Newcomer / Intro What does "o7" mean?

[Tyres O'Flaherty]

Keep seeing it, just curious.

 

[seko]

it's a salute, a persons head and his arm bent in a salute - an in game greeting from one commander to another

 

[Komemiute]

I personally think it should be like this. <O

Because you salute with the right arm. But I understand the stylization.

 

[[VR] scipio_77]

Military salute.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salute

 

[Tyres O'Flaherty]

Aha thanks! Would never have got that one!

 

[seko]

I personally think it should be like this. <O

Because you salute with the right arm. But I understand the stylization.

o7 is a British army salute - <o is an US army salute

 

[Rob At Work]

88 - two fat ladies - now that's not very PC, is it now! sexist I would say,what about the fellas?

 

[Spacemarkl]

88 - two fat ladies - now that's not very PC, is it now! sexist I would say,what about the fellas?

88 is also two times the 8th letter of the alphabet. So better be careful.

 

[Ashnak]

88 is also two times the 8th letter of the alphabet. So better be careful.

But only Germans would get that - and as a German myself, I find that quite boring by now.

 

[Dommarraa]

O&

The Rimmer salute

 

[Tyres O'Flaherty]

love that! Lickety split!

 

[Toffa]

I prefer: ( '-')7

But that's just me.

Toffs
( '-')7

 

[m0rl0ck]

Keep seeing it, just curious.

I wondered why no one was saluting back.

 

[amigacooke]

I wondered why no one was saluting back.

You're not in uniform

 

[Watchdog]

I personally think it should be like this. <O

Because you salute with the right arm. But I understand the stylization.

It is reversed like coats of arms when described in the proper heraldic way. You look at it from the speaker's point of view.

 

[metascrawl]

88 - two fat ladies

BINGO!

What did I win?

 

[FarrSide]

You're not in uniform

or wearing your hat.

 

[Achilles7]

88 - two fat ladies - now that's not very PC, is it now! sexist I would say,what about the fellas?

What's wrong with being sexy?

 

[Brett C]

Sometimes I wonder, wasn't it "o/" originally and then over the time mutated to "o7" just because it's shorter and many people just forgot the shift key in the heat of the battle?
But then I'm talking from German keyboard layout where "/" and "7" share the same key (it's 7 + shift). If that's not the case in English layouts I guess I can scrap this theory.

On NA-US keyboards, the 7 is a & when shift is used. Not sure about those other keyboards.

o& must be the troll-face variant of o7.

 

[JesusOnEez]

On NA-US keyboards, the 7 is a & when shift is used. Not sure about those other keyboards.

o& must be the troll-face variant of o7.

There's also the Full Rimmer - o@

Edit: Dammit. Ninja'd an age ago...