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Oh, snap: Campus kids drop 'triggering' applause to show approval
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| 17 November 15
| Maxim Lott
Posted on 11/18/2015 4:12:47 AM PST by aomagrat
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To: PoloSec
This goes way back to the Beatnick days...< My first thought, too. "There is nothing new under the sun" Ecclesiastes 1:9
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posted on
11/18/2015 4:32:23 AM PST
by
tbpiper
To: aomagrat
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posted on
11/18/2015 4:34:34 AM PST
by
Buckeye Battle Cry
(Hillary - Ethically sleazy and politically stupid)
To: skr; aomagrat; PoloSec
Finger-snapping is what spaced-out, self-important, unemployed/unemployable beatniks used to do in coffee houses at poetry readings.This goes way back to the Beatnick days, they were replaced in the sixties by Hippies
And the emo-hipster Starbucks-swilling free-dope SJW crowd has appropriated it for their use.
Meet the new slackers, same as the old slackers...
To: aomagrat
...clapping can be "triggering," or even painful to hands unaccustomed to work. And that right there is the problem.
"Arbeit macht frei" - these fools do not understand work, and as such, freedom.
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posted on
11/18/2015 4:36:55 AM PST
by
BBB333
(Q: Which is grammatically correct? Joe Biden IS or Joe Biden ARE an idiot?)
To: aomagrat
“painful to hands unaccustomed to work.”
Are they proud of that or something?
To: NathanR
“snigger”
microaggression
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posted on
11/18/2015 4:43:52 AM PST
by
ichabod1
(Spriiingtime for islam, and tyranny. Winter for US and frieeends. . .)
To: Mr. K
Looks like they’ve reverted back to the ‘beatnick’ way. :/
To: smalltownslick
That’s bull... the peremptory double clap for service was used by the nawabs and maharajahs for millennia to summon the slaves. God knows their hands had no experience with work.
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posted on
11/18/2015 4:46:10 AM PST
by
ichabod1
(Spriiingtime for islam, and tyranny. Winter for US and frieeends. . .)
To: smalltownslick
Maynard Krebbs comes to mind.
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posted on
11/18/2015 4:49:02 AM PST
by
Jumpmaster
(AlGore has a large carbohydrate footprint!)
To: aomagrat; Anoreth
This is absolutely hysterical. (Ping since you’re considering college.)
On the other hand, we attended a family conference years ago at which people were asked to wave, rather than clap, to show approval of a speaker. This was because nearly every family had a baby with them, and clapping disturbs babies who are sleeping or nursing.
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posted on
11/18/2015 4:50:44 AM PST
by
Tax-chick
("Do not grumble, brethren, against one another, that you may not be judged." James 5:9)
To: aomagrat
Unintentional hilarity. Snapping fingers was used as Beatnik applause, usually after listening to one of their number recite doggerel (bad poetry).
William McGonagall would have been held up by them as a poetic genius.
“...Oh! Ill-fated bridge of the silv’ry Tay,
I now must conclude my lay
By telling the world fearlessly without the least dismay,
That your central girders would not have given way,
At least many sensible men do say,
Had they been supported on each side with buttresses
At least many sensible men confesses,
For the stronger we our houses do build,
The less chance we have of being killed.”
(snapping fingers)
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posted on
11/18/2015 4:53:16 AM PST
by
yefragetuwrabrumuy
("Don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative." -Obama, 09-24-11)
To: aomagrat
Back to the fifties. I thought these kids hated the fifties.
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posted on
11/18/2015 4:57:15 AM PST
by
ProtectOurFreedom
(For those who understand, no explanation is needed. For those who do not, no explanation is possible)
To: aomagrat
Shades if fifties white beatniks.
STOP appropriating my culture!
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posted on
11/18/2015 4:58:36 AM PST
by
OpusatFR
To: ichabod1
“Snigger”??? You aggressor me, daddy-o.
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posted on
11/18/2015 4:58:50 AM PST
by
ProtectOurFreedom
(For those who understand, no explanation is needed. For those who do not, no explanation is possible)
To: aomagrat
EXCLUSIVE: Clapping May Be To Blame For Climate Change!
Studies show that clapping is destroying delicate snowflakes around the world!
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posted on
11/18/2015 5:01:31 AM PST
by
El.Cid803
(When seconds count, police are minutes away.)
To: skr
“You canât get much less irrelevant than that.”
Yes you can, it’s easy.
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11/18/2015 5:02:51 AM PST
by
RipSawyer
(Racism is racism, regardless of the race of the racist.)
To: aomagrat
When I attended Bowdoin in the 60's, snapping fingers was the accepted form of applause in the classroom. Just a tradition then, no social significance.
To: aomagrat
To: aomagrat
...or even painful to hands unaccustomed to work. Priceless.
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posted on
11/18/2015 5:05:04 AM PST
by
Gaffer
To: aomagrat
or even painful to hands unaccustomed to work. and there it is...
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posted on
11/18/2015 5:06:48 AM PST
by
Chode
(Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -w- NO Pity for the LAZY - Luke, 22:36)
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