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LDAHL
10-25-19, 1:35pm
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.
Alan
10-25-19, 1:47pm
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".
Tradd
10-25-19, 2:02pm
The UK has been swirling the drain for a long time now.

I dare say Churchill would be appalled.
herbgeek
10-25-19, 2:34pm
Well the headline certainly feeds a certain narrative of college campuses, but the actual story is a bit different. https://www.truthorfiction.com/university-of-oxford-clapping-ban-rumor/
LDAHL
10-25-19, 2:42pm
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.
bae
10-25-19, 2:43pm
My daughter says that at Cambridge they are now simply clapping louder to make up for it, and claims "Oxford is silly."
catherine
10-25-19, 4:33pm
OK.. I definitely went the other way with the double-entendre headline. I think one clap should be banned, but not the other one.
LDAHL
10-25-19, 4:52pm
Maybe they could compromise and clap with one hand.
Yppej
10-25-19, 5:06pm
OK.. I definitely went the other way with the double-entendre headline. I think one clap should be banned, but not the other one.

I read it that way too!
bae
10-25-19, 5:09pm
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.
LDAHL
10-25-19, 5:11pm
Oh. I see what you mean. I was originally going to say Clap Control, but that would have been no better.
KayLR
10-28-19, 1:42pm
I felt like Emily Litella for a minute....my former public health brain went straight to "the clap." Why wouldn't we want to ban the clap? Oh....never mind.
CathyA
10-28-19, 4:36pm
I felt like Emily Litella for a minute....my former public health brain went straight to "the clap." Why wouldn't we want to ban the clap? Oh....never mind.

I initially thought the same thing.

:laff:
bae
11-1-19, 12:56pm
I initially thought the same thing.

:laff:

Ditto :-)
Tradd
11-1-19, 1:21pm
Glad I’m not the only one. :)