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minus-squareblackn1ght@feddit.uklinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 month agoWhat on earth is “snapping” fingers?
minus-squarephlegmy@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 month agoIt’s when you bend your fingers so far back that the bones snap. Pretty common in America, rather than the less painful ‘clicking’ made elsewhere.
minus-squareknightly the Sneptaur@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 month agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bM7rBsVR0dg
minus-squareblackn1ght@feddit.uklinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 month agoOh! I’ve only ever known this as clicking, not snapping.
minus-squarejabathekek@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 month agoFascinating. My folks are from the Norwich area and they always say snapping. I’m sure it’s a regional thing like everything is in the UK lol.
minus-squarefistac0rpse@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 month agoOff topic, but I only know of Norwich from Alan Partridge. Is he well known/liked there?
minus-squarejabathekek@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 month agoNo idea. My fam left probably before he was very well known.
minus-squareIheartcheese@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 month agoSomewhere under the rule of dirty communists no doubt
minus-squareFrowingFostek@lemmy.worldcakelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 month agoThe filthiest. The revolutionary plasm of first-level societies was postulated to do things like invigorate crop growth, promote facial hair growth, and allow communards to have sex for eight hours straight.
What on earth is “snapping” fingers?
It’s when you bend your fingers so far back that the bones snap.
Pretty common in America, rather than the less painful ‘clicking’ made elsewhere.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bM7rBsVR0dg
Oh! I’ve only ever known this as clicking, not snapping.
Where are you from?
The UK.
What a silly place.
Fascinating. My folks are from the Norwich area and they always say snapping. I’m sure it’s a regional thing like everything is in the UK lol.
Off topic, but I only know of Norwich from Alan Partridge. Is he well known/liked there?
Is that the Firefly pilot?
That’s Alan tudyk
No idea. My fam left probably before he was very well known.
Somewhere under the rule of dirty communists no doubt
The filthiest. The revolutionary plasm of first-level societies was postulated to do things like invigorate crop growth, promote facial hair growth, and allow communards to have sex for eight hours straight.