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Originally Posted by SeijiSensei
In World War II it was the "V for Victory" sign and associated with Winston Churchill.
I've wondered how that became transformed into it signifying "peace." |
Just make sure you don't flash a
reverse-V sign in a British pub, or you may well spark off a violent bar brawl.
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The Rude Reverse peace sign derives from the Hundred Years' War.
Incensed by the losses inflicted by English archers, French knights would cut off the middle and index fingers of any archer they caught, to prevent them from ever pulling a bowstring again.
So, it became popular among English veterans who survived the war to taunt the French by showing them the two fingers, in effect saying: "Ha, I can still shoot you with my two fingers, Frog!"
Today, the sign simply means: "F*ck off, you twat."
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