Can't they tell?
Nope. They're having too much fun listening to themselves clap. Either that or they're not paying attention.
My gripe is when people clap along to something and they start speeding up.
My whole life, I've never loved anything else.
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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
beathen - Jan 31, 2005 7:44:45 am PST #2350 of 10002
Sure I went over to the Dark Side, but just to pick up a few things.
Nilly - Jan 31, 2005 7:52:09 am PST #2351 of 10002
Swouncing
My gripe is when people clap along to something and they start speeding up
There are researches in synchronizaton which show that if a crowd of people claps (like, at the end of a play or a lecture, not to a tune (and, yes, I know it's not the subject, but I'm one of the people who can't follow a tune at all, so I try to post about something else)), even if very few people clap at a slower rhythm, the whole group will adapt to that, eventually.
tommyrot - Jan 31, 2005 7:53:26 am PST #2352 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
even if very few people clap at a slower rhythm, the whole group will adapt to that, eventually.
There must be a way to use this knowledge to, I don't know... take over the world or something.
§ ita § - Jan 31, 2005 7:53:54 am PST #2353 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Wait -- so the rhythm is gonna get you?
Scrappy - Jan 31, 2005 7:59:12 am PST #2354 of 10002
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
I am a fabulous dancer, white as milk, got great rhythm, AND I got back.
That's all I got to say on that subject.
Nilly - Jan 31, 2005 8:01:16 am PST #2355 of 10002
Swouncing
Wait -- so the rhythm is gonna get you?
No, only the math of it. With equations and the like.
msbelle - Jan 31, 2005 8:01:40 am PST #2356 of 10002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
I want to go out dancing with Robin.
my office? 80000 degrees.
Scrappy - Jan 31, 2005 8:02:19 am PST #2357 of 10002
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Msbelle, work naked.
§ ita § - Jan 31, 2005 8:02:29 am PST #2358 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I want to go to msbelle's office. Mine is hovering in the low 60s.
Katie M - Jan 31, 2005 8:02:41 am PST #2359 of 10002
I was charmed (albeit somewhat perplexed) by the fannish sensibility of many of the music choices -- it's like the director was trying to vid Canada. --loligo on the Olympic Opening Ceremonies
I don't claim to be a good dancer, at least not with anything spontaneous--I do OK when there are steps to follow--but rhythm I have. And don't understand the lack of it. I mean, the beat is right there, being the beat. How do people not hear it?
I wonder this too. And yet obviously they don't.
Of course, I spent a good twelve years playing the viola, which means I was playing offbeats half of the time. When I did a capella in grad school my voice wasn't the best, but damn if I couldn't pick up rhythms quickly.