To think that some people in Yorkshire have surprisingly weak handshakes?

[dieselKiller]

Three people recently have given me the weakest handshakes. Its not just that they didn't give a little squeeze but they didn't even use their own muscles to maintain the shape of their hand or support its weight. This has only ever happened to me in Yorkshire. AIBU to think that its specific to Yorkshire or has this happened to you in other parts of the UK?

And nobody shakes hands in Lancashire on account of none of the natives having opposable thumbs. They do have vestigial tails which some of them will wag at you. I am married to a Lancashire person so I've seen this.

1/10, OP, must try harder.

Ah Cumbria..who knows if they have limp handshakes. Few have actually met Cumbrians. They are usually viewed through a veil of drizzle on a distant hillside.

It's raining now .

"yes, they have little practice, usually only when meeting a lancashire person, naturally their superior.
it's ideally placed to keep the bad weather off lancashire, it's it's only purpose tbh."

Definitely a touch of uncouth about them Yorkshire folk, not couth like us Lancashire lassies.

"Yes, people from Yorkshire have genetically weaker wrists than the rest of the population, due to all the cap wringing their ancestors had to do when stood in front of their betters." I just choked laughing

I can't stand a weak handshake!

Never noticed it being particular to one region though.

Perhaps limp handshakes are caused by eating Wensleydale, parkin and rhubarb?

I was once on a course where the advice we were given for judging how hard to grip when shaking hands is to imagine you are holding the hand of a small child beside a busy road. Hence, hold it firm enough that they can't wriggle away and run in to the traffic but not so hard that you crush their hand and hurt them.

Maybe the Yorkshire / Cumbrian people you met all live somewhere without much traffic. Or they teach road safety very young...