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Post by Doofey on Jun 4, 2009 22:53:19 GMT
Richard and James at Kirkwall Airport - 25th May 2009.  Love the discreetly placed thumb  I hadn't noticed that either.  |
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Post by nobody on Jun 4, 2009 23:28:31 GMT
But would they get so close? OK I know you can get close to people you work with but that close? I seen men kiss women on the cheek who they are friends with a few times it does not mean anything. |
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Post by ulstermayniac on Jun 4, 2009 23:50:43 GMT
Oh no, I wasn't implying that it meant anything at all. Maybe it't just me, or just a 'here' thing, it isn't something that is very common here that's all, something I am not used to seeing.  Normally we just say bye and that's it. |
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Post by TheDaisy on Jun 5, 2009 7:30:29 GMT
It does happen. A friend of mine (who is a bit of a would-be luvvie, dahling) always does the peck-on-the-cheek bit. Only for the lucky ladies though ;D - and he is quite nice so I don't complain at all. |
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Post by maureen on Jun 5, 2009 7:34:33 GMT
I watched it. No big deal really. |
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Post by misspan on Jun 5, 2009 8:26:43 GMT
Wow - I thought kissing people you work with is normal? haha Most friends/collegues greet me with a kiss on the cheek at the very least though most of the guys will go for a quick peck on the lips. Maybe it is just motorsport though.
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Post by Shortie on Jun 5, 2009 8:51:30 GMT
Everyone does it all the time on the continent. In Belgium, for example, the children getting on the tram to go to school kiss everyone they know as they work their way to their seat, and in supermarkets people coming on or going off shift kiss all the checkout attendants as they pass. It's all rather sweet and part of the culture.
It's spread over here, but I think that if you are not born into the habit it is a mass of traps waiting for you to fall in. For example: Who? How many - 1, 2, 3 or 4? Which side will they lunge for first?
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Post by jacqui on Jun 5, 2009 9:04:29 GMT
I wasn't making a big thing of it  - i put it up as a joke type thing really! Our 'crowd' do the air kissing thing all the time I think it proves James is a gentleman and has perfect manners! ;D |
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Post by Eclair on Jun 5, 2009 9:18:35 GMT
Hi All - have you seen the rest of those YouTubes on that channel? Pooor Mr Wilman  getting an earful from those screaming hysterical girls...  Poor man's ears must have been ringing for a bit.... This one...you might want to turn the volume down  www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwGkxYfsjJo |
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Post by ulstermayniac on Jun 5, 2009 11:10:38 GMT
You see, I think that's weird, it just isn't part of the social culture in Ulster. It may be now, in some parts with some people because we are slowly becomming more continental if that makes sense, but here in the part where I grew up if you did that to someone, they would look at you as though you should be locked up!!
Also, it isn't something I feel particularly comfortable with unless I know the man in question very very well and even then I wouldn't initiate it. What's wrong with just saying hello/bye and/or shaking someone's hand?
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Post by TheDaisy on Jun 5, 2009 11:14:15 GMT
I'm quite used to it though - being an amateur luvvie myself ;D
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Post by Wyvern on Jun 5, 2009 11:18:45 GMT
Everyone does it all the time on the continent. In Belgium, for example, the children getting on the tram to go to school kiss everyone they know as they work their way to their seat... Sad to say if that happened over here, I think people would get all daft and hysterical about the dangers of child molesters! It's not that I don't think it's a serious thing, because obviously it is, but the media has blown things so far out of proportion that a lot of adults are now scared to interact with kids in public in case they get accused of something. What really got me was back at Christmas my sister took my three nephews on a special steam train ride to see a pantomime and on the way back the cast joined everyone on the train but they weren't really allowed to interact with the kiddies, or shake hands, or play with them, in case someone said they'd done something inappropriate  My littlest nephew wasn't having any of it though, and stomped off through the train to find them to have a chat! He found them all in a compartment of their own because the management had decided it was the 'safest' arrangement. They even had to come out and check with my sister that it was OK for him to be in there with them. I know we have to protect children, but it makes me very sad to think it has to go this far As for all this kissing malarkey, I don't like it. Other people can do it if they want, but I'm not comfortable with being kissed by people I don't know well. OK, I do it because it seems to have become the 'done thing', but it makes me cringe! I hate 'space invaders'. |
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Post by ulstermayniac on Jun 5, 2009 11:31:57 GMT
Daisy - Well I do call people things like Sweetie or Duckie but I have always done that. That to me is nothing, it is just a 'pet' name, like a conversational/greeting niceity. Wy - At least I am not on my own on that one. I was beginning to think that I was the weirdo, well I am one, but you know what I mean. Like I say, I only do it with men that I know very very well, and even then not all the time. I wouldn't say no to any of the guys though |
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Post by emmap on Jun 5, 2009 11:41:49 GMT
I watched it. No big deal really. *Nods* I think he was just trying to get past the lady and he was doing it nicely , I mean not just shoving her out the way kinda thing. |
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Post by TheDaisy on Jun 5, 2009 11:53:32 GMT
Daisy - Well I do call people things like Sweetie or Duckie but I have always done that. That to me is nothing, it is just a 'pet' name, like a conversational/greeting niceity. Wy - At least I am not on my own on that one. I was beginning to think that I was the weirdo, well I am one, but you know what I mean. Like I say, I only do it with men that I know very very well, and even then not all the time. I wouldn't say no to any of the guys though Ah, therein lies the difference. I absolutely HATE pet names - can't abide them ;D |
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Post by Shortie on Jun 5, 2009 12:22:19 GMT
You need to develop a rather fierce aura. I have more or less perfected it and it works with most people! Only the people I like kiss me these days.  And the odd one or two who seem impervious to my terrifying emanations. I don't really mind being called 'my duck' or 'hinny' but yesterday a chap rang the bell and started to give me a big spiel about cleaning the driveway. Being in quite a good mood I didn't do my usual and butt in to say thank you for calling and goodbye until he called me 'darling'. That did it. He was away in 5 seconds. |
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Post by ulstermayniac on Jun 5, 2009 12:41:02 GMT
Daisy - I don't do it all the time, only occassionally and again only with mates and men that I know very well and it is mostly in written form, I don't usually say it to peoples' faces unless I am saying thank you (thank you duckie/sweetie) or I am sucking up to someone and I want something (oh, please sweetie) things like that otherwise I am quite formal. That is just the way I was brought up. I was raised by my Grandparents and my Nan was raised with very Victorian values that were passed down to her from her Mum and Nan. Shortie - I would just look them in the face and say something like 'Don't you dare touch me' my glares could kill! |
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Post by Shortie on Jun 5, 2009 13:13:35 GMT
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Post by ulstermayniac on Jun 5, 2009 13:30:33 GMT
I get you. It is only certain chaps who have privileges like that. |
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Post by nobody on Jun 5, 2009 13:48:50 GMT
If i am meeting someone i just say hello if they lucky they will get a nod.
I am not a touchy feeley person people at work where quite shocked to learn that my family don't go round hugging each other but i go bright red if someone i don't know even talks to me never mind kisses me.
And has for though screaming girls can i just ask why i never understood the whole screaming thing myself even when i was young and went to concerts i never screamed my head off.
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Post by lew on Jun 5, 2009 14:07:01 GMT
I was going to say I like a good snog ;D sorry it's Friday and I'm happy even after receiving my tax bill nowt is going to change it...what I was going to say only with whom I like, whether it be male or female they have to tick my box first ;D and oh the females get a kiss on the cheek not a tongue job thought I'd better clear that up ;D sorry, sorry, sorry I'll probably mod this ;D
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Post by Shortie on Jun 5, 2009 14:16:44 GMT
Lew!!!  |
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Post by TheDaisy on Jun 5, 2009 14:16:49 GMT
I was going to say I like a good snog ;D sorry it's Friday and I'm happy even after receiving my tax bill nowt is going to change it...what I was going to say only with whom I like, whether it be male or female they have to tick my box first ;D and oh the females get a kiss on the cheek not a tongue job thought I'd better clear that up ;D sorry, sorry, sorry I'll probably mod this ;D *dies laughing* |
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Post by ulstermayniac on Jun 5, 2009 14:20:59 GMT
Nobody - My family are like that too, we don't hug all over one another either. It's just not the done thing. You keep yourself to yourself. Lew - As I said before, it is only certain chaps who get privileges like that. |
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Post by nobody on Jun 5, 2009 14:27:52 GMT
Nobody - My family are like that too, we don't hug all over one another either. It's just not the done thing. You keep yourself to yourself. Lew - As I said before, it is only certain chaps who get privileges like that. Just after my dads bypass people thought it was strange that all he got was off me was 'feel en all right' But i think if i went and hugged him not only would i have made his cracked ribs worse i think the shock would have sent him back in to the ICU ;D |
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Post by ulstermayniac on Jun 5, 2009 14:36:38 GMT
LOL! Aww. |
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Post by ulstermayniac on Jun 5, 2009 14:37:32 GMT
I always gave my Nan and Grandad a hug but they were special people so they got special privileges. I do miss them. I would love to be able to hug them again. |
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Post by lew on Jun 5, 2009 15:27:22 GMT
Lew!!! [/quote What ;D....... . Poor old James giving a bird an air kiss and look how's it turned out ;D I'm almost ready to bring back Maddy ;D |
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Post by jacqui on Jun 5, 2009 15:37:25 GMT
::)ever wished you hadn't posted something whos maddy??? just curious |
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Post by lew on Jun 5, 2009 15:40:54 GMT
madison ......Never mind Jacqui it's given me a giggle ;D
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Normally we just say bye and that's it. 
- i put it up as a joke type thing really! Our 'crowd' do the air kissing thing all the time 
I love a man who can handle a gun 
getting an earful from those screaming hysterical girls... 
My littlest nephew wasn't having any of it though, and stomped off through the train to find them to have a chat! He found them all in a compartment of their own because the management had decided it was the 'safest' arrangement. They even had to come out and check with my sister that it was OK for him to be in there with them. I know we have to protect children, but it makes me very sad to think it has to go this far 
And the odd one or two who seem impervious to my terrifying emanations.
