Anyway NA I'm sorry I was rude and I accept my FP w/ grace.
― Je55e, Friday, 24 July 2015 23:31 (eight years ago) link
And the apology I'm due? It's not snobbery to withhold custom from a tax-dodging company that's shit to its workers and is not what I'd call a good neighbour - and I'm not responsible for whatever it is your boss does to piss you off. Check yourself, not me.
― error: unclean shutdown (suzy), Saturday, 25 July 2015 05:28 (eight years ago) link
Sometimes it results in uncomfortable political conversations, other times it's just like one person not keyed in at all to some kind of inside-jokey humor sensibility like "Wait, are you guys serious right now?!!!"― five six and (man alive), Wednesday, July 22, 2015 3:43 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― five six and (man alive), Wednesday, July 22, 2015 3:43 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― jaymc, Saturday, 25 July 2015 05:39 (eight years ago) link
My man.
― Jeff, Saturday, 25 July 2015 09:54 (eight years ago) link
I don't know how anyone navigates the minefield of cheek-kissing. Once, twice or three times? Cheek to cheek or lips to cheek? Starting on the left or the right? It's impossible to get right.
Even if you can remember all the different national variations (three for Russians, two in Spain, etc) there's no guarantee the other person isn't going to try to tailor their cheek-kissing to your presumed cultural context (which i guess would be one or two in the UK). It always goes wrong. I leave about 50% of my business meetings feeling like an idiot and not for the normal, justifiable reasons. I just want a handshake.
― I wear my Redditor loathing with pride (ShariVari), Saturday, 25 July 2015 11:38 (eight years ago) link
i once kissed my girlfriend's best friend full on the lips because of this confusion.
― Fizzles, Saturday, 25 July 2015 11:52 (eight years ago) link
also shaking hands with women in the paris office produces an understandable wtf is this guy am i a leper look. italians i worked with just ended up saying "we know, inglese, non toccare" which was about right.
touching cheek or peck on the cheel or gradations in between.
― Fizzles, Saturday, 25 July 2015 11:59 (eight years ago) link
whether to kiss or not is a nightmare, and then how many. if i do one kiss i feel like paddy irishman if the person was about to do two, if i do two and they were intending one it's like i think i'm some deluded europhile.
told this story on ilx already but in a noisy drunken pub situation, a girl i vaguely know once stopped me in the middle of going for the second cheek and thought i was attempting to kiss her - and like actually full-on kissed me in response to this - i was like "whoa that's not where i was going at all!" and she said "that was weird! i suppose it's no harm" - her bf was across the room...
― doing my Objectives, handling some intense stuff (LocalGarda), Saturday, 25 July 2015 12:14 (eight years ago) link
to hug or not in the U.S. is similar, most people I'm friends with, men or women, give a hug and that makes sense and I like that but there are so many couples we know in which the wife gives me a hug but the husband just gives this distant handshake and it is just like wtf dude I have known for years and been to your wedding and shit and am going through parenting together just give me a fucking hug. my goddamned brother in law still just gives me a handshake. gtfo. Makes me both angry and embarrasses when I go for the hug but they just offer their hand. wtf u afraid of dude
― marcos, Saturday, 25 July 2015 13:22 (eight years ago) link
yeah hug or handshake is a prob here too. i've seen people act weird about a handshake.
― doing my Objectives, handling some intense stuff (LocalGarda), Saturday, 25 July 2015 13:37 (eight years ago) link
my brother shook my mum's hand once bcos he got confused about the hug.
― Fizzles, Saturday, 25 July 2015 13:41 (eight years ago) link
just realized I went through an entire trip to quebec without anyone doing the kiss greeting. I'd have botched it badly, again, but I need that awkwardness in my life
― Upright Mammal (mh), Saturday, 25 July 2015 15:23 (eight years ago) link
I don't hug. Not fond of handshakes either. Fist bumps are ok.
― Jeff, Saturday, 25 July 2015 15:37 (eight years ago) link
Maybe I'll hug if drunk. But nobody wants that.
Hugging is weird and hard to figure out. My brother and I hugged for the first time in about 2007 at the airport after my dad's funeral. It was awkward.
― Je55e, Saturday, 25 July 2015 16:07 (eight years ago) link
My extended family started hugging in the 90s. When I saw my dad hug his sister it called everything into question. Midwesterners no toccare.
― Je55e, Saturday, 25 July 2015 16:10 (eight years ago) link
I'm a hugger now.
― Upright Mammal (mh), Saturday, 25 July 2015 16:19 (eight years ago) link
Love 2 hug
― D-4(y)0 (wins), Saturday, 25 July 2015 16:19 (eight years ago) link
i hug ppl i know but go for handshake if i dont
which, idk i find that ppl think bcz I am a woman that i want to hug.
nuh uh. shields up, buddy
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 25 July 2015 16:51 (eight years ago) link
I'm a hugger but a lot of our friends are not so I abstain but sometimes it's hard because I'm just really happy to see you, man.
― from batman to balloon dog (carl agatha), Saturday, 25 July 2015 16:53 (eight years ago) link
Unless it's hot in which case don't touch me with your gross damp body heat.
― from batman to balloon dog (carl agatha), Saturday, 25 July 2015 16:54 (eight years ago) link
When I met lj for the 1st time irl he went str8 for the hug, I was into it & knew we would get on
― D-4(y)0 (wins), Saturday, 25 July 2015 16:58 (eight years ago) link
:)
― drash, Saturday, 25 July 2015 16:59 (eight years ago) link
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 25 July 2015 17:00 (eight years ago) link
yeah fyi i'd be up for a hug with an ilxor
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 25 July 2015 17:01 (eight years ago) link
hug sug
― D-4(y)0 (wins), Saturday, 25 July 2015 17:01 (eight years ago) link
I think I hugged je55e last week when it was oppressively hot and I was kind of drunk after a conversation about glory holes.
― joygoat, Saturday, 25 July 2015 20:19 (eight years ago) link
iirc I have hugged carl
― Upright Mammal (mh), Saturday, 25 July 2015 20:24 (eight years ago) link
Chilxors are the huggiest ilxors in my experience.
― dart scar rashes (WilliamC), Saturday, 25 July 2015 20:27 (eight years ago) link
theyre cold is why
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 25 July 2015 20:38 (eight years ago) link
don't get me wrong - who doesn't love hugs? (apart from my brother) it's the whole stranger in a strange land/professional acquaintance thing that can wrongfoot me.
― Fizzles, Saturday, 25 July 2015 20:40 (eight years ago) link
I prefer loving punches over hugs.
― Jeff, Saturday, 25 July 2015 21:52 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-VIpTAKQ58
― D-4(y)0 (wins), Saturday, 25 July 2015 21:54 (eight years ago) link
It was hot as fuck too so now you know how much I like you.
― from batman to balloon dog (carl agatha), Saturday, 25 July 2015 22:36 (eight years ago) link
Would hug VG
you better! :D
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 25 July 2015 23:19 (eight years ago) link
I've become a hugger since I've been going to the dreaded Burning Man. Not so much before.
― nickn, Sunday, 26 July 2015 02:11 (eight years ago) link
greetings in general make me feel awkward and embarrassed, if i don't know the person.
otoh i get really annoyed when a man will shake ytth's hand and just sort of head-nod at me or something.
― just1n3, Sunday, 26 July 2015 04:09 (eight years ago) link
― Jeff, Saturday, July 25, 2015 4:52 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
lol this reminds me of a dude I know who was bonding with a woman at some party (turns out she worked for h1gh t1m3s!) and somehow they ended up thinking it was cool to give each other black eyes
― Upright Mammal (mh), Sunday, 26 July 2015 23:06 (eight years ago) link
that sounds like displaced sexual energyhugs are different!!
― La Lechera, Sunday, 26 July 2015 23:08 (eight years ago) link
I go straight for a snuggle, all-in or nothing
― irl lol (darraghmac), Sunday, 26 July 2015 23:24 (eight years ago) link
dayo, fyi, is not a snuggle and now I know that
This shouldn't be overlooked.
― Je55e, Sunday, 26 July 2015 23:36 (eight years ago) link
i've adopted a hugging policy to be done once and for all with the usual british uncertainties about it, but still when anyone greets me with more than one kiss it feels like i've been thrown into a particularly fiendish spatial reasoning puzzle
(somewhat rational embarrassment - accidentally posting this in the velvet underground albums thread)
― Merdeyeux, Sunday, 26 July 2015 23:59 (eight years ago) link
Maybe this should go in one of the many phrases you dislike threads but I am embarrassed by and for anyone who has ever said the words "easy tiger"
― killfile with that .exe, you goon (wins), Tuesday, 4 August 2015 17:12 (eight years ago) link
they are trying to indicate you are in the presence of an extraterrestrial iirc
― Upright Mammal (mh), Tuesday, 4 August 2015 17:56 (eight years ago) link
The spoken part and subsequent cheerleader rap in "Shake It Off"
― Immediate Follower (NA), Friday, 21 August 2015 21:50 (eight years ago) link
I only really have one opinion about Taylor Swift and it's really more of an indisputable fact than an opinion, and that is that every spoken aside in a Taylor Swift song is corny and bad
― o.m.g. lol @ hurt butt (wins), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 17:11 (7 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― cis terfs /r/ doing it for themselves (wins), Friday, 21 August 2015 21:55 (eight years ago) link
sex scenes in R rated moviesyes, still
― Meta Forksclove-Liebeskind (forksclovetofu), Friday, 21 August 2015 22:43 (eight years ago) link
singers who *make themselves laugh* in the middle of a song, especially when the laughter is obviously rehearsed/overdubbed and the preceding line wasn't particularly funny, ex. Taylor's "go on too many dates--huh huh" Terence Trent D'Arby's "a riverboat gambler--hahaha" and Lorde's giggly "and you can watch from your window"
― scarlett bohansson (unregistered), Friday, 21 August 2015 23:14 (eight years ago) link