BS: Wuhan(d)shake or Elbow Bump?????

Subject: RE: BS: Wuhan(d)shake or Elbow Bump?????
From: Mr Red
Date: 13 Mar 20 - 05:18 AM

it would be a Marathon! (sorry US it is a UK joke).

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From: Mrrzy
Date: 11 Mar 20 - 09:22 AM

Snicker.

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From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 11 Mar 20 - 09:13 AM

But the world's supply of vegans is finite..

Then what would we eat...

Subject: RE: BS: Wuhan(d)shake or Elbow Bump?????
From: Mr Red
Date: 11 Mar 20 - 04:30 AM

We humans survived without toilet paper for thousands of years. - yea, but don't get the wrong end of the stick!

So far, nobody's found a workable substitute for food. - some might point to veganism.






OK, I'll get my bacon sarnie and ................

Subject: RE: BS: Wuhan(d)shake or Elbow Bump?????
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 10 Mar 20 - 03:39 PM

I am not worried about a toilet paper shortage. Being out of toilet paper is an inconvenience, not an emergency. There are workable substitutes. We humans survived without toilet paper for thousands of years.

If you want to be worried about a shortage, worry about a food shortage. So far, nobody's found a workable substitute for food.

Subject: RE: BS: Wuhan(d)shake or Elbow Bump?????
From: Mrrzy
Date: 10 Mar 20 - 03:14 PM

I will note that nowadays, new people I meet tend to offer their elbow to bump.

Subject: RE: BS: Wuhan(d)shake or Elbow Bump?????
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 10 Mar 20 - 11:31 AM

Though the Bump during a toilet paper shortage crisis might get a bit iffy...???

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From: Mr Red
Date: 10 Mar 20 - 11:08 AM

And this is how fashions start.

Subject: RE: BS: Wuhan(d)shake or Elbow Bump?????
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 10 Mar 20 - 10:51 AM

The Bump was quite popular in the disco dancing 1970s...

Bound to raise a smile all round if adopted as the formal greeting...

Subject: RE: BS: Wuhan(d)shake or Elbow Bump?????
From: Mrrzy
Date: 10 Mar 20 - 09:11 AM

Also elbows tend to be clothed in the winter.

Subject: RE: BS: Wuhan(d)shake or Elbow Bump?????
From: Mr Red
Date: 10 Mar 20 - 06:16 AM

Are we really going to have that many more pathogens on our knuckles than on our elbows? - less but not even close to zero. Go for handrails or door handles and those knuckles will eventually meet door or wall, particularly on a moving bus. Especially with UK roads, don't get me started on potholes! You try descending stairs in a moving switchback!

whereas handshakes often connote a desire to dominate. true but then we handshake to show our swords are enscabarded (?) or at least not in our hands, even in the dark. Well I do, don't you?

Subject: RE: BS: Wuhan(d)shake or Elbow Bump?????
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 09 Mar 20 - 02:46 PM

Personally, I have no problem with doing away with handshakes all together. Half the men I shake hands with want to make the gesture into some sort of strong man contest. I have a glitchy bone in my right hand, courtesy of an old break, and it doesn't like to be squeezed.

I'd rather see bowing adopted as a world-wide greeting. Bowing connotes humility, whereas handshakes often connote a desire to dominate. Western society could use a bit more humility and less trying to be dominant.

Subject: RE: BS: Wuhan(d)shake or Elbow Bump?????
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 09 Mar 20 - 12:14 PM

Basically, I wouldn't want to shake some folks hands
because I'm sure I know what they've just been doing with them...

Subject: RE: BS: Wuhan(d)shake or Elbow Bump?????
From: meself
Date: 09 Mar 20 - 12:04 PM

How about, "I'd better not: I just brushed my teeth". Or ... well, the possibilities are endless .....

Subject: RE: BS: Wuhan(d)shake or Elbow Bump?????
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 09 Mar 20 - 11:00 AM

I admit in the past I've politely escaped shaking hands
with..
"Hi, I'd better not, I've just covered my hands in eczema ointment..."...

Subject: RE: BS: Wuhan(d)shake or Elbow Bump?????
From: meself
Date: 09 Mar 20 - 10:35 AM

Or you can simply glare and announce: "I don't shake hands" - and maintain your glare till the point is made.

Seriously, though: what's wrong with the ol' fist bump? Are we really going to have that many more pathogens on our knuckles than on our elbows?

I was at a big funeral yesterday - I gave a couple of pats on clothed arms - hope that was okay .......

Subject: RE: BS: Wuhan(d)shake or Elbow Bump?????
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 09 Mar 20 - 10:24 AM

A blokey nod of the head as I say "alright...???"
serves me well enough as a greeting..

"alright mate...???" or "alright bud...???" or similar,
may be preferable for more talkative blokes than me...

Subject: RE: BS: Wuhan(d)shake or Elbow Bump?????
From: Charmion
Date: 09 Mar 20 - 09:56 AM

I wear a cap to keep the sun out of my eyes. It's too floppy to tip neatly, so maybe I should be looking for more rigid headgear. Trouble is, most of it causes me to sweat madly from the scalp.

I guess that leaves me with the bow, as a curtsey is just too hilarious in jeans and walking boots.

Subject: RE: BS: Wuhan(d)shake or Elbow Bump?????
From: Rapparee
Date: 09 Mar 20 - 09:54 AM

I prefer those who wish to greet me to crawl up to me on their bellies, place my booted foot on their head, and call me, "Domine et Deus Meus" whilst begging my mercy and forgiveness.

Subject: RE: BS: Wuhan(d)shake or Elbow Bump?????
From: Mrrzy
Date: 09 Mar 20 - 08:47 AM

It is called the Dracula sneeze, here.

I wear a hat, so it can be tipped. Maybe those, hats I mean, should come back.

Subject: RE: BS: Wuhan(d)shake or Elbow Bump?????
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 09 Mar 20 - 06:25 AM

And if you keep sneezing into your elbow you may give yourself an ear infection. After all, as kids we were always told that the only thing you should ever put in your ear is your elbow...

Subject: RE: BS: Wuhan(d)shake or Elbow Bump?????
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 09 Mar 20 - 05:43 AM

When I hear 'sneeze into your elbow' I get a mental picture of some sort of impossible contortion. I've always called the place where you're supposed to sneeze the inside of the elbow. The elbow itself is on the other side of your arm. The only way you can plant a sneeze there is to remove your arm entirely.

Subject: RE: BS: Wuhan(d)shake or Elbow Bump?????
From: Mr Red
Date: 09 Mar 20 - 03:50 AM

Yesterday at Irish Set (think square dancing) we were bumping elbows and Wuhanshaking in that playful half-serious way you do when something is new. But ya can't do Irish Set without holding many someones' hands, so you can't, to be sure.

And they put out a variety of anti-bac stuff. No alcohol gel - I have to ask when will supplies get back to normal anyway? It would take Government edicts.

Subject: RE: BS: Wuhan(d)shake or Elbow Bump?????
From: An Buachaill Caol Dubh
Date: 08 Mar 20 - 07:40 PM

I no longer wear my usual flat cap, having changed instead to a brimmed hat - bought recently in a Charity Shop - for the specific purpose of raising it politely (as I was...).

Subject: RE: BS: Wuhan(d)shake or Elbow Bump?????
From: JennieG
Date: 08 Mar 20 - 04:50 PM

How about a "Texas Dip"?

Subject: RE: BS: Wuhan(d)shake or Elbow Bump?????
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 08 Mar 20 - 08:41 AM

What's all this about banging cocks? Is that the same as "crossing swords?"

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From: Mr Red
Date: 08 Mar 20 - 07:29 AM

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From: JHW
Date: 08 Mar 20 - 06:59 AM

At last something I don't have to worry about. No friends, no-one to greet.

Subject: RE: BS: Wuhan(d)shake or Elbow Bump?????
From: Mr Red
Date: 08 Mar 20 - 06:55 AM

I have a couple of Red Nose glasses from a few years ago with jazz hands - mind you with my prescription added (red lenses) people might think I was just showing off. As if!

Subject: RE: BS: Wuhan(d)shake or Elbow Bump?????
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 08 Mar 20 - 06:53 AM

Jazz hands

Subject: RE: BS: Wuhan(d)shake or Elbow Bump?????
From: Mr Red
Date: 08 Mar 20 - 05:16 AM

Some cannot tell their arse from a hole in the ground

And some minds can't decipher irony/sarcasm properly. We must P(r)iti them.

It was funny to those who don't have political blinkers.

Subject: RE: BS: Wuhan(d)shake or Elbow Bump?????
From: Stanron
Date: 07 Mar 20 - 08:58 PM

I like the simple head bow, perhaps coupled with 'praying hands'.

Subject: RE: BS: Wuhan(d)shake or Elbow Bump?????
From: JennieG
Date: 07 Mar 20 - 08:45 PM

Let's go back to the days of Jane Austen for this.......I am thinking a nice curtsy from the ladies, or a bow from gentlemen, would suffice nicely.

Subject: RE: BS: Wuhan(d)shake or Elbow Bump?????
From: meself
Date: 07 Mar 20 - 02:49 PM

I simply dance a little jig, and bob my eyebrows.

Subject: RE: BS: Wuhan(d)shake or Elbow Bump?????
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 07 Mar 20 - 02:18 PM

It's a long time since I watched the first few "Emmanuelle" movies..
was the Bangkok slap in one of the steamy soapy massage scenes...???

Subject: RE: BS: Wuhan(d)shake or Elbow Bump?????
From: Donuel
Date: 07 Mar 20 - 01:55 PM

Anyone else heard of the Bangkok slap?

Subject: RE: BS: Wuhan(d)shake or Elbow Bump?????
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 07 Mar 20 - 01:48 PM

We wouldn't have got cummings in power, if his puppets hadn't been elected..

So.. cummings sort of depended on an electoral vote for his ascension to rule...

Subject: RE: BS: Wuhan(d)shake or Elbow Bump?????
From: Iains
Date: 07 Mar 20 - 01:23 PM

The problem with using the elbow is that it depends on the greeter being able to tell it from their arse. Some chance in a country that voted for Dominic Cummings.
Hmmmm!!
Spads such as Cummins are appointed not elected.
Some cannot tell their arse from a hole in the ground

Subject: RE: BS: Wuhan(d)shake or Elbow Bump?????
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 07 Mar 20 - 11:01 AM

The traditional Japanese head bow is elegant, respectful,
and safely non touchy feely...

Subject: RE: BS: Wuhan(d)shake or Elbow Bump?????
From: Charmion
Date: 07 Mar 20 - 10:54 AM

I like to dap (bump knuckles). I have finally convinced the vicar that I really mean it, dap no grip. Now to convey the same notion to the rest of the congregation.

First St. James' Stratford, then the world!

Subject: RE: BS: Wuhan(d)shake or Elbow Bump?????
From: Manitas_at_home
Date: 07 Mar 20 - 10:00 AM

People are being advised to sneeze into their elbows.

Subject: RE: BS: Wuhan(d)shake or Elbow Bump?????
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 07 Mar 20 - 09:40 AM

Me and the mrs greet when she gets back home from work
by lifting our upper clothes
and rubbing together our bare bellies and chests...

Could this catch on in public...???

Subject: RE: BS: Wuhan(d)shake or Elbow Bump?????
From: Jack Campin
Date: 07 Mar 20 - 09:36 AM

The problem with using the elbow is that it depends on the greeter being able to tell it from their arse. Some chance in a country that voted for Dominic Cummings.

Subject: RE: BS: Wuhan(d)shake or Elbow Bump?????
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 07 Mar 20 - 08:54 AM

I saw news report abut Asian youths standing balancing on one foot
and tapping toes with the other...

Not the most practical alternative,
waiting to to get fractured wrists or worse set in plaster,
when hospitals will already be overstretched with corona patients...

Subject: RE: BS: Wuhan(d)shake or Elbow Bump?????
From: Mrrzy
Date: 07 Mar 20 - 08:22 AM

I still fais la bise. Get germs, fight'm off.

Subject: RE: BS: Wuhan(d)shake or Elbow Bump?????
From: Rapparee
Date: 07 Mar 20 - 08:19 AM

Just wave.

Subject: BS: Wuhan(d)shake or Elbow Bump?????
From: Mr Red
Date: 07 Mar 20 - 08:18 AM

well waddayathunk?