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In a social way. Where do you draw the line between friendly and false and awful mwah mwah dahling? Where do you draw the line between friendly and oooh hang on that was a bit too friendly?

― Anna, Monday, 4 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Totally unacceptable in all circumstances and at all times. Hardline I know but it keeps things simple.

― Tom, Monday, 4 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Social kissin' = bleuurgghhh! Shaking hands is enough already.

― jel --, Monday, 4 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

At this retirement do last Wednesday it seemed it was the Done Thing for the women in the dept to kiss the retiring chap goodbye. I remained in my seat engrossed in a glass of wine till a colleague started shouting 'Emma give X a kiss! DO IT!' until I felt forced to do so or turn it into a big issue. So I did. Ick. Then the next day he was in the office and insisted on kissing me goodbye AGAIN. Oh how I hate having my personal space invaded.

― Emma, Monday, 4 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

That's alright Tom, no-one would want to kiss you anyway.

I kiss my female friends back if they kiss me, even to the extent now that certain ones I will move to kiss before they suggest (as it is ritual). This is all cheek action though. But I have never, and will never, kiss Emma. Yeuch!

― Pete, Monday, 4 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'm afraid I have cooties.

― Emma, Monday, 4 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

See I kiss everybody. I come from a kissy family and (I suppose) work in a kissy industry.

I do worry.

― Anna, Monday, 4 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I kiss everyone too. Except Tom.

― N., Monday, 4 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Well if you don't want to be responsible for a cooties epidemic, don't kiss Emma.

I am not from a kissy family. Even Kiss FM makes me feel uncomfortable.

― Pete, Monday, 4 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

An x at the end of an email is to me as a cross is to a vampire.

― Tom, Monday, 4 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The trouble is some people go round kissing willy nilly and so you don't know if it is SPECIAL or not unless you know whether the person kissing you is a kissy person who likes to spread disease, cooties and moral laxity or whether they are secretly IN LOVE with you.

If you go to kiss someone and they flinch I advise you kissy types just to leave them alone.

― Emma, Monday, 4 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

As a punch in the gob often offends.

― Pete, Monday, 4 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'm still counting the number of people I've kissed ever. I would be quite kissy but Emma's advice seems U+K.

― Graham, Monday, 4 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I have decided that as the curtsey is being revived, it is OK to kiss my hand. Once. And no dribbling or finger sucking.

― Emma, Monday, 4 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Awkward split seconds where you're not sure if you should kiss someone goodbye or not and your ensuing actions, classic or dud?

― Ronan, Monday, 4 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Bad - because if it does not feel normal thn you invariably miss, or they go for cheek/lips and you go for the other or your hair gets stuck on their glasses or similar.

― Anna, Monday, 4 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

This is why you need BOOZE.

― Emma, Monday, 4 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

awkward social embarrassment = dead dud

― chris, Monday, 4 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I kissed a girl in the eye once due to not knowing whether I should kiss her or not.

― Jonnie, Monday, 4 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Lucky you didn't stick your tongue in.

― Pete, Monday, 4 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yeah booze helps, except then before you know it you're going too far and kissing someone who you hate.

― Ronan, Monday, 4 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Jonnie! who was this?

― chris, Monday, 4 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

This is where I apologise to Rebecca for kissing her goodbye so poorly after Sussed.

― Graham, Monday, 4 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Amazing, not one Mahir joke yet.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 4 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

In social situations, the cheek kiss seems a lot less akward than a full on huggy embrace. In my family the cheek kiss is how everyone greets/goodbyes one another. It's kind of funny when all my uncles are present, there is like 10 of them and it takes a long time to go around the room. If I'm just introduced to someone that night it is usually a handshake, unless they're Canadienne.

― Evangeline, Monday, 4 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

This is one of those areas where I've noticed the continentals have it sussed - well, the French, Belgians and Italians do anyway. The Brits (we Brits, I should say) have no customs on kissing, so no wonder signs get misread and people don't know how to act/react to "friendly".

― Jeff W, Monday, 4 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Best = the one-armed (or two if friendship warrants) hug with cheek kiss. That said, hand kissing is a little over the line, unless it's a running joke/tradition. I have a couple of friends who kiss my hand, haha. The double kiss (once on each side) is pretty much unnecessary; probably only useful if you use the cheek-to-cheek confusion to go for the pucker-up.

Theatrical "mwah mwah" air-kisses are good fun. Best performed with friends of opposite gender-preference for max drama.

― Pyth, Monday, 4 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The line is passed when a kiss which starts on the mouth starts migrating continuously to the chin, cheek, or earlobe.

― Brian MacDonald, Monday, 4 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Jonnie! who was this?

Thom Yorke!

― Dan Perry, Monday, 4 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Generally a no-no unless a relative feels the need to give me a peck on the cheek. I kiss my wife and that's it. One slip: A few years ago at a New Year's party I smooched a bunch of friends because what the hell -- it was New Year's Eve. After kissing a scratchy-bearded friend of mine I made a mental note to never grow my facial hair out. I'd never want to do that to anyone.

― Andy K, Monday, 4 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

At 6am last a week ago last Saturday our friend Alice comes over, crying/laughing from making a terrible mistake in judgement at her own house-warming party, hopped up on lots of liquor and who knows what (as we all were) and after she'd stuck her own head in the garbage can when Stephan played "One More Time" she was blubbering about how she'd never get Alister back and we were hugging her, and I kissed her on the mouth, so briefly, and it was like a needle scratched and all of a sudden Emma B (my girlfriend) and Stephan get very serious, Emma buries her face in her hands, and it is explained to me that if this happened in France it would mean that i was in love with Alice and that "the relation" between me and Emma would be OVER. !!

― Tracer hand, Monday, 4 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

how dumb!

― chaki, Monday, 4 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

thank GOD you don't live in France.

― electric sound of jim, Monday, 4 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

when i was 18 i used to kiss everyone i met. with tongue. just to see if they were good kissers or not. i don't really kiss my friends except when i'm drunk and wearing red lipstick so that i can leave conspicuous signs of di all over them. other than that, my kissing is usually just for a sexual partner.

― di, Monday, 4 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I used to know a girl who did that. She quit doing it shortly before I met her. I felt very ripped off, I thought she was gorgeous

― electric sound of jim, Monday, 4 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

di, shurely you only got to know, er, ONE SIDE of yr victims' kissing technics, the "holy god this woman's tonguing me" kiss. which can be quite good, actually, so never mind

― Tracer hand, Monday, 4 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"victims"? well you've obviously never been blessed by the lady die's kisses!

― elizabeth anne marjorie, Monday, 4 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

my cheeks are as red as my lipstick now.

actually my little experiment yielded the results that most people are good kissers. i've only had a few duds.

― di, Monday, 4 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I kissed a girl in the eye once due to not knowing whether I should kiss her or not.

But this can be good, I've decided, as whenever it's happened to me it's meant that I went for the forehead but the recipient tilted up! Actually, wait, that is bad, because now the whole thing's ruined by the eye-kissing fiasco but you also have concrete evidence that you were in a reasonable position to just go for it.

― N`itsu`h, Monday, 4 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Nitsuh = accent man.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 4 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I will do social kissing if someone else it instigates it. It's better than hugging which is way too touchy-feely for my taste.

― rosemary, Monday, 4 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

What are the rules about kissing OTM?

― N., Wednesday, 6 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Brush your teeth. Or chew chewing gum, of course in private since apparently it's frightfully common.

― Ronan, Wednesday, 6 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Kissing on the money? I don't think you should do it, some of those bank notes are filthy.

― Edna Welthorpe, Mrs, Wednesday, 6 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Not 'apparently' Ronan IT IS A FACT. And be sure to remove chewing gum pre-snog. And anything else in your mouth e.g. fag, drink, false teeth.

― Emma, Wednesday, 6 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

OTM - OTher Men? On The Mouth? Over The Moon?

― Anna, Wednesday, 6 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

On The Money.

― Pete, Wednesday, 6 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

But how can you have rules about kissing on the money (I knew this was the most common expansion of OTM)? You can't, because if you are kissing on the money then you are doing it perfectly and rules would be a silly hinderance.

― Anna, Wednesday, 6 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I thought it was patently clear I meant on the moth.

― N., Wednesday, 6 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

moth = mouth

― N., Wednesday, 6 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Surely the wings and anttenae would get in the way? Oh ... sorry mouth.

(that was poor - I do apologise)

― Anna, Wednesday, 6 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

No - one should celebrate a Nick typo whenever it arrives. I beleieve in the movie musical version of Doctor Doolite Malcolm Muggins kisses the pretty young girl whilst on the back of that big space moth (though this could be a feverish remembering since I've not seen it for years and it really is the cause of The Death Of The British Musical).

― Pete, Wednesday, 6 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yes - but I perhaps should have thought of a better joke?

As for the actual OTM question, I don't know, I've always been hazy on that myself.

new answers in Anna World = vague and useless answers today.

― Anna, Wednesday, 6 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

On the mouth is not too much of a problem. Its in the mouth where the complications ensue (and in teenage love stories braces get entangled).

― Pete, Wednesday, 6 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Which is better, a kiss with or without false teeth?

― Maria, Wednesday, 6 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'm still too disturbed by the concept of kissing someone IN the mouth to properly answer this question. Inserting your tongue into someone else's mouth: CLASSIC. Inserting your lips into someone else's mouth: DUD!

― Dan Perry, Wednesday, 6 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

As long as we're on the subject, how does one go about kissing with tongues? (Shut up and answer.)

― Maria, Wednesday, 6 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Just rent Cruel Intentions II for the answer to this. Wait, don't.

― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 6 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

seven months pass...

Greeting friends and family with a kiss on the cheek seems to be standard among Latinos. When I am out Latin dancing, I feel phoney if I try to start kissing all my female acquaintances this way, but there are some salseras who know how to present their cheek in an obvious way and then I am quite comfortable with it. To a not very observant observer, this might look like I am giving some people preferential treatment, but it's not so.

― Rockist Scientist, Friday, 18 October 2002 13:11 (twenty-three years ago)

I once accidentally touched tongues with one my aunts.

― Rockist Scientist, Friday, 18 October 2002 13:23 (twenty-three years ago)

I only exchange kisses with my mom and my boyfriend. And only tongue kisses with the boyfriend!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 18 October 2002 13:26 (twenty-three years ago)

Kissing is lovely! I kiss-greet most of my female friends and most of my male friends too for that matter. A bit of sly tongue can be fun with female friends, so long as it's all in fun.

With my family we just put our cheeks next to each other and make kissy noises.

― toraneko (toraneko), Friday, 18 October 2002 14:52 (twenty-three years ago)

[goes weak at the knees]

― Mark C (Mark C), Friday, 18 October 2002 16:57 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm feeling weak at the knees,
Would you stop kicking me please?

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 18 October 2002 16:58 (twenty-three years ago)

three months pass...

I once accidentally touched tongues with one my aunts.

OH MY.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 27 January 2003 17:19 (twenty-three years ago)

My boyf's family always kiss me hello AND goodbye (even his Dad), it's taking some getting used to. Was funny when one of the step kids muttered something about Granny kissing ANYone these days though.

"I'm afraid I have cooties"

I've always wanted to know WTF cooties are, are they just cold sores or what?

― smee (smee), Monday, 27 January 2003 17:33 (twenty-three years ago)

Having been in France, Italy, and Spain for the past month or so I have to say that things would be a lot better if one or two kisses on the cheek were standard greeting practice.

― Andrew (enneff), Monday, 27 January 2003 17:45 (twenty-three years ago)

That said, if this practice were suddenly impressed upon societies in which it doesn't exist today, a whole lot of sexually repressed people would just use it as a good excuse to get a bit of sleazy physical contact. If it were a common thing since birth I think there wouldn't be such a feeling of invaded personal space as is shared amongst some.

Consider as a real-world analogy (as in, I've read of this before) the cases of people being sexually interested in a sibling because said sibling would always conceal their body on the way to/from the bathroom, etc. Whereas the same person may not have been attracted if said sibling had strutted around nude since day one.

Get me? Maybe not.

― Andrew (enneff), Monday, 27 January 2003 17:53 (twenty-three years ago)

The only people I ever meet who try to kiss or hug me are my patients. And most of them have Alzheimers.

― Christine "Green Leafy Dragon" Indigo (cindigo), Monday, 27 January 2003 23:31 (twenty-three years ago)

Christine, I misread that as "parents" and was very confused for a minute.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 27 January 2003 23:33 (twenty-three years ago)

And they don't even remember your name.

― Lara (Lara), Monday, 27 January 2003 23:33 (twenty-three years ago)

seven years pass...

tonight i was out at a friend's birthday and was chatting to this gf of a dude i vaguely know, met her sometime in march but couldn't remember this till she reminded me. anyway was a boozy night etc then when she was leaving she went to kiss me goodbye, and i went to do the two cheeks as i guess i would do the majority of the time, but she thought i was trying to kiss her, and reciprocated face to face...at which point i was totally shocked and was like "errr.....what..." then she was like "oh shit...sorry, i guess no harm in this...just a bit of fun...." and i was like "er yeah....erm...what"...so socially awkward, funniest shit ever, no worthwhile thing there on either of our parts but was the ultimate result of one kiss or two confusion...

― I see what this is (Local Garda), Sunday, 30 May 2010 02:13 (sixteen years ago)

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