No More Cardboard Clappers!

thegazzyb said:
Serious question.
As a fan of KC's old school rattle and long time non-attendee of football matches, are rattles now forbidden and considered to be a health and safety hazard ?
Did people used to get accidently thwacked by other people's rattles back in the day ? I'm pretty sure I'd be capable of inadvertently injuring somebody with one :eek:
Are old school rattles still allowed into stadia ?
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Hmmmm.
So has nobody on here tried to bring a rattle into DC ?
If they are allowed I think it would be totally Werther’s if we could be the club to trigger a rattle revival. It would be awesome ! Red and Black rattles all around DC. Seriously, it could be our thing ! And very Werther’s to boot !
 
Lord Snooty said:
Chums, join me in this campaign do!
There is a real prospect of a return to normal football and the chance that supporters will be (in limited numbers) allowed back into our beloved Dean Court.
I therefore urge you in joining me to inform the powers that be that we no longer want those monstrous buggering clappers.
That Neil Diamond ditty was bad enough...but those cardboard spawns of the devil were the final straw.
No more I cry!
For the sake of sanity.
For the sake of football itself.
We must never let them invade our halllowed ground again.
They must go!

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I would urge extreme caution here. There is no known remedy (be it a cream or any other medical intervention) for the clappers...be it cardboard or whatever.
 
thegazzyb said:
Hmmmm.
So has nobody on here tried to bring a rattle into DC ?
If they are allowed I think it would be totally Werther’s if we could be the club to trigger a rattle revival. It would be awesome ! Red and Black rattles all around DC. Seriously, it could be our thing ! And very Werther’s to boot !
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You wouldn't be saying that if you had been hit upside the head with one.

They were lethal.
 
punkrockcherry said:
I draw the line at "Whatever crap music" - I don't want to be subjected to Lewis f****n' Capaldi at Football - he sounds like a miserable drunk crying into his beer
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I not sure Werther if anyone would want the Capaldi geezers stuff at a football match....I had to google him as I'd not heard the name before...that stuff is OK in its place ( for some !)....but even Caroline is somewhat uplifting in comparison...ha!


Liverpool recently changed their anthem to..

" Its Not Unusual to get beat by anyone...its not unusual to get thrashed by anyone....it happens every game...our boys are very tame... Whoaaaa oh oh oh oh ooooowoah oh ohohoho! "
 
In the 18th and 19th centuries, a policeman's rattle was used by British and Australian policemen to summon assistance. They were used to warn of poison gas attack in the trenches of the First World War and issued to British police and ARP wardens during the Second World War to warn of the presence of poison gas. My Dad, who was an ARP warden during the war had one of these. Just thought you'd like to know :)
 
Redpost said:
In the 18th and 19th centuries, a policeman's rattle was used by British and Australian policemen to summon assistance. They were used to warn of poison gas attack in the trenches of the First World War and issued to British police and ARP wardens during the Second World War to warn of the presence of poison gas. My Dad, who was an ARP warden during the war had one of these. Just thought you'd like to know
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Didn’t know that, interesting, thanks for posting ! (y)(y)(y)
 
Doofus said:
How about adapting hang the DJ to hang the CB (insert position as appropriate)?
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I fail to see how strangling ( short drop ) or breaking the neck of ( other variants ) our esteemed moderator of this fair forum contributes to the match day experience, as much as I appreciate the Smiths’ original sentiment in the original context ;)
#donothangourdj
 
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If there's one for me to use and it's already on the floor, I just move it out of the way under my chair and forget about it.
Fortunately, nobody nearby uses the damn things so that's OK.
 
One of the awful aspects of football today. Somewhere inside Dean Court a marketing person is wetting themselves at their fantastic idea.

next season, create an area where fans who want to sing etc can go and create a proper match atmosphere. And sack the person who introduced clappers.
 
They're dreadful and a lawsuit waiting to happen. I see them being launched up in the air and the bunched up elastic band end comes down first. Potentially could take someone's eye out. So bottom line is you can't take a plastic bottle top into the stands but people can throw the clappers anywhere they want.
I'm expecting some good old H&S guidelines in them soon and an AFCB won't be responsible for any injury caused before, during and after the use of the clapper'. In fact, I might have just come with an idea that could pay for this year's holiday !
 
impressed with whoever managed to convert theirs into a cardboard aeroplane and reach the goal from the back of the northstand yesterday

top effort, that
 
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