People In The Bubble Of A Student Union Come Out With More Nonsense Shocker.

[Deskdiary]

Would clapping really induce anxiety? Really?.

https://metro.co.uk/2018/10/02/union-bans-clapping-to-avoid-anxiety-as-students-are-told-use-jazz-hands-instead-7996892/

I Note Sara Khan quoted in the link is the same Sara Khan who said "We, as an exec team, believe that Kipling stands for the opposite of liberation, empowerment, and human rights..."

How much rubbish can one person spout?

[retrocop]

Well the RSPCA will have to look into the London Zoo tea party. That is going to have to stop.

[andy-hughes]

I would suggest that stopping clapping per se is a foolish idea thought once again by people with too much time on their hands.

However, I would be entirely in favour of killing off the dreadful whooping that accompanies any performance, as well as ditching applause from audiences who really don't know whether what they are clapping (and whooping!) over actually merits that reaction - that would be high notes in singing, and apparently fancy moves in dancing.

[ludwig]

Student unions are ok because they give us something to laugh at in an often depressing world.
Where they become annoying is when they grow up and move into positions where they can actually influence ordinary people's lives.

[retrocop]

Mind springs to Dianne Abbot. Newnham College. Low 2nd in History.
Surprised she managed to find the place.

[jim360]

One of these days, perhaps, all of you lot will be able to emerge from your own bubble :P

[ludwig]

Tell you what jim, you go first.

[retrocop]

Do you get anxious at the sound of applause Jim,ever listened to the proms?

[jim360]

I don't view myself as a part of the Student Union bubble -- never have done, avoided it like the plague.

But there's a certain hypocrisy in this sort of thread, all the same.

[woofgang]

retro are you serious? the Chimp's teaparties ended years ago.

[retrocop]

Oh Dear.

[Deskdiary]

AH - "However, I would be entirely in favour of killing off the dreadful whooping that accompanies any performance, as well as ditching applause from audiences who really don't know whether what they are clapping (and whooping!) over actually merits that reaction..."

Completely agree.

I can remember in the dim and distant past when Comic Relief very occasionally had some mildly funny moments from the presenters in front of the live audience, and the crazed whooping and cheering that followed was off the scale compared to what had just been said. I wasn't experiencing anxiety because of it - it just got on my tits so switched-off and have never seen it since (from what I understand it is no longer even mildly amusing).

[The_Rim_Greaper]

@ AH

"- that would be high notes in singing"

and that some up the knowledge re music in general of the saps that are in the audience ....liking something is subjective, fine i have no problem wuth that, but going crazy because a singer sings and or holds a high note ??? ...what is that all about..

they obviously think that singing a high note is a tourno winner in the making...uselsss saps every last one of them, but hey ho thats what Saturday evening light "entertainment" is all about and the sort of people its for...

[Haggisdj]

Unless this is adopted by the whole of society are these students not going to get a rude awakening when they leave uni and venture out into the big wide world?

[aelmpvw]

acclaiming the finale of a prom concert with a show of jazz hands just wouldn't work for me

[naomi24]

I’m surprised no one is offended by the term ‘Jazz hands’. That man in Mamyalynne’s link looks like he’s about to launch into a rendering of ‘Mammy’. How very un-PC! Al Jolson would probably be pleased though.

[hereIam]

I wasn't going to look at the link until I read naomi's post above and then decided I would and yes, it made me laugh ! Unlike, it seems, most folk on here, I love all the clapping and 'whooping' in shows, it just adds to the atmosphere for me. Like when I went to the theatre the other week, everybody clapped, cheered and 'whooped' encouraged by the cast and we all had a bloody good time !

[naomi24]

Must be rotten for the performers to shuffle off stage without an audible ovation. Like escaping an awkward silence.

[ludwig]

It must be difficult for the audience to get an encore as well. They're frantically jazz-handing away and making the sign for 'More!' , meanwhile the performer is on his way back to the hotel.

[hereIam]

^ LOL.

[Theland]

Can I attend if I have the Clap?