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Sinister tension in the air

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  • 21-03-2020 4:41pm
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    completedit
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    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.


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    Sardonicat
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    Red rum.

    Red rum

    Red rum

    Red rum

    Red rum

    Red rum


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    tdf7187
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    All the animals come out at night.


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

    “It is not blood that makes you Irish but a willingness to be part of the Irish nation” - Thomas Davis



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    harry Bailey esq
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    Sardonicat wrote: »
    Red rum.

    Red rum

    Red rum

    Red rum

    Red rum

    Red rum

    Great horse.


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    tdf7187
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    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.


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    punisher5112
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    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.


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    [Deleted User]
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    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.


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    Rubberchikken
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    Parents could educate kids.

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


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    BuboBubo
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    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.


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    [Deleted User]
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    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.


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    noodler
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    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


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    completedit
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    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.


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    bilston
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    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.


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    The One Doctor
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    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.


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    Antares35
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    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.


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    Timberrrrrrrr
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    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:


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    completedit
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    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.


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    noodler
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    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


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    Antares35
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    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.


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    urgelgru
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    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.


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    tdf7187
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    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.


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    nelly17
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    A lockdown will sort it out - if parents refuse to parent then so be it.


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    punisher5112
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    We need stronger laws against the stupid to save the sensible....


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    tdf7187
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    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.


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    punisher5112
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    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....


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    tdf7187
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    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.


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    sasta le
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    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?


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    nelly17
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    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


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    tdf7187
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    nelly17 wrote: »
    I relish life Thanks

    Good for you!!


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    LuasSimon
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    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 .


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