AIBU to think a Captain Tom street party is a bit much?

[squishedblueberry]

I didn’t agree with the clap and didn’t clap, so my neighbour knocked to “make sure I was okay”. I chickened out and blamed DS’s bed time 😳 because last time with the NHS clapping a lady on our street ended up completely ostracised from the main gaggle for not clapping a few weeks in a row and I couldn’t be arsed with the hassle of it.

Anyway the long and short of it is she also knocked to invite me to a street party they are throwing for Captain Tom and his memory, they’re printing out pictures and putting them on their front doors, making bunting, all coming out on the drive.

No it’s not hurting anyone but I just think it’s so distasteful - it’s really not about him is it? It’s an excuse to have a jolly. Especially while we are in lockdown.

It’s been made clear on the Facebook group in a long post a few minutes ago that people who don’t attend or put a picture up don’t have community spirit or care about their neighbours.

There’s also another clap tomorrow night with wine apparently.

Celebrate his life with a mass spreader event. Righto then.

Very glad I don’t live on your street!

I'd be glad to be ostracised by that lot.

@FabbyMagic

Oh for gods sake! How ridiculous

This. It's pathetic virtue signalling in the extreme.

Oh God, it sounds awful! How are you planning on getting out of it OP?
Clap for the NHS got ridiculous & almost aggressive here in the last few weeks of it. I stopped going out & was bloody relieved when it finished.
Poor you.

Oh lovely, ANOTHER thread slagging off Captain Sir Tom Moore.

Mumsnet really are excelling themselves tonight.

There's absolutely nothing and no one here slagging off the Captain, only other people's mad excuses for a get together in lockdown.

Of course it isn't slagging anybody off!! OP is actually more respectful than most because she doesn't see his death as a reason to get pissed in the garden.

@littlepattilou

Oh lovely, ANOTHER thread slagging off Captain Sir Tom Moore.

Mumsnet really are excelling themselves tonight.

i don't believe people are slagging him off as such, just the tossers making it about them and their fucking 'community spirit' then bitching about those who couldn't give a shit for the v.s

@littlepattilou

Oh lovely, ANOTHER thread slagging off Captain Sir Tom Moore.

Mumsnet really are excelling themselves tonight.

Get your facts correct first before you complain about a group of people.

No one is slagging off (nice term btw) Captain Tom, what is being said is that some people are taking this too far.

@littlepattilou

Oh lovely, ANOTHER thread slagging off Captain Sir Tom Moore.

Mumsnet really are excelling themselves tonight.

You went out and clapped with your neighbours didnt you?

I'd be pretty upset if people were using my loved one's death as an excuse for a party and to bully their neighbours. That's grim.

The clapping has become so naf IMO. It's a bandwagon and I can't bear the peer pressure people feel to participate.

@littlepattilou please, do tell me where I’ve slagged off Captain Tom Moore? You won’t be able to, as I haven’t.
I’ve actually said I think he’s a great man who reminds me of my grandad - who I adored.
What I HAVE said is I find it distasteful that people are latching onto his death and using it as an excuse to bend the rules and have a party.

@littlepattilou where has anyone on this thread slagged off Sir Tom, are you projecting?

@littlepattilou - also can you let me know when you plan to start the street parties etc for the people I linked above?

Boredom does funny things to people

I’ve just been told off by my friend for k no it clapping. I was driving him after doing two hours of overtime apparently I should have pulled over

@VinterKvinna your post was pretty eye opening

@littlepattilou

Oh lovely, ANOTHER thread slagging off Captain Sir Tom Moore.

Mumsnet really are excelling themselves tonight.

Oh look another poster who can’t read.

I would tell my neighbours to fuck off. If you don’t agree with it don’t do it

You all need to get off this thread and read a few others if you think no-one on mumsnet is slagging Tom Moore off!

For a start, read the post at 19.50 hrs on HERE!

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/4155451-NO-to-a-state-funeral-for-Captain-Sir-Tom-Moore-AIBU?pg=5

Open your eyes. I'm not the one who 'can't read...'

@OhWhyNot

Boredom does funny things to people

I’ve just been told off by my friend for k no it clapping. I was driving him after doing two hours of overtime apparently I should have pulled over

You should have.... To tell him to get out and fucking walk.

[quote squishedblueberry]@VinterKvinna your post was pretty eye opening[/quote]
I hope I havent come across as an arsehole

1. Leave the Facebook group.
2. I'm not interested, thank you.

I've only today practiced what I just preached, but then again I'm beyond caring about pissing people off when this pandemic has brought out such an ugly side to some people's characters. I'm a private person minding my own private business and if they don't like it they can kiss my own private arse, to be frank.

There's similar shit going on in my community with families reporting other families who they perceive to have broken lockdown rules, then claiming it wasn't them who did the reporting even though they just happened to know every detail about it. Idle gossip and tedious tattle.
I left that social media group (without explanation) as I have no desire to witness judgemental gossip about my neighbours. I couldn't give a flying fuck if I'm ostracised because of that. In fact, I'd welcome it.

I will not have my behaviour policed by these sorts of people. Life's too short.

OMG! This thread is hilarious! I'm tempted to start a thread called "I'm thinking of having a tattoo of Captain Tom's face put on my left breast, so he will always be close to my heart... AIBU?"