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Post 1

BeowulfShaffer

I have never been a fan of the custom of handshaking and now that the swine flu panic is making people more wary of it it should be replaced. The problem is with what. Any suggestions?


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Post 2

aka Bel - A87832164

Shaking hands is less and less popular here, too. It's still done quite often within a certain generation, though. I don't think it should be replaced. You should just make sure you wash your ands before eating, for instance. Personal hygiene are the magic words here.


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Post 3

Opticalillusion- media mynx life would be boring without hiccups

Just be thankful you aren't met with smiley - smooch like in some countries


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Post 4

BeowulfShaffer

That’s a good point, I still think we could find something cooler though. Mabey like in bows like in asia or something like the vulacan greeting.


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Post 5

Opticalillusion- media mynx life would be boring without hiccups

hang about...we could salute each other


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Post 6

T.B. Falsename ACE: [stercus venio] I have learned from my mistakes, and feel I could repeat them exactly.

You could all kowtow to me and I could wave vaguely in your general direction smiley - smiley


smiley - cheers


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Post 7

Superfrenchie

How about waving a (clean) smiley - towel in the direction of the people you want ot greet?
smiley - smiley


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Post 8

2legs - Hey, babe, take a walk on the wild side...

How about a greeting of rubbing groins together? smiley - erm Oh, that is jsut* me who does that then? smiley - runsmiley - silly


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Post 9

TRiG (Ireland) A dog, so bade in office

I was going to mention the nose-rub, even though it's less sanitary than a handshake, but I think I've been somewhat outdone by 2legs.

TRiG.smiley - bigeyes


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Post 10

2legs - Hey, babe, take a walk on the wild side...

But the groin rub, as a greeting wouldn't be 'dirty', as you'd both be clothed... Well unless you were at a nudist beach I guess smiley - blushsmiley - biggrin
Or.
Rahter than a hand shake.
A foot 'touch'.
Basically putting your foot up to meet the other persons foot in mid air, just touch the toes (of course wearing shoes) smiley - ermsmiley - weird


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Post 11

Superfrenchie

But that might cause problems if one pf the people is wearing big heavy boots and the other only has sandals on... smiley - erm


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Post 12

Superfrenchie

(one *of* the people, even... smiley - smiley)


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Post 13

2legs - Hey, babe, take a walk on the wild side...

Well, 'the handshake' is pretty-much reserved for formal situations and so you'd as likely as not be wearing proper* shoes smiley - biggrinsmiley - erm Could be disasterous for cowboys and cowgirls though; just imagine their spurs getting tangled up and then they having to do a kind of one legged hopping dance with their tangled legs kind of providing a rotation point.... actually... think I've invented a new dance, this id going to be bigger than the mud shark smiley - sharksmiley - discosmiley - diva


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Post 14

Superfrenchie

smiley - bigeyes


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