Much ado about hugging

[TheMelodyMaker]

I absolutely hate physical contact.

With all due respect -- if I were ever to meet you in person, I'd make it a point to not even shake your hand, then. ^_~ (Please take no offense to that... ^_^; )

[AlBhedNikki]

I love hugging!! Both my parents have been very affectionate my whole life, and I've just followed their example. If I'm talking with a friend and they are walking with some one I don't know, I'll introduce myself and give them a big hug. They're lucky though, because I usually do the double kiss on the cheek thing (I do that with family and close friends). My grandpa's french, and I was raised with that.

I'm a friendly person. lol.

[kazekami]

[quote="TheMelodyMaker"]With all due respect -- if I were ever to meet you in person, I'd make it a point to not even shake your hand, then. ^_~ (Please take no offense to that... ^_^]

I wish people wouldn't shake my hand. The OCD gets to me and I always have to wash my hands after. I try to be discreet about it as possible so as not to insult anyone.

[CDLviking]

I would make a Carmelite joke right here, but I'm sure that I'd be the only one to get it.

[dragonshimmer]

I would make a Carmelite joke right here, but I'm sure that I'd be the only one to get it.

Not necessarily.

[Icarus]

I don't really feel the need to give hugs. After thinking about it, there are certain people that would like me to, like Em and my mom. Of course, Em won't let anyone leave without a hug if she can help it. There is also a young lady at school that gets hugs semi-regularly, but that's it from me.

[ShiroiHikari]

I'm starting an anti-hug-faction. Boo on physical contact! Hugging should only be after you're married. : P

must...not...comment. must...be...nice!

[AngelSakura]

<<Naw, I need an A on my next Essay.>>
Well, you know...hugs are proven...to...um...make you...write good essays?

[Solid Ronin]

must...not...comment. must...be...nice!

...I feel it....Give into your anger...let the hate flow though you....

Impact I must say your anti-hug faction is well..kinda ponitless...Yet for the sake of it..

IM STARTING A PRO-HUG FACTION!! WHOS WITH ME!

[EireWolf]

I'm all for hugs, unless I don't know you, or distrust you, or you seem... wonky. I hug my family, my close friends, and sometimes (female) acquaintances if the situation seems to call for it (like they're having a bad day, or a very good day, or they want to give me a hug, etc.). Hugs are usually good.

I remember when I went away to college, I really started to miss hugs after a few weeks. I didn't know anyone, at least not well enough to hug yet. One day, my Resident Assistant (sort of like a House Mother, but a peer) gave me a hug, and I almost cried right there. It was so nice to have human contact, like a drink of fresh rainwater after a long drought.

[Fsiphskilm]

LOL, ye

[Meza]

[Meza]

sorry that was an accident

[Rachel]

I don't hug anyone in our family except for Emmy and my mom. There is a lady at church who everytime she sees me she gives me a hug. I don't hug her back because she's kind of short not because I don't want to hug her.I'm not sure that makes much sense. Also at school I've started giving people hugs when I never used to before. I guess it's because this is my last year and I'll be leaving soon and I'm really going to miss everyone. Dang it, now I've gone and made myself teary eyed.

[sonichiro]

ooo, i am such a huggy person! i love giving hugs and getting them. but im careful with the people i exchange hugs with. inparticular: people i dont trust and girls who dont like hugs. im deffinately not a handshake kinda guy. if i were to see me dad and he would try to give me a handshake rather than a hug, i would be very offended. whenever i see mey friend bridgette (her real name is brittaney but i call her bridgette for some reason...), anyways, shes like 4'8 and im 5'9. so when we see each other, shell give me a great big hug around my neck and ill walk around with her stcuk on me! it is very funney, shes like a little sister or something! my parents have always been really affectionate so ya! i try not to shake hands with people anyways...i get grossed out when shaking someones hand. if i shake someones hand, after they leave i smell my hand and then wash it asap. you never know where that thing couldve been last... *shudders*

[Mithrandir]

Revdoc, don't you better hope certain people don't read that comment...

[CDLviking]

I would make a Carmelite joke right here, but I'm sure that I'd be the only one to get it.

Not necessarily.

Well, the moment is gone, so the joke probably wouldn't be funny anymore, but I'll explain just a bit. OCD stands for obsessive compulsive disorder, but it can also stand for Order of Carmelites Discalced, a religious order at my seminary, and subjects of most of my bad puns.

[Arbre]

I remember when I went away to college, I really started to miss hugs after a few weeks. I didn't know anyone, at least not well enough to hug yet. One day, my Resident Assistant (sort of like a House Mother, but a peer) gave me a hug, and I almost cried right there. It was so nice to have human contact, like a drink of fresh rainwater after a long drought.

I just moved away from home to live with my grandma. She's not extremely into hugging, and I'd rather not let her know I'm feeling down and lonely and stuff 'cause then she'll worry more than she does.
So yeah... I'm relating to the missing hugs and stuff in a place where I don't know anyone besides a few relatives who I don't feel comfortable opening up to at all.

I miss it a lot.

Maybe that's yet another reason I need to find a church "home" and meet other Christians.

[uc pseudonym]

I'm all for hugs, unless I don't know you, or distrust you, or you seem... wonky.

That word is gaining popular acceptance... do you know what this means? Inclusion in dictionaries, and along with it word forms. "Wonky" is an adjective, which means that someone who has experienced such a situation has been "wonked." Someone who invites such is "wonkable." Worst of all, the noun form would be "wonk" as in the sentence: "I say there, good chap, that's a massive load of wonk."

[dragonshimmer]

That word is gaining popular acceptance... do you know what this means? Inclusion in dictionaries, and along with it word forms. "Wonky" is an adjective, which means that someone who has experienced such a situation has been "wonked." Someone who invites such is "wonkable." Worst of all, the noun form would be "wonk" as in the sentence: "I say there, good chap, that's a massive load of wonk."

^_~ I think I created monster

Volt, at this point, yes...you do win cutest thing of the year award. Sibling relationships like that are very popular out here in the middle of the woods South Georgia, but less common in other areas. As far as your future wives...I think they'll appreciate the closeness ^_^

[Namelessknight]

I hug my family members, and others only on special occasions-ie, i'll give someone a hug at a funeral, and even then there are complicated rules i won't bother to explain, but other than that, Not gonna do much hugging til I get married...

[mitsuki lover]

*Quickly hugs sao sakura*
I think she needed that from last week's Gundam Seed ep.

[EireWolf]

That word is gaining popular acceptance... do you know what this means? Inclusion in dictionaries, and along with it word forms. "Wonky" is an adjective, which means that someone who has experienced such a situation has been "wonked." Someone who invites such is "wonkable." Worst of all, the noun form would be "wonk" as in the sentence: "I say there, good chap, that's a massive load of wonk."

Actually, I did look up the word the first time I saw it here on CAA. It's a British thing:

1 British : UNSTEADY, SHAKY
2 British : AWRY, WRONG

I like def. #2 the best, in context.

Incidentally, the noun "wonk" (and it IS a word) means "nerd."



But I do appreciate your short treatise on the wonkiness of the English language.

[AngelSakura]

<<That word is gaining popular acceptance... do you know what this means? Inclusion in dictionaries, and along with it word forms. "Wonky" is an adjective, which means that someone who has experienced such a situation has been "wonked." Someone who invites such is "wonkable." Worst of all, the noun form would be "wonk" as in the sentence: "I say there, good chap, that's a massive load of wonk.">>
I don't even wanna know what "wonk" would be described as. And I recently figured out who your style of typing reminded me of: JRR Tolkien.

<<Volt wins "Cutest Thing of the Year" award.>>
Several times over.

<<Incidentally, the noun "wonk" (and it IS a word) means "nerd.">>
Oh. That's a relief.

[Raiden no Kishi]

I LOVE HUGS.

I hug my guy friends. I hug my female friends. I hug my male and female family members. I hug my pets. If you were open to it, I'd hug YOU. (especially you, Impact)

Hugs pwn j00.

.rai//

[uc pseudonym]

Actually, I did look up the word the first time I saw it here on CAA. It's a British thing:

1 British : UNSTEADY, SHAKY
2 British : AWRY, WRONG

I like def. #2 the best, in context.

Incidentally, the noun "wonk" (and it IS a word) means "nerd."



But I do appreciate your short treatise on the wonkiness of the English language.

Ah]And I recently figured out who your style of typing reminded me of: JRR Tolkien.[/quote]

Well, that surprises me, but I believe that it should be considered a good thing.

[dragonshimmer]

Actually, I did look up the word the first time I saw it here on CAA. It's a British thing:

1 British : UNSTEADY, SHAKY
2 British : AWRY, WRONG

I like def. #2 the best, in context.

Incidentally, the noun "wonk" (and it IS a word) means "nerd."



But I do appreciate your short treatise on the wonkiness of the English language.

Ahh, thanks for the clarification ^_^

[Jman]

depends on who it is huggin me <3

[AngelSakura]

<<Well, that surprises me, but I believe that it should be considered a good thing.>>
Very much so. In fact, I realized who I was thinking of while re-reading "The Lord of the Rings" for about the fifth or sixth time.

[Shinja]

i sux at the hug initiation, i mean i like huging people dont get me wrong, but im very much entroverted and shy, (im a shyguy^^, <pun)) so im not very good at starting the hug