I’ve been known to nod off.
Back in college the nod was to let my buddies know that yes, I do have the weed. Sometimes I would follow up with a thumbs-up.
Well, everyone knows that Homer nods.
I answered “No - white male”, but I probably should have picked “What the hell are you talking about?”
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[li]Do you do The Nod? Yes[/li][li]Do you know about The Nod? Yes[/li][li]Has The Nod been done to you and you are not a member of the principal group that does it? Yes and no (I am a member of the principal group that does it)[/li][li]Do you do The Nod to someone not a member of the principal group that does it? Impossible to do, as all humans are a part of the principal group that does this[/li][/ul]
Acquaintances from work, people I might have seen at multiple concerts, anyone I know well enough to recognize but not well enough to send a xmas text: they all get The Nod.
Heck I’ll nod to someone who sees me coming and makes some effort that hopefully matches my own to make sure we don’t collide.
No, I don’t put the same weight on The Nod as the recent TV program did.
I do it when I see someone wearing a fainne. The OP seems to suggest that there is some context in which men do this to each other. I can’t think of any situation in which that might be true.
ETA: having read further, I see that he means it as a more subtle version of the power fist. And even that has been adopted by feminists of every race, so there you go.
So, are we ever going to find out what the fuck “the nod” is?
If all we’re talking about is a nod of acknowledgement when we meet a colleague or acquaintance I’ll be rather shocked that a thread was started for that reason.
Sometimes it’s the “raised eyebrow” acknowledgement.
Sometimes it’s “hey.”
Sometimes it’s a combination of two or all three.
Is this all we’re talking about?
The Nod can be in any social group. Two guys in a roomful of women. The Nod acknowledges that there’s another like minded person present. Could be two white dudes in a room with blacks. Two blacks in a room with whites.
Two women in a room of guys. I see this often at work meetings. There’s often more men in the conference room than women.
Spock did it.
I still have no idea.
My cat up-nods tome. He’s orange, I’m not.
Never heard of it as a thing. Now that I have read up on it and am therefore an expert, I am reminded of a time when I wore my Cardinals hat to Yankee Stadium. I saw a gy in a Twins hat. We did what I suppose was the 1988 version of The Nod.
I was thinking about starting a thread to ask if there was an equivalent among women. This looks like as good a place as any to tack on the question.
Yeah, I’ve given and got the “nod”. Never thought of it as a black thang though. Just an easy, quick non verbal way to acknowledge another person, usually of similar type. Fellow worker, guy in Home Despot with a honeydew list and so on.
As leftfield6 mentioned, there’s a motorcycling equivalent. I do it to everyone, but some Harley riders only salute other Harley riders. I once, when on the bike, had a lady at a stoplight roll her window down and ask in all seriousness, “Do you motorcyclists really all know each other”? It was hard to keep a straight face as I answered in the affirmative.
mind the gap
I’ve been known to nod to strangers on the street if I made eye contact with them.
I never knew I was misappropriating an act of black solidarity.
Huh. I thought the “up nod” was a New Yorker thing, black or white. I certainly used it a lot, as a general greeting, when I was living there.
Asked my son, a White male who spent 4 years in Japan, how he’d react there when he briefly came across another Westerner he did not know and he said “like this” and gave an up-nod.
His point is that it is not just being a notably (and superficially obviously so) minority group though - it is being an “out class” in the circumstance as well.
So in summary; ‘The Nod’ is actually just ‘a nod’ (of acknbowledgement). Something presumably older than spoken language itself, repackaged as an internet meme.
There is a stoner nod. I’ve been on the giving and recieving end. Kinda cool how we recognize one another even in full camo.