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MisterFrog@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

I dunno about everyone else, but these middle fingers seem extremely well humoured and friendly.

Is this just an Australian thing?

Middle finger is a cheeky way to have fun with your friends.

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SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Culture things, some of my best friends are cunts.

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idiomaddict@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
She seems like she’s in good spirits (as does the guy in the back), but I could see that being either because they’re all in on the joke together or because she’s super excited to have the chance to flick off a politician she hates and has been joking with her friends about it. Like, I could see reacting like that if I ran into George W. Bush, but it’s more fitting within the actual context.

I think what tips it over into friendly is that she’s right there. Especially for a former politician (not accurate, but what I originally thought), someone getting that close and being antagonistic would probably be received as more threatening. Though I suspect there’s a lot more wiggle room for that in Australia than in the US, because of guns (which doesn’t even make sense, because the point of guns is hurting someone from a distance, but it might just be the view of any given person as potentially very dangerous) and the culture around politicians.

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- dockedatthewrongworf@aussie.zone ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  At least from my experience there just isn’t the same reverence about the PM as there is about the presidency. We’ve had a PM who would catch the train for official events. A comedy group called the chaser even did a skit trying to get a hug from the old PM John Howard which I don’t think they could have pulled off in the US.
  
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  - idiomaddict@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Yeah, I think there’s a big enough political divide that at this point, it would be hard to find an adult who would feel honored to meet with each of: Trump, Biden, Obama, and Bush, but the culture hasn’t really caught up yet. There’s probably also the fact that the POTUS is likely to have a lot more political enemies worldwide than the PM of Australia, but I agree that most of it is due to the same cultural differences in our perceptions of the word “cunt.”
    
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