By the way, I always use the German-style hand gesture to indicate "three". I wonder if I'm going to be outed as a German spy anytime soon.
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A place to talk about movies--old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.
Tom Scola - Aug 24, 2009 8:13:55 am PDT #3897 of 30000
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Frankenbuddha - Aug 24, 2009 8:20:05 am PDT #3898 of 30000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Hmm, I do to. I wonder if the three middle fingers is strictly a UK thing, or if it varies in the US depending on what part of the country you're in.
Sean K - Aug 24, 2009 8:26:38 am PDT #3899 of 30000
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
I do the three middle fingers thing. I totally would have given myself away as a spy.
megan walker - Aug 24, 2009 8:32:59 am PDT #3900 of 30000
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
I'm confused, what's the three fingers thing?
Sean K - Aug 24, 2009 8:36:39 am PDT #3901 of 30000
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
megan, it's about the different ways of indicating the number three with your fingers - thumb, index and middle, or index, middle and ring.
megan walker - Aug 24, 2009 8:38:38 am PDT #3902 of 30000
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
I get that, but which way do the Germans do it?
Fiona - Aug 24, 2009 8:40:41 am PDT #3903 of 30000
I haven't seen IB yet, but the whitefont is hilarious. Because I have been teaching my children to show numbers the British way, and then they come back from school and Kindergarten and do them the German way. Perfect spys in the making, what the bilinguialism and all as well .
ETA: also reminds me of a very nice wartime British movie "Went the Day Well?", where a group of Germans inflitrates a perfect little English village and give themselves away by putting a line through their sevens, amongst other things.
Sean K - Aug 24, 2009 8:43:07 am PDT #3904 of 30000
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
megan - according to the movie, Germans do it thumb, index, middle. Whether that has anything to do with reality, I don't know. NOTHING in the rest of the movie has much to do with reality, so there's lots of wiggle room.
§ ita § - Aug 24, 2009 8:43:09 am PDT #3905 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
The Germans use the thumb, megan.
Fiona - Aug 24, 2009 8:43:55 am PDT #3906 of 30000
Whether that has anything to do with reality, I don't know.
No, it's true. I can confirm it!