"Olympics can cut suicide rates"

[vivid_blue]

Headline from BBC online London news, following research from Sydney. They say it is because it creates a "communal sense of wellbeing". I think it is just because there is always something to watch on the telly.

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communal sense of wellbeing

[johnnyvalentine]

My bum it does, all it does is stop the Simpsons and TOTP2 getting shown for a few weeks which I can do without.

Re: communal sense of wellbeing

[pippaalice]

what that man says.

though i like the gymnastics stuff...but i edon't really need to see people running. not at all.

Re: communal sense of wellbeing

[vivid_blue]

The advantage is, though, that there is literally always something on. A bit like News 24 for people without cable.

My problem is snooker, which always disrupted Buffy.

[wardytron]

That's such a grand and spurious claim I've got half a mind to kill myself just to prove them wrong. What I'll probably do though is kill themaland instead.

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[barrysarll]

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[vivid_blue]

Maybe you, and all those who wanted to commit murder that fortnight, could dress it up as suicide, and thereby s0d the statistic.