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What does this mean....? One finger, two finger.

0A man has to choose one way on crossroads. And he says, "One finger, two finger." Then he made left turn....02br
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0 Perhaps:02br 02br 00 Keep your right palm up in front of you, with fingers tightly closed (closed fist). 02br 00 Then open the thumb first. It indicates the right.

— Marius Hancu

  • 0 Perhaps:02br 02br 00 Keep your right palm up in front of you, with fingers tightly closed (closed fist).
  • 02br 00 Then open the thumb first.
  • It indicates the right.
  • 02br 00 Then open the pointer next.
  • It indicatest the left.
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0 Perhaps:02br
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00 Keep your right palm up in front of you, with fingers tightly closed (closed fist). 02br
00 Then open the thumb first. It indicates the right. 02br
00 Then open the pointer next. It indicatest the left. 02br
00 This is kind of a random choice ... / play ...0-
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01cite10Marius Hancu12cite10Perhaps:12br
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10Keep your right palm up in front of you, with fingers tightly closed (closed fist). 12br
10Then open the thumb first. It indicates the right. 12br
10Then open the pointer next. It indicatest the left. 12br
10This is kind of a random ch
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0Hi,02br
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00It doesn't sound very random to me. You always have the same number of fingers.02br
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00Am I missing something here?02br
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00Best wishes, Clive0-
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01cite10Clive12cite10It doesn't sound very random to me. You always have12br
10the same number of fingers. Am I missing something here?12blockquote
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00have the choice between doing it with your left or right hand, on02br
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0I'm with Clive. I've never heard this before. Surely I have control of how many fingers I hold up? Withoutu any more context, I can only say this doesn't make sense.0-
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0That doesn't make any sense to me either, you would know which way you would turn depending on which hand you used, there's nothing random there.02br
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00Was this line part of a joke? I suspect it may be more than a little rude after googling 'one finger, two finger', assuming that it isn't referring to the Hawaiin dish of that name. The other uses are all rather, um, ana
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0Doesn't make sense to me either. Grasping at straws, could he be counting out seconds, in a sort of "ready, steady... go" way, before randomly choosing a left turn?02br
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00What's the fuller context of this?0-
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0Try googling it and see what comes up (oooerr).02br
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00I think it is a joke and he is not really deciding which direction to go in as which woman (one at the end of each road) to go and see.0-
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00OMG - what a very sheltered life I lead.010id3
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