And Then The Whole Bus Clapped

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Mike Primavera @primawesome * Follow Just told a guy talking on his phone in the library to shut the f--- up, and everyone applauded me, so l told them to shut the f--- up too. 4,310 9,433 2:46 PM-17 Oct 2011

35 subscribers OH MY GOD. IJUST WITNESSED THE SINGLE GREATEST MOMENT IN HUMAN HISTORY On a bus, heading home from the city I am greeted by an incredibly nice Russian-sounding bus driver with a smile on his face. About 4 stops later (in the valley, of course) a bogan hops on with his skanky (I assume) girifriend. (May have been sister. May have been both.) Naturally, he does not have the money for a bus, so of course The Bogan (Henceforth referred to as S----Skull) blames the bus driver Using all manner of racial slurs, loud profanities and general offensive douchbagery, S----Skull proceeds to be a a------ and make the entire bus shuffle uncomfortably in their seats. All except one man. Ah, this man. I wish I could BE this man, this average looking hero that stepped up to defend the poor bus driver Look mate, he's just doing his job. How's about you calm down and leave the driver alone. It's no t his fault you can't pay." The logic of the situation made a slight whistling noise as it passed over S---- Skull's head. We could see the Tonka Truck gears dunk and grind in this mans underdeveloped cranium. Calm...down? It must be a challenge! "Are you try'na start met You wanna go me you kingYo nna fing go me?" Ah truly the words of a poet. But not even Oscar Wilde himself could have predict the Batman-esque reaction of: Yeah, actually. Let's do this. Off the bus." You could hear a penny drop as the 256mb brain inside S----Skull's s----- little skull ticked over. Finally the judging eyes of the bus coupled with the high-pitched, slurring voice of his sister-daughter telling him to "take him and (quoting directly) "don't take none that s--- babe" convince them both to step off the bus ready to fight. Calmer than a monk on morphine, our hero turns to the bus driver, simply says "shut the door mate", AND WALKS BACK TO HIS M------------ SEAT. The bus driver shut the door, drove away, and the entire bus ERUPTED. We were dlapping, we were cheering, I gave S----Skull the finger out the window and Im pretty sure people hugged. T:dr: Thank you stranger, for making humans okay in my book Unlike Comment Share You lke this.

tuhmblr-logic ulTaTb On the bus and some white lady is reading a book called White privilege, I repeat. Riding the public bus, white, and reading a book called white privilege. Irony? Did the whole bus clap for her?? not even surprised 10 3aMeTOK

I started this bog, and then the whole bus clapped! THE WHOLE BUS CLAPPED → months ago (188 notes) reginaevilqueenmills: I just got into a fist fight because someone said Nicki minaj was a "slut" andI may have a black eye now but at least I defended my feminist mom and the whole crowd of bystanders clapped (Source: scullyorgana)

31 OOLI 5:58 Kalen I was sitting on the bus the other day and at the back of the bus was a lesbian couple holding hands an giggling to each other. an elderly woman came an sat beside me an mumbled to herself "disgusting homosexuals". I then turned to her and say "im gay". she shouted "Driver stop the bus and make this homosexual move away from me'. the driver (a big Jamaican man) stopped the bus an pointed towards where me an the woman were sitting and said "you off the bus" at first I thought he was talking to me, when I questioned if it was me he was asking to get off the bus he replied "No her" and pointed at the woman. and the driver said "My son is gay and l will not allow homophobes on my bus, and the bus will not move till your off. the woman then got off the bus and said "your all going to hell" which the driver replied to by saying well I'l see you there as your not getting into heaven if you cant even accept that some people are gay". he then closed the bus doors and drove off

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"And then the whole bus clapped" ("the entire train applauded", "everyone stood up and cheered", etc.) is a phrase associated with stories posted online, typically on Tumblr or Facebook, in which the teller or another person allegedly gains admiration of the surrounding public, usually after defending someone from social injustice. The line is often considered a giveaway sign of a fabricated story, or used sarcastically to express doubt or disbelief, similarly to and often together with "X's name? Albert Einstein!"

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Exact origins of this phrase are unclear. According to Urban Dictionary, a similar phrase, "and the bus driver stood up and started clapping", originated from Poland.^[1] The earliest known example of a story featuring applauding bus passengers was posted on July 28th, 2012 by reddit user Robert_Hoduin^[2] The post, entitled "The Bus Knight", gained over 21,306 points (97% upvoted) and 1439 comments. In the comments it was claimed to have been posted the day before on Facebook.^[9]

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On May 18th, 2013, Facebook user Ricky Ghansah posted a story of his alleged encounter with a racist on a bus in Helsinki, in which he claimed to have received a round of applause after making the racist appologise aloud.^[4] This was later reported in several Finnish publications, such as the pro-minorities blog Migrant Tales^[5] and the newspaper Helsingin Sanomat.^[6] Some people doubted the validity of Ghansah's story, alluding to similarities between it and the earlier Bus Knight story.

The man, who had called Ghansah racist names, came up to him and thanked him for buying the ticket. He told the man that his show of gratitude doesn't mean much to him but if he apologized that would. The man then apologized for his behavior. Ghansah asked if he could apologize a little louder so the whole bus could hear him. He did and the bus passengers clapped their hands in approval at what had happened. It was a very effective way to handle such a horrible situation. A woman passenger who sat next to Ghansah said that he had handled the situation very well.

In June 2015, Tumblr blog andthewholebusclapped^[7] was launched, which collected various Tumblr posts containing stories that appeared fake, usually adding sarcastic "and everyone clapped"-type comments to the reblogs.