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A Poll: When You Raise Your Hand to Indicate "Three" How Do You Do It?

Sooner — Sun, 14 May 2017 15:18:00 GMT

When you use your hand to indicate "three" do you use:

A: Your index finer, middle finger, and fourth finger;

B: Little finger, fourth finger, middle finger?

I never saw anyone do B until I live where I live now, and I see that pretty often. SO, I thought I'd take a fun poll and see what YOU do!

Re: A Poll: When You Raise Your Hand to Indicate "Three" How Do You Do It?

SahmIam — Sun, 14 May 2017 15:23:41 GMT

I've never seen B and I've traveled all over the world and lived on the East and West Coast, New England, the South and out West.

This fascinates me! I'm now going to keep my eye out for it and try to start a conversation where it's necessary, lol, to see what people do. Maybe I'll just ask them to do it!!

Editing to add: Choice B is what I've seen people do when saying "OK!"

Re: A Poll: When You Raise Your Hand to Indicate "Three" How Do You Do It?

sidsmom — Sun, 14 May 2017 15:29:07 GMT

But I've seen "B" in Janet Jackson's 'Rhythm Nation' video.

https://youtu.be/OAwaNWGLM0c

Re: A Poll: When You Raise Your Hand to Indicate "Three" How Do You Do It?

Suziepeach — Sun, 14 May 2017 15:26:09 GMT

That would be "A".

Re: A Poll: When You Raise Your Hand to Indicate "Three" How Do You Do It?

deepwaterdotter — Sun, 14 May 2017 15:30:39 GMT

Re: A Poll: When You Raise Your Hand to Indicate "Three" How Do You Do It?

noodleann — Sun, 14 May 2017 15:33:30 GMT

@Sooner wrote:
When you use your hand to indicate "three" do you use:

A: Your index finer, middle finger, and fourth finger;

or

B: Little finger, fourth finger, middle finger?

I never saw anyone do B until I live where I live now, and I see that pretty often. SO, I thought I'd take a fun poll and see what YOU do!

This is reminding me of a scene in "Inglourious Basterds." One of the characters was impersonating a German and what revealed him as an imposter was the finger-counting you ask about. Germans apparently begin with the thumb, a cultural quirk a native would know and all but the best-trained spy would not.

Since I've always indicated "1" with my index finger and counted from there, that's what I do. The idea of counting from the smallest, least prominent finger seems odd to me, but that's the nature of such things.

Re: A Poll: When You Raise Your Hand to Indicate "Three" How Do You Do It?

Bri36 — Sun, 14 May 2017 15:35:36 GMT

I do A.

My daughter does B. I've never seen anyone do it that way, but her.

Re: A Poll: When You Raise Your Hand to Indicate "Three" How Do You Do It?

chrystaltree — Sun, 14 May 2017 15:36:25 GMT

I don't recall ever raising fingers to represent 3...

Re: A Poll: When You Raise Your Hand to Indicate "Three" How Do You Do It?

cerb — Sun, 14 May 2017 15:38:08 GMT

Re: A Poll: When You Raise Your Hand to Indicate "Three" How Do You Do It?

KingstonsMom — Sun, 14 May 2017 15:39:31 GMT

I do A ........unless I'm behind a driver doing 35 mph in the passing lane on the interstate, in which case I choose to use the middle finger only!

I've never seen option B used before.

Re: A Poll: When You Raise Your Hand to Indicate "Three" How Do You Do It?

Tinkrbl44 — Sun, 14 May 2017 15:40:58 GMT

@chrystaltree wrote:
I don't recall ever raising fingers to represent 3...

@chrystaltree @Sooner

Me, either. When would this even happen?

And when would it happen frequently enough to notice that people do it differently?

Re: A Poll: When You Raise Your Hand to Indicate "Three" How Do You Do It?

lolakimono — Sun, 14 May 2017 15:47:12 GMT

Re: A Poll: When You Raise Your Hand to Indicate "Three" How Do You Do It?

sidsmom — Sun, 14 May 2017 15:49:59 GMT

"When would this happen?"

Obviously not Dale Earnhardt NASCAR fans...

thousand's raising '3' in memoriam.

Re: A Poll: When You Raise Your Hand to Indicate "Three" How Do You Do It?

KingstonsMom — Sun, 14 May 2017 16:04:37 GMT

@sidsmom wrote:
"When would this happen?"

Obviously not Dale Earnhardt NASCAR fans...
thousand's raising '3' in memoriam.

@sidsmom

There ya' go!

I was an avid DE, Sr. fan and even had his #3 with wings tattooed on my ankle when he died.

I have a huge collection of his diecast cars, leather jackets and other memorabilia.

Sorry, TMI I'm sure, LOL!

Re: A Poll: When You Raise Your Hand to Indicate "Three" How Do You Do It?

RedTop — Sun, 14 May 2017 17:27:55 GMT

Re: A Poll: When You Raise Your Hand to Indicate "Three" How Do You Do It?

Desertdi — Sun, 14 May 2017 17:59:56 GMT

I learned at a very early age to NEVER raise my hand...................

Re: A Poll: When You Raise Your Hand to Indicate "Three" How Do You Do It?

Sooner — Sun, 14 May 2017 18:42:46 GMT

@KingstonsMom wrote:
I do A ........unless I'm behind a driver doing 35 mph in the passing lane on the interstate, in which case I choose to use the middle finger only!

I've never seen option B used before.

HA HA! I had a list of people I thought might be the first to mention this particular counting method! You are the winner!!!!! I salute you (two fingers of course!)

Re: A Poll: When You Raise Your Hand to Indicate "Three" How Do You Do It?

Sooner — Sun, 14 May 2017 18:45:39 GMT

@Tinkrbl44 wrote:
@chrystaltree wrote:
I don't recall ever raising fingers to represent 3...

@chrystaltree @Sooner

Me, either. When would this even happen?

And when would it happen frequently enough to notice that people do it differently?

Didn't you ever got to the ballgame and the vendor asks "HOW MANY DO YOU WANT LADY?" And you raise your hand to show how many??? LOL!!!

This has been fun and interesting. I am thinking maybe the German influence is in Oklahoma and Texas area because so many people in northern Ok and parts of Texas were German settlers coming here. Maybe? You think???

Re: A Poll: When You Raise Your Hand to Indicate "Three" How Do You Do It?

chickenbutt — Sun, 14 May 2017 18:49:37 GMT

Either 'A' or the 'thumb-two-three'. I picked that one up when I lived in Europe eons ago. It's - thumb, forefinger, and middle finger (inside of hand faces yourself).

Re: A Poll: When You Raise Your Hand to Indicate "Three" How Do You Do It?

nana59 — Sun, 14 May 2017 19:08:29 GMT

With so much arthritis in my hands I need another option!!! Been sitting here like an idiot trying to make my fingers work!!! oh well.....but I still have mobility of my middle finger.....and that's how I feel about my arthritis!!!