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PotNoodlesFTW · 25/11/2024 01:42

glenleeegardens · 24/11/2024 00:04

Just found this:
https://x.com/Brikka49/status/1723824201109324232

This is hilarious in hindsight!

fedup33 · 24/11/2024 19:33

How do this brigade function? Are they on horseback, who is their General?

mids2019 · 24/11/2024 19:24

Was Captain Tom a bit of a finger up to the lefty woke brigade who were supporting NHS workers, low paid critical workers, working from home etc?

Lets make the figure head of Covid resilience a figure from our golden generation who had achieved a bit of wealth for him and his family? Did Hannah see that opportunity and the full backing from the Daily Mail and Telegraph that would follow such a figure head?

Puzzledandpissedoff · 24/11/2024 16:04

AnAlpacaForChristmasPleaseSanta · 24/11/2024 15:57

@CHEESEY13 @Puzzledandpissedoff Of course he did you pair of cynical shockers... just like his dying wish was for his family to build a spa complex to remember him by. Which is a totally normal thing to do and the fact that I haven't yet turned my garden shed into a sauna shows just how little I really thought of my lost loved ones 🤔

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Brilliant Grin Grin

TheWorminLabyrinth · 24/11/2024 16:01

I've just been reading through that old thread from 2020, linked a couple of pages back. Hilarious 😂Old Tom was being positively canonised.

Ivyn · 24/11/2024 16:00

RememberedBills · 24/11/2024 14:39

Are we going to see her on I’m A Celebrity, or maybe exiled to an island?

That wouldn't surprise me in the least.

AnAlpacaForChristmasPleaseSanta · 24/11/2024 16:00

RememberedBills · 24/11/2024 14:39

Are we going to see her on I’m A Celebrity, or maybe exiled to an island?

Probably for series 2 of the same one they sent Phillip Schofield.

AnAlpacaForChristmasPleaseSanta · 24/11/2024 15:57

@CHEESEY13 @Puzzledandpissedoff Of course he did you pair of cynical shockers... just like his dying wish was for his family to build a spa complex to remember him by. Which is a totally normal thing to do and the fact that I haven't yet turned my garden shed into a sauna shows just how little I really thought of my lost loved ones 🤔

RememberedBills · 24/11/2024 14:39

Are we going to see her on I’m A Celebrity, or maybe exiled to an island?

TheWorminLabyrinth · 24/11/2024 14:31

Theres an insinuation that very elderly people can’t be total arseholes. They can. They get to about 80 and are infantilised”. Given the crooked nature of Moore’s offspring and the dodgy dealings, rule breaking and over-egging the technically incorrect ‘captain’ thing, it’s not a total stretch to say he may have fallen into arsehole category

I so agree with this! The constant use of 'Captain' drives me insane. Like it adds more weight to his sainthood or something. I was absolutely roasted on here for criticizing the grifting wazzocks 😂

Puzzledandpissedoff · 24/11/2024 14:14

CHEESEY13 · 24/11/2024 11:37

It was extremely productive of Sir Tom, at his great age and not in the best of health, to dash off three books in his dying months AND get a deal with a publisher.

I am assuming that he wrote every word.

Wonderful use of irony there, CHEESEY13 Wink and I can't pretend I hadn't thought the same

Uricon2 · 24/11/2024 13:03

I thought the medal thing manipulative, it just isn't done outside Remembrance and very formal occasions. I read something and can't remember where or the source so am hesitant to repeat, but apparently H I-M came up with idea of him being called "Captain Tom" and he (apparently) said he couldn't do that because he retired in 1945. It still happened whatever the background and it's rather sad if he did see that it wasn't OK.

In an article in the Independent on Friday a journalist who interviewed H I-M in 2022 mentioned (in the context of a wider reflection on recent events) that when he met her she had completed 6 chapters of her autobiography

"It would be the human story, she told me, of being the daughter, going on that journey with her father and all the things she had been taught by both her parents (her mother, Pam, died in 2006 aged 71)."

(David James Smith, The Independent)

The grandiosity is utterly boggling.

CHEESEY13 · 24/11/2024 11:37

It was extremely productive of Sir Tom, at his great age and not in the best of health, to dash off three books in his dying months AND get a deal with a publisher.

I am assuming that he wrote every word.

randomflumpsy · 24/11/2024 11:27

Arraminta · 24/11/2024 11:25

Yes, I agree. My father was ex military and wouldn't have dreamed of mentioning his rank (at every opportunity) and wearing his medals for profit. It's considered very tasteless.

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Yep- same with my grandad

Arraminta · 24/11/2024 11:25

lemonlavendar · 24/11/2024 11:09

May I just say that my Dad was a WW2 officer and had many prestigious medals. He and his contemporaries would have found Captain Tom's display of medals for a charity walk up and down the garden at home extremely brash and inappropriate.
The fact he wore them says a lot about the man...and the genes he passed on to his daughter.

Yes, I agree. My father was ex military and wouldn't have dreamed of mentioning his rank (at every opportunity) and wearing his medals for profit. It's considered very tasteless.

lemonlavendar · 24/11/2024 11:12

glenleeegardens · 24/11/2024 00:04

Just found this:
https://x.com/Brikka49/status/1723824201109324232

I wonder if it's true?
Quite a coincidence if it is!

lemonlavendar · 24/11/2024 11:09

May I just say that my Dad was a WW2 officer and had many prestigious medals. He and his contemporaries would have found Captain Tom's display of medals for a charity walk up and down the garden at home extremely brash and inappropriate.
The fact he wore them says a lot about the man...and the genes he passed on to his daughter.

Treesandsheepeverywhere · 24/11/2024 10:46

DoublePasta · 21/11/2024 07:55

Hoax??! I think it was real enough!

I'm not so sure, it felt very orchestrated at the time and obviously now we know that Hannah Ingram is a charlatan it seems increasingly unlikely that this 'walking round the garden for the nurses' was the delightfully innocent idea of a hundred year old man.

I didn't believe for a second, that a 99 year old man, with mobility issues would choose to voluntarily walk up and down with cameras in his face.

Choose to go through putting on his uniform every morning (fiddly buttons on shirt and jacket).

Or want to go on a long haul flight for a holiday in the sun.

At that age, all most want to do is relax.

Most decent families would have let him relax instead of parading him aound for their own greed.

A lot of us said so but most on here fell for it hook, line and sinker.

Nanny0gg · 24/11/2024 01:59

Coolasfeck · 21/11/2024 08:03

Just because Captain Tom was old, doesn’t mean he wasn’t in on the grift. Where did she get her morals from?

Many of us called it at the start on here and were screamed at for being horrible etc.

There appears to be no evidence that Captain Tom was anything other than what we saw at the time.

glenleeegardens · 24/11/2024 00:13

Unbelievable

Pumpkincozynights · 24/11/2024 00:01

Oh I’d wipe from memory that truly awful record they made. What a calamity that was.

socialdilemmawhattodo · 23/11/2024 21:48

BurntBroccoli · 23/11/2024 16:02

Thought it was a bit off at the time and that awful record with Michael Ball - urgh!!!

I'm afraid I also think that Michael Ball chose to benefit from this financially. That record. Good bloody god. But definitely to raise his profile. I haven't even bothered to read his fake horror at the revelations.

levantine · 23/11/2024 17:26

glenleeegardens · 23/11/2024 17:07

Sorry, haven't read all the comments. Are the Ingram-Moores related to the Charles Ingram who cheated on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire by any chance?

Unfortunately not as that would be a fun little cherry on top of the whole schadenfreude fest.

glenleeegardens · 23/11/2024 17:07

Sorry, haven't read all the comments. Are the Ingram-Moores related to the Charles Ingram who cheated on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire by any chance?

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