I see that Oxford University has banned clapping. The reason being it triggers anxiety in some descendants of the people who stopped Napoleon and Hitler. Apparently Oxfordian audiences are to do a sort of jazz hands thing to signal their applause. Personally I find the idea of thousands of jazz hands much more disturbing myself.
I thought we'd seen the last of up twinkles and other such foolishness. As Bugs Bunny might have said "what a bunch of maroons".
"Things should be made as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler." ~ Albert Einstein
The UK has been swirling the drain for a long time now.
I dare say Churchill would be appalled.
Well the headline certainly feeds a certain narrative of college campuses, but the actual story is a bit different. https://www.truthorfiction.com/unive...ing-ban-rumor/
So it wasn’t banned, but “replaced as a default”? The land of Orwell certainly retains it’s flair for creepy terminology.
If my wife ever tells me I’m replaced as her default, I think I will get the message.
My daughter says that at Cambridge they are now simply clapping louder to make up for it, and claims "Oxford is silly."
OK.. I definitely went the other way with the double-entendre headline. I think one clap should be banned, but not the other one.
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Maybe they could compromise and clap with one hand.
I read it that way too!Originally Posted by catherine
Interesting, watching the BBC coverage of some Parliament chamber "discussions", there doesn't seem to be a lot of sensitive safe-space stuff going on....
Perhaps the story is trolling us.
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