xp to myself, but fuck anyone who voted Tory and is clapping, that goes without saying
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Friday, 17 April 2020 10:50 (four years ago) link
No. It sends the dog crazy so I spend 8.00-8.15 trying to calm him down
― a hoy hoy, Friday, 17 April 2020 10:50 (four years ago) link
But why should Boris and co be allowed to co-opt and ruin a show of solidarity? Fuck them. It's not for them.
#ClapForBoris
― The Corbynite Maneuver (Tom D.), Friday, 17 April 2020 10:51 (four years ago) link
that's some bullshit 'my cool boss has a mohawk' stuff though. of course they're going to co-opt it. why should they ruin it? i didn't hear a single person clap for Boris, and I live in a pretty built-up area, but as I say it's a Labour / Green stronghold here
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Friday, 17 April 2020 10:55 (four years ago) link
The suspicion is that the most enthusiastic clappers are people who voted Tory. Salving their consciences at 8pm every Thursday and getting to be all British and Keep Calm And Carry On at the same time. "I'm doing my bit to support the NHS and key workers, what are you doing?" "Er, not voting Tory for a start."
― The Corbynite Maneuver (Tom D.), Friday, 17 April 2020 10:57 (four years ago) link
I'll tell you what has got me really angry - Tom Moore doing his laps raising £1m. Why is this being presented as a feel-good story and not a disgraceful indictment of the nick of this country?
― boxedjoy, Friday, 17 April 2020 11:01 (four years ago) link
Tom D - but i don't know where that assumption comes from. who knows who's clapping. it's fireworks and drums a go-go in our area, and very few are voting Tory. YMMV of course
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Friday, 17 April 2020 11:01 (four years ago) link
boxedjoy otm - that story is so fucked
Maybe we can get the next infected nurse that pulls through to swim the channel an all
― Microbes oft teem (wins), Friday, 17 April 2020 11:03 (four years ago) link
definitely seems to be big in suburban tory england. noted left twitter scold keir starmer was complaining abt clapping as an empty gesture
― ogmor, Friday, 17 April 2020 11:04 (four years ago) link
this is happening every night at 7 in brooklyn. i do not participate and my cat is too fixated on impending dinner to care
― mookieproof, Friday, 17 April 2020 11:10 (four years ago) link
Why is this being presented as a feel-good story and not a disgraceful indictment of the nick of this country?
Because the country is irreversibly fucked and the sooner Scotland gets the fuck out of it the better?
― The Corbynite Maneuver (Tom D.), Friday, 17 April 2020 11:11 (four years ago) link
Every night definitely feels like overkill for pretty much anything of this nature but maybe I’m a grumpy bastard. I just had a “virtual coffee break” with my team at work and it was nice to see everyone and check in with how we were all doing, but at the end of the 45 minute call they started talking about making it a regular thing - “we could do it once a week” “yeah, or maybe more often than that” - and I’m like uhhhhhhh
― Microbes oft teem (wins), Friday, 17 April 2020 11:21 (four years ago) link
oh god, we have way too many of these things, including a 4pm 'virtual pub session' on Fridays, which means that I start drinking way earlier than I normally would on a weekend and am sloshed in my house by 10pm
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Friday, 17 April 2020 11:27 (four years ago) link
with workmates? bad enough having to go to the actual pub w them
― megan thee macallan 18 year (||||||||), Friday, 17 April 2020 11:28 (four years ago) link
it's quite terrible. not improved by a lousy broadband connection which makes everyone look and sound like Max Headroom
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Friday, 17 April 2020 11:43 (four years ago) link
I've been saying that if you wanted to make some cynical money, you should sell "I clapped" badges - people want to make a difference of course and to stand with others, but they are also aware that a fair health system is not what they have, and (whether they voted for it or not) they on some level want to nudge karma in case they need it.
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 17 April 2020 11:47 (four years ago) link
you could argue that it's in the nature of big empty gestures to be co-opted by anybody cynical/blinkered/gormless enough.
― clap for content-providers (Noodle Vague), Friday, 17 April 2020 11:48 (four years ago) link
is the feeling that people are clapping for the system rather than for the people slogging it out within that system?
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Friday, 17 April 2020 11:49 (four years ago) link
it's an amorphous mob, the feeling is it can be used as a symbol by whoever wants to
― clap for content-providers (Noodle Vague), Friday, 17 April 2020 11:52 (four years ago) link
I’m surprised people are saying this is a conservative thing. I have been doing it; it seems like a way to show support for nurses, doctors, paramedics and other people working in hospitals.
― treeship., Friday, 17 April 2020 11:52 (four years ago) link
Sorry trees, but you're in way over your head in this current conversation.
― The Corbynite Maneuver (Tom D.), Friday, 17 April 2020 11:54 (four years ago) link
Conservative... notice the big C?
― The Corbynite Maneuver (Tom D.), Friday, 17 April 2020 11:55 (four years ago) link
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, 17 April 2020 11:55 (four years ago) link
All the nhs people I know seem to take the position “the time to support us was December 12, fuckos”
― Microbes oft teem (wins), Friday, 17 April 2020 11:56 (four years ago) link
I guess in the UK there is a different subtext to this?
― treeship., Friday, 17 April 2020 11:56 (four years ago) link
you can scroll up a little if you're interested in learning more...
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 17 April 2020 11:57 (four years ago) link
(xp) To say the least.
― The Corbynite Maneuver (Tom D.), Friday, 17 April 2020 11:59 (four years ago) link
Not at first though, I thought? Now yes
― cherry blossom, Friday, 17 April 2020 12:04 (four years ago) link
― Microbes oft teem (wins),Friday, 17 April 2020 12:56 (eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
This is kind of me
Particularly irked by people attempting to get my colleagues killed by assembling on Westminster Bridge in a fucking throng though
― Dadjokke (Sgt. Biscuits), Friday, 17 April 2020 12:07 (four years ago) link
He was also out there on his doorstep clapping. As were many of the people who have actually had the power to ensure the health service was properly resourced over the last decade and did nothing, for whom it really is an empty gesture at best and actively concealing their own culpability at worst.
― Matt DC, Friday, 17 April 2020 12:07 (four years ago) link
sure, clapping is clapping, the other stuff is what counts
― ogmor, Friday, 17 April 2020 12:09 (four years ago) link
Gosh that was uplifting 👏— Kate Andrews (@KateAndrs) March 26, 2020
Lock thread.
― Matt DC, Friday, 17 April 2020 12:17 (four years ago) link
In fairness, a full hour of clapping shows her dedication!
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 17 April 2020 12:19 (four years ago) link
tbf she's now a respectable writer for a right-wing nazi apologist shit-rag rather than the face of a right-wing think-tank that is out to destroy what is left of the NHS! She's got fucking nerve though.. kudos tbf!
― calzino, Friday, 17 April 2020 12:20 (four years ago) link
Coldplay turning up to Glastonbury doesn't make Glastonbury inherently bad... or something.. I dunno. Clap if you want
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Friday, 17 April 2020 12:54 (four years ago) link
all those years the BBC was inviting Kate onto every panel nearly every fucking week, knowing her whole shtick was to undermine and discredit the concept of the NHS. I blame them more than her.
― calzino, Friday, 17 April 2020 12:56 (four years ago) link
wow just like cis-het men to police how kate andrews feels
― mookieproof, Friday, 17 April 2020 12:56 (four years ago) link
I'm playing for applause!
― calzino, Friday, 17 April 2020 12:57 (four years ago) link
Can we deport her back to America when all this is over?
― The Corbynite Maneuver (Tom D.), Friday, 17 April 2020 12:59 (four years ago) link
as long we deport all the news/politics dept of the bbc with her. i'm sure Fox Networks could use them.
― calzino, Friday, 17 April 2020 13:02 (four years ago) link
We can deport her to the Gaelic Alliance when that takes off, she can snipe at the NHS from the comfy environs of Wrexham
― I got 5G on it (Matt #2), Friday, 17 April 2020 13:04 (four years ago) link
Branwell, I didn't mean to tell you you were wrong, I told you when it would happen so now you won't find it spontaneous or unpredictable as it genuinely has become a scheduled public display. I also agree that the noise can be upsetting.I'm sorry for upsetting you further.
― Non, je ned raggette rien (onimo), Friday, 17 April 2020 13:07 (four years ago) link
I find it really jarring, personally. The first night I heard it I was out walking the dog and was passing an apartment building when the whole place erupted in noise, and even though I know what it's for I can't help having this instinctive raised-hackles reaction. Especially as a lot of it seems less like applause and more like just indiscriminate hooting and hollering.
The night John Prine died I put my speaker on the balcony when the clapping started and blasted Fish and Whistle, but the rest of the time I have refrained from joining in.
― The fillyjonk who believed in pandemics (Lily Dale), Friday, 17 April 2020 18:39 (four years ago) link
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.
― A is for (Aimless), Friday, 17 April 2020 18:43 (four years ago) link
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!
― let me be your friend on the other end! (Karl Malone), Friday, 17 April 2020 18:49 (four years ago) link
a - alwaysb - bec - clapping for carers
― mookieproof, Friday, 17 April 2020 18:56 (four years ago) link
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
― brimstead, Friday, 17 April 2020 19:37 (four years ago) link
I figure it’s just like all the extreme extroverts going nuts not being able to extrovert everywhere all the time
― brimstead, Friday, 17 April 2020 19:39 (four years ago) link
sorry if I offended any UK people
― brimstead, Friday, 17 April 2020 19:40 (four years ago) link
blap for heroes
― kites aren't fun (NickB), Wednesday, 13 January 2021 11:52 (three years ago) link
you need more than lip service to dodge the clap
― nashwan, Wednesday, 13 January 2021 12:07 (three years ago) link