Kiss on cheeks for a lady or handshake?

supernova84

I always go in for the handshake when greeting a lady. It looks so retarded when you see fellows kiss women on the cheek. How do you go about it and do women like having their cheeks kissed?

Ficheall

I usually say 'hi' and smile if I know them, and turn into a gibbering wreck if I don't.

Gummy Panda

I drop my trousers and waggle my penis at them

Doylers

This will be good

I kiss most people on the cheek, unless it's in a professional situation of course.

eth0

supernova84 wrote: »

I always go in for the handshake when greeting a lady. It looks so retarded when you see fellows kiss women on the cheek. How do you go about it and do women like having their cheeks kissed?

Kind of get her to stand in a way that obscures everyone else's view then drop the hand

Praetorian Saighdiuir

High 5 and a slap on the ass!

cartell_best

When it comes to women, I will always go for an embrace

MagicMarker

I would never greet a woman with a kiss on the cheek, unless it was a date or something. But a random woman? No, why would I?

BUBBLE WRAP

Deleted User wrote: »

I kiss most people on the cheek, unless it's in a professional situation of course.

What do you do in a "Professional situation"?

mauzo

I only do it to men. If I'm meeting a male friend for drinks or lunch I'd kiss their cheek to greet them and to say goodbye.
Think its so I can smell them, love a nice manly after shave.
If I randomly bump into them I wouldn't though.

BUBBLE WRAP

BUBBLE WRAP wrote: »

What do you do in a "Professional situation"?

Depends on what they're paying!

Jesus Shaves

I normally let the woman do all the work

Teyla Emmagan

Long as no one tries to slip me the tongue the first time they meet me, it's all good.

efb

I greet all my female friends and gay friends with a kiss and my straight male friends and everyone else with a handshake.

BUBBLE WRAP

supernova84 wrote: »

I always go in for the handshake when greeting a lady. It looks so retarded when you see fellows kiss women on the cheek. How do you go about it and do women like having their cheeks kissed?

I dont know, she can shake my irrect penis for all I care! :cool:

Sauve

It's a bit uncomfortable when guys that I don't know and have just been introduced to do it, especially if they're unsure of whether they should or not.

I know some who do it all the time and it doesn't bother me, as long as they do it properly and don't end up headbutting me

meoklmrk91

As a woman I much prefer a handshake from anyone I don't know well, I just find
It massively uncomfortable. Plus it's really awkward if you both happen to go the same way.

A hand shake is much simpler, and nobody ends up looking like a pretentious knob.

castletownman

I greet everyone with a sports guy bump!

Chuck Stone

A soft-punch on the shoulder and say 'howya keepin'?

0000879k

ooh god, I met a french girl for the first time a few weeks ago and I'm only 15, so I shook her hand and she went for the whole kissing on the cheek thing (cos they do that in france..) whilst still holding my hand, and I was a bit confused as to what she was doing so it took me a sec to realise to kiss her back :P

kavanagh_h

I cant stand all this new hugging and kissing stuff. When i was growing up my parents never hugged or kissed their friends and neither did us kids. It seems to have come in with the new generation. I want to slap strange men that go to kiss me on the cheek! My friends that are 6 years younger than me seem to be ok with it so i must be a different era at 41!

bgrizzley

supernova84 wrote: »

I always go in for the handshake when greeting a lady. It looks so retarded when you see fellows kiss women on the cheek. How do you go about it and do women like having their cheeks kissed?

i would but the underwear gets in the way......

Abi

whoopsadaisydoodles wrote: »

I kiss most people on the cheek, unless it's in a professional situation of course.

This for family and friends.

Jesus Shaves

kavanagh_h wrote: »

I cant stand all this new hugging and kissing stuff.

What's worse is the people who put X after every message they send you.

Micky Dolenz

Who doesn't love a hug and a ittle kiss? Get with the rest of our European brothers and sisters.

Kisses xxxx

eyeball kid

Micky Dolenz wrote: »

Who doesn't love a hug and a ittle kiss? Get with the rest of our European brothers and sisters.

Kisses xxxx

Not for people you barley know.






Kisses xxxxxx

Chuck Stone

Jesus Shaves wrote: »

What's worse is the people who put X after every message they send you.

Or worse

8=========D~~~~~~

cartell_best

Jesus Shaves wrote: »

What's worse is the people who put X after every message they send you.

Good God above!

Micky Dolenz

eyeball kid wrote: »

Not for people you barley know.






Kisses xxxxxx

Culture, you either have it or you don't. We don't. Not to say that's a bad thing, we just don't do it. The same with the Anglo Saxons, they don't do it either.

Jesus Shaves

Chuck Stone wrote: »

Or worse

8=========D~~~~~~

I usually send that one

lolz81

I'm not into strangers kissing me, cheek or otherwise. Bro-fist all the way for people I don't know very well. It took me years to even be ok with hugging my close friends.

CodyJarrett

lolz81 wrote: »

Bro-fist all the way for people I don't know very well.

I don't think your brother should be fisting you - have you told the Guards?

lolz81

whiplashed wrote: »

I don't think your brother should be fisting you - have you told the Guards?

I actually snorted at that!

VEN

Jesus Shaves wrote: »

What's worse is the people who put X after every message they send you.

or the kkkkkkkkkk

i just think of shane mcgowan pissed when he laughs kkkskkskkss

mrsdewinter

kavanagh_h wrote: »

I cant stand all this new hugging and kissing stuff. When i was growing up my parents never hugged or kissed their friends and neither did us kids. It seems to have come in with the new generation. I want to slap strange men that go to kiss me on the cheek! My friends that are 6 years younger than me seem to be ok with it so i must be a different era at 41!

The worst is guys clasping each other's hands at shoulder level. It's grand on a night out among friends but I had to watch the England-Sweden game during the Euros, and the match officials did it too, as if they were college buddies meeting up after their gap year...

previous user

I was meeting a Spanish friends lady friends, when l went to shake their hands he later told me that they took offence and thought I was stuck up, because I didn't kiss them on the cheeks.

kfallon

I just go for a good old fashioned fingering, been a while since I've met any of my female acquaintances

General General

Two licks for a female human, a kick in the balls for a male.

BBDBB

drop the hand and say hello

jd007

handshake and a shift

Killer Wench

If some guy that I didn't know attempted to kiss me on my cheek, I'd probably punch him in the throat.


Explains why I'm single.

Stheno

I've a "colleague/associate" who is a complete slimeball, kisses/tries to kiss all of his female colleagues on the cheek

Makes me shudder

du Maurier

Kisses on the cheek as a greeting/farewell have gotten out of hand. Some comedian I recall noted this - first it was one, then two, then three..

The Big Red Button

If I meet anyone new, either in a professional or a personal context, it's a handshake and a "Hello, lovely to meet you."

Kisses are only just about tolerable even from non-Irish. Personally I find it very pretentious and fake if an Irish person tries to kiss me on first introduction!

RikkFlair

Kiss on the cheek? No way, I don't wanna catch the menopause!

Arpa

Went out with a Belgian girl a while back. Stayed with her family at Christmas. Jesus it was irritating. Three kisses when I met someone new, and two when I had met them already. One kiss when I was leaving company. Even just going to the shop...had to kiss everyone on the cheek once. Took f*ckin ages to leave anywhere. They expected me to kiss her stepfather on the cheek too. I drew the line at that and went for the manly handshake. I think he appreciated it too. Was probably tired of kissing every man he ever met on the cheek.

Someone said it's culture and either we have it or don't. Absolute crap. Nothing go to do with having culture. I think you mean custom. When I meet anyone in Ireland from a country where they do the kissing thing and they go for the kiss, I tell them, "You're in Ireland now. We shake hands". I do make exceptions for particularly hot Mediterranean girls, "Yes, you're in Ireland now, sure we always kiss. It's rude not to kiss three times and then one on the lips, it's our 'culture'."

daenerysstormborn3

I shake hands with everyone I meet for the first time and I'm amazed by the amount of adults who think that this is something hilarious and that I'm being too formal. I've often met someone new and outstretched my hand to shake theirs and they just look at me like I'm mad in the head and give me a small wave instead

I've worked in a professional environment for 8 years so anybody I would meet through my job I always shake hands with (even the people who think they're too good to shake my hand :P ) and I think that it's probably something I've carried over into everyday life but I still think it's just basic manners.

When I meet friends I always hug them and a few of my boyfriend's friends would be a little old-fashioned a give a peck on the cheek. Older members of my family and friends would give a kiss on the cheek when they meet women.