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DulwichFox Wrote:

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> Google it.

>

> It's not polite.



I know what it means, I'm not a moron. It's the equivalent of sticking two fingers up at someone. But a lot of us do that in good humour, no? I saw a very nice picture of that very handsome George Clooney doing it only the other day.

RosieH Wrote:

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> DulwichFox Wrote:

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> -----

> > Google it.

> >

> > It's not polite.

>

>

> I know what it means, I'm not a moron. It's the

> equivalent of sticking two fingers up at someone.

> But a lot of us do that in good humour, no? I saw

> a very nice picture of that very handsome George

> Clooney doing it only the other day.



Well why did you ask what it meant in your first post. ??

DulwichFox Wrote:

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> Well why did you ask what it meant in your first

> post. ??


I believe I said,

I always thought it was someone sticking their middle fingers up (is that "flipping the bird"?) and laughing. Is it not that?


Which it transpires is what it does mean. You told me to google the meaning of giving someone the finger, not the meaning of said smiley.


Like most people over the age of 5, I know what giving someone the finger means.

DJKillaQueen Wrote:

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> My favourite smiley has always been >:D thought it was a michievious thumbs up. But oh the

> horror when today I found out what it really

> means. Certainly explains a few things! :-$


it might look like 'the finger' and be called 'the finger' but when i suggested in the past that it was 'the finger' people such as smg told me it wasn't 'the finger' here


http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?20,160299,160307#msg-160307

How has anyone ever thought it was anything but the finger? My eyesight isn't great, but I can see the "thumbs" at the side of the "hands". And the colour red suggests anger, no? And the head bobbing like some kind of Wayne's World retard..? It's clearly the finger.


I was only confused at the beginning of the thread, because it is so painfully obvious that it's the finger, that if there was some confusion as to what it actually meant, then clearly it was something rather subtle and subliminal and completely different to the very obvious pair of fingers held aloft.


However, perhaps I've never been offended by it because I have the mouth of a fishwife.


Anyway, on this, as on all things, I concur with *Bob* - if you'd care to read his point on use of punctuation faces on the resurrected thread.

pk Wrote:

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> it might look like 'the finger' and be called 'the

> finger' but when i suggested in the past that it

> was 'the finger' people such as smg told me it

> wasn't 'the finger' here

>

> http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?2

> 0,160299,160307#msg-160307



pk, don't let this alarm you, or switch irrevocably your world view to dystopian, but it has on very rare occasion been known for smg to be wrong. You, on the other hand, were emphatically right.

It's true. I did, just shy of 3 years ago, labour under a misapprehension. That original thread showed me the light. I learned from my mistakes. And despite disagreeing with pk again just recently, they remain a poster I always read with interest


Looking at the emoticon again it seems downright weird I could have confused them for a jolly thumbs up. Anyway, enough.... Back to me being right, now

I wonder what the keyboard version is?


I've tried googling it, but all I end up with is spam sites - so emoticons are clearly big draws for web criminals.


There's lots of ways to design a finger smiley, but it doesn't actually change into finger smiley automatically on the forum.


In the same way that winkey is... ; ) finger smiley is... ??


Bueller.... Bueller... Anyone?

binary_star Wrote:

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> Huguenot Wrote:

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> > I wonder what the keyboard version is?

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> > : D

> without the spaces.


In the Phorum file smileyslib.php, which contains the default set of smileys in the package, that is given as the text version of "smiley14.gif the finger smiley."

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