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The CL coffee time discussion - How do you greet your mates?

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  • AFKABartram
    AFKABartram Posts: 57,822
    edited January 2016
    8 chest bumps
    30 seconds of shadow boxing
    5 fist bumps ending with a pull-away hand 'explosion' with sound effects

    Must be honest, I do struggle to make friends
  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,590

    I have a friend who shakes hands in a fairly normal way but with his left hand he grabs my upper right arm firmly to restrict the handshake. Once the handshake is "frozen", he then moves briefly to my right shoulder. I never know how to respond to this.

    Kick him in the bollocks
  • McBobbin
    McBobbin Posts: 12,051
    With strangers, particularly at networking events, I do that that thing where you shake hands, lock thumbs, lock fingers, slide hands, fist bump, but then go for a high five, miss, lean forward, and shake each others ankles.

    With mates a personal insult
  • iamdan
    iamdan Posts: 2,421
    'hows your sister/misses/mum?' Usually..
  • 3blokes
    3blokes Posts: 4,610
    MrOneLung said:

    A barely perceptable nod of the head.

    I like this. A silent dignified acknowledgement between two real men. :-)

  • PL54
    PL54 Posts: 10,757
    You wanted to be thankful you don't live in Caernarfon
  • Algarveaddick
    Algarveaddick Posts: 21,142
    PL54 said:

    You wanted to be thankful you don't live in Caernarfon

    That's a mantra for life, not just this thread...
  • IA
    IA Posts: 6,103
    edited January 2016
    MrOneLung said:

    A barely perceptable nod of the head.

    What's the opposite of a nod? ie where you tip your head upwards (not shaking head)

    I do that, handshake and (occasionally) hug.
  • Just the secret Masons handshake for me and my chums.
  • Redskin
    Redskin Posts: 3,112
    Handshakes in general, hugs for old friends.

    Under no circumstances whatsoever:

    Fist-bumps

    That claspy, grip thing that footballers - even refs and linesmen ffs - do before games

    High-fives
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  • Shrew
    Shrew Posts: 5,749
    Living in rural Shropshire meeting another human being is always a big deal, gotta be a hug.
  • iaitch
    iaitch Posts: 10,217
    First person says 'alright'

    Second person replies 'alright'

    First person then says 'is someone getting the beers in or what?'
  • IA said:

    MrOneLung said:

    A barely perceptable nod of the head.

    What's the opposite of a nod? ie where you tip your head upwards (not shaking head)

    I do that, handshake and (occasionally) hug.
    A jerk?
  • seth plum
    seth plum Posts: 53,448
    MrOneLung said:

    A barely perceptable nod of the head.

    This one.

    And if it's somebody you really bond with add a slight knowing eyebrow raise, of just one eyebrow.

  • I once knew a guy who I didn't see often, but when I did, would give the most bone-crushing handshake I've ever encountered. It took me by painful surprised the first couple of times, but the third time I remembered and got in there early with as firm a handshake as I could manage. He looked at me, eyes wide, a sense of mild awe on his face and said "Good shake!"

    I don't really have any friends, but some guys I work with go for the sort of genial pat on the arm thing?
  • 1StevieG
    1StevieG Posts: 10,964
    'sup.
  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,590

    Just the secret Masons handshake for me and my chums.

    They've told you it's a secret Masons thing but they're just fingering you mate.
  • IA
    IA Posts: 6,103
    This thread has reminded me about the Wikipedia high 5 page
  • Wasssssssuuuupppppp

    (I have no mates)
  • johnny73
    johnny73 Posts: 4,567
    Handshake for those I see on a regular basis. Hug for those I only see occasionally.
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  • Leroy Ambrose
    Leroy Ambrose Posts: 14,435
    Dick touch
  • Croydon
    Croydon Posts: 12,725
    Kiss my teeth and say "wagwan"

    It's croydon after all.
  • depends on the mate. some would want a quick hug. some did hold on for a bit too long though. most of the time it's a simple alright, possibly followed with a handshake.

    with my best mate to this day I still do the fresh prince handshake though...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCvmZ-lfkqM

    The Leaburn-Garland celebration.
  • Solidgone
    Solidgone Posts: 10,205
    Am I the only one that lifts my trouser leg up and whistles the Brazilian national anthem?
  • Baldybonce
    Baldybonce Posts: 9,640
    Shrew said:

    Living in rural Shropshire meeting another human being is always a big deal, gotta be a hug.

    then tie them over a log and tell them to squeal, that sort of thing?