What is the big silly season news story in your country right now?
July 3, 2025
The silly season is the time during the summer when relative few things happen and news outlets start to cover stories they wouldn't at other times.
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Germany had quite a bit of discussion about a catfish that was shot by the police after attacking multiple swimmers.
The other big thing right now is that it’s apparently warm outside. It’s hard to notice but luckily every news outlet in Germany had multiple releases about the heatwave.
Our favourite (nationalist) singer is having a mega concert in a few days. And suddenly, all the majora roads in the city are blocked.
They shot (!) a 2 meter catfish in the German region Franconia but really news has been a nail biter tbh.
There are a few standard whole fillers, that are repeated since decades (not now though – actually a lot of stuff is happening).
* Within a decade, we’ll be eating nothing but insects (read this back in school 30 years ago)
* Restaurants now charging for cancelled reservations (few ever do)
* This is how the world’s best Carbonara is made (I don’t know why, but it comes up EVERY summer)
In croatia you know its a silly season when news starts to cover corruption scandals that are less then 100k EUR.
Usually its all about people dying in traffic, racism toward immigrants or corruption scandals involving ministers. Oh and last 2 months its all about a half a million people concert of the controversial singer that attracts bunch of far right folks.
So yeah, pretty optimistic news in general.
Jokes aside, the best silly stories come from regional news outlets that dont report on general politics and stuff. But its usually just some ads for local plays or festivals or stuff. Although on weekends there is always a news story on the “winner” of the highest alcohol content in the blood caught by the police.
It’s a bit early for the UK silly season, which will be in August.
We can expect media outrage that politicians go on family holidays, often abroad, and complaints that a minister is in a hotel rather than dealing with (insert some issue here, however irrelevant).
There will also be complaints from people with kids that holidays cost more during school holidays.
Due the hot and sunny weather, there are right now a lot of stories related to swimming and beaches.
There are stories about how there is great parking chaos by the beaches, with people parking their cars illegally and in ways that could hinder ambulances in an emergency. And there has been quite a lot of discussions on how to fix it – such as having more parking spaces, or more public buses going to the beaches. And discussions regarding if those who park in the wrong spot should be fined more frequently or not, and whose fault the chaos really is.
Today there is also a story about people who were bathing in a city canal despite the city authorities saying it’s unsafe and unhealthy, and that they ought to go to the beach instead – a warning which these bathers purposefully ignored.
In Denmark silly season is called “cucumber time”. It is a reference to how one summer in the 2000’s, our cucumber harvest was awkward and produced perfectly edible, yet bend and twisty cucumbers. The EU then decided that we couldn’t sell them as cucumber, and for that summer they had to be called “green salad fruit” or something else instead. The media ate it up.
Other than that, every year this week the media likes to make fun of Denmark’s biggest music festival. It gets over 100,000 atendees so for that week it turns into Denmark’s fourth biggest “city”. The media loooves endless recycled stories about how gross everything is! And today a couple people fainted because of dehydration!! And people are eating cans of tuna! And it’s going to rain soooo much and it’ll get muddy everywhere, come look how gross it is!!
We don’t do silly season. Alternatively, all year is silly season.
Right now the big story is about cockroaches in a Budapest hospital that the government is saying were photographed at an opposition politician’s house
Finland tried to match OP’s catfish story in its own way: a man was bitten by a pike when he was rinsing his hands in a lake after doing some gardening. [Link to news story](https://yle.fi/a/74-20166850). (warning: pictures include blood)
A player on the Icelandic national football team had to change her shorts at halftime because of “tummy trouble”.
A black panther escaped Bulgaria and allegedly entered our country. Everyone is looking for it and the internet is already full of memes and jokes and pr stunts.
We are “lucky” enough to have leaders that keep us on our toes with a daily report of corruption or other government fuckery. Good times.
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Germany had quite a bit of discussion about a catfish that was shot by the police after attacking multiple swimmers.
The other big thing right now is that it’s apparently warm outside. It’s hard to notice but luckily every news outlet in Germany had multiple releases about the heatwave.
Our favourite (nationalist) singer is having a mega concert in a few days. And suddenly, all the majora roads in the city are blocked.
They shot (!) a 2 meter catfish in the German region Franconia but really news has been a nail biter tbh.
There are a few standard whole fillers, that are repeated since decades (not now though – actually a lot of stuff is happening).
* Within a decade, we’ll be eating nothing but insects (read this back in school 30 years ago)
* Restaurants now charging for cancelled reservations (few ever do)
* This is how the world’s best Carbonara is made (I don’t know why, but it comes up EVERY summer)
In croatia you know its a silly season when news starts to cover corruption scandals that are less then 100k EUR.
Usually its all about people dying in traffic, racism toward immigrants or corruption scandals involving ministers. Oh and last 2 months its all about a half a million people concert of the controversial singer that attracts bunch of far right folks.
So yeah, pretty optimistic news in general.
Jokes aside, the best silly stories come from regional news outlets that dont report on general politics and stuff. But its usually just some ads for local plays or festivals or stuff. Although on weekends there is always a news story on the “winner” of the highest alcohol content in the blood caught by the police.
It’s a bit early for the UK silly season, which will be in August.
We can expect media outrage that politicians go on family holidays, often abroad, and complaints that a minister is in a hotel rather than dealing with (insert some issue here, however irrelevant).
There will also be complaints from people with kids that holidays cost more during school holidays.
Due the hot and sunny weather, there are right now a lot of stories related to swimming and beaches.
There are stories about how there is great parking chaos by the beaches, with people parking their cars illegally and in ways that could hinder ambulances in an emergency. And there has been quite a lot of discussions on how to fix it – such as having more parking spaces, or more public buses going to the beaches. And discussions regarding if those who park in the wrong spot should be fined more frequently or not, and whose fault the chaos really is.
Today there is also a story about people who were bathing in a city canal despite the city authorities saying it’s unsafe and unhealthy, and that they ought to go to the beach instead – a warning which these bathers purposefully ignored.
In Denmark silly season is called “cucumber time”. It is a reference to how one summer in the 2000’s, our cucumber harvest was awkward and produced perfectly edible, yet bend and twisty cucumbers. The EU then decided that we couldn’t sell them as cucumber, and for that summer they had to be called “green salad fruit” or something else instead. The media ate it up.
Other than that, every year this week the media likes to make fun of Denmark’s biggest music festival. It gets over 100,000 atendees so for that week it turns into Denmark’s fourth biggest “city”. The media loooves endless recycled stories about how gross everything is! And today a couple people fainted because of dehydration!! And people are eating cans of tuna! And it’s going to rain soooo much and it’ll get muddy everywhere, come look how gross it is!!
We don’t do silly season. Alternatively, all year is silly season.
Right now the big story is about cockroaches in a Budapest hospital that the government is saying were photographed at an opposition politician’s house
Finland tried to match OP’s catfish story in its own way: a man was bitten by a pike when he was rinsing his hands in a lake after doing some gardening. [Link to news story](https://yle.fi/a/74-20166850). (warning: pictures include blood)
A player on the Icelandic national football team had to change her shorts at halftime because of “tummy trouble”.
A black panther escaped Bulgaria and allegedly entered our country. Everyone is looking for it and the internet is already full of memes and jokes and pr stunts.
We are “lucky” enough to have leaders that keep us on our toes with a daily report of corruption or other government fuckery. Good times.