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This seems pretty overblown to me. Basically any hand gesture is an obscene insult in Greece? Maybe someone native wants to offer some perspective?

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Yeah don’t worry, this is pretty bs. The only one that’s kinda accurate is number 4 but with outstretched fingers, not stuck together. And even that is slowly being fazed out in favor of the middle finger.

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Greeks sound like very contentious people.

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Greek here: you just made an enemy for life ✌️

/s

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Hand gestures can absolutely be offensive.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_finger

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I’m Australian and I have never heard of the peace sign meaning up yours

I doubt the accuracy of the information in this

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I think they’re getting confused with a similar sign. If you do the peace sign sweeping the fingers upward but with the back of your hand facing the person then that means up yours. Or at least it did when I was younger.

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peace sign is forward, up yours is backward. definitely slipped out of australian use in the last few decades at least, but people who were around for the pound might remember.

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If someone signaled to me the backwards V, all I would think is “do they think I’m British?”

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Kiwi here, same.

I’d find it weird someone is using the term groovy in this day and age, but that’s it.

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The V-sign, isn’t the clue to make it with the palm facing away from you? The V-for victory sign is definitely a thing in Great Britain. Churchill somewhat famously did the sign incorrectly the first few times he used it.

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IIRC in Straw Dogs, Dustin Hoffman plays an American who has come to rural England. He’s greeted by two locals who give him the peace sign, then when he walks away they turn their hands around and it becomes the two-fingered salute.

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So Greece has a problem. Well 👍

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Yeah if everything is offensive in one specific place it’s suspicious

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Brit here, the V sign has two different meanings dependant on which side of the fingers is shown. If the palm side is shown then it’s the same peace sign, if it’s the other side then it’s offensive.

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I’ve been told it harkens back to Agincourt, where captured English archers had their drawing fingers cut off, so showing them would mean you’re out to shoot some French.

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