Kudos to you for staying out of it!
Maybe it will help to remember that in a the kind of small town that gossips, most of the people gossiping have probably been gossiped about themselves or will be eventually. So they're all in the same boat, really. None of them can take any of this too seriously surely since they all do the same thing to each other. You probably take it way more seriously than they do, so please try to let it go.
being a right moany pain in the proverbial
The majority of Israeli Jews do not want to occupy Gaza.
Alison Hammond waxwork. Is it a joke?