To think some people are just loving it?

[PoppliosBubble]

So many people seem to be taking so much pleasure in being absolutely furious with everyone else at the moment and I’m just amazed by it.

I live in a very touristy town, our local FB page is currently full of posts of people who have searched car registrations in their road and found some that aren’t registered to the area. Dozens of posts with photos of people queuing up outside co-op asking whether everyone will only be buying essentials, photos of very elderly sat on a bench saying that they might as well just kill themselves now, couples holding hands clearly being ABSOLUTE SELFISH B*S!!

All these posts followed by so many angry comments and talk of slashing tyres, complaining about hearing Midlands or London accents, comments that police should be throwing kids in prison.

I know it’s a scary time. It’s absolutely unprecedented and we’re underprepared and walking into the unknown. But I genuinely find the sheer rage that seems to be coming from some people quite frightening. I have to take my kids with me whenever I leave the house and I just know that someone will comment on it soon. I only have a tiny courtyard of outside space so I’m taking dc on a long walk with me every morning. Dc2 is only just 4 but I feel I can’t give him a drink as we’re walking along in case someone accuses us of having a picnic.

Is anyone else concerned by this? Anything I can do at all?

Someone I know went for a walk today and sat on a bench because someone else was coming up and she thought she’d let them go first... they shouted ‘I hope you get Coronavirus and die’ at her... some people are just horrible!!

@peaceanddove

Yes, that sums it up very well.

Are you in Norfolk because that sounds like Norfolk on a normal day let alone in the midst of a pandemic! They dont like outsiders in general, but fuck me if your Essex, london or up north they all gather with their forks and torches!!!

Although I am totally not condoning being a covidiot! At all! There are lots of people just taking the piss especially where I am in london

Poppliosbubble I live in the SW, close to the town I suspect you might be referring to. Our village website, that usually advertises lost dogs and cats, has a council hotline number for reporting strangers and neighbours who might be 'breaking the rules'. The responses have been quite worrying. While I'm hoping people are being sensible and not piling down to our corner of England (that only has one major hospital for the entire county), I really think some people are becoming very unpleasant. I loved the reply that popped up on our website: Whatever next? Will people be asking if anyone has seen any Jews in their street? Not funny at all but sadly so true.

Agree with you entirely OP. Very very sad to see how people are reacting during this outbreak - people are absolutely relishing in lording it up over those who dare to step outside their front door. Very strange behaviour. A woman I know on Facebook is actually counting the cars that drive past her house in order to post a status on how shocked she is that people are still driving during lockdown. If only I had the time!

How can you check where a car’s from??? Pretty sure that’s not possible or legal. The reg code that denotes whee a car was for registered is meaningless. Could have been bought by someone in Glasgow who moved to Exeter or had the car delivered by trailer for example. No proof at all.

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I remember reading that the most vicious Nazi war criminals were not ex military, or people who had held powerful office before the rise of the far right, but had previously been frustrated petty clerks and officious bus conductors.

YNBU. IME the bigger the front the bigger the back. Those shouting the loudest about others are often the ones flouting all the rules themselves.

I work in a small supermarket and some people are being absolute dicks. They are walking around like either zombies or crazed doomsayers - most of whom do not stick to social distancing guidelines especially if there's a reduced pack of scotch eggs up for grabs. I know this situation is scary and strange but you want to try working in it. So many customers who are extremely rude and demanding - acting as if they are the only ones in lockdown. I'm trying my hardest to remain upbeat and maintain my high level of customer service but I'm becoming more disillusioned with the British public. Let's all try to get along.

It’s just giving some people to be as vile as they’ve always really wanted to be I’m afraid. We stopped going to Cornwall years ago because I got sick and tired of local attitudes. I’m sure not all the people are the same, but I just felt as though they were happy to take our money in shops and restaurants but were wishing we’d get the hell out of it.

The icing on the cake was when we pulled into a cliff top carpark in a fairly remote spot with two dogs in the car. My husband paid about five pounds to park which was bloody expensive in those days. We put the dogs on leads and headed towards the footpath to be confronted with a ‘no dogs’ sign. We headed back to the car - all within about five minutes and asked for out money back because clearly we couldn’t go walking there. The evil bugger just grinned at us and refused.

I swore there and then I’d never go near the county ever again and we never have. The scenery is just as beautiful in the North East and the people are so much nicer.

People in Cornwall have been gagging for years to have a legal way to tell the 'emmets' to fuck off.

Fear makes people act like assholes.
There's a lot of assholes at the moment
Be kind folks

MN is an absolute disgrace just now. I know its a frightening and uncertain time, we are all feeling it, but the level of hate, anger and outrage on here is awful. All we can do is police our own behaviour, wash our hands, social distancing if we need to go out and thats it. I'm sick of reading about people being flamed for having a conversation with a relative from 6ft awa in the street. Get a fucking grip.

MN is an absolute disgrace just now.

to be fair, people say that all the time! There's at least a thread a week on how bad MN is. And a couple more on how better it was in the olden days. Nothing new.

I was out with my 1-year old the other day on a morning walk (our only outing as it counts as his and mine daily exercise). He was wearing his reins and I stopped walking to give him a drink, so he wouldn’t run off (he’s a bolter!). Took my rucksack opened it and gave him a sip of water - this was less than one minute. OAP appears behind us, with a walking stick in the air, shouting “how selfish stopping on the country lane” bla bla bla “nove along or I’ll call the police” “young people have no respect these days” etc etc.
Honestly, my son was really scared and I nearly lost it.
It didn’t help that I look foreign...
I told her to go around us (there was more than 2 m of space!!) or could she wait until I put the bottle back on the backpack. More muttering and low level threats.
I told her to go fuck herself.

This type of intimidation should be prosecuted IMHO

Thanks OP I was beginning to think I was the only one who thought like this. I guess some people revel in being miserable. I particularly have a problem with the child haters who think it's OK to constantly complain on public forums e.g. MN, facebook etc about children leaving the house (I'm talking pre-school/primary aged kids who are with their parents). These kids still need a childhood and imho you can follow the rules and still let them have a bit of fun on their one bit of exercise. We don't go out every day with our toddler but when we do we've experienced both camps - some people saying it's lovely to hear a child's laughter and another person who told us this was no time for having fun - she was in her pushchair singing at the time, hardly putting anyone at risk.
Sadly I think this experience is just giving a platform to for a minority with loud voices to just be as hateful as possible.

I'm from London, currently in my second home. I've been here for 4 weeks - before lockdown. Before we arrived my next door neighbours popped in and put the heat on and we rang our local farm shop and arranged a delivery. We also booked a Tesco delivery before we arrived because although things were crazy in London, it was business as usual here.
I fall into the extremely vulnerable category, as does my father who I brought with me. I took the kids out of school early and came here as my husband is a key worker and had to work - I couldn't risk him coming in and out every day and infecting us so i've come here from London, in my car, to my 2nd home, inside and haven't been out for a month - and I won't be going out until it's safe to return home. My neighbours have been really wonderful - bringing me fresh milk and leaving treats on the drive for us, really welcoming - because they understand that we all try to keep our families as safe as we can and they totally understand that we are just here to stay inside as my brave husband works in London, as well as my adult son.
Anyone who says they wouldn't do the same is either a liar or doesn't feel the fear that the vulnerable do.

Absolutely they are. I've been in my front garden and had some elderly couple tell me how I shouldn't be outside. Considering they were going for a walk it was laughable.

Competitive misery is alive and well, especially on here, along with all the other "Peter Perfects". If anyone tells me I'm doing something wrong from now on, they are going to be met with a very impolite "fuck off and mind your own business".

And all this "be kind" business, well that's all bloody false virtue signalling too. Utter bollocks.

I think a disproportionate amount of police Officers are smarmy power hungry trumped up little people with God complexes and personal agendas. The threat a chief constable made to start searching trollies if people didn't "behave", and the police officer who went into someone's (long, fenced off and fairly secluded) front garden to tell a family they can't be in it are examples of how I see police forces.

And I think you’re talking shit. The officer talking to the guy in his garden has been bollocked and the Chief constable issued an apology for the ‘over zealous nature’ of the incident, plus the Cambs Chief Constable also spoke up re how an officer in the supermarket shouldn’t have mentioned he was glad to see people not buying non-essentials. I know an awful lot of police, yet by your own admission, you have had very little to do with them. There are idiots in every walk of life, police no exception, but the vast majority do a bloody good job like my DH who talked a man down off a bridge over the M25 yesterday

It’s amazing how quickly we’ve been transitioned into living in a police state. It’s almost like Nazi Germany.

I think the police who were 'over zealous' [I love that term] have been made to look like dicks now.

It’s amazing how quickly we’ve been transitioned into living in a police state. It’s almost like Nazi Germany.

When you haven't got a clue what Nazi Germany really was, maybe. Why don't you use your free time to educate yourself about it?

People are scared