To think enough is enough..

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Woman on Sky TV singing live at her front gate to celebrate the NHS. It's too much. Stop. Please.

It’s getting to the point where we need an exit plan to get out of the clapping as much as one for getting out of lockdown.

That made me laugh.

I am not a fan of the clapping. I resent being told when and how to show appreciation for the NHS so I social distance and make every effort to minimise exposure to the virus. Doing my bit by trying to keep away from the hospital. I didn't hear any today so maybe it has stopped.

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Our street is still lapping it up. Theres a guy who plays the trumpet and concludes with the neighbours theme tune. He has a sheet music stand and everything.

DH was made to clap for a clip that was sent to the news channels and is on the Facebook update. He’s armed forces and they all look bloody miserable and clap in a very can’t be bothered way.

Almost none existent clapping last week, but had a resurgence tonight. Not only clapping on their doorstep but actually out of their garden and pacing around, looking up and down the street, judging and taking note I guess of the ones who weren’t out clapping. Me being one of them.

I fucking love the clap

I'm glad to say the clap is lessening in my area!

And as for singing, this has never happened.

Surprisingly quiet tonight. We only do it because next door is a paramedic and there are a couple of other medical key workers opposite. DH and I are key workers but rarely/never mentioned so we clap ourselves

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We have never joined in as we think it’s a nonsense, we support the NHS and frontline keyworkers but don’t feel the need to stand outside and clap to show our appreciation. There are two particular neighbours who are increasingly making more noise each week in a bid to shame those who aren’t presumably, but they actually look really stupid banging pots and pans. It’s ridiculous.

Girl bangs pan loudly next to her barking dog. Poor fucking dog. I didn't go out. My bf thinks the neighbours will bitch. Meh

can't wait till it rains that will sort the wheat from the chaf

1st week i was waiting at 7.50 it really meant something now it's competitive . Think we peaked on our rd last week with a tambourine ,siren, cow bell just the 1 MASSIVE firework and 2 streets away a guy playing the saxophone.
This week here was no sign of tambourine and a very poor qauilty firework all noted by lady across the rd who claps like her hand are on fire and walks up and down the street convinced she's doing a head count .

I join in but find it desperately cringeworthy and only do it because I feel I have to show my face. I hate any kind of forced fake group activity like this and much prefer to donate privately to our local fabulous NHS hospital.
I have started to dread Thursdays, I think the lockdown might be contributing to this, by which I mean the forced public clapping is all the more uncomfortable because it is such a contrast with the rest of the week where I don’t have interaction outside of my household. And I’m getting used to that and part of me doesn’t mind the withdrawal from the rest of the world at all, which might become an issue I guess, but forced clapping is definitely not the solution!

It’s getting to the point where we need an exit plan to get out of the clapping as much as one for getting out of lockdown.

That's funny but also true! How will it happen, when will it happen? Will it end when the pubs are back open??

Will Boris and Keir get into a war of attrition where neither dares to stop so in a year's time they are the last two people in the country coming out on a thursday to clap?

1984in2019 - what would happen if you didn’t clap? If anybody tried to “shame“ me on my road, they would be told to do one!

Sometimes I feel like giving someone the clap

bloody hpocrites i said it on twitter i'll say it here-if youre mixing with people you shouldnt do on lockdown forget your clap its means

alot of nhs are fed up with it now they just want a better government

I am of the opinion that coerced actions are meaningless. I don’t and won’t clap. I also refuse to join in ITV’s c(r)ap. I pause the TV, and then fast forward.

The year is 2120-everyone in the uk and round the world stand on their door step and clap

little annie asks mummy why do we do this-nobody knows mummy says

Seemed to be a lot of us out clapping last week but I guess it was hot and the end of the working week. Didn't hear much tonight (we were eating) except the fireworks (free)

There's a couple over the road who make a big deal of their clapping, they're obviously trying to shame the rest of us into it, they're also the ones breaking the rules on VE day, tossers.

For the last few weeks nobody here did it, then tonight, just as I was getting my hyperactive twin toddlers to sleep, next door decided to clap, bang pots and their young son screamed his head off for a good minute (they’re really nice neighbours and he’s a really nice kid but fucking hell!) - as a result I have just settled my twins to sleep 😩

I actually think enough is not enough. We do it to show our appreciation for all those people working so hard on our behalf.

I am not religious but it does bring to mind the bible passage about "If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal"

We do lots of other practical things to support key workers but Thursday nights is about care and emotion. They need it now more than ever.

Doesnt penicillin usually end the clap?

It reminds me of the Wicker Man. All the banging of pots and pans and ritual sacrifice. Sinister.