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'''Ayumu:''' I don't understand.
'''Orito:''' (Gives the finger) Say your prayers! }}
== [[Comedy]] ==▼
* [[Russell Peters|"Ryan, go clean your room!"]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nn5jlrxcpkI "FUCK YOU BITCH!"]▼
* [[Stage Magician|The Amazing]] [[Subverted Trope|Johnathan]] during one skit covered his hand with a kerchief and asked if a lady in the front row like birds. When she answered yes, he whipped away and flipped her the bird. He did then proceed to recover his hand and make a bird appear... [[Crosses the Line Twice|which he then promptly pummeled into a fistful of feathers]].▼
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qcaR-GjlJs Dane Cook discusses the finger.] (From about 1:10 on - [[Cluster F-Bomb|audio NSFW]])▼
* One [[Peter Kay]] routine discussed the art of stealthily flipping someone off by pretending to scratch your face.▼
== [[Comic Books]] ==
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* In ''[[Discworld/Interesting Times|Interesting Times]]'', it is mentioned obliquely that the upturned middle finger is the gesture used in demon banishing spells, when Rincewind uses it to test his control of an army of clay soldiers: "Two thousand middle fingers stabbed towards the ceiling."
== [[Live
* Referenced in ''[[MythBusters]]''. While testing the bouncing bullet myth (about a bullet that ricocheted in such a way that it killed the shooter), Adam and Jamie used a cardboard cutout of Jamie to represent the gunman/victim. One of the bullets they fired struck cutout!Jamie, in the words of the narrator, on the finger he "occasionally uses to advise fellow motorists".
* There were several occasions on ''[[Dead Like Me]]'' where characters clearly gave someone else the finger, thanks to the fact that the show was aired on Showtime.
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** After being defeated by [[Shawn Michaels]] at ''[[Wrestlemania]] 22'', Vince was loaded onto a stretcher and wheeled away. Vince defiantly flipped Shawn off right before he disappeared.
* This is pretty much what [[Randy Orton]] opted to toward Seth Rollins in the episode March 9, 2015, much to the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvzXr22rSpQ delight of fans].
▲== [[Recorded and Stand Up Comedy]] ==
▲* [[Russell Peters|"Ryan, go clean your room!"]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nn5jlrxcpkI "FUCK YOU BITCH!"]
▲* [[Stage Magician|The Amazing]] [[Subverted Trope|Johnathan]] during one skit covered his hand with a kerchief and asked if a lady in the front row like birds. When she answered yes, he whipped away and flipped her the bird. He did then proceed to recover his hand and make a bird appear... [[Crosses the Line Twice|which he then promptly pummeled into a fistful of feathers]].
▲* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qcaR-GjlJs Dane Cook discusses the finger.] (From about 1:10 on - [[Cluster F-Bomb|audio NSFW]])
▲* One [[Peter Kay]] routine discussed the art of stealthily flipping someone off by pretending to scratch your face.
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
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