Anyone’s peepers spy this little article a few weeks back?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8073432.stm

In case it happened to pass you by at the time and you’re too busy picking your feet right now to read it, it is, in short, some research that suggests the differing ways we hold our wine or pint glass is indicative of the sort of person we might be – screw Freud, screw Jung, screw all the other crazy brain doctors, it seems their life’s work isn’t worth a bean, because according to this our characters can be defined by the way we stand in a boozer…

As a way of summing up complete personalities it is obviously total poppycock as there are a gazillion differing factors that could affect our body language at any one time, but there may be the odd crumb of truth within it that could help us to recognize the ways in which we entice or put off potential suitors.

For example, a person stroking a glass like they’re trying to arouse an impotent hippo is likely to have a hint of the ‘flirtatious’ about them and may be open to receiving strangers – in more ways than one!

However, those who nestle their pint pots against their bosom and gaze into it intensely like a mystic trying to see into their future could be an incey bit shy and may find it tricky to strike up casual chitter-chatter.

No giant surprises there. I’m sure even the average idiot would pick up on those signs and decide whether they wanted to chance their hand with said people in an instant. But what about the people responsible for displaying the behaviour? Well, sometimes just recognizing that you are projecting a specific image (good or bad) can help to improve it.

So, if, when out with chums you notice that you are standing in a little gaggle, huddled together with no obvious opening into which an outsider could squuueeeeze, then you might suggest creating a more ‘open’ group enabling potential penetration from an outside force – and who amongst us doesn’t enjoy a bit of that of a Saturday night!

Or, should you recognize yourself as Mister or Miss Shy then perhaps you will finally clock that nuzzling your glass like a comfort blanket and never bothering to look up from its delicious alcoholic depths is going to get you precisely no-where. And maybe, just maybe, you might make the effort to look up and flash those pearly whites to a handsome passer-by (pearly white teeth that is, not underpants).

Official research aside, I think that a little introspection can be a very fine thing. If you are finding yourself on the dryer side of the flirtatious fence then maybe just sneak a realistic peek at the impression you project and, where necessary, improve it, because a little tweak in this area could lead to an onslaught of tweaks in many more exciting places!

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