+456 Who came up with the middle finger. I mean the first person to recieve it must of been like "What the fuck are you doing?", amirite?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

this is not clever or creative a million of these who came up with or imagine the first... have been made. get a new idea

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Back in the days when wars involved bows and arrows, the winners who's middle fingers remained stuck them up to flaunt it to the losers and said "pluck you" while the losers lost their fingers during the battles and over time the saying has evolved to "fuck you" somehow... Yeah true story

by Anonymous 13 years ago

thats acctually pretty sick

by Anonymous 13 years ago

And in either Britian or Ireland, someone told me, putting all of your fingers but your middle finger up was offensive because they would cut archers fingers off so they couldn't shoot. Not sure if it's true though.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

(:/): In Shakespearian times, it was considered an insult to "bite one's thumb at someone" or stick up your thumb towards someone. It's the equivalent to today's middle finger.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

(:/): :/ has the correct story, they would cut off the fingers of enemy archers in a war I've failed to remember but I believe the archers were Scots

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I have trouble believing that as a "true story"

by Anonymous 13 years ago

no, its really not read :/'s comment

by Anonymous 13 years ago

It is a true story, they're both right. (Well I don't know if it was with scots and brits but the archery is right.) Enemies would capture archers and cut off their middle fingers so they couldn't use their bows, so as an insult archers would stick up their middle fingers (if they still had it) to their enemies.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

the "pluck you" was false though just his own addition to the story

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Noo that was the 1st 2 fingers, like the peace sign. The middle finger is pretty obviously a reference crude jerks made to girls who they wanted to finger. Well I thought it was obvious.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Close. But there was no shitty puns like "pluck you."

by Anonymous 13 years ago

In Shakespearean times, they used to bite their thumbs instead of sticking up their middle finger.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I like the idea of that better.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Like in Romeo and Juliet when Benvolio/Balthasar or whoever does that to the Capulet guy.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Who was the first person to make a post like this? I wanna take a time machine back and kill them.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I thought it was because their bows were called "yews" and they required the middle finger to shoot them. The English (I think) held up their middle fingers to the French and said 'we can still pluck the yews'.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

My bad. :/'s comment sounds more accurate; I recalled it from a faint memory of when my anthology teacher told me this.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Kay, everyone can stop being a smartass now.

by Anonymous 13 years ago