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  • digehode@lemmy.worldtoScience Memes@mander.xyzAnthropology
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    7 months ago

    Ah, I see. We don’t tend to put it to the mouth. It’s more “fuck you”. Apparently comes from demonstrating to the French that you still have your bow-drawing fingers and intend to use them. British archers captured by the french would have their first two fingers removed to prevent them launching arrows.


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    7 months ago

    In the UK two fingers up is a rude gesture and it comes from battles with the french. If they caught a British archer they removed those fingers so they couldn’t fire a bow. So sticking them up at the enemy and gesturing was showing they had them and would use them to fire arrows at them. I am not an historian, though, and this could just be one of those tales that sounds so true everyone believes it and passes it on.



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    7 months ago

    The phrasing was “you get fault points for” which strongly suggests assigning fault rather than listing out “points at fault”.

    Also I think the term would be “points of failure” for the way you read it. At least that’s howbive heard it used and used it myself.