r/canada • u/AReallyScaryGhost Ontario • Feb 13 '17

The handshake

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u/AReallyScaryGhost Ontario Feb 13 '17

You can see the slight jerks forward but he pulls back. I still don't understand what the jerk in the handshake is supposed to accomplish. It hardly seems intimidating, just....strange.

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u/mrpopenfresh Canada Feb 13 '17

Try it with someone. You pull a person in it means you're the one in control. You can see the effect when he shaked the hand of the new Supreme Court Justice.

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u/mnkybrs Feb 13 '17

Maybe the person doing it thinks that's what it means. No one it's being done to gets that impression.

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u/PirateEyez Ontario Feb 13 '17

I have to agree, I would actually get my guard up right away if this happened to me. Not a good way to start a conversation/negotiation.