What’s wrong with clapping when the airplane land? I miss that when it was the norm when I was a kid
its supposed to land…do you clap when your car door closes, do you clap when you apply the brakes on your car?
Now, if someone tossed you a SAM and took out all engines and a wing, and then the pilot lands safely enough for the emergency exits and raft equipment to deploy, thats when you clap.
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.
do you clap when you arrive by car? the combustion engine is what makes airplanes and cars possible. and yes its safer than a car. so why you clapping if its so safe, but you’re not clapping when you arrive to work or home each night with your car.
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 the done thing.
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.
Is this rated worse than getting the Clap from her?
I think it’s fair to do if the weather is really bad, storm, heavy rain and wind etc. Like a compliment.
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 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.
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.
Man, that’s insane. Your soulmate. She claps for 5 seconds after the plane lands and you’re out. Couldn’t tolerate 5 seconds of something that annoys you from your soulmate.
You guys really want to find perfect or nothing.
Sometimes humor isn’t based on reality.
Also sometimes humour is funny, not always, unfortunately ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Child marriage is illegal where I live, so I don’t have to worry about this
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.
No, but they are forcing you to listen to the noise they make.
Making unnecessary noise is inconsiderate to those around you.
You only need to clap for the cheaper airline as they do need the encouragement.
Take this bullshit back to Reddit!
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.
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.
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.
