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2019-10-25 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Oxford bans clapping for being an 'anxiety trigger'

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Posted by Fred 2019-10-25 00:00|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top

#1 Lends new meaning to "getting the clap".

Posted by Skidmark 2019-10-25 02:13|| 2019-10-25 02:13|| Front Page Top

#2 Jazz hands everyone!

Posted by Rex Mundi 2019-10-25 02:38|| 2019-10-25 02:38|| Front Page Top

#3 At Oxford, all people of sense
Are thought to be dangerous, hence,
We request they not clap,
Chant, set fires, or throw crap,
Lest some communist kook take offense.

Or a thalidomide kid raised in a cave... by abusive mutes! What about them? Have you no heart? Seriously, I sympathise intensely with the handful of older people in a given auditorium who might have hearing aid issues, but I don't believe for a second that this foolishness is about them.

Posted by Angogum Untervehr6245 2019-10-25 03:55|| 2019-10-25 03:55|| Front Page Top

#4 Sign Language "silent jazz hands" is actually the sign for "finish", "quit it", and "stop it" in ASL.

This jazz hand business is really pointless as deaf can see clapping just as well.

Justt more SJW crap, although I really cannot blame the deaf seeing what horrendous treatments they get from the general public.

Posted by Seeking Cure For Ignorance 2019-10-25 05:02|| 2019-10-25 05:02|| Front Page Top

#5 actually the sign for "finish", "quit it", and "stop it" in ASL.

Sure, but in Oxford they only know British sign language, the poor, monolingual gits. American Sign Language is based on the French version, because back in the day the inventor of BSL refused to share with that upstart American who wanted to know.

Posted by trailing wife 2019-10-25 08:55|| 2019-10-25 08:55|| Front Page Top

#6 I applaud their efforts.

Posted by Airandee 2019-10-25 12:13|| 2019-10-25 12:13|| Front Page Top

#7 I finally looked online and indeed, the BSL version is quite different from the ASL version.

Vive la France!

Posted by Seeking Cure For Ignorance 2019-10-25 18:31|| 2019-10-25 18:31|| Front Page Top

#8 Thanks TW for the history lesson. I found more in this link ASL

Posted by Seeking Cure For Ignorance 2019-10-25 18:44|| 2019-10-25 18:44|| Front Page Top

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