Here is what makes my serum sizzle when watching this show (and I’ll bet no one else has ever noticed it but me): The way Big Hoss shakes hands at the conclusion of the deal.
He has this over-the-top (literally) I’m-so-manly-man arch of his arm that is annoying as fuck-all. Imagine someone with their arm in a full cast, bent at the elbow, reaching over a fence to grab a tomato out of his neighbor’s garden.
Now, imagine it without the cast, without the fence, and without the tomato.
I think he thinks this makes him look like a tough guy whose shit don’t steam.
There, now that I’ve clued you in, you will now notice it every frakin’ time.
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I’ve noticed it.
He is not reaching over anything. He is just a big and intelligent guy with an ego to match.
I guess you could call it a “power handshake”.
I don’t see it as a big deal in the way he shakes hands.
Big Hoss has gone through a bit of a physical transformation and lost a lot of weight in the past 6 months or so. He is eating better and working out daily, in addition to having lap band surgery.
I’d much rather someone shake my hand like a man than like a wimpy bitch that’s for sure. There is an art to hand shaking believe it or not, in fact, the pose you’re to hit when shaking someone’s hand starts at the feet and moves all the way up to the tilt of your head before traveling down your arm to the twist of your wrist and how your individual fingers are presented. I would even believe that nobody’s ever shakin’ someones hand properly, ever in history, there are waaaay too many factors and degrees, angles, pressure, and even timing to go into one single perfect shake. Even the masters struggle doing this. There is, however, something to say about someone who can manage to give a similar shake every time, and since Big Hoss has his shake down pat, I cannot criticize.
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve shakin’ another mans hand, and for an instant he turns into a girl. Stop with the girly handshakes, the turning away or looking down of the head. These are big mistakes commonly used, and by doing that you immediately tell the other person that you’re a bitch, and now your back has a ‘kick me’ sign on it left there, no doubt from the 4th or 5th grade. Once that signs put on, you’re a fry for the sharks, but this isn’t high-school anymore, now they take everything you have instead of just your pride. That ‘kick me’ sign turns into a metaphorical knife.
Here’s what I notice…Corey does, of course, try to cut the best deal. But he uses sarcasm & put-downs. Rick, on the other hand, is pretty straightforward & doesn’t seem to almost put down the other person’s intelligence for even bringing the freaking thing in…with Rick, you might “take it up the butt”, but it doesn’t hurt as much.
Because he and Bosstrain probably went to the same Dale Carnegie-type assertiveness training so they could learn how to try to signal dominance through a simple handshake.
Yeah, I notice it every time, too. I think it is a power thing with him. He has short man syndrome–but in his case, it is not stature, it is being the low man on the totem pole.
Of all the idiosyncrasies in the show, that one stands out? Not Chum Lee’s deer-in-the headlights look? Not the fact that customers routinely enter with wicked looking weaponry in a store that keeps a million dollars in cash out in the open?
It’s just a tough-guy handshake. The way he raises his elbow and rolls his wrist places the wrist of the recipient at a physical disadvantage. The recipient is forced to place their palm facing somewhat upwards and their elbow somewhat downward.
In the tough-guy world if someone resists the handshake and tries to roll their palm up to a vertical position, the offeror can further raise his elbow and painfully bind the recipient’s wrist.
Brynda and detlep are on the right track. It’s dominant body language. It also keeps the other guy from confusing the gesture with a soul-man thumbs-upward shake. I don’t think it comes from Hoss’s rank in the family, though.
