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Clapping for the Queen last night

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girlfriend44 · 13/09/2022 13:35

Just read there was a clapping for the Queen last night on peoples doorsteps.

Never heard anyone round here did anyone clap in their road?

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Justcallmebebes · 13/09/2022 13:46

No, certainly no clapping on doorsteps for the Queen around my way, thank the Lord

MrsDanversGlidesAgain · 13/09/2022 13:51

No. I was however fuming about the BBC getting into an ermine trimmed funk and pulling any programme that is about the royals (Andrew Graham-Dixon on the Royal Collection).

Pootles34 · 13/09/2022 13:55

No clapping around here - our school have, however, deemed it only proper to cancel the first newsletter of the academic year as a mark of respect to our dear departed monarch, so now we've no idea what's going on but in a respectful way.

Definitelymabel · 13/09/2022 13:57

Fuck no. And thank fuck.

imagen · 13/09/2022 13:58

Pootles34 · 13/09/2022 13:55

No clapping around here - our school have, however, deemed it only proper to cancel the first newsletter of the academic year as a mark of respect to our dear departed monarch, so now we've no idea what's going on but in a respectful way.

Oh dear, who decided to do this🤣

ConfusedDottComm · 13/09/2022 14:01

Never heard about this. I never heard any clapping.

Pixiedust1234 · 13/09/2022 14:01

please link your source

ChagSameachDoreen · 13/09/2022 14:02

Why would there be a clap? Have we turned into a nation of performing seals?

ThisisCollie2022 · 13/09/2022 14:04

Not around here! Had no idea x

Lullabies2Paralyze · 13/09/2022 14:04

A neighbour clapped on the night the death was announced (Thursday?) it was at 8pm and I’d just put baby to bed so the telly was off. Didn’t hear anyone else clapping nor see anyone else when I spied through doorbell.
wasn’t sure if they were doing it sarcastically to be honest because there was no one else

Cigarettesaftersex1 · 13/09/2022 14:04

One of the FB pages I follow, Proper Manchester, announced there was an 8.00 p.m. clap last night. Didn't happen where I am in Manchester and haven't heard any other chat about it

Laiste · 13/09/2022 14:05

No surely there wasn't?

Heard nothing about it on here (which would be the first place i'd expect to see a massive moan about it 😂)

SherbetDips · 13/09/2022 14:05

Not around here, I didn’t clap the NHS in lockdown as I’m not a sheep.

I did however go to green park and pay my respects to the queen.

BillytheMountain · 13/09/2022 14:07

A load of clap trap👏

ImJustNotMeAnymore · 13/09/2022 14:07

None here. For all its not the naicest area the residents at least have some respect and dignity.

LIZS · 13/09/2022 14:08

Not here, there is a 2 minute silence on Sunday evening.

girlmom21 · 13/09/2022 14:08

There was a Facebook event around 15,000 people had responded to but I didn't hear anyone by us, although we're in a cul-de-sac with big front gardens mostly surrounded by plants so doubt we'd hear even if there was clapping.

Laiste · 13/09/2022 14:10

I'm not clapping for anything. I came very close to it at lockdown.

On the very first clap for the NHS evening me and one of my grown up DDs went and stood on our doorstep to listen for any clapping. We heard a very faint bit of saucepan banging somewhere in the village and we did about 3 claps and scuttled in feeling ridiculous and that was that.

In hindsight i'm glad we didn't. Daft palaver.

YourLipsMyLipsApocalypse · 13/09/2022 14:10

Yeah, we have. It started with Diana and now we'll performatively emote and grieve on demand, it seems.

Boxowine · 13/09/2022 14:15

Is everything a "thing" nowadays. When people first started clapping for health care workers in NYC, it was somewhat spontaneous. Residents in lockdown in apartment buildings near hospitals started clapping at shift change. It was an authentic moment. Once you take something like that and start scheduling it and recording it for social media likes it just becomes a weird kind of compulsory social ritual.

Why would anyone suggest a clap for Her Majesty? It's literally applause. Would seem like a celebration. Have people forgotten the whole point of moments of silence or bell tolling?

Ship · 13/09/2022 14:16

Pootles34 · 13/09/2022 13:55

No clapping around here - our school have, however, deemed it only proper to cancel the first newsletter of the academic year as a mark of respect to our dear departed monarch, so now we've no idea what's going on but in a respectful way.

This made me laugh 😂

Mossstitch · 13/09/2022 14:17

Oh no, not this again...... It was noted, a neighbour told me in a disapproving tone, that I didn't clap for the NHS....... I am NHS (so would have felt like a performing seal clapping themselves) and I was very ill at the time with long covid having caught it at work in march 2020.

focuspocus · 13/09/2022 14:22

Liked the Queen but hate this awful idea. It's popped up on our local SM pages in the south east though I thought it was for Thursday. As PP said it feels like applause and not for her life.

Might just be me but I also hate the whooping and calling of fans waiting for royals outside the palaces, people trying to get seen on tv, throwing flowers so they hit the hearse.

Always4Brenner · 13/09/2022 14:23

No non here either.

Port1aCastis · 13/09/2022 14:26

Nothing here either, not a lot of point clapping for a deceased person anyway as they can't hear it