10-04-2002 22:44									#1
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So tell me do you shake hands or do you hug? Or do you do both?

I've noticed this happens alot here at the club. Men will come in for lunch and give the obligatory hand shake and be done with it. We have one gentlelmen that will shake and pull you in for the hug at the same time while giving you the customary "2 slaps on the back no I'm not gay" pat and then move on.

I have notice however, that most of the men he does this to will bristle up or back off as quickly as possible. Is it that it's just to personal or he's invading the space. It seems to make most of them very uncomfortable.

So do you shake or hug?

	10-04-2002 22:45									#2
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What? Touch another man? Are you mad?

	10-04-2002 22:46									#3
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I don't do much of either, being a college student and all.

When I first meet people or don't know them, I'll shake.
But I end up getting hugged when I see people I know (only the girls really do that though).

It doesn't bother me. Now if some big Italian guy hugged me the first time I met him, that'd bother me.

	10-04-2002 22:48									#4
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Depends on how much blood is left in my Alcohol stream

Sober=shake

Drunk=Hug

Loaded=Long groping hug

	10-04-2002 22:49									#5
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I find it difficult to even shake someone's hand without making involuntary snarling noises. That's probably why I'm such a useless networker.

	10-04-2002 22:54									#6
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I shake hands with other men if I haven't seen them for a while or it's the first time. I hug and/or kiss many of the girls from my hometown on the cheeks. They don't do things like that where I live now. People are so much colder up north.

	10-04-2002 22:59									#7
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I nod my head in recognition. I shake hands only if the formal occassion requires it. I also avoid anything that invades my personal space which is at least two feet. It can often result in a general migration as I step back from people who keep stepping forward.

	10-04-2002 23:09									#8
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I usually shake hands only when meeting a person for the first time.

I sometimes hug girls or people that I haven't seen in a long time.

	10-04-2002 23:19									#9
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Depends. I will shake hands willy-nilly, that is nothing. A female will invariably get a hug, a male, well, depends on how close a friend they are. I am quite a tactile person, perhaps it is because of sensory deprivation in this regard normally as I have never had a partner.

	10-04-2002 23:23									#10
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Men - shake

Women - hug and kiss

dear friend I haved seen for a long time - hug

	10-04-2002 23:27									#11
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I guess I fall into the hug catagory but only with people I've known for a while. Men just don't seem to be hugging material in formal situations. And if you do then it always seems like you have to do the slap on the back thing just to keep everything kosher

	10-04-2002 23:34									#12
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Pat on the back? Nah, that's for sissies. Real men stick one of their hands down their trousers and their tongue down their neck

	10-04-2002 23:35									#13
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I tend to glare at people long enough so they have no desire to touch me

	10-04-2002 23:38									#14
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quote: Originally posted by Dissident I tend to glare at people long enough so they have no desire to touch me

oh ffs

	10-04-2002 23:40									#15
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I've noticed most males my age (or at least in the college I work at) do not understand the concept of a firm handshake, so I usually go with the head nod and obligatory "what's up?"


Males older than I, the hand shake works fine.


Women, unfortunately there aren't many around these days.

	10-04-2002 23:54									#16
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I hug. If it's an absolute stranger, I'll shake hands. But for friends (male/female), I hug. None of this patting on the back stuff either.

	11-04-2002 00:06									#17
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I shakes hands with new acquaintences, hug my gay friends, kiss my wife and the lesbian shopkeeper, tip the waitress and barkeep, smile at the tiny tots, give some food to the homeless guy, rolleyes at the train that is late again, and cheer for random sports teams. I think I need to write that down so I'll remember as I get older and lose a brain cell or two.

	11-04-2002 00:10									#18
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I only hug trees.

	11-04-2002 01:18									#19
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Nod-Just walking past someone in the hall or street

Shake-if I'm being introduced for the first time to male or female


Hug-if I meet a girl that I know well

Hug and Kiss on cheeck-For my close friends that are females

Note: Some women insist on hugging the first time you meet. I don't pull away.

And yes there are those guys, usually older men, that insist on the shake and pat on back.

You have to be careful about hugging and kissing girls. I never had a problem with a girlfriend hugging a guy she has known and was friends with, but some guys freak out when their girl does this. Especially the real friendly girls

	11-04-2002 01:55									#20
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Females invariably get a hug do they Rich?

	11-04-2002 01:56									#21
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"I have tissue damage that bears the memory of the times he's attempted to hug me!"

	11-04-2002 01:57									#22
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I just tend to nod and mumble "alright?".

What's the point in formality.

	11-04-2002 01:59									#23
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little bit of both probably... no problem with hugging though

	11-04-2002 02:19									#25
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It depends on the person. Mostly shake hands with acquaintances and strangers and hug close friends some people don't really do hugging though so they might just get a handshake or nothing. That's pretty much the same for both sexes.

	11-04-2002 02:21									#26
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I was introduced in the union to a girl once by a female friend, and she held out her hand for me to shake, but her palm was directly facing the ground.

I was like, hmmm....stuck-up ******

This is ****ing Aberystwyth not Oxford!

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I at first thought this was about something quite different



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Boddies: You should have just kissed it.

	11-04-2002 02:26									#29
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quote: Originally posted by MikeH Boddies: You should have just kissed it.

But she wasn't bent over.

	11-04-2002 02:34									#30
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What wasn't she bent over?