What Is The Meaning Of This?

[diverrick]

My wife is a school teacher and got into a conversation with another teacher regarding the actions of a student. The jury is out as to what this sudent did or more so what it meant, so...

I am asking you all to tell me wht you think it means.

Take your hand with knuckles curled (fingers facing towards you) facing out. and flick your four fingers across your chin away from you towards the person it is directed at. I have my idea what that means, but I cannot find much with a internet search. Just curious what the general public thinks it means. Plus to settle the issue between coworkers. so let me know what you think it might mean.

 

[daniel f aleman]

Italian, "Vaffanculo!"; we use the middle finger. See the Godfather movies.

 

[Cacia]

yes, my daughter is confirming . She has told me not to go around asking questions about gestures, she says just to ask her.

....what he said.

 

[Jim Lapenta]

Any kid who uses this gesture and knows what it means may be connected. I'm Italian/Sicilian and if I were the school I'd be very careful as to how you discipline him. It may not even mean to him what it means to us who were brought up around some of the old school. He may have seen it in a movie. Either way in the US it is not an obscene gesture so much as a gesture of contempt, lack of respect, or disregard for authority. And even if, like Catherine's daughter, he knows what it means you think he's gonna admit it. Just give him a couple of whack's upside the head and fugedaboutit. Or if it's parochial school just slap him upside the head with a bible like the nuns used to do.

 

[stiebs]

Any kid who uses this gesture and knows what it means may be connected. I'm Italian/Sicilian and if I were the school I'd be very careful as to how you discipline him.

That's probably a little extreme there Jim. Me, and all my high-school buddies used that sign as a "go get lost" (but harsher) sign all the time. Most notably with/by a couple of near-deaf kids.

I don't know the origins of it, but if it does come from "connected" people, it has been common enough knowledge over the past 2 decades to sever any close ties.

 

[mels_2]

in my neck of the woods that means the same as giving someone the bird.......the finger salute....wink wink wink

 

[Fish_Whisperer]

I agree with Jim: Smack him. Hard.

 

[Misplaced Priority]

Suspension now. Do it again and expulsion. Send a message

 

[getwet2]

Alfalfa used to do this in the Little Rascals every now and then. Tell the school to take a pill.

 

[Fish_Whisperer]

Alfalfa used to do this in the Little Rascals every now and then. Tell the school to take a pill.

The gesture on that show, as I recall it, was to put one's hand beneath the chin and wave the fingers at each other.