Shadowcrow
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- Sep 22, 2007
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lolI think it should just be the ONE fingered salute... and I'm not talking about the pinky, ring, index fingers nor the thumb.
"The "two-fingered salute", or "bowfinger", may also colloquially refer to an obscene hand gesture in which the first and second fingers are raised and parted in a V, whilst the remaining fingers are clenched, palm facing inward. The gesture is commonly performed by flicking the V upwards from wrist or elbow. It has long been an insulting gesture in England and later in the rest of the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada, as well as in Ireland and parts of France. It is frequently used to signify defiance (especially to authority), contempt or derision and is often accompanied by the phrase "up yours". United States president George H. W. Bush, attempting to give the "peace sign", once gave the insulting V sign to onlookers while touring Australia, unaware of what it meant to Australians[1]"
I think it was rumored that the english longbows invented the gesture when french knights were cutting of english longbowmens fingers cause they were dangerous.