This silly little story seems to illustrate something that is on the increase. The sending of passive-aggressive anonymous notes. My sister received one a year or so ago.
A dad was left furious after a neighbour told him to remove his daughter’s ‘awful’ artwork praising NHS frontline staff.
Fleur Jones, 5, thought she was in trouble when her dad received the complaint from an anonymous resident.
Alan Jones, who lives Barnsley, told YorkshireLive : “She’s trying to get her head around certain stuff going on at the moment so we encouraged her to draw love hearts on the side of the house in a rainbow colour with the words ‘thank you NHS ‘.
“We’ve been reaching her about hospitals so we did that on the front of the house as we had a little wall and she has coloured each brick in different colours of pastel chalk.
“It has been up for a week but then I came home on Friday to this note pushed through my letterbox.”
Well, so it might be a bit of an eyesore (and I find all this NHS worship stomach churning). But it’s chalk. The first rainfall will wash it away. Was any harm done by this child? No. Is it really that bad? No.
But like the twats who put anonymous notes on ambulances that have stopped to attend a call-out, or to complain about a cat wailing or in this case a bit of chalk on a wall, these notes tell us something about the mindset of those who send them. Nasty, petty, immature and cowardly.
In solidarity with Fleur, other neighbours have chalked their walls to support the NHS and key workers.
Ah, a local version of the Streisand effect. That is probably the best way of dealing with these people.
These are the same sort of people that kept the Gestapo, Stasi, KGB and the Red Guards in business. As you say, it’s just chalk. It will wash away. What a pity that the malign spirit of these people cannot so easily wash away too.
Well the anonymous fuckwit really doesn’t want to tangle with this adult. Looks like he could cause serious damage.
https://www.wakefieldexpress.co.uk/health/coronavirus/ackworth-dad-spends-week-chalking-every-brick-his-home-nhs-tribute-2543839
Or this family. Both adults can hurt… bad.
https://www.leaderlive.co.uk/news/18389105.wrexham-student-nurse-decorates-family-home-rainbow-chalk-display-support-nhs/
I could bung up about a dozen more examples with chalk.
Aside from being a loathsome creature; what would justify a good old fashioned spanked bottom, is the writer knew darned well it was just a wee kid.
This thread is a real trip down memory lane, MrsBud and I had our first date (26th July, 1978) at the Beverley Arms in Ackworth.
So, to get round link limits, here’s one where the owner chose to “vandalise” his house using proper, weatherproof paint.
https://www.bristol247.com/news-and-features/news/a-big-way-to-say-thank-you-to-the-nhs-in-bedminster/
It should be easy to fiund the culprit in Barnsley – find the one who can write.
Or, to play Devils Advocate, it didn’t happen. Dad and daughter get to virtue signal in national press and “NHS hating Bogeymen” are further vilified. Top propaganda all round.Next person who doesn’t clap or who stops first to the gulag.
And I thought I was a cynic….
Likewise, but it looks as though I’ll have to try harder…
I started my mining career just around the corner at the Barnsley Area training centre. I lived with one of the instructors and his family in their council house in Lundwood, right next door to Ardsley. It is the roughest place I’ve ever lived. I went out drinking every night with my host, but he wouldn’t take me into the Lundwood Hotel with my “cockney accent”.
Misanthropy by Gov Decree
– Delingpole: The SAGE Committee Ruining Britain Is More Jeremy Corbyn Than Boris Johnson
“What was the point of voting Conservative in the last general election if the end result was for the country to be run by a committee largely comprising Corbynistas, Remainers, and other left-leaning ideologues?
And why isn’t the mainstream media kicking up more of a fuss about this grotesque betrayal of democracy?”
Delers spot on; it’s a disgrace
Sanity: Scathing attack on Govs and MSM Hysteria
Oxford-educated Prof. John Rao of St. John’s University in New York City has come out swinging against the “fraudulent” experts who counseled the shuttering of the world “for the sake of creating an antiseptic, barren, soulless world unfit for human beings to live in.”
Correct
Well done the other neighbours