people who walk without swinging their arms

Their steps look a lot bigger.

we have one of them here.
maybe their arms are prosthetic.

ha i think every office must have one then?

there isn't much head movement going on either

android, gotta be.
follow them into the bogs and see if they peel away their skin to reveal electronics underneath.

or alternatively, ask them to eat or drink something and see if they come up with a series of lame excuses why they don't want to.

there's a guy at my job that does this but the freakiest thing about it is that he also walks on his tippy toes!

I watch Seinfeld too.

I used to find my self walking behind someone who did this on my route to work. His long arms hanging down limp and heavy, even his fingers would dangle lifeless. Friggin' weird if you ask me.
What a bastard!

but these people really exist, n/a

freaks

their whole body is working against physics, all the time, it's really astonishing

"Cleverer" than I am as I slammed my hand aganist a wall because I was swinging my arm too close to it. I R DUMBO

give them a push and see if this is correct:

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?arnumber=1020392

there's a guy at my job that does this but the freakiest thing about it is that he also walks on his tippy toes!

?!?!

Does the pizzicato movement from Ravel's String Quartet play in the background while he's doing this?

ha!

he says it's because he has short calves

there's a guy at my job that does this but the freakiest thing about it is that he also walks on his tippy toes!

You work with Fred Flintstone.

Probably walked in high heels too much.

Actually my father feels more comfortable walking on his toes. But only does this at home. He had sort of club feet which they more or less corrected but the toe walking is a result of that.

So if you mock the toe walking too much, I'll "club" you.

They're practising to carry a stretcher in case of another blitz.

I watch Seinfeld too.

-- n/a, Friday, 14 September 2007 14:10 (8 minutes ago) Link

lol, sonned

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he actually has a god sense of humor about it though.

good

shut the fuck up chad wrinklepaws

there's a guy at my job that does this but the freakiest thing about it is that he also walks on his tippy toes!

This made me think of Inuyasha running.

I was one of these people when I was a little boy. I suppose no-one taught me how to walk properly! Until I was about 11 when people started to mock me for it. So I worked out how to swing my arms, which felt unnatural at first but I soon got used to it.

the worst are people who don't move their arms while they take a shit in the office toilet first thing in the morning.

Isn't there a Japanese distance runner that runs with her arms by her sides? I think it's an energy saving thing, but it looks bloomin' bonkers to me.

aspies

i walk like mr burns, bitch

walking with hands in pockets C/D

Dud if it in the winter where there might be ice.

Here's where I confess that I have been caught numerous times walking with one (but just one) arm motionless. It's not always the same arm and I dunno what's behind it.

Now if you'll excuse me, I have to peel some old paint off the wall and eat it.

Dud if it in the winter where there might be ice

On the other hand, it works for Pingu.

omg she just walked by... creep

i imagine cutty strutting around swinging his arms so that they align at 180 degrees every step.

well drummers have to play that way, no reason why i shouldn't walk that way

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/graphics/2007/04/19/btmcintyre119.jpg

What about people who swing the wrong arm? (left forward together with the left leg)

... or don't they exist? (they should)

(srsly, try it!)

Hahaha I remember when earlyish in my comics-drawing development, one my more astute cartoonist friends pointed out that opposite-arm-and-leg-when-walking thing. Def. a eureka moment.

http://www.scriptoriumdaily.com/wp-content/photos/homestar_runner.jpg

^^ good way of circumventing the whole problem.

i haven't ever noticed people doing this so I'm worrying now that this is something I do.

i wonder how much muscle tension unlearning it takes an adult to start naturally swinging their arms again

I do this but it's only when I am carrying my heavy schoolbags on each shoulder, which leaves no room for arm motility. It makes me feel like some mongoloid pack burro altho it is a perfectly decent reason not to.

Seinfeld has made me self-conscious about a lot of things (but not my EIGHTBALL JACKET!).

I sometimes end up doing the same thing that Jon Lewis does. Swinging my right arm normally will be fine, but swinging the left one feels artificial, so I'll put it in a pocket or whatever. This is just on occasion, not always; the problem is that I way over-think all kinds of physical motion and contact.

A good walking rhythm does include some arm motion, but it doesn't have to be very much. People who overswing their arms look just as dorky as the ones who don't swing at all.

Speedwalking: dud or destroy?

OMG walking + arm swinging is one of those things you can't do naturally anymore as soon as you start thinking about it, isn't it? (it's like "do you think in sentences or not?" or "how often do you blink your eyes?")

a dude at work overswings his arms with his palms facing the floor on the front swing. it's undeniably k-classic.

this is so much more acceptable than the other walking thread today

my little brother does this it's hilarious

when i was a kid i did an imitation of shaggy from scooby-doo walking which involved moving both arms in the SAME DIRECTIONS

LOL we had a guy in our office who did this, too. Also, he would walk down the center of the hallway and refuse to yield space to anyone. The thing that really took the cake was he was a mouth-breather, too.

Helen Mirren rocked this look in The Queen. Perhaps it's a posh thing.

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How do people like that even get hired? Jesus, I'm never going to be nervous at a job interview again...

I sometimes walk with my arms folded

http://www.ricksteves.com/images/rick/rickgene.jpg

lol
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=io6DTRX_bOk

i have a feeling that we are going to see cutty start many more threads about people with odd behavior now that he works in a big law firm

I don't swing my arms while I walk.

I love people who are power walking around town and do that punching the air thing like they're at the gym or something.

There was this guy who always walked by a restaurant where I worked. He was v. tall, maybe 6"6', with terrible posture, and he swung his arms around like manic pendulums. He always wore this hot pink windbreaker no matter the weather. Entertaining guy.

this is a great look, always try to do it wearing tight clothing = teh sex.

there are neurological problems that cause this.

it's one of the early motor symptoms of parkinsons

i think

cause what?

teh sex

i have a feeling that we are going to see cutty start many more threads about people with odd behavior now that he works in a big law firm

-- jeff, Friday, September 14, 2007 2:29 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Link

i should start one "people who" thread and update consistently

like people who cut up newspaper headlines of their favorite sports teams and hang them in their cubicle like it's their kid's report card or something--get a life

abbott, they cause people's arms to stay at their sides when they walk.

Parkinsonian Gait is the distinctive, unsteady walk associated with Parkinson's disease. There is a tendency to lean unnaturally backward or forward, and to develop a stooped, head down, shoulder drooped stance. People with Parkinson's disease tend to take small shuffling steps and arm swing is diminished or absent. Source: Neurology Channel

but i think it's a symptom of most if not all of the extrapyramidal disorders

oh I see, TDKs can do that too. They can do most anything tho. Most anything bad.

(tardive dyskenesia)

i read a lot about parkinson's last year and now i am really afraid of developing TDK from my antidepressants

but it's probably not going to happen

Probably not even at all. I was taking seroquel for a while and went off it bcz double vision but mainly a HUEG PHEAR of tdks.

http://artscene.textfiles.com/mirrors/GRAPE-DEMO-ARCHIVE/graphism/op/pixel/pixel-scared.png

i would be scared of NMS

funny how i'm not scared of getting in a car accident