When you shake black man's hand ...

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Nick333 said:
Lol. So, like one in a million for contracting a salmonella infection from shaking someones hand? Your average salmonella infection manifests as a minor case of diarrhea. Seriously, cutting yourself off from normal human interaction such as shaking hands out of fear of contracting an infection is a little mental.
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Listen, I am not going to argue on the transmission statistics of pathogenic bacteria fact remains it happens every day its way more probable than one in a million.

Something that just happened a few minutes ago in our bathrooms. I went into the tall and could hear someone else blowing their guts in the other stall cool. He comes out and leave the bathroom. No washing. I leave wash my hands and go out hes standing talking to someone he puts out his hands to shake mine? Now i know he just didnt wash and he blew his guts? So what i must be all social and shake his possibly **** contaminated hand? Rofl. Yeah thanks i'll eat all the crazy pills. And that could just be e.coli better to be safe than sorry.

But yeah its a common practice to shake hands but I won't do it just because society deems it. Only people I know like Acid said.
 
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semaphore said:
Something that just happened a few minutes ago in our bathrooms. I went into the tall and could hear someone else blowing their guts in the other stall cool. He comes out and leave the bathroom. No washing. I leave wash my hands and go out hes standing talking to someone he puts out his hands to shake mine? Now i know he just didnt wash and he blew his guts? So what i must be all social and shake his possibly **** contaminated hand? .
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Wow. What a convenient time for this to occur. Wish all my anecdotes that back up my BS happen as conveniently as that.

Or maybe I should just, y'know... Make it up.
 
Randhir said:
Wow. What a convenient time for this to occur. Wish all my anecdotes that back up my BS happen as conveniently as that.

Or maybe I should just, y'know... Make it up.
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Yes because people dont go to the toilet at all at companies i mean they all wait till they get home. :whistle: Like i stated previously go educate yourself. PEACE BRO!
 
semaphore said:
Yes because people dont go to the toilet at all at companies i mean they all wait till they get home. :whistle: Like i stated previously go educate yourself. PEACE BRO!
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Don't you have a story about something that happened a few moments ago to strengthen your statement in this post?
 
semaphore said:
Shaking hands is the foulest thing ever. Gf is a microbiologist she took a swab of a random persons hand the amount of bacteria. So i generally avoid all forms of hand shake with any person.
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Do you often try and see if you can fit your fist in your mouth? :p
 
Picard said:
... that's of course if you are white ... does it always involve that 3x hand grasping gesture?

I always feel awkward if they go "all the way" and I seemingly then "abort" the courtesy half-way through the greeting, because I'm use to only clutching the other person's hand once.
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Different cultures do things differently.

In some cultures it's rude to shake quickly, in some cultures it's rude to do it half-heartedly.

In some cultures, when you're in a meeting you stfu. In some if you stfu they think you're stupid.
 
I know both white and black people who do this. Feels awkward when you stop shaking and they are trying to rape your hand.
 
Picard said:
... that's of course if you are white ... does it always involve that 3x hand grasping gesture?

I always feel awkward if they go "all the way" and I seemingly then "abort" the courtesy half-way through the greeting, because I'm use to only clutching the other person's hand once.
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Get some hand eye coordination going, remember different cultures have different greetings, and you will be fine :)
 
Korn1 said:
Do you often try and see if you can fit your fist in your mouth? :p
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No but you subconsciously touch your face a good couple times a day so very easier to transfer. Touch your cell phone, move it to your mouth, leave it on your cell phone etc.. You get the idea. Annnyways i guess being aware of ones own health and protecting it is a very bad thing from the general ideas people have. Oh well.
 
semaphore said:
No but you subconsciously touch your face a good couple times a day so very easier to transfer. Touch your cell phone, move it to your mouth, leave it on your cell phone etc.. You get the idea. Annnyways i guess being aware of ones own health and protecting it is a very bad thing from the general ideas people have. Oh well.
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I understand. I do the oddest things in public bathrooms to avoid touching things :o
 
semaphore said:
No but you subconsciously touch your face a good couple times a day so very easier to transfer. Touch your cell phone, move it to your mouth, leave it on your cell phone etc.. You get the idea. Annnyways i guess being aware of ones own health and protecting it is a very bad thing from the general ideas people have. Oh well.
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Do you let other people touch your keyboard? Do you always wear gloves? I think you might be pulling this whole thing slightly out of proportion...
 
semaphore said:
No but you subconsciously touch your face a good couple times a day so very easier to transfer. Touch your cell phone, move it to your mouth, leave it on your cell phone etc.. You get the idea. Annnyways i guess being aware of ones own health and protecting it is a very bad thing from the general ideas people have. Oh well.
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Being aware is one thing, but it sounds like you're bordering on some form of OCD (no disrespect meant).
 
Superjakes said:
Do you let other people touch your keyboard? Do you always wear gloves? I think you might be pulling this whole thing slightly out of proportion...
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Like i've said im okay with germs i already have. And no i don't let people use my computer or keyboard or mouse etc. I did'nt pull anything out of proportion i simply stated the reasons i do not shake peoples hands. Then people wanted justification as to why i don't.

@YingYang - Call it what you will.
 
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