It's the little things that irritate

Started by fsn, 01 March 2016, 05:19:22 PM

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Quote from: FierceKitty on 16 April 2016, 03:09:31 AM
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Good one!   ;D  =D>

[p.s. So, if its not the archers story, are we saying its a Churchill thing?]
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It predates Churchill ... ish.

I've seen video of WWI soldiers giving a V sign.

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Quote from: Westmarcher on 16 April 2016, 12:50:46 PM
Good one!   ;D  =D>

[p.s. So, if its not the archers story, are we saying its a Churchill thing?]

It was a gesture at least as far back as 1901 - there's film footage of a man giving the V sign to a camera crew filming him when he clearly didn't want them to.

Truth is we don't know and probably never will.

The "archer thing" is almost certainly patriotic tosh.

Winnie may have used it but didn't invent it - he had to be told by his advisers to reverse his hand when he first started making the Victory sign as he appears to have been unaware it was rude if the palm faced inwards.

It MAY have originated as a vulgar reference to a woman's sex organs  - either the V of the pudenda or a pair of open legs - indicating the recipient of the gesture was not "a real man."

It MAY have been a local version of "the horns" indicating that the recipient was a cuckold.

Or it may be something completely other.

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fsn

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fsn

Quote from: Ithoriel on 16 April 2016, 02:00:53 PM
It MAY have originated as a vulgar reference to a woman's sex organs  - either the V of the pudenda or a pair of open legs - indicating the recipient of the gesture was not "a real man."

Definitely not. S-e-x wasn't invented until the 1960s. Women in Victorian time didn't have s-e-x-y bits, there was just a massive toilet roll below their dresses.
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Ithoriel

Quote from: fsn on 16 April 2016, 02:10:03 PM
Definitely not. S-e-x wasn't invented until the 1960s. Women in Victorian time didn't have s-e-x-y bits, there was just a massive toilet roll below their dresses.

Don't be silly, didn't you learn at school that the Ancient Britons lived in crude huts and had rough mating on the floor*. ;)


*Apocryphally a schoolboy's essay version of "rush matting."
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Quote from: O Dinas Powys on 15 April 2016, 11:05:30 PM
Having just read through the driver ones again, I'm reminded of the people who I like to cathartically refer to as The 40mph F***ers!  You know the ones: 50, 60 or national speed limit, they pootle along at 40; on into the 40 mph section, fine and dandy: we're observing the limit; then you hit the 30mph section and off they zoom... 

Doesn't matter what the road conditions; 40, 40, 40... >:( >:( >:( >:( >:(



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Or even worse - chugging along at 38, you go to pass and they accelerate.

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Tawa

Quote from: ianrs54 on 16 April 2016, 04:21:03 PM
Or even worse - chugging along at 38, you go to pass and they accelerate.

IanS


And those clowns that slow right down when they pass as you're waiting to turn.....  >:(
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