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| Ramini |
Posted on 03-06-2009 15:49
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not in england though. Making a v with your palm facing you is usually an insult to the other person. A less insulting version of the middle finger if you like  Only with the palm away means peace over here. The only exception I know of is Churchill's V for victory. But still, seeing that on the shelf in game stores will be funny. |
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| Rofl teh cake |
Posted on 03-06-2009 16:10
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Never heard of that being an insult, and you are being more pope-ish than the pope, you are right, its not a V-sign. But meh  |
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| Tim |
Posted on 03-06-2009 16:15
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UK is one of the only countries in the world (Australia is another) where the V-sign palms-inward is an offensive gesture. |
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| matswatz |
Posted on 03-06-2009 16:24
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I learned that from http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/fo...63300.html
nothing but dust down here
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| wolflordandy |
Posted on 03-06-2009 16:37
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Heres the question though, is it insulting to the french? |
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| Masson |
Posted on 03-06-2009 16:55
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Quote wolflordandy wrote: Heres the question though, is it insulting to the french? it will soon  |
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| agrippa |
Posted on 03-06-2009 18:13
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Quote wolflordandy wrote: Heres the question though, is it insulting to the french? Yes but it nothing to do with the story about longbowmen as that is probably not true. It was a frenchman (François Rabelais) who first documented it in the sixteenth century. I really enjoy QI. Edited by agrippa on 03-06-2009 18:16 |
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| Hunt0r |
Posted on 03-06-2009 19:40
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Quote Ramini wrote: not in england though. Making a v with your palm facing you is usually an insult to the other person. A less insulting version of the middle finger if you like Only with the palm away means peace over here. The only exception I know of is Churchill's V for victory. But still, seeing that on the shelf in game stores will be funny. it was ment as an insult to the french showing that they still had the 2 fingers to fire a bow as it was common to cut off those two fingers to stop archers being able to ever fire a bow again (bit of history there ) |
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| agrippa |
Posted on 03-06-2009 19:49
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Posts: 367 Joined: 03.01.08 |
Quote Hunt0r wrote: (bit of history there )see post above. Quote Q: What's the origin of the V-sign? F: Archers at Agincourt etc A: Do we have an answer, other than saying that it isn't the archer thing? Source:: http://www.qi.com/talk/viewtopic.php?...4b51820554 Further Reading::http://www.qi.com/talk/viewtopic.php?...114#147114 EDIT:: oddly enough this was on an episode of QI i watched two night back. how odd. EDIT-EDIT:: Added source and quotes Edited by agrippa on 03-06-2009 19:58 |
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| NaughtyMe |
Posted on 03-06-2009 20:14
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Qi - if I were gay I would marry Stephen Fry. I am not, therefore I must stay with my wife and the occasional random quadraped for my bedfellows.
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| Leif |
Posted on 03-06-2009 21:45
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I like how this thread turned out. |
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| Rofl teh cake |
Posted on 03-06-2009 22:05
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Yeah. Let's watch it a little bit more. |
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| Solo |
Posted on 03-06-2009 22:40
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you people are all crazy. just so we don't forget, l4d2 looks terrible. l4d was only interesting for about 5 minutes anyway why the hell would we need a 2nd one so soon?? |
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| vadoom |
Posted on 03-06-2009 22:47
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Where would the brits be without the french? That's the only question worth asking. |
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| Mike |
Posted on 04-06-2009 00:21
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We would have won a lot more football matches against them. Just for the hell of it, I put "Where would Britain be without France?" into Google and this was the first link. |
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| Ramini |
Posted on 04-06-2009 00:41
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Posts: 340 Joined: 18.01.08 |
I very nearly mentioned that same fact Agrippa Also <3 QI I didn't realise it was so exclusive to us until today though. |
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| wolflordandy |
Posted on 04-06-2009 01:21
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I remembered it being on Qi and that the longbowman thing was wrong, but couldn't remember what had been said. Need to dig out my Qi book, with four words by Alan Davies! |
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| Undead2k |
Posted on 04-06-2009 19:42
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An interview about l4d2 and sdk stuff http://www.shackn....x?id=1138 Also it is confirmed that L4D2 will be full retail price. Quote Shack: What price-point should we expect? Doug Lombardi: This is a full sequel. Shack: So full price? Doug Lombardi: Yeah. At the end of the day, this is going to be a bigger game than Left 4 Dead. It's five campaigns versus four, all five are playable in Versus mode, Survival mode out of the box, the new multiplayer game mode. Plus over 20 new weapons and items. It's a full sequel. |
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| Rofl teh cake |
Posted on 04-06-2009 20:10
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ffffffuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu gonna buy it nevertheless. Being a zombie games fanboy can be really pricey 
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| Mike |
Posted on 04-06-2009 21:15
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Posts: 722 Joined: 26.07.06 |
I'll only get it in some really cheap deal, like 75% off or something. I WOULD say that I payed full price for the first one, but the truth is I preordered it off play.com for about £20. Edited by Mike on 04-06-2009 21:57 |
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