#14

Oh, I did pretend the NHS claps were for me.

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#15

Didn’t even get a round of applause from the assembled throng of onlookers when I rescued my stupid dog (who I love very much) from the Taff last year. What do you have to do to get a round of applause around here?

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#16

Veni

#18

I was clapping for National Hero Spaceman

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#19

Captain Gin

#20

Just remembered I threw an empty can into a bin from an apparently impressive distance at a hotelier gig in Philly and two drunk lads clapped it.

#21

Throwing an entire cab anywhere is some effort really.

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#22

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#23

During the clapping era, my girlfriend only made it home from work in time on one occassion, and it was just as the clapping was starting, so it looked like she was being applauded as she walked from the car and up our path.

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#24

I thought I was during the summer when I was out for an evening walk and was very disconcerted for a few seconds until I realised it was 8pm on a Thursday. It didn’t help that it was a small side road and lots of them were staring at me. I pretended to be on the phone and hurried out

#25

Once I was on the bus and some kids were running for the bus and just missed it. Because the traffic was a bit slow moving they chased the bus all the way to the next stop and just made it. They got a round of applause as they got on.

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#26

Casually flicked a ping pong ball over my head perfectly back to the person who had overhit it using the outside edge of my work shoes with my hands in my pockets. People actually clapped.

A guy clapped me on the back when I pulled some drowning people out of a river one time, but that’s not as cool as the ping pong thing.

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#27

(a) well done for saving the drowning people
(b) why do river rescues not attract applause?

#28

I can’t imagine what it would have been like to have been living in the UK with that whole clapping thing.

So glad that the international press didn’t pick up on the sheer embarrassment of it.

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#30

Only when rescuing babies from trees

#31

It was a weird situation where out of nowhere a kid sprinted into the river, quickly followed by his dad/grandad (wasn’t sure), and it quickly became apparent neither could swim. Whole thing happened so quickly it seemed unreal. Wasn’t anyone else around so I had to try and grab them and get them out. By the time it was over there were a few people there, but everyone was mainly confused as to what happened.

Did appreciate the cyclist who just carried on nonplussed while I was struggling to pull them out…

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#32

Typical cyclist :angry:

#33

this happened to me a few times going to the shop down past some of the slightly nicer houses

I felt embarrassed as if they thought I would be deliberately lapping up the applause by walking that way at that time

#34

Can’t remember the airport - think it was Kiev - but I was the first passenger to walk into Arrivals and some people waiting started whooping and clapping, thinking I was someone worthy of their applause. Once they realised I wasn’t that someone they abruptly stopped.

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#35

Once after a particularly dominant game in my octorun - it wasn’t my friends leading it, it was strangers in the audience - and once when I did a cocktail called a Blow Job at a bar in Kiev and it is an interactive shot (I didn’t actually suck a lad off btw) and everyone cheers when you’ve finished it