How do you give the bird?

[Endangered Specie]

Poll question: How do you give the bird?

I think this important and divisive issue needs to be addressed.

[Lestat]

1. Tucked man!

Gotta do it properly if you're gonna do it! :)

[Endangered Specie]

5. I respectfully disagree

[MissRegina]

2. Neither

It's bad manners.

[m-jean03]

3. I bake it in the oven and then give it

...:P

[SaveElmer]

4. All Ten Fingers at once

We call it the "Flock of Birds" I know what it means, and people don't run me off the road for doing it

[Bake]

6. Proper form is so important!

The middle finger must be extended perfectly straight. The knuckles of all four fingers should be flat, not bent, and the outer-facing surface of all four fingers from the knuckle to the first joint should form a perfectly flat plane. The thumb should be tucked.

Anything less is just uncivilized.

Bake

[Bake]

7. A good example of bad form ...

Lestat's "loose fist with the bird sort of extended" in his other thread. Bad form!

Bake

[bigwillq]

8. My thumb is tucked (nt)

[HornBuckler]

9. 80's Style

The Midle Finger Straigh Up - Pointer And Ring Finger Bent At First Knuckle - Booyah!

[CrownPrinceBandar]

10. The "Extended-Thumb" posse is taking a beating here.......

Care to re-address the proper form (thumb tucked)?

[galadrium]

11. Semi-tucked

a hybrid finger.

[Unperson 309]

12. Neither!

Index, middle and ring finger tucked under thumb. Pinkie extended in a curl. Hand and arm in a straight plane. Back of hand level with ground. Bend the elbow sharply upward, (as in the Italian handslap on upper arm "Fongue!" gesture) while estending pinkie straight upward in an unmistakeable "up YOURS!" gesture, and *then* slowly and forcefully (as if reaming out dried paint) rotate the hand and extended finger round and round! *incredibly* obscene gesture!

Gotten me in several fights, that one has! When asked for an explanation of the gesture once, I replied "For those who do NOT care to send the very best!!"

The Missus cringes everytime I use it!

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