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(Japantoday.com) Interesting Why do Japanese people make the V sign with their fingers when they pose for a photo?   (japantoday.com) divider line 184
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Wubbya 2003-04-06 08:54:36 PM  
Victory symbol, duh. *hasn't read the article yet*

 
TwinBrotherjuilus 2003-04-06 08:54:54 PM  
Ve own you.

 
SNGX1275 2003-04-06 08:55:23 PM  
500 Internal Server error. Farked alreay?

 
Charlieplaid 2003-04-06 08:55:40 PM  
Love and Peace!

Love and Peace!

Love and Peace!

 
llarken 2003-04-06 08:55:40 PM  
They want you to feck off?

 
SuperCool 2003-04-06 08:55:52 PM  
Because they want to be like thier American 50s and 60s heros. Perfect example: Guitar Wolf!

 
wldncrzy14 2003-04-06 08:56:46 PM  
They love Verizon. Duh.

 
JDJoeE 2003-04-06 08:56:55 PM  
Theyre really telling the Aussies to fark off...

You can say Churchill, you can say peace, but I like the Aussie version best.

 
Magic 2003-04-06 08:57:46 PM  
You might as well ask why the sick bastards like cartoon porn of women with dinner-plate sized purple eyes and blue hair shiatting on eachother....

 
westwoodpsycho 2003-04-06 08:57:47 PM  
How can it be farked? Damn with all of those people in Japan, you would think that they would have better servers.

 
moldy milk 2003-04-06 08:57:51 PM  
. . they like pandas!

 
kibo [TotalFark] 2003-04-06 08:58:07 PM  
Vosers? Link is Varked.

 
mruttan 2003-04-06 08:58:10 PM  
Wow, the Japanese are so efficient that the page is already farked.

 
irockalot 2003-04-06 08:58:14 PM  
someone please post the "WE'D HIT IT!" photo.

 
Anarchist999 2003-04-06 08:58:38 PM  

 
Anarchist999 2003-04-06 09:00:03 PM  

 
westwoodpsycho 2003-04-06 09:00:05 PM  
I guess it's my turn to do the inevitable "BEHOLD THE POWER OF FARK!"

 
rite 2003-04-06 09:00:07 PM  
Meh, farked, and hardly been up long.

That's internet-ese for "not worth my time"

 
Farkansas 2003-04-06 09:00:08 PM  
I have no idea


 
productiveslacker 2003-04-06 09:00:24 PM  
they remember the "V" mini-series and short lived tv show from 1984-85. Man that show rocked.

 
theurge14 2003-04-06 09:00:47 PM  
That Seiichi guy seems like a pretty laid back cool guy. Perhaps as well it's my white guy genes that cause me to flip my middle finger for the camera.

 
wldncrzy14 2003-04-06 09:01:23 PM  

 
CatchrNdRy 2003-04-06 09:02:16 PM  
I thought I'd let you know that the Chinese (and i believe Koreans) do it as well.

I think it has something to do with eating dogs and having a small penis and being good at math. Damn chinks.

 
ElwoodCuse 2003-04-06 09:02:45 PM  
Who is running server? Oh my God, bear is running server! How can that be?!

 
JDJoeE 2003-04-06 09:03:06 PM  
I think the mind control theory is kind of funny. The whole bit of history is funny in a sad pathetic sort of way. It would work a hell of a lot better if they had cameras 2000 years ago.

 
CatchrNdRy 2003-04-06 09:03:07 PM  
I'm Asian so I have a permit to be racist and hypocritical to people of similiar ethnicity. BTW the Japanese like to backstab, rape and bury people alive in front of their families. EVEN TODAY.

 
Noise 2003-04-06 09:04:00 PM  
V is for Rictory!

 
ElwoodCuse 2003-04-06 09:04:16 PM  
04-06-03 08:59:30 PM Wldncrzy14
I think Wubbya is right in that it has to do with victory. Kinda like how "Yatta!" (I did it!) is a popular phrase.



SHHH! ix-nay on the atta-yay or people will start osting-pay ics-pay...

 
Halah 2003-04-06 09:04:21 PM  
HTTP 403.9 - Access Forbidden

Not even good enough for a proper 404, huh?

 
wldncrzy14 2003-04-06 09:05:32 PM  
ics-pay, eh?


Yatta!

 
gudel 2003-04-06 09:06:00 PM  
i think it's "live long, and prosper"

 
CanadianClub 2003-04-06 09:06:13 PM  
To bad they arent giving the "shocker"

 
westwoodpsycho 2003-04-06 09:06:16 PM  
Oh no not Yatta!

 
flaminio 2003-04-06 09:06:19 PM  

 
SuperCool 2003-04-06 09:07:11 PM  
http://www.matadorrecords.com/images/guitar_wolf/frontguitar.jpg


http://www2s.biglobe.ne.jp/~j_disco/wwwwolf/wolf3.jpg

No Farkers listen to Guitar Wolf? OUTRAGEOUS!

 
GoodyearPimp 2003-04-06 09:07:15 PM  
They just really like Diana:


 
EatHam [TotalFark] 2003-04-06 09:07:51 PM  
To indicate in centimeters the length of their weeners?

 
M.C.PeePants 2003-04-06 09:08:26 PM  
It is a conspiracy.






 
irockalot 2003-04-06 09:09:37 PM  
SuperCool, i'm more of a Cornelius guy myself.

 
irockalot 2003-04-06 09:10:45 PM  
but please people, someone's got to have the "i only want to hit it a little bit" pic, right?

 
veritron 2003-04-06 09:11:44 PM  
I never knew you could tell people to fark off in England by doing the V-Sign palm towards me until today. Thank you internet!

 
Purple_Paramecium 2003-04-06 09:13:20 PM  
Yatta!

^_^V

/hides

 
Rosalea 2003-04-06 09:13:32 PM  
Who is running server? Oh my God, bear is running server! How can that be?!

nice clerks animated reference

I could view the article. But I still didn't understand it. who cares what the opinions of a bunch of people are.

 
telemakhos 2003-04-06 09:13:47 PM  
From the article:

"The peace sign gesture must have been programmed in my DNA, or foreigners mind-controlled Japanese to make the peace sign subconsciously when we pose for a photo to keep the peace after the war."

That settles that.

"Anyhow, how the hell can making such a gesture for a photo be a wish for peace? This sort of group-oriented behavior without any reason illustrates a symbol of Japanese subculture."

Thank you, Captain Obvious.

 
randomgal 2003-04-06 09:16:48 PM  
can anyone else not load this thing?

 
Trell 2003-04-06 09:17:13 PM  
Cause the Japanese like Egg Rolls. Damn, wait...

 
Mr60s 2003-04-06 09:18:31 PM  
It's because they're unable to make the letter "L" sign.

 
telemakhos 2003-04-06 09:20:19 PM  
So why exactly do so many of our peace-mongering warrior bretheren, the Rapists of Nanjing, bleach their hair? If the pictures in that survey were any indication, there are more bottle blonds on the streets of Hiroshima than in Hollywood. Are they trying to be a tad more Teutonic in preparation for The Next Time 'Round, or is their sense of fashion really that dismally lost?

 
doctechnical 2003-04-06 09:20:34 PM  
Just a guess, but, uh, maybe because the Allies won?

Ask this guy.

 
OMMBoy 2003-04-06 09:21:17 PM  
"Two Sapporos, please! Hai!"

 
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