STOP CLAPPING!

Sorry -too early -

It was 1st October two days ago not 1st April .
The students at Manchester University are 6months to early or late with their April Fools Day joke.

Eager new student union reps are always desperate to make a name for themselves at the beginning of their term of office. It’s just a silly publicity gimmick that’s obviously worked as it’s got so many of you frothing.

My GS on the spectrum was really pleased when his class clapped after he put on a magic show for them.

I must live a sheltered life as I have no idea what jazz hands are. Anyway the idea of not clapping because of anxiety is ridiculous. Goes off to Google jazz hands....

Couldn't agree more. My husband was recently at a Exhibition of the clubs that are open to Students at Falmouth University (Freshers week) - and there was an quiet hour before it opened for shy people!!!

I do feel out of step with the modern world - I am encouraged not to clap as it may startle some sensitive souls, but the developers next door can crash and bang all day including chain saws and pile drivers with the LA’s blessing. I tell you it’s driving me mad and I’m not sensitive. I had thought that if this is the world younger people want its nought to do with me, but my children and grandchildren tell me they are unhappy with how society is going too.... so I refuse to “jazz hands” or put up with trendy pc things now- it doesn’t stop things getting worse - but I’m no longer complicit.

Anxiety must be a terrible thing, but PLEASE, clapping has been going on for ever, whats brought this latest idiotic thing on, and as for Jazz-Hands what is that about! imagine an audience in a theatre Jazz-Hand waving, utterly ridiculous.Maybe people with anxiety should refrane from going to places where there will be clapping, why should blind people be punished.

My GS is high on the ASD spectrum but high functioning. He, ĺike a lot of people, both on the spectrum and off, doesn't like sudden loud noises. He does however attend a lot of theatre performances, his sister is a semi professional dancer, and clapping has no affect.
I am of the opinion that those people, ?snowflakes?, use their own fears disguised as concerns for others! (That's the polite version!!!!).

Ps, I loathe balloons and absolutely hate them popping. I always shreak when it happens, even in church!

Will anyone who is reduced to tears at the sound of clapping have to produce a note from their Mum to beg for their wee Snowflake to be excused listening to clapping, fire alarms, car alarms, beep-beeps as supermarket staff scan items at checkouts and (the best of the lot) tantrum throwing kiddies screaming the roof off in shops?

The use of “jazz hands” - where students wave their hands in the air - is the British Sign Language expression for applause and is deemed a more inclusive gesture.

But not sure how it's going to work on "Sorry I haven't a Clue"

Remember the education policy which banned teaching tables in primary schools?
Pupils apparently absorb the knowledge 'by osmosis' if they use table squares!

I think there must be something in the water...I am starting to feel like a bleeding heart liberal lately which is something I never thought I'd be

The people were on BBC Breakfast this morning.

Maybe this is a step too far but I have a SIL with PTSD inherited from our excursions into Iraq. The saddest part of it, apart from him not being the person DD married, is that he is amongst a generation of our young people who have suffered this having been through Afghanistan, Iraq, etc. It is so easy to sit in front of our computers and be scornful but maybe these people should be considered. On top of that, the incidence of people diagnosed with ASD is becoming outrageously high and the anxiety is crippling. Yes, we do seem to have a snowflake generation but we have to look at how we got there. We also have a much more thoughtful generation about the impact of our actions and I don't think that is necessarily a bad thing.

As I understand it, it is not 'banned' but audiences may be asked to do 'jazz hands' instead of applauding.
I have been at events where this has been requested, and it is fun to do. I am someone who is quite remote from popular culture, but have known 'jazz hands' since being a child. It was popular back in the 30s & 40s I think. I occasionally do it as an expression of delight, as some of my family did. I'm not sure when it was formally adopted into sign language.
It's more than waving in the air - it's hands wide open, up in front of you, thumbs a short distance apart, open and close your hands (or at least that's how I do it!)
Of course it can be difficult to accommodate sensory differences, but I am glad that some people are trying. This seemed to me to be a request from some people, and maybe as others express their preferences, a consensus may be reached. It may be that this gets used only on certain occasions.
However, with respect to those who like and enjoy applause, I think it worth talking about.

This was featured on BBC breakfast this morning. Many people responded that by introducing this they would be excluding blind people. While I sympathise with people suffering from anxiety, they can get help from medication and therapies whereas blind people can’t.

..and as someone pointed out on the radio this morning, surely blind people are being discriminated against as they can't hear glad handing and are thefore being excluded.

Can I just add that taken to extremes how would actors feel if there was no applause at the end of their efforts? How would you react if giving a great speech were met with waving hands? How would our politicians know how we felt about their policies if clapping were to go? Would we have to vary our hand waving to express our feeelings of what we have just watched or listened to? Imagine having to tell little kids they musn’t CLAP their little hands when they are joyful! Honest to God, where are we going??

It's bonkers. Agree with what Chaos said.

Our planet is full of noise from all directions. Live with it. My sympathy lies with those who live in the vicinity of aircraft flight paths where take offs /landings are 24x7.

I was beginning to think the world was going mad, now I’m convinced it is. God help us is all I can say.

I wish I could believe that it's a wind-up!

There seems to be a sort of relentless competition in certain uber-snowflake-friendly circles to find ever more things for people to be offended by/upset about.

I wouldn't want to go back to the not-good old days, where everyone was expected to put up with everything, but things have moved into the realms of the ridiculous.

I'm surprised they didn't suggest one-hand clapping!

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