To get the rage with clapping?

[TinfoilHattie]

Not applause. That's fine and a great way of showing appreciation.

It's the "clap along with the music" which makes me cringe. It's like being back at pre-school. Gives me the rage when the kids do it and they now know better than to clap along to the car radio. Gives me the rage even more when some crappy performer tries to encourage audience participation by getting people to clap.

Just NO.

That's brilliant, Hetero!

'some burnt-out performer encouraging an audience to clap along, usually out of time, with their shitty song is the stuff of toe-curling-cringe-inducing-nightmares'

Totally agree. OK when kids do it, absolute Cringe City if it's adults

The absolute worst is people clapping at the end of a film at the bloody cinema!!
Ffs stop it bad Pitt ain't going to hear you clapping in barnsley love!!

I hate it too...as does Russell Crowe apparently. Did you see what he said on an Irish chat show last year?

*The actor finally got started into his song but just a few lines in he stopped and shouted at the clapping audience for not clapping in time.

“If you’re going to clap, clap in time,” he scolded.

“If you can’t clap in time just shut up,” he said before starting once again.*

You need to relax OP.

To help you calm your mind, focus on the following classic meditation:-

What's the sound of one hand clapping?

Christy Moore tells the audience to shut the fuck up if they clap along or so much as make a peep during his sets. It's quite scary.

Never go to an Eisteddfod op, you will be embarrassed into a coma .

I do agree though, I don't really like clapping along to nursery songs with my toddler. It's just a bit silly as an adult.

I hate clapping along to any sort of public performance. If it's singing or playing music, I want to be able to hear the music, not the clapping. If it's something like dancing, I'm always worrying whether it will put the dancers off, given that they will have practised to the uninterrupted music - especially if the clapping isn't in time, which happens only too often.

I hate it. I hate when they make you start clapping and then like when should you stop? Should you really clap for like four solid minutes?

Fuck that, I just don't clap any more.

I'll raise a terse smile if I absolutely have to.

Another one that puzzles me - in Pointless (and, for all I know, other quiz shows), when the contestant gets something right they always clap themselves. Why? Do they get told to do that?

I don;t mind clapping along to music as long as it is in time and requested by the performer (i mean I don;t want people clapping along to some poignant love song - you've got to pick the right context)
I find it amusing when people start enthusiastically clapping along and then the rhythm changes or gets a bit tricky and it all goes to pot and them trickles away

i hate clapping the 'appearance' of someone Like if you go to a play or something and there's someone famous in it and the audience clap when they come on stage. Totally destroys the atmosphere - especially if it's Hamlet or something serious and the actors are emoting like crazy and the audience whoop whoops when the ghost appears because he;s played by someone from East Enders.

Ditto American sit coms - wild audience whoops when the most obscure person appears for a cameo. Calm the fuck down.

At school we had local dignitaries come to give speeches on prize giving day and applause was expected after every pause in the speeches which lasted ages and were very dull.
We always tried to be the last clapper - waiting and waiting until just the right time after everyone had finished to do a lone clap. Then someone would try to outdo you by slipping in another lone clap just after yours. And no one could tell you off because you were just clapping

Floor managers for some TV shows order the audience to clap at specified points in the recording. If you don't do it, they'll move you. Not everyone is a willing and inane clapper.

You don't let your children clap along to music?

Clapping is a way of engaging with and participating in the music. Just like toe tapping or dancing. It's an instinctive response.

You are sucking the joy out of life.

My children are allowed to clap along to music. Just not in a confined space like a car. With me driving.

You don't let your children clap along to music?

Perfectly acceptable for the under 10s, not for anybody much older than that. Like wearing Crocs.

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Me too! I'm so glad to see I have some kindred spirits on here. My DH thinks it's really odd when I stiffen up and cringe amongst an audience of clappers and foot tappers. I'd go so far as to say that i can't even watch it happening on tv. I fear that I have passed this on to my eldest DD. The youngest is a participator like her Dad.
Magicstar-I'm with Russell Crowell on this. I've the rhythm of a plank.

ScarlettFreestone, sucking the joy out of life, really? Clapping along to music in class to learn rhythm and such, fair enough. Stopping them clapping along in a car and irritating the driver (you know, the one concentrating), is not 'destroying their joy' for goodness sake.

It's not irrational hattie

I hate any form of enforced jolity. I put clapping in time to music right up there with drinking games (I'm perfectly capable of enjoying a glass of wine and making conversation without some numpty inflicting a game of fuzzy duck on me) I'll be the judge of whether I'm enjoying myself and how I express it thank you very much.

The people who think this is ok are the same sort of people who line the mall to wave flags on royal occasions and claim a passing cloud is princess Diana. They're essentially harmless, kind, well meaning people but they make other people want to die of embarrassment.

thank heck i'm not the only one who hates clapping to music i feel really awkward when people around me do as i just can't bring myself to join in it's too cringy,

Clapping is rediculous.

Michael gove clapping is fucking absurd

m.imgur.com/gallery/5GIyWp4

I don't mind clapping for applause but I'd feel a right twat clapping otherwise. I will always be the one in the audience who doesn't join in.

OP - I am with you, totally hideous but probably hate it more as I never seem to clap at the right place - I am the irritating seal!

Edmund to be honest any adult who can't ordinarily concentrate well enough to drive when there is music and clapping in the car should consider whether they should be driving at all.

And yes "sucking the joy". I think it's lovely going on a journey with my family and we are all singing along, clapping or "chair dancing" to the same music.

It's a happy, shared, family experience - it's bonding, like dancing in the kitchen.

nugget

You just described me. Enforced jollity, drinking games and flag waving give me the creeps.

Why can't you just enjoy yourself without making a big show of it?

My husband is Korean, we live in Korea and there is all manner of enforced jollity here. His mother makes us go to her church and it's all like 'AMEN' and dramatic YESsing when the minister says anything. The minister is struck to tears every service because he loves JESUS so much. Then someone gets up to sing and of course there is CLAPPING.

How I miss dry Church of Scotland services where the minister is basically apologetic about even mentioning we might be there for religious purposes.