r/interestingasfuck • u/Key_Performer_3645 • 21h ago

Robert Downey Jr, visiting Wall Street back in 1992 and being horrified after only staying there for 5 minutes

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u/Captain_Grammaticus 17h ago

Apparently there are hand signals. Palm forward is "selling", palm backwards is "buying", each finger raised is 1k. Something like this.

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u/i_give_you_gum 17h ago

Be cool to see them as quiet as a library, just waving papers and doing hand signals.

Would probably sound like a flock of pigeons