do you clap for carers?

I did read the thread, just don’t understand you people from the UK

Well, that's your problem, not ours.

not a problem, decided I don’t care

for me it just means I lose track of time and realize "oh, right, it's 7 pm"

(xp) That's fine, there's about a million American threads on here for you to participate in.

I don’t like it bc it’s noisy and noise is bad

xp sorry I was lashing out, I really do care about the UK posters here and what they are thinking

no 69

nice

it's a bit out of character for US healthcare not to find a way of billing people for clapping their employees yet, still time for that yet though!

I liked this from the Guardian - no stunning insights but it's good to have it said.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/may/21/nhs-doctor-enough-people-clapping

Even those who liked it at the beginning are becoming wary of the creeping clapping fascism, the competition to make the most obvious and noisiest display, the shaming of non-clappers.

otm times a thousand

Seems to be getting noisier every week where I am.

Didn’t hear shit yesterday

I played Rhapsody of Fire really loudly at 8pm last night so I didn't have to hear it, this may be my new normal

It may be the layout of my building but I haven't heard the clapping once. Tempted to go for a run and time the end of it with the applause.

I could imagine seeing something hilarious in this bizarre crypto-fascist banging if I was tripping on acid and observing it.

I haven't done. I think some people around here did.
Seemed to smack way too much of uniformity and taht whole Stepford wives thing to me.
Also didn't really help the carers. Energy might have been better directed elsewhere·
THough on th eother hand if it hadn't started to seem mandatory it presumably did help the community spirit a bit. But not sure how taht held out.
Way too much focus on punishing those who don't comply etc.
Would hope something like that's main growth was organic not coercive.

I've completely forgotten about this. It seems most people on my block have as well.

still happening on at least one birmingham middle class road, yesterday we discussed that guardian article while eating the neighbour's homemade vol-au-vents.

lmao

lmao

whoa

You know what, I'm going to have to check if I live in London because where I am seems to be nothing like anyone else's experience of living in London at the moment.

Maybe because I live on the top floor I'm hearing stuff you ground dwellers are missing.

Still a giant case of the clap in Holborn. GOSH and the neurological hospital very near this estate, though.

I seem to be living in the same bit as you, Tom - off the same road :)

The Cursèd Road

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EYob17zWkAIk3GG?format=jpg&name=medium

I feel so happy for whoever horked that big saucepan.

Big Sauciety

That’s not anything, sorry

I lol'ed

had no idea it had a right wing connotation in the UK. i like doing it in canada where has none. it's nice

from a friend of ilx:

https://www.instagram.com/p/CAie8aNhMzC/?igshid=l26he29y32zg

good is that

sort of idea Ray Lowry might have riffed on if he was still here!

Bagpipes

I'm a bit out in the greenbelt towards Wakefield but heard distant car horns and fireworks. Fucking allastair Campbell out there with his bagpipes is a new low!

Definitely louder in my area than it was a few weeks ago. There's a bunch of posh young people living near me who make sure they make a lot of noise. They're posh to me, they probably don't think they are.

The bagpipes got a round of applause when they finished, just to twist the knife

We get bagpipes and a solitary church bell ringer, in E Anglia.

had no idea it had a right wing connotation in the UK. i like doing it in canada where has none. it's nice

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there's definitely some social aspects to this tho. like West side Vancouver definitely more a clappy place than East Van afaict (there's like no clapping from my poor door condo neighbors, only a little from the yuppy condo dwellers).. and I was out at my gf's mum's place in south surrey and it was like Mardi Gras

We had (very bad) bagpipes for the first time tonight, as well. Odd. So it's a thing, then.

was this the last one

Fingers crossed.

Did anyone get any booing or does that start next week?

it seemed to start off a bit tepid this week and I thought oh is it finally on its way out then some wanker let off a few fireworks and then came the saucepan banging and presumably a kazoo or vuvuzela or something

Exclusively a Tory thing from next week I think, not that it hasn't been. Hopefully 8.01 will be Boo For Cummings.

Who decided it was officially over just before it petered out? Like who's in charge of unofficial impromptu public displays and how does everyone know?

The lady who started it in England (and has been getting increasing press coverage saying "I'm not clapping any more")?

Dutch wasn't she? It is probably safe to say it would have happened anyway