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

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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?

I know how to execute the perfect high five. Someone told me the secret about a year ago. I do a lot more high fives now. Good ones though.

Are high 5s American, though? I seem to remember Riff Raff and Magenta doing a version of it in The Rocky Horror Picture Show - that'd be mid-70s British, wouldn't it?

Agree about the whooping

I think we should go for Japanese style bowing for greetings. It's obviously not a replacement for a high five but is a nice replacement for the handshake - avoids unnecessary touching and running the risk of a hand-crusher or a limp handshake or a damp one.

High fiving is definitely American. It started in baseball as did fist bumping. I love baseball.

President Obama is the fist bumper-in chief.

Are you quite sure about that? According to Wikipedia, it was seen in a French film in the 1960s. So it could even be French

Tanith Not sure, I am always thought it was part of baseball lore; maybe the baseball players who started it saw it in the French film.

Sorry, that was supposed to be "have always thought."