I'm sorry but I can't stop laughing at this

[redneb]

 

[tottenhamseagull]

 

[wakeytom]

So now you are no longer wearing a poppy you want to take the piss out of the whole thing when she is clearly giving it the victory sign, you idiot go and read up on a bit of history and why we are where we are today.

 

[Easy 10]

Oooh. Somebodys tired.

 

[wakeytom]

Oooh. Somebodys tired.

I have only just woke up, but I still feel it a little wrong to take the piss out of the victory sign whist talking about fallen Soldiers!

 

[Boris Yeltsin]

Marvellous name. Trumpington. How very English.

 

[Easy 10]

I have only just woke up, but I still feel it a little wrong to take the piss out of the victory sign whist talking about fallen Soldiers!

The OP is hardly "taking the piss out of the victory sign" is he. Its just having a chuckle at some crusty old dame sticking two fingers up at a fellow MP (this was something that was picked up on in last weeks This Week as well, if you get what I mean).

Have a nice cuppa and settle down.

 

[redneb]

I have only just woke up, but I still feel it a little wrong to take the piss out of the victory sign whist talking about fallen Soldiers!

What ? How is this taking the piss out of the victory sign. She is clearly pissed off with him, you can tell in her face, and she's saying up yours.

 

[Boris Yeltsin]

After reading what the lord said to her and why the baroness stuck two fingers up at him, I can fully understand it!

 

[tottenhamseagull]

So now you are no longer wearing a poppy you want to take the piss out of the whole thing when she is clearly giving it the victory sign, you idiot go and read up on a bit of history and why we are where we are today.

Jeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeez

 

[Storer 68]

Tthe v for Victory sign was a movable feast for Churchill................

 

[Lankyseagull]

According to a popular legend, the two-fingered salute or V sign derives from the gestures of longbowmen fighting in the English army at the Battle of Agincourt (1415) during the Hundred Years' War. According to the story, the French claimed that they would cut off the arrow-shooting fingers of all the English and Welsh longbowmen after they had won the battle at Agincourt. But the English came out victorious and showed off their two fingers, still intact. Historian Juliet Barker quotes Jean Le Fevre (who fought on the English side at Agincourt) as saying that Henry V included a reference to the French cutting off longbowmen's fingers in his pre-battle speech. If this is correct it confirms that the story was around at the time of Agincourt, although it does not necessarily mean that the French practised it, just that Henry found it useful for propaganda, and it does not show that the two-fingered salute is derived from the hypothetical behaviour of English archers at that battle.

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On January 14, 1941, Victor de Laveleye, former Belgian Minister of Justice and director of the Belgian French-speaking broadcasts on the BBC (1940–1944), suggested in a broadcast that Belgians use a V for victoire (French: “victory”) and vrijheid (Dutch: "freedom") as a rallying emblem during World War II.

By July 1941, the emblematic use of the letter V had spread through occupied Europe, and on July 19, Winston Churchill put the British government’s stamp of approval on the V for Victory campaign in a speech, from which point he started using the V hand sign. Early on he used palm in (sometimes with a cigar between the fingers). Later in the war he used palm out. It is claimed that the aristocratic Churchill made the change after it was explained to him what it signified to the other classes in Britain.

 

[piersa]

What ? How is this taking the piss out of the victory sign. She is clearly pissed off with him, you can tell in her face, and she's saying up yours.

you are spot on, wakey tom is blind or daft.

 

[ifuhatepalacestandup]

I have only just woke up, but I still feel it a little wrong to take the piss out of the victory sign whist talking about fallen Soldiers![/QUOTE
this

 

[Garage_Doors]

f*** off back to southampton

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Marvellous name. Trumpington. How very English.

Bit Wallace & Gromit, innit?

 

[redneb]

f*** off back to southampton

What a prick you are. Anyone can see I live in Brighton.

 

[Mutts Nuts]

What is it exactly that you find funny?

 

[Mutts Nuts]

What a prick you are. Anyone can see I live in Brighton.

Maybe you do but f*** off back to the west country you inbread c*nt

 

[Diego Napier]

Maybe you do but f*** off back to the west country you inbread c*nt

People find lots of things in bread but it'd be pretty unusual to find one of those