This clap gets louder and more elaborate every week!

[HibiscusPot]

From the first week (just clapping) we now have multiple fireworks, one neighbour has plans, another bells, there are horns, yelling and car horns being sounded. Ironically the neighbours with friends round for a BBQ are a particularly loud lot.
I am miserable in not really getting it?

We have a DJ, he starts at 7pm, songs and shouting on the mic, stops for the clap at 8pm then carries on with the songs and the karaoke.
That’s alongside the fireworks, pots and pans and car horns.

I live on a military base. No clapping here!

We’ve just had a 20 (no exaggeration!) performance of lorries, including what looked like a tank driving down the streets honking and with sirens with union jacks on and emergency sirens at the end too although I didn’t see those from the window! It was cool to watch but very long and I feel for those in my neighbourhood with young children

Should have said 20 minute

It's fizzling out in our street thank goodness only two fireworks and a few pots this week.

I love it. Mostly feels like all our community coming out together more than anything. Cheers me up

My little boy was asleep and when to firework and bangs, he woke up scared and unsure of what was happening and went into a meltdown, has shut himself down and started rocking and wearing ear defenders with no communication. It is getting stupid and actually does nothing for the nhs, if people want to thank them then they can donate to them. At least they might get masks that way.

Lots of clapping here and car horns.

I decided not to take part today. I did the first time and found it meaningful.

Now it has become a cliché. A habit without true meaning.

A lot less where I live today. Heard a couple of pots and pans being clung but that was it.
No fireworks, car horns etc

I'm getting annoyed with it all. My boy goes to bed at 7pm and it's getting louder every week!

Ironically, the people making the most noise on my street with pans/slamming wheelie bin lids/screeching/shouting are also the ones that have people in and out of their houses and gardens every day...🤔

There was some hymn singing round my way last week. Quite eerie. This week what I noticed was the birds panicking when the noise started up. They'd got used to the quiet.

I have stopped doing it as it feels forced. I wonder how many of those who are clapping every week will just go back to complaining about not been able to get a doctors appointment when this is all over.

I do not partake now

Not because I do not think the NHS are great on the whole, but because it just seems meaningless . How about a clap when we are finally released from Lockdown in its proper term . ie Everything re opened etc ? Does me make me laugh though as some of the clappers have people round to sit in the garden with them .

I hope people realise that fireworks can be incredibly distressing for people with dementia. My mum is absolutely terrified of them, and the last weeks have been bad for her. She's in her last days of life now, in a care home where they have COVID, and I really, really hope she can't hear them

Apparently some people look around to make sure they aren’t the first to stop clapping.

www.disappearingman.com/communism/men-wouldnt-stop-clapping/

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We had someone standing in the road and playing a music instrument this evening.

@isoblue

"I think it might have lost its previous well meaning"

You don't say ;-)

We have a DJ, he starts at 7pm, songs and shouting on the mic, stops for the clap at 8pm then carries on with the songs and the karaoke.
That’s alongside the fireworks, pots and pans and car horns.

Oh I'd have to be getting rid of him. Somehow.

@MrsKypp
"Now it has become a cliché. A habit without true meaning."

Spot on! Some just like to make noise for the sake of it, especially referring to fireworks. As you say, it just becomes a habit and an irritating one. Car horns, klaxons, pots pans, fireworks.. sets dogs off and kids crying, just too much. And I sure there must be a 'let's see who can be the loudest' mentality.

Hardly anyone clapping in my street tonight. That includes me because I was still working! I could hear next door clapping and somehow it sounded forced - I think Birdie is right that no one wants to be the first to stop.

Same amount of clapping here as there has always been. We go out at 8pm and clap for a minute.🤷‍♀️ DS2 really loves it.

@BakedCam depending on the tunes I might quite like that.