Question for you Sheppey,
do you fly the 737?
Answer: Yes, but that was many years ago although I still see it often in the 737 simulator. I first saw this habit or addiction, as a 17 year old standing behind the crew in the cockpit of a DC3 cargo plane as the aircraft landed. The captain was a former RAAF Mosquito pilot who had been awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross during WW2. Being an impressionable lad, I thought at the time if a DFC winner landed a DC3 like that it must be the right technique i.e. thrashing the control column in all directions and constantly greasing the landing.
When I later joined the RAAF and began flying training on Tiger Moths I must have been close to knee-capping my instructor in the front seat with the wooden joy stick which I was waving around in the back seat. His profanity instantly cured me of that technique..