Captain Sir Tom Moore RiP

[Aladdin]

I just saw this now and it has actually brought me to tears.
He died from covid19.
RIP

Captain Sir Tom Moore: 'National inspiration' dies with Covid-19

The World War Two veteran raised millions for NHS charities and is called a "true hero" by the PM.

www.google.com

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

That is an example of a life well lived.

 

[Aladdin]

£33 million he raised for the health services. He had a fantastic last year of life...but how very very sad that he ended up dying from covid19.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Well, time to turn off all news outlets for a fortnight or so. I can't afford to replace a vomit-drenched laptop right now.

 

[Pickman's model]

£33 million he raised for the health services. He had a fantastic last year of life...but how very very sad that he ended up dying from covid19.

£38.9m according to the guardian, but i suppose that was before tax. and he'd have had the vaccine but for suffering from pneumonia so he couldn't have the jab

 

[Aladdin]

Well, time to turn off all news outlets for a fortnight or so. I can't afford to replace a vomit-drenched laptop right now.

Vomit drenched?

What do you mean?

His death sickens you? Or the fact that another older person dies from covid ?

 

[strung out]

Very sad, but glad he managed to squeeze in the trip of a lifetime to Barbados with his family over Christmas. And just in the nick of time too, what with falling ill from Covid 19 shortly after returning. Talk about luck.

 

[Ax^]

fair play to the old fella for what he accomplished

had a nice long life with a lovely last year of his life

and made his family even more proud of him

 

[butchersapron]

Vomit drenched?

What do you mean?

His death sickens you? Or the fact that another older person dies from covid ?

That someone else isn't perfect.

 

[JTG]

Very sad, but glad he managed to squeeze in the trip of a lifetime to Barbados with his family over Christmas. And just in the nick of time too, what with falling ill from Covid 19 shortly after returning. Talk about luck.

Hope he didn't pass it on to anybody while he was out there, that would have been unfortunate

 

[Ax^]

I still be yelling at the telly the moment the Useless Tory wankers try to use his achievement as an example to us all
of sticking to their message

 

[Treacle Toes]

Well, time to turn off all news outlets for a fortnight or so. I can't afford to replace a vomit-drenched laptop right now.

Yep, widespread gushing from Tory MPs & assorted conservative commentators who supported underfunding the NHS for over a decade and watched an old man lap his garden for nhs charity. They make me sick.

What he did was amazing, that he had to do it is the problem.

 

[cupid_stunt]

Vomit drenched?

What do you mean?

His death sickens you? Or the fact that another older person dies from covid ?

He means the media coverage will be endless over the next few days, which TBF it will be.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Vomit drenched?

What do you mean?

His death sickens you? Or the fact that another older person dies from covid ?

The inevitable outpouring of performative national grief will be what sickens me. Never quite enough grief to stop voting for the cunts who defunded the NHS in the first place though is it?

 

[bellaozzydog]

panem et circenses

 

[kazza007]

Hope he didn't pass it on to anybody while he was out there, that would have been unfortunate

That was a couple months ago so unlikely he had it then.

 

[Aladdin]

That someone else isn't perfect.

The inevitable outpouring of performative national grief will be what sickens me. Never quite enough grief to stop voting for the cunts who defunded the NHS in the first place though is it?

Fair point. This is a rest in peace thread though..


This man and every person dying from covid will get my tears.

 

[SpookyFrank]

This man and every person dying from covid will get my tears.

That seems unsustainable tbh.

 

[weltweit]

RIP

Sad to end like this, but he had a good innings.

Surely he should have had a jab though?

 

[Ax^]

I have a drinking game for anyone who does not have to do anything in the morning

spend the evening watching the news channels taking a drink every time someone mentioned the word Blitz spirit

we call you an ambulance in advance for the stomach pump

 

[SheilaNaGig]

Well, time to turn off all news outlets for a fortnight or so. I can't afford to replace a vomit-drenched laptop right now.

Why bother to post then? Just step away from the story.

When people like Captain Tom die and others feel broken up about it, it’s probably because of what he represents. Might make you sick but it’s full of meaning for others,

Unless there are skeletons in his closet we don’t know about, this was a simple good man, doing his best for the greater good. He went to war for probably the best motives, he literally went the extra mile to raise money for the NHS in it’s hour of greatest need.

I don’t personally care, and I’m far from broken up as Sugar Kane is. But I can feel respect for an elder who has died, and for those who feel moved by his death.

I’ll roll my eyes at the inevtiable outpouring of mawkish sentimentality that’s bound to follow in the next couple of weeks.

I reckon it’s also going to be a kind of holding place or focus point for a lot of the communal and collective grief that’s washing around and improperly expressed right now. So be it.

 

[Pickman's model]

This man and every person dying from covid will get my tears.

you'd be jigging in the street if nigel farage or boris johnson or arlene foster died from the covid. well, maybe not in the street but i think you'd dance down the stairs

 

[platinumsage]

He lucked out and became a meme, certainly had a more interesting final year than many people of that age.

 

[strung out]

RIP

Sad to end like this, but he had a good innings.

Surely he should have had a jab though?

He was in Barbados in mid/late December when they started hanging them out to his age group and then he got ill straight after returning and couldn't have it (or caught it as a result of his trip).

 

[butchersapron]

What has defunding the NHS is the first place go to do with it? He didn't die of NHS failure. His actions were to help NHS support groups which have always existed. You're making a story out of his actions as much as the tories are going to - and you make them actions about those tawdry things. I like him but...

Fucking hell, can't even recognise good motives anymore - so cynical and worn down. Can't recognise the people that work to make life better

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

Never quite enough grief to stop voting for the cunts who defunded the NHS in the first place though is it?

I can see your point. There will always be nasty little opportunists that will use anything and anyone to advance their nasty little agendas.

 

[Wilf]

Vomit drenched?

What do you mean?

His death sickens you? Or the fact that another older person dies from covid ?

RIP to him, decent bloke apparently, did a good/impressive thing when he was 99 years old. All fine. It's what the media and government will do with him that will be vomit drenched. Fuck me, there'll be Tory MPs or newspaper editors calling for Mayday to be replaced with Captain Tom Day. Hang on, is he still a Captain, must be at least a Field Marshall by now, they were desperate to up his ranks.

 

[SpookyFrank]

I have a drinking game for anyone who does not have to do anything in the morning

spend the evening watching the news channels taking a drink every time someone mentioned the word Blitz spirit

we call you an ambulance in advance for the stomach pump

'Greatest generation'

 

[Ax^]

jebus if we keep this up maybe we get a mention in the Guardian for being trolls

 

[kazza007]

RIP

Sad to end like this, but he had a good innings.

Surely he should have had a jab though?

No he was due to but was being treated for pneumonia, so I guess couldn't unti he'd recovered from that.