To think some people are just loving it?

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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?

I'm on our lacks Facebook and Whattsapp groups and I haven't seen any negative behaviour at all. People seem to being lovely. I don't really see much sign of people breaking the rules here though. I'm sure it happens but I'm not aware of it.

I really think its a mob grief reaction to the situation we are in.

When you look at the stages of grief they are in a state of anger. But they don't know that they are grieving and so they direct their anger outwards at everyone else.

It occupies their mind and stops them from processing their own feelings.

It promotes a sense of false security that they are in control and also it binds them together with the other angry people.

It highlights a lot of emotional stuntedness and I don't know what group depression will look like but that is the next stage if they do move from anger.

Same here.

In my village we have a bloke wearing a high VIP jacket quizzing people he doesn't recognise. Well, I don't recognise him either!

We have ranting on facebook, calling the police about people staying in holiday cottages when they aren't!

I'm actually scared to go to my cottage- on the same road I live on!- to water the plants.

It is an excuse to give in to the hatred of people who arent born and bred here. It makes me sick really.

A woman where i live reported another woman for arranging to drop an iron round to a neighbour. Yes, she actually went to the police.

Three hundred years ago these are the people who would have found you guilty of witchcraft for being childless or having a mole on your cheek.

@Choccylips 😂 you would have ended up on your local FB page and possibly had a red A painted on your door.

@Ginfordinner

We live rurally and also by the sea. I totally get what you are talking about.

Absolutely! It has brought a really unpleasant dictatorial side out in some people a lot of them are now on mumsnet.

A friend of mine was indignant that an artisan food market was running a few weeks ago and couldn't believe the entitled nature of the whole affair. When I pointed out it was selling food which is essential, from independent producers and (provided people were practising social distancing) probably safer being outside than in she was totally stumped. A lot of the anger is misplaced. People are thinking about things in very black and white terms and are really enjoying a good old witch hunt!

On my local Facebook page there were people putting photos of cars parked in the beach car park and another writing 'cryptic' messages about a house with a certain colour door on a certain road having visitors. The cars were people who had driven a couple of miles to walk their dogs on our quiet non tourist beach as they have done for years. The visitors one was someone providing care to a vulnerable person.
It all kicked off. The page runners threatened to shut it down and have now banned any shaming posts.

Worryingly I think an awful lot of people have been desperate to unleash their inner, mean minded twatness for years but had to suppress the urge until now. But now they can give their true natures free rein and they're reveling in it. It's why so many people were more than happy to inform on their neighbours and even friends and family during the world wars, or the McCarthy trials or the witch trials or the Spanish Inquisition etc.

@peaceanddove so true this is a recurrent theme throughout history. I think there must be something in a lot of us that wants to look for blame in others. Deflecting from ourselves.

Decided to block the local fbook group, as i was sick of reading the increasingly nasty toxic pitchfork waving, judgmental curtain twitchers, screaming in indigestion at anyone daring to walk bike or drive ANYWHERE esp the local nature reserve, where folk are using for allowed safe daily exercise. They're the same people who normally bitch at how cars are parked in the supermarket and take & post photos or at local kids minding their own business daring to hang with friends before all this started. The virus has given them a reason to live and breathe. Reccomend you don a tin helmet and ignore the selfrightious feckers...Stay safe.

I really think its a mob grief reaction to the situation we are in

Wow, very astute observation. I think you are exactly right

Surprised they're so pleased about the vanishing tourists in cornwall. They wont be after a whole season without them.

We don't all need the tourists for our jobs. I couldn't give a shit if they don't come back.

Maybe not for your own job, but do you really not think that all of the tourist money benefits your county as a whole? The fact is that a great many of your county-folk do depend on tourists for a living, so if they lose that and all end up unemployed, would you be happy to pay a massive local tax from your own unaffected income to support them?

Or would you expect them to be supported as normal on a national level - i.e. from the taxes of people across the country whom you don't actually want there in person, just their money? And then we'd hear more complaints about how impoverished Cornwall is, forced to rely on London, which is determined to keep them poor and just doesn't care about them.

Cornwall is a beautiful place and the majority of the Cornish people are lovely - and many tourists can indeed be arrogant, selfish and very annoying - but we all need each other.

Well said, WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll. The 'economy' is made up of everyones' jobs/mortages/bills/etc., just as the 'population' is made up of individual people. You can't take your own little bubble and say "I'm alright Jack"; it's all interconnected.

I'm in Cornwall and hope the tourists do come back and ignore some of the truly awful things that have been said. Some tourists have been complete tits, trying to come on holiday during this but most have been obeying lockdown rules.

Personally, I’m finding it really sad to read how much simmering resentment there is to tourists in these counties. It seems very small-minded given the financial boost they give your economies. I’ve always loved holidays in the south-west. Not so sure now.

I was told by a security guard in the Sainsbury’s Local the other day that it was “illegal” for me to be out with my kids and he was actually breaking the law by letting me in with them their Dad was at work as a keyworker and we needed essentials. I was trying to be responsible by not driving to large supermarket. Illegal my tits, some people really do have too much power. As the lady (2m) ahead of us in the queue said, “You should have brought a bit of rope and a water dish for them so you could have tied them up outside”

@WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll absolutely brilliant post.

People have such a narrow view, they don't think about how we all interconnect with each other.

I think some people think that if the tourists went KPMG would suddenly relocate its head office to Padstow or something, and all the locals would suddenly buy the ex holiday cottages for threepence ha'penny.

Have left countless facebook groups, blocked topics and threads on here and I know it's been said before but MN is more than a bit feral atm - the 80 item thread that got pulled yesterday was a shocker - a new level of low.
The mob grief theory is definitely interesting...and might explain the overwhelming amount of hate that at times feels like it's taking over.

It's all kicked off here over the "lockdown discos". Understandably someone complained about 6 hours of banging tunes all day every day all weekend and now FB is full of people complaining that Damien can't play it "cos someone complained and what a kill joy cos we're all in lockdown together innit"

For the record I didn't complain but Damien's taste in music and DJ skillz are shit.

@MogeatDog - yes that 80 item one was truly shocking. Some really vicious posts on there tearing a poor woman to shreds. I'm glad it was taken down.

I was a cunt to someone yesterday.

Out walking and a woman with her kid coming the other way on the path cycling, so I went on to the grass with my buggy to give the two meters.
She passed without thanks and I gave the old sarcastic "you're welcome btw"

She replied "I did say thanks". She probably did and either way I should just let it go, her kid was there and we're all having a shit time without adding petty confrontations in to it .

Just having a shit day and acted like a low level prick.

I'm hoping to see them again so I can apologise.

A cheeky fucker neighbour has informed my friend that her car should be parked 2 metres away from her husband’s car. He knows that my friend and her husband, like many married couples, live together in the same house and that they park their cars on their own drive way far away from anyone else’s. This CF clearly has nothing better to do, apart from doing people’s heads in.

Cars can catch covid too you know...

Up until recently, being an avid believer in seeing the good in others, I struggled to understand how historically we were gripped by travesties such as the Salem Witch Trials and the hunting and outing of Jews in Nazi-occupied countries. I couldn't understand how the herd mentality turned on their friends and neighbours. Sadly, now I totally get it.
And they didn't even have social media.

People here are getting snarky about their neighbours - and reporting them to the police. It is all very Crucible-ish