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Clapping in perpetuum

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Sadie789 · 21/05/2020 20:11

I’m just wondering... when will the last clap be?

Who will tell us?

Do we just keep clapping at the sky forever?

Is it like being the first one to clap, someone will need to take the hit and be the last one?

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BobbinThreadbare123 · 21/05/2020 21:44

All the hypocrites are out making as much noise as they possibly can. We've had horns, a bell and some sort of whistle. Some nob lets off fireworks as well, which you can't see because it is light.

lokoho · 21/05/2020 21:45

I mean to be honest we were all out having a dance in the street this time last year as well, just a bit closer together...

Shuttup · 21/05/2020 21:45

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canigooutyet · 21/05/2020 21:48

The first week it all started, I actually wondered wtf was going on. Why were people out making all this noise?

Had bagpipes at some point. I assume some are pots and pans (sounds like it anyway). Fireworks. Car horns. Music. The attempts at singing, even my cats looked at me like what is that noise lol.

Found out what it was all about when pictures of bellends standing side by side, started appearing everywhere.

Iliketeaagain · 21/05/2020 21:49

I was wondering the same tonight. My 9yo dd always likes to go out on our path and clap (I'm a nurse, she's very proud of that and has rainbows on her bedroom window). I let her go because she likes it. But I did wonder how many weeks it will go on for, and realised I was probably just grumpy when dd asked me why I don't clap - and I grumped are her that I already gave them 50hrs this week, so they didn't need my clap .

But in all seriousness, I'm not sure how long it can go on for. Maybe until autumn when it's cold and dark and no one wants to stand on their door step clapping? Until social distancing is over?

40somethingJBJ · 21/05/2020 21:49

My neighbour and I had this conversation tonight! Our street seems to be getting louder and louder as the weeks go on, but one day it’s got to end surely?

Weallhavevalidopinions · 21/05/2020 21:50

I didn't tonight. Thankfully, our local hospital is virtually empty...sadly some departments are sat around thumb twiddling and people are waiting for treatments for other things.... my friend is waiting for cancer tests and told that Covid takes priority .... there are very few Covid cases int he hospital but the hospital is doing very little/......

No IMHO I won't clap whilst people are waiting for other treatments and hospital wards are empty

TSSDNCOP · 21/05/2020 21:59

Never began so don't need to stop.

canigooutyet · 21/05/2020 22:00

Isn't it weird though?
Ok, I know it's cheer for the NHS, who are doing an amazing job despite all the obstacles that are out of their control. And I'm bloody grateful I can still access it for ongoing treatment.

But it seems weird clapping because people are ill and dying. I don't remember this when we've had extremely bad flu seasons, or well anything else.

pointythings · 21/05/2020 22:15

Was really loud in our street tonight, much more so than last week.

I don't do it, never have. I'm sure some people really mean it, but in our very Tory Brexit voting town it smacks of intense hypocrisy and as I'm an Eu national working in the NHS I'll have no part in it.

Apocalyptichorsewoman · 21/05/2020 22:15

I'm a nurse, and the first time was lovely! But every week feels a bit much - I love my job, and the appreciation generally without the clapping is tremendous anyway.
Tonight I was up at the stables sorting my horse out at 8pm, and he was tied up in the yard. When the clapping started nearby, and a couple of fireworks, he was so displeased that he crapped on my feet 🙄

LudaMusser · 21/05/2020 22:19

When I heard it was going to be a weekly thing I said that it would lose its meaning and it now has

If it was monthly I'd clap. I've clapped once but now find it stupid, esp as I see people celebrating their bday in the garden with friends then stop to go clap. Bizarre

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Sadie789 · 21/05/2020 22:25

@canigooutyet yes it’s weird.

It seemingly started from one woman sharing a homemade call to action on Facebook.

Now 8 weeks later it’s seemingly state mandated with the BBC news reminders.

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NewAccountForCorona · 21/05/2020 22:39

I'm in Ireland. We did it once, near the beginning (at least some people did, I forgot ). We were all, as a country, so embarrassed that we haven't done it since.

canigooutyet · 21/05/2020 22:41

I'm sorry @Apocalyptichorsewoman I laughed about the horse shit. I know it wasn't a laughing matter for the horse, and of course your clean up.

Oh, shit it that how it all started? Well, that should be easy. Find her and ask if it's time to stop yet.

And bonus, a reminder to myself why I stopped buying the license years ago. 🤣I avoid the state-mandated fake rubbish.

WotsitWiggle · 21/05/2020 22:44

I forgot and went out for a walk, reaching the main road through our village at 8pm. That was embarrassing. But the clapping went on for 3 minutes. I think it's a bit much now, it's nice to get people out, talking to their neighbours across the front gardens / street, but I'm over the clapping part.

ChocolateTea · 21/05/2020 22:48

I don't clap

When my neighbour who had the party till 130am and then different people in their garden every two days goes out to clap loudly I know it's a joke now.

TSSDNCOP · 21/05/2020 23:08

@NewAccountForCorona May I ask where you live as I would like to live there.

indemMUND · 21/05/2020 23:26

I don't clap. I did look out from behind the blinds upstairs tonight and see the woman over the road come in and out of her doorway several times looking for people. When they appeared she clapped like a trained seal grinning and shouting. Virtue signalling as long as someone else is watching. I'm sure my absence will have been noted every week but I don't want to clap on command watched by neighbours who flout lockdown as it suits them. It's day 67 shut in for me. I don't give a shit what hypocrites think or say.

MotheringShites · 21/05/2020 23:32

@Apocalyptichorsewoman we have a neighbour with horses in the field next door to us. The poor horses are so distressed by the noisy clapping they literally shit themselves.

Freetodowhatiwant · 21/05/2020 23:33

I saw someone on twitter say we should have one last big clap next week and then leave it, like the Spanish did, and I agree. I certainly have noticed people in my neighbourhood getting less enthusiastic about it and so many people - even key workers - think it could stop now.

TheThingWithFeathers · 21/05/2020 23:35

I'm convinced that there will be some people who will clap at 8pm on a Thursday forevermore...

Playdonut · 21/05/2020 23:39

My kids call Thursday woo-ing day. They love it. Have accepted that banging saucepans on my balcony is my fate forever more. Sorry neighbours xx

canigooutyet · 22/05/2020 00:13

I so want to start a nightly clap thing.
Every day at random times have some ridiculous clappy thing

Let's clap on Mondays at 9pm to get over moody Monday
Tuesday 3 pm for Twix
Wednesday midnight for wanking
Friday - yea it's Friday clap at 6 am
Saturday whatever time Xfactor or whatever is on - lets clap
Sunday - 1 pm lets clap for the roasts

See how many are daft enough to do it 🤣I reckon that's the reason why the original person suggested it 🤣

chickedeee · 22/05/2020 17:26

Even the person that started it thinks it should stop

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