AIBU to wonder why so many SNITCHES on here?!

[GinDaddyRedux]

This is not a joke thread. What is it with all the "AIBU to report..." at the moment?

I can understand the febrile atmosphere due to the outbreak of novel coronavirus. I too was angry when I read the Cummings story and the subsequent reinterpretation of the lockdown rules by no.10 - for a containment strategy to work, people need to trust Government and voluntarily sacrifice to contain the virus.

However... there are just so many scenarios where someone is keen to report a neighbour, friend or individual for suspected behaviour. They won't confront that person and ask them why. They won't gain much if anything from the reporting. But they just have to report... because anything else would mean they're locking down and someone else is gaining an advantage, and that won't do.

I wonder aloud if this will continue post-Coronavirus. Will we remain a tell-tale society where people immediately report like primary school on people they can't stand and want to be punished?

AIBU for being a bit fatigued by all the ratting and telling going on?

[chrislilleyswig]

Ask OP what wet snitching is.

Something to do with rubber wellies or something?

[VirginWestCoast]

What would wet snitching be?

It'll be listed on a fetish website somewhere.

[Sparklingbrook]

[SharonasCorona]

What would wet snitching be?

Harry Potter putting his Snitch in his mouth?

[Sparklingbrook]

What would wet snitching be?

[chrislilleyswig]

Snitching, dry or not.

Why a surprise it's gindaddy

Obsessed

[RainMustFall]

I've come to the assumption that they live boring, empty, little lives. The stasi would have been thrilled to have this many informers.

[Rosebel]

But it will affect you if you catch the virus or someone you love catches it. If people keep breaking the rules the rate of infection and death goes up it's likely you will be affected but a lot of people don't seem to understand that.

[cologne4711]

Urgh I really hate people who call it snitching. Like people who refuse to report criminals because it’s snitching. So childish and pathetic

In most cases it's the "snitching" that is childish and pathetic.

There is a big difference between reporting a crime and reporting someone for going out more than once a day. As people have pointed out, in most cases you do not know the facts and you have no idea why someone may be apparently breaking the rules. It really is better to mind your own business, stick to the rules yourself and forget it.

At the moment you see more and more people out and about and think they're probably technically breaking the rules but unless it affects me I don't care.

If bonfires were illegal I would report that because it affects me and it's dangerous, sadly they are allowed. But I am not reporting someone for talking to someone from outside their household less than 2m apart.

[FrippEnos]

Bluntness100
I do wonder if these adults were the unpopular kid in school who did the same thing then. Reported minor transgressions to teachers or parents, and are equally unpopular in adult life. I really wouldn’t be surprised if there was a correlation.

I wonder if those against "snitching" are the ones that bullied kids and then beat them up/turned others against them because they had the audacity to try and get help by "snitching" and are still getting away with bullying people because they manage to get others to turn against the "snitches"?

[mencken]

snitches, sneaks, grasses. It is so embarrassing that this is allegedly a predominantly female site with so many clearly having a playground mentality.

[Highonpotandused]

He/she also refuses to answer if he’s male on another thread.

[LaurieMarlow]

@GinDaddyRedux this is not a joke post - what is your obsession with snitching? It's pretty much all you ever post about, do you have no other interests? No opinions on anything that isn't snitch related?

This is what I was going to say. Wtf is it with this poster and ‘snitching’ like we’re all still in primary school?

[Waveysnail]

"Snitch" are you 5

[Rosebel]

So is it all laws you think we should ignore or just the ones relating to lockdown?
I,haven't reported anyone but am sick to death of following the rules only to watch others doing whatever they want. If only people could follow the rules there would be no need for snitching.

[SharonasCorona]

Another thread attacking women for having an ‘angry’ opinion. Yawn.

[Delta1]

Completely agree. It's an awful part of this whole saga and it turns my stomach. I need to stay off the numerous 'Should I report ....' threads as I just get riled up...And as @BubblesBuddy says, the word Snitch is exactly the right word.
I think @Bluntness100 's description of the likely character traits of these people is spot on. I cannot think of a single friend, family member or casual acquaintance in my life currently, who I could imagine snitching on people like this. Thank God.
Let's hope this whole miserable episode comes to a close soon, so these awful people can go back to being miserable on their own, without the benefit of a soap box to give them their thrills.

[Sparklingbrook]

I hadn’t heard the expression ‘snitching’ since primary school and then not often and ‘telling’ as in ‘I’m telling of you’ the same.

[Bluntness100]

I’d agree a blatant transgression that could cause major risk in the early days was something understandable.

Now much of it is “I stayed in. So fuck you” type snitching. Its often not about risk. It’s about the Smug satisfaction of telling. That rare moment where they get to be superior.

I do wonder if these adults were the unpopular kid in school who did the same thing then. Reported minor transgressions to teachers or parents, and are equally unpopular in adult life. I really wouldn’t be surprised if there was a correlation.

[LemmysAceCard]

I am waiting to be "snitched" on by my curtain twitching neighbours as my son who doesnt live with me has been coming round everyday for the last 2 weeks. If they asked i would tell them - he bought and moved into a new house 2 weeks ago but as we are in the pandemic BT will not come out and install his internet. The earliest they would come out is second week in June.

Son has to work from home as they office is shut and he needs the internet so has had to start coming here to be able to work, if he doesnt work he doesnt get paid, then cant pay is new mortgage.

He doesnt mix with other households and we dont so the chances of passing covid onto each other is slim. But i am still expecting a knock on the door from the police.

[BogRollBOGOF]

Reporting large, blatent transgressions of the law on lockdown particularly in the early days when the virus had a much higher community transmission was fair enough as it was creating favourable conditions for the virus to spread.

There has been a massive amount of snitching over trivial issues, many of which are totally innocent and within the guidelines and others totally consequence-free.

So many people not only took the guidelines seriously but added extra layers to them and get upset that others are not following non-existent rules. So many people shaming others for non-crimes such as not joining The Clap.

Snitiching is the perfect word to describe petty grassing up and bitching over non-issues.

The scariest thing about the past few months is how quickly a significant proportion of the population will turn on itself, as with the rise of Nazism or the Cultural Revolution, and without any practical self preservation involved. Clearly I was always wrong to assume that most did it in the face of self preservation against draconian consquences, but no they are just pathetic, vindictive individuals boosting their self-esteem.

[SaskiaRembrandt]

@GinDaddyRedux this is not a joke post - what is your obsession with snitching? It's pretty much all you ever post about, do you have no other interests? No opinions on anything that isn't snitch related? Not watched a really good film you'd like to discuss? What about cheese, what is your opinion of cheese?

[LastTrainEast]

OldQueen1969 well as you can see in my previous post I'm not really with the curtain twitchers, but I kind of understand someone saying "but then you shouldn't get treated if you get it."

Mostly I've seen that directed at those who said outright that they personally would be ignoring all rules as they didn't care what happened to other people. I still wouldn't deny them treatment, but I'd like them to consider the thought in hopes it helps them get the point.

[rosiejaune]

rawlikesushi they might assume they'd get a ticking off, and that might be the case right now (unless you're black and get tased for taking food to your vulnerable mother...), but it prepares the ground for greater authoritarianism. When it happens gradually, more people go along with it.

[Thecruxxofitis]

I come from a culture where we talk about snitches and tellers
Naples or Sicily?