The Good News Only - thread...

[AuroraSaab]

I watched a couple just to see what the fuss was about. Humour is subjective obviously but it felt like a bad spoof of a 1970s Dick Emery type show. I just don't see the appeal. 'Miranda' is similarly stupid but it does have a bit of silly charm about it and can raise a smile.

 

[Pross]

That show baffles me, I don't know anyone either in real life or even online that has a good word to say about it!

I know a few who enjoyed the first series or two but I thought it had stopped about a decade ago.

 

[Pblakeney]

I know a few who enjoyed the first series or two but I thought it had stopped about a decade ago.

I'll confess to that. A live show in particular, and I have no shame about it.
The joke did run out a long, long time ago though.

I'll file it alongside FGTH. Get in early, and out just as early. 😉

 

[bobzmyunkle]

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/aug/18/ulez-better-lung-size-function-london-children

 

[Pblakeney]

I posted similar in the Breaking News thread as I couldn't find this thread. 🙄

 

[bobzmyunkle]

Only joking - good to hear Today interviewing any number of people with no idea what's going on.
BBC News - Prince Harry and Meghan moving back to UK - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c62ey03z9d1o

 

[AuroraSaab]

I honestly don't think anybody is bothered about H and M. It seems to be a topic the press push but everyone else is ambivalent about. It would be nice if the media gave us and them a rest. Let them get on with whatever it is they do.

 

[Beebo]

I honestly don't think anybody is bothered about H and M. It seems to be a topic the press push but everyone else is ambivalent about. It would be nice if the media gave us and them a rest. Let them get on with whatever it is they do.

I suspect they sell papers and clicks.
Big media organisations will have data on what topics generate interest with the great unwashed. And H&M will be high on the list.

 

[First Aspect]

The top two news stories today are H&M, and that some children have passed their GCSEs (and some haven't).

In other news, my cat has a limp but is getting better. I think that one is about number 6 in "most read".

 

[AuroraSaab]

At least they've stopped printing the full results in local papers and schools are set up to give help those who didn't quite get what they needed. Big improvement on how it used to be.

 

[monkers]

What I received as good news today is this ....

Australian state supreme court rejects Israel lobby’s “preposterous” ‘IHRA definition’​

https://www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/2026/08/19/ihra-australian-state/

 

[laurentian]

At least they've stopped printing the full results in local papers and schools are set up to give help those who didn't quite get what they needed. Big improvement on how it used to be.

Cycling through India a few years ago and stopped in a little town for a chai. At the crossroads in the middle of the town there was a huge noticeboard listing all of the kids names and exam results

 

[AndyRM]

I used to really like H&M. They were the only high street shop that catered for my mutant leg proportions.

They don't seem to any more, which is a shame.