Virtue Signalling

Didn't a woman have a vibrator on her bookshelf whilst being interviewed on zoom?

There is very good and wallpaper that looks just like a wall full of books, so if you face time you can appear very well read🙂
Personally, if people want to spend their money on books, art, gardening etc I don’t mind and are entitled to spend it as they see fit. What I do think a bit irritating in life are those people that can eat everything and don’t a pound on. Also those with husbands they constantly moan about, sometimes over the most trivial things, I think you should be so lucky,

“the Scottish woman (a health adviser?) Who always had a small table with a vase of flowers behind her.”

Linda somebody. The colour of her flowers often echoed her blouse of jumper.

And why did that nice Chris chap have to sit in front of his radio thingy when he spent most of his time doing science and only a little doing radio?

And that minister Grant ? The transport chap - he definitely tried to hard, with his artfully arranged red box.

That’d when it all started.,..

If you are raising money for a 'cause' close to your heart, surely you want to advertise it as far and wide as you can, to raise as much money as possible, doesn't that make sense. So is having an Oxfam coffee morning, or selling cakes at the local fair for equipment for the local children, gathering clothes and medical equipment for people in Ukraine or Turkey, collecting books for children at a school in Africa, having a concert or other venue to raise money for a local or far-away club... all virtue signalling.

What about campaigning for a Party or groupyou think will make a real difference, be it for the NHS, or the environment, or the country, or the third world, or ... or ... or...

for hope, for a better future for our GCs, to preserve our countryside, or fight against animal cruelty, or a fairer deal for those who are born with all sorts of handicap, be they physical, or social, or ...

Virtue signaling. I for one am very glad that some people are prepared to get off their backside to fight for a better world. And to tell me about it so I can join them if I can. Because if they don't share- and try to get people together, then we can all be fighting our little fights in our little world - not sure that will achieve much.

Hmm

As someone who has been accused of "virtue signalling" on gransnet for lighting a blooming candle for people who lost lives on the special day for doing so....

It only annoys me when it's an appearance thing and not sincere.

By all means please share your links to charities you support because yay the more support the better!

Tell me about those special days, those marches you attend, those occasions to remember someone or something! I will join you and light that sometimes controversial candle!

Please don't just show me your immaculate bookcase of unread books or a picture of you handing 50p to homeless person for Internet likes as if ut is a great and wonderful occasion.

PS my bookcase does not contain a book that hasn't been read at least 3 times and is extremely tatty at this point. If it's not worth reading again it isn't worth keeping.

Maddyone, virtue signalling is enthusiastically clapping Benedict Cumberbatch for ranting during a production of Hamlet, while having no intention whatever of actually doing anything about the asylum seekers.

As someone who has been accused of "virtue signalling" on gransnet for lighting a blooming candle for people who lost lives on the special day for doing so ....

I got accused of virtue signalling years ago when I said I was knitting blankets for Syrian refugees - all I was trying to do was raise awareness in case other knitters wanted to do the same.

Once bitten twice shy.

That's sad Callistemon

Any situation where it leads to more support is worthy

At least with unread books the author can pay bills and write more for people who do enjoy them I suppose

Fleurpepper, I agree and I don’t think practical support for a cause, including spreading the word, is virtue signalling, but just paying lip-service (in the right places and in order to make a certain impression) is.

Callistemon21

^As someone who has been accused of "virtue signalling" on gransnet for lighting a blooming candle for people who lost lives on the special day for doing so^ ....

I got accused of virtue signalling years ago when I said I was knitting blankets for Syrian refugees - all I was trying to do was raise awareness in case other knitters wanted to do the same.

Once bitten twice shy.

That person obviously didn't understand the term virtue signalling, Callistemon! .

I don't think a lot of people understand it either.

Zoejory

It's not virtue signalling at all.

The example the OP gave is not virtual signalling
There is nothing virtuous in owning hundreds of books and not reading them.

I'm working my way through them, just started on the gardening section 🌷🌲🌾

Sarah75

Marydoll

MawtheMerrier

“Humble bragging”
Of the “we were so poor….” variety!

Mea culpa......... .

Well we were!

But did you have an outside toilet?

We did indeed, on the stair landing and shared with two other families. At least ten people sharing and of course a chamberpot under the bed for night time.

Only cold running water and a tin bath.

I was five years old, before we moved to a house with a bathroom, only because the Council were knocking down the tenement we lived in, to build high rise flats.
My father had been born in that house.

However, we did have a wash house in the backdoor!

Here is a photo of the back garden.
I am the baby.

We did indeed, on the stair landing and shared with two other families

But Marydoll, you must have been rich - your lavatory was under cover on the landing!
You didn't have to go out in the snow and ice to get to it.

My word, it were cold in them days too.

I got rid of most of mine - awful dust collectors, anyway. Still, I do read quite a lot online. A friend collects books but has awful dyslexia, so never reads them. To her, it's just interior decoration and something of interest to guests!

I don't understand what it is and maybe that's for the best

Calli it was freezing and SMELLY, with a door, which didn't fit!
An almighty draught whistled under it!

I suppose I should be grateful, I didn't need to go outside!

Callistemon21

^We did indeed, on the stair landing and shared with two other families^

But Marydoll, you must have been rich - your lavatory was under cover on the landing!
You didn't have to go out in the snow and ice to get to it.

My word, it were cold in them days too.

Yes, same here - our outside toilet was one of about 10 in a row outside in the yard, to service the row of terraced houses. By ‘eck it were chilly!!

"The one I liked was the Scottish woman (a health adviser?) Who always had a small table with a vase of flowers behind her. Sorty, can't remember her name.
Simple and classy."

Linda Bauld. She's a professor in Edinburgh and advises the Scottish Government.

Oh yes, that's her!

Marydoll

Calli it was freezing and SMELLY, with a door, which didn't fit!
An almighty draught whistled under it!

I suppose I should be grateful, I didn't need to go outside!

Ours had a gap under the door too. I suppose I should be grateful it was attached to the house, not way down the garden, although we had to go outside to access it.

With shiny Izal or Bronco non-absorbent toilet paper.

Marydoll

Here is a photo of the back garden.
I am the baby.

Ah, you were sweet little baby!