• GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world
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        9 hours ago

        My Yankee might be showing here, but I thought that the middle finger was almost universal as an insult. I know that many places have their own rude hand gestures (five fingers in Arabic countries is ‘Your momma has five baby-daddies/Your mom’s a ho’, a thumb between your index and middle finger in Slavic/Turkic countries is ‘You got a small dick’, sign languages have entire dictionaries of them, etc), but are there places where a middle finger means something else entirely?

        • b3nsn0w@lemmy.world
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          7 hours ago

          it’s as universal as insults come, that part is true, the american thing is to just make everything about cars