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Yesterday while I was watching/talking in cc a question hit me. Why do pimd players great each other with kisses? And how did this tradition start? Anytime we get into a club, or see a friend on wc or cc, we usually great them with a kiss: Very rarely do I see someone saying "Hi Name." Occasionally, we even greet strangers with kisses. If you think about it, would you ever greet your friends like that in real? "Hey Blahblah! How are you doing?" Kiss Kiss. How do you think your friends would react to a kiss on every meeting? And when I say friends, I don't mean just your boy/girlfriends. So how did this start then? Well, I have absolutely no clue. I have a thought as to why it may have started, but I've only been playing about a year and 3 months so I can't be sure. When I was younger and took French in school, my teacher once told us that some cultures greet each other with kisses on the cheek. Us being 12 year olds at the time, we obviously thought that that was weird and that our teacher was probably just joking. But as I've grown, I noticed that sometimes when my parents' close family friends, whom they've known before moving to the U.S., came over, they greeted each other with kisses. A hug and a light kiss on the cheek. This is just my theory, but I think that the kissing tradition on pimd has started as a transfer of traditions from different cultures around the world. Or is it just to show affection and favoritism to those that are the closet to you on pimd? But in that case, why do we greet strangers like that as well? I'd find it freaky if a stranger came up to me in the middle of the street and kissed me on the cheek.