to be getting really quite pissed off with covid Thread Police?

[PyongyangKipperbang]

Not threads about Covid but people who will post on a thread about (say) meeting a mate for a coffee and say "Well you shouldnt be meeting anyone should you?" or "I assume you are in the UK, so YABU for leaving your house at all"

This always happens in threads where there is no information given about "bubbles" or mental health issues etc, but there is always one who does it!

Or people who feel the need to post....."I am meeting my friend for a walk, socially distanced obviously!" because if they dont add the final comment they just know that someone will jump on them.

I agree that we should all be doing what we need to do in lockdown, but I dont assume the worst when someone posts, I assume that whatever it is that they are discussing, they are doing within the law. I dont feel the need to remind them what they already know! And also, if someone is such an asshole that they will ignore the law then nothing said by a sanctimonious MNer will stop them so why bother?!

Vitrue signalling has got so much worse since CV19 imo.

AIBU?

I agree with the pp objecting to the use of Stasi too but we can’t police what others post, just moan about it

What I did think was horrible was a few posters telling someone the other day that they posted on Mnet because they had no friends. The poster clearly was very anxious and stressed about covid and could easily have been ignored rather than be treated to that helpful psychoanalysis.
Plus the irony from that little bunch.

Agree. It's all turned into a right meangirl bitchfest that Regina George would be proud of.

I hate the thread derailers, especially when it has sweet fuck all to do with Covid, but they have to insist on flashing their hall monitor badge, eh?

P.s I like the sound of a slingshot ice cream. Have we mastered socially distant sex yet? Asking for a single lockdown friend.

Although I'm quite glad the goady poster just now (who has now been deleted) got their arse handed to them for deliberately / violently coughing in someone's face for not giving them enough space on a walk

I want a separate CovidAIBU topic. Get rid of all the stupid questions about what you can and can’t do.
Keep AIBU for proper whiney threads and moaning about cat pop in the garden etc.

Cat poo even!😂

I thought about starting an AIBU thread earlier today but then almost immediately thought "No, not worth it" because the Covid Monitors would certainly pounce. So instead of posting I had a discussion with myself and have decided AINBU .

But honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if the people who so eagerly police what others do are not the worst offenders when it comes to breaking the rules.

@SquirtleSquad

Although I'm quite glad the goady poster just now (who has now been deleted) got their arse handed to them for deliberately / violently coughing in someone's face for not giving them enough space on a walk

I wasn't being the slightest bit goady to anyone, except the kind of people who think it's OK for their lawbreaking and inconsiderate behavior to impact my life.

There are a lot of total arseholes around.

Until Covid hit, it was socially unacceptable to display your arsehole-ness in public. Now it's practically compulsory. All the other arseholes will cheer you on for staying locked in your house and spying on your neighbours' movements, or for reporting back on people "blatantly flouting" your interpretation of the rules.

Saying you are going to cough in peoples faces during a pandemic. Nooo not goady at all to start a thread in AIBU about it complete with matching name. 😂

I've just watched a loved one die
FFS don't be next

'Goady' implies that I was 'goading' someone. Who exactly? Who would be 'goaded' by that?

The people blocking the paths to conduct their social lives are breaking the law and being inconsiderate.

@ScuseMeCoughCough

'Goady' implies that I was 'goading' someone. Who exactly? Who would be 'goaded' by that?

The people blocking the paths to conduct their social lives are breaking the law and being inconsiderate.

If you really can’t see it. 🤷‍♀️

The people blocking the paths to conduct their social lives are breaking the law and being inconsiderate.

Who exactly was it 'goading'? The people who spoil my daily walks maybe? Good.

@ScuseMeCoughCough

Who exactly was it 'goading'? The people who spoil my daily walks maybe? Good.

Well the threads has gone now you can let it go.

I did, somebody else brought it up.

@ScuseMeCoughCough

Who exactly was it 'goading'? The people who spoil my daily walks maybe? Good.

Do you like being deleted? Your not supposed to be coughing in peoples faces full stop

I agree OP, it's bloody irritating.

Hmm yeah on the other hand, I am struggling to get over the unbelievable story of the aunt and uncle that went to visit their 97 year old DF the day after they got back from Dubai. They had Covid. Certainly reassures me, because I don't think going to the playground with my kids is in the same ballpark!!

@MamaTookMyEyebrows

Omg this this this. I am so with you.

“Socially distanced, of course!”

Those four words can be consigned to the fucking sea the minute this fiasco is over.

I always imagine these posters wearing a tweed skirt. Apologies to tweed skirt wearers of course

@RaspberryCoulis

There are a lot of total arseholes around.

Until Covid hit, it was socially unacceptable to display your arsehole-ness in public. Now it's practically compulsory. All the other arseholes will cheer you on for staying locked in your house and spying on your neighbours' movements, or for reporting back on people "blatantly flouting" your interpretation of the rules.

Well said

There really are a lot of massive arseholes around, using the cover of 'saving lives'

It's tediously transparent virtue signaling

This thread made me smile for the first time today! the images I now have of ice cream being shot into mouths from a socially acceptable distance!! BRILLIANT!!!

Thank you all of you for brightening my day

Couldn't agree more OP, it's so dull.