Are you still clapping for the NHS/key workers every week?

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Yabu - No
Yanbu - Yes

I did today as 7yo wanted to but I do think it's bollocks.

I'm a keyworker myself - I don't to be clapped. Just stop being dicks and stay at home!

I was illustrating why I clap and as you keep preaching that no one likes it- I was pointing out you were wrong (again) and that was the evidence I used to back up my point. Generally what you do when you want to debate.

You cant debate. Because you keep making stuff up. I didnt say it wasnt popular or that no one liked it.

I was saying that you can use someone else's emotive post to try and stop debate and pull the 'see I do it for them. So can other people, using different posts.

Again, you showing that actuallyz you do it for show

You’re completely missing the fact, that it’s YOUR issue that you feel the way you do. It’s not my responsibility to make you feel better.

I dont need you to make me feel better. Your judgement of people not clapping means nothing. Bit on a discussion site, where people are giving opinions, I will give mine. And then people respond.

You gave your opinion. Which is that people who dont clap, don't care. That you do judge them AND the you do it to be seen.

You seem a bit desperate to believe your judgment actually impacts me in anyway.

So yes, I will respond. The only person look pathetic is the person thats using something that's meant to support people, as proof you are better than your neighbours. The person who says they make the gesture to be seen, making it.

You being judgmental and having a need to feel superior, is your issue. No one can resolve that for you

No I forget. Only remember when I hear all the boats horns. I have lots of friends who are nurses and they said they find it embarrassing as the hospital is super quiet and they aren’t doing much!

Did it week 1 and 2. I then immediately stopped it because I noticed the miserable, moaning, judgemental couple that live opposite were pointing at other neighbour's houses, rolling their eyes and tutting if they hadn't come out. They are normally the most uncharitable, unfriendly, un-neighbourly people I know. So, just to piss them off, we no longer do it. Instead I enjoy standing in full view in the window, hands on hips, watching them get apoplectic slagging us off to each other. Makes me

I must add my best friend is a nurse and said her colleagues and her find it so cringey. So no.

I don't think NHS workers are making it out like this is being done by the public for selfish reasons. However these clappers are definitely not being considerate anymore. Like I said initially it was a really nice gesture but the repetition with added extravagance every single time is unnecessary, showing off and become a nuisance and disturbance to a lot of people.

I love clapping, I love seeing other people doing it and hearing them! I love watching them on TV doing it together. I think it’s a moral booster and it’s a small gesture.

If you can’t be arsed with it that’s up to you but I think it’s a shame more people don’t do it.

I find it so bizarre that people say never have never will as if it’s something to be proud of.

By your reckoning, I assume there’s no point in any kind of act to show solidarity... war veteran matches etc on TV. There would be no point in anything!!

You sit yourself in your house hen and don’t clap and continue to tell everyone why they’re selfish for clapping.... how very bizarre.

Have a great night 👏👏👏👏🤝

No, it’s basically tokenism and all the NHS workers I know think it’s ridiculous.

@Peggysgettingcrazy

I don't understand why you are getting so offended. I think you are getting selfish and inconsiderate mixed up. They are not the same thing and it seems you are ignoring the key points I am making. You clap for people like me yet ignore the concerns and points I am making. Did I say it's unappreciated? The events you compared this clapping with generally happen yearly not every week with inconsideration towards the people who work hard and risk their lives every single day. You like to clap and think it's a nice gesture and that's great but you're ignoring the issues I've mentioned about the loud banging of pots and pans and fireworks. These are the things that aren't needed every week. If you were to commemorate the NHS once a year by all means go all out like every celebration and event there is. I've never seen something celebrated on a weekly basis where its become a competition to outshine one another. People need to come back to reality. Have a good night as well!

It is also very important for people to feel connected and useful in a basically shit situation. For our road it is a chance to see our neighbours, make sure those who aren't on email are ok, have a distant chat, feel part of something, a very small social opportunity.

For the cynics - see it as a way of keeping people out of overloaded NHS mental health services.

@Asianchick6693

Sorry my previous post was not at all aimed at you. I forgot to @@@@Peggysgettingcrazy

If you can’t be arsed with it that’s up to you but I think it’s a shame more people don’t do it.

Just stop with the passive aggressive shit!
Just because someone doesnt 'clap' doesnt mean they "cant be arsed" you the feck are you to judge (yet again and again on here in your condescending little ways ) whether someone has a reason or not why they dont clap. Its nothing to do with you at all. People do umpteen things to help the NHS they just dont plaster it all on SM so nobody knows about it. All of it much more bloody practical than clapping just to show off. I know people who are making kit for NHS workers from kit bags, scrubs, masks to proper face visors but they dont plaster it all over SM for 'likes' and to be fawned over. They dont clap because they dont think it is 'a gesture' now its a bloody competition.
I find it so bizarre that people say never have never will as if it’s something to be proud of
So why is saying that, in your opinion, proclaiming to be proud of it when you saying that you clap every week is not saying the same thing? Pot and kettle?
Nobody has said they are proud not to clap yet you keep badgering on as if they were. Stating a fact isnt boasting about being proud of something.

No. Never have.
I have no issues with people who do do it, though.

@Willow

What’s good for the goose is good for the gander.

If folk are willing to slag off people for their gestures then I’ll defend those that do!!! Do pot kettle and all works both ways.

No. The first 2 weeks I did but now people around here are just competing to be the best most enthusiastic ’clapper’ several dickheads in the next street Lean on their car horns relentlessly for 2 minutes. One women starts screaming like a banshee and whooping at 7.59 each week and doesn’t stop until at least 8.05. An absolute bellend released paper lanterns last week, this week he set off fireworks that were big enough to be in a firework display finale. Just what is needed in a residential street.

I don't clap because I am a key worker and would be clapping for myself - however I think if people want to clap, play music - good for them - there's nothing wrong with it.

We're not as social distancing has been getting abandoned more and more each week by some of the neighbours. They were passing home made cakes around on plates this week.

Whilst I think the risk is minimum it's too difficult to explain to the younger kids why it's ok for one of the neighbours to come over and stand close/share cake, but they can't stand close and share games with the other kids.

We're planning a garden party tomorrow during the street party time. It's awkward because we're a really sociable street - there's Halloween parties, christmas parties - and the kids have been playing bingo and eye spy together over walkie talkies loaned by one of the guys who has his own business. It's been great, but a lot of them are getting very casual about distancing now.

We have SIL's kids with us as she's working in ITU. So we need to keep the kids on the ball as when she sees her kids (at some point she'll have to see them for all their sakes - it's still a bit holiday-ish for them, but they're starting to struggle a bit now) we need to keep our household as isolated from elderly neighbours as possible.

You sit yourself in your house hen and don’t clap and continue to tell everyone why they’re selfish for clapping.... how very bizarre

At no point did I say anyone was selfish for clapping. The fact that you keep having to make things up and pretend I sakd them, proves you dont have a valid point.

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If folk are willing to slag off people for their gestures then I’ll defend those that do!!! Do pot kettle and all works both ways.

Who slagged off someone for clapping?

I told you your behaviours was shitty. Because it is. Not the clapping. The judgement, the fact that you do it to be seen, the fact that you think you have moral superiority over people who dont, the fact that you believe this is the only way to show you care.

That's what I commented on. Not on wether you clap or not.

You keep trying to direct the conversation and tell me I am against clapping. Even though that's clearly not the case.

Don't mind the clapping ( though I'm an NHS Clinician I could do without it) but today of course there were bloody fireworks and one of my cats got a fright and literally hurled itself under the sofa .
So I could do without them, it isn't fair on children and animals

I havent slagged of anyone. I think the people who are trying to outdo each other in the "most noise" stakes each week are a royal pia and any other time would be warned off by the council/police for regularly making said noise, but thats not slagging them off thats just true.

But you didnt answer the question just like you havent all along.

Why does stating you dont clap= "being proud of it" and all kinds of wrong yet stating you do clap is not? People have different opinions just because they arent yours doesnt make them wrong.

Jesus Hunnybears are you still going on? You're like the Duracell bunny, hopping over all the salient points and making about as much sense .

We don't, it's all gone a bit crazy to be honest.

Me and my wife were out for a walk last night and didn't realise the time, we walked down a street and of course 8pm came. My god, these people weren't clapping, they were bonkers!! Banging pots and pans, hooters, air horns and some bugger badly strumming a guitar and someone singing along who looked like they were in a state of trance. It was like some kind of cult ritual!

I can understand people want to clap and if that's what they want to do, good on them. What we saw just looked completely unhinged.

No, we missed it the first week and then the second week we went out but had to dash back inside when the fireworks went off to calm the dog. Now we just have to turn the TV up and distract her until it's over.

I did in the beginning but have since stopped. Two weeks ago it was crazy on Thursday evening, police cars parked all along the main road to the hospital and had all lights and sirens blaring for what seemed like an absolute age. We’re close to hospital so it may as well have been on our road. We had numerous houses setting off fireworks and cars driving up and down our street beeping horns and blasting out ‘Simply the best’ at top volume.

The following day a message was put out by the police that a five year old child in our area was almost maimed by a firework that went sideways across the floor instead of up into the sky, and to please refrain from using fireworks from there on.

The next Thursday, just as before we had the same cacaphony of noise and several lots of fireworks going off again. The cars drove up and down our street, music and horns blasting out again AND people hanging out the car windows banging pots and pans. All in addition to clapping on the doorsteps.

It’s turned from something genuine and touching to yet another demonstration of people not listening to the very people they are supposed to be declaring their gratitude for and ignoring the safety hazards to make themselves look good.

We’ve got drawings from the kids thanking our nhs and keyworkers in the windows and that will be it from now on. Shame really because I thought it was such a lovely thing when it started.