yeah we apparently found our digits easier than knuckles when counting. it probably helped that it's easier to communicate numbers with full digits than pointing parts of them.
it's such a shit flag too, i can't get over just how bad it looks. it's like someone thought very hard to try to come up with every bad move you can make designing a flag.
exactly, it's marking the end of the sarcastic remark, as a shorthand way to say "i was being sarcastic"