Virtue Signalling

Iam64

Reading the Daily Mail is one thing. Agreeing with its awful right wing belief systems another thing altogether

Agreed, and neither has anything to do with virtue signalling

Reading the Daily Mail is one thing. Agreeing with its awful right wing belief systems another thing altogether

The Christmas card thing annoys me as well Grannygravy as if sending cards precludes charitable donations.

One of the joys of reading the Daily Mail is seeing how aeriated other people get when you tell them. Including on GN!

There have been some horrible threads on our local facebook about the cars people turn up in when using the food bank and then people justifying what car they have turned up (it was my neighbours etc)
People are mean

Admitting to reading the Daily Mail is an abomination to some.
But finding out what’s in the Daily Mail by reading comments on is permissible?🤣🤣

Yes, sadly, I have to see your point Doodledog. I wasn’t allowing for personality disorders 🫣

Beautifully put Doodledog

I hope you arent driving to the food bank doodle. I always walk the 14 miles for my shift on the food bank, I cant justify damaging our wonderful planet even whilst doing good.

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!'

@ FannyCornforth

Vice signalling?

Another good thread methinks.

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

‘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.

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

I enjoyed Terri’s post too

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

It could be all three! 😂

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?)

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!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

FannyCornforth I recommend the i