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The girl in my sig + hand gestures

Does this mean anything to you?

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Originally posted by LiveTheDream she says

I found it interesting when LtD posted it in the "Good Morning, COR" thread because that sign meant completely different things for the three of us.

• The file is named "fuji_two_fingers", so I'm assuming she's Japanese. There, this is nothing but the "V" for victory (even if reversed) and became a ubiquotous sign after the 1972 olympics [source], coming from an American, where this could mean both "Victory" and, possibly, "Peace and Love" (I'd need an American to confirm whether the meaning changes when the palm is inward).
  
• LiveTheDream, who lives in the British Isles, saw it as an insult [source].
  
• I saw it simply as "two", since it's quite common here for us to count that way.
  

The only thing that the "peace" gesture means to me... are memories of Hawaii and how every asian (korean, jap etc) had to flash the peace sign for almost every picture. From youngster to elderly... they all did it.

Where I come from that would be interpreted as an insult. Especially with that smug annoying grin that accompanies said gesture. I would probably nut her square on in the face.

when ur knuckles are facing the other person, id consider that insulting, if ur knuckles are facing u, then its peace

but i never do that anyway so nobody really cares.

Also I don't like the fact that her collar is slightly slanted to the left hand side of her body. For that I would probably step on her neck.

as others have said its an insult/peace depending on the direction the hand is facing...

i use the insult one quite a lot, but only in a lighthearted manner

edit: lol @ my sig

Hmm, I've never heard of that being used as an insult. I'm thinking it's either "two" or.... "scisors"?

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Originally posted by Aquarian Hmm, I've never heard of that being used as an insult. I'm thinking it's either "two" or.... "scisors"?

I think its age of aquarius propaganda. The V represents the basic orientation of the atoms in a water molecule.

all i know, it's some weird trend/custom for japanese girls to hold two fingers in the air in a v-formation (or it's more know, zee peace sign) in pictures because it's good fortune

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Originally posted by Subey I think its age of aquarius propaganda. The V represents the basic orientation of the atoms in a water molecule.

ive always been told [dunno if its true or not] but its a gesture the english archers used to insult the french when they saw that the said archer still had both of his fingers intact and could shoot arrows.

sumit like that.....

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Originally posted by DJ Mikey Mike Where I come from that would be interpreted as an insult. Especially with that smug annoying grin that accompanies said gesture. I would probably nut her square on in the face.

I liked this straight-foward approach as the first reply :P, and the fact that all users from England recognised an insult, whereas the others were either confused, thinking of either the piece sign, the number two, or scissors (which seems to be a reference to paper-scissors-rock).

Thinking about Mikey Mike's reaction to that, I'd wonder what it would be like if he ever met an oblivious individual from Korea/Japan doing that, and what bystanders would think

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Originally posted by chojin ive always been told [dunno if its true or not] but its a gesture the english archers used to insult the french when they saw that the said archer still had both of his fingers intact and could shoot arrows. sumit like that.....

That's what I was thinking, but that's another gesture, one which is a salute here in north america.

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Originally posted by chojin ive always been told [dunno if its true or not] but its a gesture the english archers used to insult the french when they saw that the said archer still had both of his fingers intact and could shoot arrows. sumit like that.....

i've been told this too.

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Originally posted by DJ Mikey Mike Also I don't like the fact that her collar is slightly slanted to the left hand side of her body. For that I would probably step on her neck.

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Originally posted by chojin ive always been told [dunno if its true or not] but its a gesture the english archers used to insult the french when they saw that the said archer still had both of his fingers intact and could shoot arrows. sumit like that.....

Wow someone started a thread about my post.

Anyway i dont know about the V but the one finger gesture started in the 1800s when the brittish was fighting the french. The muskets there used was fired with the middle finger, and not the index finger. Ands why when the brittsh captcher a french solider there would cut his middle finger off and send them back to france. And after the war brittsh sodilers who seen a french man with his middle finger missing, he would stick his up at him.

it means spreading her lips (not up there)

TRANSFORMERS V VICTORY!

The two-fingered salute is well a known insult in Australia too. It originated in the middle ages in England, when the English logbow was one of the most feared weapons available. It was notoriously dificult to draw but when fired by a trained archer could fire 15 arrows a minute each of which was capable (when fitted with the appropriate arrowheads) of killing men, penetrating iron armour, and bringing down horses at over 200 yards. The technology for the bow was widely available and simple, but only the English bothered to invest time into training men capable of drawing the bow. The index and middle fingers were used for drawing the bow. So the typical treatment given to captured English archers by the French was to cut off the middle and index fingers and send the men back to the English Army, unable to use the weapon they had trained their whole lives mastering.
Hence English archers got into the habit of waving their two fingers at the french accross the battlefield indicating that they were still capable of killing them at will. As far as I have heard the origin of the middle finger insult derives from the sam gesture, though earlier references to the gesture date to Roman times. Muskets and all firearms now as at any other time can be fired with any finger. It simply makes most sense to use the index finger as it is the first non-opposable digit on the hand. using any of the subsequent fingers means that the index finger is in the way.

Man i keep clicking on this thread thinking "man, sounds like there's some hot girl in there i can fap over"

But then i get disappointed everytime

then go to google ad look up hot naked girls in the image setion. alot easyer and faster.

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