Does anyone still do it?
There’s something really satisfying about a good old fashioned flicking of the Vs but it seems to be in danger of being replaced with the more prevalent wanker sign or giving the middle finger, which I tend to associate as an import from the US, like the grey squirrel, killing off our V flicking red squirrel.
The V allegedly pre dates the Battle of Hastings in the days when an invading army would chop if the bow fingers of their enemies. The flicking of the Vs was a way of demonstrating that the bowmen still had their fingers, and thus retained the ability to rain arrows down on their foes.
There’s something really satisfying about a good old fashioned flicking of the Vs but it seems to be in danger of being replaced with the more prevalent wanker sign or giving the middle finger, which I tend to associate as an import from the US, like the grey squirrel, killing off our V flicking red squirrel.
The V allegedly pre dates the Battle of Hastings in the days when an invading army would chop if the bow fingers of their enemies. The flicking of the Vs was a way of demonstrating that the bowmen still had their fingers, and thus retained the ability to rain arrows down on their foes.