Couple doing the tango in finsbury park

[Mydogatemypurse]

I'm staying in. My family are staying in and elderly relatives really suffering with depression and loneliness but still following guidelines. I'm exercising by walking the dog early morning around the block. I.e streets close to my house. I don't need a park or a beach. I certainly dont need to dance the tango in finsbury park. AIBU to be disgusted in people and their clear disregard for others safety. I cant believe their behaviour.

wow what a fantastic way to exercise, I'd have stopped and applauded if I saw that :o

Huh, so apparently I’m the only one who clicked into this thread thinking ‘doing the tango’ was a euphemism.

@BillieLurk, nope, beat you too it

What if they were only dancing around for 15 mins, instead of a 45 min walk?
Don't see the problem at all. I think a lot of people just like getting riled up about fuck all tbh.

THERE ARE NO RULES ABOUT THE DURATION OF EXERCISE.

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There are guidelines that you should leave the house only for essential activities such as exercise, shopping, medical appointments or to care for vulnerable people.

These two probably live together. They danced in the sunshine and I’d have loved to see it.

I go for a long bike ride, around 90 mins every day. All through woods and by rivers. Bloody lovely and keeping me sane.

We’re not all getting through this via sackcloth and ashes.

One could say if you have a garden walking around the streets is unnecessary, as you could be doing laps in around it.

please be careful OP, such extreme self righteousness can have an impact on underlying health conditions
it also causes increased heart and breathing rates which could kill other people if you breathe on them
the death rays coming out of your eyes are also dangerous

Wow you are such a miserable sour faced cow!
WHY SHOULD THEY walk instead of dance for exercise?

Because walking doesn't spread Covid19, dancing definitely does.... Duh!

When I find it, I’ll post... but I can’t see it now so I’ll shut up

I didnt mean it in an arsey way. I just dont get how that could be enforced and it's not realistic.

My hobby is kick boxing, totally get why they wouldnt want us sparring in a park. Those of us who have been doing it years, can look like we are really violent and really hurting eachother.

But some people run, walk and cycle as a hobby. How would you stop them continuing their hobby? And if you decided to take up running as your exercise, it becomes a hobby? So then do you stop?

It's just weird, all the little nuances, that couldnt possible be enforced.

YABbloodyU - how on earth is this any different to OH and I walking through the park together, or two people from the same house jogging together, or cycling. It's no different.

JohnFinlaysNewTeeth

Your username! :o

Bahaha.

That used to be my local park (and I loved it). Around that area, so many people live in small flats with no outside space so whatever exercise people want to do in that park as long as they aren't breaking the two-metre rule is nobody's business but their own. If I was walking there I'd love to have seen them dance. The tango is such a great dance to watch.

I'm relatively easy on sitting down for a few minutes as well as long as it's not more than about fifteen minutes, it's nice to feel the sun then get up and leave so someone else can sit down. Or not.

Aw so this is what I read 😂 it’s cool the Scots got warned

www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.glasgowlive.co.uk/news/glasgow-news/exercise-not-your-hobby-its-18074490.amp

I’m probably just a d* because I am a dancer and I see no need to fanny about in the park

Because walking doesn't spread Covid19, dancing definitely does.... Duh!

Who has said that? I follow everything closely and nowhere has it been said that. Have you got a source for that?

Why is a tango bad but another dance ok? Would rumba be OK? Maybe not, it's latin too. What about quickstep?

I think it was sarcasm, Roussette.

People having FUN??? How very dare they! Everyone ought to know by now that the only acceptable way to "do" lockdown is not leaving the house ever, living on tap water and stale bread and being UTTERLY MISERABLE at all times. If you do need to leave for exercise you are allowed to walk, on your own, as long as you maintain a pained expression at all times.

Dancing the tango in Finsbury Park is a bit showy offy. But it's no different from DH and I going for a walk this afternoon in the sunshine. We may have even smiled. Off to punish myself now for my transgression.

And if you decided to take up running as your exercise, it becomes a hobby? So then do you stop?

Aw totally I agree. It’s a sticky one. I probably have lesser understanding because my exercise happens indoors, certainly not normally in my living room but it is what it’s just now! I’m not keen to go out other than the 2 mins to the shop, and that’s more based on my own fears.

And I think that’s it really. People are projecting their fears. It’s a shit time and we’re all muddling through in ways we find any comfort

It's not a holiday

the idea is to get people to keep their distance from others. The idea is not to give up all happiness or fun or your hobbies. Doing something in public which is likely to annoy the people around you (such as getting drunk or having a loud bbq in your back garden) is not in the spirit of things, as everyone is living in difficult circumstances. But I really think that something like this is lovely, it is a reminder of the human spirit and of happiness and all the good things we hope will come back into our lives. Happiness is very good for you, it is good for your immune system.

GlendaSugarbeanIsJudgingYou
Eeek... I'm a bit slow, sorry! My brain is shrinking every day through all of this

It’s not a holiday

Um...ok.

People really need to lighten up, honestly, observing lockdown shouldn’t have to mean an existence of unrelenting greyness and misery, this couple is finding and, indeed, spreading a little joy where they can without impinging on the health and safety of others. I’m all for it.

@BlackAndWhiteCat01 does Scotland have a 60 min limit?

That's not the case on england, as far as I am aware.

I get the impression that, actually, that's not part of the official guidance.

I understood that there was a difference between exercise and hobby. I can see some people agree but a lot dont.. I do understand that hobbies ARE exercise but I think there is a time and a place right now. I personally think we should all be staying in as much as possible apart from the bare minimum. I accept my opinion is different to the majority. I'm going to keep doing what I'm doing.

Are they blocking any path ways for other ppl?
R ppl having to walk on the grass because of them?
Can ppl keep 2m from them?
R ppl stopping and gathering around them?

If any of these is true, you have a point... But you havent mentioned anything beside them dancing?