When did showing the middle finger or flipping the bird become offensive?

Oh Keith,it's always been offensive! Just try doing it to a cop & see how you go,lol.

Well, this is pretty disgusting and apparently since time immemorial - Two are from the epigrammatist Martial: "Laugh loudly, Sextillus, when someone calls you a queen and put your middle finger out."

(The verse continues: "But you are no sodomite nor fornicator either, Sextillus, nor is Vetustina's hot mouth your fancy." Martial, and Roman poets in general, could be pretty out there, subject-matter-wise. Another verse begins: "You love to be sodomized, Papylus . . .")

In the other reference Martial writes that a certain party "points a finger, an indecent one, at" some other people. The historian Suetonius, writing about Augustus Caesar, says the emperor "expelled [the entertainer] Pylades . . . because when a spectator started to hiss, he called the attention of the whole audience to him with an obscene movement of his middle finger." Morris also claims that the mad emperor Caligula, as an insult, would extend his middle finger for supplicants to kiss.

If I told you 13 years, 4 months, 5 days, 12 hours, 56 minutes, and 34 seconds would you believe me?

About the same time that saying the words did.

Ever since it was invented. No decent person does it.

they use the middle finger to **** a girl if their dick is too small to satisfy the girl and i think thats make is offensive