Can you have dinner whilst watching the news? I can´t......
By dana234
@dana234 (2114)
Spain
May 11, 2007 5:35pm CST
The idea of eating and enjoying food whilst watching the horrors of the world is making me feel ill. I turn the televison off or change the channel when I´m eating. The images of all this suffering make me suffer too, although I know that this is not going to change anything. Am I being oversensitive?
Please share your point of view. Thanks.
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11 responses
@stephcjh (38473)
• United States
11 May 07
I can eat while watching the news sometimes, but alot of times, it gets on my nerves or makes my stomach upset also. I can't watch gory movies either when i am eating. It turns my stomach and makes me feel sick. I cannot watch surgeries or operations or anything like that while I am eating. I can't watch animal shows either when other animals kill one another and eat the carcus. I would rather eat with the television off but my husband and daughter, just have to have it on at all times.
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@sudiptacallingu (10879)
• India
17 Dec 07
Well this is a favourite of mine and something that is a cause of many a fights between my son and me every night at dinnertime. He wants to catch up with his cartoons after hours of studying while I want to catch up with the news and other channels at the end of a busy day. Most of the time, we end up taking a glance at all the channels and then switching off the idiot box.
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@natalie1981 (1995)
• Singapore
25 May 07
I'm already a master of watching tv and eating.
But sometimes, specially if there are gross images on the tv, it does bother me so I change the channel.
Though here in our country, I the news people try not to show too much gross stuff on the news and if they do, they usually warn people beforehand by saying, "there will be some disturbing images that will follow..."
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@PsychoDude (2013)
• Netherlands
11 May 07
I can easily watch the news during dinner, the suffering is there whether you don't watch it or not anyways. And I must say that I consider myself pretty lucky for having the choice to zap away, rather than the people actually suffering and always have to eat with the actual thing happening right in their backyard.
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@GardenGerty (160696)
• United States
12 May 07
In general, it is not good for you to watch television while you eat, and if it is the news, so much the worse for you. You are not overly sensitive. I also do not like to watch the news before bed time. Enjoy your meal. Care about the world, but take care of yourself, so you have something left to help with.
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@lordwarwizard (35747)
• Singapore
12 May 07
I think I can lol. :P
Anyway, my meal time is always before or after news. So I am always watching some nice shows and not the news. :PP
@Woodpigeon (3710)
• Ireland
14 May 07
There would be no chance of watching the news while eating as the televisions are all upstairs and I have a hole in my bottom lip though which everything seems to spill. It is best that I eat at the table!
I actually try not to watch the news at all, other than the weather report. It is so depressing, and often upsetting, and sometimes just plain old infuriating. I prefer the Sunday paper, which at least I can crumple up and burn when I get irate.
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