Single Finger

Started by Alex, February 16, 2025, 11:21:37 AM

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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 -  :grin:  :grin:

Mups

No idea, Alex.
Never seen that before.  :hmm:

Scrumpy

#2
Pointing the finger..YOU are next...

They should have shot him in the head.. That would have wiped the smile off his face..
Don't ask me.. I know nuffink..

Raven

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

klondike


JBR

Quote from: klondike on February 16, 2025, 01:21:38 PM
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.
Numquam credere Gallicum

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

Quote from: Scrumpy on February 16, 2025, 12:13:52 PMPointing the finger..YOU are next...

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

JBR

Quote from: muddy on February 17, 2025, 01:19:06 AM👍
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.
Numquam credere Gallicum

Scrumpy

Quote from: JBR on February 17, 2025, 09:33:27 AMCertainly.  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..
Don't ask me.. I know nuffink..

JBR

Quote from: Scrumpy on February 17, 2025, 10:56:09 AMOr 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!
Numquam credere Gallicum

Scrumpy

Quote from: JBR on February 17, 2025, 12:08:49 PMOr, 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..  :clap:
 
Don't ask me.. I know nuffink..

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

Quote from: dextrous63 on February 17, 2025, 07:00:03 PMI 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!
Numquam credere Gallicum

muddy