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Mar 6th, 2005 04:46 PM
DamnthatDavid Ewww, God I hope not... Outties, that is just... unnatural.

But lots of people have ring fingers longer.
Mar 6th, 2005 05:45 AM
FS
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Originally Posted by DamnthatDavid
Index finger is your pointer finger. Not the middle finger.
that's what I meant. I didn't think anyone actually had a ring finger longer than their index finger.

Next you'll probably tell me some people have bellybuttons that stick out.
Mar 6th, 2005 04:42 AM
Marine umm... Fingers?
Mar 5th, 2005 10:51 PM
The Damp Moose On my left hand, my ring finger is about a half inch longer than my index, but they're about equal on my right.

I wonder if that has anything to do with me being left handed?
Mar 5th, 2005 08:41 PM
NOT Jixby Phillips
Mar 5th, 2005 07:34 PM
soundtest
Mar 5th, 2005 04:58 PM
DamnthatDavid Index finger is your pointer finger. Not the middle finger.
Mar 5th, 2005 04:26 PM
FS isn't everyone's index finger longer than their ring finger? Unless you're a deformed, inbred flipper baby.
Mar 5th, 2005 03:15 PM
DamnthatDavid What if my right hand has a ringer finger 1/4th of a inch longer then my index, but my left hand's ring and pointer are the same size?

Would that make my right hand PURE MAN, and my left hand half man? Making my total being a quarter gay? And does this explain my preference for girls boarding on the tomboyish side of things?
Mar 5th, 2005 03:15 PM
soundtest
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Originally Posted by Zomboid
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Originally Posted by Jeanette X

In Canada, showing the middle finger is called the Trudeau salute after Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau because of a famous photo of him giving the finger to some protesters. He was well known for telling people what he thought of them.
I have never heard anyone call it that.
neither have I.
Mar 5th, 2005 01:53 PM
Anonymous mew when are we gonna hang out next anyway ;<
Mar 5th, 2005 01:20 PM
mew barios same for meh. guess thats why im sucha frilly depressed girl :o but i also get frustrated answering challenging phone calls, whateva that means exactly.
Mar 5th, 2005 09:41 AM
Anonymous my index is longer than my ring fingers :<
Mar 5th, 2005 02:28 AM
Big Papa Goat That's because Albertans just hate Trudeau
Mar 5th, 2005 02:23 AM
Zomboid
Quote:
Originally Posted by Jeanette X

In Canada, showing the middle finger is called the Trudeau salute after Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau because of a famous photo of him giving the finger to some protesters. He was well known for telling people what he thought of them.
I have never heard anyone call it that.
Mar 5th, 2005 12:32 AM
Esuohlim My ring finger is only a little longer, but my middle finger is huge so I can flip the bird with gusto

ARTIST'S RENDITION:

Mar 4th, 2005 08:08 PM
Jeanette X The origins of this gesture are highly speculative. It is identified as the digitus impudicus ("impudent finger") in Ancient Roman writings. It was defined there as a gesture intended to insult another. It has been noted that the gesture resembles an erect penis. Ancient Romans considered an image of an erect phallus as a talisman against evil spells. As a consequence, displaying this gesture to another may not have been a pseudo-sexual insult but rather an insulting statement along the lines of – "I'm going to protect myself against your witchcraft, before you even start."

In Canada, showing the middle finger is called the Trudeau salute after Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau because of a famous photo of him giving the finger to some protesters. He was well known for telling people what he thought of them.

A popular, but apocryphal, story derives it from the gestures of English archers at Agincourt. The myth claims that the French cut off fingers from archers, and that the 'finger' was a sign of defiance by those who retained their fingers. The same story also claims that 'fuck you' is a corruption of 'pluck yew' since bows were made of yew, or the phrase "I can still pluck you!". While it has been debunked many a time, this story still crops up.

Mar 4th, 2005 07:35 PM
Sethomas The post that Kelly made is BS. It would require super-human fingers to pull a Welsh longbow (draw weight ca. 120 lbs.), and besides that the middle finger was considered obscene for centuries prior. The Romans even called the middle finger "the vulgar finger", though the Latin term slips my mind. I've read a lot into the Battle of Agincourt, and I've never heard anything elsewhere about the fingers being cut off. Why not just kill the schmucks?

Besides that, 15th Century Middle English would have them say "we cannen yew pluck", where "we can fuck you" would be "we cannen ye fyck". My Middle English spelling isn't so good, but it would be something like that.
Mar 4th, 2005 05:43 PM
Schimid My ring finger is only about 1/8 of an inch longer than my index.

I would've hoped that at 16 I would be able to pick up a small truck and swallow an egg whole.
Mar 4th, 2005 05:38 PM
kellychaos I've never posted it before. Were you anticipating repetition? :/

I just wanted to see how many "Really?"s that I'd get.
Mar 4th, 2005 05:06 PM
Sam How many times are you going to post that?
Mar 4th, 2005 05:05 PM
kellychaos
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Giving the Finger

Before the Battle of Agincourt in 1415, the French, anticipating victory over the English, proposed to cut off the middle finger of all captured English soldiers. Without the middle finger it would be impossible to draw the renowned English longbow and therefore be incapable of fighting in the future. This famous weapon was made of the native English Yew tree, and the act of drawing the longbow was known as "plucking the yew" (or "pluck yew"). much to the bewilderment of the French, the English won a major upset and began mocking the French by waving their middle fingers at the defeated French, saying, "See, we can still pluck yew! "PLUCK YEW!" Since 'pluck yew' is rather difficult to say, the difficult consonant cluster at the beginning has radically changed to a labiodental fricative 'F', and thus the words often used in conjunction with the one-finger-salute are mistakenly thought to have something to do with n intimate encounter.
It is also because of the pheasant feathers on the arrows used with the longbow that the symbolic gesture is known as "giving the bird". And yew thought yew knew everything!!!
Mar 4th, 2005 03:20 PM
Emu my middle finger is literally like 4 inches long, what does that mean when i flip people off it curves forward
Mar 4th, 2005 01:47 PM
MetalMilitia Would certainly be funny to watch though.
Mar 4th, 2005 01:30 PM
Matt Harty It wouldn't make a fucking difference.
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