Just watched ITV news and Paul Davies - a senior reporter - is practically crying as he talks about Sir Tom. Yes, we are saddened by a death but this is cringeworthy beyond belief.
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I can’t believe the flags are half mast at no.10 .
I’m flabbergasted to learn on here that the house Captain Tom was walking in the garden in was actually his home....I always thought it was a care home with wonderful gardens for the residents etc!!
It’s sad he has passed away, especially in the manner he did (struggling to breathe on a hospital ward) instead of at home peacefully. I don’t agree with him and his family travelling to Barbados for many reasons and it’s a shame it will slightly tarnish his legacy.
It’s sad he has passed away, especially in the manner he did (struggling to breathe on a hospital ward) instead of at home peacefully. I don’t agree with him and his family travelling to Barbados for many reasons and it’s a shame it will slightly tarnish his legacy.
Just seen one comment on the hospital Facebook page saying about its nice the hospital is allowing covid patients to have relatives at their bedside now.... wonder how long it will be until they're called a troll or otherwise. Or people defending the hospitals decision to put this family above every other. Hospital said they're issuing no further statements. No I bet you ain't but poor PALS will have a few hundred complaints to deal with I'm sure
So relieved for this thread.
I liked Captain Tom and am very sad he passed but from almost the start I've had very bad vibes from the family, especially Hannah with her marketing platform, and I will never be able to understand or accept that they took a 100 year old man to Barbados during a pandemic. Just because you can doesn't mean you should is something I often find myself thinking these days.
Also, this may sound terrible of me but when it was announced he died I thought I bet this will be used as an excuse for another public clapping spectacle and I was right. #ClapForTom is trending on Twitter. Well, you know what? Just duck off because I am bleeping sick of being expected to clap like I'm a bleeping performing seal. I am so so sick of the clapping.
It's really sad a good person has had his last days and death smeared by the greed of his family and a desire to politicise absolutely bleeping everything.
In case you can't tell from all the swearing I am just so pissed off at this point. duck off with your #ClapFor hashtag.
(God, I needed to get all that off my chest. Nice to be back on Tattle after a break)
I liked Captain Tom and am very sad he passed but from almost the start I've had very bad vibes from the family, especially Hannah with her marketing platform, and I will never be able to understand or accept that they took a 100 year old man to Barbados during a pandemic. Just because you can doesn't mean you should is something I often find myself thinking these days.
Also, this may sound terrible of me but when it was announced he died I thought I bet this will be used as an excuse for another public clapping spectacle and I was right. #ClapForTom is trending on Twitter. Well, you know what? Just duck off because I am bleeping sick of being expected to clap like I'm a bleeping performing seal. I am so so sick of the clapping.
It's really sad a good person has had his last days and death smeared by the greed of his family and a desire to politicise absolutely bleeping everything.
In case you can't tell from all the swearing I am just so pissed off at this point. duck off with your #ClapFor hashtag.
(God, I needed to get all that off my chest. Nice to be back on Tattle after a break)
Oh god, the end of the ITV news just now. 
I’m baffled that people are shocked that he died. He was 100 how long did people expect him to live? Another 20 years?
I don't find it any more sad than all the other folks who died from Covid. Such an odd response from people, honestly.
They should be kept like that to show respect to the other 100,000 people who died.
I saw the photo of him on the plane with his custom seat cover. Aw, he looks very nice in his suit and a little smile. I think it is a very nice photo. But I just can't fathom that BA and his family thought it was a good idea for him to travel, 1. cause he was so old and 2. in case they brought the virus there as it can take a few days to show on a test. I wonder if he got Covid travelling back? I guess we will never know.
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He was a good man. My respects.
Would rather get the clap.
Social media is nauseating right now. People changing their profile pictures left right and centre, people demanding his funeral be televised, I mean ffs. Most people had forgotten about his existence until it was reported that he was in hospital.
She’s been absolutely lambasted on Twitter but she’s spot on, the truth hurts! One reply basically said the other 100,000 people didn’t matter because they didn’t each raise £30m for the NHS. What have we become?!?
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We are a nation of grief junkies.
I fell back into social media and usually sane people are sharing tales of their sobbing and disbelief that a 100 yr old, who travelled halfway round the world in the middle of a pandemic has passed away from said pandemic.
I fell back into social media and usually sane people are sharing tales of their sobbing and disbelief that a 100 yr old, who travelled halfway round the world in the middle of a pandemic has passed away from said pandemic.
He really doesn’t look well on that photo compared to those taken earlier last year. He looks so tired and frail. He doesn’t even look well enough for a trip out to a U.K. local beach, let alone one in the Caribbean. What were his family thinking?? Look at his little face. He must have found the whole journey and holiday so gruelling and tiring.
He did a wonderful thing with his 100 laps and he will be remembered very fondly for that. However, I feel he has been pushed too far at his grand old age. All those TV interviews, photo shoots, journeys away from home, dealing with strangers, magazines, newspapers, daily intrusion. That would be too much for people half his age. He should have been resting in his 100th year, not being here there and everywhere. He must’ve have been exhausted and he looks it in that photo on the plane.
I find it incredibly sad that the very thing he was trying to raise awareness of and prevent has led to his own demise, either indirectly or directly. RIP Sir Tom.
He served in Burma in 1944 against the Japanese. That was pretty much front line.
Captain Tom tested negative for Covid after Barbados holiday, family reveal
CAPTAIN Sir Tom Moore tested negative for coronavirus after returning from his holiday in Barbados, his family have revealed. Vile trolls previously took to social media to slam the war veteran and…
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Well if his family say it without showing a shread of proof they must be believed because obviously they would admit it if true and put up with the backlash....
He did a wonderful thing but so have others during the pandemic. I am finding the public hysteria very unsettling. What am I missing that it's disturbing to me rather than feeling moved by it?
I was the same when Diana and Jade Goody died. I found it sad but I can't begin to wrap my head around the public and authorities reaction at all. Something feels "off" about it all.
I bet she won’t get a Damehood though.Just saw he's the proud owner of a Blankety Blank cheque book and pen
I’ll take that as a no then
Jaysus they’re all at it now
I’m sure I’ve read an article about the psychology of public mourning after a public figure dies, that better articulates why some people go all in but others are left cold by it, and it’s definitely not that we are emotionally dead inside... will see if I can hunt it out
He was a Colonel.
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