Why do people care this much about completely harmless and inconsequential things other people do? I’ve personally never given a shit when someone else claps when a plane lands, same with people clapping in movie theatres. The world is miserable enough, let people enjoy the little things, it’s not like they’re forcing you to clap with them.
Precisely because they are harmless and inconsequential. Complaining about things like this or pineapple on pizza are just meme complaints. Nobody cares that much about it in reality.
What I’ve never understood- it doesn’t bother me but I’ve never understood it- is people who clap after a movie. I don’t mean people at the premiere where the filmmakers and actors are, I mean people in some town in Wisconsin or whatever. It’s weird.
It’s for the projectionist, and it’s probably outdated these days. But until digital film distribution became common it was actually a fairly involved job.
Edit: and if you go back to the silent film era the scores used to be played live. So maybe it’s even a holdover from that.
Interesting theory but if it was clapping for the protectionist then they’d do it at the end of every movie that was well-projected, not just the movies they thought were great.
I feel it’s more a habit carried over from live theater and music performances. They’re happy and just instinctively clap even if it’s pointless as a gesture towards the production. It just an expression of enjoyment they’ve developed sitting in a theater.
No, but they are forcing you to listen to the noise they make.
Making unnecessary noise is inconsiderate to those around you.
And yet when I rip out a real stinker on the plane, everyone hates me.
You only need to clap for the cheaper airline as they do need the encouragement.
Idk, this clapper discussion seems to me like: Why be nice and say thank you when you can just mind your own business? Going out of your way to be nice does make a difference.
Any pilots or flight crew here want to chime in?
Would a round of applause on landing brighten your day, or be tiresome and embarrassing?
My high-school friend is a pilot. He likes it. That’s just one of them, of course.
Take this bullshit back to Reddit!
If she is my soulmate that would not happen
We might have had a chance, except she then grabbed her personal bag and rushed to the front of the plane as we were pulling into the gate, taking up precious space as others attempted to empty the overhead bins.
That’s when I knew her penis was even smaller than mine.
I think it’s fair to do if the weather is really bad, storm, heavy rain and wind etc. Like a compliment.
Child marriage is illegal where I live, so I don’t have to worry about this
What’s wrong with clapping when the airplane land? I miss that when it was the norm when I was a kid
Do you clap at every bus stop, too? That’s their damn job.
I definitely say thank you when getting off the bus.
It’s honestly really sad that so many people think people doing a job is somehow not only undeserving of gratitude, but will judge other people for expressing gratitude.
Thanking and clapping are rather different.
Generally, the pilot is in the cockpit and can’t hear you thanking them when you’ve landed. But they can hear clapping.
No but I clap at performances where it’s their job.
If my bus ride is 14 hours in one direction, you’re damn right I’m clapping. Though it’s not entirely for the pilot, it’s for being allowed to move freely again.
Yeah I can get away from that screaming infant now.
I do thank the bus driver when I get out
If he’s tried to palm off some foreign coin on me though in my change, he’s not getting a thank you, he needs to learn his lesson.
Ha, you guys still pay in cash? We can check in with our debitcard here in the Netherlands
For some reason to get really pissy if you try and pay by card. Mostly because they don’t want to put the money into actually pay for the infrastructure necessary to support card transactions.
The barely ever wash the buses
I mean, I would if the bus was up a few miles above the road for a couple of hours and landed safely.
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Flying, despite all its drawbacks, is still one of humanity’s greatest achievements and has transformed our society to such an extent that most people today can’t even imagine what it’s like to travel long distances before the rise of commercial aviation. A trip across the ocean which once took weeks or months with a very high chance of a horrific death now takes at most 12 hours and is the safest mode of transport. If that doesn’t warrant applause I don’t know what does.
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After closing three posts in a row where I wanted to call bullshit and insult stupid opinions (which wouldn’t have helped anyway), this one made me laugh. Thank you! I needed something to kick-start a good mood before I start my day.
Also, fuck clappers. Especially at movie theaters. None of the people who worked on the movie can hear you.
It used to be standard in Latin America.
I like it, it’s a nice way to relieve the stress of everybody being within a couple of seconds of death if the pilot fucked up.
it’s a nice way to relieve the stress of everybody being within a couple of seconds of death if the pilot fucked up.
You know what else is a nice way to relieve stress? Low noise environments.
Latin America and “low noise”…
Yeah, Japan has ruined me for public transit in the US and elsewhere. Clapping on a plane would just make me annoyed unless the pilot did something phenomenal in a bad situation or the like.
It makes sense in a time without autopilot and the pilots actually had to fly the while time and sometimes really wrestle with the controls. Now it’s all automated so it’s not nearly as impressive.
Woah, wait, if it’s that or go to America, I’m staying in Bora Bora.
I clap when the bus driver makes it to my stop
I do thank them when I leave the bus. I guess that’s sorta dumb but at least they’re right there to hear it.
It’s not dumb.
I mean dumb in that it might not be “logical”. It just feels like the nice thing to do, in a way clapping on an airplane doesn’t.
It is the nice thing to do, treating the person like a person. Keep it up. Sure, it’s their job, they’d do it if you weren’t there, but it was helpful to you.
It’s the done thing.
At least the airplane clapping could be seen as cheering on the pilot for doing a good job. Much worse, imo, is the movie theater clapper. Those actors, directors and crew can’t hear your claps. They mean nothing!
As a teen most of my summer hollidays were spent visting abuela and abuelo in spain. Cinema (double features) were around 100 Pesetas (compared to Euro, w/o inflation 50 Cents(!). As you can imagine I saw every movie (rated or not).
First time was a culture shock (compared to the mostly silent German cinema audience), as they not only clapped, they also cheered or booed at any time the hero or villain did something heroesque/villainous.
But I grew into it and am missing it really. I wish this would be a thing everywhere.
Edit: I want to add that I’m an ancient person and ask any Spaniards: Is this still a thing?
That sounds incredibly fun as long as you’re expecting it
I mean, it’s just a logic thing to do. At least we all laugh together, watching a funny scene. Why limit it to this one emotion?
At least laughing is usually involuntary.
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Sometimes humor isn’t based on reality.
Also sometimes humour is funny, not always, unfortunately ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
