To get infuriated when people shrug their shoulders?!

[Primadonnagirl]

..it just makes me even more angry.DH does this and knows it drives me up the wall. I mean, explain yourself at least for Gods sake, but shrugging is so passive aggressive it makes me want to scream!

meh

I agree. DP does it.Annoys me so much.

Grrrrrr

redexpat

Maybe they don't want to fight?

Dp does it if you ask him 'what shall we have for dinner?'

So not likely to cause a fight

DH presses all my buttons by rolling his eyes like a teenager. I hate it.

I don't want to fight..I want an answer .As in " Where is x?' And I expect and adult to be able to articulate a response!

Oh god I HATE it when people shrug at me...it's like they really don't care enough to even think about what you've said

Grrrrr!!!

People (and my students) that know me don't do it anymore

Would your preference be a grunted "dunno" instead?

It's my DD expression of the moment, slightly forgivable for the fact she's 3 but yes very annoying.

I do it when I just don't have the words to explain myself.

Or to convey that I just don't give a Fuck.

And I roll my eyes cos the shite that falls out of people's gobs is just unbelievable.

It's sometimes better for all concerned that I either shrug my shoulders or roll my eyes as you probably wouldn't want to hear what I'm really thinking.

" dunno" is just as bad...explain yourself !!! I accept I might not like what rInhear but at least then I know where I stand . A shrug is just so pathetic! Especially when it's used from anything to " where the washing powder?!" to " where is Dsd?!"

What is it's a 'don't know' shrug rather than a 'don't care' one? Does that annoy you?

Whoops - managed to take ages just to type that and can't even shrug my way out of it. It doesn't sound like it's the shrugging that's the problem, more than DSD-losing, washing-powder-ambivalent shrugger who is giving all us helpful shruggers a bad name...

But I can't distinguish between " don't know " and " don't care" so I assume the latter

I shrug my shoulders when I don't know the answer to something. The expression on my face would say I don't care either.

Don't ever go to France.

Must say I love a good shrug.

There so many things you can convey with that, and when you add hand gestures and eyes and possible sounds to that, the possibilities are endless and wonderful.

I can probably translate War and Peace in shrugs.

Bof

Oh I can't remember the last time I saw someone shrug. I don't mind them at all.

DS can't say 'yes' or 'no'
He says 'sort of' and 'not really'
'Hello teenage son, are you hungry?'
'Sort of'
'Did you have lunch?'
'Not really'

I think it depends on the circumstances.

It could mean "I don't know".

OR it could mean "I don't care".

The former I can forgive but if it's the latter I'd rather the shrugger explained themselves verbally rather than being a twat.