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Finger pinching conspiracy theory (en.wikipedia.org)

submitted 5 hours ago by Plum@lemmy.world to c/wikipedia@lemmy.world

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[–] kbal@fedia.io 48 points 4 hours ago (5 children)

Must be confusing for Canadian tourists for whom that hand gesture means "I'm crushing your head."

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 1 points 39 minutes ago

Hey, some of us down here watched that show too :)

[–] treadful@lemmy.zip 35 points 4 hours ago

Man crushing heads

[–] kersploosh@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 hours ago

I'll just leave this here...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BKGwAg4oX6U

[–] joeljoelle@piefed.blahaj.zone 15 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

first thing I thought of XD

[–] PapaStevesy@lemmy.world 6 points 2 hours ago

Same, I was hoping the conspiracy theory was that the Earth is currently being pinched between the fingers of a galactic-sized business person on their lunch break.

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 hours ago

I can confirm that I'm confused for the same reason

My other thought would be that they're doing a tiny violin