What does lifting your pinky while you drink indicate?

Question

I'm about as manly as they come. I have hair in all the right places. Muscles and somewhat of a sixpack. I drink beer, ride my motorcycle, hang with the guys, get in fights, shoot deer, play golf, and I act like I know the lady at the bank and always look down at her boobs until she notices me doing it, then I wink. So, I'm so manly, until one of my biker buds and some others were drinking beer and he noticed I held my mug with my pinky fully extended. He, at that moment, questioned my manhood. I defer to you.

Answer 1

Could be a lot of things:

In China, if one holds up a little finger at another, it is usually considered vulgar, just as holding up a middle finger in the United States and other countries is generally regarded as offensive. In addition, in the United States, wearing a ring on the pinky finger has some symbolic meaning. The pinky finger is the relationship finger. If you wear a ring on the pinky finger, you are open and loving.

In Korea, The story goes: A princess chooses her prince to be wed, when asked what finger she was holding out. She must find a Prince to unite Pinkys for their matrimony. After the Princess had gotten married with this prince, he later parted ways for war and he'd made a pinky promise for his return. On the 49th day after his disappearance, he came back, but only to realize he came back as a ghost. As the prince kept his promise, even after death.

In India, holding up the little finger is also a signal of "katti" or a broken friendship, a sign that someone is angry, or a playful suggestion that the person flashing the pinky is not going to speak to you.

In India, holding up the pinky is a signal that the person has to urinate.

Similarly, in Indonesia, when a man points his pinky finger downward it is a signal that he needs to urinate.

In Turkey, it's tradition to link pinky fingers when two people are making a bet.

In Judaism, it is customary to extend one's arm and pinky finger to the Torah as it is lifted following its reading in the Synagogue.

The Iron Ring is a symbolic ring worn by some Canadian engineers. The Ring is a symbol of both pride and humility for the engineering profession, and is always worn on the little finger of the dominant hand. (A similar ritual is performed in the United States called the Order of the Engineer).

In the Balkans, a solitary long fingernail on the pinky finger of a man signifies that he is single.

The Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority holds their pinky finger in the air as a (Greek) greeting to their fellow sisters.

In Russia, when two people are French-kissing, it is customary to often link pinky fingers together.

In the United Kingdom, it used to be considered a social requirement to raise one's little finger whilst drinking a beverage out of a cup or mug.

Answer 2

Pinkies Up

Answer 3

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What does lifting your pinky while you drink indicate?
I'm about as manly as they come. I have hair in all the right places. Muscles and somewhat of a sixpack. I drink beer, ride my motorcycle, hang with the guys, get in fights, shoot deer, play golf, and I act like I know the lady at the bank and always look down at her boobs until she notices...

Answer 4

Hmm extending the pinky while drinking from a delicate tea cup is one thing. But extending it while drinking from a beer mug? That's a little strange. Forgo using the handle and just grip full fisted around body. Or you could claim that your whole had doesnt fit in the handle, followed by references to size of hands being relative to size of manhood etc.

Answer 5

Tell him it means you can't fit all your fingers inside the handle on the mug because of your big manly hands....

Or you can tell him that you do it when your drunk, you point your pinky up in the air to remind you which way to tilt the mug.

Answer 6

Lol say that you have one of those chips fitted and it gives better cellphone reception when holding it up above your phone. LOL I drink like that too but I always say " Do I ask why your face looks like that? NO so leave me alone"

Answer 7

Double jointed or sprained pinky.

Answer 8

a sprained pinky?

Answer 9

In England if you grasped your food and drink with all fingers you were considered a peasant.

The Lord's or those with "good breeding" would hold their pinky to stick it to the peasants showing they do not eat like peasants.

So it is a rude ellitist taunt that says "I'm more cultured than you dumb peasants."

However I like the idea that the glass handle just doesn't fit your large manly fingers. :)

Answer 10

I also use proper ettiquette at the dinner table. There's nothing wrong with being worldly and proper. It shows you are not only a man but one with class.