at right angles, they all seem to do it. Must be a secret sign meaning "We are gona shaft you"
You mean the "Clinton thumb" ?
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I think it's just Clinton.
And Tony Blair
......... 'cause the sponge brain copied him.
its something that body coaches teach them
every nuance these twunts make is a product of pr and spin
its a sexual dominance thing, i kid you not
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No different to that, they push the backs of hands forward and touch finger tips - hand to hand, whilst sticking the thumbs on both hands straight up. Cameron and brown both do it.
its a sexual dominance thing
I thought that was the middle finger ? 😕
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anyway not a big deal just bloody annoying.
Ah, that..........
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It means : "awlright mate ........howz i' goin' gee-za........fancy a knees-up"
In the expectation that someone will swivell on them?
some pr/media training company did some research that suggests it will make them 0.00001 % more popular. so they all do it to be twice as popular.
out of the 4 pics, id prefer we were governed by the gorilla
I thought it was a coliseum thing, thumbs up meant "Show mercy, let them live", as opposed to thumbs down in a stabbing motion, which means "Kill them".
Graham - I think thumbs up originally meant death & thumbs down was mercy ??
I heard it as thumb up mercy, thumb closed in fist for the chop.
And politicians do it to appear chummy and positive, and
not what they really are, which is C*nts.