Cartoon hands: three fingers or four fingers? (fingers = number of non-thumb hand digits)

the thumb is a finger btw

THE THUMB IS A THUMB!!! Thumb thumbs things.

― That's not a "laugh track", it's an audience and you're in it. (MintIce), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 21:26 (Yesterday)

All this could have been avoided by using the word 'digits'

It could have turned into a discussion abt toes.

oh I didn't realize you weren't counting the thumb

― ＿|￣|○|￣|○|￣|○ (dayo), Tuesday, November 23, 2010 10:11 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark

yeah for real, the title is confusing, i refuse to take part

and i had so much to contribute

I fixed this title btw, sorry pedants

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The theological implications are immense!

omg title fix went away
I feel innefectual

let's cross out hand digits that this fix stays

Three fingers bad. I mean it doesn't always bother me as a reader but in my own work it's gotta be four.

I drew cartoons with three fingers until I hit puberty and I decided four was the way to go. *growing up*

The putting aside of childish things SIGH

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

closure

rong

I've since learned no one likes a distant poll closing date

I've also learned come people think of the thumb as a 'finger'

come people

I call the thumb a finger because of a trivial pursuit question over 20 years ago. Just because it's short and squat and single-jointed and opposable, why discriminate? Thumbists.

Wouldn't it be weird to have a thumb that was exactly like a finger?

imo, three fingers + one thumb is embedded deep in cartoon DNA, whereas four fingers and a thumb should be considered mutant and freakish anywhere outside of Prince Valiant or Mary Worth and other strips of their ilk.