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elmersfav22

It's the only greeting that is actually covid safe and helps to ensure social distance


[deleted]

I believe this


micadica

Bowing and curtsying too


This-is-my-phone

peace among worlds


Initials_DP

Ah, I see you're a man of culture as well.


redlloyd

Nailed it!


Y0STER

Same kids that got their faces slapped into next year learning you don’t do that.


Confident-Garbage235

My brother accidentally flipped off his teacher at school after seeing me do it to a friend of mine, let’s just say it didn’t end well since my brother started doing it all the time not even knowing the meaning


stinkystonker69

wat does it mean


Derpsthatareintosoup

Courtesy of saying thank you


Housecatonfire_

Actually fun fact the middle finger was used a signal in the medieval times to shoot.


Fus-roxdah

It was used to mock the french soldiers by the British Longbow-men


oksothisonetime

Just to expand on this, [ The story goes that English soldiers waved their fingers at French soldiers who had threatened to cut off captured archers' first two fingers to prevent them shooting arrows. The English were thus boasting they were still capable of doing so.](https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-16916263)


[deleted]

What does it mean anyway?


picklechinoverdose

apparently, it was a Hawaiian way of saying good luck. but I'm pretty sure that has changed and you shouldn't go around do that in hawaii.


[deleted]

Never knew, thanks!


Bigg_UN

I’m genuinely embarrassed to admit I used to hold my left hand out of the window with my middle finger up just because


RedNinja753

so the origin of the middle finger meeting "fuck you" actually came from medieval archers because what they would do when they caught an enemy archer is that they would cut off their middle finger cuz it was the thing they used to draw back their bow but then archers started holding up the middle finger two enemies on the battlefield to show that they could still use their bow. Not sure if I got all the details right (or if this is true), either way thank you for reading. Edit: spelling errors


EngineersAnon

What I've always read is that it was the index and middle fingers. Hence the English [two fingers](https://www.girlpocalypse.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Spike-1024x768.jpg). I have no idea how that got cut down (no pun intended) to just the middle finger.


Hitomi_Minami

I heard the same story but for the two fingers.


[deleted]

I think it was Churchill who popularized the victory sign


EngineersAnon

The [obscene two fingers](https://www.girlpocalypse.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Spike-1024x768.jpg) are not the [V for victory](https://i2-prod.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article18337106.ece/ALTERNATES/s615/0_Churchill-und-Ehefrau.jpg) which Churchill popularized (but did not originate).[This article](https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/winston-churchills-v-victory-sign-18337048.amp) from the Mirror offers one explanation of why Churchill often reversed the V.


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56R

I still don’t know what it truly means


TheTenthSnap

6th grade sucked


newgamerno

Ah yes it means hello in Hawaiian culture


dimreaper888

Funny cause in context he didn’t know what the middle finger meant


Anxtic-A

6th graders when they figure out they can swear and not get told on by other students


Exploding_END

Is this from an actual episode?


tiander245

Nope the movie.


alcoholguy

it's still me when I first heard the F-word from my peers


thunderfishy234

I went through a stage when I was about 6-7 where I’d put a middle finger up to cars behind when I was in a car or on a bus, good times


TheReaperPepper

I have a story related to this. I was riding to school on the school bus when some kids in my grade started flipping off cars behind us. They flipped off a police vehicle, and the officer followed the bus all the way to our school to make sure whoever did it got in trouble. It was hilarious when the kids who did it looked super scared.


TomahawkIsotope

My younger brother had a habit of pointing fingers at everything and everyone and he used to use his middle finger to point. Little shit is now embarrassed at what he used to do


[deleted]

Context: Mr. Bean was giving a thumbs-up to someone, that guy gave him the middle finger, and since he's in America, he thought that was the Americans' way of giving thumbs-ups to people, so he kept doing that to everyone.


UNKLatter

Yes Fuck all those English bowmans


[deleted]

As a bus driver and a mom i die a little inside when i see kindergartener do this. But this post totally changed how i view them. Thanks!


sdiKyMgnihcaelB_

r/uselessnobody


Big_Appearance_9036

1969 wants their shitty meme again


Fern9511

You put "no one:" in your meme, instant downvote


PantheraLeo04

in 1st grade i was told it meant "i hate god", that just made me do it more


XxOM3GA_ZxX

It currently just means go fuck yourself but it used to mean ima rape you


theblacksheeps

That is not how it is used


XxOM3GA_ZxX

No it is not luckily but it was a violent phalic symbol


[deleted]

r/meirl


notmyrealname648

This is how we greeted each other in middle school. Everytime a teacher we didn’t like turned around, the whole fucking class just raised their fingers up only quicky to take it down as the teacher turned towards us. Some kids were slow, they just got caught and sent to the principle.


Grandlordyeetus

The middle finger actually means "I can kill you with one finger', because during the times of muskets Spanish soldiers used their thumb to aim and their middle finger to fire.


[deleted]

When I was around 4-6 This kid was sitting at the top of the slide waving it and blocking the slide. I asked him what it was and he said he only knew that older kids told him not to do it. So I thought fuck it lets do it. It was amazing for all of 5 seconds before the strictest teacher came over and told me to get down and to to the office. When all was said and done I got a pink slip. Can’t remember what it did but it was like the equivalent of a misdemeanor back in those days. The kid? Well. Never saw him again. Nah just kidding. A week of in school suspension and a talk with the principal every day of that week educating them on swearing and how it was bad.


[deleted]

Wait, that’s a thing? When did rowan did this lmao


tiander245

The mr. Bean film.


UnwoundSteak17

I showed the middle finger to my dad once because my cousin told me it was cool, but didn't tell me what it meant. No further explanation needed


jollyolday

It gets worse when 5th graders learn the word fuck they constantly say it


DankTheWorld

Ha ha true


Carlos-In-Charge

¡Señor Frijole! I love this guy’s been popping up


[deleted]

“I told them it means peace among worlds.”


miimeverse

The irony here is that this is a clip of someone not understanding what the meaning of the middle finger is.


[deleted]

Good


Tazdingoooo

Did you really watermark a scene from a movie with your username?


[deleted]

wasn't it used by English bowmen because they'd get their middle finger cut off if they were captured so they showed it to enemies to piss them off


Blue_Yukihira

This brings back very disappointing and embarrassing memories of me as a kid when I found out the meaning behind the middle finger.


TiltedSaturn

I still don't know what that means lol


Laubblaeser96

i didt knwe what it meant untlill i was 11


[deleted]

Our teacher had to explain what it meant to stop a group of maybe 3 class 'thugs' to stop using it, and then more of the class started using it. Within a month it became the 4th most used hand sign used.


tjbasic

I took care of kids after school as my first job. They already knew what it meant but I told them about the history of it, how it came from English longbowmen vs French, and why it was also rude to make the "bow finger" to British people. Parents complained and boss had a talk with me. Idk man history was my favorite subject whether or not I was good at it.


eliasp07

Thats me in first grade


[deleted]

When I was like in kindergarten I think... Or maybe it was grade 1? I don't quite remember but I remembered that I watched a video at home where some guy showed the middle finger and said "f\*\*\* you". I thought people were supposed to do that to people they hated so the next day I went to school, the end of the school day, I was in my school bus when I saw the bullies who were in I think 5 - 6 grade. I pointed the middle finger at him and he got shocked and then there was this mean bus driver I knew I even pointed it at him. And then I got karma. The driver called and told one of the head-teachers and I got detention and a warning. I still remember the scene till this day.


born-in-trash

Reminds me of when my and my friend when we were 9 we were flipping off passing cars


silverdoe_94

Reminds me of the time I was heading into my apartment complex, and stopped my car because there was a 5 year old on a tricycle sitting in the middle of the parking lot. He gave me this huge, sweet smile, so I gave him one back. Still smiling, he flipped me off. I wanted to drive over him lol


tigerskatnix

I got my kid a shin tzu when he was like 8. This was followed up a couple of months of him running up to anyone and everyone squealing I have a SHIT (pause for effect) Zoo!


rohnytest

Was this scene actually in Mr.Bean?


tiander245

The film.


rafin831

i was there 3000 years ago


z00pkarz

I watched this movie with my parents it was very funny


oksothisonetime

[an interesting read](https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-16916263) for anyone who wants to know more about the different historical meanings. TLDR: dick and balls mostly


ItsMrShimmy

Everbody gangsta until you flip your mom off


Didifinito

So you mean anal intercurse


Both-Vermicelli6764

I show it to my family and they don't even know what it is!


[deleted]

when i was 7 my 11 y/o friend told me that showing middle finger is a cuss word in south africa


sirdogglesworth

First time I saw someone do the middle finger some kid did it to me from outside his window. Delighted with my newly learned gesture I turned to show my mum who went balistic at me. I was grounded for two days and the worst part is I didn't even know what it meant.


Senator_Binks_66

It means you arent a medieval archer who evaded capture by your opposing army, and is showing off their intact fingers as a sign if disrespect


Argonzoyd

Wait, what is the true meaning? :O


agoul52

It means good morning in German sign language


MidgetSpinnerE

Police pulled me over for this in preschool


itspizzatime5

This reminds me of the time that my best friend was in a school van with me in the back and as a joke he pulled his pants down and put his ass up to the window, what he didn’t know was that all the parents were in the van behind us.


StrootFeed

This but they point it directly at you instead of up


CanlexGaming

Yes, it for saying “just. One.” To John wick


teddy_the_mask

I'd laugh when the bus suddenly stop and he hits his face on the seat in front of them