Sometimes, I just want to give up!

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Chip Harrison wrote:Sometimes, I just want to give up!

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Give up what?

and you have these clowns £9500 a year to receive their wisdom.

Spijed wrote:Give up what?

Clapping. You not read the article?

Nonces

sad thing is in a few years these are the sort of idiots who infect society with all their ridiculous policies and ideas

So, in the interest of making things better for the disabled, they are introducing a policy whose main effect is to exclude blind people? Clever lot, these students.

Why don't they ban driving, walking, talking,singing, dancing and swimming as they are not accessible to all. Absolute berks.

"The union say the loud noise created by clapping, including whooping and traditional applause, can pose an issue for students with disabilities such as anxiety or sensory issues."

Fair enough I say, I CAN'T stand all this whooping, when or how did this start? I have never whooped.

"If you still hate ******* rovers do jazz hands...."

I like it.

the MEN using a clickbait headline for a perfectly reasonable story? well i never...

Are people without hands allowed to whoop and cheer? How does their right to cheer clash with the right of frightened people not to hear any cheering?

They could perhaps introduce a multi-sensory touchscreen on which students could register their feelings, silently and invisibly, so students with various disabilities could watch or listen to (via earphones, of course) their screen which would record expressions of approval without anyone actually moving or making a noise.

The students might be better concentrating on studying and making themselves suitable for work when they have finished their courses. This is another idiotic ban.

No doubt it will be suggested for football matches soon. No clapping allowed. Then no cheering as it will upset someone for sure.

Hhahhahahahaha!

This is comedy gold from all the usual suspects.

You've all got to be parody accounts surely?

Lancasterclaret wrote:Hhahhahahahaha!

This is comedy gold from all the usual suspects.

You've all got to be parody accounts surely?

You don't see the irony of the original decision?

Mate, I haven't read it. Why should I? its just students being students.

I'm just loving the reactions to the headline.

To be fair, its stayingups that pushed me over the edge! (I'm still chucking about it now)

dsr wrote:Are people without hands allowed to whoop and cheer? How does their right to cheer clash with the right of frightened people not to hear any cheering?

They could perhaps introduce a multi-sensory touchscreen on which students could register their feelings, silently and invisibly, so students with various disabilities could watch or listen to (via earphones, of course) their screen which would record expressions of approval without anyone actually moving or making a noise.

its essentially about accessibility for deaf students so i'm not sure earphones would work.

given the events it mainly applies to are debates, panels and talks, there's unlikely to be anything too raucous occurring anyway.

a outright ban on clapping at a university would be absurd but adopting a more inclusive and accessible approach for certain events really isn't.

Students union being a bit "out there" shocker

There is no place for rational discussions on things like this quoon.

This is a thread to see who can go most over the top so people starting thinking "Nah, that one is taking the **** surely?"

apologies, forgot where i was for a moment.

I'm with Lancaster here, just a bunch of tax dodgers doing what they have done throughout history, going completely over the top, then sitting down in the SU bar feeling all smug about it. I remember when I was at University in Newcastle the student's Union spent a whole week agonising over whether to allow a speaker from the National Front. In the end he was allowed to speak but nobody turned up to hear him. A much better response I feel than No Platform.

Same Uni as me Chobulous

Biggest thing I can remember the SU doing though was inviting the Wurzels to do the end of season thing.

One of the best things I've ever been to!

quoonbeatz wrote:its essentially about accessibility for deaf students so i'm not sure earphones would work.

given the events it mainly applies to are debates, panels and talks, there's unlikely to be anything too raucous occurring anyway.

a outright ban on clapping at a university would be absurd but adopting a more inclusive and accessible approach for certain events really isn't.

Multi-sensory. Deaf people could watch the screen, blind people could listen to it, and people frightened of loud noises wouldn't have to suffer.

Lancasterclaret wrote:Same Uni as me Chobulous

Biggest thing I can remember the SU doing though was inviting the Wurzels to do the end of season thing.

One of the best things I've ever been to!

Melanie Safka will never forgive the Wurzels

dsr wrote:Multi-sensory. Deaf people could watch the screen, blind people could listen to it, and people frightened of loud noises wouldn't have to suffer.

why bother when you can just have them sat in the room and ask them not to clap?

Lets be honest its probably not the first time students have warned against the clap at uni

dsr wrote:Multi-sensory. Deaf people could watch the screen, blind people could listen to it, and people frightened of loud noises wouldn't have to suffer.

But how do they accommodate those who're scared of their own shadows and obsessed with being seen as wanting to be "inclusive of everyone and everything".

Even if it means banning what is, a normal human physical expression of joy or approval. Recognised the world over since time immemorial.

They should drink more and being having more casual sex.

TheFamilyCat wrote:"If you still hate ******* rovers do jazz hands...."

I like it.

So do I.

That would be great if they did it on the Turf.

They are trying to show they welcome diversity by not offending any particular group. They havnt considered all minority groups and won't do anything where they have to make sacrifices. If they did away with all public and music events and all the Union bars people who were agoraphobic would not feel excluded. In fact they should ban teaching classes and just plug in earphones at home remotely.

This thread deserves a round of applause.

quoonbeatz wrote:its essentially about accessibility for deaf students so i'm not sure earphones would work.

given the events it mainly applies to are debates, panels and talks, there's unlikely to be anything too raucous occurring anyway.

a outright ban on clapping at a university would be absurd but adopting a more inclusive and accessible approach for certain events really isn't.

Lancaster and Quoon being very smug here I think. Look at us two, understanding some of the excellent reasons behind the ban.
The rest of us in our own way are only commenting that it is a bit daft, but no, we are not on your intellectual, ex Newcastle University level. Never mind eh? Most on here never had a chance to go to uni. If they had been lucky enough to go, I bet they wouldn't have wasted their time on this sort of s***t*! They might have actually studied and worked.

There’s more severe clap problems that the students should be worried about .....

Chip Harrison wrote:Lancaster and Quoon being very smug here I think.

Hey don't knock em. The latter got a first in smug and the former has a combined PhD in "having the unfortunate habit of being right most of the time" with superiority. Its what they excel at.

not sure there's anything smug about being able to read an article rather than get het up about a clickbait headline.

RingoMcCartney wrote:Hey don't knock em. The latter got a first in smug and the former has a combined PhD in "having the unfortunate habit of being right most of the time" with superiority. Its what they excel at.

all of the time, i think you'll find.

Why not just do whichever one you want to do?

Or stay still and silent if that's not banned

******* hell Ringo, if I knew that me being right a lot more than you bothered you so much I'd have said it a lot more often!

Chip, nothing about being smug, its just about realising that its just students doing what students do. They will have something else that annoys you oldies by this time next year. Don't worry about it.

quoonbeatz wrote:all of the time, i think you'll find.

ALL of the Time?

Where one excels in conceit. One clearly under achieves in numeracy.

Lancasterclaret wrote:******* hell Ringo, if I knew that me being right a lot more than you bothered you so much I'd have said it a lot more often!

Chip, nothing about being smug, its just about realising that its just students doing what students do. They will have something else that annoys you oldies by this time next year. Don't worry about it.

Raw nerve, well and trully touched!

I've blocked you mate, so every post you make slagging me off I don't see.

But everyone knows I've blocked you, yet you still try to talk to me or bring me up on the threads.

Thats a very weird look to be honest, but hey, if it keeps you happy, knock yourself out!

RingoMcCartney wrote:ALL of the Time?

Where one excels in conceit. One clearly under achieves in numeracy.

no, all of the time.

Lancasterclaret wrote:Chip, nothing about being smug, its just about realising that its just students doing what students do. They will have something else that annoys you oldies by this time next year. Don't worry about it.

It's the sheer counter-productive stupidity of oh-so-earnest people who are supposedly intelligent and have no apparent power of rational thought. It's an NUS policy, too - it's not just a handful of dimwits at the regular meeting.

One of the Bristol universities did something as stupid last year - they made the operatic society cancel the show Aida, because there weren't enough black people to play slaves. For years and years, black people have been trying to get their foot in the door that skin colour needn't matter in stage productions; and then along come Bristol students to declare that playing the "wrong" colour amounts to cultural appropriation and should be stopped.

Lancasterclaret wrote:I've blocked you mate, so every post you make slagging me off I don't see.

But everyone knows I've blocked you, yet you still try to talk to me or bring me up on the threads.

Thats a very weird look to be honest, but hey, if it keeps you happy, knock yourself out!

"Every post I make you I don't see!"

Talk about shooting yourself in the foot!!

Absolute Comedy gold !!

I can't wait till Crosspool comes on and says that all under 30s shouldn't have the vote again, just because they voted for stuff he doesn't want.

DSR, you've just proved my point, students do daft things every year. Its nothing to get so het up about.

Lancasterclaret wrote:I've blocked you mate, so every post you make slagging me off I don't see.

But everyone knows I've blocked you, yet you still try to talk to me or bring me up on the threads.

Thats a very weird look to be honest, but hey, if it keeps you happy, knock yourself out!

I'm not replying to you. And others realise that. I'm just using your posts to make you look hypocritical when you launch into another selfaggrizement fest about you only accept people's views if they back them up with facts. But when somebody proves you wrong. Rather than admit you're wrong. The arrogance takes over and you block me!!

You can't accuse me of trolling you as you never see or read my posts.

Unless they say "raw nerve, well and trully touched!"

Somebody's having a cheeky peek at Ringos musings me thinks!

RingoMcCartney wrote:I'm not replying to you. And others realise that. I'm just using your posts to make you look hypocritical when you launch into another selfaggrizement fest about you only accept people's views if they back them up with facts.

Do you mean ‘self-aggrandisement’ fest, Wrongo?
You really ought to at least know how big words are actually pronounced, let alone spelled, before you use them, you hapless buffoon.

Chip Harrison wrote:Most on here never had a chance to go to uni.

That does explain a lot, to be fair.

I just started back at Uni today. First time I've sat in a Uni classroom since 1992. I'll need to practice, I've never done jazz hands

Lord Beamish wrote:Do you mean ‘self-aggrandisement’ fest, Wrongo?
You really ought to at least know how big words are actually pronounced, let alone spelled, before you use them, you hapless buffoon.

When someone has to resort to nit picking on spelling, unable to grasp the basic concept that words are autospelt and users can't really be arsed re-correcting for the benefit of the pedantry police. You know it's game over for them

RingoMcCartney wrote:When someone has to resort to nit picking on spelling, unable to grasp the basic concept that words are autospelt and users can't really be arsed re-correcting for the benefit of the pedantry police. You know it's game over for them

You keep telling yourself that, Wrongo. Your self delusion knows no bounds.