From After the Fact?: The Truth About Fake News (2020) by Marcus Gilroy-Ware:
Intolerable boredom, loneliness, precariousness and the disappearance of the future that is endemic to postmodernism, combined with a heavy emphasis on aspiration reduced to increasingly economistic terms, all produced widespread malaise that is hard to describe in specific terms for those that suffer it but is often demotivating or debilitating. The result is that we try to compensate, through the trappings of consumerism that have arisen to sell compensatory pleasure itself ā the most obvious being the soaring popularity of delivery food, the seeming addictiveness of social media or gaming, or the quiet success of the sugar industry.
Alex Good 
Is this a cry for help? Are you saying that you’ve fallen into the trap of Binstagramming and you don’t know how to get out?
Are bins your coping mechanism?
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Binning is a symptom of the problem. Too much junk to throw out!
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I recommend a diet of water, oatmeal and a tomato and banana once a week. That’ll help with the intake side of things.
And if you have too much money lying around, I’ll gladly help you out with that…
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That diet should help with the outflow side of things as well.
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Hadn’t thought of that, but yeah, you’ll be regular as a grandfather clock š
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What kind of compensatory pleasure are you looking to purchase?
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The ones where I don’t have to wear pants.
Speaking of which, I’ve been watching the miniseries Years and Years on Fraggle’s recommendation and quite enjoying it. Just watched episode 4 and a character in his underwear says “I only have me pants on.” Is “pants” understood in the UK to only refer to underwear? So what we call pants are what? Trousers?
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Glad you brought this up. Booky and I have discussed this. Pants are your underwear. Trousers are what you wear on your legs and crotchal area. Booky was always going on about issues concerning his pants, but I had to correct him; he means trousers, because your pants are your Y Fronts or your boxers.
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