omg i wink only sometimes

z i cannot imagine u winking

i was sitting in a meeting with the rest of my office today, and someone dozens of layers higher than me on the chain of sadness kept winking. four or five times, at least.

i added in the third poll option (but only once) because that’s where i fall. i’m not a winking kind of person. but one time, i said something that pretty much demanded a wink for some reason, and before i knew what was going on, i winked. and it was the total rare-winkers nightmare: the winkee fucking called me out on it. she said “did you just wink at me? are you serious?” and i had to admit that yes, i had winked at her. it was a terrible experience and i vowed to never wink again.

yet other people are winking all the damn time!

is there a social history of winking out there, somewhere

did the internet ruin winking or was it “ironic” before that

maybe it never really was ; )

I wink all the time, to discretely signify to people I’m with “omg what is this mess” when something funny or ridiculous presents itself.

ok i have to tell u that some people have a twitch, like bells pallsy

i wink sometimes, but i always immediately feel embarrassed

I do not wink as a form of communication, but I have shut my eyes independently of one another. does that count?

hmmm. explain more about this shutting of the eyes independently one another.

well, actually, no further info is needed, if it’s not communicating anything. it’s no wink, i de-clay-uh.

i winked once and was immediately so self consciuos of it i had to make like i had something in my eye

i’m so glad there will be another one-wink vote out there

no i had to fake several post wink winks as part of the cover up op

I also voted one-wink because I did try it once and felt unclean

lol

i mean i’ve tried to wink i think but one time i did it like in a picture and it looked like seriously i was having a seizure

hold on, don’t be trying to backpedal and say you’ve tried to wink, coming across like you’re not a winker. you’re a Sometimes Winker!

have winked & fingerpointed at least once a day every day of my life for without exaggeration the past like, 5 years no joke

i LIVE to wink

wink every day it’s cool imo

o m g

finger pointing is my favorite!

i swear, a handsome guy who winks and finger points, it’s like u don’t even have to do anything else and i’m yours

i once attempted a sassy broad wink at the mirror but i did see no jane russell winking back at me.

Consider, he says, two boys rapidly contracting the eyelids of their right eyes. In one, this is an involuntary twitch; in the other, a conspiratorial signal to a friend. The two movements are, as movements, identical; from an l-am-a-camera, “phenomenalistic” observation of them alone, one could not tell which was twitch and which was wink, or indeed whether both or either was twitch or wink. Yet the difference, however unphotographable, between a twitch and a wink is vast; as anyone unfortunate enough to have had the first taken for the second knows. The winker is communicating, and indeed communicating in a quite precise and special way: (1) deliberately, (2) to someone in particular, (3) to impart a particular message, (4) according to a socially established code, and (5) without cognizance of the rest of the company. As Ryle points out, the winker has not done two things, contracted his eyelids and winked, while the twitcher has done only one, contracted his eyelids. Contracting your eyelids on purpose when there exists a public code in which so doing counts as a conspiratorial signal is winking. That’s all there is to it: a speck of behavior, a fleck of culture, and —voilà!— a gesture.

That, however, is just the beginning. Suppose, he continues, there is a third boy, who, “to give malicious amusement to his cronies”, parodies the first boy’s wink, as amateurish, clumsy, obvious, and so on. He, of course, does this in the same way the second boy winked and the first twitched: by contracting his right eyelids. Only this boy is neither winking nor twitching, he is parodying someone else’s, as he takes it, laughable, attempt at winking. Here, too, a socially established code exists (he will “wink” laboriously, overobviously, perhaps adding a grimace — the usual artifices of the clown); and so also does a message. Only now it is not conspiracy but ridicule that is in the air. If the others think he is actually winking, his whole project misfires as completely, though with somewhat different results, as if they think he is twitching. One can go further: uncertain of his mimicking abilities, the would-be satirist may practice at home before the mirror, in which case he is not twitching, winking, or parodying, but rehearsing; though so far as what a camera, a radical behaviorist, or a believer in protocol sentences would record: he is just rapidly contracting his right eyelids like all the others. Complexities are possible, if not practically without end, at least logically so. The original winker might, for example, actually have been fake-winking, say, to mislead outsiders into imagining there was a conspiracy afoot when there in fact was not, in which case our descriptions of what the parodist is parodying and the rehearser is rehearsing of course shift accordingly. But the point is that between what Ryle calls the “thin description” of what the rehearser (parodist, winker, twitcher . . .) is doing (“rapidly contracting his right eyelids”) and the “thick description“ of what he is doing (“practicing a burlesque of a friend faking a wink to deceive an innocent into thinking a conspiracy is in motion”) lies the object of ethnography: a stratified hierarchy of meaningful structures in terms of which twitches, winks, fake-winks, parodies, rehearsals of parodies are produced, perceived, and interpreted, and without which they would not (not even the zero-form twitches, which, as a cultural category, are as much non-winks as winks are non-twitches) in fact exist, no matter what anyone did or didn’t do with his eyelids.

Like so many of the little stories Oxford philosophers like to make up for themselves, all this winking, fake-winking, burlesque-fake-winking, rehearsed-burlesque-fake-winking, may seem a bit artificial.

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Right down at the factual base, the hard rock, insofar as there is any, of the whole enterprise, we are already explicating: and worse, explicating explications. Winks upon winks upon winks.

I never wink, disgusting mannerism that imposes emotional or moral complicity.

I only wink at ppl I know

winks on winks on winks

Consider, he says, two boys rapidly contracting the eyelids of their right eyes. In one, this is an involuntary twitch; in the other, a conspiratorial signal to a friend. The two movements are, as movements, identical; from an l-am-a-camera, “phenomenalistic” observation of them alone, one could not tell which was twitch and which was wink, or indeed whether both or either was twitch or wink. Yet the difference, however unphotographable, between a twitch and a wink is vast; as anyone unfortunate enough to have had the first taken for the second knows. The winker is communicating, and indeed communicating in a quite precise and special way: (1) deliberately, (2) to someone in particular, (3) to impart a particular message, (4) according to a socially established code, and (5) without cognizance of the rest of the company. As Ryle points out, the winker has not done two things, contracted his eyelids and winked, while the twitcher has done only one, contracted his eyelids. Contracting your eyelids on purpose when there exists a public code in which so doing counts as a conspiratorial signal is winking. That’s all there is to it: a speck of behavior, a fleck of culture, and —voilà!— a gesture.

i remember this seinfeld episode

moral complicity can be fun and cool! like lying to your mom about how late your younger sister came home & winking when she turns her head—classic wink

omg such a classic 90210 wink

true, true. xpost

Seem to be mainly subjected to it by boorish oafs of one stripe or another co-opting me into the purblind savagery of their world view.

But there are many winks I suppose.

elbow language, that’s good too

Not to mention elbowing boorish oafs in their winking eye

what abt people where you cant tell if theyre winking and maybe thats the point

elbow them anyway.

we may wink at venial offences, I suppose. That might be considered a good wink. Tho one person’s venial offence is another’s bestial transgression, so the complicity is still there, but it seems a happier sort.

wink’er noun

1. Someone who winks

I wink and then I make a “ck-ck” noise between my teeth and my cheek.

Someone once made fun of my winking. They said I don’t really close my eye but rather I shove my cheek up so my eye can’t be open. I did not revise my winking technique based on this criticism.

I wink, but only when I also get to do the exaggerated head movement and opening of the mouth

I know somebody who claims she can’t wink. I think she may have had plastic surgery at one point in her life. shh!

It took me until I was like 10 or 11 until I figured out how to do it! Maybe it does involve a lot of cheek movement. I don’t know. It makes me feel like Popeye when I do it. I think I do it sometimes when I’m trying to scowl at people, which is probably why my students react really oddly when I try to scowl at them. “What are you doing, miss???”

Even Homer winks.

But he was blind, why would he need to?

ITT I say biased and odd things about the visually impaired.

I sort of can’t wink. I mean I can close one eye and not close the other one, but only by forcefully squeezing it shut, I can’t nonchalantly close one eye, if I try my other eye closes as well, so it’s not really a wink, it’s someone looking like someone poked them in the eye, which doesn’t really have the same effect.

what if your eyeball wasn’t fake?

good point

incidentally, that wink we do when we wink at minor faults I’d imagine stems from when ‘wink’ could be used to mean shutting both eyes (Shakespeare use it somewhere?). Which goes to show that people were useless winkers in the olden days.

Presumably c. 18th/19th C they started getting a bit better—maybe looking a bit like Abbott, and only with the 20th C did people learn to nonchalantly drop an eyelid in a masterful fashion with otherwise discomposing their features. (there’s a Whig/wink history chime/joke there—whigking? I have got a cold)

wish anus to thread

But he was blind, why would he need to?

Well, a nod is as good as a wink to a blind ‘Oμηρος

I only wink ironically. Also finger guns. I’m super awesome.

finger guns are a crucial part of my arsenal

i think i probably wink more than i realize or would care to admit

Being on the receiving end of a wink, C/D?

Categories:

a. Flirtatious

b. Conspiratorial

c. Lewd

d. Threatening

e. Bells palsy

Actually, make c. Lecherous, not Lewd.

My ex-boyfriend’s son called his penis a winker.

Presumably c. 18th/19th C they started getting a bit better—maybe looking a bit like Abbott,

I’ll have none of this *shoots Popeye wink-scowl*

I think winking should involve SOME cheek movement anyway or you look like one of those blinking baby dolls where the blinking mechanism broke in one eye and it’s half-closed all the time (if you are familiar with this phenomenon).

(This is me trying to reassure myself.)

(ha ha)

I used to but people would just ask me if I was having a seizure so I stopped

I inexplicably could only wink my left eye until I was about 20.

I can’t do it convincingly tbh, feel that the rest of my face more than makes up for this deficit though and have a healthy regard for those people who can (similar to that held for those who are good whistlers)

Could probably count on one hand the times I’ve winked intentionally

BTW: receiving a flirtatious wink: Classicest of Classics. And receiving a lech wink is just as Dud.

i can’t wink without making a very offputting scrunchy face, so, its probably best i drop a ‘never wink’ vote

i winked and finger gunned in class today when someone finally got the right answer

i think this is the only time i wink?

Sometimes winker.

long-time listener, first-time winker

Who am I kidding. I wink on a fairly regular basis.

I am winking as I type this

now have 18th Dye’s “Can U Wink” stuck in my head

There are moments when only a wink will do the job and do it right. These are few, but precious.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

I completely unironically winked at somebody yesterday.

trying now out of boredom i question whether i even can wink

when u fingerpoint while winking, do you *snap* the point into place? i do.

lol yeah

I’m never sure if I can wink properly. I’ll have to test this with a partner sometime.

try winking at random strangers in a bar or in the street and ask them if you’re doing it right

poll results in 18 minutes

you could cut the tension with a knife!!

Automatic thread bump. This poll’s results are now in.

63 votes in a sandbox poll o_O might be just me but sandbox still feels like such a pioneering venture for me. It’s like Mission to Mars. I miss all the ilx pals that didn’t make it. Surprised to actually see 63 people here (of whom 53 sometimes or frequently or one time winked!)

;)

too cuet

without a holster too

omg I want that shirt

found it at a goodwill in 93 or so?

wore the hell out of it in college

put it into the clothing archives for safekeeping

busted it out earlier this year for a airplane related special occasion

my favorite tshirt of all time possibly

no idea where it came from!

ll, you should take up winking as a signature gesture, that is a marvellous wink, you’ve got the wink factor.

And the teeth factor!

this thread reminded me that there are a few times during “inception” when leo dicaprio is sitting down and talking to people, and mid-sentence he winks in this unconscious, twitchy kind of way. it annoyed me cuz it made me think “i bet leo dicaprio winks like that all the time irl.”

i winked today once for real at a person (a you-know-what-i’m-talking-about) and once at the highway while i was singing an alice cooper song in my car.

Under My Wheels?

I sincerely hope it was!

I have the thing where if I try to wink that eye just stays shut. Not forever or anything but longer than standard appropriate wink-length.

Pretty sure it was “Billion Dollar Babies”, sorry to disappoint

i wink all the time. i would have voted in this poll if i hadn’t been too busy winking and having multiple orgasms every second.

whoa, i’m really sorry about your condition!