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This clap for Captain Tom idea

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User133847 · 02/02/2021 20:44

I've just seen a lot on social media about this clap for Tom on Thursday at 8, similar to the clap for the NHS.

I'm a bit ambivalent about this. The one organised the other week was a damp squib and nobody got involved. The weather is still dark and cold (it wasn't in the summer when the pots and pans were out for the NHS). However, for a nation in mourning at Tom's passing, perhaps this could help really bring the country together on Thursday.

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BoredBeforelEvenBegan · 03/02/2021 11:27

@Bluesheep8

His family were able to be with him during his final hours weren't they?
Yes, unlike tens of thousands of loved ones who have died in the past year. I know someone who was taken to a hospital 150 miles from home and was in a coma there for six weeks before he died - his wife and children didn't see him again from the moment the ambulance took him from home.

I'm not sure why it's one rule for mates of the Queen and another for the rest of us plebs. Plus ça change, I suppose.

Frodont · 03/02/2021 11:28

@OliveTree75

Fb has become some kind of weird shrine. I find it so bizarre, especially all the "you have done your duty soldier, you may now stand down" cringy bullshit
It's making me laugh. Dh and I are messaging each other with the most cringy shit we can find. Sorry.
BoredBeforelEvenBegan · 03/02/2021 11:28

@OliveTree75

Fb has become some kind of weird shrine. I find it so bizarre, especially all the "you have done your duty soldier, you may now stand down" cringy bullshit
Dear god.
MintyMabel · 03/02/2021 11:28

He raised £30m for the NHS
He walked his garden. It was good PR and viral social media that raised the money - for NHS charities (those providing things like tea bags for parent accommodation, not ventilators for Covid patients) We know it was simply good PR because plenty of people have done exactly the same kind of as he did and raised much less.

I live very locally. The village Facebook has a message on it from a family friend that says that family has essentially asked for people not to do this

With all the access they have to national media, you’d think they’d do more than have a friend of a friend post on a small local FB group.

The exceptions afforded to his family really are a slap in the face to the thousands of people who have had to say goodbye to their loved ones over face time, or not at all.

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User133847 · 03/02/2021 11:29

I don't think people really know what a troll is anymore. Not the original definition of an internet troll. Troll now means, "someone who disagrees with me on the internet".

For someone who goes on and on about cancel culture - and has just widely promoted his new book on those themes - Piers Morgan sure loves to silence people who disagree with him.

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notacooldad · 03/02/2021 11:31

Well, going off the news and social media
😂😂the media manipulates news.
Remember how they twisted things with Princess Diana's death?

Bluesheep8 · 03/02/2021 11:33

*Bluesheep8

His family were able to be with him during his final hours weren't they?

Yes, unlike tens of thousands of loved ones who have died in the past year. I know someone who was taken to a hospital 150 miles from home and was in a coma there for six weeks before he died - his wife and children didn't see him again from the moment the ambulance took him from home.

I'm not sure why it's one rule for mates of the Queen and another for the rest of us plebs. Plus ça change, I suppose.*

This is exactly why I was asking.

TillyTopper · 03/02/2021 11:38

I admire and respect Capt. Tom. But I have not stood outside my door and clapped or anything yet and won't be - it's virtue signalling. End of.

LucilleTheVampireBat · 03/02/2021 11:50

I find it so bizarre, especially all the "you have done your duty soldier, you may now stand down" cringy bullshit

I laugh reacted to one of these comments and received some fantastic, highly abusive private messages. I may save them and post them up next time someone starts bleating about being kind.

lollipoprainbow · 03/02/2021 11:58

Piers will give himself a coronary over this!

Puzzledandpissedoff · 03/02/2021 11:58

One of the women gushing over it asked me how I felt. I said: "Well he did a lovely thing (driven totally by his Daughter) but that considering I didnt know him personally, I feel absolutely nothing at all!"

My response was met by numerous dropped jaws

And that's the answer to "what does it matter if some want to clap?"
Each to their own of course (despite the point the family don't want it) but it never stops at that - before long it's "what are YOU doing", and anyone who prefers not to join the sobfest is deemed a heartless b*stard

sunshinesupermum · 03/02/2021 11:59

Enough with the clapping please.

Spikeyball · 03/02/2021 12:02

"I find it so bizarre, especially all the "you have done your duty soldier, you may now stand down" cringy bullshit"

Whilst scrolling I accidentally liked a 'photo' involving Captain Tom and an angel shared by someone who always shares that sort of thing. I hastily deleted the like before anyone saw it.

Snowdropsanddaffs · 03/02/2021 12:03

@OliveTree75

Fb has become some kind of weird shrine. I find it so bizarre, especially all the "you have done your duty soldier, you may now stand down" cringy bullshit
Totally agree.
Bluesheep8 · 03/02/2021 12:06

The exceptions afforded to his family really are a slap in the face to the thousands of people who have had to say goodbye to their loved ones over face time, or not at all.

Yes.

userxx · 03/02/2021 12:06

Fb has become some kind of weird shrine. I find it so bizarre, especially all the "you have done your duty soldier, you may now stand down" cringy bullshit

Another reason I'm not on facebook. My arse would be permanently clenched.

CandidaAlbicans2 · 03/02/2021 12:06

I find it so bizarre, especially all the "you have done your duty soldier, you may now stand down" cringy bullshit

Oh my, that's...erm...cringy alright, I'm slightly embarrassed for those who spout this sentimental shite 😆🙄🤢🤮 It's almost as good the Viz Princess Diana and Jade Goody "Together Forever" spoof, "wiv da angles now", except people are being serious 😳😁 So "rainbow bridge", "thoughts and prayers" etc.

storminabuttercup · 03/02/2021 12:09

Apparently Johnson will be leading a clap tonight at 6.
Utterly ridiculous.

OliveTree75 · 03/02/2021 12:09

@userxx

Fb has become some kind of weird shrine. I find it so bizarre, especially all the "you have done your duty soldier, you may now stand down" cringy bullshit

Another reason I'm not on facebook. My arse would be permanently clenched.

😂😂
YogaLite · 03/02/2021 12:10

No clapping please!

Name something after him, a hospital, a street, plant a sequoia or oak tree in the National Memorial Arboretum.

It needs to be a respectful celebration not pan banging!

maxineputyourredshoeson · 03/02/2021 12:12

It’s just come up on my sky news app that Boris is leading the clap at 6pm....

PurpleDaisies · 03/02/2021 12:12

What a shame I’m busy...

Bloodypunkrockers · 03/02/2021 12:15

Even Jeremy Vine is getting in on the act

And he's doing "the voice" that he uses to signal we should be sad

JaimeLeeCurtains · 03/02/2021 12:17

PMQs, watching live. Johnson promotes clap, Starmer agrees (because I guess he can't be seen not to). Pitiful.

Johnson moves on to making tone-deaf joke about cladding information. Ugh.

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