I am feeling so bloody irritable!

We never have the sort of flooding we have now…

That may be true. Will see what I can find.

Meanwhile, regarding wars

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_wars

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_floods

allira thank you for your posts😊😊

Whitewavemark2

So now apparently I’m irritated because of my low social status, and lack of prestige!! 😄😄😄.

Well WWM2 at least everyone has made you laugh even if it wasn't intended 😄

Claremont

Oreo

So many older people, especially women say they feel helpless or frustrated about many aspects of life today.
It’s part of the ageing process as I bet they didn’t feel like that 30 or 40 years ago.

NO, it has nothing to do with the ageing process, certainly not in my case, and I guess not in WvMk2 either.

Of course it has everything to do with the fact that GN has a mainly old membership.
Bet there was none of this gloom and doom thinking from anyone 30 years ago.
Not that everyone older gets too gloomy but many do.
Interestingly enough not just about rolling news and SM, tho they don’t help, but I remember old aunts in the 1970’s being that way and bemoaning the present day and world events.

Whitewavemark2

allira thank you for your posts😊😊

You're welcome 🌍

Are you feeling giddy yet? 😁

MayBee70

We never have the sort of flooding we have now…

1953, Canvey Island and S E Coast, horrendous floods 53 fatalities.

There have always been floods, now with social media and everyone having camera phones people are more aware, or more to the point bombarded with doom and gloom at the end of their fingertips…

1952 Lynton and Lynmouth in Devon. Floods claimed 34 lives.

Actually we are spending more on flood defence now than we have ever done.

Because of global warming, there is more energy in the atmosphere, and higher and more intense rain fall as a result. Couple that with the rising sea levels and land sinking in the south and it doesn’t take much imagination to realise that maybee70 is indeed correct.

But flooding is nothing new.
A quick goo gle at least, shows that.
And see my link above.

Not sure if the amount or severity around the world is correctly measured or not.
Maybe there is more flooding closer to home at the moment.
For all I know there could be a whole lot less in some others of the 206 Countries?

A few posters have mentioned perspective.
I think that is how I look at life as a whole[not meaning anyone is wrong at all for feeling irritable or whatever about things. It happens to us all from time to time].

I always think I cannot begin to possibly know in reality, if there is less flooding now. Or less war deaths. Or less killings or whatever.
Or more.

Well, I suppose we could ask the body responsible for flood management in the U.K. to stop building defences, or maintain existing ones as unnecessary😄.

And tell those suffering from recent catastrophic flooding in Germany. Spain, Italy, USA countries in Africa, Australia etc, that it is nothing new and certainly not getting any worse.

Global warming is a fact, it is happening at an ever increasing rate.

GrannyGravy13

MayBee70

We never have the sort of flooding we have now…

1953, Canvey Island and S E Coast, horrendous floods 53 fatalities.

There have always been floods, now with social media and everyone having camera phones people are more aware, or more to the point bombarded with doom and gloom at the end of their fingertips…

I can remember seeing pictures of that in the newspapers when I was a child. The Low Countries were flooded too.
The flood resulted in the deaths of 1,836 people in the Netherlands.

We do need to build defences, of course. And stop building on flood plains - hundreds of houses are planned near here on a flood plain. Stupidity.

Whitewavemark2

Well, I suppose we could ask the body responsible for flood management in the U.K. to stop building defences, or maintain existing ones as unnecessary😄.

And tell those suffering from recent catastrophic flooding in Germany. Spain, Italy, USA countries in Africa, Australia etc, that it is nothing new and certainly not getting any worse.

Global warming is a fact, it is happening at an ever increasing rate.

How rude.

Perhaps you didnt realise so many people tried to be helpful to you on this thread?
You threw some of it back in some of their faces.
Not even sure you have even said thanks to anyone.
Oh well.
Lesson learnt.

1st paragraph - you think I would think that? Really?

2nd paragraph - not much better.

3rd paragraph - disputable.
As I wrote above.

Maybe I shouldnt think so deep.
I will just stay away.
I will report my own post.

I have every sympathy for what you’re saying fancythat but the OP did say she was ‘bloody irritable’ so we were warned😁

I have come to the stage in life, at very nearly 84, where I have decided that it's time to just concentrate on and be grateful for my family members and the beauty of nature around me. During my life I've done what I could when I could, by way of charitable donations, and just had to hope that what small amounts I could afford found their way to their intended destination. Now I diligently re-cycle to save the planet and try not to needlessly deplete its resources, fully aware that any miniscule contribution I make is far out balanced by the pollution created by the world's warmongers. So I love my family and appreciate the beauty around me. To me, that's really all that matters and all that I can do.

By the way Allira, I loved your quoted song/poem. It does help sometimes to get things into perspective!!

Taichinan

I have come to the stage in life, at very nearly 84, where I have decided that it's time to just concentrate on and be grateful for my family members and the beauty of nature around me. During my life I've done what I could when I could, by way of charitable donations, and just had to hope that what small amounts I could afford found their way to their intended destination. Now I diligently re-cycle to save the planet and try not to needlessly deplete its resources, fully aware that any miniscule contribution I make is far out balanced by the pollution created by the world's warmongers. So I love my family and appreciate the beauty around me. To me, that's really all that matters and all that I can do.

...that's lovely...

I remember when I was in the thick of it with all the children at home and my mil kept on about the state of the world and how bad everything was. It would have been the 1980s. I wondered what was the matter with her, thinking there was enough to worry about near at home. There were some really bad fires, floods and natural events then, too. In the 1930s there were enormous floods near where we live now and the whole hillside tumbled down taking lives with it.

Interesting that so many of us feel this way. I think part of the problem is frustration at not being able to do much about what is happening. We can see the reasons why there is so much negativity but there is not a lot we can do. The number of people committing suicide surely reflects how common this depression is.

I've never known so many people fed up with things. Had few jobs last week, two different tradespeople, early 30's, both said they were fed up the way things were going, even said this Country is finished. There is a general unrest now. I bought two children up on my own but never had the despair the young have now.No one listens. you are not alone with your feelings, quite the reverse.

Taichinan

I have come to the stage in life, at very nearly 84, where I have decided that it's time to just concentrate on and be grateful for my family members and the beauty of nature around me. During my life I've done what I could when I could, by way of charitable donations, and just had to hope that what small amounts I could afford found their way to their intended destination. Now I diligently re-cycle to save the planet and try not to needlessly deplete its resources, fully aware that any miniscule contribution I make is far out balanced by the pollution created by the world's warmongers. So I love my family and appreciate the beauty around me. To me, that's really all that matters and all that I can do.

That is a lovely post ❤️

Allsorts

I've never known so many people fed up with things. Had few jobs last week, two different tradespeople, early 30's, both said they were fed up the way things were going, even said this Country is finished. There is a general unrest now. I bought two children up on my own but never had the despair the young have now.No one listens. you are not alone with your feelings, quite the reverse.

This is why the young are feeling negative.

Today's young adults are the first generation since at least World War Two not to start their working lives with higher incomes than those born before them. Despite having about the same income, those born in the early 1980s are much less wealthy than those born in the 1970s were at the same age.

The vast majority of young adults working in the private sector will never have pensions as generous as those enjoyed by their older colleagues.

It looks like we're heading for a future where how much wealth your parents have matters more than it used to.

From an IFS article prepared for the BBC. ifs.org.uk/articles/seven-reasons-it-helps-have-rich-parents