Some people enjoy patronising and depressing others

[Esprohuy]

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.

Don’t people typically flaunt their baby bumps in the daily mail?

I always visualise them doing a belly dance in The Asda.

Is it possible to flout and flaunt at the same time, or has that been done?

And don’t get me started about ‘welcoming’ they’d new babies.

Like they’ve bought a special doormat and poured them a drink.

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! mmm cheesy tea.

These people always seem to crop on birthday threads for some reason.

'Dh got me a used rag for my birthday AIBU to be slightly upset'

Dementors- 'birthdays are for children only'
'Your so selfish expecting someone to put in effort and time to choose a gift for a you'
'I told my husband to make a charitable donation on my birthday'
'At least he is recycling- the planet is dying people'
'Blah blah head wobble blah blah big girl pants'

Did anyone else read the post about people having outdoor cinema in the garden? And how it wasn't necessary. I thought that sounded fab. The national trust does that in summer.

I think it's partly jealousy too. I did a post saying it's ok to have a picnic and got a load of abuse including stuff about why do people have to eat on walks can't they wait till they get home

Daffodil101 flaunts her curves in figure hugging leggings as she takes the dog out for the second time today.

You could FLAUNT your curves whilst FLOUTING the lockdown. TBH it's almost too much for me to consider

@Notverybright you also get the subtle dementors. The ones who come on and tell you that 'hubby' bought them a private island, organic unicorn tears and a diamond the size of a fist and oh poor you that you have had such a shitty awful birthday and He Really Must Try Harder next year.

Oh yes I forgot about the mn perfect husband. 'He's so much better than yours because I actually have standards.'

There was one thread about health and someone said "I have the heart rate of an elite athlete'. This was a conversation about risks..made me smile

It’s so easy to see how the Stasi managed to recruit informers to send their neighbours off to jail

Yeah, also when I mentioned about missing the grant scheme as we'd missed the deadline it was all "My DH would never put us at risk as he would X and X blah blah"and we'd never be "breaking the law"

I did mention yes, because em, self employment is going to be really secure at the moment and in the future, isn't it.

What about those posters who tell you something that’s true, but when you ask them for a source, they remember that they it was ‘just something they read’ and they ‘can’t remember where.’

Something intersting i've observed is that there a fair few very recognisable user name dementors were very loudly predicting a few weeks ago that the NHS would collapse, mass graves needed etc while shouting at someone for buying hot cross buns with their weekly shop or dropping a present off at their Mums and waving from the pavement. Because NOT ESSENTIAL. RULES.

And none of those things have happened but they can't let it go. So they'll be a thread about COVID deaths and they still come on saying 'well yes, because people didn't obey'.

Not. Well, it's a communicable virus and millions still had to go to work, go shopping and lots use public transport. So yeah, people will still catch it and a very few will die from it.

It HAS to be the 'rule breakers' that are causing it. Because they a) feel stupid and can't back down, which is very normal for humans or b) they think, well maybe I didn't have to stay in for weeks and could have gone for a walk/to the shops without killing anyone. Which also isn't a comfortable for them.

So now they're predicting a surge in infections because B and Q reopened. And in a way hoping for it because it justifies their views. Just like 4 weekends ago or whatever when they were predicting a surge because 'everyone' in their street was 'carrying on as normal and we'll never get out of lockdown'.

I quite like a bit of a flout, but I'd save such vocabulary for a raucous, illicit house/ street party with illegal drug taking or rowdy drunkeness rather than Mavis having a socially distanced conversation on her doorstep 5 minutes after recieving her groceries. Sadly I live in a very un-flouty neighbourhood and my knickers haven't been twisted once, nor my pearls clutched.

Another Dementor hangout point (besides the subway in Little Whinging) is social media threads. Oh SHAME on the infidels who have the AUDACITY to BRAG in photo form about their baked goods, wonky crafts, children playing in the GARDEN (#StayInside), the debauched moral wastelands of the COUNTRYSIDE (#PeopleWillDie) or anything else that's distractingly pleasant that undermines the mood of our NATIONAL CRISIS in these troubled times. Such wanton sharing of the minutae of life is obviously vain ego boosting. It is of course morally superior to have given up on Facebook back in 1693, although it is permissable to maintain an account purely for the community groups.

These are indeed troubled times for the techno-Dementor as there is an absence of real holidays, new cars and shudders social nights out to froth and seethe over, so instead, one must channel one's indignence to subjects like children's pictures of rainbows (undermining feminism/ lesbian rights) and chalk drawing on the pavement (criminal damage)
(That was a good pair of threads from early lockdown )

YANBU OP. This place has Dementors, Bitchploppers and Fun Sponges aplenty.

I started a lighthearted thread which referred to a lighthearted thread a few weeks previously. Most people got it, but it was eventually wrecked by the dementors.🙄 But it gave interesting insight into their world.

They can be a bit gaslighty too at times. For example you know how lots of them go on about how they have all been in for the last 3 weeks or whatever like it is some kind of competition for the longest time they can STAYHOMESAVELIVES ? Well I mentioned on a thread that I felt sorry for those children staying in and their mental health.

I was told I had 'made it up' that people were staying in. Umm. Right.

@Esprohuy and sherbert dip - you have reminded me of a fantastic Fry and Laurie sketch about a pair of very enthusiastic cricket commentators who go off on a fevered tangent about "England. Green fields. Rolling hills. Yes, cream teas. Nanny." etc. Brightened my day no end.

I feel like I've finally found my people ☺☺

THIS

Hugh and Stephen are two rather doddery old commentators.
Stephen As we look down now, on this glorious July afternoon ... what a splendid slight it is, Peter.

Hugh It's an absolute picture, isn't it? The sun beating down ...

Stephen Beautiful day ...

Hugh The crowds ... not a seat to be had anywhere ...

Stephen Packed house ...

Hugh Absolutely packed ... and the grass looking so lovely ...

Stephen Green as anything.

Hugh Green as you like. Absolutely as green as could be ...

Stephen Grass has never looked greener ... The groundsman Arthur ...

Hugh Alan.

Stephen Is it? Alan Dixon. Alan Dixon has done a marvellous job ...

Hugh Marvellous job, he really has. What a scene.

Stephen Marvellous scene ...

Hugh Oh I say there's a bus.

Stephen Yes, look there's a beautiful old English ... what is that? Number 29?

Hugh It's a 29 bus, yes.

Stephen A beautiful English 29 bus, yes, what a marvellous scene. Grass, sun, bus, marvellous.

Hugh Yes, that bus making its way now along the Garboldisham road.

Stephen Garboldisham, beautiful village that is ...

Hugh Absolutely delightful village ...

Stephen Garboldisham. What a lovely name.

Hugh Lovely name. Lovely English name.

Stephen Hello, there are some people getting off the bus ...

Hugh Look out ...

Stephen They're off the enjoy their good old English strawberries and cream ...

Hugh Oh, English, yes, watch out for those German strawberries ...

Stephen Not the same ...

Hugh Not the same thing at all ... English strawberries and cream ... 29 bus going down the Garboldisham road ...

Stephen Grass ...

Hugh Cream ...
They begin to gather momentum in some sort of unpleasant sexual exchange of fruity things.

Stephen Garboldisham ...

Hugh Crowds ...

Stephen The South Downs ...

Hugh Malvern hills rolling like a ...

Stephen Motor cars ... leather gloves ...

Hugh A quarter pound of Mrs Faversham's extra strong peppermints ...

Stephen Ovaltine ...

Hugh Wellington boots ...

Stephen Cream ...

Hugh Heaps of cream ... cream and lawnmowers ...

Stephen Summer holidays in Cromer ...

Hugh Vaulting over a stile in a country lane ...

Stephen Catching sticklebacks in an old tin can ...

Hugh "Honestly nanny, I never touched then ..."

Stephen Piano lessons with Mrs Duckworth ...

Hugh Father's hands on the steering wheel ...

Stephen Sit up straight!

Hugh Going faster and faster ...

Stephen Locked in the cupboard for being rude to Mrs Howlett ...

Hugh Take the Wolseley for a run ...

Stephen England ... Elgar ... Malvern Hills.

Hugh Bath Olivers. Play the game ... elbows off the table.

Stephen Who's a brave soldier then? Nanny's hands all steamy and starched.

Hugh England! England and cream ...

Stephen Custard cream ...

Hugh Strawberries and cream ...

Stephen Strawberries and English cream ...

Hugh Take the B road to Petersfield. England.
(Shouting now)

Stephen Creamy England!

Hugh England!

Stephen Cream!

Hugh The roast cream of old England.

Stephen Oh.

Hugh Oh I say.
A post-coital interlude.

Stephen And here comes Nigel Lawson now ...

Vox Pop

Stephen A challenge for her? Yes I've got a challenge for her. Why doesn't she see if she can bleeding well BLEEP herself. For charity obviously.

Oh SHAME on the infidels who have the AUDACITY to BRAG in photo form about their baked goods, wonky crafts, children playing in the GARDEN

LOL There was a thread recently where someone was being really snarky about a WhatsApp group they were on with their friends. Apparently these friends have......brace yourselves.......

posted photos of their puppy in its bed and a home made pot they had made and that was apparently "bragging". Lots of people came on to say er, no, thats just normal every day conversation, they weren't posting photos of sports cars or mansions (which is the typical bragging fodder).
Then the dementors started- "dump those horrible braggarts, how dare they post photos of their dog, theyre clearly bragging for the hell of it!"
"I know people like this, I immediately go no contact with them and CUT THEM OUT- noone is going to subject me to a photo of a ho made pot- how dare they!"
and "urgh I hate it when friends actually start conversations with me, why on earth do they think i'd be interested in their lives?" - um...because they're your......."friends?" lol

I posted on FB about a relative (not a grandparent or someone old) dying not of covid and how crap it was at the moment, I got someone who has dementor characteristics replying that she'd had two relatives dying and hadn't complained. I deleted her.

Also, there seem to be folk out there who are having the vapours about journalists asking the government when the lockdown will end. They should be banned from doing this apparently.

You see for most people seeing a picture of a friend with a puppy or a wee pot their child had made or something would, em make them happy?

@AlexisCarringtonColbyDexter I am giggling at "ho made pot". It does sound like the sort of thing that would upset them, particularly if the ho was flaunting her pot on street corners with some bling.

@everythingbackbutyou

haha! also- love the four yorkshire men sketch from monty python- very much classic dementor one-up manship

Oh Willitneverend.

that she'd had two relatives dying and hadn't complained

WTAF? Competitive death / grief and lack of emotion into the bargain! Not surprised you deleted. Sorry for your loss