Clapping is clapped out - PC gone nuts!

[Feck]

Unless it's in a Broadway thing .... then it's just Gay .

[Brian Peacock]

Jazz is derived from 'jass', a turn of the (last) century New Orleans colloquialism for, urm, performing a horizontal rumba in the company of at least one other person. Jass/jazz music is, therfore, sex music. Jazz hands means sex hands.


Get a grip.

[Cunt]

I thought it was cultural appropriation...but then I guess everything is...

[JimC]

So, nobody is allowed to get a dose of the clap anymore...

[Joe]

[Hermit]

We don't have an 'another case of PC gone mad' thread (we should!), so this is here and its fucking nuts!

Faulty Two started one here a couple of years ago, and it's still going strong.

As for me, I'm getting quite pissed off by the "political correctness has gone nuts" crowd. "Morgan said it was a sign of Britain "losing its mind"" Is it really, Piers Morgan, or are you just going hysterical to the point of losing yours? Get a grip, man. It's a student union, not Britain.

"Vine posted a picture of soldiers in the trenches during WW1, suggesting they had managed to "ignore the difficulties caused by sudden noises 100 years ago". Well, Vine is just plain fucking wrong. Soldiers returned from the trenches with PTSD by the thousands, waking up from nightmares for years, undergoing severe personality changes, being driven to drink, depression and suicide. They were not the exceptions, dude, but you are too busy writing crap to ever study anything before you pronounce ignorant crap about it.

I am not saying applause is like participating in the battle of the Somme, but in the face of the predictable, continuous droning refrain by right wing "PC has gone mad " troglodytes who object to change because its advocates are those hated SJWs I am beginning to look forward to parliaments all over the world make clapping a jailable offence and not addressing those who request it by any one of the 108 requested pronouns a capital one. Come to think of it, all right wing nuts are snowflakes and should be confined in mental health institutions and beaten daily until they are cured.

Or just shove them off a cliff. Dover looks good.

[pErvinalia]

I suffer from autistic like sensory shit, and to be honest, a room full of jazz hands would be more triggering to me than a room full of people clapping.

[Brian Peacock]

I love legitimate theatre.

[pErvinalia]

Actually this jazz hands shit has been going on for a while. I remember the feminazis in the Occupy movement used to make us jazz hand in meetings when we agreed with something. Not exactly a clapping substitute, but was definite jazz hands for agreeing with a proposal.

[Cunt]

It functions in a way like the mason hand-signals, or the sign of the cross. Those who don't acknowledge it correctly, out themselves as 'out of group' and can be handled.

Or like drinking. If you can't manage yourself around a few drinks and overly-friendly women, you out yourself as 'out of group' and aren't invited out again.

[JimC]

Sorry, Hermit, but this really is a perfect case of PC gone mad, with not a shred of rationality to justify it. The real trouble with this sort of crap is that it contaminates other more reasonable progressive issues in people's minds, so they have a tendency to go the whole 42, and throw the baby out with the bathwater...

[Brian Peacock]

[pErvinalia]

Well if Brian is right and this is only advisory and only applied when someone identifies as being affected by clapping, then it's a pretty reasonable thing. The only question I have is how many autistic people are affected by clapping?

[Jason]

Jazz is derived from 'jass', a turn of the (last) century New Orleans colloquialism for, urm, performing a horizontal rumba in the company of at least one other person. Jass/jazz music is, therfore, sex music. Jazz hands means sex hands.


Get a grip.

Wanker.

[JimC]

Wankers certainly need to get a grip...