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Aug 03, 2010 08:58AM
You aren't the only one. I talk with my hands too. Comes in handy when we play catchphrase.
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I used to do this quite a bit but made a concerted effort to stop a few years ago after seeing video footage of myself giving a lecture. While speaking I gestured so much and so emphatically that I looked like a drowning man flailing in the water for dear life. I don't think it made a good impression.
i don't really talk with my hands, but seeing me play badminton or ping pong is pure delight. i really should trademark my moves.
This is a great question. I'm really not a big talker but I know some people who are. I try not to sit next to my friend Linda in meetings because she talks with her hands so much she smacks nearby people. I walk when I talk a lot. I have a hard time standing still. I'm not good with podiums.
Heh. Badminton, you say? Do you bash the shuttlecock, Janine?
Thanks for playing along guys, but it is OK, we can let Barb know now that she is the only one :-).
Step back before she replies, Jim, you might be in the danger zone...
RandomAnthony wrote: "Step back before she replies, Jim, you might be in the danger zone..."
That's where I like it.
That's where I like it.
i have a blindspot for shuttlecocks flying straight at my face, or my direct right or left. sometimes it hits me in my forehead, or a make a weird move with my arm so it flies through and hits the ground. when the shuttlecock hits the ground i freeze in the pose i was just in, for a few seconds, then shrug, then pick it up from the ground. i also never run, but walk, and never more than three steps, before freezing in my awkward pose, arm stretched forward.
That sounds more like performance art than a sport, Janine.
Heh. I agree, Jonathan. Janine, post #9 is one of my favorite posts in a long time...
Jonathan wrote: "That sounds more like performance art than a sport, Janine."if i could get paid to do it, i would. it's all natural awkwardness.
Set it to music and post a video to You Tube, Janine. You could start a craze for the groovy Dutch badminton dance.
my mom talks with her hands. she is a sign language interpreter. i don't think i do when i talk. i do tell better stories while standing up though. more body language than with hands i suppose
All you have to do to be cured of talking with your hands is to watch Gordon Ramsay for a while.
I didn't mean to say it was anything bad in the hands of those other than Gordon Ramsay.
I would crack trying to work for Gordon Ramsay. Either I'd go off on him in frustration, or he'd find my weak spot and drag me to tears.
But he's sooooooooooo attractive when he yells.
Anyone watching this season's Hell's Kitchen?Never expected the blue haired guy and the single mom to hook up...
I thought Hell's Kitchen was canceled years ago.But I'm watching Master Chef and I get soooooooo much Gordon.
i have never seen gordon ramsey or this show
Nope. My husband is in love with Gordon. I like Kitchen Nightmares alright, but am tired of Hell's Kitchen.
Now I just figured out why I read a lot. My husband watches a lot of crap tv.
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One of the most irritating kinds of hand-talking is when TV newscasters do it. You know some producer told them to do it in order to be more visually interesting, and that they've been trained to do it a very specific way. It's very annoying. The MOST annoying TV hand-talking is on the entertainment shows - Access Hollywood, Entertainment Tonight, The Insider...and can I just say, The Insider is the most horrible show in the history of TV?
I talk with my hands all the time! That is just who I am and I don't deny or apologize.
I Talk with my hands, especially when I am agitated and when I debate something!!
It must have been some pretty impressive hand gestures.
Either that or she has been around you a very long time. :)
Either that or she has been around you a very long time. :)
Have you ever watched Rachel Ray on her cooking show? She's constantly in motion. It's quite annoying, but then again, I think she takes what most would consider normal and adds about 10 levels to it.
American politicians are taught to gesture with their hand in a fist, thumb on top. Apparently it conveys strength without being frightening. It looks stupid, because they all do it. Like trained monkeys.
What's the hand gesture for "hog wild", Misha?
i think it is the "koo-koo for cocoa puffs" cra-zazy shaky hands deal
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I can't stand her. 10 levels, yes, that's a good way to put it.
We are in the middle of an election campaign. Someone has told our Prime Minister to use her hands when she talks. (She is new to the job after tossing out our previous Prime Minister a couple of months ago.)
The hand movement’s thing just doesn’t work for her (or is it me) it looks so artificial.
The hand movement’s thing just doesn’t work for her (or is it me) it looks so artificial.
I talk with my hands, especially when I'm trying to describe something. I also tend to make sound effects... I do this a lot when I'm driving, it amuses the hell out of my husband and kids.
Lobstergirl wrote: "Stacia wrote: "Have you ever watched Rachel Ray on her cooking show? She's constantly in motion. It's quite annoying, but then again, I think she takes what most would consider normal and adds abo..."Rachel Ray is the one quickest way to give me hives.
I think hand-talking is part of the communication requirements for Cajuns. When I talk with my mother on the phone, I can just "hear" what her hands are doing as she's telling me a story (get your minds out of the gutter!). I have tons of pictures of her telling stories and talking with her hands and her audience's face(s) during said storytelling... As for me, I've tried to NOT use my hands when I talk and I just can't do it. My arms fly up, as if they have a mind of their own.
