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airehead
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 Posted: 07/22/04 - 12:08 Post subject: Have ya ever....
seriously flipped someone off?
I did. Once. When I was a teenager. I felt so horrible that I never did it again.
you?
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DCRunningDiva
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Posted: 07/22/04 - 12:10 Post subject:
I've never done it. I don't even like "the bird." Besides, who is it that determines my middle finger is bad??? I just don't get it! 
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HYPERASHEL
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Posted: 07/22/04 - 12:14 Post subject:
OH YEAH!!!!!!  driving mostly, also while skating, a few times while shopping, then there was the time i was breathing too.
i can also "flip you off" in three languages, Italian, Korean, American.
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alyson98
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Posted: 07/22/04 - 12:16 Post subject:
I used to do it more while driving. Now I've taken on a new approach. I don't think it's very intelligent or lady like. So when someone is pissing me off in traffic I smile really big at them and then they get even more annoyed flip me off then I wave hello back to them.
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bpdou
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Posted: 07/22/04 - 12:18 Post subject:
| alyson98 wrote: | | I used to do it more while driving. Now I've taken on a new approach. I don't think it's very intelligent or lady like. So when someone is pissing me off in traffic I smile really big at them and then they get even more annoyed flip me off then I wave hello back to them. |
I wasn't that annoyed... I waved back.
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Pug
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Posted: 07/22/04 - 12:20 Post subject: Re: Have ya ever....
| airehead wrote: | seriously flipped someone off?
I did. Once. When I was a teenager. I felt so horrible that I never did it again.
you? |
When i was much younger, probably quite often.
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alyson98
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Posted: 07/22/04 - 12:22 Post subject:
| bpdou wrote: | | alyson98 wrote: | | I used to do it more while driving. Now I've taken on a new approach. I don't think it's very intelligent or lady like. So when someone is pissing me off in traffic I smile really big at them and then they get even more annoyed flip me off then I wave hello back to them. |
I wasn't that annoyed... I waved back. |
Did you honk too, that must have been you yesterday then. Sorry for cutting you off, but you have to do that in traffic sometimes. 
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robp
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Posted: 07/22/04 - 12:34 Post subject:
Why yes I just flipped off my buddy this past Friday, in a friendly sort of way. I was fishing during vacation, a nice calm flat lake, very quiet, and here he comes with my kid on the back of his boat tubing. they buzz right by me creating a nice wake and disturbing my peace. I flipped 'em both off much to their delight.
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Noley
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Posted: 07/22/04 - 12:39 Post subject:
Yes and I didn't feel bad about it.
Not
One
Bit
If you piss me off to the point where I flip you off, then you deserve it in my book.
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MastrBrewr
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Posted: 07/22/04 - 12:44 Post subject:
Being a youngin' from the South, flippin' birds was as natural as breathing. 
Nowadays, I just curse like sailor instead.
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akern
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Posted: 07/22/04 - 12:55 Post subject:
Yep. All the time. Most of the time for me it's all in fun. If it's in anger, it's usually followed by *$#@#%! $#@@#!!!!!
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Posted: 07/22/04 - 12:56 Post subject:
if you blow your horn at me while sitting behind me, prompting me to make that right turn on red or hurry up and get out there, well, i regret to say that you will be flipped off boldly and proudly. don't tell me how to drive and i won't tell you to get bleeeeeped. simple as that.
i've tried alternative therapies and, on some very gratifying and intimate level, nothing is quite as effective.
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crazyfrog
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Posted: 07/22/04 - 13:04 Post subject:
i use pretty often, but not nearly as much as i used to.
it actually got me in trouble one time when some soccer mom in her school bus of an SUV cut me off. i gave her the finger and she proceeded to try and run me off the road multiple times and then chase me down all the way to where i worked. all in all, she followed me almost 10 miles. i was on the phone with 911 when she was pounding on my window threatning to kill me...
somehow, slamming into a wall at a high rate of speed tends to calm one down as a driver. 
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HYPERASHEL
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Posted: 07/22/04 - 13:07 Post subject:
| crazyfrog wrote: | i use pretty often, but not nearly as much as i used to.
it actually got me in trouble one time when some soccer mom in her school bus of an SUV cut me off. i gave her the finger and she proceeded to try and run me off the road multiple times and then chase me down all the way to where i worked. all in all, she followed me almost 10 miles. i was on the phone with 911 when she was pounding on my window threatning to kill me...
somehow, slamming into a wall at a high rate of speed tends to calm one down as a driver. |
i remember you telling us that one. so that has been pretty recent then, right?
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purple hayes
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Posted: 07/22/04 - 13:29 Post subject:
Last summer wheile I was riding home and attempting to make a left turn, someone passed me on the left. They got the bird.
I did learn something from the incident though. Now I'm much more aggressive about signaling and taking the lane when I'm turning left.
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