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BBC presenter apologises after giving middle finger at start of live broadcast
(www.theguardian.com)
The least offensive thing on the news lately.
this post was submitted on 07 Dec 2023
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I appreciate that they didn’t throw her under the bus, and the article turned into a compilation of live news bloopers. These things happen. No biggie.
I do think it's a bit disgraceful for this sort of thing to happen on the BBC.
What happened to a good old British "V sign" with two fingers up? Or maybe a "wanker gesture" with a casual shake of the wrist? If even the BBC have stooped to an American-style solitary raised middle finger, what hope is there for the rest of us?
American-style solitary raised middle finger
I don't believe that we can claim credit for flipping the bird.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_finger
The gesture dates back to ancient Greece and it was also used in ancient Rome.
Linguist Jesse Sheidlower traces the gesture's development in the United States to the 1890s. According to anthropologist Desmond Morris, the gesture probably came to the United States via Italian immigrants. The first documented appearance of the finger in the United States was in 1886, when Old Hoss Radbourn, a baseball pitcher for the Boston Beaneaters, was photographed giving it to a member of their rival the New York Giants.
Didn't see it mentioned in the wiki. When the middle finger was gaining popularity, during the 80's in my circles, using the middle finger folded in half was a thing mentioned. I guess with the description in the wiki that makes sense as it infers that the person being insult has a tiny dick. I remember someone mentioning it was a Greek insult, but never knew it had a history. TIL.
Now I get spammed by a hundred Greeks telling me they have never heard of it. :) In my defence, we had no internet when I was young. There was no way to check on BS Vs fact.
That's really interesting, thanks - I think you (nation, not you personally) did a lot to popularise its usage in the last 30 years though :)
She apologised on X on Thursday morning, saying that she had been joking around with the team, pretending to count down using her fingers.
“When we got to 1 I turned [my] finger around as a joke and did not realise that this would be caught on camera,” she wrote.
I think we'll let this slide. For once.
Most entertaining moment since the old Top Gear.
Can't say I blame her. Most of the world hate their jobs.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
A BBC news anchor who was accidentally captured giving the middle finger at the start of a programme has apologised for a “silly joke” meant for friends but not for a live broadcast.
But she was also inundated with support from dozens of people who had found the moment amusing, with one writing: “As a BBC licence payer I demand more of this type of behaviour.”
Moshiri can perhaps take comfort that her immediate reaction to being caught making a swearing gesture on live camera was not as dramatic as that of the BBC weatherman Tomasz Schafernaker.
In 2010, Schafernaker jokingly flipped the bird at the news presenter Simon McCoy, but realising he was on camera panicked and – utterly unsuccessfully – made a wild attempt to pretend to scratch his chin.
The BBC Breakfast host Naga Munchetty was telling viewers they would be joined by Sturgeon later in the programme when footage of a gorilla that escaped from its enclosure at London zoo was shown on screen.
Robert Coxwell, a photographer and journalist, wrote on X that he was the gallery producer for the show and said it was “regrettable” that someone had “found the need to amplify it”, adding that only two people on X had noticed but it “went largely ignored for 10 hours.
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