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First ten numbers (0, 1, 2, 3,...9) First ten dimensions (0D, 1D, 2D, 3D...9D) Newton: "0 is contingent" 🚫 and "1-9 are necessary" 🚫 (this is the basis of Newton Calculus/Physics/Geometry/Logic). Leibniz: "0 is necessary" ✅ and "1-9 are contingent (on their predecessor)" ✅ (this is the basis of Leibniz Calculus/Physics/Geometry/Logic). [Info on Zero]: Is zero the most important number? Zero is the most important number in mathematics. Zero functions as a placeholder. Imagine a number, e.g., 5 and put as many zeroes behind it as you can think of. Zero drastically changes the value of the number from a mere 5 to 50, 500, 5000, 50000 and beyond. Which is the greatest whole number? There is no 'largest' whole number. Every whole number has an immediate predecessor, except 0. A decimal number or a fraction that falls between two whole numbers is not a whole number. Why is it impossible to divide by zero? The short answer is that 0 has no multiplicative inverse, and any attempt to define a real number as the multiplicative inverse of 0 would result in the contradiction 0 = 1. Is 0 a rational number? Yes, 0 is a rational number. Since we know, a rational number can be expressed as p/q, where p and q are integers and q is not equal to zero. Thus, we can express 0 as p/q, where p is equal to zero and q is an integer. Is 0 A whole number? The whole numbers are the numbers 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, and so on (the natural numbers and zero). Negative numbers are not considered "whole numbers." All natural numbers are whole numbers, but not all whole numbers are natural numbers since zero is a whole number but not a natural number. Why is 0 a good number? Zero helps us understand that we can use math to think about things that have no counterpart in a physical lived experience; imaginary numbers don't exist but are crucial to understanding electrical systems. Zero also helps us understand its antithesis, infinity, in all of its extreme weirdness. 🔘 ♾ ☯️ What 0D looks like? Zero Dimension (0D): A point which has no dimensions. It has no length, width, or height. It has no size and tells about the location only. We usually represent it by a dot. Does 0D exist? There exists only one connected 0D shape: the point. This is the member of all shape families with a zero-dimensional member; this makes it the zero-dimensional hypercube, hyperball, cross polytope, as well as the only zero-dimensional rotatope and toratope. [Newton vs Leibniz]: Do you agree with Newton that "0 is contingent" and "1-9 are necessary"? Newton was a fraud and a moron. Clearly (shown) his logic is flawed at the fundamental level. (9 is contingent on 8, 8 is contingent on 7, and so on with the exception of 0; necessary) So why are we learning Newton's backwards Calculus/Physics/Geometry/Logic? [Newton vs Leibniz Calculus]: What is the difference between Newton and Leibniz calculus? Newton's calculus is about functions. Leibniz's calculus is about relations defined by constraints. In Newton's calculus, there is (what would now be called) a limit built into every operation. (0D entirely disregarded, 1D-9D "empirical" only; no correctly defined dimension above 3D) In Leibniz's calculus, the limit is a separate operation. (0D necessary and 1D-9D contingent).
Simon, the best misuse of the v symbol was in 1992 when president Bush came to Canberra and greeted the protesting Aussie farmers with the up yours symbol instead of the peace. Huge outrage over here as they had hoped the US would stop subsidising their farmers to get a level market but instead got a “up yours” from the over smiling buffoon. Btw the bit at the end was a masterpiece!
Wasn't it a Roman legionnaire walking into the pub and ordering 5 drinks? The "Goodies" did an episode showing how the "up yours" symbol was changed to the "Victory" symbol. Winny would walk around waving to the crowd with a cigar in hand, one day he dropped the cigar and shocked the nation, quickly fixed when one of his staff turned his hand around.
You do realize in France this gesture means "zero, it sucks, up your bumhole", right? (I meant the one at the end of your post/sorry to be confusing. The okay-gesture where you for a ring with finger and thumb.)
I've been mostly fortunate enough to have seen a lot British television, movies, and music so I was familiar with the "V" hand gesture having a derogatory meaning in Britain but its always fun to learn how things like that get started. Bonus Fact: I've even picked up some a lot more British slang as a result of being subscribed to so many of Simon's channels. And I'd sincerely like Thank Simon and Danny in particular for that.
I was a TA for a study abroad program in the UK. At every meeting before heading across the pond, I made sure to tell all of the new students to be careful which way their palms were facing if they did the peace sign. Didn’t need any second year college guys getting their butts’ kicked in a pub because they were uninformed.
🙄 It comes from the Irish showing them they still had their bow fingers, cause they’d cut them off. I haven’t even watched the video and know this. But I’m not an Anglophile *sskissee like yourself.
"The forks" is how it is often referred to here in Australia, "He flipped me the forks". You didnt mention the often added motion of the other hand slapping the forearm or elbow crook for added noise and aggressive emphasis.
That isn't unique to the two-finger salute. It can be paired with the one-finger as well, or by itself. So it's adjacent but not the same. See: Spaceballs, where the official salute is the finger and elbow crook slap.
Where I live a two finger wave motion is often referred to as a 'farmer's wave'. It's what you do when you want to say 'hello good sir' to someone on a mostly deserted road as you pass. Always makes me smile. Then I get back into a city and I'm suddenly in a bad mood again...
I live in a small town, where everyone literally knows everyone, and we do this all the time. It's kinda hilarious to me how the gesture has been whittled down to the smallest and simplest amount of movement possible, that can still be observable between the drivers of two passing vehicles. People usually drive with one hand on the steering wheel, somewhere near 12 o'clock. So all they have to do to "wave" to an incoming driver is lift a couple fingers about an inch off the steering wheel. I guess when you're waving to nearly every other motorist you pass, every single day, you want to streamline the process as much as possible. 😁
Like many others, as an American familiar with British film & television I already knew what it meant, but my favorite instance of that gesture on American tv has always been from Buffy the Vampire Slayer, when Spike flashes it at another character with a sardonic look on his face. That moment is even used in the opening credits of several seasons! Really delightful, especially knowing that it obviously slipped right by the censors who would *never* have allowed someone flipping the bird!
Americans have been driving on the wrong side of the road, playing football incorrectly, and most amusingly been misusing the "V" sign as friendly greeting.
Do one about the idiom “they’d be rolling over their grave” or “they’d be spinning in their grave” and it’s origins. Something that is always said by old people.
Suggestion: What's the actual paycheck for an actor who's paid tens of millions of dollars for a film? How much of those millions go towards an actor's personal expenses: Agents and managers. Personal assistants. Hairdressers and barbers. Personal chefs. Transportation costs for families, friends, et cetera. Personal insurance policies. Film location housing(hotel, house or apartment).
In my family it's called a "Good luck Hawaiian wave". We're Australian..... It's from a joke that we emailed around in the early '00's. We were talking about it over dinner & my Nan (in her late 80's at the time) asked my Mum what we were talking about. One long, funny, question peppered explanation later, my cousins, sibling, our kids, my grandfather, uncles, aunts, everyone was falling about laughing. My very sweet old Nanna turns around at us all & gave us all the good luck Hawaiian wave with a raspberry We were dead Needless to say it's been the good luck Hawaiian wave ever since
I had read that the V-sign had nothing to do with longbowmen - sigh, another brilliant legend fallen by the wayside! I remember the Harvey Smith, and the roar it got from the crowd. I think his defence was that it was merely high spirits at having completed the round, rather than a desire to offend. A few years ago I commented in a social media post about being amused when people (usually Americans in the photos I'd seen) got it the wrong way round. An American replied that he'd like to do me "great physical harm" for mocking his country "in these trying times" - felt like telling him it wasn't my fault that Trump got in!
I remember reading that the UK release of Left 4 Dead 2 had to flip the its signature zombie hand cover art so that the palm would face the audience. The hand of the cover art is supposed to look like it’s clutching to life, reaching to something, and the second game’s cover had two fingers extended to make it clear it’s the second game. Apparently it wasn’t enough to not make it look like the two-fingered salute solely because of the back of the hand facing the audience.
That was one of your better ones in a while. I normally watch Brain Blaze because of the personality. This video had just the right about. I really enjoyed it.
You do know that thousands and thousands of Bosniak women and young girls were very unlucky during that aggression on Bosnia,right? How would they feel if we Bosniaks did this to Serbian women and young girls?? Bosnia. 1992-1995 Yes many girls ,even Bosniak girls called me ugly when it’s not my fault and lied to me and played ,and I also find this very unfair ,while the Serbs got to make babies in the aggression…….I better get justice!
G'day Simon & Gilles, Down here in Australia the Palm Out ✌ was used in the '70s by Valiant/Chrysler in advertising for their Family Size 2 Door sports coupe with the slogan "✌😁Hey Charger"
I suspect Churchill knew *exactly* what it meant and that's why he was flashing it at photographers, and the propaganda department just went into a panicked damage control mode.
12:35 - I have to feel this analysis is incorrect. The Japanese love underdogs, and those who cheerfully persist in the face of certain failure. One contemporary example would be a young man who is almost certainly the worst professional sumo wrestler in the history of the sport. Shonanzakura entered competition in 2015, and to the present day has won exactly 3 bouts in his entire career. The few audience members who are present for his bouts -- he's almost always in the bottom division which fights first thing in the morning; the top ranks that get broadcast on TV don't fight until late afternoon, by which time the arena is packed -- are always cheering him on. They know he's going to lose, and he gets applause anyway, just because he keeps trying.
DYK the boxart of video game Left 4 Dead has the back of a zombie hand, Left 4 Dead 2 has a similar image but with the index and middle fingers up indicating the number 2. The European release of the game has the L4D2 two-fingered hand turned around with the palm facing out, a la Churchill.
Oh if only Daven knew of the outtakes from Red Dwarf where the cast were all arsing about flicking the Vs to the camera, that would have been a nice addition to the video... :P
Lol as a American I knew this but then there is little that as a American I shouldn't "know" that I do, funny isn't it. Guess not every American is uneducated. Great work as always Mr. Whistler much love from WV USA.
I'm surprised the "deuces" wasn't mentioned. Back in 2010 high-school kids would give a sideways peace sign, palm facing in. And say "deuces" instead of saying see you later. I still do it occasionally
In the early 1990s, there was a World Environmental Conference held in Rio De Janero. At the time US President George Bush Senior had recently use the ‘Up Yours’ version of the gesture, thinking it was a Peace sign on a Visit to Australia. In the weeks that followed, he was variously shown in newspaper cartoons using the gesture to insult Australia over whatever issues was at hand. Approaching the Rio conference, Bush Snr. Was quoted as saying that The USA would not compromise its right to use fossil fuels and other polluting technologies when negotiating in the Rio conference. That the US way of live was not up for negotiation. So here in Australia a political cartooning drew a brilliant cartoon of George Bush, sitting is a huge ‘Yank Tank’ American gas-guzzling convertible car, huge clouds of smoke trailing behind blackening the sky. In the Distance the road led to The Rio conference. And George Bush’s hand signed ‘Up Yours’ to the world.
I'm American, and I have been using the "V" sign (palm in) as an "enhanced" version of the middle finger for decades. Mostly I get odd looks, but just enough Americans are "hip" to it to get awfully angry, LOL.
@@PlebNC For something to be REALLY "shocking", It needs to be kind of rare. People in the US "flip" the middle finger so often that the "shock value" is minimal these days, I imagine that the "V" sign is more commonly used in the UK than the middle finger (making the middle finger more offensive).
@@jamesslick4790 The same way firing 50 pistol shots vs 50 artillery shells does. It's not about frequency, it's about power of each shot. Flipping the peace sign is for when you want someone to know they've seriously upset you. The middle finger is for when you want someone to know they can f*** off and you're ok with burning the bridge that is your relationship to do it.
It is clear that the majority of the French chivalry, in search of glory, knew how to prove its stupidity during several battles of the 100 years war (launching an attack, disorderly, while you are tired by the path traveled against an enemy well rested, well installed and overhanging....) Some French officers were more thoughtful, after another lost battle, rather than having EX-archers (2-3 finger cripples) who could teach the art of handling the longbow, they preferred to "reduce" the threat of the archers definitively. If you had the misfortune to have very muscular arms and shoulders, much less legs, and above all an accent that is closer to that of the Dorchester than that of Ile de France, you risked having a shortened life to stay in France
I still remember the ‘dickhead’ gesture, usually a car or van driver would gesticulate with their hand as if holding a tubular object emerging from their forehead; this was popular in the UK 10-15 yrs ago, but I’ve not noticed it recently.
Italian folk magic from the city-state era. They've been doing it for years to ward off the evil eye. It doesn't seem to help much, but-hey-what do I know?
Dope can also be used as "adjust for distance". Example "he's three hundred meters away, dope your shot". At least, that was MY first introduction to the word courtesy of my best friends pro-gun/pro-military family
My favourite Churchill quote is when that female labour mp called him out for being drunk in parliament and Winston shot back "yes madam I may be drunk but in the morning I'll be sober whereas you will still be ugly" ! Got to admire his quick witt!!!!
Why is it that calling something "bollocks" translates to rubbish, but the "dog's bollocks" is something really wonderful? Something to pass down to the basement for investigation, Simon old boy.
when I moved to the uk and my husband would ask how many of something i wanted him to grab in the shops i was int he habit of saying 2 and making the hand gesture until i quickly learned that was flipping people off lol.
Love it! ✌️ Thank you for uploading this video and to all the hard work yourself, and your team do to bring enlightenment to the internet. I personally still prefer *the French salute*, but it's awesome how more complex this simple gesture can be and it's history. Awesome 👍😎👍
You do know that thousands and thousands of Bosniak women and young girls were very unlucky during that aggression on Bosnia,right? How would they feel if we Bosniaks did this to Serbian women and young girls?? Bosnia. 1992-1995 Yes many girls ,even Bosniak girls called me ugly when it’s not my fault and lied to me and played ,and I also find this very unfair ,while the Serbs got to make babies in the aggression…….I better get justice!
Neato! Peachy keno fine! Outa this world! Groovy! Man! Bitchin! The middle finger or the bird! These are just some of the sayings or jestures that I remember from the '60's.
Although in my country we prefer the middle finger gesture we often use an variation of the V gesture with the two fingers closed like" iI.." You welcome 😄
In former yugoslavia the V sign was used by croat ustashe neonazis during the war, as V is similar to U, the ustashe symbol. Most youngsters don't know about it and use it for photos, and nobody in serbia generally cares when foreigners take pictures with it, but when croats use it it's considered extremely offensive, just like the nazi salute, as it symbolizes support for a similar or even worse fascist ideology.
On the tv show Buffy the Vampire Slayer the British Vampire Spike flashed the vulgar two finger salute. Rumor was the American censors didn't know its vulgar side and let it slip by.
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In Mexico the thumbs up sign is the equivalent to how Americans use the middle finger, watching ignorant tourists giving a performer a double thumbs up is hilarious, and perhaps an idea for an episode.
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You didn't mis pronounce anything.
You robbed me of my guilty pleasure.
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First ten numbers
(0, 1, 2, 3,...9)
First ten dimensions
(0D, 1D, 2D, 3D...9D)
Newton:
"0 is contingent" 🚫
and
"1-9 are necessary" 🚫
(this is the basis of Newton Calculus/Physics/Geometry/Logic).
Leibniz:
"0 is necessary" ✅
and
"1-9 are contingent (on their predecessor)" ✅
(this is the basis of Leibniz Calculus/Physics/Geometry/Logic).
[Info on Zero]:
Is zero the most important number?
Zero is the most important number in mathematics. Zero functions as a placeholder. Imagine a number, e.g., 5 and put as many zeroes behind it as you can think of. Zero drastically changes the value of the number from a mere 5 to 50, 500, 5000, 50000 and beyond.
Which is the greatest whole number?
There is no 'largest' whole number. Every whole number has an immediate predecessor, except 0. A decimal number or a fraction that falls between two whole numbers is not a whole number.
Why is it impossible to divide by zero?
The short answer is that 0 has no multiplicative inverse, and any attempt to define a real number as the multiplicative inverse of 0 would result in the contradiction 0 = 1.
Is 0 a rational number?
Yes, 0 is a rational number. Since we know, a rational number can be expressed as p/q, where p and q are integers and q is not equal to zero. Thus, we can express 0 as p/q, where p is equal to zero and q is an integer.
Is 0 A whole number?
The whole numbers are the numbers 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, and so on (the natural numbers and zero). Negative numbers are not considered "whole numbers." All natural numbers are whole numbers, but not all whole numbers are natural numbers since zero is a whole number but not a natural number.
Why is 0 a good number?
Zero helps us understand that we can use math to think about things that have no counterpart in a physical lived experience; imaginary numbers don't exist but are crucial to understanding electrical systems.
Zero also helps us understand its antithesis, infinity, in all of its extreme weirdness. 🔘 ♾ ☯️
What 0D looks like?
Zero Dimension (0D): A point which has no dimensions. It has no length, width, or height. It has no size and tells about the location only. We usually represent it by a dot.
Does 0D exist?
There exists only one connected 0D shape: the point. This is the member of all shape families with a zero-dimensional member; this makes it the zero-dimensional hypercube, hyperball, cross polytope, as well as the only zero-dimensional rotatope and toratope.
[Newton vs Leibniz]:
Do you agree with Newton that "0 is contingent" and "1-9 are necessary"?
Newton was a fraud and a moron. Clearly (shown) his logic is flawed at the fundamental level.
(9 is contingent on 8,
8 is contingent on 7, and so on with the exception of 0; necessary)
So why are we learning Newton's backwards Calculus/Physics/Geometry/Logic?
[Newton vs Leibniz Calculus]:
What is the difference between Newton and Leibniz calculus?
Newton's calculus is about functions.
Leibniz's calculus is about relations defined by constraints.
In Newton's calculus, there is (what would now be called) a limit built into every operation.
(0D entirely disregarded, 1D-9D "empirical" only; no correctly defined dimension above 3D)
In Leibniz's calculus, the limit is a separate operation.
(0D necessary and 1D-9D contingent).
TL;DR Leibniz > Newton
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Simon, the best misuse of the v symbol was in 1992 when president Bush came to Canberra and greeted the protesting Aussie farmers with the up yours symbol instead of the peace. Huge outrage over here as they had hoped the US would stop subsidising their farmers to get a level market but instead got a “up yours” from the over smiling buffoon. Btw the bit at the end was a masterpiece!
well I learned something new. Yanks and Aussies aren't that culturally alike.
@@theawesomeman9821 and thank god for that. They don't cancel you for some spicy language, it's part of the culture.
"Two phalluses to double the impact." Sounds like my Friday nights.
Wasn't it a Roman legionnaire walking into the pub and ordering 5 drinks?
The "Goodies" did an episode showing how the "up yours" symbol was changed to the "Victory" symbol. Winny would walk around waving to the crowd with a cigar in hand, one day he dropped the cigar and shocked the nation, quickly fixed when one of his staff turned his hand around.
Was that the episode where Tim Brooke Taylor was a robot?
@@RictusHolloweye yes
I used to love the "Goodies" when I was a mere boy, did you ever do "the Funky Gibbon" 🤣
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Simon. That was awesome! And that ending was just 👌
You do realize in France this gesture means "zero, it sucks, up your bumhole", right?
(I meant the one at the end of your post/sorry to be confusing. The okay-gesture where you for a ring with finger and thumb.)
Derby??!! ✌️
I've been mostly fortunate enough to have seen a lot British television, movies, and music so I was familiar with the "V" hand gesture having a derogatory meaning in Britain but its always fun to learn how things like that get started.
Bonus Fact: I've even picked up some a lot more British slang as a result of being subscribed to so many of Simon's channels. And I'd sincerely like Thank Simon and Danny in particular for that.
I was a TA for a study abroad program in the UK. At every meeting before heading across the pond, I made sure to tell all of the new students to be careful which way their palms were facing if they did the peace sign. Didn’t need any second year college guys getting their butts’ kicked in a pub because they were uninformed.
I've heard that people get quite surprised when one of us brits say "wanna smoke a fag" man that must be funny
🙄 It comes from the Irish showing them they still had their bow fingers, cause they’d cut them off. I haven’t even watched the video and know this. But I’m not an Anglophile *sskissee like yourself.
Bellend has got to be my favorite that I've learned. But yeah, same on the learning British slang through Simon.
@@ryanc473 OMG 😆 Same.
"The forks" is how it is often referred to here in Australia, "He flipped me the forks". You didnt mention the often added motion of the other hand slapping the forearm or elbow crook for added noise and aggressive emphasis.
That isn't unique to the two-finger salute. It can be paired with the one-finger as well, or by itself. So it's adjacent but not the same. See: Spaceballs, where the official salute is the finger and elbow crook slap.
First caught on film in Rotherham? Sounds like an ancestral anecdote from Danny
Or proof that Danny is a time traveler.
Anglophile Americans have known what the two-fingered salute meant for decades thanks to our enjoyment of British TV programs.
"I Flipped your house, don't understand why the offense from doing the job."
Where I live a two finger wave motion is often referred to as a 'farmer's wave'. It's what you do when you want to say 'hello good sir' to someone on a mostly deserted road as you pass. Always makes me smile. Then I get back into a city and I'm suddenly in a bad mood again...
I live in a small town, where everyone literally knows everyone, and we do this all the time.
It's kinda hilarious to me how the gesture has been whittled down to the smallest and simplest amount of movement possible, that can still be observable between the drivers of two passing vehicles.
People usually drive with one hand on the steering wheel, somewhere near 12 o'clock. So all they have to do to "wave" to an incoming driver is lift a couple fingers about an inch off the steering wheel.
I guess when you're waving to nearly every other motorist you pass, every single day, you want to streamline the process as much as possible. 😁
Like many others, as an American familiar with British film & television I already knew what it meant, but my favorite instance of that gesture on American tv has always been from Buffy the Vampire Slayer, when Spike flashes it at another character with a sardonic look on his face. That moment is even used in the opening credits of several seasons! Really delightful, especially knowing that it obviously slipped right by the censors who would *never* have allowed someone flipping the bird!
Americans have been driving on the wrong side of the road, playing football incorrectly, and most amusingly been misusing the "V" sign as friendly greeting.
Is it still derogatory if I did my own "V" sign?
- A Vulcan.
I live in Vancouver BC. Me and my girlfriend use the British "get stuffed" 2 finger salute at each other all the time. It humours us.
Do one about the idiom “they’d be rolling over their grave” or “they’d be spinning in their grave” and it’s origins. Something that is always said by old people.
I never thought about this until 3 seconds ago and now I have to know
Also add this: I had fully body (single) twitch and my auntie said, "Ooh, somebody just walked over your grave."
JUMP fact boy JUMP!!! 😳😂
@@risitascositas1699 My mom would say that a goose just walked over your grave when you did that.
my guess is that whatever happened would infuriate the person in the grave so much that theyd come back from the dead
I have Zero time for curiosity stream when I have so much Simon Whistler to watch!
"Up Yours Delors!" My TWO FINGERED 'SALUTE'.
Suggestion: What's the actual paycheck for an actor who's paid tens of millions of dollars for a film? How much of those millions go towards an actor's personal expenses: Agents and managers. Personal assistants. Hairdressers and barbers. Personal chefs. Transportation costs for families, friends, et cetera. Personal insurance policies. Film location housing(hotel, house or apartment).
In my family it's called a "Good luck Hawaiian wave".
We're Australian.....
It's from a joke that we emailed around in the early '00's. We were talking about it over dinner & my Nan (in her late 80's at the time) asked my Mum what we were talking about. One long, funny, question peppered explanation later, my cousins, sibling, our kids, my grandfather, uncles, aunts, everyone was falling about laughing. My very sweet old Nanna turns around at us all & gave us all the good luck Hawaiian wave with a raspberry
We were dead
Needless to say it's been the good luck Hawaiian wave ever since
Unfortunate choice of words putting sibling and our kid right next to each other lol
I had read that the V-sign had nothing to do with longbowmen - sigh, another brilliant legend fallen by the wayside!
I remember the Harvey Smith, and the roar it got from the crowd. I think his defence was that it was merely high spirits at having completed the round, rather than a desire to offend.
A few years ago I commented in a social media post about being amused when people (usually Americans in the photos I'd seen) got it the wrong way round. An American replied that he'd like to do me "great physical harm" for mocking his country "in these trying times" - felt like telling him it wasn't my fault that Trump got in!
It was such a great story though, the bowmen! My day is ruined and my disappointment is immeasurable!
@@Karl_Marksman - lol I wrote a poem on it, and now I've got to add a verse saying that it's not actually true.
"Interested in being interested in stuff" - this describes me SO well.
I remember reading that the UK release of Left 4 Dead 2 had to flip the its signature zombie hand cover art so that the palm would face the audience. The hand of the cover art is supposed to look like it’s clutching to life, reaching to something, and the second game’s cover had two fingers extended to make it clear it’s the second game. Apparently it wasn’t enough to not make it look like the two-fingered salute solely because of the back of the hand facing the audience.
That was awesome! Well done, Simon 😁
That was one of your better ones in a while. I normally watch Brain Blaze because of the personality. This video had just the right about. I really enjoyed it.
"If you don't know where it comes from, you ain't found it yet!" - English bird teasing a naive American GI
Well done at the end, Simon. ✌🏿
I'd hate to play Trivial Pursuit against Simon. He has to be the man who knows the most minutiae currently alive
Bent fingers toward the person is peace. Bent finger toward YOU is UP YOURS.
You do know that thousands and thousands of Bosniak women and young girls were very unlucky during that aggression on Bosnia,right? How would they feel if we Bosniaks did this to Serbian women and young girls?? Bosnia. 1992-1995 Yes many girls ,even Bosniak girls called me ugly when it’s not my fault and lied to me and played ,and I also find this very unfair ,while the Serbs got to make babies in the aggression…….I better get justice!
That ending though... [chef's kiss]
G'day Simon & Gilles,
Down here in Australia the Palm Out ✌ was used in the '70s by Valiant/Chrysler in advertising for their Family Size 2 Door sports coupe with the slogan "✌😁Hey Charger"
And was used in the school yard, the palm in version.
Now the jog on thing from hot fuzz us way funnier because I didn't know it was a up yours in England
That Rotherham worker expressing his disapproval at being filmed is Danny’s great great grandfather (I have decided)
On his mother's mother's side.
One of your best, Simon, "V" to you too. Cheers from the Pacific West Coast of Canada.
I suspect Churchill knew *exactly* what it meant and that's why he was flashing it at photographers, and the propaganda department just went into a panicked damage control mode.
good theory
12:35 - I have to feel this analysis is incorrect. The Japanese love underdogs, and those who cheerfully persist in the face of certain failure. One contemporary example would be a young man who is almost certainly the worst professional sumo wrestler in the history of the sport. Shonanzakura entered competition in 2015, and to the present day has won exactly 3 bouts in his entire career. The few audience members who are present for his bouts -- he's almost always in the bottom division which fights first thing in the morning; the top ranks that get broadcast on TV don't fight until late afternoon, by which time the arena is packed -- are always cheering him on. They know he's going to lose, and he gets applause anyway, just because he keeps trying.
"You're wrong because this sumo wrestler has fans." Gotcha.
@@InWitheNew I see the word "example" is unknown to you.
V for victory v for luck. Turn it around and you get ‘f**k
DYK the boxart of video game Left 4 Dead has the back of a zombie hand, Left 4 Dead 2 has a similar image but with the index and middle fingers up indicating the number 2. The European release of the game has the L4D2 two-fingered hand turned around with the palm facing out, a la Churchill.
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The V referred to is pronounced in Dutch as "fray- hate" - freedom.
Touché at the end.✌️
I never knew about this gesture being vulgar until watching Kingman. Even then I had assumed it was the peace sign being used facetiously.
Spooky! Just last night I was looking up the origin of "up yours." A very timely video, thank you!
Meanwhile in America we'll stick with the good ole middle finger salute. 😁
"Fluck yew!"
It still needs work.
First time I ran into the derogatory use was in Are You Being Served.
Oh if only Daven knew of the outtakes from Red Dwarf where the cast were all arsing about flicking the Vs to the camera, that would have been a nice addition to the video... :P
Visiting Europe fifty years back my father in law told me to ask for a beer with my thumb. All other fingers caused offence somewhere.
I’d hate to be an alien trying to communicate with these confusing humans🤣
Ha. I distinctly remember as a teenager watching old footage of Nixon and being like "Wtf why is he doing a peace sign like that?"
My question is why the middle finger is considered so disrespectful?
The way this video ended was just great lol
You dope, hiding the dope in the dope was a dope idea!
Lol as a American I knew this but then there is little that as a American I shouldn't "know" that I do, funny isn't it. Guess not every American is uneducated. Great work as always Mr. Whistler much love from WV USA.
I'm surprised the "deuces" wasn't mentioned. Back in 2010 high-school kids would give a sideways peace sign, palm facing in. And say "deuces" instead of saying see you later. I still do it occasionally
In the early 1990s, there was a World Environmental Conference held in Rio De Janero. At the time US President George Bush Senior had recently use the ‘Up Yours’ version of the gesture, thinking it was a Peace sign on a Visit to Australia. In the weeks that followed, he was variously shown in newspaper cartoons using the gesture to insult Australia over whatever issues was at hand. Approaching the Rio conference, Bush Snr. Was quoted as saying that The USA would not compromise its right to use fossil fuels and other polluting technologies when negotiating in the Rio conference. That the US way of live was not up for negotiation. So here in Australia a political cartooning drew a brilliant cartoon of George Bush, sitting is a huge ‘Yank Tank’ American gas-guzzling convertible car, huge clouds of smoke trailing behind blackening the sky. In the Distance the road led to The Rio conference. And George Bush’s hand signed ‘Up Yours’ to the world.
Churchill actually used both ways to make the V-sign. Some say that he at least originally was unaware of the rude meaning.
I'm American, and I have been using the "V" sign (palm in) as an "enhanced" version of the middle finger for decades. Mostly I get odd looks, but just enough Americans are "hip" to it to get awfully angry, LOL.
As a British person, it's funny you see the palm in V sign as enhanced as over here showing the middle finger is more offensive than the V sign.
@@PlebNC For something to be REALLY "shocking", It needs to be kind of rare. People in the US "flip" the middle finger so often that the "shock value" is minimal these days, I imagine that the "V" sign is more commonly used in the UK than the middle finger (making the middle finger more offensive).
@@jamesslick4790 Both get thrown around pretty liberally around here.
@@PlebNC Then I wonder what makes the middle finger "worse" than the "v" sign? Interesting 🤔
@@jamesslick4790 The same way firing 50 pistol shots vs 50 artillery shells does.
It's not about frequency, it's about power of each shot.
Flipping the peace sign is for when you want someone to know they've seriously upset you.
The middle finger is for when you want someone to know they can f*** off and you're ok with burning the bridge that is your relationship to do it.
The French did execute archers when they caught them. Several sieges in Brittany and Burgundy ended with none of the longbowmen surviving.
It is clear that the majority of the French chivalry, in search of glory, knew how to prove its stupidity during several battles of the 100 years war (launching an attack, disorderly, while you are tired by the path traveled against an enemy well rested, well installed and overhanging....)
Some French officers were more thoughtful, after another lost battle, rather than having EX-archers (2-3 finger cripples) who could teach the art of handling the longbow, they preferred to "reduce" the threat of the archers definitively.
If you had the misfortune to have very muscular arms and shoulders, much less legs, and above all an accent that is closer to that of the Dorchester than that of Ile de France, you risked having a shortened life to stay in France
I too preferentially go after enemy archers when playing TotalWar.
Also catapult crews.
I still remember the ‘dickhead’ gesture, usually a car or van driver would gesticulate with their hand as if holding a tubular object emerging from their forehead; this was popular in the UK 10-15 yrs ago, but I’ve not noticed it recently.
"...or two fingers, for double the impact" 😳
To us older Canadians, the middle finger is still known as the Trudeau Salute.
Italian folk magic from the city-state era. They've been doing it for years to ward off the evil eye. It doesn't seem to help much, but-hey-what do I know?
And if you touch the tips of your V with someone else's V tips it means "Go team Venture!"
Dope can also be used as "adjust for distance". Example "he's three hundred meters away, dope your shot".
At least, that was MY first introduction to the word courtesy of my best friends pro-gun/pro-military family
My favourite Churchill quote is when that female labour mp called him out for being drunk in parliament and Winston shot back "yes madam I may be drunk but in the morning I'll be sober whereas you will still be ugly" ! Got to admire his quick witt!!!!
Love him or not, his wit was legendary! ☺️😆
Misogyny is so cool
Why is it that calling something "bollocks" translates to rubbish, but the "dog's bollocks" is something really wonderful? Something to pass down to the basement for investigation, Simon old boy.
when I moved to the uk and my husband would ask how many of something i wanted him to grab in the shops i was int he habit of saying 2 and making the hand gesture until i quickly learned that was flipping people off lol.
I remember seeing it in Only Fools and Horses; Del basically told Rodders to "get stuffed"! 😅
55,000 arrows per min😳
dope! 🤣
Love it!
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Thank you for uploading this video and to all the hard work yourself, and your team do to bring enlightenment to the internet.
I personally still prefer *the French salute*, but it's awesome how more complex this simple gesture can be and it's history. Awesome 👍😎👍
You do know that thousands and thousands of Bosniak women and young girls were very unlucky during that aggression on Bosnia,right? How would they feel if we Bosniaks did this to Serbian women and young girls?? Bosnia. 1992-1995 Yes many girls ,even Bosniak girls called me ugly when it’s not my fault and lied to me and played ,and I also find this very unfair ,while the Serbs got to make babies in the aggression…….I better get justice!
@@haristhebosniaklion8584 I believe you have taken my comment out of its original context.
"Cool pfp!"
No, but really, i voted for it, despite having my own ideas.
How could an Army of 6,000 men have 7,000 Archers?✌✌✌
Bad accounting, most likely.
Two middle fingers means "Peace among worlds".
Thank god to rusty cage for letting us know what kind of monster you truly are
Best ending ever. 😂😂😂
In an documentary about japanese popculture, one girl said she makes the V with her fingers next to her face, so it looks less round
Whenever I someone making that gesture I just assume that they asking for 2 beers.
I had no idea that the v sign(backwards peace)was offensive across the pond. Here we use it at an angle as a goodbye/see you later gesture.
Given British culture I'm sure it originally meant "You owe me TWO beers!"
"Kawaii" is pronounced closer to the pronunciation of "Hawaii"
It would be a nice gesture to turn the seam on that lampshade to the back so it doesn't show....
Neato! Peachy keno fine! Outa this world! Groovy! Man! Bitchin! The middle finger or the bird! These are just some of the sayings or jestures that I remember from the '60's.
Although in my country we prefer the middle finger gesture we often use an variation of the V gesture with the two fingers closed like" iI.."
You welcome 😄
missed the delightfully notorious occultist aleister crowley and his supposed involvement in spreading the sign.
Learned the insulting gesture by watching The Darkest Hour.
This was a dope topic, started from stupidity and ended with humility.
In former yugoslavia the V sign was used by croat ustashe neonazis during the war, as V is similar to U, the ustashe symbol. Most youngsters don't know about it and use it for photos, and nobody in serbia generally cares when foreigners take pictures with it, but when croats use it it's considered extremely offensive, just like the nazi salute, as it symbolizes support for a similar or even worse fascist ideology.
It also means "I need to go to the loo" palm out and done with your left hand.
Dope is also used as an acronym for data on previous engagements
Well said and done Simon!
Love it when Simon goes all out "Brit".
On the tv show Buffy the Vampire Slayer the British Vampire Spike flashed the vulgar two finger salute. Rumor was the American censors didn't know its vulgar side and let it slip by.
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Well communicated, Simon!
"Dope" is also an American rock band
Well Simon, you definitely mis-pronounced the V sign at the end of the video....you only needed to flash the middle finger heehee
In Mexico the thumbs up sign is the equivalent to how Americans use the middle finger, watching ignorant tourists giving a performer a double thumbs up is hilarious, and perhaps an idea for an episode.
Malta getting recognition for rude signs! Hoorah!
TIFO: Dope is also a pipe thread sealant.