Some people enjoy patronising and depressing others

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Clearly everyone is having a different experience of the current situation. It seems to me from the posts here and elsewhere that MN is full of people searching for threads from people either asking genuinely when others think the restrictions may be reduced, or people expressing mental or emotional.distress due to being locked away, sometimes alone. The pattern is the OP posts, there are a couple of sympathetic/in the case of lockdown speculation dovish opinions then the Depressor swoops, usually with a formulation along the lines of:
If you think these restrictions will be lifted anytime soon you are a naïve fool. Christmas will be cancelled and things will never fully return to normal

In the threads expressing mental distress their standard formulation is a variety of:
FFS pull yourselves together. It's been (insert number) weeks, how the F do you think people coped in the war the. All you are being asked to do is stay in and watch Netflix

There seems to be a remarkably large number of people among this cohort who claim grandparental involvement in WW1/2 and have a partner/sibling serving as a front line NHS worker. These depressors seem to scour MN looking to pounce on people expressing povs like the above.

Agreed. Can I also add, somewhat controversially, that there are quite clever people receiving replies from quite stupid people, and that in real life, these conversations would never occur because clever people tend to have avoid having ethical/political/economic conversation with the hard of thinking.

and is constantly criticising that we are flouting lockdown rules

Tbh I hate the constant use of the word ‘flouting’, it feels like it is being used to add drama. I’m being unreasonable but can’t we just stick to ‘not following rules’ or ‘breaking rules’ as we would say usually in the English language.

I’m probably bu I mean

DH and I were called thick and stupid a while back as I mentioned he'd bought me some chocolate (not a Curly Wurly though) when he went to the corner shop for milk. Apparently he shouldn't have been going for milk as it's not essential let alone buying chocolate. Apparently we don't need milk as we've got a tap! The best one was to use cheese if you run out of milk!

Oh British people always get things wrong.

I love the Mumsnet threads bemoaning Brits abroad where people bang on about how they always try to say a few words in forrin with a phrase book and the natives think their daughter is French because she's wearing a stripey t shirt.

Plus the ones from Irish people saying how dreadfully cold the English are because we don't attend the funeral of the granny of the girl we sat next to in primary school and didn't like very much.

The virus has really knocked MN IMO, the need for so many posters to compete over having the most miserable lockdown. It's not fun reading at all.

Agree with the numerous other posters who have said it's because the dementors themselves are not happy. Which is really unfortunate, but making someone else miserable doesn't make them happy either.

The ones reporting their neighbours for minor stuff/personal interpretation of the rules - I don't think they've thought it through to what might happen after the lockdown ends and the neighbours are still annoyed.

Oh no Teateaandmoretea I love ‘flouting’. There’s a real sense of style to it. Like people aren’t just popping out to visit their mate, they’re doing it in fancy dress and a foxtrot while flipping v-signs at the Sainsbury’s queue on the way past

Flouting has the right amount of hyperbole

Although, I’ve seen a lot of ‘flaunting’ which seems quite fancy

Tbh I hate the constant use of the word ‘flouting’, it feels like it is being used to add drama

So true. I quite like the word flout, or used to anyway, it's been absolutely driven into the ground.

Is anyone else a bit surprised that so far no-one has come onto this thread to berate us all for not taking things seriously enough? There's normally at least one dissenting voice on most AIBU threads

This certainly crossed my mind. However, how likely is it that a Dementor will come on here and say "actually yes I spend my time looking for holiday threads so I can tell people they're never going anywhere again, that schools won't return until 2045, that there will be 110% unemployment and by the way their entire family are working naked in ICUs including those that were killed in WW1".. At best some of them (not that they probably recognise themselves) may have read this and dialled down the misery spreading for a bit. Otherwise I think the thing to do is to go for them the way they go for others and call them out on a massive scale, here and IRL as well.

Oh no Teateaandmoretea I love ‘flouting’. There’s a real sense of style to it. Like people aren’t just popping out to visit their mate, they’re doing it in fancy dress and a foxtrot while flipping v-signs at the Sainsbury’s queue on the way past

If you have a cough, as innocuous as you might think it is! Why are you out? Just walked on my daily walk for about half an hour. 3 people walking past in safe distance all coughing 🤨 what the hell is wrong with people

Absolute classic demention. Classic Dementive title "OMFG do not go out". Active now.

YANBU, it has been bloody horrific on here recently!

The worst I read was that people shouldn't be having BBQs in the own back gardens because people should be displaying respect and 'solemnity' during these times! I think I reached peak Mumsnet that day 😂

I have been very active on that thread , however we should give the OP the benefit of the doubt as she made another thread apologising. I think she is suffering from very severe anxiety.

And yes, the 'if you think you are going on holiday anytime before 2050 then the only flight you should bother booking is the one to Fantasy Island' brigade as well. Just stop!

I really want 'flouting' to be the approved term for those who don't Obey The Rules.

Similar to the way that the Daily Mail uses 'flaunting' to describe any woman who dares show so much as an ankle, whilst going about their day and minding their own business.

The other thread is comedy gold. The put the baby in the hedge comment has to qualify as the most batshit thing I have ever read on here.

Hahaha did someone genuinely suggest putting a baby in a hedge while they went fruit picking?

The ones that have pissed me off most are the ones about videos of nurses dancing. Apparently they’re disrespectful, unprofessional, uncaring. God forbid that people under massive pressure on the front line should get a little light relief.

I’m not in the UK and we have looser restrictions at the moment. My favourite FB threads at the moment are these:

“I was in the shopping centre this morning and it was heaving! Don’t people know they should be at home?”

“You’re so right Susan when I was running an errand on the high street I couldn’t believe how many people were in the shop with me.”

“I was on the train and couldn’t get a seat! Where is everyone going?”

Completely oblivious to the fact that they’re out and about themselves

It’s keeping us amused, to be fair.

Doesn’t flaunting involve showing your tits? If not, it definitely ought to

Ha ha, yes, someone has posted a photo of the queue outside B&Q (quite small and everyone at least 2m away from each other anyway) whilst standing in the queue outside B&Q 🤦‍♀️

@Drivingdownthe101

Apparently that's what women used to do, and if it was good enough for them...

The sub-text being stop being so fucking precious about your kids and find the nearest thicket where you can bob them gently between the boughs to coo and gurgle happily whilst you flit gently yet competently between raspberry canes, only pausing occasionally to adjust your mob cap...

@Daffodil101 You would've thought so, but the DM does seem to have a rather Victorian attitude towards women's bodies.

FallonSwift FLAUNTS her curves as she sashays round her £1.50 house

Translation: FallonSwift is wearing leggings and a t-shirt and is pottering round the house, but we're gonna say she FLAUNTS her CURVES because she's got quite big norks and the t-shirt makes her look a bit booby.

In the DM everyone enjoys everything too.