Virtue Signalling

Callistemon21

I don't speak up for pleasure or to show off, it's just that DH would pack everything in together.

Perhaps I should do two discrete shopping runs.

Just make sure that you are discreet about doing so; you wouldn’t want to be thought to be signalling virtuously about it

There often seems to be virtue signalling on GN regarding which and how many newspapers are read by posters, whether in print or online.

Admitting to reading the Daily Mail is an abomination to some.

specki4eyes

Virtue signalling, humble bragging...similar traits. Watch Escape to the Chateau..Mrs Strawbridge can't help herself. I grant she's talented, but why does she need to flag it up all the time?
BTW "virtual" signalling is a totally different thing. Put your specs on, like me

Mrs Strawbridge is a constant source of annoyance for me.
I don’t think that she is creative at all - I think that she nicks her ideas from elsewhere.
And her home wear collection is distinctly meh.

The VS that gets on my goat is when folk make a huge song and dance about not sending Christmas cards, but giving the money to charity instead.

As if us Christmas card senders are the most selfish, uncharitable rotters.

I used to want to scream ‘I regularly give to charity all year round!!’.
But of course, that would be VS 🤷‍♀️

I don't think she is super talented either, she just has a platform

GrannyGravy13

There often seems to be virtue signalling on GN regarding which and how many newspapers are read by posters, whether in print or online.

Admitting to reading the Daily Mail is an abomination to some.

Yes, I regularly boast on here about my consumption of The Daily Mail (print too )

Vice Signalling

GrannyGravy13

There often seems to be virtue signalling on GN regarding which and how many newspapers are read by posters, whether in print or online.

Admitting to reading the Daily Mail is an abomination to some.

Yeah, it makes me laugh, it’s a mixture of them being smug and childish.🤣

Oreo

GrannyGravy13

There often seems to be virtue signalling on GN regarding which and how many newspapers are read by posters, whether in print or online.

Admitting to reading the Daily Mail is an abomination to some.

Yeah, it makes me laugh, it’s a mixture of them being smug and childish.🤣

Hands up, that’s me then, I’m off to hang my head in shame.

I’ve struggled with this thread though, because on Gransnet almost everything you say could be interpreted as virtue signalling by people who hold different views. We are all fair game every time we post that we have - been shopping, enjoyed our garden, done an exercise class, been out for a meal, not been firm with our dog, child or husband, estranged somebody - or whatever else. Ultimately everybody judges other people, whether they admit to it or not.

For what it’s worth, when it comes to backdrops to online conversations, I’m always more suspicious of those who put up a desert island or forest as a backdrop rather than their actual bookcase in their house - because I suspect they live in a pit they are ashamed of showing to the person they are talking to. But in admitting that I am virtue signalling again by implying that my house is tidy. You can’t win.

I read the Daily Mail and i on weekdays, Mail on Sunday and Observer on Sundays.

Make of that what you will.

Monica similar to you I used to have the DM and The Guardian every day, but the latter got too expensive.
I now have The Times instead.
I keep meaning to cancel my subscription and go back to The Guardian as I do miss it. Especially on a Saturday

FannyCornforth I recommend the i

Thank you Monica
As an aside, I always enjoy what you have to say

'Admitting to reading the Daily Mail is an abomination to some.'

I wonder why? Could it be because of what is printed in it?

My husband has been picking up the i to read in The club lounge after golf, he thinks it's a pretty good as newspapers go. If I go to Waitrose, certainly not every day, I've got a free nominated
paper on my Waitrose App,which is The Times, but at £2.50 I'm not sure I'd buy it, too expensive! AND YES I read The Mail on line from time to time as I suspect many of its fiercest critics do, as they always seem to now what's going on in it

We have the Times and Mail delivered every day. Sorreee/not sorreeee!

I told my lovely milkman that apparently I was VS by admitting to having doorstep delivery in glass bottles.He looked a bit bemused !

My husband huffs and puffs when he gets up The Mail on Line, usually moaning about not knowing any of the people in the side bar of shame! Why he bothers I've no idea, he just likes to moan about how awful the Mail is as if somehow it's compulsory reading. My excuse is that I need to be aware of the changing face of Katie Price as she lives in our area and there is always the possibility she could come careering towards me in her 4×4, driving bans don't seem to count and whilst she might have her own personal air bags, now attached to her person, I don't have one in my humble Fiat 500

lyleLyle

I don’t know which one I find worse: Virtue signalling, or projection from insecure people who see virtue signalling where there is none. Both stem from insecurity I feel. Both deserve eye rolls.

Well said!

FannyCornforth

specki4eyes

Virtue signalling, humble bragging...similar traits. Watch Escape to the Chateau..Mrs Strawbridge can't help herself. I grant she's talented, but why does she need to flag it up all the time?
BTW "virtual" signalling is a totally different thing. Put your specs on, like me

Mrs Strawbridge is a constant source of annoyance for me.
I don’t think that she is creative at all - I think that she nicks her ideas from elsewhere.
And her home wear collection is distinctly meh.

The VS that gets on my goat is when folk make a huge song and dance about not sending Christmas cards, but giving the money to charity instead.

As if us Christmas card senders are the most selfish, uncharitable rotters.

I used to want to scream ‘I regularly give to charity all year round!!’.
But of course, that would be VS 🤷‍♀️

Angels parents had a restaurant in my road for many years, before that they were jewellers, we were friendly with them and their daughter.

Dick Strawbridge was AS’s first commanding officer, a thoroughly nice man.

(Is that boastful, informative or VS?)

It could be all three! 😂

Terribull your last post so amused me that it might have restored my desire to read posts on Gransnet!

GG definitely ‘informative’
(I did already knew though, following an earlier mini rant about Angel)

I enjoyed Terri’s post too

‘Boastful’ would be telling people that you have superior knitting skills.

‘Informative’ would be telling people that Knitters Anonymous is collecting knitted squares to make blankets for the homeless.

‘VS’ is saying that for the first time in two decades you can’t attend the annual litter-pick, or the lengthy AGM of the Tedium Committee, or stay on a GN thread where you are losing the argument because you have to deliver the 200 squares you were up until the small hours knitting out of repurposed yarn from your favourite jumper that you unraveled because the recipients’ need is greater than yours.

They are very different things.

Can you actually virtue signal on an anonymous site like this ? Truly ? Seems somewhat far fetched when you think about it …

@ FannyCornforth

Vice signalling?

Another good thread methinks.

nanna8

Can you actually virtue signal on an anonymous site like this ? Truly ? Seems somewhat far fetched when you think about it …

Yes. You can imply that other posters don't care about a group (literal or metaphorical) and then declare that you are about to show your virtue by doing something to help them.

Something like 'while you lot are complaining about the raise in taxes, I am off to work in the food bank to make sure that those who suffer from current tax policies can at least feed their children. Byeee!'