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Originally Posted by Red Bread
I agree with this, it's a great book that makes a fairly dry subject enjoyable.
My unfortunate cultural misstep was ordering two beers with my index and middle finger held facing the bar tender. I wondered why I was getting the stink eye until realizing the obvious and adopting the thumb and index to signify two beers.
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You can use your index and middle finger, but with the inside of the fingers facing the bartender; it's with the outside of the fingers & back of your hand that the gesture becomes an insult in the UK. Why, I don't know, as apparently the legend about it originating from English longbowmen taunting the French that they still had their fingers to shoot with is unlikely to be true.