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Posted: 22:36 - 17 May 2020 Post subject: |
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Just seen this today: https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/news/local-news/covidiot-campers-fined-boozy-stopover-18263299
Aside from the main story, which is an understandable thing for targeting and issuing a fine, the quoted busybody neighborhood watch copper in the article seems to think that we're still on full lockdown and can't even leave the house.
He also said that motorcyclists shouldn't be going out "just for a ride".
Proper annoying me now. Did or did not Boris say, "Go outside as much as you like and as far as you like, as long as you maintain social distancing and are in groups no larger than 2"...???
Yet now we have local coppers saying they still have the power to issue fines for people doing just as Boris said they could do???
Is there any actual legislation here, or is it down to how the copper's feeling on the day?
And why can't the likes of you or I go and camp out somewhere in the absolute middle of nowhere, yet we're expecting hundreds of thousands of sniveling snot-nosed kids to go merrily back to school without issue?
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Posted: 11:21 - 18 May 2020 Post subject: |
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Lord Percy wrote: |
The fact that it's all down to such interpretation, with the constant and frankly naive belief that "people have enough common sense to do the right thing" just baffles me. |
What particular things that affect you personally are you baffled about? Maybe BCF can help ____________________ Chickenystripgeezer's Biking Life (Latest update 19/10/18) Belgium, France, Italy, Austria tour 2016 Picos de Europa, Pyrenees and French Alps tour 2017 Scotland Trip 1, now with BONUS FEATURE edit, 5/10/19, on page 2 Scotland Trip 2 Luxembourg, Black Forest, Switzerland, Vosges Trip 2017
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Lord Percy wrote: | It's not about how I'm affected personally, it's about how the country (well, just England actually), is likely to be affected by the incoherent new rules and guidelines that were set out last week. |
And how is that?
But it IS about how it affects you personally. It is for each individual. If you can figure out how to behave, why do you think everyone else can't? Are you better than everyone else? ____________________ Chickenystripgeezer's Biking Life (Latest update 19/10/18) Belgium, France, Italy, Austria tour 2016 Picos de Europa, Pyrenees and French Alps tour 2017 Scotland Trip 1, now with BONUS FEATURE edit, 5/10/19, on page 2 Scotland Trip 2 Luxembourg, Black Forest, Switzerland, Vosges Trip 2017
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wr6133 wrote: | chickenstrip wrote: | If you can figure out how to behave, why do you think everyone else can't? Are you better than everyone else? |
He might be. If he is adhering to Social distancing in the spirit of not just the letter of the rules, then why shouldn't he feel like he has a high ground? |
If so, is he in the minority or the majority?
When we see the idiots who foolishly flout the guidance by gathering in large groups etc, do they illustrate the behaviour of the majority? Why do we see those folks? Because they're high profile, they stand out. And because the media focuses on them, and not those who just quietly do as advised. The latter don't get the views that the media wants, and you don't see them.
Also, social media exaggerates the extremes. Look how that mpd character seemed so dominant on here at times. But he was just one person. ____________________ Chickenystripgeezer's Biking Life (Latest update 19/10/18) Belgium, France, Italy, Austria tour 2016 Picos de Europa, Pyrenees and French Alps tour 2017 Scotland Trip 1, now with BONUS FEATURE edit, 5/10/19, on page 2 Scotland Trip 2 Luxembourg, Black Forest, Switzerland, Vosges Trip 2017
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Lord Percy wrote: | chickenstrip wrote: |
If so, is he in the minority or the majority? |
Well it's always the minority who spoil it for the rest of us |
Maybe so, but if you continually focus on that minority, then in your mind, things seem worse than they really are. I just don't think it's healthy to spend that kind of time and energy on such folk. We have the authorities to police these things. Let them do their jobs, and the rest of us just make sure we do our bit. What else are you going to do? Are you going to become one of those people that constantly look for things to complain about? Feck that. That's no way to live a happy life. And in times like these, you'll likely wind up topping yourself if that's your mentality. ____________________ Chickenystripgeezer's Biking Life (Latest update 19/10/18) Belgium, France, Italy, Austria tour 2016 Picos de Europa, Pyrenees and French Alps tour 2017 Scotland Trip 1, now with BONUS FEATURE edit, 5/10/19, on page 2 Scotland Trip 2 Luxembourg, Black Forest, Switzerland, Vosges Trip 2017
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I'm affected by these "new rules" and the confusion contained therein due to living in Wales but commuting to England for work.
I am on strict lockdown at home but not so much at work. It's a strange scenario. |
This whole thing is a balancing act. You know not to get close to those outside of your household while the virus is still so prevalent. But if you need to earn to eat and pay your bills, well, you might have to take some risks, e.g. go to work where you might be in the vicinity of others. Hopefully, your workplace will do what it can to limit close contact, although that won't be possible everywhere. But you do as much as you reasonably can. What's the alternative in that case? Starve? Lose your home? That's an individual judgement you have to make. It's not like you never had to weigh risks, advantages and disadvantages before in your life.
Or we could have total lockdown, where the choice is not yours to make, and you're effectively imprisoned. How long can the country keep that up for?
So we don't live in a perfect world. Who has just learned this, since the pandemic began? Do what you can. It's enough to have on your plate. ____________________ Chickenystripgeezer's Biking Life (Latest update 19/10/18) Belgium, France, Italy, Austria tour 2016 Picos de Europa, Pyrenees and French Alps tour 2017 Scotland Trip 1, now with BONUS FEATURE edit, 5/10/19, on page 2 Scotland Trip 2 Luxembourg, Black Forest, Switzerland, Vosges Trip 2017
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Well someone's got to take mpd's place |
Quote: | Meh, everyone's different. For what it's worth, my cynicism extends only as far as politics, governance and the perpetual state of human incivility. |
Yeah well, not healthy to spend too much time thinking about that stuff. Look what it does to those who make a profession of it
Quote: | But there's no sadness or suicidal urge here. Not even one bit, in fact life is rather good at the moment, for myself personally. |
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Quote: | My criticisms are more about 'big picture' issues, rather than everyday life, which is of course perfectly fine and quite enjoyable for the most part. |
My problem is where people continually make the same criticisms over and over again. That's not beneficial to anyone. That's just bleating and quickly becomes tedious. That's what mpd did.
Did. Now doesn't that feel good?! ____________________ Chickenystripgeezer's Biking Life (Latest update 19/10/18) Belgium, France, Italy, Austria tour 2016 Picos de Europa, Pyrenees and French Alps tour 2017 Scotland Trip 1, now with BONUS FEATURE edit, 5/10/19, on page 2 Scotland Trip 2 Luxembourg, Black Forest, Switzerland, Vosges Trip 2017
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I've been riding my bikes all through the lockdown, for shopping, delivering stuff, occasional work related activity. I've even had the rear of the seat loaded with bags of bark, and cement on differing occasions, have passed police, including with the with said loads, and haven't been stopped so far, so, highly unlikely I will now. ____________________ Beware what photos you upload, or link to on here, especially if you have family members on them |
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 3 years, 303 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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