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Music Appreciation

peppertree

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6. True - it's a custom there (esp. in Buenos Aires) for crowds to jump in unison, arm in arm, as a show of shared joy

Reply to speak easy (Reply #4)

Sun Nov 16, 2025, 04:44 PM

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You particularly see it after significant football match victories - all the more so in World Cup play (you can imagine!).

They'll pogo-jump, chanting for example: "El que no salta, es un holandés!" (i.e. "If someone's not jumping, they must be Dutch" - after, say, the 1978 final against the Netherlands)...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=184&v=nkCOPJXVdOw&feature=emb_title

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Oasis in Buenos Aires last night with a madly pogoing crowd - Rock 'n' Roll Star [View all] highplainsdem Sunday OP

They all seem to be having a good time! displacedvermoter Sunday #1

They needed SOMETHING to distract them from the ongoing Mileise... peppertree Sunday #2

I am pretty confident that the folks displacedvermoter Sunday #3

True. Arg. rock concert audiences - particularly in Buenos Aires - tend to be of a middle-class, white and RW background peppertree Sunday #5

I am wondering if the Oasis tour displacedvermoter 17 hrs ago #7

Important concerts in general can be almost unaffordable for people living paycheck to paycheck. Especially if highplainsdem 16 hrs ago #8

Thank goodness we have YouTube!!! IcyPeas 9 hrs ago #9

They can be earthshaking: highplainsdem 6 hrs ago #10

It definitely gets the award for "Most Ecstatic Audiences" IcyPeas 3 hrs ago #11

"madly pogoing crowd" is right. Wow. speak easy Sunday #4

True - it's a custom there (esp. in Buenos Aires) for crowds to jump in unison, arm in arm, as a show of shared joy peppertree Sunday #6