I'm loving the new national hobby of spying on and judging each other | Grace Dent

Photograph: Sean Murphy/Getty ImagesPhotograph: Sean Murphy/Getty Imagese may be teetering towards a vague genre of semi-normal – some pubs are serving takeaway pints, Mr Whippy is being eaten in parks – but as we gain back some small freedoms, we won’t give up our new national hobby lightly. Many of us have learned the simple pleasure of spying. Actually, scratch that: spying, judging and sometimes even a little light dobbing. To the council, to the police or on social media.

Greetings from across the pond. What is dobbing? Do you guys have NextDoor? Takes it too a whole new level.

New?

'New'

That’s not new.

Some in the older crowd in the UK that take creeping to levels above 9000.

If the author had bothered to do a little research she would know the green house story is from Amsterdam and not he US.

Haven't people always done that

Yeah that hedge needs trimming. I say that in a non judgemental way of course...😁

If it ever becomes an Olympic sport we've got the medals in the bag.

“new”?

It's not new and has been happening since time began.

Someone told me we had the best garden in the street the other day. I'm quite happy with that...

Most of the English would embrace tyranny if it meant they could make the lives of their neighbours worse

'new'

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