Sinister tension in the air

completedit

Feels a bit like the shining out there at the moment. There is such a nervous energy, can see people turning on each other, or at least a certain type of person.

Saw a shop clerk boss around a few kids for not keeping social distancing. The tone was completely over the top. These kids don't know what's going on, some patience with them for fock sake.

Sardonicat

Red rum.

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tdf7187

All the animals come out at night.

EmmetSpiceland

Would be nice if all the morons “copped” on a bit.

harry Bailey esq

Sardonicat wrote: »

Red rum.

Red rum

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Great horse.

tdf7187

completedit wrote: »

Feels a bit like the shining out there at the moment. There is such a nervous energy, can see people turning on each other, or at least a certain type of person.

Saw a shop clerk boss around a few kids for not keeping social distancing. The tone was completely over the top. These kids don't know what's going on, some patience with them for fock sake.

It's the old adage, a small amount of power is a dangerous thing. All the security guards in the world are enjoying this. The only valid reason to chose such a career is because you failed the test to get into the police, let's face it.

punisher5112

completedit wrote: »

Feels a bit like the shining out there at the moment. There is such a nervous energy, can see people turning on each other, or at least a certain type of person.

Saw a shop clerk boss around a few kids for not keeping social distancing. The tone was completely over the top. These kids don't know what's going on, some patience with them for fock sake.

Kids know damn well..... Seriously they're told everything in school and at home....

If nobody knows about this then they're living off the grid.


There were and are kids going around terrorising others especially the elderly while touching them and shouting Corona virus.....

Tension is definitely out there, see many confused wandering around.

completedit

completedit wrote: »

Feels a bit like the shining out there at the moment. There is such a nervous energy, can see people turning on each other, or at least a certain type of person.

Saw a shop clerk boss around a few kids for not keeping social distancing. The tone was completely over the top. These kids don't know what's going on, some patience with them for fock sake.

No, no patience with them at all. No good them going around spreading this for the sake of being nice to them.

Rubberchikken

Parents could educate kids.

After all a lot of them, parents, are currently at a loose end

BuboBubo

completedit wrote: »

Feels a bit like the shining out there at the moment. There is such a nervous energy, can see people turning on each other, or at least a certain type of person.

Saw a shop clerk boss around a few kids for not keeping social distancing. The tone was completely over the top. These kids don't know what's going on, some patience with them for fock sake.

Parents need to parent.

Rubberchikken

Rubberchikken wrote: »

Parents could educate kids.

After all a lot of them, parents, are currently at a loose end

A lot of them never started in the first place, loose end or not.

noodler

completedit wrote: »

Feels a bit like the shining out there at the moment. There is such a nervous energy, can see people turning on each other, or at least a certain type of person.

Saw a shop clerk boss around a few kids for not keeping social distancing. The tone was completely over the top. These kids don't know what's going on, some patience with them for fock sake.

Amazing.

Well done the shopkeeper.

Shame he has to do the parents' job

completedit

You lot are missing the point. This energy of monitoring what everyone is doing or not doing is starting to fester. Feel like I'm living in Nazi Germany.

bilston

completedit wrote: »

Feels a bit like the shining out there at the moment. There is such a nervous energy, can see people turning on each other, or at least a certain type of person.

Saw a shop clerk boss around a few kids for not keeping social distancing. The tone was completely over the top. These kids don't know what's going on, some patience with them for fock sake.

Depends on the age of the kids. If they are teenagers then they should better...different if they are 8 or 9 but presumably they would have been there with parents who should tell them what to do.

The One Doctor

completedit wrote: »

Feels a bit like the shining out there at the moment. There is such a nervous energy, can see people turning on each other, or at least a certain type of person.

Saw a shop clerk boss around a few kids for not keeping social distancing. The tone was completely over the top. These kids don't know what's going on, some patience with them for fock sake.

Your thread title reads like the Irish Sun's front page. Yet another journo enters the workforce with one mission.

Antares35

completedit wrote: »

Feels a bit like the shining out there at the moment. There is such a nervous energy, can see people turning on each other, or at least a certain type of person.

Saw a shop clerk boss around a few kids for not keeping social distancing. The tone was completely over the top. These kids don't know what's going on, some patience with them for fock sake.

Social distancing can save thousands of lives. A shop clerk is risking exposure every moment they spend in store. If the kids are old enough to be out alone they should absolutely know what is going on. If they dont know whats going on they should be kept at home or under the proper supervision and control of a responsible adult.

At this point in time, lives are more important than social pleasantries.

Timberrrrrrrr

tdf7187 wrote: »

It's the old adage, a small amount of power is a dangerous thing. All the security guards in the world are enjoying this. The only valid reason to chose such a career is because you failed the test to get into the police, let's face it.

:rolleyes:

completedit

Antares35 wrote: »

Social distancing can save thousands of lives. A shop clerk is risking exposure every moment they spend in store. If the kids are old enough to be out alone they should absolutely know what is going on. If they dont know whats going on they should be kept at home or under the proper supervision and control of a responsible adult.

At this point in time, lives are more important than social pleasantries.

I get that but its lending itself to a toxic atmosphere. Needs to be a lockdown. Was just in Frascatti, place is jammed.

noodler

completedit wrote: »

You lot are missing the point. This energy of monitoring what everyone is doing or not doing is starting to fester. Feel like I'm living in Nazi Germany.

Natural selection on show here

Antares35

completedit wrote: »

You lot are missing the point. This energy of monitoring what everyone is doing or not doing is starting to fester. Feel like I'm living in Nazi Germany.

The only thing festering is a highly transmissable and potentially lethal virus being spread by the very kind of idiotic behaviour the shop clerk was calling these kids out on.

urgelgru

Was in Aldi for a few things this morning and definitely felt the tension in the air. Couldn't wait to get home!

We haven't got our social distancing sorted in work yet but at least we all know each other and we can at least cut the tension with jokes STOP STANDING TOO CLOSE TO ME! etc.

tdf7187

completedit wrote: »

You lot are missing the point. This energy of monitoring what everyone is doing or not doing is starting to fester. Feel like I'm living in Nazi Germany.

I actually agree with you. It brings out the worst of the "you're not doing what the gubbimint is telling you to do" brigade. Even though on this occasion they have a point.

nelly17

A lockdown will sort it out - if parents refuse to parent then so be it.

punisher5112

We need stronger laws against the stupid to save the sensible....

tdf7187

What about contact sports like boxing? A great relief for tension even if like me you're crap at it. So now the boxers can't box and they have all this tension building up.

punisher5112

tdf7187 wrote: »

What about contact sports like boxing? A great relief for tension even if like me you're crap at it. So now the boxers can't box and they have all this tension building up.

Go box a wall or bag....

tdf7187

nelly17 wrote: »

A lockdown will sort it out - if parents refuse to parent then so be it.

It's the relish you seem to take in the idea of a full-on Jordanian style lockdown that some of us find troubling.

sasta le

completedit wrote: »

Feels a bit like the shining out there at the moment. There is such a nervous energy, can see people turning on each other, or at least a certain type of person.

Saw a shop clerk boss around a few kids for not keeping social distancing. The tone was completely over the top. These kids don't know what's going on, some patience with them for fock sake.

What age the kids?

nelly17

tdf7187 wrote: »

It's the relish you seem to take in the idea of a full-on Jordanian style lockdown that some of us find troubling.

I relish life Thanks

tdf7187

nelly17 wrote: »

I relish life Thanks

Good for you!!

LuasSimon

completedit wrote: »

You lot are missing the point. This energy of monitoring what everyone is doing or not doing is starting to fester. Feel like I'm living in Nazi Germany.

Most of us feel you are living in cloud cuckoo land !

There are feral kids born to feral parents in this country causing misery to law abiding people normally but now they could be causing the spread of virus with their total disregard of health directives .

Bullocks

Things are turning out there alright. Was driving through Knocknacarra awhile ago and there was a lad buck naked jogging down the footpath in the pissing rain.
Got a whatsapp after of him being arrested the poor bastard

punisher5112

Shops, coffee shops and pubs boarding up around the city.

I'll provide the inevitable Simpsons snippet on this thread. Just watch cartoons OP.

https://youtu.be/zw220bx88WA

Allinall

completedit wrote: »

I get that but its lending itself to a toxic atmosphere. Needs to be a lockdown. Was just in Frascatti, place is jammed.

If you didn’t go to Frascatti, it wouldn’t have been so jammed.

RandomViewer

urgelgru wrote: »

Was in Aldi for a few things this morning and definitely felt the tension in the air. Couldn't wait to get home!

We haven't got our social distancing sorted in work yet but at least we all know each other and we can at least cut the tension with jokes STOP STANDING TOO CLOSE TO ME! etc.

I'm finding work to be very tense, suspicion that others are infected, some ignoring distancing and washing rules, nervous anxiety, not a comfortable place to be, can see blow ups soon, me included

completedit

completedit wrote: »

You lot are missing the point. This energy of monitoring what everyone is doing or not doing is starting to fester. Feel like I'm living in Nazi Germany.

You even provided the Nazi reference yourself.

Threads like yours always have Nazi and Simpsons references.
Time for you to dig out these Warlord / Battle / Victor comics OP

Fred Cryton

Seems to be a certain type of middle aged woman who loves enforcing new societal rules..."Um, excuse me, can you please keep your distance during this time!"..said some crank to me in the queue for Starbucks this morning. Get a grip love.

FixdePitchmark

BuboBubo wrote: »

Parents need to parent.

By the way - isn't just working class areas either. Was in Clontarf this morning and kids and late teens hanging around outside shops. The exact area people need to pass.

A lot of parents , who should know better are actaully going to get us all locked down - feckers.

As for people bringing kids into a shop - jaysus.

RandomViewer

Deleted User wrote: »

You even provided the Nazi reference yourself.

Threads like yours always have Nazi and Simpsons references.
Time for you to dig out these Warlord / Battle / Victor comics OP

Varadker paraphrasing Churchill probably didn't help

Antares35

Fred Cryton wrote: »

Seems to be a certain type of middle aged woman who loves enforcing new societal rules..."Um, excuse me, can you please keep your distance during this time!"..said some crank to me in the queue for Starbucks this morning. Get a grip love.

She doesnt sound like a crank if thats how she asked you in fairness. I'd do the same because I value my life, that of my unborn child and the lives of my elderly parents. I dont care if I bruise the ego of some denier queueing for his frappucino.

Fleetwoodmac

punisher5112 wrote: »

Kids know damn well..... Seriously they're told everything in school and at home....

If nobody knows about this then they're living off the grid.


There were and are kids going around terrorising others especially the elderly while touching them and shouting Corona virus.....

Tension is definitely out there, see many confused wandering around.

These reports of kids doing this makes my blood boil... it's the one thing that would draw me out of quarantine is a community approach to stop these gurriers. Can't believe that they would find this amusing.

biko

When people bring up Nazi Germany for their own trivial issues I always feel like they belittle the terrible crimes against humanity that actually happened.


On topic, I don't feel any particular tension out there but we do keep to the house almost all the time now.
In shops when we have to go there isn't much difference other than people standing away from each other.
No-one is nervous or glancing sideways at others, as far as I can tell anyway.

urgelgru

RandomViewer wrote: »

I'm finding work to be very tense, suspicion that others are infected, some ignoring distancing and washing rules, nervous anxiety, not a comfortable place to be, can see blow ups soon, me included

I was due to move to a different office next Monday but they've asked me to hold on a couple of days while they sort out their own social distancing policy.

I'm definitely nervous about arriving in to a whole new gang of people and they're probably not thrilled about me coming in either!

Fleetwoodmac

Antares35 wrote: »

She doesnt sound like a crank if thats how she asked you in fairness. I'd do the same because I value my life, that of my unborn child and the lives of my elderly parents. I dont care if I bruise the ego of some denier queueing for his frappucino.

I think perspective needed though if your still in a q in Starbucks... I mean just make your coffee at home

Fred Cryton

Antares35 wrote: »

She doesnt sound like a crank if thats how she asked you in fairness. I'd do the same because I value my life, that of my unborn child and the lives of my elderly parents. I dont care if I bruise the ego of some denier queueing for his frappucino.

Easy to whip impressionable people up into hysteria.

eviltwin

Fred Cryton wrote: »

Seems to be a certain type of middle aged woman who loves enforcing new societal rules..."Um, excuse me, can you please keep your distance during this time!"..said some crank to me in the queue for Starbucks this morning. Get a grip love.

Wouldn't it be great if people just used a bit of cop on and respected the guidelines

nelly17

Fleetwoodmac wrote: »

I think perspective needed though if your still in a q in Starbucks... I mean just make your coffee at home

And there in lies the problem

Floppybits

There is a tension and it is being brought on by the teenagers, who should know better and probably do know better, acting like C**TS. They have heard the news and warnings and yet ignore them and continue to hang out in groups which is starting to really p*ss people off, it will come to a situation that someone is going to lash out at these idiots. Especially the idiots that the OP mentioned who were touching people and shouting Coronavirus at them. People are scared enough especially elderly and Parents of teenagers need to step up and keep them in. People are on edge and soon they will start confronting those teenagers and it is not going to end well on either side. Then again that is maybe what some teenagers want.

Church on Tuesday

punisher5112 wrote: »

Kids know damn well..... Seriously they're told everything in school and at home....

If nobody knows about this then they're living off the grid.


There were and are kids going around terrorising others especially the elderly while touching them and shouting Corona virus.....

Tension is definitely out there, see many confused wandering around.

Oh give me a ****ing break... :rolleyes:

completedit

Honestly, I quarantined for 2 weeks, and was enjoying life at home, but my job still exists so decided to just go for it and work so I wouldn't be a drag on the countries resources. But coming out to the real post Corona world has been such an eye opener. It's a horrible buzz at the minute, really. Can't wait until this all blows over. I feel like a tit working a non-essential job but at same time, have my reasons.

I believe the best thing to do would be to call for a lockdown. It would put people like myself on zero hour contracts mind at ease.