Whats with the JW's and that insane clapping that goes on at assemblies? Can you all remember it? Not just at the conclusion of a talk (which is somehow expected and simply courteous), but the intra-talk claps where sometimes no-one know if its a Clap-moment or not....
So the speaker drones on and on, and then comes the voice inflection change, either louder ot higher-pitched, and then you know its coming: Another clap-moment......*groan*
And sometimes the braindead audience get it wrong and either
(A) clap when its just a normal pause and not a real CLAP-moment, and the speaker sometimes starts the next sentence when the non-scheduled clap-event takes place, and has to stop and start again; or
(B) the speaker doesn't get the hint across properly, so there's a big pregnant pause, then a few idiots start clapping, then a few more, till it either develops into a proper CLAP-moment, or else just fizzles out in a cacophony of random sparse claps....
And what about the rolling CLAP-events? Where the talk is reaching some climax and the speaker is ejaculating one voice-inflected sentence after another, each one being a clap moment. And the brain-dead audience are forced to clap, stop, clap, stop, clap, stop. Like Rolling Thunder....
Are the talk outlines prepared with the CLAP-moments highlighted??
How we ever sat through all that clap crap I just don't know...........
Pope (all clapped out)