How about our week of angst? 

Take your pick, because there were hot takes galore. 

Sydney Sweeney was the funniest. The ad agency that dreamed up that campaign must be lining up for a bonus. 

Because the airtime it got in the end outweighed any actual cost by about 10:1. It went white hot viral as millions raged about boobs and sexuality and insulting female athletes. 

All of which it did of course, but that was the point. Did no one work out that was the point? Get Sweeney partially naked, say "sports, sports, sports" a lot and queue the fury. 

The ol' sexuality card is the oldest trick in the book and we're still falling for it. 

Hyrox was just plain weird. An unfortunate scenario mid routine and the whole rule book is changed out based on the outrage. 

The woman concerned didn’t seem overly worried, having appeared on social media seemingly making light of it. 

Then you've got Harry and Meghan. I blame the media, mainly the British. But their school upheaval went viral globally and it turned out the security issue for the kids was a bit of traffic. 

It's once again a reminder that these two are the worst sort of attention-seeking grifters and I now genuinely feel sorry for the kids. Their Mum and Dad are buffoons but given they don’t know any better and their attention obsession is seemingly incurable, maybe it’s the media's job to step back and simply ignore them. 

It seems incredible that Lady Gaga, a vastly bigger name than both of them put together, can vanish, give birth and truck a reasonably, well-developed child around and no one knows about it, or sees any of it, unless she decides to let that happen. 

But the biggest and saddest of them all was Macklemore and the fellow travelling try-hards who decided to abandon their friendship with Ed Sheeran by dropping him in it after they, like so many of their lot, felt unable to keep their politics to themselves. 

Sheeran is famously apolitical. It’s a smart move that served Dolly Parton well and yet the musicians, some of whom you would never have heard of if it wasn't for Sheeran's kindness and desire to promote new talent, left him with possibly no American tour after Macklemore got dropped and the rest quit in a fit of pique. 

Is it too much to ask to park the self-importance for a half hour opening act and just play? 

Oh, and to maybe be a decent person for the bloke who's giving you your break? 

So much outrage, so many causes, so much self-importance. 

Lucky the world is such a benign place and we have nothing big to worry about. 

How about our week of angst?&nbsp;
Take your pick, because there were hot takes galore.&nbsp;
Sydney Sweeney was the funniest. The ad agency that dreamed up that campaign must be lining up for a bonus.&nbsp;
Because the airtime it got in the end outweighed any actual cost by about 10:1. It went white hot viral as millions raged about boobs and sexuality and insulting female athletes.&nbsp;
All of which it did of course, but that was the point. Did no one work out that was the point? Get Sweeney partially naked, say "sports, sports, sports" a lot and queue the fury.&nbsp;
The ol' sexuality card is the oldest trick in the book and we're still falling for it.&nbsp;
Hyrox was just plain weird. An unfortunate scenario mid routine and the whole rule book is changed out based on the outrage.&nbsp;
The woman concerned didn’t seem overly worried, having appeared on social media seemingly making light of it.&nbsp;
Then you've got Harry and Meghan. I blame the media, mainly the British. But their school upheaval went viral globally and it turned out the security issue for the kids was a bit of traffic.&nbsp;
It's once again a reminder that these two are the worst sort of attention-seeking grifters and I now genuinely feel sorry for the kids. Their Mum and Dad are buffoons but given they don’t know any better and their attention obsession is seemingly incurable, maybe it’s the media's job to step back and simply ignore them.&nbsp;
It seems incredible that Lady Gaga, a vastly bigger name than both of them put together, can vanish, give birth and truck a reasonably, well-developed child around and no one knows about it, or sees any of it, unless she decides to let that happen.&nbsp;
But the biggest and saddest of them all was Macklemore and the fellow travelling try-hards who decided to abandon their friendship with Ed Sheeran by dropping him in it after they, like so many of their lot, felt unable to keep their politics to themselves.&nbsp;
Sheeran is famously apolitical. It’s a smart move that served Dolly Parton well and yet the musicians, some of whom you would never have heard of if it wasn't for Sheeran's kindness and desire to promote new talent, left him with possibly no American tour after Macklemore got dropped and the rest quit in a fit of pique.&nbsp;
Is it too much to ask to park the self-importance for a half hour opening act and just play?&nbsp;
Oh, and to maybe be a decent person for the bloke who's giving you your break?&nbsp;
So much outrage, so many causes, so much self-importance.&nbsp;
Lucky the world is such a benign place and we have nothing big to worry about.&nbsp;

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Mike's Minute: What a week of angst it's been

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