Has the fist bump popularity wave crested or is it still gathering momentum? I see more fist bumps than I used to, and I think they may eventually replace the handshake if the trend continues. In their favor they are far more sanitary than handshakes.
I haven’t fist-bumped anyone in two, three years.
But what I really came in here to say was
The fist bump is still unsanitary. I say both will be overtaken by the jump-in-the-air chest bump.
Somehow, I really don’t see fist bumping a Judge or opposing counsel as a viable alternative.
No. The fistbump may replace the high-five, but it’s too casual to replace the handshake. Even the Obamas, who may have done more to popularize the fistbump than anyone else, don’t fistbump the Queen of England.
The day you see lots of people fist bump is the day you know it has passed from ‘coolsville’ to ‘loserville’. You stated you see it all the time, it is now officially dead, gone the way of high five, the thumbs up, the elbow bump and the raised fist. RIP
hmmm, let’s see … a cross-cultural social ritual that’s at least a couple of millenia old being supplanted by a faddish, frat-boy gesture that’s only been around a few years. Yeah, that’s the ticket.
It’s true, many people have NO sense of history. It’s like those top-25 lists of “the best” whatevers that EW does, where nothing before about 1985 is mentioned. Quel horror, you mean they actually made movies before I was born? :rolleyes:
No. It’s not like the fist bump was invented last year, it’s just getting a minstream popularity boost from Obama. Maybe there will be a permanent niche for it, but it’s not taking over for the handshake.
I think the proper Simpsons quote here is, “If these trends continue… ayyy!”
Exactly what I was going to say, in almost exactly the words I was going to say it in.
I thought fist-bumps became ironic around four or five years ago.
Where have you been it’s now elbow taps.
Like the bell-bottomed leisure suit replaced most forms of formal and business attire.
And moreso after becoming the preferred greeting among terrorists.
Personally I prefer to nestle the other guy’s scrotum in my hand. You have to get it just right - it has to be gentle, but there needs to be just enough pressure on the testicles to say that you mean business. Practice it on your uncle first.