do you clap for carers?

There is no effort to encourage clapping around here, so none happens unless it is spontaneous and individual. I'm stuck at home and they'd never know it anyway. Didn't vote, cuz it would skew the results.

i clap for careers. if carers want a clap, they can get a career. if you don't have any money, you are worthless. get a career!

a - always
b - be
c - clapping for carers

two black suvs were driving down the street honking frantically nonstop and they had signs about positivity and gratitude and their kids were waving and yelling

I figure it’s just like all the extreme extroverts going nuts not being able to extrovert everywhere all the time

sorry if I offended any UK people

clapping has become somewhat popular in Seattle. I hate it and I hope people get bored soon.

what about... post for carers

np brimstead that’s just what we assume the usa is like all the time

Just people screeching around in stupidly large cars firing off assault weapons and shrieking “have a nice day” while cringing passersby thank them for their service

lol

honk if you're horny for carers

Also there is good New York solidarity to it. A woman in my building is some kind of burlesque performer and at 7 she goes on the fire escape and sings New York, New York and it’s a whole thing. The city often feels cold and alienating so this is nice.

― treeship., Friday, April 17, 2020 7:55 AM (seven hours ago)

every single night?!

scrolling this thread made me really happy to be in canada

v torn between excelsior and truth bomb for that wins post

It feels like laying a claim to their valor. Extroversion overflow yes. They need to accept that these folks are risking their lives and they aren't and there's no way to close that gap. Feels to me a bit like people who insist on holding the door open for you when you're still a long way away, making you hurry toward the door so they can feel good. Really done for themselves.
Now, off to eat some cookies in support of health care workers, and then take a shit in support of health care workers, and then watch TV in support of health care workers.

I'm clapping for Public Health England and the UK govt after the former just directed NHS staff to re-use PPE where possible, great work all around lads.

My missus is a maternity nurse and the clapping made her bawl the first time so I'm good to continue with it (while continuing to call out Tory cunts for their hypocrisy).

every single night?!

scrolling this thread made me really happy to be in canada

― dip to dup (rob), Friday, April 17, 2020 12:57 PM (twenty-eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

I live in Canada and the applause thing is happening every night

I don't bother my arse

désolé

we, as a society, have managed to make the whole world a little quieter (though eating pangolins or kissing bats or whatever but bear with me), a little more peaceful in a time of great stress and yet we still feel compelled to fill the entire space with noise for about 15 minutes every single day by screaming out our windows

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVBg4Jg_390

Our official show-of-solidarity thing in Ireland was the post office giving every household two postcards that were free to send anywhere in Ireland, so you could send some love to someone you might be cut off from. Postal workers were also going to check in on people they knew we're living alone, and would bring them shopping or something if they needed it. Everyone thought this was a lovely idea, until someone in the postal service pointed out that the postal workers were not being paid any extra for this and would be putting themselves and their families at extra risk. I felt too guilty to use the free cards, and our house only got one.
The clapping is officially a thing here too, as far as I know, but our estate doesn't seem to do it. Next door tried the first night, but nobody else joined in, so they stopped.
A fair few houses have rainbows in their windows, though, which is nice.

Last night we had clapping, then some fire trucks showed up (by coincidence I think) and started honking, then a guy played Taps on the trumpet. Couple days ago there was a dude playing a drum kit on his balcony.

had to make this pic.twitter.com/NKJTqsf6y4

— Chad Loder (@chadloder) April 19, 2020

no. maybe if I lived in a super dense area and near a hospital like downtown manhattan

i'd rather give em PPE and money (if I had any)

DC doesn’t do this thank god

The PPE shortage is a bigger scandal even than the testing snafus.

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completely forgot today.

Bbc1 and ch5 had live coverage

Got to admit, I forget about this every week and I'm always surprised when it happens.

have all the usual fuckwits had a rona spreading party on some of the big city bridges again?

You might not like it but this is exactly what peak monarchy looks like: emerging from a tartan-wallpapered room through a Farrow and Ball duck egg door in linen and brogues straight after a gin-induced nap, utterly confused at the lives of your subjects pic.twitter.com/hqD5WQ9WFC

— Huw Lemmey (@huwlemmey) April 24, 2020

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have all the usual fuckwits had a rona spreading party on some of the big city bridges again?

The thing I don't understand about that London Bridge clip is that there's a shitload of police on there with them not doing anything to break it up. Maybe clapping trumps authoritarianism here.

They don't like wading in with the truncheons when they're on camera is probably the reason for that, it's ingrained behaviour

OK yeah these pics are baffling for that location at that time even if a lot of them may be spilling out from St Thomas nearby
https://metro.co.uk/2020/04/23/fury-social-distancing-ignored-westminster-bridge-12602395/

We continue to support the clap for carers and key workers. Again last night we saw a 'pickup' effect when you went back inside after proudly #clapping. The pick up wasn't quite as big as last week. Check out why in the image below pic.twitter.com/0Y4uMbayZB

— National Grid ESO (@ng_eso) April 24, 2020

I have never in my life seen people clap the way Charles & Camilla clap. It seems so odd, given the amount of applause they must have seen in their lives, that they haven't learned how to do it

https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/uk-news/tired-mum-named-shamed-facebook-18143150

yesss that is the content I crave

tired: clapping
wired: chanting

ooh bonus story linked there, Derek Draper might die

Derek is actually a shortened version of Diederic.. Just saying!

i guess because i haven't heard "clap for carers" out loud before, i canNOT stop saying "clap for careers" itt. i know i already made that joke but it's killing me!

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nice

hope these results mean that those here are just uncomfortable with public displays like this (I am), because I can’t see laughing at others’ appreciation for health care workers, that’s just bleak