• MataVatnik@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Well, the middle finger use to represent the ability to draw a bow. Unless I’m making shit up.

    • Mr Fish@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      That’s middle and index fingers, with the palm facing backwards. Just a backwards peace sign.

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      6 months ago

      In the UK two fingers up is a rude gesture and it comes from battles with the french. If they caught a British archer they removed those fingers so they couldn’t fire a bow. So sticking them up at the enemy and gesturing was showing they had them and would use them to fire arrows at them. I am not an historian, though, and this could just be one of those tales that sounds so true everyone believes it and passes it on.