To want to make high-fiving a capital offence on British soil?

[flatpackhamster]

Christ, it boils my piss. It's so unbelievably crap. No, you're not a surfer dude from laid-back So Cal, you're a middle manager in an office supplies company and you drive a Zafira.

And that goes for whooping, too. I don't want to whoop. Or high-five. Or do special handshakes which you need fifteen fingers for. Or bump fists or anything else that you saw on World's Wildest Police Chases or American Creampie Bonanza or Man Vs Food.

If you're properly British, a smile, and perhaps if something amazing has happened (like winning the lottery or flying to the moon) a hearty handshake and a 'Jolly Well Done' would be fine.

High-fiving - death sentence. AIBU?

OP I'm with you. Ds is disabled and men people will insist on high fiving him but it makes me cringe. It might have been cute when he was little but now he is a teenager and it just makes him look ridiculous, and yes I know people are only trying to be friendly so IABU but I can't help it. Someone actually shook ds's hand in a manly fashion the other day, it was so much nicer, I'm not exactly sure why. Maybe seemed less patronising?

My 22mo not only high fives you, but he also shouts "duuuuuuuude" while doing it. Sometimes he yells "cowabunga!" too. I taught him to do this and I am not going to apologise for it.

He does say golly gosh and oh dearie me if that helps?

Loving the shouts of Cowabunga ShowOfHands! They never grow old.

Apologies to Horry who I called Holly earlier. Oops.

See, I'm of American stock, so I loves me a high five and an ironic USA! USA!

If that means I'm not accepted into Englishness, so be it. I'll high five all the other "foreigns" who won't go around imitating Enid Blyton.

don't leave me hanging

YABU, I have taught DD (18 months) to high five and fist bump!

YABU

Me and the DC have fun doing
"Give me five,
On the side,
Up above, down below
Sorry you're too slow."

When a tosser says high five, just miss the hand and smack them in the gob, and then smile sweetly and say sorry.
It's another Yank affectation we can do without. YANBU.

I taught the kids to high five saying Yeah Buddy!
Makes me feel at jersey shore

Aaaw toddler ds loves high fiving and I've fist bumped and blew it up with my niece since the day she was born :)

Would not dream of doing it to an adult though. It's like hugs to me - fine for kids or emotional situations but not for ''oh my god it's been 3 days how are you?!!'' Type declarations.

Im a misery guts and hate being touched though

I'd rather be a yank than a xenophobic arsehole.

Sheshelob From a fellow yank:

Do you want to know they key to a perfect high five? Watch the other person's elbow. Spot on, every time.

I always thought people did it ironically?

DS did leave me hanging the other day

We knuckle touch in our house.

YANBU

It makes me cringe, I think of false team building excersies and sales build up sessions to get people in the zone to start selling crap to people who do not want to be bothered....

Oh, and this:
I'd rather be a yank than a xenophobic arsehole.

YY to this.

So it's not another unnecessary Yank import.

OP, YANBU. My DD would love me to do it to her. I won't.
Part of me like to irritate her though, so I withhold my five and make her shake hands.

In our family, it's "five up high, five down low, five in the middle, oops too slow!"

"Properly British."

flatpack - I shall make the assumption that you're probably not too keen on

i like to high fiver after having really good sex.

its like congratulating your self and partner for working as a team and meating all goals and objectives

but seriousely. i never used to do the high five thing, untill i met ex husban dwho is american and he and his friends did,.. its rubbed of on.

i do it with kids.its like a Extra well done to them, also only do it with my male best friend..we also fist bumb because we are THAT cool

TalcAndTurnips

flatpack - I shall make the assumption that you're probably not too keen on this sort of carry-on, either.

Not at all. That's fine. I don't have any problem with the septics doing their thing. I just think it's awful and pathetic when forty-something British men called Brian do it because they think it makes them look cool. It's just - urghhhhh.

Sheshelob

I'd rather be a yank than a xenophobic arsehole.

Those two aren't mutually exclusive, as this thread has shown.

I hate shaking hands

I do like 'don below, too slow'ing ds3 though. Never gets boring

IMHO a quick handshake (firm but not vice-like) and smile suffices for pretty much all situations except involving family or close friends.

I'm not too enamoured either of the cheek-kissing which has become a standard form of greeting these days. No problem at all with it in France, where it is an embedded part of the culture, but in Britain it seems a bit artificial. I'm never quite sure either how many kisses you are supposed to do (2?, 3?). Too few might seem like a snub, too many might seem over the top.

YANBU

To whuch I would add....

baseball caps

referring to the cinema as the movies

saying can I get' instead of 'can I have'