to hate people clapping loudly

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It makes me crazy, doesn't it hurt?

Stop flippping clapping.

I can hear your bones banging together.

Apparently the hearing impaired wave their hands instead - that seems a lot nicer :)

I see your "loud clapping", and I raise you "loud clapping when your plane lands". FACEPALM.

I think we should clap when a plane lands to thank our lucky stars we landed ok.
Ps I am a loud clapper!

Double-clapping is the worst. Any live audience show with music at the moment seems to lead to double-clapping. You're not at the panto, STOP IT.

I hate it especially at the theatre, or even worse at school plays- it wasn't that good

Que? what is 'double clapping'?

Does clapping make anyone else's hands itch?! I can only clap for a couple of mins before my palms get really itchy!!

Clapping doesn't annoy me too much, but extra-loud sneezing (a la FIL, who in most other ways I love dearly) makes me feel murderous. It is entirely possible to sneeze without frightening children and animals.

People did this at my wedding. Two men (colleagues) decided it would be grand to have a who could clap longest and loudest competition. Everytime the room broke out into applause, they were at it again. From the ceremony until they left the reception that evening.

Ooh yes - loud sneezing.

We had a major incident at work over a loud sneezer.

YY to clapping, I hate it. Makes my ears and my palms hurt!

Every time I'm in a room and people are clapping it makes me briefly wonder where/how the custom started.

My Zumba class claps the instructor between tracks. It is bizarre.

I think it originated with the Greeks and their love of theatre, damn them.

Double clapping = when instead of clapping on the beat, when there's music, you clap double time so it's all clap-clap-clap-clap. See any kind of money-raising event/Saturday early evening TV. Inevitably the audience gets out of time and it just becomes a cacophony. [grumpy old gimmer]

Any kind of clapping in time to the music in a public place. Stop it.

Clapping
Sniffing
Overly loud or screechy laughing
Coughing
Throat clearing
Trumpet nose blowing...

Allcapital offences in Psammyland.

I sneeze quite loudly and really can't help it... its got worse since being pregnant. Apologies to the world, I don't mean to annoy anyone (and really wish it would stop).

Hate clappers though (totally self determined), especially on planes as it doesn't help my phobia of flying (reminds me of potential death situation) and I don't get clapped for doing my job, why do pilots? Madness.

Trumpet nose blowing... - ha ha! For some reason the clapping on the golf really annoys me. I don't know why it sounds different, it just does.

YANBU
A dad at recent school show was loud clapping behind us. Several people commented on it afterwards. I don't know how he managed it - I know I could produced a noise like that if I tried - it actually made my ears hurt!

I've got less of a problem with loud clapping (although I also hate the double clapping on television programmes mentioned above).

Extra- loud sneezing makes me murderous too and there is definitely far more trumpety nose-blowing in public than there used to be. If you're in a crowded train carriage or at a restaurant you can guarantee someone will start doing this, often repeatedly.

Another bug-bear is thumpy typists! You'd think such people owned manual typewriters at home the way they pound the keyboard, which really only need the lightest touch.

I thought I couldn't help loud sneezing until I had a newborn and he had just fallen asleep after hours of crying...

I hold my sneezes in and think everyone should do the same

You will have to be more specific about where this clapping takes place.
I quite like the clapping when the plane lands, although I don't do it myself.
I also think it manners to clap at plays, in the theatre.
I am actually jealous of 2 friends who can whistle very loudly. They only do it when they have seen my kids in plays though!!!

One thing I don't get is people laughing at unfunny jokes. Some comediens are not funny why laugh?

I completely agree about clapping at the theatre. It's polite. And hearing impaired people do wave instead - I have seen this happen at the theatre.

As well as loud sneezing, I can't be doing with itsby-bitsy squeaky sneezing.

Yes yes yes to the loud clapping and the loud sneezing, but it's loud laughing I cannot bear, especially after everything they say even when it's not remotely funny, and I look like this

Clapping is fine.

There is, however, a special circle of hell for people who whistle in public. I absolutely can't stand whistling, and I have no idea why.