User:Michaelthorne92/awkward turtle

Awkward Turtle is a social convention in youth culture, in which one may signify the awkwardness of a situation by use of a hand gesture. The gesture immitates the movement of an overturned turtle struggling 'awkwardly' to rectify its position, and is achieved by the placing of one's hands over each other to form an upturned cup, and irregluarly rotating the thumbs on either side. The turtle gesture is often misused, and wrongly considered by many to be formed by a downturned cup shape. However harmless this modifaction may seem, it in fact destroys the essential idea of the overturned turtle. An alternative formation of the turtle (known as the south-eastern formation according to its Facebook page: ) includes interlocked fingers as opposed to flat hands. Often the turtle gesture is used after a long or 'awkward' pause in a conversation, and may be accompanied by the user saying "awkward" in a falsetto voice.