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Kissing on the cheeks as a greeting

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  • 25-10-2014 10:00am
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    Saipanne
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    Not the bum cheeks.

    You know, like the continentals do. I can't ****ing stand it. A complete stranger kissing me on the face. Give me a firm hand shake any day.

    What are your views on this abhorrent greeting?


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    Mena
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    It's a cultural thing. Don't like it, stay holed up in Cavan all your life. Ce la vie.


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    Sunnyisland
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    Don't have a problem with it.
    They don't actually kiss you,but they put there cheek to your cheek, twice maybe three times...


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    Un Croissant
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    realies wrote: »
    Don't have a problem with it.
    They don't actually kiss you,but they put there cheek to your cheek, twice maybe three times...

    Maybe four, who knows.


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    Richard Hillman
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    I only do it if im really drunk and she is really good looking.


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    Buona Fortuna
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    Saipanne wrote: »
    Not the bum cheeks.

    You know, like the continentals do. I can't ****ing stand it. A complete stranger kissing me on the face. Give me a firm hand shake any day.

    What are your views on this abhorrent greeting?

    But you're OK with bum cheeks? :p


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    Saipanne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,882 ✭✭✭Saipanne


    Buona Fortuna wrote: »
    But you're OK with bum cheeks? :p

    Oh yeah.


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    Saipanne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,882 ✭✭✭Saipanne


    Mena wrote: »
    It's a cultural thing. Don't like it, stay holed up in Cavan all your life. Ce la vie.

    Guess again.


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    Vojera
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    My only issue is knowing how many kisses they're going for. Sometimes I've pulled away after two and they're like "No, it's three kisses in this region. Hahahahaha, silly Irish girl."*




    *May be paraphrased :pac:


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    Frosty McSnowballs
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    I'd rather two wet, sloppy cheek kisses than a weak assed handshake!

    Some people are fcuking crap at handshakes.


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    anncoates
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    Saipanne wrote: »
    Not the bum cheeks

    Thanks for clearing that one up.


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    Saipanne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,882 ✭✭✭Saipanne


    Senor Fancy Pants wrote: »
    I'd rather two wet, sloppy cheek kisses than a weak assed handshake!

    Some people are fcuking crap and handshakes.

    That is true. A weak handshake is horrible. Like a hand, dissolving in yours.


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    suicide_circus
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    My favourite is when people try to be cool and attempt an intricate "urban" hand greeting but they cant quite manage it and it just gets awkward.


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    Saipanne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,882 ✭✭✭Saipanne


    suicide_circus wrote: »
    My favourite is when people try to be cool and attempt an intricate "urban" hand greeting but they cant quite manage it and it just gets awkward.

    Yeah. They never quite know when to pull away. This is why you can't beat the old classic handshake. None of this airy fairy Euro kissy crap. No hippity hoppity street bollix. Just good old fashioned Victorian sensibilities.


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    suicide_circus
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    Saipanne wrote: »
    Yeah. They never quite know when to pull away. This is why you can't beat the old classic handshake. None of this airy fairy Euro kissy crap. No hippity hoppity street bollix. Just good old fashioned Victorian sensibilities.
    I usually just drop the hand


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    Shenshen
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    I don't mind the kisses, but as someone else pointed out it's sometimes not easy to tell just how many... one, two, three?
    Hugs are good as well.

    Handshakes I find rather awkward. The only time I'd shake someone's hand would be when I go for a job interview.


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    suicide_circus
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    Shenshen wrote: »
    I don't mind the kisses, but as someone else pointed out it's sometimes not easy to tell just how many... one, two, three?
    Hugs are good as well.

    Handshakes I find rather awkward. The only time I'd shake someone's hand would be when I go for a job interview.
    But why would you hug someone you never met?


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    Colser
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    Just say Hello ffs..


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    Paco Rodriguez
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    Un Croissant wrote: »
    Maybe four, who knows.

    It's defo 3. I kissed my French penpal twice on the cheek and she told me it has to be 3. She wasn't lying because she really didn't like me. Maybe because I was only a two timer.


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    Shenshen
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    suicide_circus wrote: »
    But why would you hug someone you never met?

    Why would you shake the hand of someone you never met?

    Back home if you're being introduced to someone in a social setting (as in, among friends and family), you usually hug.


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    stunmer
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    It can get very awkward with the kisses when you go in for 2 and the other person is only expecting one. They are pulling away and you land one straight on their lips. This is especially awkward with relatives.


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    FullblownRose
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    I dislike it. Ridiculous affectation.
    I don't shake hands, either (unless someone offers their hand, and I am obliged to offer mine back, but I really prefer not to do it at all). A smile and a friendly greeting is sufficient.


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    bodice ripper
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    Three times is the done thing over here. Everyone I know has learned that I am too short and too repressed for that ****.


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    Tokyo
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    Lived in quite a few countries where that was the standard greeting - between men as well as women. Don't see an issue with it TBH. Always good to figure out the number of kisses and side to go to first though, saves on awkward moments...


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    Buona Fortuna
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,507 ✭✭✭Buona Fortuna


    mike_ie wrote: »
    Lived in quite a few countries where that was the standard greeting - between men as well as women. Don't see an issue with it TBH. Always good to figure out the number of kisses and side to go to first though, saves on awkward moments...

    Like where you meet lips :o

    Used to have a French uncle. Well he always said he was French :o


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    #26
    Tarzana2
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    It's not just continental. Kissing one cheek is fairly common in Ireland, and has been all my life anyway.


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    #27
    cloud493
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    Well I certainly hope no one would greet me like that.


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    James 007
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    Tarzana2 wrote: »
    It's not just continental. Kissing one cheek is fairly common in Ireland, and has been all my life anyway.

    Yes, my mum and all her sisters have been greeting like this for a long time. What seems to have happened is that we have lost our way to what was normally doen in the past.


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    Cupcake_Crisis
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    People I know, absolutely fine!! Complete strangers..... Naaaah. ..


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    leahyl
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    I remember going to mass when we were on holidays in Portugal when I was 9 and when it came to offering a sign of peace it was a big smacker on each cheek! I was horrified!


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    snubbleste
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    What about if the other person has a full grown beard?


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