Submissive Handshake vs Dominant one (80)

Truly, you think an awful lot more about handshakes than I do or have ever done. This thread is the first time I have ever thought about handshakes and what they mean in this pyschological sense.

I accept that handshakes can have importance in the certain set of limited circumstances we use them nowadays but my reading of why I do what I do is not the same as yours. Just for the record, I probably shake hands with someone about once a week if that. My life is not full of, nor punctuated by, or given meaning by handshakes.

You try to tell me what I think which is a little patronising. Your analysing me and publically proclaiming my ideas to be wrong do not make them so. In your view maybe but I am the one who lives with my world view and sees its workings better than you.

I don't read the signs you say we all read as dominant that way. If a person tries to twist my openly proferred hand, I think wanker and hence my reaction. It is not a reaction against trying to be dominated, because I don't see dominance there. I see something else.

All this psychological analysis relies upon us actually reading and thinking the same about what we do. All this dominance and submission stuff in everyday life pretty much bypasses me. I don't kowtow to others or hold myself as above others, so I don't join in with these little games.

Mistress of @paulss

Make sure you growl whilst you compete, lest you lose the upper hand.

Is that what they're calling it these days?

Basically as I am seeink it, Ray, the problem is that you are not callink your girlfriend for five months. You see, the hot babies like to feel wanted. If you are not callink them on the phone for a while, it is like a way of saying "you are worst song, played on ugliest guitar"

concidering the size of Corby and that until recently it was the largest europeon town not to have a rail station,,

i cannot believe the Corby handshake has been missed in these postings

Please excuse crap spelling cause i,m rubbish

A distant relative of the Glasgow kiss, I'm guessing?

Well I would absolutely love you to give me a long, hard, disciplinary hearing, because you know what I'd have at the end of it? A big, fat compensation payment. So go ahead. Give me one.

I think Corby also boasted the largest drag line excavator at one time and not forgetting the trouser press.

So doing as you're told by someone senior in an organisation to you makes you submissive?

Are we to understand that all dominants must hold senior positions in their companies or own their own businesses? Do they become submissives when they accept instructions from their clients? And how does it work when a senior person is submissive? Are they then topping from the bottom by giving instructions to other people or are they just switches who are unaware of their true nature?

Perhaps all soldiers are submissive as they accept orders from people senior to them.

I think I just became submissive, I've been asked to make a cup of tea and when I finish this I'll be complying with that request.

No, at best it will show you what someone is hoping to convey about their character.

But anyone who looks for the upper hand in a handshake is only showing how much they need to try.

Theodore Bikel: "All too often arrogance accompanies strength, and we must never assume that justice is on the side of the strong. The use of power must always be accompanied by moral choice."

I shake hands using a banana, and use the momentary surprise value of soft fruit to leap and perch on top of the other male's head.

Perching on another man's head unexpectedly is a very good way of establishing dominance, you see.

I'm not cheap, but I am on special this week...