Flashing gang hand signs in photos - can anyone begin to explain this?

Hm. I know I have been dickriding too hard (no harrasso) when I realize it never occurred to me that anyone might not find VT fucking hilarious. I thought it was a given that he is funny as hell.

ETA: I always thought the gang sign white people were just indulging in some clueless mockery. No biggie. Made them look kind of dumb to me though, yeah.

Person older than me is using slang I don’t understand. Must kill self.

White people are weird. shakes head

I do ducklips when I’m about to pop a cap in yo ass.

Our newspaper publishes the names and pictures of people who were convicted of DWI. Today, for the first time that I’ve seen, one of them was doing ducklips for his Public Shame Photo (no hands, though, so no hand signs).

Well okay but only if you also have your ass hanging out and leave the ratty speakers crackling obscenities at top volume then tattoo a teardrop next to your eye after. Then it’s props yo.

Afterall, you don’t want anyone to mistake that you are clueless of how smart violent gangstaz do things. You might also want to get your crew together and beat a woman eight on one to show how tough you are. Then you can spray a crowd with bullets killing a two year old for that extra cool cache else somebody might make fun of you by throwing signs in pictures. The horror.

Maybe it’s related to the whole asian thing where they instinctively do the V sign thing?

Gang signs in picture is a proud and ancient tradition, dating back to the renaissance.

Nava is 100% correct.

My sister and I have always flashed the ASL sign for I LOVE YOU to her kids when saying goodbye.

One day my sis got a call from the school that her kids were being suspended from school for flashing gang signals. :smack: she had to educate them, but never got an answer as to what gang, specifically, used that signal, which is similar to the Hang Loose or Hook em Horns. I mean, seriously folks. :dubious:
What’s funny is that wallyworld carries a line of LDS jewelry, and one of the necklaces has a pendant with that sign. Now, I’m not saying LDS isn’t a gang of sorts, but come ON. :stuck_out_tongue:

Bbbbbut, they wear “colors!” I was enjoying a beer on the river the other day and 3 or 4 of them came past; everyone knows >2 is a gang! I’ve never felt more afraid. A few had bikes, probably stolen.

So I love you is just headbanging, or shaka brah with one more finger? I remember internet nuttiness saying GWB was the antichrist or something because he made devil horns. He was just hanging out with Texas Longhorns fans.

This is an excellent point, and not one I’d thought about before. I always wondered why those Renaissance people did that thing with their hands!