What kinda hand shaker are you?

[Milky]

Wet fishes do annoy me, but I dont think it is the hand grip that defines a 'wet fish' so much as the stiffness of the arm. I am one for the single firm shake with a light grip.
With some females it seems to work to clasp rather than shake, and acknowledge the meeting with an longer period of eyecontact or a few words instead. I guess it depends what is presented to you...

[Two Smoker]

i pretty much think all the same as what has been said, Dave (F/F) has a good firm handshake, but i met this guy from Tauraunga and he cracked ever single one of my knuckles and i was giving one of my really firm handshakes too, but he was 6 foot 5 and weighed about 120kgs......

[Motu]

I used to know a guy who was a pretty good hand shaker - when rolling a smoke he used to trap one arm under a crossed leg so the bakky didn't spill on the floor,watching him light it was scary though...

[Jackrat]

I like a firm handshake but I know at lest one Ozy bike club member that don't.This guy had more rings than a dozen assholes.
I enjoyed really giving him a good squeeze an watching his face turn gray as his rings dug into his fingers. Must'a really bloody hurt
The price of being a tuff guy huh.

[Posh Tourer :P]

Ugh.... wet fish... horrible.....

Working in labs while wearing gloves often precludes the hand-shaking business, but a firm handshake is a good one.... FF, you've gotta be right up there with the best of them ....

Two handed? why??? Hand on lower arm? is that because they believe that you cant move your arm up and down by yourself??

As for shaking hands with females, depends on the person really.... Some people look like they are fine with a normal handshake, some need a little more care....

[FzerozeroT]

The super squeezers are trying to show you how tuff they are, a barely audible "ok, what a fag" about two seconds later usually turns the tables quite well

[MikeL]

The super squeezers are trying to show you how tuff they are, a barely audible "ok, what a fag" about two seconds later usually turns the tables quite well

Silly mind games. At least if you're onto it you can choose how to react. It's all a bit pointless, though. Fifty years ago you might judge a man's character by his handshake. Now it doesn't mean diddly squat. That firm, manly, hearty squeeze signifies a trustworthy and honest character? Used car salesman practice it daily ...
And don't forget that the homogeneous Anglo-Saxon society of those days with its rigid, dreary conventions is gone for good. So what if an Indian handshake is different? Most Asians dislike handshaking and do so reluctantly just to conform to western expectations. The French and Italians (not notably more effeminate than the rest of us despite some prejudices to the contrary) generally offer a limp hand. But they shake hands far more frequently than we do. The vice-like grip which some of us affect would quickly become tiresome and tiring.
Cultural relativism: kowtowing might seem offensive to us but to a Chinese grasping someone's hand and squeezing it vigorously is equally bizarre.

[jrandom]

Used car salesman practice it daily ...

Yes! We can have a handshaking technique segment from the host at Frosty's next mechanical evening, complete with 'closing smile' practise and the teeth-sucking delivery of 'they all do that, guv'

The French and Italians (not notably more effeminate than the rest of us despite some prejudices to the contrary)

Noticeably *insaner*. I don't think anyone would accuse them of effemininitism. Effeminuity. Thingy.

And I just had another French CV land on my desk today! Where are they all coming from? If we hire him, that'll make 3 of them in my team of 12 (it's not *my* team, per se, I'm just a small, greasy, squeaky cog in it) all within the last year or so. Has anyone else recently experienced a sudden, inexplicable influx of French engineering types?

NB: Jokes regarding rainy weather bringing out the frogs will be deemed to be in Bad Taste (tm).

[Her_C4]

I too hate the wet ragger handshakes but there is one i find even worse, perhaps you've expereinced it. If you havent its hard to understand just how mind numbingly aggrivating (sp) it is...
You offer your hand in normal fashion, that is your thumb is basically pointing up in the air, then they put thier hand out kind of horizontally forcing you to turn your hand over, palm upwards. Its flamin ridiculous and annoying. I read somewhere its some kind of pathetic dominance type phsyco pathetic dumb ego i'm top dog know your place be subservient to me type mind game b.s.
If anyone knows the type of handshake im talking about i'd like to know what you think too.

Only marginally worse that the wet ragger

Agree, handshakers like this are showing their dominance. I have to shake hands with men and women every day in a multitude of situations, and experience every sort of handshake that there is - I have found that there are a couple of options that I have utilised to deal with the aggressive handshaker:

1. Put your hand directly on top of theirs (ie with your palm also facing dowward), and look directly into their eyes. Make it brief and then move on.

2. Grasp their hand in the shake and then twist it so that you are more equal (ie both thumbs up)

3. Step right into the handshake with the left foot (puts them off balance and they right the hand)



Check out this website - http://rebrown.com/rebrown/handsh.htm for an opinion on handshaking and body language.

[KATWYN]

Check out this website - http://rebrown.com/rebrown/handsh.htm for an opinion on handshaking and body language.

Aha! thats what I want, cheers for that

[Motu]

So what if an Indian handshake is different? Most Asians dislike handshaking and do so reluctantly just to conform to western expectations.

True,Asians seldom shake hands,same as me....but the Indians are very pushy about it,they walk in for any reason and insist on a hand shake,as I said,it seems a 'must do' for them,perhaps it was drummed into them in 'Kiwi training' before they left,but they stand out to me,same as Asians at intersections - anyone who doesn't fit my ideals of the perfect Kiwi gets noticed by me,they are picked on and ridiculed until they conform.

[James Deuce]

Yes! We can have a handshaking technique segment from the host at Frosty's next mechanical evening, complete with 'closing smile' practise and the teeth-sucking delivery of 'they all do that, guv'




Noticeably *insaner*. I don't think anyone would accuse them of effemininitism. Effeminuity. Thingy.

And I just had another French CV land on my desk today! Where are they all coming from? If we hire him, that'll make 3 of them in my team of 12 (it's not *my* team, per se, I'm just a small, greasy, squeaky cog in it) all within the last year or so. Has anyone else recently experienced a sudden, inexplicable influx of French engineering types?

NB: Jokes regarding rainy weather bringing out the frogs will be deemed to be in Bad Taste (tm).

We have acquired two French Project Managers in the last 3 months. Strangely it has improved intra-project communication, because everyone has to work hard to understand what they are on about. Both of them have almost impenetrable Gallic accents. You know, like they gargle phlegm as a conversational technique.

[Hitcher]

We have acquired two French Project Managers in the last 3 months. Strangely it has improved intra-project communication, because everyone has to work hard to understand what they are on about. Both of them have almost impenetrable Gallic accents. You know, like they gargle phlegm as a conversational technique.

But as you grew up watching "The undersea world of Jacques Cousteau" you can understand perfectly, oui?

[James Deuce]

But as you grew up watching "The undersea world of Jacques Cousteau" you can understand perfectly, oui?

Shhh! Why do all you Ulysses full membership candidates have to keep reminding me that I am approaching associate "experience" levels?

Hmmm????

[Hitcher]

Shhh! Why do all you Ulysses full membership candidates have to keep reminding me that I am approaching associate "experience" levels?

Hmmm????

What is it you are trying to incinerate? Are you saying I am officially a Grumpy Old Fart™?