing "The hills are alive and they're coming closer."

[motormaker]

Doom and gloom merchants.

Molly looks do comfy.

Here is a doom and gloom weather report thats pretty funny.


Weather Report with Chance of Godzilla from Funny Or Die - YouTube

[oeccscclhjhn]

good doggy.

[rdlr]

Jezer -Good morning peevers.
Let's use this as the basis of the POTD. I'm not just on about newspapers but also people who seem to thrive on doom and gloom. It's not that the glass is half empty, it's almost completely empty.
The POTD is;
Doom and gloom merchants.
This is a MAJOR peeve of mine! I run like the wind from complainers, belly aching and doomsday people.

That's not to say I'm insensitive. But those who constantly use others to unload their woes on, are just users. Hard times hit all of us. Quit complaining, walk tall, and conquer your problems. Those who constantly complain and whine have no idea what others are going through.

I saw an interesting vanity plate on a car yesterday. The car was a big old rusty oldsmobile, probably a 70's model, with a happy looking elderly guy driving it.
The tag said: OVERCOMR
He did, I guess! That made my day!

Have a great day, everyone......and don't forget to run like the wind if you encounter one of those users!

[cloven]

While I am an utter pessimist, there's still only so much depressing reality (or speculation as to future disasters) I can bear.
That's why I no longer watch "proper news", and instead tune in to Daily Show & Colbert Report for my info.
because they at least serve the awfulness up with a large dose of humor (and insightful analysis) at the absurdity we're all faced with.

I practice what I call "strategic ignorance" about a goodly amount of what is going on in the world,
because knowing more about certain things wouldn't change my opinion, it would just make me feel terrible-yet serve no purpose.
And I don't fret about what might happen in a hundred or in 5 billion years,
because that's way past my expiration date, and thus is no longer my problem.

[Teddy52]

I try to avoid both ends of the spectrum.

The " gloom and doom" folks and the people who are so optimistic they can't see reality.

When the glass is half full ,it also is half empty.
(and vice versa)

I prefer the " half full" outlook.

[wit-nit]

"The British are comming, the British are comming"... oops, that's old news now.

[PJSaturn]

Originally Posted by Jezer

The POTD is;

Doom and gloom merchants.

Another good peeve, Jezer. I hate that, too. News media especially are guilty of taking an uncertain forecast and making it seem as though the end of the world is coming. Rarely is an event, weather or other, as bad as the folks from the media make it sound.

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[Jezer]

Love all your responses as always, and thanks for the kind comments about Moll The Wal!

The paper in question was the Daily Express, a paper that sometimes makes the Daily Mail (or Daily Wail as I prefer to call it) seem reasonable.