Does your town have a specific handshake when you meet up with someone?
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I'm not talking about the regular shaking hands because that is how you should always greet a new face. But I mean friends and acquaintances. I was just thinking about it the other day how stupid our handshake is for our town, but regardless of it's stupidity I still do it because it's just how this town greets one another.
It's the hand slide followed with a fist bump.
Every single party I go to people throw it out like that. I never realized until I went to another town and they did different hand gestures, that it's different all over the world.
Never heard of anything like this.
[QUOTE=Shiftyze;35618203]I'm not talking about the regular shaking hands because that is how you should always greet a new face. But I mean friends and acquaintances. I was just thinking about it the other day how stupid our handshake is for our town, but regardless of it's stupidity I still do it because it's just how this town greets one another.
It's the hand slide followed with a fist bump.
Every single party I go to people throw it out like that. I never realized until I went to another town and they did different hand gestures, that it's different all over the world.[/QUOTE]
Same here. Sometimes you grab hands, squeeze, then fist bump. And then of course with closer friends it's always grab hands then pull in for a man hug. Also sometimes you just fist bump, or just slap hands. It depends on the person and how well you know the person.
I make it a point to only give handshakes.
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Sometimes it gets all weird because some dude comes in with a low five or something and we end up grabbing fingers and just spazzing awkwardly and its like oh god i cant look at him anymore
[QUOTE=Shiftyze;35618203]I'm not talking about the regular shaking hands because that is how you should always greet a new face. But I mean friends and acquaintances. I was just thinking about it the other day how stupid our handshake is for our town, but regardless of it's stupidity I still do it because it's just how this town greets one another.
It's the hand slide followed with a fist bump.
Every single party I go to people throw it out like that. I never realized until I went to another town and they did different hand gestures, that it's different all over the world.[/QUOTE]
A lot of people do the hand slide and fist bump. It's very common with teenagers here, but I know a lot of people who just do plain fist bumps, etc.
I'm pretty sure the type of people that go to parties just hand shake like that, everyone I know that goes to parties does the hand-slide fist bump, and everyone who doesn't go to parties doesn't do it like that.
I do this thing where I grab their hand and move it up and down a bit. Is that weird?
It really varies from person to person here. I like to mess with people when they greet me. For instance, when someone goes for a high five I grab their hand and shake it, when they try to shake my hand I grab it, bump chests with them and walk away, if someone wants a hug I high five them. The list goes on.
Generally just a handshake but with close friends we do this like handshake but it's at head-level and the arm is bent kinda like a "V"
[QUOTE=SpasticPinoy;35618344]bump chests with them and walk away[/QUOTE]
How incredibly homoerotic
[QUOTE=MakoSkyDub;35618369]How incredibly homoerotic[/QUOTE]
rofl good one!!
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I didn't know areas had specific handshakes. I think the ones in my friendship group are just generally a normal firm handshake or a top gun high five.
jag gör haj fajv men jag är rätt gay också
(Israel) Over here, a lot of people greet by bumping eachother's cheeks and making a kissy sound. It's between straight same-sex people too. It weirds me out a bit when I'm greeted with this.
[QUOTE=Novangel;35618319]I do this thing where I grab their hand and move it up and down a bit. Is that weird?[/QUOTE]
Oh you mean that hand thing I explained in my first sentence that I specifically said was not what this was about?
It's not actual hand gesturing, but in my area lots of people greet each other with "doin der". It's a low socioeconomic area and it started with the Aboriginal people doing it, now all the whites do it as well (Australia, by the way).
Hand shakes are per normal though of course. My immediate friend group has our own unique thing but that's it.
Where I live, the most common way to greet another person is to headbutt them
In my town, we greet each other like this:
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKjHeVlUox4[/media]
Yeah I see people doing in the alley's a lot, they always give each other a small bag of white stuff.
We hug each other and kisses both chins and than bow fastly to each other
[QUOTE=jomt1234;35618437]jag gör haj fajv men jag är rätt gay också[/QUOTE]
The fuck? I was at work 10 hours ago, I don't remember posting this..
For real, what the fuck! 10 hours ago, it was 10am here :tinfoil:
[QUOTE=jomt1234;35623497]The fuck? I was at work 10 hours ago, I don't remember posting this..
For real, what the fuck! 10 hours ago, it was 10am here :tinfoil:[/QUOTE]*tries to sneak away*
[editline]18th April 2012[/editline]
ok, it was a joke
[editline]18th April 2012[/editline]
(My post was a joke, not what happened to him, I'm in no way involved with that)
