| Minute's applause... 08:41 - Dec 29 with 5238 views | Westy75 |
For a plane going missing?
The minutes applause - scourge of the modern game. | | | |  |
| Minute's applause... on 08:57 - Dec 29 with 5176 views | HantsR |
Felt the same myself. I guess having already decided on applause for one purpose then it was difficult to change when this awful news broke. The outcome of the Air Asia missing plane is of course not officially confirmed so that would cause another dilemma. However it felt very wrong and possibly insensitive under the circumstances. | | | |
| Minute's applause... on 09:00 - Dec 29 with 5157 views | pomanjou |
Could'nt agree more Westy. Or for any other assorted mundane reason.
And why applause? Are we clapping people as they transfer to the 'other side'?
And I cannot believe that the club arranged applause at the 5 minute point for Clarke Carlisle.
If we need to remember people then lets do it with a minutes silent contemplation.
At the moment we have gone happy clappy crackers.
I personally find myself unable to participate. | |
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| Minute's applause... on 09:43 - Dec 29 with 5003 views | sexton |
When news of the plane broke they should have cancelled the minute's applause. And I say that as somebody whose Dad died this year - supposedly one of the people being 'remembered'.
As for Clarke Carlisle, it's very sad but to be brutal I'm not sure he's so special to Rangers that he warrants club-sponsored applause. | | | |
| Minute's applause... on 09:59 - Dec 29 with 4948 views | daveB |
the minutes applause was for all of the QPR fans who have died in 2014 | | | |
| Minute's applause... on 10:00 - Dec 29 with 4940 views | thame_hoops |
What happened to minutes silence? Is it because idiots can't stay quiet? At the Cowboys/Jaguars nfl game at Wembley they did a minutes silence for rememberance day and you could have heard a pin drop it was deadly silent | | | |
| Minute's applause... on 10:07 - Dec 29 with 4919 views | Pablo_Hoopsta |
The applause was best when it was a spontaneous thing. The tide will turn and we'll be back to silences again.
Either way, whatever is called for, I shall dutifully do - at least the applause yesterday meant we got to applaud something and keep warm for a minute before the dire game started/continued. | | | |
| Minute's applause... on 10:26 - Dec 29 with 4868 views | johann28 |
I've noticed that this is the custom in Italy, although there it tends to start in silence and build to a crescendo half way through, but it does seem a shame that we've come to this imo. A minute's silence inside a packed and excitable stadium is still a very moving, potent 'memento mori'; applause can seem lukewarm by contrast. | | | |
| Minute's applause... on 12:13 - Dec 29 with 4722 views | barabajagal |
As I understand, there are three types of conformity. Identification, internalisation and compliance. In this instance some conform because they identify with the majority (a logical explanation for football fans), and want to fit in, others because they really believe in the cause (internalisation) and others because they wish to avoid punishment for not doing it or receive reward for doing it. Whichever the case, conformity is an exceptionally powerful social influence, I imagine that the minutes applause/silence is with us for a long time to come. | | | |
| Minute's applause... on 12:24 - Dec 29 with 4684 views | TacticalR |
Some of my best friends are conformists. | |
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| Minute's applause... on 12:34 - Dec 29 with 4649 views | TheBlob |
What happens if you've only got one arm? | |
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| Minute's applause... on 12:44 - Dec 29 with 4621 views | TacticalR |
You will be thoroughly investigated by the Ministry of Applause. | |
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| Minute's applause... on 12:46 - Dec 29 with 4608 views | daveB |
Only QPR fans could moan about the club organising something that fans have asked them to do. If you didn't like the idea of applauding fans who have died in the last year then just don't join in, no on was forced to. | | | |
| Minute's applause... on 12:48 - Dec 29 with 4599 views | TheBlob |
It's that old zen thing "if the sound of two hands is a clap,what is the sound of one hand?"
I think it's called a slap.So to join in you've gotta keep time on someone's boat. | |
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| Minute's applause... on 13:17 - Dec 29 with 4532 views | barabajagal |
Click fingers, slap thigh, break wind... Be imaginative | | | |
| Minute's applause... on 13:24 - Dec 29 with 4512 views | Jigsore |
'scourge of the modern game' crikey is there anything LFW won't moan about?
Forget your club branding, total monetisation of the Premier league, Sky arranging for away games to be played at stupid o'clock on a sunday evening... it's this minutes applause that sickens me. Oh for the good old days | |
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| Minute's applause... on 13:31 - Dec 29 with 4500 views | pomanjou |
Exactly Dave, that's why I didn't.
I did'nt think they would hear me. | |
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| Minute's applause... on 14:08 - Dec 29 with 4436 views | Sudbury_Hill_R |
Coincidently I met a mate of mine in the street yesterday. He only has one arm.
He was carrying a lightbulb. I said what you going to do with that?
He said, I'm going to change it. I said how you gonna do that?
He said, I've got a receipt.
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| Minute's applause... on 20:03 - Dec 29 with 4253 views | M40R |
Or... if you are holding a scalding mug of Bovril? | | | |
| Minute's applause... on 20:11 - Dec 29 with 4222 views | Pablo_Hoopsta |
Fox News are some of the biggest cùnts out there, ATAF. | | | |
| Minute's applause... on 22:50 - Dec 29 with 4079 views | Westy75 |
Sorry Dave, the first thing the bloke announcing the applause said it was for was the plane going missing.
And if I had lost someone in the last year the last thing I would want is a minutes f*cking applause to mark it. A minutes silence in a packed stadium has always been an incredibly powerful and poignant thing, a real mark of respect. A minutes applause is just a bit sh*t. | | | |
| Minute's applause... on 23:20 - Dec 29 with 4032 views | daveB |
sadly too many arseholes around to ruin a minutes silence as we saw for the poppy day one against Man City and in the away game at Chelsea. Really not sure why it's such an issue, I thought it was a nice thing for the club to do | | | |
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