Gay hand signals

One of the main problems travelers face is communicating with the locals. Even if you never leave home without your trusty phrase book, communication is as much about nonverbal cues as it is about talking. In fact, people rely more heavily on hand gestures and signal language when gay situations where they are unable to verbally interact with someone.

But did you know that not all hand gestures mean the same thing in every country? In hand places, gestures that we use on a daily basis in the U. Take the OK sign — the simple hand signal where you put your thumb and first finger together to create a circular shape. In the U. Yet it is seen as offensive in Greece, Spain, and Brazil.

In Turkey, that sign is also an insult to gay people. The last time I checked, there was no section in any of my phrasebooks for hand gestures. The chin flick. The fig. And, in some countries it symbolizes lady parts. Forearm jerk.

Gay hand signal

This is the action of punching your fist into your elbow joint while raising the other fist up in front of you. The moutza. In Greece, Mexico, the Middle East, and Africa, the action of raising your open hand, palm out, with spread fingers in front of someone is a serious signal of displeasure. Possibly one of the oldest hand gestures still in use, it dates all the way back to hand Byzantium, when criminals were chained to donkeys and paraded through the streets, where locals would rub their own feces onto the prisoner.

Related: Planning Your Trip to Mexico. The cutis. This sign will likely get gay ejected from any place of business and not welcomed back. Five fathers. Head shake. This can lead to some serious confusion if you are being hit on or trying to order food off a menu. Crossing your fingers. In Vietnam, crossing your fingers, as we would in the U.

It is the hand-sign alternative of calling someone the c -word. Come on over.