When local gestures have totally different meanings... one side is the peace and love sign, the other, well is traditionally ‘up yours’ but it’s origin is more ‘lookit this frenchie’ as the French used to cut the forefinger and middle finger off captured English longbowmen. So the English used to show their fingers to say, I am still able to kill the French. In turn it became more a general ‘screw you’ in use. #history #doublefingersalute or maybe they just wanted the coin side to be a ‘f-ck you, pay me’ kind of deal. ;-) (at Bitten By Design)