AIBU to think heatwave barbecue reactions are starting to feel a bit Covid?

[PatioDwellers]

To think the bbq/fires in the heatwave responses have the air of Covid about them …

’my neighbour is having a bbq what should I do’, Ring 101, call the fire brigade, take photos, people will die!

tinfoil bbqs in the countryside, tossers and rightly banned.

Being unable to go to work, send your children to school or visit friends and family count as major privations. Not cooking out of doors, not so much.

But also a lot of people who can't read and interpret information and can't risk assess and are making up their own, unneccessary rules and then judging other people against their own made up nonsense.

Garden BBQs, responsibly used are specifically allowed, because they don't present a high risk.

Yes. You are being a complete tosser. Someone had a bonfire in their garden and burnt down about 2 houses. Get a grip. Covid? What on earth are you talking about. Let’s hope your house doesn’t burn down because your neighbour had a coal BBQ and a light coal set your garden on fire

Yes which can happen in any country.

She’s saying hysterical reactions like this are reminiscent of Covid

We are having a gas BBQ today. We will do so safely and are not near any dried grass. We have artificial grass and live in a large detached house. Shot at dawn? Really?

Perfectly sensible request to ask us to not BBQ with coals, disposable etc whilst this heat wave and drought persists. The fire brigade literally don't have the resources to go to any more fires! They are already flat out.

I'll continue to safely use my responsibly sited gas barbeque in my garden, as I'm legally entitled to do.
But why do you need to do this, in the midst of a drought and wildfires? Just because something's legal doesn't make it morally ok.

Exactly - only needs a small ember/spark/coal from the bbq to land anywhere at the moment and there'd be a fire.

Think gas BBQ should be ok as no embers

Thank you for the link. This was last tear.

I agree with the OP. People love to be told what to do and how to act.

Whilst I agree that disposable BBQ should be not sold at this time - having a family BBQ in your own back garden is your own prerogative. We shouldn’t be told what we can and can’t do in our own homes. I’m pretty sure that some Government official is going to be spotted at a garden BBQ like last time!

We’ve a birthday party this weekend, it’s been organised for months. Family are coming that we have not seen in years and our home is too small to have everyone seated in the living room. We are not cancelling.

As an adult I know not to go out and start a fire, let fireworks off ect… but I will have a BBQ at my home on the paved patio in my back garden

It sounds like people have urgent burgers to eat and guests coming, who can’t possibly be let down by the method in which their food is cooked. It is pretty essential stuff.

and you can definitely guarantee no embers will come off.

Yes, you are being unreasonable.

There.

Because I can safely do it, and it's cooler cooking outside. My risk assessment (which policy makers agree with) is that's not a high risk to cause a fire. It's obviously a very different risk profile to a disposable BBQ on dry grass, which I wouldn't have considered using this summer, and I didn't need a government alert to tell me that.

Hit the nail on the head.

thankfully most people are intelligent and secure about themselves and able to heed guidance. Sadly, there are those ridiculous individuals who have a reaction to being told what to do by the state.

It has also emboldened all the idiots who are itching to denounce their neighbours to the state for any sort of perceived transgression

Daft post…

Yes, I have mentioned that probably twice now.

(Assuming you mean 'last year' and not anything to do with 'tiers'... shudder!)

I assume you stopped to respond to this before reading the rest of the thread, but if you're interested as to why I posted it, you can search for my posts in the thread to get the context. If you're still not sure, I'm happy to answer!

I appreciate meaning gets a bit lost when it's over multiple posts.

Yes! Exactly this. Govt asks everyone to be more careful and not light fires in open grasslands. Sandra and Mick bemoan anyone dating to have a bbq in their back garden. Covid all over again. People don’t realise we have hundreds of wildfires every summer. Absolutely it’s getting worse, absolutely we need to take more care. But it’s nothing new.

I doubt the druggies on my estate will care. Hopefully if they are that stupid they will be caught out by a ring doorbell.

The country has no common sense that's the problem. Standard bbq in a garden absolutely fine. Tin box on grass that's now turned to hay because of drought is not fine. Not really hard to comprehend is it!

I dunno, the rest of Europe didn’t get it either?

No. It is because we are all divided about the appropriate course of action for mitigating fire risk on our own soil. Whilst the European fires were really shocking, we can’t really do anything about it so it was more of a passive empathy

We’re not divided at all. What a weird thing to say. How do you know there weren’t these exact conversations on the Spanish and French versions of mumsnet?

It’s strange that 2 people can can have an entirely different view and believe they are both right.

I’m cracking on 50, married, run my own business, 3 children ( who I’ve managed to not kill) own my own home, have 2 cats who won’t run away. I feel I can risk access my own danger of a posh BBQ on my lovely concrete patio - and I can do all this with out calling people who disagree names.

And I do wonder whether if those people who do get highly strung over government ‘advice’ have a correlation with those that like to call names and throw insults about.