BluKoo
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I was watching Top Gear ealier, and for some reason when the audience started clapping, I asked myself, "Why?" 
I understand we do it to show our appreciation or our joy, but what I was wandering was, who was the first person to clap, and why did it catch on? Or do we clap as a natural human reflex? Did cavmen clap when they saw something good, or something made them happy?
Anyone else wandered about this?
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Paul_J
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Someone holds up a card saying 'applaud' and you get shot if you don't.
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Gareth F
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I guess primeapes smacked their hands down on things when excited so i guess it started there. i love these stupid little things that makes people really think, i usually bring them up in work
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Matt L
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I always have slightly stranger thoughts than this mine are always like who the hell thought of the words that we use and what they mean.
like the first person who decided blue was infact blue and why wasnt it green and so on
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How did the first male find out semen spurted out of his member?
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Gareth F
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Adam i think his name was, some bird eve was not impressed.
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BluKoo
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Originally posted by Matt L
like the first person who decided blue was infact blue and why wasnt it green and so on
Good point.
I wonder if orange was named after the fruit, or vise-versa.
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Gareth F
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then they fuck it up and make salt and vinegar green then cheese and onion blue.....................
Its just wrong 
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quote:
Originally posted by Gareth F
then they fuck it up and make salt and vinegar green then cheese and onion blue.....................
Its just wrong
I agree
And its my pet hate when one manufacturer makes one in one colour and another company do it the other colour 
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quote:
Originally posted by Gareth F
I guess primeapes smacked their hands down on things when excited so i guess it started there. i love these stupid little things that makes people really think, i usually bring them up in work
what the fuck is a primeape?
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Matt L
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its an ape thats in its prime 
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mwg
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its like the Prime Minister of the ape world
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Hammer
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Easiest way of making noise to show approval for something.
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Matt L
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I dont know shouting is easier than lifting my hands and smacking them together
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BluKoo
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I reckon i could shout longer than i could clap, and my shouting would be louder too.
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Hammer
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You'd both be wrong then unfortunately
Cut about shouting at people when they've done something you approve as well and see the results.
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BluKoo
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I wouldn't just shout "aaaaaarrggghhhh", it would be something along the lines of "woooooooooo", or "yaaaaaaaay", but then again, i suppose people already do that even when clapping.
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John G
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the worst one i do is pick a word and say it over and over again, the more the say it the say it the more it sounds wrong until u wonder why if actually right
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BluKoo
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Spoon.
Thats the one that always gets me
[Edited on 08-06-2009 by BluKoo]
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quote:
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the worst one i do is pick a word and say it over and over again, the more the say it the say it the more it sounds wrong until u wonder why if actually right
That always happens to me
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John G
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quote:
Originally posted by Gareth F
I guess primeapes smacked their hands down on things when excited so i guess it started there. i love these stupid little things that makes people really think, i usually bring them up in work
I do this all the time, dont half annoy some of my work mates
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who idea was it that fuck shit cu nt twat ect was bad?
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BluKoo
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Originally posted by John G
coin
oooh, thats a good one
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quote:
Originally posted by Matt L
I always have slightly stranger thoughts than this mine are always like who the hell thought of the words that we use and what they mean.
like the first person who decided blue was infact blue and why wasnt it green and so on
Following on from this, what's to say my red is the same as your Red? I might see red as what is really your green, you would always have been taught it as red though so know no different.
This could then expand on to why certain colours are peoples favourite, I.e they see them differently. For example red is one of my favourites but someone else might like green but to them it's what interpet as red
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