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.

Jealousy?
Boredom?
A desire to be the centre of attention and popular because everyone's agreeing with you?
The opportunity to settle old scores?
Or just the plain and simple chance to bully someone for the hell of it?

a lot of people don't like other people? - and also like to feel they are better than other people.

It's making me like people less I have to say reading some of it. Guess need to remember most people are not like it.

I tried telling them to stop with the telling people off but that didn't really work unfortunately. www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3890431-To-remind-people-of-the-exercise-rules

A bloody picnic then the cheek to come on here preaching

Yes, shocking. Flouting it about on a picnic.

It's quite funny, they start making up all this stuff about 10 mins would be Ok not 20 mins...and telling me off for needing to eat on a long walk...anyway must not rise to it, it doesn't work to tell them about it is I suppose, what I mean.

I've got one mate who is sadly a fully fledged Harridan of Azkhaban.

I've just been told on the Captain Tom thread that it's their right to be bloody miserable!

People are allowed to be miserable, just don’t see the need to try and bring everyone else down with them!

Someone has just claimed on a thread we are going to be in lockdown for 17 months
Some people are so fucking thick

Exactly. When I pointed out I didn't just mean that thread but the general feeling on MN I was told it was irrelevant to the thread! Maybe, but since when has that been an issue on here!

I haven't seen that one @hobnobsaremyfave. Such a random figure, why not 18 months?!

Anyway I hope not, I'm supposed to be going to Florida in September 2021! Oops sorry, I shouldn't have anything to look forward to should? ♟

I’ve noticed a rise in vaccine-related dementoring recently.

A few weeks ago when a vaccine looked 18 months away at the earliest, no real commentary about vaccines, but now there’s a couple of teams thinking they can get one ready much earlier it’s all “you are all KIDDING YOURSELVES, vaccines take ten years at least and also it’s impossible to make one for this and also if there’s one ready any sooner than 2057 then it definitely won’t be safe so I won’t have it anyway.”

Florida? FLORIDA? You’re having a laugh, we’ll all be holidaying on lay-bys on the A37 for the rest of our lives!!

(am jealous, I like Florida )

There's a thread about someone having a holiday booked in August this year. To be fair it's not gone too badly but a couple of posters gleefully pointed out insurance won't cover it if she goes against FCO advice. Not that she'd even suggested that!

@pinkSparklyPussyCat
Florida in September 2021

I'm jealous because I started planning a big birthday holiday to Florida with friends during this exact same date. Everybody is less committed to join me on what was going to be an epic holiday. Damn you covid-19!

We didn't know what to do but thought sod it, we need something to look forward to. We've only paid the deposit and we'll review the situation before we pay the rest and move or cancel if necessary.

I'm hope you get your big holiday NurseButtercup

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3894570-AIBU-to-think-this-cant-go-on-for-a-whole-year

This one
A dementors paradise

They'd hate me right now, one way of getting through it is thinking of all the things I'll do when lockdown ends. Like visiting my parents, visiting my brother, going to postponed gigs, even returning to Goodison Park once they let fans back. Just to be doing something fun again.

Made the mistake of reading the comments on a Guardian article today (which is always a mistake) - the MN Dementors are not alone (or maybe they also Dement over there when they've exhausted MN)

Lisa you do certainly get Guardian and other Dementors too. The way the MN site is set up where people tend to post questions looking for reassurance actually creates the perfect feeding environment for

♟.

I would look forward to the football restarting- but I'm a Sunderland supporter...

We are used to misery

That link above ^^

“ A year ?
You’ll be lucky, normality won’t resume 2-3 years maybe longer”

♟

This is utter madness.

Let's all sit in and wait until the vaccine is ready.

Fuck that.

Like I said
Dementor central

Actually what these posters remind me of is my granny and how much she loved funerals and talking about death. Went to funerals of people she barely knew, had several funeral outfits in the wardrobe, would start talking about what she was going to wear when people weren't even dead yet. Used to begin conversations with "You know Margaret, she used to live across the road from your old piano teacher? Well. Bowel cancer."

It's not that she wanted people to die but she certainly got something out of it all. Was a bit grim.