Single Finger

[Alex]

What does this index finger sign mean ?

https://x.com/i/status/1890940688012849466

The Syrian arrested for killing people in Austria made the same gesture as Austrian police approached him.



Course it could be their version of the middle finger -   

[Mups]

No idea, Alex.
Never seen that before. 

[Scrumpy]

Pointing the finger..YOU are next...

They should have shot him in the head.. That would have wiped the smile off his face..

[Raven]

A pointing index finger raised upwards is used in Islam as an affirming gesture of Tawhid or some other religious whatsit.

[klondike]

[JBR]

I have never agreed with that American version - middle finger.
I'm British and a traditionalist.  It has to be two fingers in a V-sign, the reverse of what Churchill did with the palm forward.

[klondike]

The suggestion is that the recipient of that single finger sign can go and swivel. I'll leave it to your imagination where the axle/finger should be inserted to achieve that swivelling.

[muddy]

Pointing the finger..YOU are next...

They should have shot him in the head.. That would have wiped the smile off his face..

👍

[JBR]

👍

Certainly.  Murder deserves capital punishment, though I suppose they ought to have a trial first.
I am convinced that the number of murders really requires a deterrent: hanging.

[Scrumpy]

Certainly.  Murder deserves capital punishment, though I suppose they ought to have a trial first.
I am convinced that the number of murders really requires a deterrent: hanging.

Or a shooting without a blind fold.. !!!
Or put him (unarmed) in a building where there is no escape.. and.. Inside this building is a nutter with a gun..  Much more entertaining..

[JBR]

Or a shooting without a blind fold.. !!!
Or put him (unarmed) in a building where there is no escape.. and.. Inside this building is a nutter with a gun..  Much more entertaining..

Or, as our 'recent' arrivals would prefer, throw him off a tall building!

[Scrumpy]

Or, as our 'recent' arrivals would prefer, throw him off a tall building!

Good thinking... We could sell tickets..!!
Better still .. People could book a table at the restaurant at The Shard..
A window seat extra .. And a balcony where a person could stand and watch him pass by.. whilst falling..

I am so clever .. I should be running the country.. 
 

[dextrous63]

I recall watching a program about Vlad the Impaler (not related to our own psychopath), whose preferred method of "offing" people was to insert a pole through the rectum and up through the shoulders, avoiding as many vital organs as possible to thus prolong death, and placing the dying person on display a bit like crucifixion.  

A priest once went to see him to suggest that this was unnecessarily cruel.  Vlad thus has the priest impailed too.

Perhaps those who murder and show such scant regard to the police upon being captured should be awarded the same method of execution as Vlad would impart.  Might make them think twice about being so glib.

[JBR]

I recall watching a program about Vlad the Impaler (not related to our own psychopath), whose preferred method of "offing" people was to insert a pole through the rectum and up through the shoulders, avoiding as many vital organs as possible to thus prolong death, and placing the dying person on display a bit like crucifixion. 

A priest once went to see him to suggest that this was unnecessarily cruel.  Vlad thus has the priest impailed too.

Perhaps those who murder and show such scant regard to the police upon being captured should be awarded the same method of execution as Vlad would impart.  Might make them think twice about being so glib.

Indeed.  Vlad the Impaler.  Done publicly, of course, that would very quickly change many criminals into choirboys!

[muddy]

Barbarians !