Oh God. Please don't tell me the high five is coming back

High five, C-Tea!

High 5s all round! :wink:

The high-five never left our office.

I musta been high-fived by at least a half dozen people today. Dunno why we like it so much there.

oh god oh god oh god....

You're all pod people.

Stay away from me all of you.

Oh. God. Groan. Ow. Painful.

So. (He stuttered, still kinda traumatized), thanks to your thread, Chai Tea, I went Google Image searching. And I came to these sites. And there's a bunch of them. And they're all of the same kind.

Corporate ones. Like business management consultancy motivational corporate ones. They're the ones who. Apparently. Incredibly. Think using high-fives as an image is, you know, cool. Makes their corporate product look cool.

Ow. You wont believe this. Here.

http://www.sutton.com/aboutsutton/

Here.

http://www.scottish-enterprise.com/ebusiness-news-jan05 (see under "making a difference in 2005")

But. Worst. Of all. THESE people

http://www.synergylifemastery.com/html/retreats.html <-- yes, THESE ones

need to DIE. Be killed. Murdered. Tortured. They go to the Phil Collins thread. To the "who should be shot when the revolution comes" thread. Not just because of the high five pic - tho that alone would be enough. But because of everything.

"1 + 1 =3."

"Harnessing that commitment builds unshakable, unstoppable zones of inspiration and secure, highly profitable work environments."

"Synergy."

Putting that word in your name alone deserves summary execution.

But mostly the high five.



And the person who thought that would make their company look, like, cool. Who are these people? Where do they live?

Perhaps Islamism isn't so bad after all anyway.

on the side!

Synergy, yawn. Syntropy, that's where it was at.


High fives are nice and safes.

Intrepid, thanks...I will have great nightmares tonight.

Ah...Nimh, my ally. You now see the light.

In these ads, the people are sucessful, basically attractive people.

That leads unsuccessful, basically unfortunate people to believe they too will have synergy if they high five.

This leads to people with mullets, wearing t-shirts saying "I can't believe I ate the whole thing" approaching you.

You, in your Bruno Magli's and Dolce and Gabbana are invited to share in a high five because Dukes of Hazard is coming back in reruns.

eh?

When it comes to aversity to both high fives and those corporate sites - yes.

Where they come together - evil brews. Every way that our culture has gone to nauseating **** since the 80s is condensed into that one site. Somebody tip off Al-Qaeda.

But - we differ in nuance. I wouldnt mind a mulleted Dukes of Hazard type high-fiving me half as much as any of those corporate folks in those pictures. In fact, I'd be kinda half-amused by it. Whereas if one of those synergy seminar folks would try to make me high-five a colleague as part of some teamwork spirit enhancement exercise, I'd throw up. Over her palmtop.

i miss the low five...

High-fives are awesome!

But maybe only from my ironic art school friends. Some of the pictures posted are kinda scary.

The reverse high-five is even more awesome.

Air guitar takes the cake.

I hate the high five. When people would turn to me for a high five spontaneously I couldn't just not high five so I would end up doing it all lame and soft so instead of a slap I ended up just kind of brushing their hand softly or missing it all together then I could see this look on their face like "This dude is a lame'o"

But that's part of the fun! When some drunk asshole tries to high five you at a football game or wherever, just fold your arms and stare at him and watch him look stupid. I've seen it done many times, and it's damn funny.

Yeah, I'm the same way. I'm minding my own business and someone yells "whoo hoo....." and suddenly I'm expected to shoot my enthusiasm level from "well, here I am breathing, heart beating, life is good" to this inane, "that is just so TOTALLY AWESOME that someone did something and it worked out" Something that really just deserved a "oooo, that's good"

My emotions don't move that fast, and I find myself staring at this upraised hand for a moment, like "you really don't expect me to slap your hand, do you?" Then I realize I would leave the other person feeling lame, so I kinda raise my hand and half miss theirs and it ends up being really awkward.

Dag. I wish Dag were here. I'll bet she can explain.

High fives are the zenith of dorkitude.

That's why I do it with such gusto. The other person walks away shaking their stinging hand, and they don't offer to high-five for another week.

Slow learners. Serve's 'em right.

I don't like teamwork promotion stuff at the workplace, synergy or retreats, eek! I don't like high fives generally, though I suppose some exhilaration is expected when people do well in sports. Though, on that, I always tended to like teams that tried to act like they'd been to the end zone in the past.

My eh? was about the mullet guys. Mullets or the latest in metro, I don't care. I'm uncomfortable with sort of forced jollyness/hugginess. Am comfortable with the real thing though.

Did you ever go to shake someones hand, and at the same time they go to give you a high five?

god. It's like "grow up already, this is a handshake"

or....

this doesn't happen often anymore, but I remember when one person would offer a handshake, and the other person would grab their hand in that, I don't know what it's called, militant power handshake or something where the thumbs intertwine.

Real professional.