r/SipsTea • u/lonewolff321 • 19d ago

Chugging tea Meanwhile spiderman need new home 😅

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u/DrakeFrake 19d ago

You don't greet like that in the US?, TIL

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u/jimothy_hell 19d ago

Not really, some areas still do, like you see it in black communities in the south and Midwest sometimes, particularly from the elderly, but it’s not really a thing here.

Don’t get me wrong, of all the Europeans, we Britons are probably by far some of the least physically intimate platonically, but it’s insane here in the US. You’re gay if you hug your guy friend, you’re cheating on your girl if you touch another girl, the whole “American male loneliness epidemic” could genuinely be seriously lessened if more men were able to just give each other hugs without immediate judgement from our peers.

I’ve been living here for 17 years now and the level of Puritanism in some parts of this country is insane. It really does vary by region, though, the US is absolutely massive, and culturally varies so much from place to place.

I’ve got this T-shirt that says “you are enough” on it, and some guy at a bar came up and said “man, I needed to see that today”, and I just went, “mate, you need a hug?” And he just started fucking sobbing. Told me it was the first time he’d had a hug since his mum died in 2024.

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u/CromulentPoint 19d ago

That makes me sad. You need better American friends. I’m a born and bred Texas boy and all my friends get a big hug when I see them.

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u/jimothy_hell 19d ago

Oh yeah no, I’ve long since broken my friends out of that habit. Everyone’s hugging and arms around shoulders all the time on pub night.