XPost: uk.politics.misc   
   From: no@way.com   
      
   Col wrote:   
   > On 04/07/2020 09:10, JNugent wrote:   
   >> On 03/07/2020 23:46, Dan S. MacAbre wrote:   
   >   
   >   
   >>>   
   >>> Fine words; but he was happy enough to clap for the NHS on Thurdays.   
   >>   
   >> "...things they *don't* want to do..."   
   >>   
   >> People doing what they DO want to do is another matter, surely?   
   >   
   > He also said he didn't believe in 'gestures'.   
   > Well wasn't the NHS clap just that?   
   >   
      
   Certainly was, which was why I never did it.  The neighbours still seem   
   happy to talk to me.  But I'd guess that only about a third of them   
   actually bothered.  I was once out working on the car when some of them   
   started doing it - it was a bit odd.   
      
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