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What’s The Meaning of a Reversed-Peace Sign?

September 1st, 2010

Yo nigga! picture: credit to Uncyclopedia

A reversed peace sign might be a cool or cute gesture especially when you’re snapped for a picture. I’ve seen a lot of pictures that gives the reversed peace sign, no matter by guys or girls (some of the pictures are nice pictures e.g of iftar, or after Terawih?) I won’t deny that sometimes I do that gesture myself too. I understand what I’m doing, but do you really understand what does it really mean, actually?

It actually means “Up yours” or “Fuck you“. It is similar to the middle-finger sign. Yes, you’re actually cursing whenever you’re trying to be cute. LOLOLOL laughing

No, I’m not kidding and this is not a joke. This is serious business. This is true in United Kingdom and US, and even being accepted as the correct insulting gestures in China. Quoting from the Uncyclopedia:

The Chinese consider it to be the retarded brother of the normal Peace Sign and have adapted it to mean Fuck you.

The outward-palm V sign is still acceptable and that mean “peace” or “victory”. But the reversed of it — you better watch yourself if you’re in someone else country! You don’t want people there to chase you away or may even hit you! LOL.

Tak puas hati lagi?

Here’s another explanation in a more reliable source, Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V_sign#Inverted_V_sign_as_an_insult

According to a popular legend the two-fingers salute and/or V sign derives from the gestures of longbowmen fighting in the English army at the Battle of Agincourt (1415) during the Hundred Years’ War. The story claims that the French claimed that they would cut off the arrow-shooting fingers of all the English and Welsh longbowmen after they had won the battle at Agincourt. But the English came out victorious and showed off their two fingers, still intact. Historian Juliet Barker quotes Jean Le Fevre (who fought on the English side at Agincourt) as saying that Henry V included a reference to the French cutting off longbowmen’s fingers in his pre-battle speech.

So, are you actually being cute, or you’re actually being rude? tongue

Cute, or rude, or about to be killed? (Credits: Uncyclopedia)