I too would like to request that horrible things stop happening. I suppose that being upset means that you're an emphatic person, which the world could do with more of. Keep crying!

I don't make a habit of crying when reading the news, but the tsunami (wife rescued her daughter, but drowned in the process), Rachel Corrie, and 7 July all made me shed a tear. First hand accounts really get to me.

I thought the tabloids were where you go for your "Real Life Vampire Cabbie Delivers Baby" and "Hitler's Secret Discoteque" stories. They're not supposed to make you cry!

Although I used to baby sit for a woman who always had cheap pulp magazines on the coffee table filled with ultra depressing stories. There would always be at least one story of a parent seeing their child die and not being able to do anything about it, one or two "my spouse was killed by... (bears, fire, a shark, cannibals, etc)", and a long piece about living with a fatal disease and preparing to die. And somewhere in each issue was a vaguely erotic story about meeting a stranger - which skirted around the "good stuff" without ever getting there. That was the story that kept the 14 and 15 year old Slack coming back for more - hoping this time they'd finally get into the saucy details.

I recommend against skimming the tabloids.

For what it's worth, I cried when I read about the Dahab bombings in the New York Times.

1 can only recommend what hugh said, "I recommend against skimming the tabloids," but i know you're an advertising guru so you probably MUST read everything.

personally, though, i'm glad i can get all my tabloid news from the most reliable source.

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It's motherhood, dabitch. It cranks up the empathy. There's a whole bunch of stuff I can't read or watch anymore.

Yeah, I s'pose you're right jrossi4r. And I was pretty sappy before but tabloid headlines outside shops never set off any fountains.

So hey, to get peace on earth perhaps only new mothers should rule the world?

ps - I think fatherhood does it too, I noticed daddy-o is getting "stuff in his eye" a lot lately.

Horrible things should stop though.

So hey, to get peace on earth perhaps only new mothers should rule the world?

Nah, we're all human. I've seen the tantrums.

I agree, though, horrible things should stop. Especially when they're killing people I know.

Nah, we're all human. I've seen the tantrums.

Like: "That's IT! Dubya, Ahmadinejad go to your rooms you are both grounded!"

Teehee!

(I'm so glad you took that jokey 'cos that's how I meant it. Otherwise it mighta sounded like gratuitous meanness.)

I think "tabloids" in the UK and in the US mean very different things, Slack-a-gogo. In the UK, they're at least marginally publishing actual events that occur in the actual world. In the US, they publish 'LIZ TAYLOR HAS FROG-CHILD WITH ELVIS ON UFO'.

Yeah the crazy stuff we get is the tore plastic bucker off the head of a wild bear!, and tragic stuff like nobody took Yeliz concerns serious - her baby died at birth (*sniff*), Pipe bomb found in childrens sandbox in Rænne - Oh my! - and this is where ten year old Bobby was tortured to death (by his adoptive parents) - *wail!*

Ok, I'm just gonna curl up here in the corner and cry now.

I don't generally read the tabloids, but their shop-signs are unavoidable. :(