Captain Sir Tom Moore RiP
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Clair De Lune
Apocalypse cocktails
Sending love. You really are lovely you know and would be missed if you did
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danny la rouge
More like *fanny* la rouge!
Boris can fuck off.
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
Remember to wear your suit with Union flag slung over shoulder....
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
No, he won't hear it...but a very useful way to out neighbours who hate this country by noting down the unopened doors and passing on to the authorities.
platinumsage
HaveMyPassword123
Have funeral arrangements been announced yet? Full military honours with a flypast and special parade of NHS staff?
Kevbad the Bad
Amiable Bowel Syndrome
Please extend that minute's silence indefinitely, as a mark of respect, of course.
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
That'll be me, then
Wilf
Slouching towards Billingham
Any tories and newspaper editors want to throw themselves onto his funeral pyre?
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
Maybe it's some kind of Tinkerbell thing where we can bring him back to life if we clap hard enough.
danny la rouge
More like *fanny* la rouge!
Pretty much this, Nish.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
perhaps boris johnson might be persuaded to keep an eye out for bluebirds as he descends the white cliffs of dover
urbanspaceman
Well-Known Member
My WhatsApp group on my street is going the full North Korean clap-til-your-hands-bleed thing about Captain Tom. I refuse to be manipulated into performative grief by the Prime Minister's strategy team, but if I post what I really think, I will be shunned by my neighbours. So I have a favour to ask. I have no graphics skills, so is there anybody who could composite together a jpg ? I visualise this: on one side, Princess Diana running forward with her arms open; on the other Captain Tom pushing his walker; with background of clouds or golden spires, or anything else denoting heaven, eg pearly gates.
I would like to post such a pic, and leave it up to the neighbours to interpret it. Because I'm a coward.
I would like to post such a pic, and leave it up to the neighbours to interpret it. Because I'm a coward.
ska invita
back on the other side
dont do that just let this blow over is my adviceMy WhatsApp group on my street is going the full North Korean clap-til-your-hands-bleed thing about Captain Tom. I refuse to be manipulated into performative grief by the Prime Minister's strategy team, but if I post what I really think, I will be shunned by my neighbours. So I have a favour to ask. I have no graphics skills, so is there anybody who could composite together a jpg ? I visualise this: on one side, Princess Diana running forward with her arms open; on the other Captain Tom pushing his walker; with background of clouds or golden spires, or anything else denoting heaven, eg pearly gates.
I would like to post such a pic, and leave it up to the neighbours to interpret it. Because I'm a coward.
theres a lot of emotion out there, including peoples own very real grief in the mix
its been a hard year and lots of people are feeling quite raw
littlebabyjesus
one of Maxwell's demons
Yeah. When Diana died I placed myself in a complete two-week news blackout and did my best to ignore it. It largely worked, and I got a bunch of reading done. This will blow over more quickly than that.
Clair De Lune
Apocalypse cocktails
Though I'd be up for a shout of FUCK OFF BORIS YOU USELESS TORY TWATThat'll be me, then
It would be especially heartening if others joined in.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
for he's a jolly good fellowThough I'd be up for a shout of FUCK OFF BORIS YOU USELESS TORY TWAT
for he's a jolly good fellow
for he's a jolly good fellow
and johnson can fuck off
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
amended
cupid_stunt
Chief seagull hater & farmerbarleymow's nemesis.
My WhatsApp group on my street is going the full North Korean clap-til-your-hands-bleed thing about Captain Tom. I refuse to be manipulated into performative grief by the Prime Minister's strategy team, but if I post what I really think, I will be shunned by my neighbours. So I have a favour to ask. I have no graphics skills, so is there anybody who could composite together a jpg ? I visualise this: on one side, Princess Diana running forward with her arms open; on the other Captain Tom pushing his walker; with background of clouds or golden spires, or anything else denoting heaven, eg pearly gates.
I would like to post such a pic, and leave it up to the neighbours to interpret it. Because I'm a coward.
As @ska says, it's probably not best to wind people up when they are using this as a conduit for their own personal emotion and it clearly gives them something to anchor to in these rough times. Captain Tom was a good man used by the media and the gov to pursue their own ends (much like Lady D). But as I'll hopefully have a few years to mature before I get to meet them both at the pearly gates I don't see any harm in us imagining what it may have looked like.
urbanspaceman
Well-Known Member
Salem - thank you for making this image, which surpasses what I visualised. Now that I see it for real, I realise that it's much more mean-spirited that I conceptualised in my head. I'll put it on twitter, but posters above are right - perhaps it's a bit too harsh for the kind and genteel people on my street.
danny la rouge
More like *fanny* la rouge!
I think you’ll be surprised at the inability of some people to spot irony. If you got that transferred onto plates and advertised them for £40 a pop in the Daily Mail you’d rake it in.
WouldBe
Dislicksick
bellaozzydog
rolling turds in glitter
If he had a heated gilet, kept his kidneys warm he’d not have ended up in such a state