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Women saying hello- Hug, wild hand movements
Men saying hello- Tip head back slightly, 'sup?

Why can't we all just suffice with 'sup?

chowderhead13 wrote:

DickBandit wrote:I use to throw my cats around because they'd make this silly SQUEAK!! noise when they flew through the air. And I wonder why they're so slowed.

This may be a stupid question, but how did your cats fly?

You throw em and they flail their wittle arms.

Avatar 720 wrote:I don't like where this topic is going; this is the internet, we're on a male-dominated forum, on a thread talking about opposite genders, and the current topic is cats...

Welcome to the internet.




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DickBandit wrote:

chowderhead13 wrote:

DickBandit wrote:I use to throw my cats around because they'd make this silly SQUEAK!! noise when they flew through the air. And I wonder why they're so slowed.

This may be a stupid question, but how did your cats fly?

You throw em and they flail their wittle arms.

That's messed up, dude! Who throws cats??!?!

One thing I still don't understand - Greetings.

Man + Man = Usually a handshake, when is it a hug?
Woman + Woman = 99.9% a hug.
Man + Woman... is it a hug? Is it a handshake? Is it a sly wink and a bit of a fondle? (If aint that third one then i've been doing it all wrong...)

Seriously now, what is the norm when a man greets a woman? In today's soceity, when just saying the wrong thing can get you accused of sexual harrassment (from either party), i'd rather not take chances.

Oh relax, they'd get up on my dresser and gnaw on my ears and claw my face, so I'd pick em up and gently toss em onto my bed.

Avatar 720 wrote:One thing I still don't understand - Greetings.

Man + Man = Usually a handshake, when is it a hug?
Woman + Woman = 99.9% a hug.
Man + Woman... is it a hug? Is it a handshake? Is it a sly wink and a bit of a fondle? (If aint that third one then i've been doing it all wrong...)

Seriously now, what is the norm when a man greets a woman? In today's soceity, when just saying the wrong thing can get you accused of sexual harrassment (from either party), i'd rather not take chances.

Males: Bro Fist.

I have never bro-fisted (gross) anyone, ever.


So I might be weird.

chowderhead13 wrote:

Avatar 720 wrote:One thing I still don't understand - Greetings.

Man + Man = Usually a handshake, when is it a hug?
Woman + Woman = 99.9% a hug.
Man + Woman... is it a hug? Is it a handshake? Is it a sly wink and a bit of a fondle? (If aint that third one then i've been doing it all wrong...)

Seriously now, what is the norm when a man greets a woman? In today's soceity, when just saying the wrong thing can get you accused of sexual harrassment (from either party), i'd rather not take chances.

Males: Bro Fist.

I agree with this statement.

Avatar 720 wrote:One thing I still don't understand - Greetings.

Man + Man = Usually a handshake, when is it a hug?
Woman + Woman = 99.9% a hug.
Man + Woman... is it a hug? Is it a handshake? Is it a sly wink and a bit of a fondle? (If aint that third one then i've been doing it all wrong...)

Seriously now, what is the norm when a man greets a woman? In today's soceity, when just saying the wrong thing can get you accused of sexual harrassment (from either party), i'd rather not take chances.

For a first meeting its usually a look in the eye and a 'hello'

After that it depends on the person. When meeting up with a female friend the greeting is almost always a hug.

Asherian Command wrote:

chowderhead13 wrote:

Avatar 720 wrote:One thing I still don't understand - Greetings.

Man + Man = Usually a handshake, when is it a hug?
Woman + Woman = 99.9% a hug.
Man + Woman... is it a hug? Is it a handshake? Is it a sly wink and a bit of a fondle? (If aint that third one then i've been doing it all wrong...)

Seriously now, what is the norm when a man greets a woman? In today's soceity, when just saying the wrong thing can get you accused of sexual harrassment (from either party), i'd rather not take chances.

Males: Bro Fist.

I agree with this statement.

^
Thanks, I just cracked my screen, you donkey-cave.(Donkey-cave, I said donkey-cave!! Stop correcting me! You donkey-cave!! feth!!)

DickBandit wrote:^
Thanks, I just cracked my screen, you donkey-cave.(Donkey-cave, I said donkey-cave!! Stop correcting me! You donkey-cave!! feth!!)

Insanity. One of the many side effects of fist-bumping Chowderhead.

chowderhead13 wrote:

Asherian Command wrote:

chowderhead13 wrote:

Avatar 720 wrote:One thing I still don't understand - Greetings.

Man + Man = Usually a handshake, when is it a hug?
Woman + Woman = 99.9% a hug.
Man + Woman... is it a hug? Is it a handshake? Is it a sly wink and a bit of a fondle? (If aint that third one then i've been doing it all wrong...)

Seriously now, what is the norm when a man greets a woman? In today's soceity, when just saying the wrong thing can get you accused of sexual harrassment (from either party), i'd rather not take chances.

Males: Bro Fist.

I agree with this statement.

Bro-fisted

Asherian Command wrote:

chowderhead13 wrote:

Asherian Command wrote:

chowderhead13 wrote:

Avatar 720 wrote:One thing I still don't understand - Greetings.

Man + Man = Usually a handshake, when is it a hug?
Woman + Woman = 99.9% a hug.
Man + Woman... is it a hug? Is it a handshake? Is it a sly wink and a bit of a fondle? (If aint that third one then i've been doing it all wrong...)

Seriously now, what is the norm when a man greets a woman? In today's soceity, when just saying the wrong thing can get you accused of sexual harrassment (from either party), i'd rather not take chances.

Males: Bro Fist.

I agree with this statement.

Bro-fisted

Isn't that illegal?

I guess greetings depend highly on your local culture. In my clique, a double handshake (first armwrestling grip, then fluent transition to standard handshake grip) is the custom between men. Hugs between and for women. An Italian guy I met over a school project kissed me on both cheeks after we knew each other for one day... so, yeah, differences there.

I've been trying to think of something I don't understand about women. Yeah, yeah, general "Womenz, huh!" is easy, but something specific...

...there's this girl I'm writing facebook messages with since years. We were together in high school, actually flirted a bit back then. Thing is, her messages got REALLY rare over the last months. After a while of this going on I got slightly annoyed and asked her if we should simply stop writin each other and just see us every once in a year on school reunion thingys...and she was all "No, no, I'd really like to keep in contact with you, it's just that I can't write every three days, you know, I'm very busy..." Yeah, I can understand that 3 days are not good for everyone and, let's be honest, only so much interesting to talk about can happen in three days.

But now, I'm waiting for an answer for about six weeks again. Why insist on staying in contact and then don't, you know, STAY in contact?

That and people in general that consistently take for fething ever to reply to a simple text message. Mostly happens with girls.

Hey I have today off, let's go (do something)!
*Her several hours later*
Oh I'm at work.

...WHAT?! I work too, but you can still keep your phone on you. And this isn't a once in a while type deal, it's something that the person continually does.

Or when I was in Haiti last year. Talking to a girl I've known for a while, she lived on the Pacific coast so she was 3 hours behind my time zone. It was 10 at night for me and I had to wake up at 4 in the morning to go do a patrol. She sent me a text saying "I'll be home in an hour". Ok, that's fine with me, haven't talked to her in a really long time so I was willing to stay up for a bit. Hour and a half goes by... still no phone call. Send her a message "Hey you off work yet?" ...another 30mins goes by "Sorry I have to do *something* at home".

AND YOU COULDN'T HAVE SENT ME A QUICK TEXT 30 MINS ago!? Needless to say I got no sleep because of her and I was very bitter towards the Haitians next morning. More than usual.

Yeah, I'm not sure what goes on in the heads of some people. Inbefore Melissia, men do this stuff, too, of course. But you know, with most guys I know, there's a simple answer to why they didn't answer or didn't react - they simply forgot it! I can live with that!

But to stay with the example, this facebook-message-girl...after I got annoyed after she didn't write anything for far over a month and told her about it, she was very sorry and actually wrote something along the lines of "Hey, just last week I had to think of you when [blablabla]". So, obviously, she didn't forget about me and, in conclusion, about writing me. She just didn't do it for some mysterious reason.

I mean, I know that not everybody is in the mood to write faceboook messages all the time. Sometimes you need a quiet moment and don't want to do it in your daily stressy life. But come on, SIX WEEKS?

I may sound more angry here than I really am; it doesn't bother me that much, as many others I have learnt to not give too much of a crap when the wimminz act strange. But this is the one incident that I can think of right now where I simply don't understand her.

Mordoskul wrote:Women saying hello- Hug, wild hand movements
Men saying hello- Tip head back slightly, 'sup?

Why can't we all just suffice with 'sup?

The reason being is simple-- dudes hugging are assumed to be gay in western culture. Not so in every culture.

DickBandit wrote:That and people in general that consistently take for fething ever to reply to a simple text message. Mostly happens with girls.

Hey I have today off, let's go (do something)!
*Her several hours later*
Oh I'm at work.

...WHAT?! I work too, but you can still keep your phone on you. And this isn't a once in a while type deal, it's something that the person continually does.

Or when I was in Haiti last year. Talking to a girl I've known for a while, she lived on the Pacific coast so she was 3 hours behind my time zone. It was 10 at night for me and I had to wake up at 4 in the morning to go do a patrol. She sent me a text saying "I'll be home in an hour". Ok, that's fine with me, haven't talked to her in a really long time so I was willing to stay up for a bit. Hour and a half goes by... still no phone call. Send her a message "Hey you off work yet?" ...another 30mins goes by "Sorry I have to do *something* at home".

AND YOU COULDN'T HAVE SENT ME A QUICK TEXT 30 MINS ago!? Needless to say I got no sleep because of her and I was very bitter towards the Haitians next morning. More than usual.

Meh that's not a women thing, that's the price you pay for not calling someone and making them have to type out some gak it would have taken them an nth of the time to say on a horible phone keypad. I do it all the time.

Melissia wrote:

Mordoskul wrote:Women saying hello- Hug, wild hand movements
Men saying hello- Tip head back slightly, 'sup?

Why can't we all just suffice with 'sup?

The reason being is simple-- dudes hugging are assumed to be gay in western culture. Not so in every culture.

Actually, I wouldn't go so far and generalize "Western culture". Italian men are kissing and hugging each other all the time. Me and a group of male friends (back in Germany) also hug all the time, regardless of being in public or not. Nobody really sees this as a sign of us being gay, though. I might hazard to say that the United Stated might still be a bit more homophobic than Europe is.

By western I was mostly referring to the US and possibly UK (the US basically being the exemplar of "western culture" in most peoples eyes), but yes, you are right.

Hugging in the UK is not considered gay. Well maybe for more than like two seconds, then maybe you're gay. But greeting another man by saying 'hug' is certainly gay.

Well I've done a bro-hug before, those are perfectly acceptable.

In my town it is only acceptable if it is two long friends who haven't seen each other for a while.

I rarely hug anyone. Hell, I don't even hug my own parents. I'm just not a very physical person. Hell, I'd go as far as to say that I'm not any good at expressing any form of affection.

I hug my friends, FIST bump my pals, and hug girls.

I'm a close-contact guy, what can I say?

Edited because Melissa.

I bet you do bump your pals. All night long.

At any rate, something that DOES annoy me is the idea that it's somehow illogical to want to play female characters in games, an exclusively male opinion as far as I can tell...

Melissia wrote:I bet you do bump your pals. All night long.

At any rate, something that DOES annoy me is the idea that it's somehow illogical to want to play female characters in games, an exclusively male opinion as far as I can tell...

chowderhead13 wrote:

Melissia wrote:I bet you do bump your pals. All night long.

At any rate, something that DOES annoy me is the idea that it's somehow illogical to want to play female characters in games, an exclusively male opinion as far as I can tell...

sadomasochism is something I don't understand too.

Melissia wrote:I bet you do bump your pals. All night long.

At any rate, something that DOES annoy me is the idea that it's somehow illogical to want to play female characters in games, an exclusively male opinion as far as I can tell...

...or if you can, they're dressed like whores.