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Idiots fixated on shaking with your right hand

Once in a while I'll meet someone and either I reach out my left hand (because there's a 50% chance I happen to decide to shake with that hand) or something's in my right hand and I have no choice but to extend out the left. When I do this sometimes the recipient of the shake refuses to shake, insisting that I use my right hand, even if it's full of something. They explain that it's "rude" to shake with my left hand and look at me like I'm some retard that never learned to tie his shoes.

Okay people, shaking with your right hand, albeit an old American tradition, should have now died off with the rest of the Jim Crow Stepford Housewife McCarthy Era laws and moreways. Why the right hand? Is it better? No. It's retarded. If I give you my left hand you better fucking shake it.

I've suffered long enough as a left-handed person, being persecuted and looked down upon just because I shake with my left hand. Well IT'S NOT A CHOICE PEOPLE! I was BORN this way! Don't you see? I bet you don't and neither did Helen Keller. Now she's dead. Probably due to right hand exposure and not enough nourishment from shaking her left hand. I don't want the same fate.

I can't help but to introduce myself from the opposing hand that your sorry righty-ass has long since been oppressauring. What next, ban left-handed marriages? Symmetry is at stake here. Left hands shall rise.

THINK ABOUT IT! ...I'm off to the gym now.

c0r version: LEFT PRIDE! LEFT POWER!!!!

everything about your life is just backwards, isn't it

Ive always hated retarded social conventions that only remain due to "custom". Who really gives a shit which hand is used for shaking?

Arent there some cultures that the left hand is the "wiping" hand? I personally dont care what hand is used.

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Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN Ive always hated retarded social conventions that only remain due to "custom". Who really gives a shit which hand is used for shaking?

who really gives a shit about shaking at all?

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Originally posted by Enigmatic XTC who really gives a shit about shaking at all?

LOL ewwww you're a hugger! fag.

Hell, yeah!

I would usually agree with something like this, but I cant this time. I feel like there needs to be some kind of social norm for things like this. Otherwise, every encounter with someone new is going to be an awkward left-or-right-handed MESS. I feel like it's somewhat comparable to traffic laws. You could just as easily have said "Idiots fixated on red means stop and green means go."

It's a social norm that is set up so that interaction is easier and less stressful, and doesnt cause fatal accidents.

I think its a whole other argument about WHY it's the right hand. Yeah, you guys just got the shaft, there.

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Originally posted by Enigmatic XTC who really gives a shit about shaking at all?

Old people.

And young people who want to become politicians or managers of some type.

So would you turn down a left handed hand job?

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Originally posted by Ang ' ela_ie It's a social norm that is set up so that interaction is easier and less stressful

"Stressful"? You bunch of right-handed tyrants

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Originally posted by L.E.N. Arent there some cultures that the left hand is the "wiping" hand? I personally dont care what hand is used.

tis true, it's a major form of disrespect if you offer your left hand

which would be why some people refuse to shake your hand when you offer your left, you's basically saying, i don't respect you enough so here, shake my shit hand

it also stems from early times when you would offer your open hand as a form of peace and showing you aren't holding a weapon

which would be why, even when i have something in my right hand, i transfer it to my left so i'm able to offer my right hand when the hand shake situation arises, it's about showing respect to another person

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Originally posted by Ang ' ela_ie I feel like there needs to be some kind of social norm for things like this. Otherwise, every encounter with someone new is going to be an awkward left-or-right-handed MESS.

It's only awkward if the two people shaking hands reach out left vs right at the exact same time. Even then they can still shake and the awkwardness from a left shaking a right hand can lead to humor which can break the ice in an introduction.

Keep it a right vs right custom makes things awkward when the right hand is full or occupied with something else. It should be a common sense thing where whenever a person extends a certain hand out, you reciprocate with the same, and not freak out when it's the left.

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I feel like it's somewhat comparable to traffic laws. You could just as easily have said "Idiots fixated on red means stop and green means go."

Except getting in an arm shaking accident doesn't kill you.

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I think its a whole other argument about WHY it's the right hand.

Probably because the majority of the people are right handed. But with this whole "equality for everyone" idea coming around, you know like giving women the right to vote, and giving blacks the right to ride the front of the bus, I figure why not give lefties a chance to extend their best arm?

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Originally posted by Jake Benson Except getting in an arm shaking accident doesn't kill you.

Yeah but wouldnt that be hilarious?

LOL@hellen keller.

i rarely shake hands. i did it in germany (everyone did there). but here its only for like sports and meeting someone higher up at work...that's about it.

although if friends reach out to shake, i'll reciprocate...and will make an effort to use right hand.

man, Jake, you've got it rough: you're a gay left-handed Jew

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Originally posted by Tony Morello tis true, it's a major form of disrespect if you offer your left hand which would be why some people refuse to shake your hand when you offer your left, you's basically saying, i don't respect you enough so here, shake my shit hand it also stems from early times when you would offer your open hand as a form of peace and showing you aren't holding a weapon

So you are supporting the right hand shake custom because it's proper in certain areas of the country even though are irrelevant in other parts? Or because it signifies a gesture that has long since dissipated since the time where one would be "holding a weapon"? If the latter is true, then to me it's like you're saying, "I listen to songs that are only between 3 and 4 minutes in length, because when the first records came out they were spinning at 78 RPM and therefore couldn't fit more than 4 minutes on one side." Maintaining a custom isn't necessary if it was historically important for survival but no longer is today.

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Originally posted by tubularbills man, Jake, you've got it rough: you're a gay left-handed Jew

Haha, I was thinking exactly about that.

I just hope he isn't an atheist also

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Originally posted by Lira Haha, I was thinking exactly about that. I just hope he isn't an atheist also

No, just a regular self-hating Jew

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Originally posted by tubularbills No, just a regular self-hating Jew

Oh. Because, as a vegetarian left-handed Atheist, I can pretty much understand how awkward it must feel to be a gay left-handed Jew

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Originally posted by Lira Oh. Because, as a vegetarian left-handed Atheist, I can pretty much understand how awkward it must feel to be a gay left-handed Jew

not really. at least a gay left-handed Jew can still eat meat. only kosher meat. but meat, none the less.

you evil demon left-hander
burn you at the stake they should

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Originally posted by Lira left-handed Atheist

I knew there was a reason why you're so awesome.

LEFT POWAH

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Originally posted by SuspicionVandit everything about your life is just backwards, isn't it

QFT

I've never seen or even heard of anyone shaking with the left...That's just farking weird.

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Originally posted by Tony Morello i don't respect you enough so here, shake my shit hand

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Originally posted by SuspicionVandit everything about your life is just backwards, isn't it

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