To start with, I will show you a picture. Look at the picture below, it shows an Asian bloke and his girlfriend with some kind of animal (a pelican if i am not mistaken).
Nothing spectacular, but looking closer, you will notice this guy was holding up his hand and there are two fingers erected to form a shape somehow similar to the Latin alphabet "V". And the thing I could not understand is, why this? why "V".
Wikipedia told us the "V" sign means "Victory", if this is true, then I don't understand why he (the Asian bloke) considered standing with animal such as this Pelican (and with his girlfriend) a "Victory". Was it because he considered his girlfriend much cuter than this very ugly bird? Or he felt Victorious because as a member of the Human specie, he felt over whelmingly superior over a stupid, uncivilized pet of us?
NO, NO, NO! Said some sources close to these V gesturers. The "V" shaped hand gesture actually is not a "V" at all. It is, in fact, a symbol of "Cuteness". How? One might pray to know. Well, according to our source, holding up two fingers in some way resembles a bunny (or a hare) with two erected long ears. And because bunnies are cute, so that by making a bunny like hand gesture makes you cute. Very LOGICAL, I have to admit. Now my only question is.... why do it when photograhed with an animal, or with almost EVERYTHING! ... Maybe it has nothing to do with OTHER THINGS in the photo?! Can someone tell me?
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As I know, that 'V' gesture means something about a long story occurred in England(?). In old days, people called robbers, such as Robin Hood, are very good at bow and arrow. Empire caught some people, may or may not be a robber, and cut their two fingers of the right hands, which stretch the string of a bow.
so people, who are robber or not, keep showing the two fingers with the 'V' gesture, and it means 'I STILL HAVE THEM'.
But I am not sure why left hand :) in the photo.
maybe ... "left-handed"?
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