I’ve read tonight that someone has predicted WW3 to start in May and last till October. And I have to admit I’m s*** scared. Apparently he predicted Trump becoming President and attacking Syria. Am I being ridiculous?
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Probably.
Would take your mind off the e!ection, though.
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No, the election will take my mind off WW3!!
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I think probably the best way to look at this is the one my mother suggested when I was afraid during the cold war: “Since there is absolutely nothing I can do about it, I don’t let myself think about it too much.”
This is harder to manage than she seemed to find it, but it is a lot better than lying awake at night feeling upset about something which is completely outwith my ability to stop.
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Thanks Fanta that’s good advice. It’s never been a thing I’ve worried about funnily enough but that just got to me tonight.
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Oh, it’s a bitch when that happens! I hope that you manage to find other things to take your mind away from it, and sleep well.
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My solution to this is to avoid most news (papers, TV, web sites). After all, their business model relies on you getting addicted.
I find I hear about things quite adequately from individuals, and I can then go and look up the stories if I really want to.
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Thanks both. I shall try to push it to the back of my mind.
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I hope it worked.
Would it help to know that Private Eye has been making fun of a WWIII meme more or less ever since Trump was elected? They certainly don’t seem to expect it to be taken too seriously.
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My RAF contacts have been whinging ever since the Cold War ended - good old days, promotion, postings, booze, interesting aircraft, married quarters, etc.
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They wouldn’t want a third World War though I’m sure!
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Nobody in their right mind actually wants WWIII as far as I know; some very dodgy people seem to think they could hold it without any harm to themselves, which I find completely unsane, but mostly the RAF people I have known have not been certifiable. Mostly…
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In a book I’m reading at the moment, our hero thinks his son might have joined up without telling him:
“Oh my God, is it the Crabs? It’s okay. Lots of blokes lead useful lives in the RAF. Did you think I’d object?”
But actually I was thinking more of Tom Lehrer:
Little Johnny Jones he was a US pilot
And no shrinking violet was he
He was mighty proud when World War III was declared
He wasn’t scared, no siree
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And this is what he said on
his way to Armageddon…
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When I was stationed at RAF Brüggen, USAF and Luftwaffe fighter pilots were barred for cowboy flying…
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Well, there was that Incident a few years back.
See, the RAF does a lot of training over Wales, and it’s a bit short of distinctive landmarks. One local had a farm out in the middle of nowhere, which had the only obvious buildings for miles around, and so the pilots got into the habit of using it as a navigation point.
The farmer got quite annoyed by low-level Tornadoes and Hawks and things at all hours of day and night, especially during lambing, so he painted his roof:
PISS OFF BIGGLES
After the first few weeks during which every air crew had to take a look at it, this had the desired effect, though apparently visiting American pilots were heard to ask “What’s a biggle?”.
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A biggle is of course a large boggle, and a boggle (according to the dictionary) can mean a bungle or botched job.
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So…
Kathy and Martyn - boggle
Ye Grete Fludde - biggle
The Titchynob Saga - bigglebiggle (aka a biggleplex - the bigglest effin biggle conceivable)
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He’s just a silly buggle with a tin roof. Send in the Service’s finest buzzles I say!
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Not true. The Americans were banned for taking their horses with them.
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