How dumb can [formerly] Great Britain go?

[Hawkmoon]

A university is hoping to set a new Guinness world record for politically correct idiocy:

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/clapping-banned-university-to-avoid-13344363

[RoadKingLarry]

 
 
 

Never ask a moron "how dumb can you be?"
They will almost always take that as a challenge.

[Regolith]

A university is hoping to set a new Guinness world record for politically correct idiocy:

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/clapping-banned-university-to-avoid-13344363

I think it's going to be hard to beat Harvard's entry:

http://reason.com/blog/2018/10/02/brett-kavanaugh-harvard-title-ix

[bedlamite]

[Fly320s]

Point of correction:  The student union banned clapping at student union events.  The university did not ban clapping.

[Hawkmoon]

Point of correction:  The student union banned clapping at student union events.  The university did not ban clapping.

Ah, so. I sit corrected.

It's still dumb.

[griz]

I would applaud their efforts but........

[Ron]

[Britt] Here, hold my pint and watch this [Britt]

[K Frame]

You REALLY think there's a bottom floor in that elevator shaft?

That's cute.

[makattak]

You REALLY think there's a bottom floor in that elevator shaft?

That's cute.

There most certainly is.

Stupidity of this level can only be sustained by an economy that allows people HUGE amounts of free time, where zero people are concerned about if they are going to eat this week, and where people face an amount of real adversity that asymptotically approaches zero and are so out of sorts with the normal human experience that they have to create "adversity" like the above.

So, once the stupidity starts making people starve to death (see: Venezuela), this insanity stops.

[griz]

^^^ I believe I agree.  We (modern society) may becoming better educated (may be) but we seem to be getting stupider, or at least more gullible.  We are now actually listening to people who believe that the government creates money out of thin air and it's just a question of how fast we can spend it.  If you have a goose that lays golden eggs you can criticize it, call it bad names, even question its motives and goals.  But once you kill it you're broke.

[lupinus]

Who the *expletive deleted*ck is it going to trigger? Steven Hawking? Or the "migrant" that was using the clapper a few weeks ago to set up IED triggers?

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[Pb]

Who the *expletive deleted*ck is it going to trigger? Steven Hawking? Or the "migrant" that was using the clapper a few weeks ago to set up IED triggers?

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I actually have a sensory disorder called hyperacusis and hate loud noises like clapping.

Check your ableism privilege people!   



(yes, I do have hyperacusis, but even I think this is dumb.  I wouldn't go to something that loud in the first place).

[RoadKingLarry]

There most certainly is.

Stupidity of this level can only be sustained by an economy that allows people HUGE amounts of free time, where zero people are concerned about if they are going to eat this week, and where people face an amount of real adversity that asymptotically approaches zero and are so out of sorts with the normal human experience that they have to create "adversity" like the above.

So, once the stupidity starts making people starve to death (see: Venezuela), this insanity stops.

Gross stupidity, left to its own devices is ultimately self correcting.

[K Frame]

There most certainly is.

Stupidity of this level can only be sustained by an economy that allows people HUGE amounts of free time, where zero people are concerned about if they are going to eat this week, and where people face an amount of real adversity that asymptotically approaches zero and are so out of sorts with the normal human experience that they have to create "adversity" like the above.

So, once the stupidity starts making people starve to death (see: Venezuela), this insanity stops.

Except in this vector of stupidity, it has absolutely ZERO economic impact... unless, of course, people earn their living by becoming professional event clappers.

It's social stupidity. And social stupidity is a down elevator that has no bottom floor.

[K Frame]

And these horrible people are totally ignoring those people who are triggered by rapid movements.

JAZZ HANDS? AAAAAAHHHHHH! TOO MUCH, TOO MUCH!

[Ben]

And these horrible people are totally ignoring those people who are triggered by rapid movements.

JAZZ HANDS? AAAAAAHHHHHH! TOO MUCH, TOO MUCH!

Jazz hands could cause Kurt Eichenwald to have a seizure!!!