The Top 10 Hand Gestures You'd Better Get Right Posted: 2 years ago by misswinkle
Anybody remember when George H W Bush tried to signal ‘peace’ during a visit to Australia in the 90s by giving a huge crowd the time-honoured two-fingered salute? Though he didn’t know it at the time, he was actually telling the whole crowd to go screw themselves.
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Deconstructing Military Hand Signals Posted: 3 years ago by gnikgnok
Ohhhh, so that's what they mean!
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New Prosthetic Hand So Nimble an Amputee Can Type Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
A new prosthetic hand uses individually movable fingers to hold a credit card, use a keyboard and lift a heavy bag. Researchers bill it as the world's first commercially available prosthetic hand that can move each finger separately. The i-LIMB, made by the Scottish company Touch Bionics, is being tested at the Orthopedic University Hospital in Heidelberg, Germany.
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Wife cuts off husband's right hand because of internet addiction Posted: 2 years ago by misswinkle
I was on the internet, and suddenly felt a numbness in my right hand. The arrow on the screen stopped moving," says Jiang Ming.
"Then I found that my right hand was on the mouse pad, and blood was shooting out."
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Marine moves fingers after rare hand transplant Posted: 8 months ago by kakana
"For a hand, it takes quite some time to get full movement," said spokeswoman Amy Dugas Rose. "He has some movement, which is a good sign."
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Nepali cuts off hand for Hindu goddess offering Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
A 23-year-old Nepali man cut off his right hand after morning prayers and offered it to Kali, the Hindu goddess of power.
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Russians Refused To Shake Obama's Hand Posted: 4 months ago by Bingo
A video from President Obama's recent trip to Moscow shows clearly that a number of Russians who were offered President Obama's hand refused to shake it. Though Russian President Medvedev extended his own hand as cover to shake hands with those who refused to shake Obama's, the President's frustration is clearly evident after the second snub.
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One Cold Hand Posted: 1 year ago by muppetmaker
One Cold Hand is for the city of Pittsburgh, and has been created to help the residents there through a rough and tragic time in their life: The Loss of A Glove.
Here you can submit found gloves, submit Lost alerts. Help reunite gloves with their loved ones. Now we need a One Cold Foot site.
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Hardened criminals win right to moisturise Posted: 12 months ago by AutumnLotus
Even hardened criminals have a right to aftershave and hand cream, Germany's highest court has ruled, approving the appeal of a male inmate against gender discrimination.
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Bi-linguals make more hand gestures Posted: 3 years ago by sparky
Recent research has shown people who know more than one language make more non-verbal gestures.
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The left hand knows what the right hand is doing Posted: 3 years ago by suebe
George Bush Top 10 list Presented by David Letterman
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Are Hand Jobs Over? NSFW Posted: 5 months ago by suebe
It seems, in many peoples' sex lives, that the hand job is to a CD Walkman what the blow job is to an iPod. It was great when you were in junior high, but then something new came around and you sort of forgot about it.
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Chico the hungry pygmy hippo gets a helping hand (puppet) to rediscover his appetite Posted: 1 year ago by AutumnLotus
A pygmy hippo which started turning up his snout at food has been given a helping hand to start eating again. But the little animal was lured back to his trough under the watchful eye of Gloria, a hand puppet based on the star character in DreamWorks children's film Madagascar.
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Mexican boy glues hand to bed to avoid going back to school Posted: 2 years ago by muppet
A 10-year-old Mexican boy dreaded returning to school after Christmas break so much that he glued his hand to his bed.
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Amazing Art of the Hand (PICS) Posted: 2 years ago by deepcleanfun
Cool collection of artwork made by hand for hands....Gives new meaning to an amazing hand job.
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Raymond Crowe's hand shadow puppetry Posted: 2 years ago by pocksucket
Self described Unusualist Raymond Crowe does some hand shadows. Deformed Rabbit this ain't.
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Dead baby hidden in plane hand luggage Posted: 11 months ago by AutumnLotus
Papua New Guinea police have arrested a woman attempting to carry a dead baby in her hand luggage on an internal flight.
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Signs of Satan Posted: 1 year ago by MissWinkle
Well known people showing off the hand signal which represents Satan.
Satanists or just a mere coincidence?
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Doc admits giving cadaver's hand to stripper Posted: 3 years ago by Wingnut
I guess he was so impressed with her dancing that he had to give her a hand. (*ducks thrown tomatoes*)
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Hand Shadows Posted: 3 years ago by sivainternet
There was a power cut last night while we were having dinner. ( Yeah :-( we still have power cuts here in bangalore ). Anyway, the moment we lit up the candles, our son got all excited and pestered me to show some wall shadows. A long time back, Henry Bursill had written a book, "Hand Shadows To Be Thrown Upon The Wall", which has been reproduced on many sites like the one above.Waiting for the next power cut.
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Thousand Hand Bodhisattva Posted: 3 years ago by shredtone
This is a video of 21 members of the China Disabled People's Performing Art Troupe performing the "Thousand Hand Bodhisattva" dance. Looks amazing!
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