talk about the offending digit!. If they want a finger - let them have a finger. Like King lear said, Reason not the need....!

(his daughters had just told him he had to disband his retinue if he wanted to live with them. They have been called 'monsters of ingratitude' for not letting Lear have a hundred beer swilling knights and a spectactularly unfunny jester hanging round the place.)

What kind of monster won't let an old folksinger stick his finger in his ear?

Live and let live!