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Re:Is It Farewell to the Handshake? by adrianN on Monday March 22, 2021 @02:30AM (#26537450)
At least in my social circle, the handshake was pretty much extinct long before covid.
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Re:Is It Farewell to the Handshake? by nsxwolf on Monday March 22, 2021 @02:33AM (#26537472)
With my friends it's all about the exploding fist.
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Re:Is It Farewell to the Handshake? by 1propionyl on Monday March 22, 2021 @02:35AM (#26537487)
I would love to see the classic "up, down, false shake, pull back, exploding fist" become the standard used by world leaders and diplomats.

(If there's a name for this I don't know it, but hopefully it's recognizable enough to at least US readers.)

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Re:Is It Farewell to the Handshake? by jhoechtl on Monday March 22, 2021 @03:13AM (#26537702)
I am not-native englisch speaking. What does "exploding" mean in the context of a salutation?
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Re:Is It Farewell to the Handshake? by JiBB on Monday March 22, 2021 @04:08AM (#26537989)
You bump your fists together, and then spread your fingers apart as you pull your hand back, as if your fist is "exploding" outward.

A few gif examples: https://gph.is/g/aK8Yww6 https://gph.is/2q6aAIV https://www.pri.org/stories/2013-02-13/gif-day-obamas-explod...

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Re:Is It Farewell to the Handshake? by poisonborz on Monday March 22, 2021 @07:27AM (#26539373)
Also known as "Potato, fries" in germanic culture.
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Re:Is It Farewell to the Handshake? by nsxwolf on Monday March 22, 2021 @10:17AM (#26541123)
This is wonderful.
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Re:Is It Farewell to the Handshake? by pjmlp on Monday March 22, 2021 @03:46AM (#26537857)
Not the OP, maybe related to this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Way_of_the_Exploding_Fist

A very famous computer game back in the all those Kung-Fu movies heyday.

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