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To marvel at the curtain twitching and spite

186 replies

viques · 03/04/2020 15:02

You know when they had witch burnings, public hangings, or if you are French , public executions by guillotine? Well I now realise that they weren't exaggerating the crowds that turned up to enjoy the spectacle judging by the number of nasty , spiteful posts today frothing at the mouth about how their neighbours are using schools, getting deliveries, standing too close, etc etc etc . I think the posters who are hoiking their judgey pants so dangerously close to their tonsils are the same ones who would be denouncing their neighbours to the witch finder, the revolutionary committees and magistrates before packing a picnic and their knitting and taking themselves off for a day trip to the village pond or the local prison.

I know MN can be a playground for mean girls, I know everyone is stressed and anxious, but omg this virus is bringing out the worst in some people.

Chill out guys, eat Cake if you have it and cuddle a Bear to get your blood pressure down.

OP posts:
midsomermurderess · 03/04/2020 20:56

DefenBaker, You asked if he'd been tested and Yes, you should regret doing so. Don't rewrite it as your challenging his 'thoughtless behaviour'. You are a classic example of the behaviour under discussion here. As you were.

malificent7 · 03/04/2020 21:03

Don't you know the only way to " do lockdown" is to never ever go out but instead have an amazing well stocked pantry with food you have grown in your organic garden whislt simultaneously homeschooling your children and partaking in nurturing crafts . Your dh must be a key worker and you must therefore not see each other for at least 6 months.

BeetrootRocks · 03/04/2020 21:04

But hardly anyone is getting tested so what is the point in asking?

Have you been tested you could be asymptomatic.

longwayoff · 03/04/2020 21:38

YANBU OP and, even worse, it's turning me into one of THEM. I feel compelled to post something cutting towards the snivelling, finger pointing neighbour watchers, it's like having the bloody Daily Mail forced on me. I need to stop reacting to the curtain twitchers but they're so demonstrably unpleasant, the urge to call them out is strong. This is bad. I'm going to bed.

Carbosug · 03/04/2020 22:20

@midsomermurderess the vast majority of people on that thread agreed with the op. She confronted someone who was coughing his way around the supermarket while making no attempt to cover his mouth. That's not curtain twitching.

malificent7 · 03/04/2020 22:57

There is so much twitching though...it's worse than spring watch!

Omg..a bar b q!
Oh my god...my nieghbours said hi to another couple!
Omg they are having fun!
Omg....she's not a key worker!
Omg shes working from home and is a key worker !!!!
Stress lowers the immune system..just saying!

JustAnotherPoster00 · 03/04/2020 23:27

Permanantlypuzzled I think you may have posted on the wrong thread? Unless you are talking to someone in particular on here who is not adhering to government advice?

Almost as if a bunch of keywords received an automated response with no context, weird that Hmm

JustAnotherPoster00 · 03/04/2020 23:29

Im sure there are people noticing how quick a subsection of our population became compliant because of DANGER

LimitIsUp · 03/04/2020 23:34

Someone posted this on the local Facebook group

www.cbsnews.com/news/rodrigo-duterte-philippines-president-coronavirus-lockdown-shoot-people-dead/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab6a&linkId=85694697

Cue, someone commenting underneath it "Excellent, when do we start"

LyingWitchInTheWardrobe · 03/04/2020 23:41

I agree with everybody on the thread but mostly swishthecat for posting a photo of the delectable Donald Sutherland... Grin

WotchaTalkinBoutWillis · 03/04/2020 23:43

Im sure there are people noticing how quick a subsection of our population became compliant because of DANGER

I just totally read DANGER in Ross Geller's voice
DANGER!
"Ah, salmon skin roll!"
lol

Mrhodgeymaheg · 03/04/2020 23:44

It's just MN, it's fine everywhere else. There must be an absence of common sense on here.

JustInCaseCakeHappens · 03/04/2020 23:52

It's just MN, it's fine everywhere else.
As posters on MN actually come from the real world, I seriously doubt that. All it means is that YOU haven't heard such comments, not that they don't' exist.

FaFoutis · 04/04/2020 00:01

It's not fine at all. What gets posted on MN is what a lot of people are thinking while outwardly seeming normal.

WotchaTalkinBoutWillis · 04/04/2020 00:08

It's not fine at all. What gets posted on MN is what a lot of people are thinking while outwardly seeming normal

I agree - people thinking they're hard behind an anonymous username, or using it as a chance to bitch about the neighbour at number 21 whilst probably being nice as pie to their faces and simultaneously calling her a pretentious cow on here and who the fuck does she think she is rubbing her crafts and so called fucking perfect life in their face?!
It's kind of sinister and this pandemic really does bring out the extreme good and bad in people.

TitianaTitsling · 04/04/2020 00:10

This is not the MN i joined in 2015 when I encountered horrific hyper emesis, that site was pithy, witty and fantastically sweary! I absolutely feel I'd be reported/banned for a classic odfod these days for upsetting the puritans.. #underthenoncoughingmouth

TitianaTitsling · 04/04/2020 00:12

Absolutely wotcha Lucy from nursery should be sanitised, she's been making Easter wreaths with her kids, what a cow!

cologne4711 · 04/04/2020 07:41

I agree OP although I've not seen it in real life - just on here and a bit on FB and in the Times comments pages but I also see a lot of sensible comments being posted in response to the most extreme ones. The CoronaStasi seems to be a mainly MN thing.

Some tosser had a bonfire near me yesterday evening though - I did get mega judgey about that. That's far more damaging than someone going out purely to buy an Easter egg.

bluewafflewithmayo · 04/04/2020 07:44

This crisis has completed mumsnet’s decline into being identical to the comments section of the Daily Mail.

Sad but inevitable.

gordongopherthe3rd · 04/04/2020 07:46

It's not in the least bit surprising, it's a true reflection of how many people are when they are part of a society which is all about looking after yourself and your family. The change is that now it's become all encompassing because of how scared and worried people are so that it's their main or only focus.

KatherineJaneway · 04/04/2020 08:00

It's also those making up the rules. I was told, and have read a few times, that neither bread or milk are 'essentials' and to 'do without'.

I should have told them I went to the corner shop for milk and bought two bags of Co OP salt and vinegar crisps and a bottle of wine as well as milk. They would have exploded 😁

HarrySnotter · 04/04/2020 08:13

It's not fine at all. What gets posted on MN is what a lot of people are thinking while outwardly seeming normal.

This crisis has completed mumsnet’s decline into being identical to the comments section of the Daily Mail.

I agree with both of these comments. I've been here for 13/14 years now and it's a different site (obviously). Not in a good way though. I'm using it more at the moment because there's not much else to do but I reckon I'll certainly review my internet use as a whole when life returns to its new normal.

Carbosug · 04/04/2020 08:26

I agree mumsnet has changed, and not for the better , in recent years. A lot of the wit and humour has gone and most threads nowadays seem tobe immediately met with sour and grim humoured responses or scoured for any sentence that can be twisted to prove the posters non pc credentials.

I don't know how it happened or where so many of the funny posters have gone.

longwayoff · 04/04/2020 08:44

Where are those witty women? I live in hope that they're just resting near a hidden gin lake and will return en masse, soon, to decimate the sour, judgemental witch burners that have replaced them. Yet a vain hope I fear.