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this post was submitted on 27 Apr 2025
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And this means A-Okay, not whatever the hell nazis decided.
Incidentally, if you're one of the people who changed from this to a thumbs-up to make sure nobody thought you were evil, the thumbs-up gesture in Australia means "up yours". Morally perfect hand gestures aren't easy.
Australian here. Sorry that's not a thing. Maybe if you gestured the thumbs up in a particular way? (Usually moving your whole arm up and of towards your shoulder? Honestly hard to explain in text). But that's kind of a whole new gesture, not a thumbs up.
Don't be afraid of doing the thumbs up here, we all do it and know what it means.
Admittedly my info is a couple decades old. When my college friends studying in Australia tried to hitchhike with their thumbs, drivers angrily returned the gesture. They were later informed that it meant "up yours" and that the correct way was to point an index finger toward where they wanted to go. Maybe years of Americans visiting have changed this.
Funny thing from an Australian friend who moved to Seattle where I live - we used to have a restaurant called Dag's that served "Dag-burgers". She said to her "dags" were little balls of shit clinging to a sheep's fur. She sent home a photo of herself by the sign and her relatives thought it was hysterical.
Ahh there you go, maybe hitchhiking culture was different down here. Although I don't think I've ever seen someone attempting to hitch-hike in my life tbh. Just not something people do anymore I guess. (Maybe it happens in more rural areas).
You're not wrong about your culture spreading though. Halloween wasn't even considered a thing when I was growing up. Now... depending on where you live you get kids attempting it. But it's still a minority. Many grumpy home-owners saying "this isn't America!" still exist.
'Dag' is certainly some aussie slang. Although I've never heard it used like that, I spose that might be its origin (sheep shearers are kind of a historical working class icon here). These days it's probably be more synonymous with "dork", or wearing some unfashionable clothing.
What about "rattle your dags"? Meaning to get going, often when late.
It was explained to me that dags were dried balls of shit stuck to hair
hahaha, I've never heard that before but It sure sounds amusing.
Like I said before, I think that very well may be the origin of the term. But it's certainly not commonly use in the city like that these days.
Iirc, wasn't this made a white supremisist symbol specifically after people jokingly or mistakenly called it one?
Like, it was a perfectly okay hand gesture, then some dude on 4chan said it's a racist symbol (Maybe joking maybe not) some people bought into it and real racists started using it as a calling card?
Correct me if I'm wrong.
My understanding of the event:
Basically people getting mad at a joke caused it to become a real thing to some degree. While not a supremacist symbol it was heavily used by them for a time.
Unless you flash it below your waist, then it means you can punch them if they see it
How tf did this ever become a thing
Like I know obviously it's just a funny excuse to punch your friend the same way a VW Beetle is but like,
"make a ring with your fingers and hold it near your dick and then call for your friend's attention and then when he gives you attention, proving that he's a good friend that listens to you, laugh at him and then punch him in the kidney"
Does this not seem insane to anyone else, I have to know the etymology of this but I don't know how to look it up
Sure wait I got the history. It's a bit long:
History
Only if it’s upside down, above the knee, and not if they put a finger through it without breaking eye contact
Apparently, in Spain thumbs up means someone "horned" you, betrayed you with someone else.
Uh, no. The ‘devil horn’ sign, aka heavy metal salute DOES mean that. Thumbs up is just ‘thumbs up’ (it’s an imported/borrowed sign, as far as ai know)
Oh, right, jumbled it up.
I never used it to begin with. It was always some old-timey gesture I only ever saw in media. The first time I did see it in person, it was used in a "Made you look and now I get to slap you upside the head" sort of game.
That means 0 and no one can convince me otherwise
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