the good causes of the middle finger
2006-11-13 08:52:14 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
it is an essential part of the five-finger wave!
2006-11-13 09:16:51 · answer #1 · answered by good golly! 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To feel in the details on Sombody's answer: During the Hundred Years War archers were the major advantage that the English held over the French. They were also mostly peasants in their background, so whereas knights were often well-treated and ransomed back pretty much intact, the archers didn't get anywhere near the same respect. The story is that the English archers would disply their intact fingers to the French, but the version I am familiar with is that they would show them both the index and middle fingers. That sign is viewed as at least mildly insulting in Australia and the UK, but I don't think it gets the same reaction as the middle finger does in the US. Certainly when George Bush Snr visited Australia and waggled two fingers at people protesting against him he claimed he thought he was doing a V for Victory.
2006-11-13 17:17:58 · answer #2 · answered by Tim N 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No the middle finger was always used as an insult. It started during a war...(Hundred yrs war maybe?). When side A(I don't know which war so I'll call them side A and B)would capture people from side B they would cut of their middle finger...which at the time was their bow finger....so they couldn't pull back their bow to shoot. So whenever people from side B who hadn't been captured saw people from side A they would put up their middle finger kind of to say "Ha ha you didn't get me yet!". So it was always meant to be rude.
2006-11-13 17:04:57 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I am pretty sure Thomas Jefferson had his writing implement braced by a middle finger when he wrote the Declaration of Independence.
That seems like a pretty good cause.
2006-11-13 17:00:09 · answer #4 · answered by bookmom 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Perhaps its best feature is it holds the whole works of the hand. Through its simplicity among those that have been assigned an individual task in the palm, it can be used for either "right" or "wrong". Therefore, it balances life's strong drive.
2006-11-13 17:35:54 · answer #5 · answered by Giralda 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, in history the middle finger only helped when you needed it like to write and do all the other stuff you do everyday.But if you show your middle finger to another person it was considered as a curse and the show of desrespect.
2006-11-13 17:04:16 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Because it is the longest finger, it is the best finger for picking one's nose. :-)
2006-11-13 17:26:20 · answer #7 · answered by sudonym x 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's difficult to play most musical instruments without it.
2006-11-13 19:28:41 · answer #8 · answered by Sairey G 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We're number 1.
2006-11-13 16:55:02 · answer #9 · answered by Brite Tiger 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
to make a race car, to give the bird. and for typing...
2006-11-13 16:59:29 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋