Hey, I haven't seen you since Starbucks after that festival. Oh, yeah, we need to hang out with the weather's good

This weekend shopping Saturday Sunday meals then lunch with Oscar next weekend

Thursday night we've topped in a month next Friday in a most bar thing. Oh another one

How about right now perfect Starbucks the new chocolate you want full cone for Appetito

Red my mind summer hits different with Starbucks subject to availability while stocks last

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Today's topic is the origin of the finger. Why do we flip the bird?

The topic for today's episode comes from listener Jeff Murphy and he writes in his follows

How about doing a podcast on the history of the middle finger?

Something that most of us use in our teenage years or in later years in the case of many of us

How do we call it the bird flipping someone off and other names that it has been called? Thanks

Well Jeff that is a great question because it's not a universal symbol

If you go to other countries they have different gestures to express the same sentiment

For example here in Turkey if you want to do a similar gesture as the bird

You take your thumb and you put it between your index finger and your middle-thin finger and you point it at someone not up at the sky

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