The “I just had a sit down in the park with crisps” brigade

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You are the problem. The rules are simple. Go out and exercise and then go home. Just that, nothing more than that.

To be fair then problem is actually bigger than that and has been brewing for years as we increasingly become a country with rules but almost everyone has an excuse for why that rule shouldn’t apply to them/their child/family.

Come on, keep up. You should know there are the rules (the official ones) and the RULES which are the ones that Mumsnetters have pulled out of their own arse and which involve staying in a locked house for 6 months and eating dust and lentils

Well I am going for a walk and need to sit down for a few minutes to rest! Presuming we are not living in Eastern Germany pre destruction of the Berlin wall ,Then I assume this is permitted

Well said. Some people have chosen this moment to indulge their inner Stasi. Very bizarre.

The fact government had to clarify that you were indeed allowed to sit and eat outside tells me that common sense has truly gone out the window.
Why would anyone need to be told that it's OK to do that? When it blatantly fucking is.
Where has critical thinking gone?? Why are people so eager to give up their lives fully on the say of an embarrassment of a government?

This thread is rather like the eleventy billion others on this topic. The best ones though are the ones that basically say "I was out walking and was annoyed that so were other people" 😂

YABU. The police guidelines say a brief stop is likely to be reasonable. I tend to need a quick sit down while taking toddler for a walk out and about, as I'm 37 weeks pregnant. Plenty of our local police have walked past and never criticised me!

I can’t get upset about it. I also think it’s a usual distraction politically, ‘ooh look a lady on a bench’ rather than the government not shutting big events down earlier (Cheltenham Madrid Football match, Crufts) getting a really confused message out when we did shut down and now seemingly unable to source PPE although it’s been urgently and obviously needed for nearly two moths now.

Well, pack of crisps kind of defeat the exercise bit, doesn't it

No, no it doesn't. Exercise is good for your physical health, fitness, cardiovascular system, mental health, etc etc. Which bit of that do the crisps somehow cancel out?

This is getting bloody stupid now. I keep reading 'shall I report my neighbour's sister's friend cos she visits her parents for 54 seconds and talks to them outside' or 'I saw a man in a queue outside Tesco and his trolley was 2.9 inches over the line so I gave him a piece of my mind' and then there was the cyclist who got piled on because shock horror she stopped cycling for a minute to eat a sausage roll, didn't she realise she could have stuffed that in while actually cycling?

I don't doubt for a minute that all the virtue signalers who would have someone hung for daring to sit on a park bench, not only have speed dial to their local police to shop all these rule breakers, but also have the biggest pan and spoon on their doorstep every Thursday at 8pm.

Where's op? Off polishing her jackboots?

I don't doubt for a minute that all the virtue signalers who would have someone hung for daring to sit on a park bench, not only have speed dial to their local police to shop all these rule breakers, but also have the biggest pan and spoon on their doorstep every Thursday at 8pm.

And will continue to vote Tory.

Not only unreasonable but illogical

We went for a walk at the weekend and stopped for ten minutes to eat the cupcakes we’d brought with us. Presume that’s a more heinous crime than crisps?!!

Cupcakes?! jeezoh

@Tellmetruth4 - agree. It’s a real daily mail reader expression.

OP - one person on a bench eating a bag of crisps, non-issue.

Gathering of people on a bench eating crisps together, issue.

My husband and I - both law abiding citizens - stopped to sit on a log and enjoy the peace and quiet away from our teenagers during our daily walk. I am not expecting the police to call.

I also think, with a bean of common sense, that a person eating crisps on a bench is not the problem. The problem is over crowded cities, people who are still having to work and bringing C19 back to their families etc a chronic lack of testing leaving us unable to trace and isolate the disease.

I don’t think a person eating bag of monster munch on a park bench is keeping Chris Witty up at night

It's the 'this will last longer if people don't follow the (made up) rules. It shows a total ignorance of what lockdown is trying to achieve. My kids and I are home alone. They stay in the car when I shop and I'm not working. We're going on a long walk later.. (they don't know this yet 😂). From my door we will be in open country in 5 minutes. There will be crisps. And biscuits probably. And I guarantee that if we stayed out all day we'd not come within 20 metres, let alone 2 of anyone else, and even if we did, it's highly unlikely that the NHS would collapse or the sky would fall. Get a grip, OP.. You can quarantine it for 72 hours first if you like 😏

I love it that there is apparently a “brigade” of crisp eaters (according to OP)

Some people are clearly losing the plot

Direct your ire at your local MP and pressure them to deal with employers who are not maintaining social distancing or opening unnecessarily, the lack of PPE for care staff.

Not someone who sits down in the park for 10 minutes. FFS

Oh my God @jeezoh were they iced? If so, then you are definitely a super spreader and should be duly posted all over social media 😂

confused No, no it doesn't. Exercise is good for your physical health, fitness, cardiovascular system, mental health, etc etc. Which bit of that do the crisps somehow cancel out?
The "physical health, fitness, cardiovascular system".

@mocktail

No, no it doesn't. Exercise is good for your physical health, fitness, cardiovascular system, mental health, etc etc. Which bit of that do the crisps somehow cancel out?

Well quite. It’s from the same school of thought as that bloody Horizon programme that was on last night. Because the only conceivable reason anyone would ever exercise is to burn off food that they eat entirely for fuel. Nothing to do with any other mental or physical health benefits or indeed the fact that movement is what we are designed to do. No, no, the only reason one would ever move is to burn off the calories previously consumed in an otherwise joyless and entirely transactional consumption of calories.

We went for a walk at the weekend and stopped for ten minutes to eat the cupcakes we’d brought with us. Presume that’s a more heinous crime than crisps?!!

You super spreader!

@OmgThereAreNoPlanesAboveMeNow Occasional crisps can and are part of a perfectly balanced and healthy diet. We have a seriously fucked up attitude to diet and nutrition in this country if you think that eating a bag of Wotsits as a snack negates the cardiovascular benefits of regular cardio.

I feel sorry for the kids who are being homeschooled by the lockdown police. I bet they're being educated in accordance with the Ofsted framework.

Also if you think public health stops with coronavirus, you are very wrong. Beyond this we've got a population of obese, sedentary, poorly-fed people - people have a responsibility to take exercise, address the chronic ill-health in this country and take long-term pressure off the NHS.

Where we live (not UK) you are not even allowed out of your home to exercise. None of us have died from not having a stroll and filled roll in the park or a little sit down and a satsuma. In fact, less of us are dying precisely because we are staying at home.

I love how everyone thinks they are an exception to the rule. Everyone thinks they are special.