the ol' five finger hug
― cool app (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Thursday, 28 May 2009 19:57 (fifteen years ago) link
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― Lamp, Thursday, 28 May 2009 19:58 (fifteen years ago) link
a good reporter would have pulled a quote from that last group, because I would find it super-informative as a reader to see a news story containing genuine teenage sneering about this issue, and in general about who thinks they're so cool with their stupid hugging but really they're just dumb jerks― nabisco, Thursday, May 28, 2009 2:19 PM (22 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
Amen.
I can only think of one condition and one instance under which hugging occurred between my peers in middle school and high school: when couples spent the entire lunch period in sloppy kisses and serious dry humping in the hall and my two female high school classmates who were outspoken about not being lovers (Sarah was a cheerleader and Buffy (I'm not making it up) was a basketball player). I had public speaking class w/ them and they hugged before and after every single class.
But yeh, hugs would have been sooo out of place in my schools.
― you'rine school (Jesse), Thursday, 28 May 2009 20:04 (fifteen years ago) link
pretty sure when i was in high school the theater kids and goth kids were the only ones hugging it up
― Ømår Littel (Jordan), Thursday, 28 May 2009 20:06 (fifteen years ago) link
maybe they got the idea from my so called life or something
ugh, my grandfather had a dutch rudder on his hand, it was really fuckin gross
― rip dom passantino 3/5/09 never forget (max), Thursday, 28 May 2009 20:13 (fifteen years ago) link
Wait - now that I think of it, there were probably a couple drama kids who hugged. Ugh.
― you'rine school (Jesse), Thursday, 28 May 2009 20:15 (fifteen years ago) link
ha!
― rosario speedwagon (nickalicious), Thursday, 28 May 2009 20:21 (fifteen years ago) link
i like hugs!
― rosario speedwagon (nickalicious), Thursday, 28 May 2009 20:22 (fifteen years ago) link
nabisco xp: this article would have been better if it addressed hugging as leading to social stratification or if there are ethnic/racial issues or how it affects autistic kids. The hugging thing vs. the rise of autism spectrum diagnosis ... or even better, cases of hugging gone wrong. Hugging leading to stalking. Kids that hug wrong.
― giving a shit when it isn't your turn to give a shit (sarahel), Thursday, 28 May 2009 20:47 (fifteen years ago) link
Kids that hug wrong.
the mind boggles
― Obama seems to have the views of a 21-year-old Hispanic girl (HI DERE), Thursday, 28 May 2009 20:48 (fifteen years ago) link
this article is completely perfect the way it is - btw i just read it like 10 mins ago
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 28 May 2009 20:49 (fifteen years ago) link
as i recall when i went to HS (early/mid 90s) this worked strictly along gender lines. girls hugged--usually each other, occasionally guys. guys never hugged one another, and rarely if ever initiated hugs with girls.
― amateurist, Friday, 29 May 2009 00:32 (fifteen years ago) link
― paedo turkoglu (hmmmm), Friday, 29 May 2009 00:45 (fifteen years ago) link
rosario speedwagon
dude
― elliot easton ellis (get bent), Friday, 29 May 2009 04:21 (fifteen years ago) link
oh shit did you use that one already doh
― rosario speedwagon (nickalicious), Friday, 29 May 2009 04:40 (fifteen years ago) link
lb I find it disturbing that you are disturbed
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Thursday, May 28, 2009 7:07 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
why?
― Vokuhila (latebloomer), Friday, 29 May 2009 04:42 (fifteen years ago) link
i recall this working pretty much as amtst described. my sister & her friends hugged, the guys never did unless it was some kind of flirtation initiated by the lady.
― ian, Friday, 29 May 2009 04:43 (fifteen years ago) link
when does a cuddle become a snuggle, or vice versa?
― kingfish, Friday, 29 May 2009 04:49 (fifteen years ago) link
thought they were synonymous.
― ian, Friday, 29 May 2009 04:51 (fifteen years ago) link
handshakes are like hugs for your hands
― the stanky leg (nickalicious), Friday, 29 May 2009 04:52 (fifteen years ago) link
hugs are like handshakes for your body
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Friday, 29 May 2009 04:54 (fifteen years ago) link
not sure where milkshakes fit into the equation
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Friday, 29 May 2009 04:55 (fifteen years ago) link
your penis
― the stanky leg (nickalicious), Friday, 29 May 2009 04:56 (fifteen years ago) link
no. i'm in awe!
― elliot easton ellis (get bent), Friday, 29 May 2009 04:56 (fifteen years ago) link
let's leave your penis out of this
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Friday, 29 May 2009 04:58 (fifteen years ago) link
(that's what she said)
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Friday, 29 May 2009 04:59 (fifteen years ago) link
― the stanky leg
appropriate username?
― jump in the looool (electricsound), Friday, 29 May 2009 04:59 (fifteen years ago) link
oh in that case...
xp i thought that's what that song was about
more xposts
― rosario speedwagon (nickalicious), Friday, 29 May 2009 05:00 (fifteen years ago) link
at what duration does a *hug* become a *cuddle*
the dangerous teenage hug epidemic vs the cuddle puddle
― salsa shark, Friday, 29 May 2009 07:07 (fifteen years ago) link
i would hug my female friends in hs, only hugged male hs friends after we graduated.
At the end of a semester my evil improv/drama teacher who had made many of my friends miserable for months hugged me and it was traumatizing.
― clotpoll, Friday, 29 May 2009 07:16 (fifteen years ago) link
fwiw i don't see much (if any) evidence of this at my kid's middle school, yesterday AM this girl he love/hates came up and punched him 'hello'
― m coleman, Friday, 29 May 2009 09:39 (fifteen years ago) link
guys i found something worse
― Mr. Que, Friday, 29 May 2009 19:20 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/31/nyregion/31clothesline.html?_r=1&hp=&pagewanted=all
― Mr. Que, Friday, 29 May 2009 19:21 (fifteen years ago) link
everybody hugs in my office, btw
― Feugh! (since somebody always asks: rhymes with "Peugh!") (forksclovetofu), Friday, 29 May 2009 19:35 (fifteen years ago) link
kinda want a powerhug with r giant hands kelly (pictured above)
― corps of discovery (schlump), Friday, 29 May 2009 19:43 (fifteen years ago) link
mounted on r kelly's hands: a kitchen wallclock, a small recently felled log and a finger mounted crystal decanter
― corps of discovery (schlump), Friday, 29 May 2009 19:44 (fifteen years ago) link
Have I mentioned what a hug maniac my 15-yr-old brother is? He has his own style of hug, which he calls 'Cars0n hugs' after himself, which involve squeezing the fucking shit out of you for a good 10 seconds. He's so wicked affectionate, it is just crazy.
Last night he was telling me in his speech class, a student gave a speech about how some of his best friends got kidnapped, raped and murdered when they were in elementary school. "It was so SAD, I needed some hugs but hardly anyone would give me one." My hypothesis, that it was bcz people like breathing while being hugged, was wrong. It turns out he's doing an 'I'm creepy and weird' gambit lately where he breathes on people's necks ans stabs his arm to make blood squirt onto his notebooks. •_•
― cant go with u too many alfbrees (Abbott), Friday, 29 May 2009 19:45 (fifteen years ago) link
His peers don't find him especially huggable bcz of this.
― cant go with u too many alfbrees (Abbott), Friday, 29 May 2009 19:47 (fifteen years ago) link
I am not sure I understand what is happening there
― Obama seems to have the views of a 21-year-old Hispanic girl (HI DERE), Friday, 29 May 2009 19:48 (fifteen years ago) link
I blame My Chemical Romance
― she's in arby's / she's in the can (Curt1s Stephens), Friday, 29 May 2009 19:50 (fifteen years ago) link
<3 yr new nickname, crütz
― cant go with u too many alfbrees (Abbott), Friday, 29 May 2009 20:55 (fifteen years ago) link
I just saw these two people downtown
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3352/3577087214_754c6920a7_o.jpg
In case you can't make out the signs, they say "FREE HUGS"
― you'rine school (Jesse), Friday, 29 May 2009 21:23 (fifteen years ago) link
HUGS $1
― ice cr?m, Friday, 29 May 2009 21:25 (fifteen years ago) link
The free hugs people were all over Boston last summer. Creepy.
― Chaki Demus & Pliers (ENBB), Friday, 29 May 2009 21:45 (fifteen years ago) link
I wonder if I could haggle for a kiss too.
― you'rine school (Jesse), Friday, 29 May 2009 21:46 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.redwinebuzz.com/winesooth/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/joe-george-bush-picture-1-2.jpg
Rarely is the question asked, is our children hugging?
― would you ask tom petty that? (tipsy mothra), Friday, 29 May 2009 21:49 (fifteen years ago) link
OMG that article Mr. Que found! Shocking.
― StanM, Friday, 29 May 2009 23:15 (fifteen years ago) link
seriously, what is the premise of that article? is it really just
http://cache.gawker.com/assets/resources/2007/12/siren.gif CLOTHESLINES EXIST http://cache.gawker.com/assets/resources/2007/12/siren.gif ?
I can't tell what on earth it's trying to say otherwise and don't know why the fuck you'd pitch, research, write, place, sub and publish that story. "HOLD THE FRONT PAGE, we've discovered kettles, plumbing and potplants!"
― Chaka Demus & Plies (sic), Saturday, 30 May 2009 06:51 (fifteen years ago) link
In this week's Sunday supplement: 22,000 words on DID YOU KNOW: some of YOUR NEIGHBOURS don't live in caves?
― Chaka Demus & Plies (sic), Saturday, 30 May 2009 06:53 (fifteen years ago) link