Boris announces 6pm clap for Captain Sir Tom Moore

[LadyWhistledownthe1st]

Will you be joining?

YABU - no
YANBU - yes

RIP Sir Tom

No. Much to my "we'll clap for anything" neighbours disgust, I won't be joining in.

Nope. I am sure he was a very honourable man throughout his lifetime and his charitable efforts are to be appreciated and admired.

However I feel as if I must be from a different species to some, with the outpouring of grief over the death of a 100 year old man.

The clapping on doorsteps was bad enough when it wasn't a Johnson-mandated thing and was directed at showing support to all those keeping the healthcare system going.

Boris telling me to clap in appreciation of Captain Sir Tom? No chance.

I know Bozo is incapable of reading the room but youd think someone would have told him that scheduled clapping is no longer a thing. So lockdown 1.

I won't be clapping.
He was 100 years old and spent December in Barbados!! That's in no way a criticism and good for him. I hope I reach 100, if I'm still relatively fit and manage a holiday abroad with family before I go.
He was clearly a determined old man and I was a little sad last night to hear he had died.
That's it really, to build him up into a saint for walking up and down his patio, I really don't get it.

Granted it was a bloody massive patio complete with swimming pool...as DH keeps pointing out...not that he's bitter or anything

"Boris" can feck off.

Do we really need yet another thread about this can't you just post on the other threads about this?

No, its mawkish and all smoke and mirrors. But each to their own.

I don't like the fact that politicians have hijacked this

No, my neighbourhood doesn't do the group clapping thing. I wouldn't be out if they did anyway.

RIP Sir Tom.

I will be but only because a neighbour was quite unpleasant to me for not clapping for NHS during the spring lockdown.

I understood that his family had asked people not to clap?

Have they @ArosAdraDrosDolig? I heard something on the radio ( I was only half listening) that his entire village is awash with flowers in his memory .

I will be paying my respects in the comfort of my own home. ❤

@x2boys

Do we really need yet another thread about this can't you just post on the other threads about this?

One of the other threads where posters like yourself have already taken over to tell us that our views are not wanted, and if we're not clapping/agreeing with the circus show then we have no option?

This one is far less of a bun fight, thanks all the same.

That's should be opinion not option

A very old man who did a wonderful thing has died. I’m pleased he gave the nation something positive to focus on but thousands of unsung heroes die every day. I won’t be clapping.

@Sheleg

All this bloody clapping. Are we a nation of seals? What happened to a respectful silence for contemplation.

This made me laugh and the sleeping baby stir🙈 Agreed.

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No. Didn’t do any of the clapping. It’s so false. Very much “look neighbours look how great I am”. No thanks.

You can reflect and show respect in private without virtue signalling.

So just don't then
Nobody will give a shiny shit if you don't.
If they do, don;t give them the headspace.
These threads make me laugh how the call people who clap "virtue signallers" but fail to see that they seeming to think they're being edgy and "sticking it to the man" by saying "well I'm not" is just as

Clap or don't.

No.

I'm not sure where you got that from @BrumBoo ,but these incessant threads about not clapping are even more irritating than the actual clapping ,and let's face the Op of the thread you are referring to doesn't give a shit about captain Tom's death ,they just want to use to have a go at Boris and Co ,pretty immature .

No, I think they are using his death and milking it as press to divert attention from themselves.

It’s an embarrassment that the NHS needs people to fundraise - this governments embarrassment.

It’s an embarrassment that they’ve got the cheek to use the man death as propaganda given he died in a hospital, yes from pneumonia, but with the added complications of this virus which he caught in a hospital!

This government had failed us all, Captain Tom included, 100 or not.

Beggars belief how low these charlatans will sink it truly does!

Is it clapping or silence?

Is it tonight or tomorrow?

Such important questions.

(there are also already loads of threads on this!)