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I have given they the salute with the two fingers to V



Which way around was your 'V' ? In the UK (and France)a two fingered 'V' with the back of your hand facing the recipient is deemed an insult.

It all stems from when Henry IV defeated the cream of the French nobility at the battle of Agincourt even though on a foreign field, outnumbered at least 6 to 1, and after weeks of enforced marching back to the coast.

The French had crossbows and the English longbows, the latter having the longer range and higher rate of fire. The French, having been on the receiving end of a volley of longbow arrows, had threatened to cut off the first two fingers on the right hand of every longbowman they caught, to stop them using that particular weapon ever again.

As the french fell in droves under curtain after curtain of arrows,and the French Knights rode straight into the lances of their own infantrymen who were trying to escape the onslaught, the British archers stuck up the frst two fingers on their right hands as a taunt.

Maybe they were 'Le Harley Davison' riders

If you do it today you MIGHT regret it. If you CAN'T do it tomorrow you WILL regret it.