Competitive staying home

[Thepigeonsarecoming]

Have you stayed at home for 5 million years? Have you only left the house to shop for an elderly ladies milk but posted it all over social media? Did you shame your neighbour because their daughter visited them despite being their carer? Did you post abuse because one of your neighbours didn’t clap/stand silent/launch fireworks at the appointed time?

Feel free to post your achievements and receive a WANKY award (What A Nightmare Knob You are)

Thaddit, hee hee, never been the same since Roger Daltry took up salmon farming.

All my relatives are shaming people on Facebook. Which is funny, because they were posting it's only flu six weeks ago.

Anyway, they were shaming this poor family who were having a BBQ in the park.

My father (in Australia) said it's probably not a problem, and they probably lived in a flat and just needed to get out.

They all rounded on him and were really aggressive. He is quite old and sensitive. He didn't want to escalate, so he blocked them. Then they started posting how childish he was to have blocked them.

I've blocked half the people I know on Facebook now. I don't think the secret police are helpful for people's mental health.

I firmly believe in lockdown, and I'm very vulnerable. But I do think it has brought out the little nazi in a lot of people.

The Who are to blame for everything really

I stopped listening to them ages ago

Bastards

One of my neighbours sent me a text that they had not seen my clap last Thursday. I said we were standing in the door, but she said we had to come out into the street so people could see us, she told me it was for my own good as neighbours were “talking”

Luckily it made me laugh

@Thepigeonsarecoming I’m with you. My local Facebook page has become riddled with people complaining about having seen others breaking rules / not clapping for the NHS / getting a shopping delivery more than once / etc, all with a healthy dose of ‘why can’t people stay in like me’ and ‘We need a proper lockdown where you can’t leave home without a permit’. It’s like living in a panopticon.

@TheHumansAreDefinitelyDead next week it’ll be “we saw you but you didn’t dress up, do you not own a ball gown? It’s for your own good”

To which the response is ‘Didnt you know there is a shortage of gowns’.

It's all feels a bit 1984 George Orwell with the clapping. Like mindless mass control of behaviour.

I agree Op. I've left all the FB groups I originally joined because of it and stepped away from social media as a whole. Just keeping my head down and living life within the guidelines. Lots of virtue signalling going on.

Maybe some virtue signally but also seems like it's becoming 'the norm' to ease restrictions early by having people over. More and more people are deciding it has gone on long enough and having family over and bbq etc...

@Yesterdayforgotten I would disagree with that. My spare room which is now my office has a window where I can see about 15 back gardens.

No one in my family or friends are either.

But we arenr talking about people breaking the guidelines. We are talking about people who are abiding by them, but still getting judged because they are abiding by rules people have made up

Such as dying your hair, is against the rules.

Buying hot Cross buns, is against the rules.

Its obligatory to clap and anyone who doesn't is allowed to be hounded.

Not people actually breaking the guidelines.

No one here is having bbqs or people round. I dont know anyone who is.

It's all feels a bit 1984 George Orwell with the clapping. Like mindless mass control of behaviour.

I used to work in a call centre with big tvs on the wall. Every few weeks the phone lines would be diverted to another office and everyone in the building had to sit and watch 'a message from our CEO'.

It was creepy as fuck and managers would quiz their teams after to see who listened.

If you got the questions wrong, management treated you like you had taken a crap on someone's keyboard.

Weird as shit.

One of my neighbours sent me a text that they had not seen my clap last Thursday.

That would piss me off so much.

One of my local groups had a rant about how all the people on X were having parties and people in and out of their gardens. Residents of X came on and saying that it really hadn't happened, I think people see something, decide it is against the rules and then add more detail for effect.

Always take sm with a pinch of salt. I know friends that 'haven't been out for weeks' aren't they good! Etc all over fb.
Yet they have invited us round twice to their house and other people too. We declined.

@Shitsgettingcrazy how can you disagree with it when it is my experience? I have witnessed that where I live.

Now seeing this shit posted locally 😡 ...

how can you disagree with it when it is my experience? I have witnessed that where I live.

Sorry I meant I would disagree this is happening at a larger level. It may be doing local to you. But I do disagree this is being mirrored across the country.

Also I have seen several instances about people complaining their neigh ours are doing xyz and it turns out not to be quite right.

One of my neighbours sent me a text that they had not seen my clap last Thursday. I said we were standing in the door, but she said we had to come out into the street so people could see us, she told me it was for my own good as neighbours were “talking

Tell her you are so pleased that during these 'trying times' the neighbours havent lost the ability to talk but fortunately they still dont have any say over what you do so they can talk till the cows come home for all you care.

This crap would piss me off big time.

One of my neighbours sent me a text that they had not seen my clap last Thursday.

This is why I would never give my phone number to any of the neighbours. And also why I'm getting fed up to the back teeth of the whole "appreciation" bollox from a country who, in the main, were sneering at key workers for being "unskilled" just a few months ago.

Or reply to "the neighbours are talking about you" with a cheerful "Hope it's from a 2m distance!" and then refuse to engage.

@Shitsgettingcrazy apology accepted 😀 and yes I get that people surmise and exaggerate sometimes. Unfortunately the bbq full of people I witnessed wasn’t a misconception or the family members going in the house but I wish it was. I hate when people make their own rules up too.

@Yesterdayforgotten my fault entirely. I wasn't clear. In my defence I did get pissed last night an am not at my best

I imagine some people are breaking the rules. I tend to think they probably were breaking them before but in more discreet ways. They got away it, so pushing boundaries.

Willow2017 Sat 02-May-20 12:23:59
One of my neighbours sent me a text that they had not seen my clap last Thursday. I said we were standing in the door, but she said we had to come out into the street so people could see us, she told me it was for my own good as neighbours were “talking
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Blimey, what sort of neighbours do you have? That sounds unreal. How dare anyone take it upon themselves to 'police' what others do. For all she knew you could have been ill.

In future, do not give neighbours your phone number unless it is absolutely necessary.

I hope the woman comes on here and sees this thread, she's bonkers! I haven't gone out to clap once, I never remember and have no idea if any of my neighbours do because I don't generally look out to the front. I'd be horrified if anyone judged me, I judge absolutely nobody.

Pigeons, I don't think I'd be awarded any stars. I have done a couple of things to help out in this crisis but I keep them to myself and nobody, but nobody, has to commend me for what are basically my choices.