Matthias > Status Update

*shrug*
I second Jean-Paul. Maybe you can try and incorporate it into your life and environment and see if it spreads.

I'll try ;-) Maybe I'm already doing it but subconsciously. I just tried picturing the people that I know to actually shrug. The difficulties I had with that prompted this status update. I thought I was on to something but evidently I'm not!

Yeah, sorry, I think people around here shrug quite a bit. Maybe you are just part of a well-spoken community of people who are never without fitting words!

On the other hand, I *eyeroll* about a hundred times more often than they do in books.

I hope people don't really snort as much as they do in fiction.

*snort*

A lot of people do duck face and look off at nothing as they rock their head side to side and mime, with their hands, the motion of an unbalanced scale.

I try to squeeze in a good snort or two every single goddamn day.

I do it all the time. Principally because it posses my husband off

Arthur wrote: "I try to squeeze in a good snort or two every single goddamn day."

Yeah, but you're living in a Bukowski novel.

Miriam wrote: "Yeah, but you're living in a Bukowski novel."

This much is true. Either that, or a really bad episode of Californication...

I have just noticed that I don't shrug because my shoulders, at some point during my youth, have locked in the upright position, making further spasms of expressive elevation impossible. I made an appointment with the physiotherapist, who will see that my future shrugging needs shall be fulfilled. Thank you for your guidance, my friends. The reason I didn't see it around me I account to my statements being prone to receive only the most wholehearted form of agreement.

I look forward to hearing about how shrugging changes your life, Matthias!