Talking with your hands

[Rye Miles #13621]

Have you noticed all the talking heads on news shows using their hands more than normal?

 

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[Pat Riot]

 

[Subdeacon Joe]

I think it depends on what the show is.  Local morning news, where they convey actual information, not so much.  The professional prognosticators passionately and pompously pontificating perilous possibilities, pointing out potential problems to a perplexed populous, on the other hand, do a lot of hand waving and hand wringing. 

[Pat Riot]

I cannot watch these people on TV flipping their hands around excessively. My wife talks with her hands, but nothing like these people on TV. Their movements are so exaggerated and I sometimes wonder if there isn’t a hand motion competition with these talking heads. 

[Rye Miles #13621]

57 minutes ago, Subdeacon Joe said:

I think it depends on what the show is.  Local morning news, where they convey actual information, not so much.  The professional prognosticators passionately and pompously pontificating perilous possibilities, pointing out potential problems to a perplexed populous, on the other hand, do a lot of hand waving and hand wringing. 

Yea good observation, I agree it’s mostly the political pundits waving their hands all over the place!🙄

[Will Kane]

And they tend to preface everything they say with "Look!"

[Rip Snorter]

Got stuck in hand jive.

[Chicken Rustler, SASS #26680]

I think it's policy for those TV shows, they say more with their hands and less with their mouth.

[Gateway Kid SASS# 70038 Life]

According to several advertisements I have seen on tv recently, these sudden uncontrollable movements can be a side effect of many mental health medications. So there is that

Regards

    
Gateway Kid

[Rye Miles #13621]

5 minutes ago, Gateway Kid SASS# 70038 Life said:

According to several advertisements I have seen on tv recently, these sudden uncontrollable movements can be a side effect of many mental health medications. So there is that

Regards

    
Gateway Kid

The hand movements I’m seeing by the talking heads are not side effects because they all do it! 

[Pat Riot]

1 hour ago, Rye Miles #13621 said:

The hand movements I’m seeing by the talking heads are not side effects because they all do it! 

Studio lighting may cause retardation and a form of near controllable palsy. Or so I’ve been told. 

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

My Mom's family were Italian, but I never watch TV so I haven't noticed.  Dad used to say Mom couldn't say "Hi" with her hands in her pockets.

[Abilene Slim SASS 81783]

If I lost the use of one of my arms, I’d have a speech impediment. 

[G W Wade]

I am bilingual, I speak with both hands     Really hate it when I argue with myself.          GW

[Kid Rich]

I always figured the ones with the least to actually say were usin their hands the most.

kR

[Rye Miles #13621]

My family is practically all Italian and we don’t use our hands half as much as these tv political pundits!🙄

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

I’d say something but I just washed my hands and can’t do a thing with them.

Edited November 13, 2024 by Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984

[Pulp, SASS#28319]

This is what they need to be doing with their hands.  Us too.

 

 

[Bailey Creek,5759]

Camalla Harris does that a lot.

I think it's so you will pay attention to their hands.

And not what they are saying.

[Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770]

2 hours ago, Bailey Creek,5759 said:

Camalla Harris does that a lot.

I think it's so you will pay attention to their hands.

And not what they are saying.

I was going to mention that, but I've given the Moderators enough to do lately. 

[watab kid]

yes i have - thats always bugged me too , now when i first opened this i was expecting a comment about the signers they caption in a lot of news items , sometimes they are very animated .......i dont remember those in my past that sign being like that , 

 

my mother signed because my maternal great grandmother was deaf and had a cadre of friends that got together every week to "talk" sign , ive always felt i got cheated because my mother didnt teach me to sign and her parents wouldnt teach me german , all because of the stigmas of those times , both would have been good to know in my life 

[Trailrider #896]

I'm not Italian, but when I was out on a missile site, we would signal with our hands toward the sky, just in case a Russian spy satellite might be overhead!