How do you show "three" with your fingers?

[Super Pony]

I lightly tap the stable door thrice with one of my hooves.

If I had fingers I'd use Index-Middle-Ring though

 

[Mark CMG]

I hold up the middle, ring and pinky. (Kinda like the O.K. sign)

Pinky, ring, middle but knuckle-side out.

 

[Mark CMG]

I just put it down like any other finger.

You could call it a toe. That's kinda a put down for a finger, I guess.

 

[catsclaw227]

Pinky, ring, middle but knuckle-side out.

Isn't that the insulting way? Or were you being sarcastic.

 

[Mark CMG]

Isn't that the insulting way? Or were you being sarcastic.

It's just the backwards okay sign. I'm guessing you were kidding about it being insulting somehow?

 

[catsclaw227]

It's just the backwards okay sign. I'm guessing you were kidding about it being insulting somehow?

For some reason, I was thinking the backwards peace sign. That one is offensive in England.

But the OK sign, knuckles out, if sideways means you are a Blood killer (the gang, the Bloods), a gang sign of the Crips. In modern inner-cities, though, it has become to mean "F-U, I'll kill your a**".

Just don't flash it when you are in the poor urban sections of a US city known for it's gangs.

Also, the OK sign, if held sideways chest high, with bottom three fingers close together can mean "a**hole" in American Sign Language.

 

[Jan van Leyden]

The Vulcanian way, of course.

 

[Thunderfoot]

I've never come across any three-fingered gesture that might be construed as offensive. Aside from the British two-fingered gesture (which is easy enough to learn and so to avoid), I can only think of one offensive gesture involving fingers, and again, it's easy enough to avoid.

Yeah, it's that two fingered British gesture that can be mistaken at a quick glance or a fair distance...

 

[Jhaelen]

I do it the standard American three middle fingers way, but altered it when I was stationed in Europe to the thumb +2 method so as not to offend anyone by accident. (good ambassadors and all that.)

Interesting, is there a cultural difference? I'm German, and I'm using the 'thumb +2' method. I was a bit surprised I'm in such a minority (considering the poll results).

 

[Richards]

I hold up my pinky and ring fingers, with the other fingers down...but only when I want to indicate "3" in binary.

Johnathan