• Boomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    The problem was that people kept clapping and interrupting his speech, so he said he’d give them cues when to clap.

    So when he said please clap he was giving permission rather than begging for applause.

    However, the edited video made it look like he was begging. It’s a bit like the Dean Scream.

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      3 days ago

      Yeah if you watch the whole thing it’s also really obvious he was making a joke about it and the audience liked it. People make it out like he was begging, but that’s really not the case.

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      3 days ago

      They really did me and Howard dirty, but not as dirty as I did Gore in 2000