Post your picture yet again

[complich8]

I've noticed a phenomenon. I call it the "asian girl victory/peace syndrome".

Apparently, asian girls can't have pictures taken without making hand symbols of some sort or another. And that symbol almost always ends up being that finger-v.

Take, for example:

Another classic case.

When it's not that, it's still something. There's got to be a pose, and it's got to involve hands. In this case, it's a kung-fu girl pose, and it looks like it's just the spread-fingers motion away from being another classic-case:

There's a couple pictures WAY earlier in this thread that don't exhibit this phenomenon. For example, Honoko never does it, as far as I can tell. So it's not totally universal.

On the other hand, EVERY picture of an asian girl I have taken invariably winds up with that symbol, unless I ask them to specifically make some sort of face, or their hands are full. For example, here's a couple pics of my boss (the camera isn't kind to her, she looks a lot better in person) shows the standard pose, alone.
- even accompanied, it still comes out.
- hands are full of another coworker, so no pose, but still follows the rule.
I've taken a dozen other pictures of this woman at various times, for various reasons, and every one of them adheres to the rule. Either she's got her hands full, or she's making a face (ie: angry face), or she's doing that.

Before she graduated and moved away, I took 4 pictures of this girl: with my shitty cellphone cam. I lost them in a hard drive crash. But I swear, all four, on four different occasions, with four different pictures, that same "v" pose. Her flickr stream is all self-portraits, either on a timer or in a mirror, and she doesn't do it there. But every photo I've seen her in that wasn't taken by her follows the rule. Hands full, making a strange face, or "victory/peace".

I don't get it. What's up with this? It's got to be a cultural thing. Can anyone explain this phenomenon?

[XanBcoo]

I don't get it. What's up with this? It's got to be a cultural thing. Can anyone explain this phenomenon?

http://kungfool.transpect.net/webpag...0307_1.html#04

I think it's really just the equivalent of a thumbs up or something. But you're right, EVERY asian girl does it. Take these pictures from my recent visit to China for example:

Note the V sign the girl is making. The guy on the far right is me.
This girl is doing it with both hands.

I've also got a great shot of the exact place where Smilealwiz took her picture, but I'm not in it, and there's no 6 foot guy...
So here's one of a busy street in Shanghai instead. Forgot the name of it, but it's pretty popular: http://img92.imageshack.us/img92/707...ure097bkd5.jpg

Awesome trip.

[Honoko]

Actually, I have done it before. Multiple times.







As for explaining it.... it's definitely an Asian thing. I've seen guys do it too. Over here, though, we call it the fob pose ^^v

[Terracosmo]

lmao I thought that food was your tongue at first... scary

in Sweden, people do it too. Here, we call it the "pop pose" because it's usually affiliated with the alternative pop subculture. But nontheless it is safe to say that they have more or less stolen it from asians since it started appearing along with the fucking j-rock boom.

[Honoko]

lmao I thought that food was your tongue at first... scary

What're you talking about? That is my tongue...

Actually, that was one of the largest pieces of sushi I had ever encountered. If you're in NYC, check out the restaurant called Yama... on Carmine St, by 7th Ave S, I *think* >_<;

[complich8]

Ah-hah! So other people have noticed it too!

It's NOT just a coincidence <_<

[dragonrage]

nope it is not, I see it happening on a daily basis. Complich8 you are not alone. Honoko please properly cut your food or is the case of chop sticks take smaller bites, just kidding. But like terra i first thought it was your tongue, talk about mind blowing. Never seen an IRL asian girl with a long tongue.

Nice pics all,

Psyke your wife is hot as seems to have an incredible personality, you lucky dog.

Smilealwiz: hitting on ramdon dudes ic.

terra: I can wait to see the red hair when you decide to change it.

Pheonix : sweeet dude, putting that liver to good use ic.

Honoko : like your new hair style, the best one yet, and you look better in casual cloths, that work suite is no good.

sariane ; you look cute, and intreguing, but if you are a teller market please don't call.

TS : you are fooling yourself, the suite doesn't look that good

lazie, nice t-shirt.

for all those that i may have forgotten. you all are awsome for posting your pics.