Because I know that no one on PT is "hood" or has street cred let me explain the other meaning of the fist bump.Originally Posted by lizbud
Oh Richard. The stuff you come up with.
The fist bump (pound,DAP) is just a informal form of greeting used instead
of the more formal(openhanded) handshake. It's not even a Black thing.
It's been used for years.
On it's own, when one person makes that motion, it's an crude street signal meaning "procreation".
The FB is some kind of 'cool' greeting that you see on street corners and places where there is no formality.
I then went on to explain the 'Loading the cannon/howitzer/gun' motion, one half of the FB and how that can be construed as a crude reference to sex.
For the years that I have been a Mexican I have never seen anyone in my hood do the bump. Maybe the "one potato, two potato" vertical fist slam, but not the "head on" bump.
THis and the stupid gang sign schtik I know. I can do Black and Mexican.
Russian and Vietnamese gangs are more problematic.
I don't know their alphabets.
I can read graffti too!
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I took a sex ed class with my then GF. It wasn't a toy party or some stupid private teaching seminar.
I got some real college credits for it. It was one of the best classes that I ever took, not so much for the material, but for the way it was presented. The worst part of the class were the just out-of-high-school retards that thought everything was funny. They laughed at the trannys that came in, the gynecologist that passed out IUDs, diagphrams and condoms, the S&M gal-she was a hot redhead with blue eyes-I didn't laugh at her, she'd kick my arse....
I learned enough and probably more than I wanted to. If you go back in history and know the 'power' behind the hand, why the handshake came about, the symbolic meaning of a fist,
what it "means" in sex ed class you'll slap your head.
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