Did you know the V-sign you are making is equivalent to flipping the bird in the UK? Here we have to turn our hand the other way round or risk getting punched!
It's said that, at the Battle of Agincourt in 1415, the French boasted that they would cut two fingers off the right hand of any English longbowmen they captured, making them unable to shoot their arrows. The English won the battle despite being hugely outnumbered, and they taunted the French soldiers by holding up their arrow fingers (as you are doing in your pic). This is supposed to be the origin of the insult.
Well, I looked it up on Wikipedia just now and it turns out that's a myth, and nobody knows why the V-sign is so insulting here. What a pity. I kinda liked that story. :)
