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Let us celebrate our mutual experience of close proximity by touching our multi-fingered appendages to one another's - Person who invented the handshake, probably.

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Submitted ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨abominable_panda@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨showerthoughts@lemmy.world⁩

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  • cardboardchris@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The story I heard in a medeival history class about the origin of the handshake is that it’s a sign that you don’t mean to attack the other person because you’re not holding a weapon in your hand

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    • HikingVet@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Have similar from multiple sources. With an added bit about it also exposing you to attack from the other person as you would have to move your shield.

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  • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Chimps shake hands.

    phys.org/…/2021-05-chimps-handshakes-social-group…

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  • KokusnussRitter@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That is the worst way to describe that.

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    • ToastedRavioli@midwest.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Its like Nathan Pyle if he never became successful and sounded like he had people locked in the basement

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  • mechanismatic@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I would guess someone invented the handshake in prehistoric times and we just have no medium in which a record could exist aside from an undiscovered cave drawing or something like that. Humans seem to naturally touch hands outside of any social influence or cultural history. Babies reach out and people touch their hands. It seems like a pretty intuitive human action. We touch things with our hands, so other hands seems natural as a thing to touch. The shake just seems like a minor variation on that.

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    • db2@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Humans seem to naturally touch hands

      Some a lot more than others, and it’s usually the ones with really gross hands. Just saying.

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  • scytale@piefed.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    One silver lining from the pandemic was that fist bumps became more common in lieu of handshakes. Some people's hands can be filthy.

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    • A_norny_mousse@feddit.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Elbow bumps here!

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