Comments on: Fingers Used In Anger

By: demosthenes2k9

demosthenes2k9 — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 00:13:59 +0000

Blah blah blah…
COMMENT!
RETORT!
OBJECTION!

I’m sorry, but whenever I think of fingers and anger I think of the Phoenix Wright games

By: NEOmusings

NEOmusings — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 18:58:08 +0000

Or what Judd Nelson did in “The Breakfast Club”: Extend middle finger pointing down, “Can you hear me?” Rotate hand so middle finger is pointing up, “Or do you need me to turn up the volume?”

By: Cole Kerr

Cole Kerr — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 18:35:45 +0000

In Texas, they use all of their fingers when they are angry with their wives

By: douggie

douggie — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 14:40:28 +0000

’shopped’

By: amorphi

amorphi — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 11:52:38 +0000

aesthetics WIN!

By: OJ

OJ — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 05:51:25 +0000

A thumb is not a finger

By: Tempo

Tempo — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 00:38:27 +0000

Dude that is fuckin brillient

By: June Bug

June Bug — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 22:36:17 +0000

Or small children

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 18:25:57 +0000

Actually, Captain Obvious is there to bail out the morons, and also mock them.

It may have been possible to do this graph better, but it’s good enough to convey the joke properly. Good job 7/10

By: Demy

Demy — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 21:18:02 +0000

I’d like to see the raw data on this one.

By: Rick

Rick — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 03:37:18 +0000

sadly… I think my ex-wife used the ring finger the most.

By: ThyGoblinking

ThyGoblinking — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 05:46:06 +0000

“Anecdote accepted. Snappy come-back not found.”

By: PTPenguino

PTPenguino — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 05:01:59 +0000

The first time I ever tried to “flip the bird” – I had never done it before, not even to try – I was VERY angry…. I don’t know how the muscle response triggered exactly, but I flicked my pinkie finger. Oops.

But now I use the gesture to express my annoyance at my brother (the original recipient), and no one else is the least but offended.

By: Aira

Aira — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 08:35:34 +0000

My friend once did it to a girl who called her a lesbian.

By: Ka DUHR

Ka DUHR — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 16:03:40 +0000

What’s sad, Jake, is that she absolutely had to. CLEARLY alot of these people don’t get it. She’s not being captain obvious, she’s trying to bail out the morons.

By: Ovamiat

Ovamiat — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 20:55:41 +0000

GB2/ 4ailchan

By: jake

jake — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:12:22 +0000

Jane aka captain obvious whats everyone to know it looks like a middle finger

By: jake

jake — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:06:28 +0000

of course it is, its called the fake bird, its the religious way to give the finger, its what Jesus would do lol.

By: Boob Biter

Boob Biter — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 11:58:21 +0000

Photoshopped, the pixels are all wrong

By: hxc

hxc — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 10:11:48 +0000

thumbs down, ha ha.

By: Richard

Richard — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 08:12:01 +0000

Actually tron, a middle finger means ‘Up yours’ or ‘Up your arse’.

By: stop, Jane, stop

stop, Jane, stop — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:15:17 +0000

Jane – the irony of you taking the time to point out the joke is inspiring. I hope, one day, to be as oblivious as that.

Cheers!

By: Dalisair

Dalisair — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 21:00:59 +0000

Or holding the middle down with the thumb and saying “Un&%(* you, may you never get f*&#)@ again!”

By: Anne R.

Anne R. — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 02:33:47 +0000

What about the Italian hand sign “putting the horns on” a guy? Of course, that would muddy the visual impact of the graph.

By: Reutan

Reutan — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 01:15:13 +0000

Note, the relative extension, not the relative usage. referring to the extension gives the position. So it doesn’t ever count the usages, sorry Ema.

By: Jane

Jane — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 22:45:57 +0000

I don’t think the creator of this graph is actually trying to represent how often other fingers are lifted in anger, I think he/she is going for a visual joke where the graph looks like a middle finger. If you “got” it and still pointed out that it wasn’t technically correct then you have too much time on your hands.

By: tron

tron — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 19:51:16 +0000

Along those lines, there’s holding up all fingers _but_ the middle one, and saying “Fill in the blank!”

By: sarah

sarah — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 18:38:39 +0000

ohhhhh clever

By: John

John — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 18:16:20 +0000

@ema: There’s an old visual joke that I learned while growing up in NY… You hold up your middle three fingers and say, “read between the lines”… That’ll account for the occasional use of the index and ring in anger…

By: ema

ema — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 16:32:21 +0000

Not sure ring finger is ever used… ??

By: LoonieBin

LoonieBin — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 15:23:19 +0000

Been done, but this one’s better.

By: Nerdette

Nerdette — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 14:34:40 +0000

Sadly, I think the index finger is used considerably more.