How many kisses in France?
Oct 25th, 2007, 12:39 PM
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This IS starting to get a little funky! But I'm all ears (and lips?)
Just want to make sure that when I kiss a total stranger next May in Paris, Provence, and Cote d'Azur, I can explain that I got my instructions from Fodors. LOL
KC
Just want to make sure that when I kiss a total stranger next May in Paris, Provence, and Cote d'Azur, I can explain that I got my instructions from Fodors. LOL
KC
Oct 25th, 2007, 12:44 PM
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Believe me, when you are greeting a young man or woman rather than a withered matron giving a peck, you can absolutely feel the difference in the kiss.
Every New Year, when everybody at the office is supposed to kiss each other for the New Year's greeting, you absolutely know exactly how you stand in their mind from the way it is done.
Handshakes will never convey such information.
Every New Year, when everybody at the office is supposed to kiss each other for the New Year's greeting, you absolutely know exactly how you stand in their mind from the way it is done.
Handshakes will never convey such information.
Oct 25th, 2007, 01:03 PM
#23
Mistinguett, the most famous and influential of her day said
(see....http://www.geocities.com/~jimlowe/mist/mistdex.html)
ä kiss can be a comma,
a question mark
or an exclamation point
(see....http://www.geocities.com/~jimlowe/mist/mistdex.html)
ä kiss can be a comma,
a question mark
or an exclamation point
Oct 25th, 2007, 01:16 PM
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OK, now I am rethinking all the kisses from my trip this summer. Did I do it right? I didn't know I was supposed to kiss air only. Now I'm embarrassed. And I'm closer to the withered matron than the young office worker whose kisses Kerouac is still remembering from last Christmas.
Lobo, help me out here.
Lobo, help me out here.
our American custom of hugging, especially the men!!! Deborah
Oct 25th, 2007, 10:05 PM
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I hate it when French men kiss your cheek fully with their lips. I had a colleague who would turn his head to plant a horrible wet smacker on each cheek - I had to wipe my face afterwards. Every day. Blurgh.
And now the thought that the men out there might be reading all sorts of things into <i>la bise</i> - makes me shudder even more.
As far as I'm concerned, it's a greeting and nothing else, not an opportunity to sniff somebody's hair (yep, another colleague), look down their front (ditto) or give them razor burn...
And now the thought that the men out there might be reading all sorts of things into <i>la bise</i> - makes me shudder even more.
As far as I'm concerned, it's a greeting and nothing else, not an opportunity to sniff somebody's hair (yep, another colleague), look down their front (ditto) or give them razor burn...
Oct 26th, 2007, 03:58 AM
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Living in a land of multiple kisses every time you see someone you know, meet a new someone or just feel like it, I have to say that it speaks well for the country that all of this kissing goes on in.
It adds a warmth and cheer to your day..or evening..or...
In Buenos Aires, it is 2 kisses cheek to cheek..with an occasional big fat one on the cheek...
The only ones that make a big impression ( not that positive) are the whiskers..I have a smooth faced man that usually kisses me so there are days that it is noticeable when bristley kisses come my way
<i>but I cope
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It adds a warmth and cheer to your day..or evening..or...
In Buenos Aires, it is 2 kisses cheek to cheek..with an occasional big fat one on the cheek...
The only ones that make a big impression ( not that positive) are the whiskers..I have a smooth faced man that usually kisses me so there are days that it is noticeable when bristley kisses come my way
<i>but I cope
</i>
Oct 26th, 2007, 04:32 AM
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I used to work in an IT firm in Paris where I was practically the only woman on my floor, and my office was at the end of a long corridor of offices.
Every day I had to greet each and every colleague on that corridor (about 20 of them) with la bise before I could get to my office and start work. The novelty wore off pretty quickly and after a few months I started coming in extra early so I would get there before everybody else and thus avoid the kissing marathon!
Every day I had to greet each and every colleague on that corridor (about 20 of them) with la bise before I could get to my office and start work. The novelty wore off pretty quickly and after a few months I started coming in extra early so I would get there before everybody else and thus avoid the kissing marathon!
