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Are people who clap when a plane land the most cheesey ***** of the moment?

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  • #32
    Cupcake_Crisis
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    Clapping in general really p!sses me off...


  • #33
    phasers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    Piste wrote: »
    People clap after lectures and we're coming into the 4th week of lectures. I still find it really really weird.
    You crazy med students are just crazy about learning ;)

    It was pretty funny towards the end, about 4 people would start to clap and then stopped almost immediately


  • #34
    Piste
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,440 ✭✭✭✭Piste


    Yeah the last lecture of each day is accompanied by cheers and a mexican wave.


  • #35
    bigeasyeah
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,290 ✭✭✭bigeasyeah


    crap poll


  • #36
    TCP/IP_King
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 167 ✭✭TCP/IP_King


    Only on Ryanair, and that's just because everyone is so relieved to arrive in one piece


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  • #37
    zonEEE
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    My name is URL wrote: »
    Once I tested the theory at a mass, I clapped after the sermon and people actually joined in. I fcuking pissed myself

    ah back in secondary school in mass with the bishop and kept the clapping up for a good 10 mins, teachers and everything were standing up shouting "stop clapping". Result was we were told to leave the church. Ha it work :)


  • #38
    The Big Red Button
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,390 ✭✭✭The Big Red Button


    spoofilyj wrote: »
    I only agree with clapping if there has been severe turbulence and its a particularly scary landing... Like the pilot ends up using the plane as a basketball down the runway,

    Otherwise no.

    If it's a rough landing I'd be even less likely to clap!

    Not that I would anyways ... it's so cringeworthy


  • #39
    Dartz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,458 ✭✭✭Dartz


    I am scared ****less of flying.

    Needless to say I am somewhat glad to be on terra-firma once again. If you don't like me clapping, I'll clap you one in the face...


  • #40
    phasers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    Dartz wrote: »
    If you don't like me clapping, I'll clap you one in the face...


    Classy.


  • #41
    Burkey0
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 106 ✭✭Burkey0


    Have also witnessed clapping at the end of lectures. I've actually recorded it on my phone. Disgusting.


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  • #42
    uriah
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 361 ✭✭uriah


    Burkey0 wrote: »
    Have also witnessed clapping at the end of lectures. I've actually recorded it on my phone. Disgusting.

    Do you look at/listen to it often to remind yourself of the disgust you felt?


  • #43
    Burkey0
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    Day and night uriah, day and night


  • #44
    HoPpiE
    Closed Accounts Posts: 492 ✭✭HoPpiE


    Hydroquinone wrote: »
    People who clap on ordinary flights and people who clap at weddings make me laugh. What will be the next clapfest?
    A round of applause when the Gard gives you a speeding ticket?
    A bit of "bravo" when the bus driver pulls in at your stop?
    Clappityclappityclap when the till woman at Tesco tells you how much you owe?

    No, only when you recieve the correct change.


  • #45
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 6,691 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Haha, I hate that too.
    My brother and I used to fly to France every few months when we were kids and we used to just completely take the piss out of the whole thing. If no one started clapping he would start and wouldn't stop until everyone in the plane used to join in.


  • #46
    T-K-O
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,309 ✭✭✭T-K-O


    I don't clap when the taxi driver drops me into town so why would I clap when the pilots lands the plane ?? It's ridiculous.


  • #47
    Gummy Panda
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    phasers wrote: »
    My first week of college, people kept clapping after the lectures.

    It took them about a week to realise they were acting like twats and slowly the clapping stopped.

    fúckwits!

    My first week of college was studying the timetable and seeing which lectures you could miss in favour of the pub or playing pool :pac:


  • #48
    Dartz
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    phasers wrote: »
    Classy.

    I'm a classy bastard when I want to be.


  • #49
    Earthhorse
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    My name is URL wrote: »
    Once I tested the theory at a mass, I clapped after the sermon and people actually joined in. I fcuking pissed myself

    Did they join in that too?


  • #50
    brummytom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,572 ✭✭✭✭brummytom


    Earthhorse wrote: »
    Did they join in that too?

    Most mass attendees are too old to have any control over their own bodily functions, to be honest.


  • #51
    VinnyTGM
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    It would deserve an applause if it was landed smoothly in bad weather condition's.


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  • #52
    Walsh
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    I always clap the NTL guy when he puts a new box in my house, or when the plumber fixes a leak. Clap, clap, clap.


  • #53
    Gordon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,522 ✭✭✭✭Gordon


    This is something that Greek people would always do in the past, it's becoming less popular these days though. I used to really like it when the whole plane would clap and I'd join in if it happened.


  • #54
    Local-womanizer
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    jaysusjones wrote: »
    Clapping on planes is fine, its just a little "Thanks for not killing me pilot" gesture that I'm sure they appreciate.

    But its in the pilots own interest to land the plane safely.

    A simple thank you on the way out the door will suffice I would think.


  • #55
    Mal-Adjusted
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    Do you clap and cheer when the bus arrives at the station?

    didn't think so.


  • #56
    brummytom
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    Mal-Adjusted wrote: »
    Do you clap and cheer when the bus arrives at the station?

    Yes


  • #57
    mukki
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    remember that planes are the most dangerous way to travel...

    you are high above the ground totally unsupported, anything else would fall into a heap of mangeled steel instantly

    in an emergency i.e. you clip wings with another plane... pressing the brakes to stop wont work

    at the altitude the plane travels at there is less air above you pushing down on you son you would not be able to breathe, to combat this they pump air into the plane this extra air is pushing the against insides of the plane trying to blow it apart

    when the plane lands on the road you are travelling way about the normal 100km speeds




    so if i was on a plane that landed safe i'd clap myself, else... i'd crap myself


  • #58
    fsxirishscenery
    Closed Accounts Posts: 62 ✭✭fsxirishscenery


    mukki wrote: »
    remember that planes are the most dangerous way to travel...

    you are high above the ground totally unsupported, anything else would fall into a heap of mangeled steel instantly

    in an emergency i.e. you clip wings with another plane... pressing the brakes to stop wont work

    at the altitude the plane travels at there is less air above you pushing down on you son you would not be able to breathe, to combat this they pump air into the plane this extra air is pushing the against insides of the plane trying to blow it apart

    when the plane lands on the road you are travelling way about the normal 100km speeds




    so if i was on a plane that landed safe i'd clap myself, else... i'd crap myself

    Yeah if something goes wrong in a plane you are in more trouble than a car, but still though roughly 30,000 people have been killed in car accidents in the USA in 2008. That's the equivalent of two Boeing 747's loaded with passengers crashing and killing everyone on board, each and every week of the year. You should be more concerned about the car trip to the airport than any of your flights.


  • #59
    musicmonky
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 214 ✭✭musicmonky


    deja vu.... this thread is elsewhere
    http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055597054


  • #60
    brianthebard
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    mukki wrote: »
    remember that planes are the most dangerous way to travel...

    you are high above the ground totally unsupported, anything else would fall into a heap of mangeled steel instantly

    in an emergency i.e. you clip wings with another plane... pressing the brakes to stop wont work

    WTF? Do you think this is a common occurrence?


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  • #61
    blogga
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    My name is URL wrote: »
    I never clap, usually it's some eejit that's never been on a plane before that starts it.. and then everyone just joins in like sheep

    Once I tested the theory at a mass, I clapped after the sermon and people actually joined in. I fcuking pissed myself

    Must gave been a river of piss then in the church. Seein as how ppl join in with some randomer.


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