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"It feels like the litter picks aren't making any difference, the litter and the fly-tipping is coming back twofold. It's a gloomy place to be in, it's depressing," she said.

"Watching your heroes get old is so depressing," said one Redditor, in a typical response.

The news has been a steady, depressing drumbeat of complicity tales lately.

"It's depressing. Walking on the street, driving your car - it's all just depressing."

I focused on a press release hanging near the staircase to Mann’s bedroom that quotes him saying, “In times of so deeply depressing circumstances a harmonious home background is of great significance.”