Virtue Signalling

My DH reads at least a book a week probably more usually crime John Grisham type stuff just from charity shops . If he kept every book we wouldn't fit in the House! I think true avid readers can't actually keep their books !

People who do things that are a little too like my own foibles. Isn't that what generally irritates us the most?
Probably why this thread is making me feel a little snarky. When I'm in a bad temper it's easier for me to find fault with others.

JaneJudge

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

I’m with you, Jane …🤔

Sarah75

Callistemon21

Marydoll

Callistemon21

With shiny Izal or Bronco non-absorbent toilet paper.

Or newspapers!

Now that is Virtue signalling.🤣

😂😂😂

You couldn’t do that these days, with the price of newspapers

🤣

ExperiencedNotOld

Is not talking up your possession and use of books not a signalling of virtue?

Nope, it’s just showing off😄

Callistemon21

Marydoll

Callistemon21

With shiny Izal or Bronco non-absorbent toilet paper.

Or newspapers!

Now that is Virtue signalling.🤣

😂😂😂

You couldn’t do that these days, with the price of newspapers

Marydoll

Callistemon21

With shiny Izal or Bronco non-absorbent toilet paper.

Or newspapers!

Now that is Virtue signalling.🤣

😂😂😂

VioletSky: 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.

Same here. Mine is in a shocking state. I got rid of hundreds of books when I moved overseas and just kept the essentials. Which clearly aren't essential, despite teaching literature, because 95% of them haven't been looked at in over a year.

A cull is coming.

Callistemon21

With shiny Izal or Bronco non-absorbent toilet paper.

Or newspapers!

Now that is Virtue signalling.🤣

Marydoll

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

Ah, you were sweet little baby!

With shiny Izal or Bronco non-absorbent toilet paper.

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.

Oh yes, that's her!

"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.

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!!

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!

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

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!

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.