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Rinox
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Joined: Mon Mar 31, 2003 7:23 am Posts: 14892 Location: behind a good glass of Duvel
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kissing in your country/region?
Following Pig's inquiries about age of consent and cousin marriages in our countries, I decided to make a similar topic asking about the (general) kissing habits.
Here in Belgium, men and women, pretty much regardless of how well they know each other, kiss on the cheeck as a manner of greeting. Women will also kiss other women on the cheeck. But men don't usually kiss other men.
However, within family context that does happen. In my family for one; I kiss my grandfather, uncles and a good few of my male cousins on the cheeck. That also has to do with the fact that they come from the Southern part of the country (Wallonia), but bleh.
So, how is it everywhere else? Do men and women shake hands somewhere? other countries were male family members kiss?
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Sun Apr 24, 2005 3:17 pm |
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Franny
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Joined: Tue Jun 10, 2003 11:08 am Posts: 940 Location: over there
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never kiss anyone except the girlfriend really, occasionally you get the odd female friend who decides they haven't seen you in so long you deserve a kiss on the cheek and a hug
never been kissed on the cheek by a bloke though
don't kiss family memebers either, not even my mum
it's not really an english thing, much more of a continental custom
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Sun Apr 24, 2005 3:45 pm |
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pevil
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Joined: Mon Mar 31, 2003 1:43 am Posts: 4316
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most english are like franny really. very little of the 'oh darling' women/cheek kisses. I do kiss my grandma on the cheek (dont see her much so its kinda due to that) and my parents too, but i know im much closer to my family than the majority of people my age.
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Mole
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Joined: Fri Apr 11, 2003 5:09 pm Posts: 4004 Location: Walsall, West Mids, UK
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Sun Apr 24, 2005 6:08 pm |
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Satis
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Joined: Fri Mar 28, 2003 6:01 pm Posts: 16661 Location: On a slope
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Yea, US is mostly that way. Always exceptions, of course, but basically kissing is what kids do to their parents, and when older what you do to your girlfriend. None of those Belgian oddities here.
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Sun Apr 24, 2005 11:33 pm |
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derf
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Joined: Fri Apr 11, 2003 2:17 pm Posts: 7721 Location: Centre of the sun
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In Italy, when i meet a female i know, its common to shake hands and kiss on the cheek.
In the UK that doesnt exist.
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Mole
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Joined: Fri Apr 11, 2003 5:09 pm Posts: 4004 Location: Walsall, West Mids, UK
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Unless it's their brithday. Well, I suppose that's a hug and a kiss.
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Mon Apr 25, 2005 2:41 am |
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Rinox
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Joined: Mon Mar 31, 2003 7:23 am Posts: 14892 Location: behind a good glass of Duvel
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Mm, k...so nobody elsez kisses anyone on the cheeck except their kids/parents or their lovers. Logical deduction would make me the freak, but since I'm not into that: you're all freaks!!
Hehe...still tnx for answering so far. Funny how a simple custom like that varies within the West itself.
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Mon Apr 25, 2005 6:37 am |
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J
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Joined: Wed Jul 16, 2003 12:31 pm Posts: 3334 Location: Belgium
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I'm not really customed to kiss other people on the cheek either.
Although i must admit that i used to take advantage of that habit to kiss the cute girls.
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Mon Apr 25, 2005 7:49 am |
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Peltz
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Joined: Sat Apr 12, 2003 1:14 pm Posts: 6348 Location: Estonia
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Lol Ox try that here in Est and i guarantee that someone will put a bullet in yer butt
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Mon Apr 25, 2005 8:36 am |
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Franny
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Joined: Tue Jun 10, 2003 11:08 am Posts: 940 Location: over there
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I think the people who do it most are the French, closely followed by the italians and the spanish
or maybe i just meet foreign ladies who want to kiss me all the time?
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Mon Apr 25, 2005 9:47 am |
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Lacessit
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Joined: Thu Oct 16, 2003 10:12 am Posts: 193 Location: Far east of Sane
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Same as Ox. Obviously a Belgian thing.
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Mon Apr 25, 2005 3:10 pm |
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Pig
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Joined: Mon Mar 31, 2003 8:59 am Posts: 1358 Location: right behind you
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Yeah, kissing family/friends is pretty rare, unless you got a hot cousin.
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Mon Apr 25, 2005 3:35 pm |
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StephieMarie
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Joined: Sat Feb 12, 2005 3:04 pm Posts: 142 Location: Tarpon Springs, Fl
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id say i give older sister, mom, grandma and grandpa kiss on the cheek since they live so far away from me i don't get to see them all the time. now i'm a sucker for kids so the kids in the family get lots of kisses and hugs. But for anyone else hugs in my family, we're a huggie family.
i give friends hugs too now if it's a guy friend and he's hot he might get a kiss lol
but there are strange people out there and mouth kiss ewww i think the only people in my family that i'd even give a quick peck to is my mom, haley and kayla but there like my kids i helped raise them.
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Myrddin L'argenton
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Joined: Mon Apr 14, 2003 6:17 am Posts: 1717 Location: The Plateaus of Insanity
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Yeah I agree with the rest of us British, we don't like kissing people apart from when we have to kiss relatives and kissing girlfriends. As for hugs thats the sort of thing girls can get away with and men just look gay in this country.
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