|
Idiots fixated on shaking with your right hand (pg. 8)
|
View this Thread in Original format
| bananas |
| quote: | Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
Yeah, you're a spineless **** who does what he's told. Well played. |
what the is that supossed to mean? do what his told? that is a rule of etiquette.
by that logic we're eating with cutlery because we're told so, and if we don't want to be spineless s we should eat with our hands?
why do you say hello to your boss, or your teacher? it's not like their your friends, so what, are you a spineless ? |
|
|
| Tony Morello |
| quote: | Originally posted by bananas
what the is that supossed to mean? do what his told? that is a rule of etiquette.
by that logic we're eating with cutlery because we're told so, and if we don't want to be spineless s we should eat with our hands?
why do you say hello to your boss, or your teacher? it's not like their your friends, so what, are you a spineless ? |
well played
that's where the ignorant came into it
it's just a simple rule of etiquette, good manners and common sense i guess are few traits found nowadays
continue on cretens
just don't be surprised when people get offended or refuse to take your hand when the situation doesn't warrant it |
|
|
| SYSTEM-J |
| quote: | Originally posted by Teh Jim
Are you one of those people that get up in arms when someone says "how you going?" as a greeting when they're not really asking the question? or when they say "see you later" when you know they won't? |
No. I don't give a about those things, and you're missing the point.
| quote: | Originally posted by bananas
what the is that supossed to mean? do what his told? that is a rule of etiquette.
by that logic we're eating with cutlery because we're told so, and if we don't want to be spineless s we should eat with our hands?
why do you say hello to your boss, or your teacher? it's not like their your friends, so what, are you a spineless ? |
And so are you.
As I've said, I shake people's hands. I don't think the act of shaking a hand is spineless or wrong. So that's every single one of both of your analogies scratched off. What I'm annoyed at is when people somehow think less of you if you shake with your left, my natural hand. I'm performing an act of social etiquette, but because I'm ever so slightly deviant from what everyone is used to I'm being rude or disrespectful. I have to alter my natural hand for 90% of the world. When I make someone else do it, I'm being disrespectful.
People who get so self-righteous about others not rigidly obeying arbitrary conventions seriously need to pull that pole out of their ass. Christ, we were drawing parallels with obeying the traffic lights earlier in this thread, as if shaking a hand correctly is a matter of life and death. I'd have thought we'd stopped caring in the 21st Century. |
|
|
| Tony Morello |
/Jake Benson
shake my penis |
|
|
| SYSTEM-J |
| quote: | Originally posted by Tony Morello
and disrespect for people shaking with their left hand hand come LONG before columbus got lost and "found" the US
it's long known that eastern cultures and philosophies have long since exsisted for thousands of years |
"And they threw rocks at their shadows and died from fear at the age of 24." |
|
|
| Silky Johnson |
| Little X TREME, don't you think? |
|
|
| Jake Benson |
| quote: | Originally posted by Tony Morello
/Jake Benson
shake my penis |
No way dude. I quit stripping a year ago. |
|
|
| UWM |
| quote: | Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
As I've said, I shake people's hands. I don't think the act of shaking a hand is spineless or wrong. So that's every single one of both of your analogies scratched off. What I'm annoyed at is when people somehow think less of you if you shake with your left, my natural hand. I'm performing an act of social etiquette, but because I'm ever so slightly deviant from what everyone is used to I'm being rude or disrespectful. I have to alter my natural hand for 90% of the world. When I make someone else do it, I'm being disrespectful.
People who get so self-righteous about others not rigidly obeying arbitrary conventions seriously need to pull that pole out of their ass. Christ, we were drawing parallels with obeying the traffic lights earlier in this thread, as if shaking a hand correctly is a matter of life and death. I'd have thought we'd stopped caring in the 21st Century. |
So should visitors to foreign countries blatantly disregard their cultural idiosyncracies as well? |
|
|
| Capitalizt |
| quote: | Originally posted by UWM
So should visitors to foreign countries blatantly disregard their cultural idiosyncracies as well? |
Great point. I dunno why, but when I read this I thought of a businessman visiting Japan..and upon meeting someone, doing a pelvic thrust instead of a bow. ;)
Seriously lefties...suck it up. It's not like it takes much effort to shake with your right...the same hand 99% of the planet uses to shake hands with. I'm a lefty myself and can't imagine extending it when I meet someone. Of course it is perfectly possible to shake hands with the left...just as it's possible greet someone by bending backwards...just as it's possible to light the wrong end of a cigar and smoke it backwards. There's nothing stopping you from doing these things, but you can't expect people to accept it. They will think you are a weirdo for behaving this way and you will make a less than favorable impression, even if they don't say so to your face. |
|
|
| SYSTEM-J |
| quote: | Originally posted by UWM
So should visitors to foreign countries blatantly disregard their cultural idiosyncracies as well? |
I don't really care. It doesn't bother me if foreign tourists ignore arbitrary social conventions when they visit my country.
| quote: | Originally posted by jennypie
Little X TREME, don't you think? |
If that was directed at me, it was a quote. The point is that people did crazy and irrelevant thousands of years ago. People used to cut you and drain you of blood when you were ill because of a bat crazy theory that wasn't dispelled until William Harvey came along. If we followed every stupid custom and tradition because of its age we'd never progress as a society. |
|
|
| Jake Benson |
| quote: | Originally posted by Capitalizt
Great point. I dunno why, but when I read this I thought of a businessman visiting Japan..and upon meeting someone, doing a pelvic thrust instead of a bow. ;)
[quote]Seriously lefties...suck it up. It's not like it takes much effort to shake with your right... |
Likewise suck your own and it takes an equal amount of effort to shake with your left.
| quote: | | the same hand 99% of the planet uses to shake hands with |
Actually only like 85% are right-handed.
| quote: | | I'm a lefty myself and can't imagine extending it when I meet someone. |
That's because you are conditioned. Nothing wrong with that. But there's also nothing wrong with shaking with your left either.
| quote: | | Of course it is perfectly possible to shake hands with the left...just as it's possible greet someone by bending backwards...just as it's possible to light the wrong end of a cigar and smoke it backwards. |
That's a fallacy argument. That's like saying "Most people step with their right foot first...just as it's possible to step with your left foot first...just as it's possible to walk backwards...just as it's possible to step with the wrong end of your foot."
.
.
.
So anyway, I thought of this thread when my right hand was full of groceries and I had no choice but to shake with my left. I said "I hope you aren't offended that I'm shaking with my left" as I shook his right with me left. He laughed. Apparently he wasn't an Arab or wasn't aware that I could have had a weapon in my hand. Good thing I narrowly escaped social embarrassment and possible death! |
|
|
| pinkbubblegum |
Semi Off Topic
Do gay guys cuddle after sex? Or is that too "gay" even for gay guys? |
|
|
|
|
