SeekJustice

@seekjustice @jenwriter17 @ariel-ashira @alia @skredder Is anyone around?  I’ve got probably about an hour or so to work right now.

@seekjustice You tried it out on your brother!? 😀

Neat anthem, BTW!  I wondered if it was the song “I Am Australian”.  I know that song almost perfectly by heart.

@jenwriter17 @seekjustice Alright, here’s part 15.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OzPEMCng2eUTOTbRsQLQSMETCvgJt08PwGVX5C_-CCQ/edit?usp=sharing

@seekjustice Haha, you probably did, but that poor guy from Canada had such a hard time I wasn’t sure if it was possible for people who hadn’t seen it to understand.

I found two YouTube videos which include variations on the American man…[Read more]

@seekjustice What is Australia’s national anthem?

Hey people!  I’m finally here! 😀

@alia Haha, yeah, I guess that’s reasonable.  If Americans are the only ones who do it, someone who’s grown up in Asia wouldn’t be used to it even if you are technically American. 😉

@seekjustice Hahaha!!  I wonder if you even did it right? 😛  You had to just guess from my description, but I don’t know how goo…[Read more]

@seekjustice That’s hilarious! 😀

@seekjustice, sounds like the right response. 😉

@alia @rochellaine @seekjustice @skredder Anyone on for a bit?

@jenwriter17, @rochellaine, @seekjustice, anyone on?

@rochellaine Yes, @seekjustice will simply have to visit us here in the States so we can show her our ways. 😉

@seekjustice, I like Out of Sight, Out of Mind

@rochellaine, I think the handshake/hug is weird, but that might be because I lived in Asia for so long

@jenwriter17 Yup.  Apparently it’s only an American thing.  No, I don’t think it’s weird, it was @seekjustice who originally said she thought it sounded weird.  But I guess it would be hard to picture if you’ve never seen it.  I know that it’s actually hard for people from other countries to get because we had a family from Canada stay with us a l…[Read more]

@rochellaine You mean the thing guys mostly do, they handshake then use their free arms to hug? If that’s what you’re talking about, I don’t think it’s weird. A lot of people do it. I think it’s kinda a guy thing. 🙂 very American @seekjustice 😉

@seekjustice Oh yeah, I was thinking about young people a bit older, I guess.  Kids up until they’re about sixteen or seventeen don’t shake hands with each other, though always with older people.  (The older initiates, though, unless there’s a precocious youngster. 😉 )  When they get to their late teens they start shaking hands with each ot…[Read more]

@ariel-ashira Thank you! 😀  I was so sure, but then, trying as one American to state a fact about our huge country was kind of intimidating and I wanted to make certain. 😛  @seekjustice needs to come to America to see just how normal and not-awkward the handshake hug really is. 😉

@seekjustice Oh my goodness!  The awkward head nodding thing with male friends! 😛  Sometimes the guy is confident and just goes out to shake your hand, but if he’s not sure if you want to and you’re too shy to initiate the handshake, it’s kind of awkward.  Especially if you just hugged his sister or something… 😉

Um…hmm…of course! 😀  Wha…[Read more]

@jenwriter17 @seekjustice @rochellaine Thank you so much!

@rochellaine @seekjustice I confirm the handshake hug thing.  At least, I know it happens in Alaska, Kansas, and Missouri, and maybe New Mexico.  I think that there has to be a level of friendship already established for them to do it, since its more friendly and less formal than a handshake.

@seekjustice It’s about the least awkward greeting I can imagine, for men.  They won’t go in for a hug usually, but a handshake is never awkward.  Then they can show they’re a bit more friendly by adding a half hug on to the end of it.

Women do it sometimes, but it’s mostly a guy thing.  And a guy greeting a woman will usually either shake her ha…[Read more]