Kiss on cheeks for a lady or handshake?

lolz81 · 21-07-2012 11:19PM

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 · 22-07-2012 12:16AM

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 · 22-07-2012 12:18AM

whiplashed wrote: »

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

I actually snorted at that!

VEN · 22-07-2012 12:28AM

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 · 22-07-2012 12:34AM

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 · 23-07-2012 11:04PM

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 · 23-07-2012 11:12PM

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

General General · 23-07-2012 11:13PM

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

BBDBB · 23-07-2012 11:14PM

drop the hand and say hello

jd007 · 23-07-2012 11:14PM

handshake and a shift

Killer Wench · 23-07-2012 11:15PM

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 · 23-07-2012 11:16PM

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 · 23-07-2012 11:18PM

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 · 23-07-2012 11:23PM

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 · 23-07-2012 11:38PM

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

Arpa · 24-07-2012 01:21AM

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 · 24-07-2012 01:51PM

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.

Kiss on cheeks for a lady or handshake?

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