I don't understand today's young people

siberian khatru · 11-29-2006, 09:55 AM

Help me out, youth generation (and aging hipsters like Jim and Skip):

Why, in so many pictures of people under 30, do folks flash the "two-finger" sign? Either the index and middle finger together, or the index and pinkie?

What does that symbolize or refer to?

To me, it's a cliche. So are these folks making an ironic statement in flashing it? Or do they really believe they're being cool?

Forgive me, for I am 40 and I sometimes feel like I'm 60.

[hitching waist band of pants up to his nipples]

**Rain Man** · 11-29-2006, 09:58 AM

I admit that I'm a 65 year-old in a 43 year-old body, but that whole 'making signs with the fingers in photographs' thing is second only to tattoos in terms of things that the 20-somethings will be embarrassed about when they get older.

leviw · 11-29-2006, 09:59 AM

99% of the time, they don't know what it means and are just trying to be cool.

Try it. You'll feel cool, too. I promise.

siberian khatru · 11-29-2006, 10:01 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by leviw

99% of the time, they don't know what it means and are just trying to be cool.

Try it. You'll feel cool, too. I promise.

My arthritis won't let my fingers move like that.

Plus, I've never been able to do the Vulcan "live long and prosper" symbol.

kepp · 11-29-2006, 10:01 AM

leviw is right. I just did it...sitting here in my cubicle.

**Bowser** · 11-29-2006, 10:01 AM

"Wait. You guys are posers, right?"

**Saulbadguy** · 11-29-2006, 10:01 AM

Peace, and Rock On. Or in Texas, Hook 'Em.

FAX · 11-29-2006, 10:03 AM

I thought it meant "I just farted."

Whillikers, am I am out of touch.

FAX

BIG_DADDY · 11-29-2006, 10:04 AM

Hail Satan

siberian khatru · 11-29-2006, 10:05 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Saulbadguy

Peace, and Rock On. Or in Texas, Hook 'Em.

I don't think it's peace, unless they've changed the classic upright "V" to a sideways two fingers together. And most folks I see aren't UT fans.

Maybe it's "rock on." Which makes me laugh.

Braincase · 11-29-2006, 10:06 AM

Hang loose, brah!

leviw · 11-29-2006, 10:06 AM

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Originally Posted by kepp

leviw is right. I just did it...sitting here in my cubicle.

Now stand up and flash it at some co-workers and yell something like, "What up, Yo," or "Just chillin'".

Trust me, your day will only get better.

11-29-2006, 10:06 AM

It always makes me feel like I'm the man. Without the hand signal, I'm not the man.

BIG_DADDY · 11-29-2006, 10:07 AM

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Originally Posted by Phobia

It always makes me feel like I'm the man. Without the hand signal, I'm not the man.

What do you become without the hand signal?

**Donger** · 11-29-2006, 10:08 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by leviw

99% of the time, they don't know what it means and are just trying to be cool.

Try it. You'll feel cool, too. I promise.

I remember once in high school when a group of kids thought it would be cool to hold a peace-in rally. This was during the mid-1980s when the we were all going to die from nuclear war. Anyway, I went and observed the rally. They were all singing "Give peace a chance," wearing tye-die and so on. But the best part was the signage. Some genious made a mistake on the signs, and instead of the peace symbol, they were holding Mercedes signs. Rather ironic, considering it was Johnson County.

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