most people are aware of the rude middle finger hand gesture, but not many people are aware of the fact that many people use it indirectly. for example you might want to know what something means on a piece of paper and so you ask someone. They may take the paper from you and ask 'whereabouts do you mean?' and you may show them the part on the paper using your middle finger.
surely using a forefinger is much easier and less offensive.
any ideas on why people use the middle finger a lot and not the index finger?
2007-01-11 09:06:52 · 7 answers · asked by hillman_avenger2006 3 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
maybe they have stronger middle fingers from all that offensive gesturing..
or they just don't think you'll misinterpret their actions and therefore its fine and dandy to keep their middle finger nice and toned for when someone gets on their nerves.
2007-01-11 09:11:08 · answer #1 · answered by themightypave 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
hey, I know the reason why those finger things are deemed offensive and it took loads effort to find out, so listen up, I'm telling you whether you wanna know or not!
A long long time ago, England had the best archers in the world, and we hated France(ok, this probably could apply in modern times too).
Well, we would occasionaly have a fight with the jolly French, and if the sods caught any of our elite archers, they would cut off their first two fingers from either hand, making it impossible for them to pull back the string on their bows, therefore rendering them a bit useless in future battles.
However, when our archers who still had their hands intact would see the French line up, they would hold up their first two fingers, sort of like a 'ha ha you haven't got me yet, and you see these fingers? Yeah, these fingers here? Well they are guna cause your death my friend, oh yes they are' yadda yadda yadda. And so it kinda took off from there.
There you go, now you know, and i bet you all knew that anyway, but I just recently found out and I was really pleased with myself so just pretend like you didn't know okay?
2007-01-11 17:20:20 · answer #2 · answered by CHARISMA 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
its obvious when someone uses the middle finger indirectly. If you use your middle finger to point something out on a piece of paper and someone has a problem with that then they have issues.
2007-01-11 17:48:33 · answer #3 · answered by karenlm215 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
In all my years here on this planet and in various 'western' countries, the only time I've ever seen that 'middle finger gesture' has been on film / TV, with the obvious implication attached to it of some degree of aggressive 'vulgarity.'
I think your question is not really 'a question.' I do not believe your description of what you are meaning, and thus do not believe you.
Sash.
2007-01-12 05:57:49 · answer #4 · answered by sashtou 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think because thesedays people get used with the computer mouse, and I bet you know how ur hand looks like when it moving the mouse rite? That's the answer!
2007-01-11 17:15:38 · answer #5 · answered by Locke 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i have no idea myself, though of course that suckmydick bloke has been using it frequently on this site for a while. though i haven't seen him recently. thank goodness
2007-01-13 05:52:53 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
its longer.
2007-01-11 17:19:57 · answer #7 · answered by racer 51 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋