You ever get the feeling these days that a lot of the world has lost touch with reality? The weather reports are a case in point. Since last October there have been several banner headlines in the online press claiming , snow bombs, blizzards and pretty much a new fuckin ice age for the whole of the UK. Well I can't speak for many other places but, in my neck of the woods, apart from a handful of days in December and January we haven't even had subzero temperatures and and some days have been positively tropical. Today the weather app on my laptop kept telling me it was 'snow', 'heavy snow' and even 'very heavy snow' over my village and, looking out the window there wasn't a single flake and the temperature was rising from minus six when I got up to a balmy plus one now and we've had some light rain. It's not even snowing up at the 'Rest and Be Thankful' at about eleven hundred feet above sea level as I've been keeping an eye on the live traffic cameras up there now and then throughout the day. This ain't a one-off either, it's been the same story every year for the last ten years or so. The worry of course is that one of these days we are going to get a real 'big freeze' again and no-one will believe it too late because they've been conditioned to believe that the weather reports are now made up by the folk who wrote Jackanory.
It's not just the weather either, Half the stories in the press are utter made-up shite. The worry is that the muppets within our society believe that shite despite the evidence of their own eyes.