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Pointed Gestures

by 1389AD ( 109 Comments › )
Filed under Barack Obama, Humor, Open thread at February 9th, 2011 - 4:30 pm

You’re disgusted with Obama’s nonsensical televised blatherings, you’re too frugal to hurl a well-deserved shoe through the screen, but you still need to express yourself?

Me too.

I will refrain from causing more annoyance by discussing Obozo’s latest helping of hogwash. Instead, I offer this:

Pleated Jeans: The Angry Traveler’s Guide to Obscene Gestures

Illustration of rude gestures in different countries

Click to see the full-size illustration, plus the comments.

The same gesture means different things in different places!

How To Swear In American Sign Language

Taboo Words in American Sign Language v2.0

Note: I cannot personally vouch for the accuracy (or otherwise) of the signs shown above.

Also see:

  • Foreign Fingers offers another illustrated take on rude gestures in foreign countries.
  • Wikipedia’s list of gestures, while by no means exhaustive, covers benign as well as insulting gestures.
  • Body Language gives an exhaustive, and very useful, treatment of body language, including hand gestures.

The MSM Ignores Tea Party Diversity

by Bunk Five Hawks X ( 341 Comments › )
Filed under Free Speech, Humor, Multiculturalism, Open thread, Tea Parties at April 15th, 2010 - 10:30 pm

Not all Tea Party protesters are angry old white men. There are angry old white women, too. And not all the angry old women are white:

Photos above were snapped as a CNN camera van drove by.  Why do they continue to squelch the truth?  In  response to the Tea Party protests, and all criticism of his Messiahness in general, President Obama offered his take:


We get it, the Bird is the Word. Speaking of the truth, this is an Overnight Open Thread.
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Update: Urban Infidel is posting some great stuff from the NYC  Tea Party like this:

Click on the image to see the rest.