How can I stop people Hugging Me?
Jun 20th 2005, 9:17 pm
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Re: How can I stop people Hugging Me?
Originally Posted by New in NY
I automatically went for her other cheek and then it was her turn to look surprised.
Jun 20th 2005, 9:25 pm
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Re: How can I stop people Hugging Me?
Originally Posted by anotherlimey
Bottom or top?
Jun 20th 2005, 9:46 pm
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Re: How can I stop people Hugging Me?
Originally Posted by ScotsmanInTexas
I was hugged by a hairy sweaty man in a vest one time! :scared:
Jun 20th 2005, 9:56 pm
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Re: How can I stop people Hugging Me?
Originally Posted by ScyLarc
I too hate being hugged by complete strangers and am lucky in that if i pinch my nose at i certain point i can sneeze on demand. I have found that a small sneeze performed at exactly the right moment tends to:
a) distract people, they start looking for a tissue and
b) disgust people so they don't want to hug me
It's either that or i just have to put up with the whole thing and it's hugs and kisses all round.
a) distract people, they start looking for a tissue and
b) disgust people so they don't want to hug me
It's either that or i just have to put up with the whole thing and it's hugs and kisses all round.
vomiting on their shoes is a good deterrent also.
Jun 20th 2005, 10:32 pm
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Re: How can I stop people Hugging Me?
vomiting blackcurrant and guiness is better
Originally Posted by cindyabs
vomiting on their shoes is a good deterrent also.
Jun 20th 2005, 10:39 pm
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Re: How can I stop people Hugging Me?
Originally Posted by gruffbrown
vomiting blackcurrant and guiness is better
Jun 20th 2005, 11:29 pm
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Re: How can I stop people Hugging Me?
Originally Posted by gruffbrown
Halitosis works 
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Jun 20th 2005, 11:32 pm
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Re: How can I stop people Hugging Me?
Earlier this year a (female) coworker slapped me on the bottom. I understand her sense of humor well but she was worried that I might have taken offence so she sent me an email about 5 mins afterwards to apologize.
I told her it was OK. I know her actions were meant in a humorous manner...
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I told her it was OK. I know her actions were meant in a humorous manner...
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Jun 21st 2005, 12:19 am
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Re: How can I stop people Hugging Me?
Oh my what type of childhood did you have?
I don't know if it's just me but I rather dislike the American habit of people I barely know trying to hug me.
Ah, but it is true we Anglo-Saxons (like the German's) don't actually touch each other the way other Europeans do, the French and the Italians for instance they never stop touching one another (but then that figures dirty middens the lot of them.)
Well look, where I come from it's only puffs that hug other men and being hugged by other women well that just starts your woman off and by heck you'll hear her when you get home!
A friend of my wife's recently said to me (as I was leaving) we never know what to do with you (meaning should they all hug me in some kind of group hug orgy). I said ah well you shake my hand, that's what you do. Sorry, but this hugging thing is all very weird if you ask me.
Last person I hugged was my mother. Which shows we Brits are considerably more reserved about who we hug and cuddle with.
Originally Posted by ScotsmanInTexas
I don't know if it's just me but I rather dislike the American habit of people I barely know trying to hug me.
Ah, but it is true we Anglo-Saxons (like the German's) don't actually touch each other the way other Europeans do, the French and the Italians for instance they never stop touching one another (but then that figures dirty middens the lot of them.)
Well look, where I come from it's only puffs that hug other men and being hugged by other women well that just starts your woman off and by heck you'll hear her when you get home!
A friend of my wife's recently said to me (as I was leaving) we never know what to do with you (meaning should they all hug me in some kind of group hug orgy). I said ah well you shake my hand, that's what you do. Sorry, but this hugging thing is all very weird if you ask me.
Last person I hugged was my mother. Which shows we Brits are considerably more reserved about who we hug and cuddle with.
Jun 21st 2005, 12:26 am
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Re: How can I stop people Hugging Me?
Originally Posted by veryfunny
Oh my what type of childhood did you have?
Jun 21st 2005, 12:37 am
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Re: How can I stop people Hugging Me?
Originally Posted by Dant3
No doubt, a good and proper British childhood in which gratuitous displays of affection were reserved for deathbeds and wartime farewells on railway platforms.
Jun 21st 2005, 12:51 am
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Re: How can I stop people Hugging Me?
Hmm lots of good suggestions to consider.... So if I become a complete minger and stop brushing my teeth, drink plenty of guiness, pinch my nose and vomit on their shoes then just maybe people I hardly know will stop hugging me??? 
Jun 21st 2005, 1:05 am
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Re: How can I stop people Hugging Me?
lol like mine.... 'grannys dead dear, we're off to the pub'
Originally Posted by Dant3
No doubt, a good and proper British childhood in which gratuitous displays of affection were reserved for deathbeds and wartime farewells on railway platforms.
Jun 21st 2005, 1:20 am
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Re: How can I stop people Hugging Me?
Originally Posted by ScotsmanInTexas
Hmm lots of good suggestions to consider.... So if I become a complete minger and stop brushing my teeth, drink plenty of guiness, pinch my nose and vomit on their shoes then just maybe people I hardly know will stop hugging me???
Look at it this way-you'll have a whole different social circle