Crying On TV.....

peteblue · February 5, 2014

I've noticed today that numerous Tv news/investigations have had men literally crying ( full on tears and snotty noses) about one thing or another. Now tbf, some of the reports were of people having their houses damaged by the weather etc, but I can't ever remember so many men turning on the waterworks so quickly...... Have we changed so much ?...........

quasi modo · February 5, 2014

Southerners for you.

tommye · February 5, 2014

peteblue said:
I've noticed today that numerous Tv news/investigations have had men literally crying ( full on tears and snotty noses) about one thing or another. Now tbf, some of the reports were of people having their houses damaged by the weather etc, but I can't ever remember so many men turning on the waterworks so quickly...... Have we changed so much ?...........

we've become a nation of hand wringers, complainers and layabouts.

Stop blubbing to the collected masses and do something productive ffs.

tw@s

peteblue · February 5, 2014

They showed the railway at Dawlish and said it would take months to repair and said the damage was 'just like the war' and I thought no it isn't. If it was during the war, indeed any war, the military would have deposited a couple of thousand tons of stone in front of it, rebuilt the railway while the tide was out, and got the trains running again......

rascal · February 5, 2014

never understood why people live on flood plains myself.

bignev23 · February 5, 2014

Its Gazza's fault

UFO · February 5, 2014

rascal said:
never understood why people live on flood plains myself.

Exactly! You reap what you sow.

UFO · February 5, 2014

peteblue said:
I've noticed today that numerous Tv news/investigations have had men literally crying ( full on tears and snotty noses) about one thing or another. Now tbf, some of the reports were of people having their houses damaged by the weather etc, but I can't ever remember so many men turning on the waterworks so quickly...... Have we changed so much ?...........

I'm afraid this crying-to-camera lark sums up the country we live in. That said, the way Sky & BBC cover these things is just laughable - God help us if we had the weather systems which continually hit the US & Canada.

barneygumble · February 5, 2014

Yepp, very obvious. Buy a house, run a flood risk assessment, if you live below water level, you're in for a very nasty shock. Especially when the insurers don't pay you out due to A) You not running a flood risk assessment and B: It being classed as an act of Mother Nature. As someone said earlier, you reap what you sow.

Bluebugle · February 5, 2014

First it was building on the flood plains, then our rivers silting up, now we have an epidemic of grown men crying. No wonder the water table is rising.

Minimeister · February 6, 2014

With mortgages and house prices what they are today, maybe some people can't afford anything but these houses? Bit of a stupid statement to say they deserve to be flooded.

maverick94 · February 6, 2014

rascal said:
never understood why people live on flood plains myself.

Traditionally, farmers favoured flood plains for its fertile soil and access to drinking water for cattle. Jus sayin...

But yeah, not too sure why you would want to move your family into a potential river bed