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minus-squareblackn1ght@feddit.uklinkfedilinkarrow-up22·4 months agoWhat on earth is “snapping” fingers?
minus-squareknightly the Sneptaur@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up36·4 months agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bM7rBsVR0dg
minus-squareblackn1ght@feddit.uklinkfedilinkarrow-up31·4 months agoOh! I’ve only ever known this as clicking, not snapping.
minus-squarejabathekek@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up46·4 months 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-up4·4 months agoOff topic, but I only know of Norwich from Alan Partridge. Is he well known/liked there?
minus-squarejabathekek@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·4 months agoNo idea. My fam left probably before he was very well known.
minus-squareIheartcheese@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·4 months agoSomewhere under the rule of dirty communists no doubt
minus-squareFrowingFostek@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·4 months 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.
minus-squarephlegmy@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2·4 months 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.
What on earth is “snapping” fingers?
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?
No idea. My fam left probably before he was very well known.
Is that the Firefly pilot?
That’s Alan tudyk
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.
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.
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