Popular Post Wee-Bey Posted April 17, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted April 17, 2020 Thoughts and prayers with the folk who read that dorlomin post. I was also browsing P&B, could have been me. 30 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 17, 2020 Share Posted April 17, 2020 1 hour ago, dorlomin said: The level of emotional repression on this forum is weird. Any public displays of empathy, warmth or fear are jumped on with sneering, mocking, contempt and aggressive hostility. I know Scottish people have a reputation like many north west Europeans for being stoic or outright emotionally retrograde, but its on another level here given its the 2020s. For example any time a celebrity or famous person dies the forum is chock full of people mocking people expressing public grief, belittling it and going on about Diana syndrome. There is zero tolerance for any expressing of grief beyond immediate family members. Then there is the inevitable mocking and sneering when there is a public tragedy or terrorist outrage. Again any signs of showing solidarity with the victims is attacked, the threads fill up with mocking "I went to empty the bins it could have been me" type posts. Normal humans (i.e. not you lot) will express their anxieties to each other at something as random as a bus crash to fatal terrorist attack; this will include expressing worries that it could have been them or their feelings of empathy with the victims. The emotional cripples here seem to live with the terror someone will expect them to reciprocate and emotionally bond with them. I guess its in part your insecure masculinity. Charity events: someone random gets in the news raising money. Its like they are digging up your grandmothers graves! As soon as there is a public outpouring of emotions for someone doing something the bullies are out and trying too belittle anyone support it is, well its a very sad window into your broken souls. (See the old boy whos walk raised money) And now the clap for carers. Again any display of public emotion and you all explode into belittle, sneering, bullying and hate. Which brings me to the only emotions you ever allow yourselves to express, hate, anger, desire for violence, vengeance. Where you do express something resembling sympathy for someone, its usually simply as a pretext for anger and hate. So for example you will say something about the homeless then use that as a jump off point for how much you want to hurt\murder or just hate tories\Scottish Labour\English "gammons" or what ever. As a group hurtling towards your 50s at a fair rate of knots, you are for the most part, emotionally still about 13 years old. You're probably right, that's what happens when you've grown up in the Thatcher era with a sense of hopelessness coupled with anger and a deep routed hatred. Speaking personally, there's no doubt I'm very cynical and have a chip on my shoulder, however it's not without good reason. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Connolly Posted April 17, 2020 Share Posted April 17, 2020 1 minute ago, Henderson to deliver ..... said: Thoughts and prayers with the folk who read that dorlomin post. I was also browsing P&B, could have been me. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ayrmad Posted April 17, 2020 Share Posted April 17, 2020 11 minutes ago, bendan said: Yes, 9% of 40k is still a big number, but in terms of the overall healthy population under the age of 50 or 60, it wouldn't represent a big risk, or a risk greater than many other illnesses pose to that group. That's comparing apples and wheelbarrows though. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanius Mullarkey Posted April 17, 2020 Share Posted April 17, 2020 Has Dorlomin got the ‘Rona? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suspect Device Posted April 17, 2020 Share Posted April 17, 2020 Just watching the commons health committee on the BBC news and I'm strangely more interested in the carefully chosen backdrop the MPs have chosen for their broadcast. Matt Hancock has chosen a large picture of the Queen. #staunch Jeremy (C)Hunt likesto show how intelligent and environmentally friendly he is. Lots of books in the background and a cycling helmet hanging up. Amy Callaghan (SNP) is in her kitchen. Just a boring old clock in the background. Some bloke I've never heard of has a nice picture ofJohn Lennon. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The OP Posted April 17, 2020 Share Posted April 17, 2020 5 minutes ago, Mark Connolly said: Clapping to show support? We’ll have none of that on here thanks ya big emotional pansy. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Venom Posted April 17, 2020 Share Posted April 17, 2020 Could of been me, come on now folks. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 17, 2020 Share Posted April 17, 2020 3 minutes ago, Suspect Device said: Just watching the commons health committee on the BBC news and I'm strangely more interested in the carefully chosen backdrop the MPs have chosen for their broadcast. Matt Hancock has chosen a large picture of the Queen. #staunch Jeremy (C)Hunt likesto show how intelligent and environmentally friendly he is. Lots of books in the background and a cycling helmet hanging up. Amy Callaghan (SNP) is in her kitchen. Just a boring old clock in the background. Some bloke I've never heard of has a nice picture ofJohn Lennon. I've been noticing this myself, how most seem to have a well stocked bookshelf with some "classics" to the fore and also a few musical instruments propped against the wall seems to be another favourite. Not that it's staged or all thought out in advance of course, that would just be us being cynical again and no doubt bitter and twisted also. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eindhovendee Posted April 17, 2020 Share Posted April 17, 2020 14 minutes ago, WATTOO said: You're probably right, that's what happens when you've grown up in the Thatcher era with a sense of hopelessness coupled with anger and a deep routed hatred. Speaking personally, there's no doubt I'm very cynical and have a chip on my shoulder, however it's not without good reason. I am quite balanced about the whole thing. I have a chip on both shoulders. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaz Posted April 17, 2020 Share Posted April 17, 2020 On 02/04/2020 at 20:18, Gaz said: The folk doing the clapping will be the same folk who start wearing poppies in September. Said exactly this two weeks ago. Before long we're going to have folk getting vitriolic about why you weren't outside clapping. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fullerene Posted April 17, 2020 Share Posted April 17, 2020 16 minutes ago, WATTOO said: I've been noticing this myself, how most seem to have a well stocked bookshelf with some "classics" to the fore and also a few musical instruments propped against the wall seems to be another favourite. Not that it's staged or all thought out in advance of course, that would just be us being cynical again and no doubt bitter and twisted also. Missed a trick I would say. After completing their predictions of doom and gloom, they would grab a musical instrument and perform "Always look on the bright side of Life". Then they should cut to one of the other people for the next verse. Bound to be a hit. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanius Mullarkey Posted April 17, 2020 Share Posted April 17, 2020 Arse carpet. Thats a new one on me. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bendan Posted April 17, 2020 Share Posted April 17, 2020 24 minutes ago, ayrmad said: That's comparing apples and wheelbarrows though. I genuinely struggle to understand some of the hysteria around this. Death is obviously a terrible thing for families/friends/acquaintances to experience, but I don't see why as a society we see a given number of covid-19 deaths in a given group of people as being something of far greater concern than other, equally avoidable deaths. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tutankhamen Posted April 17, 2020 Share Posted April 17, 2020 6 minutes ago, Snafu said: Nurse returns from 12-hour shift to find note telling her she is “a disgrace and has been reported” Posted by u/hokkuhokku 3 days ago Being a nurse and some absolute arse carpet in your neighbourhood leaving a note on your windscreen “reporting” you because they think you’re going out for a sight seeing jolly when you’re actually driving to and from your night-shifts. Yup. Happened to a colleague of mine. Fucking disgraceful. Even made the local papers A dick with issues wrote that. News from Latin America is medical staff are in mortal danger from the general public. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granny Danger Posted April 17, 2020 Share Posted April 17, 2020 2 minutes ago, Snafu said: Westminster Bridge fury as "idiots" ignore 2m rule during NHS Clap For Carers outside hospital Solicitor Aamer Anwar wrote on Twitter: "We’ve seen officers wrongly applying #COVID19 laws, shouting in faces ‘you’re killing people’, use drones, no yoga or park benches, yet here @metpoliceuk don’t apply laws on #SocialDistancing at WM Bridge as people clap NHS who say #StayHomeStayLives. "Public gatherings of only 2, some of us haven’t seen our parents in weeks, our children not at schools, nearly 14,000 dead as @metpoliceuk allow this madness on Westminster Bridge." Another person added: "I actually can’t get over these videos from Westminster Bridge tonight. "The fact that the POLICE are the ones doing it. "So, if I was to invite family round for a BBQ, the police could come and break it up, but if I go to Westminster Bridge on a Thursday at 8pm to clap, all good." The public who gathered on the bridge have been dubbed "idiots" https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/westminster-bridge-fury-idiots-ignore-21881637 If anything sums up the “Great British Public” it is this event and this photo. I was going to post a diatribe but what’s the fucking point. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D.A.F.C Posted April 17, 2020 Share Posted April 17, 2020 The level of emotional repression on this forum is weird. Any public displays of empathy, warmth or fear are jumped on with sneering, mocking, contempt and aggressive hostility. I know Scottish people have a reputation like many north west Europeans for being stoic or outright emotionally retrograde, but its on another level here given its the 2020s. For example any time a celebrity or famous person dies the forum is chock full of people mocking people expressing public grief, belittling it and going on about Diana syndrome. There is zero tolerance for any expressing of grief beyond immediate family members. Then there is the inevitable mocking and sneering when there is a public tragedy or terrorist outrage. Again any signs of showing solidarity with the victims is attacked, the threads fill up with mocking "I went to empty the bins it could have been me" type posts. Normal humans (i.e. not you lot) will express their anxieties to each other at something as random as a bus crash to fatal terrorist attack; this will include expressing worries that it could have been them or their feelings of empathy with the victims. The emotional cripples here seem to live with the terror someone will expect them to reciprocate and emotionally bond with them. I guess its in part your insecure masculinity. Charity events: someone random gets in the news raising money. Its like they are digging up your grandmothers graves! As soon as there is a public outpouring of emotions for someone doing something the bullies are out and trying too belittle anyone support it is, well its a very sad window into your broken souls. (See the old boy whos walk raised money) And now the clap for carers. Again any display of public emotion and you all explode into belittle, sneering, bullying and hate. Which brings me to the only emotions you ever allow yourselves to express, hate, anger, desire for violence, vengeance. Where you do express something resembling sympathy for someone, its usually simply as a pretext for anger and hate. So for example you will say something about the homeless then use that as a jump off point for how much you want to hurt\murder or just hate tories\Scottish Labour\English "gammons" or what ever. As a group hurtling towards your 50s at a fair rate of knots, you are for the most part, emotionally still about 13 years old. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergeant Wilson Posted April 17, 2020 Share Posted April 17, 2020 1 hour ago, dorlomin said: The level of emotional repression on this forum is weird. Any public displays of empathy, warmth or fear are jumped on with sneering, mocking, contempt and aggressive hostility. I know Scottish people have a reputation like many north west Europeans for being stoic or outright emotionally retrograde, but its on another level here given its the 2020s. For example any time a celebrity or famous person dies the forum is chock full of people mocking people expressing public grief, belittling it and going on about Diana syndrome. There is zero tolerance for any expressing of grief beyond immediate family members. Then there is the inevitable mocking and sneering when there is a public tragedy or terrorist outrage. Again any signs of showing solidarity with the victims is attacked, the threads fill up with mocking "I went to empty the bins it could have been me" type posts. Normal humans (i.e. not you lot) will express their anxieties to each other at something as random as a bus crash to fatal terrorist attack; this will include expressing worries that it could have been them or their feelings of empathy with the victims. The emotional cripples here seem to live with the terror someone will expect them to reciprocate and emotionally bond with them. I guess its in part your insecure masculinity. Charity events: someone random gets in the news raising money. Its like they are digging up your grandmothers graves! As soon as there is a public outpouring of emotions for someone doing something the bullies are out and trying too belittle anyone support it is, well its a very sad window into your broken souls. (See the old boy whos walk raised money) And now the clap for carers. Again any display of public emotion and you all explode into belittle, sneering, bullying and hate. Which brings me to the only emotions you ever allow yourselves to express, hate, anger, desire for violence, vengeance. Where you do express something resembling sympathy for someone, its usually simply as a pretext for anger and hate. So for example you will say something about the homeless then use that as a jump off point for how much you want to hurt\murder or just hate tories\Scottish Labour\English "gammons" or what ever. As a group hurtling towards your 50s at a fair rate of knots, you are for the most part, emotionally still about 13 years old. Your point being? "Hurtling towards my 50s...I fucking wish! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ayrmad Posted April 17, 2020 Share Posted April 17, 2020 4 minutes ago, bendan said: I genuinely struggle to understand some of the hysteria around this. Death is obviously a terrible thing for families/friends/acquaintances to experience, but I don't see why as a society we see a given number of covid-19 deaths in a given group of people as being something of far greater concern than other, equally avoidable deaths. I'm certainly not hysterical, your posting in a knowledgeable manner whilst showing as little grasp as VT, don't know if you're coming at this from some sort of political angle or not but it feels like it. Where would all these lovely graphs from ONS have been if we didn't encourage social distancing and introduce our lockdown, IMO it's better to overestimate than underestimate with this particular virus. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peasy23 Posted April 17, 2020 Share Posted April 17, 2020 It struck me as fishy that it ran to the bank holiday. There will be a reason for it. The lockdown came in on the Monday, not quite sure they waited to yesterday to announce another three weeks. 16th April was the date specifically mentioned for a review in the emergency legislation that was passed. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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