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Hand Shakes...

usndocjaysin

usndocjaysin

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So as not to thread jack this is what made me start this thread...

mikhail said:
This sort of behavior reminds me of people who grip your hand way too hard during a handshake...
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Growing up I was ALWAYS told to give a nice firm and strong hand shake, wait till they let go first or 3-5 seconds has gone by. I'm not that dick that tries to crush your hand, by any means :hand, but I will let my presences be known.:|

I was also told you can tell alot about a person through thier hand shake as well and I find that to be true. In my experience men with "weak" hand shakes usually have no self confidence (or very little), are meek and quite. It's not to say that they are a bad person or a d-bag, because they are usually pretty good guys :thumbup It's just that if it feels like I'm shaking hands with a dead fish...:rolleyes
 
^^Good one! I agree with the OP...I always have a nice firm shake, but I'm not trying to prove myself by breaking bones. I hate dicks that do that.

It's funny, but I easily remember people who stand out with a terrible hand shake. For example at my last job there was a big meeting, and I go to shake hands with some guy, and his hand was COMPLETELY limp in my hand. I couldn't fucking believe it...how do you go through life shaking people's hands like that...I could never take that guy seriously.
 
[slightly off topic] I can't stand when some chick grabs my hand and tries to give me a 'man' shake. I am old school. I take their fingers (like looking for a ring) and turn the back of their hand up (as if like going to give it a kiss) and lift it slightly (think 3 musaketeer). I consider this a 'proper' handshake to give to a woman and to show her some respect.

As far as shaking men's hand, I don't bother with 'crush the hand' shake but I like to get palm to palm and have a 'firm' shake. I hate these assholes who go for your fingers and crush the shit out of your hand just to make themselves look manly.
 
When some douche nozzle grabs your fingers hard, go completely limp-wristed and say something like, "Easy there, killler! You trying to break my fingers or what?" That usually throws them off so much that they just let go.

I think equally important to the firmess of a man's handshake is the angle at which he approaches you. I'm suspect of men that stick their hands out for a shake when they're 15 feet away from you. I'm even more suspect of a man when he puts his hand way above yours and then comes down at an angle to shake your hand. This is usually accompanied by a finger-smashing iron grip.

Little things like clasping their off hand over your shaking hand, or taking their off hand and grasping your elbow are signs that the person is trying to dominate you. I've got my own little tricks for dealing with those situations, too.

When shaking hands with some young kid who wants to shake hands like he's fucking Snoop Dogg, I take my hand away and tell him to "Shake my hand like a man." I've gotten a couple of very negative reactions when using that line, but I don't really care.
 
sometimes im forgetting that im shaking a girls hand an squeeze a lil too hard...

:blush *i usually get hugs :p*
 
undoc,
how do you feel if someones hand feels like a rabbits paw?

and for what its worth I really don't care how people shake hands, I just try to match whatever they're doing.
 
when i shake hands with a man i imagine them naked and wonder what they're like in bed. i don't shake hands with women (for the aforementioned reason).

j/k

i just go with a 'hey, how's it goin - glad that's over with' hand grab. i do hate limp though. it's just too weird. and the guys who want to hold on drive me nuts.
 
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my response to the ultra-unnecessary-to-firm handshake is to grab their hand back, not as hard as they are grabbing mine but hard enough so they can't take their hand back. I then turn their hand slightly, similar to shacking a women's hand as if you are going to kiss it.

I then look at their hand and then look in their eyes with a smile and say, "boy, you sure do have soft hands, what kind of moisturizer do you use"

I try to be as serious as possible when asking this. Usually 1 of 2 things happen:
1) they realize that I am being silly and there is no need to 'peacock' with their handshake.

or
2) They are totally freaked out and don't know what to do.

Either way I am satisfied with the results :laughing
 
I hate the "I'm-going-to-turn-our-clasped-hands-so-that-mine-is-on-top"...
Some weird control freak deal, trying to get the "upper hand"...?:rolleyes
 
n10sive said:
[slightly off topic] I can't stand when some chick grabs my hand and tries to give me a 'man' shake. I am old school. I take their fingers (like looking for a ring) and turn the back of their hand up (as if like going to give it a kiss) and lift it slightly (think 3 musaketeer). I consider this a 'proper' handshake to give to a woman and to show her some respect.

As far as shaking men's hand, I don't bother with 'crush the hand' shake but I like to get palm to palm and have a 'firm' shake. I hate these assholes who go for your fingers and crush the shit out of your hand just to make themselves look manly.
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Dudes dont know how to shake hands like that. You are gentleman and a scholar, or sumthin like that. :laughing

I am more of a hugger, but if I dont know the person they get a handshake and I dont try to do a dudelike firm shake cuz then I get crushed fingers. Always a competition with you guys huh ?? :p
 
The way you hand shake is more of a cultural thing too. I know that indian men always give the limp hand shake, I don't know what it is, maybe they don't want to seem more dominant. Something I noticed.

I will go with the OP and say you always give a firm hand shake!!
 
Chotu-Mama said:
The way you hand shake is more of a cultural thing too. I know that indian men always give the limp hand shake, I don't know what it is, maybe they don't want to seem more dominant. Something I noticed.
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I have noticed the same thing. When I get a handshake like that, I think, "What a submissive little bitch."
 
n10sive said:
[slightly off topic] I can't stand when some chick grabs my hand and tries to give me a 'man' shake. I am old school. I take their fingers (like looking for a ring) and turn the back of their hand up (as if like going to give it a kiss) and lift it slightly (think 3 musaketeer). I consider this a 'proper' handshake to give to a woman and to show her some respect.

As far as shaking men's hand, I don't bother with 'crush the hand' shake but I like to get palm to palm and have a 'firm' shake. I hate these assholes who go for your fingers and crush the shit out of your hand just to make themselves look manly.
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This is actually quite funny to me, because the first time I met you at work I remember thinking "Wow, so this is the lead engineer? What pretty blue eyes and a guy who can actually shake hands with a female." It wasn't a princess shake either you know the type of just grabbing the girls fingers and trying to cock her wrist artificially which is stupid. You grabbed by whole hand and shook it with just the right amount of pressure. Who knew is was going to be love? :laughing

As a side note since I play tennis many men comment on how firmly I shake hands. I guess we were just the right pressure for each other eh? :sex
 
Some years ago, some friends and I were making fun of limp-handed Frenchies and their lousy handshakes. It was like they were pushing together spoonfuls of oatmeal, rather than coherent handshakes. It was like sticking out two dead fishes for a snuggle.
 
n10sive said:
[slightly off topic] I can't stand when some chick grabs my hand and tries to give me a 'man' shake. I am old school. I take their fingers (like looking for a ring) and turn the back of their hand up (as if like going to give it a kiss) and lift it slightly (think 3 musaketeer). I consider this a
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I did thsi on a first date once and the girl thought I was too gentlemanly and chivalrious for her :(
 
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