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Idiots fixated on shaking with your right hand (pg. 3)
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| idoru |
| quote: | Originally posted by SuspicionVandit
everything about your life is just backwards, isn't it |
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| Beat Blog |
| quote: | Originally posted by Jake Benson
Okay people, shaking with your right hand, albeit an old American tradition |
Ya, because Americans invented the handshake...
| quote: | Originally posted by Ang ' ela_ie
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. |
Can confirm.
| quote: | Originally posted by Ang ' ela_ie
I think its a whole other argument about WHY it's the right hand. Yeah, you guys just got the shaft, there. |
Duh.
1. 90% of people are right-handed.
2. In old times, people carried their weapon in their right hand, so if you shook hands with someone, it was a way of ensuring that you couldn't/wouldn't attack them. In fact, I wouldn't be at all surprised if this was how the hand shake evolved as a greeting in the first place.
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Personally, I hate it when people shake with their left hand, I see it as rude, like giving a curt nod or chin tilt instead of a verbal greeting.
FYI, limp wristed dead fish handshake from a male = instant loss of respect for the guy I've just met, and same goes for left handed. I'm not sure why I feel that way.
Maybe it's something to do with the fact that strong, competent personalities imbue the same in their shake, and morose idiots shake like a dead fish. I have no idea, really. |
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| sweds00 |
left handshake = gay
2 hand handshake = uber gay |
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| Dr. DAS |
| quote: | Originally posted by Beat Blog
2. In old times, people carried their weapon in their right hand, so if you shook hands with someone, it was a way of ensuring that you couldn't/wouldn't attack them. In fact, I wouldn't be at all surprised if this was how the hand shake evolved as a greeting in the first place.
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Bang on
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FYI, limp wristed dead fish handshake from a male = instant loss of respect for the guy I've just met, and same goes for left handed. I'm not sure why I feel that way.
Maybe it's something to do with the fact that strong, competent personalities imbue the same in their shake, and morose idiots shake like a dead fish. I have no idea, really. |
Bang on. If you shake hands, do it with authority. I hate when I get a client with a dead fish for a hand. |
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| Capo di tutti |
| quote: | Originally posted by Enigmatic XTC
who really gives a about shaking at all? |
if you shake more than twice...you're playing with it! |
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| Andryuha |
| quote: | Originally posted by Beat Blog
Ya, because Americans invented the handshake...
Can confirm.
Duh.
1. 90% of people are right-handed.
2. In old times, people carried their weapon in their right hand, so if you shook hands with someone, it was a way of ensuring that you couldn't/wouldn't attack them. In fact, I wouldn't be at all surprised if this was how the hand shake evolved as a greeting in the first place.
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Personally, I hate it when people shake with their left hand, I see it as rude, like giving a curt nod or chin tilt instead of a verbal greeting.
FYI, limp wristed dead fish handshake from a male = instant loss of respect for the guy I've just met, and same goes for left handed. I'm not sure why I feel that way.
Maybe it's something to do with the fact that strong, competent personalities imbue the same in their shake, and morose idiots shake like a dead fish. I have no idea, really. |
^^^I'm 100% with this guy.
Besides, how hard is it to shake somebody's ing hend? |
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| mezzir |
in my experience, people who lose respect or instantly dislike people who have relatively limp handshakes seem to be really agressive with their handshakes, and grip needlessly hard as if they're trying to assert their dominance. Firm is good, but no need whatsoever to squeeze or force the other person's hand around at all.
Also, anyone who shakes with their left hand is stupid. It's a social convention, and shaking with your left hand would be like walking on the far left side of the sidewalk like those ing goth kids do with their heads down, refusing to move. It's not technically against any rules or anything, but its just ing stupid and annoying, and makes you stick out in a bad way. |
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| smakmagik |
| If someone holds their left hand out at me, I shake it backwards with my right hand. The handshake is right hand priority |
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| LazFX |
| I just came to say the thread tittle made me lol :) |
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| Lira |
| A hand shake is just a hand shake... you're just greeting, that's all :conf: |
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| sufee_b |
| quote: | Originally posted by Jake Benson
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 ing 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!!!! |
It is rude. Scientists agree that 99.3% of the male population whacks off with their left hand |
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