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My brother married a girl 30 years ago that grew up in a hugging family. She has asimilated him into this practice along with thier three grown children (two of which are married). Now my wife and I are the bad guys at family get togethers because we don't relish the thought of hugging everyone in the room.
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Hugging is odd for me too. It just wasnt done in my family. To me, a hug is kind of intimate in a way. I don't dig those social light hugs. If someone hugs me, I want a damn bear hug.
You know? I don't hug everyone. Those that have earned that distinction in my life know it when i crush their ribcage. |
I'll return whatever is offered. I don't offer a hug outside of my immediate family.
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Man, you guys are grumpy old men. Lol. I fist bump on a daily basis in the right circumstances. If it's something polite, or work related, closing a deal, etc., of course I'm going to shake hands, but in the locker room level attitude with my friends, in passing with a stranger, etc. it's all fist bump.
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Wifey came from Costco with guilty pleasure snacks we both love. I grabbed her boob just as suggested in this thread. She says, "What the heck are you doing?". I gotta stop listening to you guys.
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Fist bumps should be reserved for beer night and bawdy jokes.
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fist bumps are just as bad as those funky handshakes where they shake and bump fist and turn and shake again. Lots of Latinos like to do that crap.
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Beware when they slip you the tongue.
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I have a right hand that doesn't work so well. I welcome the fist bump. I'd rather be regarded as the douche with the fist bump than the (insert slur here) with the weak handshake in this testosterone-fueled world in which we live. And, for the record, my lack of hair is mute testament to the presence of an abundance of T....
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More wag...less bark! SmileWavy |
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That sounds like a really weird, awkward scene. Real men have been shaking hands since the Stone Age and I've never heard of anyone falling deathly ill after shaking hands with someone. If someone is obviously filthy, like in the middle of a sewage job or an engine swap, I might decline to shake hands. If some weirdo like a 60 year old guy in a suit stuck his fist out, I'd just stand there giving him a blank look. :cool: |
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Although hanging around septic tanks with the expressed purpose of declining someone's handshake? I'm all about people getting their freak on.... but really, dude? get it together.. :D |
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There are maybe two or three countries where they kiss each other on the cheeks (no real kisses, just implied, often not touching each other) as a greeting. Hm, fist bumping ... maybe in the locker when greeting my teammates before crushing them on the ice during practice :D |
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admittedly, the fist bump is infinitely easier than that move where you kinda do the sideways "high five" (low five?)..where the two hands come at each other from a hand-shake position..
one guy always thinks it's a handshake and the other thinks it's a low-five..and disaster strikes because each person swaps moves..hahhaha. it gets all effed up. haha.. |
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I prefer the "smack'm jack'm"
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I'll take a fist bump over the "one hand safety-grip shake and hug with the other arm" thing.
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