To think that people who end messages with ‘stay safe’

[Whatisthepoint2020]

Are twats?

Maybe it’s because DP is a key worker so doesn’t have the option to ‘stay safe’ but it gives me the rage.

I say it, kind of in place of 'take care' or 'safe journey' type of thing. It just means I hope they will stay well & I care that they will be OK - genuinely meant from my side anyway twat or not!

I think you’re being mean spirited and cynical ...

Every one of my emails to colleagues at other organisations who I haven’t heard from
in a while begins “I hope this email finds you and your loved ones safe and well” and ends with “keep safe” “keep well” or “I hope you’re keeping safely”

I mean it, every single time. These are people whose lives are precious (as anyone’s is), and who even if I don’t like particularly, or we aren’t bosom buddies under usual circumstances, of course I care about if they live or die, and that they’re safe - yes in a professional context, but I mean every word.

The world is dangerous and uncertain and scary just now. It’s not a buzz phrase, it’s a shared sense of humanity and social togetherness, manifesting as a phrase easily understood and usable by all.

Hope you and your family keep safe and well too, OP, and I mean that too!

I think it's a clear sign of how serious and worrying this time is. I started off with take care, moved on to stay safe. I'm worried by the end of it I'll be outright saying "don't die" as a farewell.

Ffs no one can say anything anymore, even the most innocuous phrases no matter how well meant are attacked and twisted to make them seem offensive and unacceptable. I guess everyone should just walk around on egg shells incase they upset someone else! Fucking hell.

You've got a problem.

OP If you want to get wound up about this, good luck with that! There really are more important things to throw your passion into.

That's at whatisthepoint2020

I'm a keyworker (although lucky enough to be working from home). My colleagues (working in the office) often sign off with this. It's just like best wishes, not an instruction to stay indoors or anything.

I said it to my oncologist (umongst others) this week....because I want him to be safe. It's only saying I'm thinking of you, I care. If you take offence from that you need to get over yourself and see why it triggers you to the point you think it's acceptable to call (85%) of respondents Twats!

I agree op it's a bit wankerish, people have jumped on the bandwagon and are just sticking it on the end of every text, email etc.

Me too, @Whatisthepoint2020, it really getting on my tits.

Trite nonsense.

And I thought “take care” was bad before 😂

People if the really are concerned they could phrase it much better- be careful at work today etc

Really? As a frontline healthcare worker you’d prefer that people tell you to be careful at work? In other words, to do your job properly?

I think you're the twat for taking it personally and judging people.

I agree with you OP. It is not like best wishes; it is an order and infers that the person saying it thinks you are too thick to adhere to the guidelines without them telling you.

agree with you OP. It is not like best wishes; it is an order and infers that the person saying it thinks you are too thick to adhere to the guidelines without them telling you

Give over. You really get all that from someone saying keep safe to you? You're a twat too 🙄

it is an order and infers that the person saying it thinks you are too thick to adhere to the guidelines without them telling you.

Inference is what people take away from what you say; if this thread is anything to go by, people generally don’t infer from “stay safe” that the person saying it thinks they’re thick.

It's just become a slang or currently accepted way of saying ' stay well or look after yourself'
I've noticed there are a lot of MN posters who are angry or rude about things at the moment and justify this by having a family member who is a key worker as if this adds some sort of justification for anger or name calling or even on some threads hatred and definitely disapproval . We have become a nation of little tyrants.
Saying stay safe is like a hashtag or trend and way of expressing that they care for others at home or at work

OP I can understand why such a phrase would grate. The one that gives me rage is 'my bad', I bloody hate that! As for stay safe, call me naive, but I like it when people say it to me. I take it to mean they are wishing me well, not instructing me to 'stay safe' because otherwise they might assume I wouldn't. I think in this case, it is ok to assume it is well intentioned!

I just say 'take care', which is what I always said anyway. My NHS colleagues all say stay safe to each other every morning though and I like it. I say take care instead because that feels more natural to me.

“Stay safe” is a blessing, like Best wishes or the original meaning of Goodbye (“God be with you”) or Farewell.

People say it because, as Jellycat says, it’s a kind of psychological ‘spell’ in a situation where neither of you has any control over their safety.

Totally different from “Be kind”, which is an order, and suggests you’re not kind enough already!

Well I tell my DH to drive carefully every day. I lost my sibling in a car accident. He knows I don't mean he drives like a twat.

As first stay safe - people are very worried so are just saying to show they care.

As for not first

The man who left our yodel delivery the other day on the doorstep, waved to me and shouted 'stay safe' from across the road when I had waited a few minutes and opened the door. Rather than thinking, 'What a twat, ordering me about,' it just made me feel a bit tearful.

I've always said 'safe journey' and 'take care' and now I say 'stay safe' too. I want others to know that I care about them.

What's wrong with a little kindness in the world?

Yabu

It's a well intentioned message.

So you are saying your keyworker dh doesn't use any measures to stay safe? Staying safe isn't just staying home. It can include using ppe and infection control too...

I think people should be using the words they actually mean and usually say and not some new phrase that on trend at the moment.

So you don't think your friends mean this when they say it? Odd. I'm pretty sure mine mean it and are being kind.

I don't know whether you're just looking for something to be pissed off about (in which case I would suggest watching the news) or you're trying to be a bit 'too cool for this people being nice nonsense'. People are scared and worried for their friends and relatives. Have you told your friends etc that they're twats for this and to stop?