Flipping off members

[Peter Parka]

 

[Codrus]

this is for all of you...just because im an equal opportunity offender



...report me....go ahead.....i dare ya :fing27

 

[Codrus]

For someone special

:eek..dont tease me like that

 

[Johnfromokc]

:24::lol I wonder how many of my fellow Americans got this? LOL. :bates:

 

[Natasha]

:24::lol I wonder how many of my fellow Americans got this? LOL. :bates:

I did!!! But only b/c someone told me about it a year or so ago, LOL

 

[Dana]

 

[Panacea]

I did!!! But only b/c someone told me about it a year or so ago, LOL

:crazy: :dunno I don't get it LOL

 

[NuckingFuts]

:crazy: :dunno I don't get it LOL

Me either.

 

[Dana]

Here we call it chuckin the duece/chunkin the duece or a peace sign LOL

 

[Panacea]

Oh just that? :24:
I thought it had some sinister meaning

 

[Dana]

Oh just that? :24:
I thought it had some sinister meaning

oh it prob does but i live in the US and thats what it's called here

 

[Johnfromokc]

:crazy: :dunno I don't get it LOL

Me either.

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http://www.languagetrainers.co.uk/blog/2007/09/24/top-10-hand-gestures/

The “V Sign”
The age-old ‘V sign’ comes in two formats: one with the palm faced outwards, and one with the palm inwards. In America the two hand signals mean the same thing – ‘victory’, as popularised by Richard Nixon, or ‘peace and love’, which seemed to become the primary meaning after anti-Vietnam protesters used it during the 60s.

However,

if the outside of your hand is facing your target, you’re giving somebody a long-established insult in Great Britain and many English-speaking countries such as Australia, Ireland and New Zealand. Winston Churchill famously used the ‘incorrect’ version of the V sign during the early years of the war, switching round later when he’d been told by his advisors that he wasn’t exactly giving the lower social orders a positive message. The V sign is also considered rude in Italy, especially if you place your nose between the two fingers, making the gesture resemble a crude vagina.

I myself have almost seen a fight start as a result of an American tourist ordering drinks in an English pub: when asked how many pints he wanted, he simply stuck two fingers up and looked straight into the eyes of the barman – perfectly normal on the other side of the Atlantic (it’s actually the signal for the number 2 in American Sign Language), but it’s fighting talk to the British.

 

[Natasha]

Yeah, it means something totally different over there. It's not a friendly gesture, LOL

 

[darkcgi]

 

[Panacea]

Haha nice, I learnt somethin' today

 

[JoeCool10]

 

[jassilem]

 

[Zorak]

Yeah, it means something totally different over there. It's not a friendly gesture, LOL

It comes from the hundred year war, so I was told. The French would cut off the index and ring fingers of captured English longbow men, so as to inhibit their ability to draw a bow. Somewhere along the line it became a gesture of defiance and insult.

And a pretty good one too, so here it is again :thumbup

 

[Staci]

here ya go

 

[NuckingFuts]

here ya go

sexy!