Maybe some hand gestures don't translate to Canada!
Jul 19th 2018, 9:06 pm
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Maybe some hand gestures don't translate to Canada!
We were just in HomeSense in Barrhaven. While my OH was agonising over scented candles, I checked out the 'pop art sculptures'. I came across a meme of resin-cast hand gestures mounted on a plinth. Sure, one was an open hand doing a wave. Another was a hand in an 'OK' gesture. The last one was.......a hand doing a 'V' sign - perfect, one way for 'Victory' - needless to say I promptly moved it to a prominent position and turned the 'V' around the other way! Wonder how long before anyone twigs?
Jul 19th 2018, 9:10 pm
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Re: Maybe some hand gestures don't translate to Canada!
A Manager/Director of a Federal Govt Department should click onto this pretty quickly as I am sure when they asked an employee to do something that really isn't their job to do might have countered with that type of V sign. I know mine have experienced this
Jul 19th 2018, 9:38 pm
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Re: Maybe some hand gestures don't translate to Canada!
It's the racing challenge issued from one driver to another at a red light; the reversed V as if holding a cigarette signifying "Wanna drag?".
Jul 25th 2018, 12:44 am
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Re: Maybe some hand gestures don't translate to Canada!
I’m not meaning to be sexist here but does the hand signal of putting your little pinkie out, wiggling it around and waving it at a 50 year old male Porsche driver that has just cut you up/driven up your ass etc. translate well here?
And yes I am talking about one’s little finger and nothing else...
And yes I am talking about one’s little finger and nothing else...
Jul 25th 2018, 12:51 am
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Re: Maybe some hand gestures don't translate to Canada!
I’m not meaning to be sexist here but does the hand signal of putting your little pinkie out, wiggling it around and waving it at a 50 year old male Porsche driver that has just cut you up/driven up your ass etc. translate well here?
And yes I am talking about one’s little finger and nothing else...
And yes I am talking about one’s little finger and nothing else...
Jul 25th 2018, 4:34 pm
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Re: Maybe some hand gestures don't translate to Canada!
The universal finger and thumb (slightly apart, to indicate 'tiny' or the full space to indicate 'big') repeatedly moved back and forth at the forehead doesn't appear to have reached Canada yet 
