Is't it left first, then right? Getting that wrong will result in a tremendously awkward moment!

Is there a gay fist bump?

Do they hold their pinky out when bumping?

Wait that doesn't sound right.....

A friend had a boss that would fist bump everyone in the office. I am sure the look on my face was priceless after she told me her boss was walking around the office fisting everyone.

She looked it up. She denied the fist bump after that.

when someone tries to high 5 me, I stick out my hand to shake. then we they reach down to shake, I go high 5. I repeat this until they just give up. didn't high 5 in high school, not going to do it now. I do fist bump one friend sometimes, only because he will not shake hands when we meet right before he eats.. weird

I typically reserve the fist bump for kids--really young kids. They get a kick out of it for whatever reason. I have a couple fist bumping friends, so I go along with it there. In a professional setting, or if I'm meeting someone for the first time, they're definitely getting a handshake. If they offer anything else, it's duly noted in my memory banks--and not in a good way.

I hate huggers. Even my wife knows there's a time limit to her hugs; anything more than a couple seconds is no longer endearing; it's restraining. There is nothing I hate more in life than being physically restrained in any way. It's sorta my "phobia."

I guess the next "hot" thing will be chest bumping.

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If we can get hot women on board I might try it. ;)



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The exploding thing is SOOOOO 2013!

I work with some 20 somethings and when they offer a fist bump I acknowledge and return... just seem easier that going all grumpy old man and insisting on a handshake.

Adults/people of my generation all get a handshake.

Friends and family get hugs...

Special friends get a boob grab or a boner bump :p

Yes

Me too.

You have a problem with a fist bump? Hah!
Be thankful you didn't grow up in the 60's with elderly Italian aunts and uncles from the old country.

Don't get your hopes up. I'm belgian, and it'll be a cold day in hell before I kiss a dude.

Had a friend with cancer who did the fist bump because of his immune system. I helped him sell his 911 so as not to inconvenience his wife later.

Whatever problems I had with the fist bump I got over. First world problems...

Reading this makes me think that perhaps the term fisting is more mundane than I'd assumed.http://forums.pelicanparts.com/suppo.../smileysex.gif

Like I tell some of my entertainers, Adults SHAKE HANDS.
Call me old fashioned, but my Father taught me to shake hands & men with integrity have firm handshakes.
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Sorry Vash, but this thread made me think about this..
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I take a firm handshake as a sign somebody wants me to buy something or join their cult.

I would have the same reaction.

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"Fist Bump"? :confused: ... No thanks but I guess it's a cultural thing.

The handshake is an obsolete greeting. It is derived from an old practice for the purpose of demonstrating that you were not holding a weapon in your hand when greeting someone. In this day and age, the fist bump is not only practical by minimizing passing of germs, it is also much easier to execute than a handshake. I would much prefer the societal norm shift from handshakes to fist bumps, purely from a sanitary standpoint. I can't stand shaking people's hands. You just don't know where they have been.

Grumpy Old Man

But then theres that whole "fisting" thing, and I don't know where that fist has been:D:D