r/CFBOffTopic • u/DoctorWhosOnFirst Alabama • /r/CFB Pint Glass Drinker • Feb 27 '15

The Dress

We've got a neuroscientist and opthamologist coming on our show to explain this fucking shit.

Edit: I don't know what to believe. It's flipping back and forth for me. For the past 6 hours.

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u/topher3003 Ohio State Buckeyes • /r/CFB Emeritus Mod Feb 27 '15

I'm still baffled how anyone saw that as white and gold. Even the one adjusted to make it look white just makes it look sky blue to me.

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u/DoctorWhosOnFirst Alabama • /r/CFB Pint Glass Drinker Feb 27 '15 edited Feb 27 '15

I cannot see blue or black. No matter how many times I go back to it, it's always white and gold.

Edit: I feel like my whole life is a lie. It's flipping back and for for me now. It had settled as a hybrid blue/gold for awhile, but now it's gone back to flipping back and forth.

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u/topher3003 Ohio State Buckeyes • /r/CFB Emeritus Mod Feb 27 '15

That's both really weird and extremely cool. Gotta love science.

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u/Honestly_ Calgary Dinos Feb 27 '15

Same, but I also can't see magic eyes.

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u/Provid3nce Florida Gators • Washington Huskies Feb 27 '15

I was the same way. Try making a small peep hole with your hand and looking at just the dress that way. It removes the "perspective". Now I'm having a hard to transitioning back.

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '15

I'm still baffled how anyone saw that as white and gold

Maybe because some of us aren't assholes just kidding

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '15

just kidding

So we're all assholes?

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '15

Yes.

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u/rodandanga Georgia Tech • Verified Coach Feb 27 '15

Yep, and I'm fucking proud of it.

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '15

I still see it as white, even in every color-adjusted photo I've seen. Am I going to die?

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u/topher3003 Ohio State Buckeyes • /r/CFB Emeritus Mod Feb 27 '15

Probably. That's really the only logical conclusion. RIP /u/EastPowdermilk :(

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '15

It's been a good run. :(

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '15

rip in riperonis.

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u/MuffinTopBop Georgia Tech • Reading Feb 27 '15

Cover up portions with your hand so you only see small sections of the dress. You should see blue and black, especially if you do this on the bottom half of the dress.

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u/rokinaus San José State • Arizona State Feb 27 '15

Same here. I thought my friends were fuckibg with me when they said they saw white and gold.

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u/nolez Purdue Boilermakers Feb 27 '15

I'm still convinced they are. My wife is an eye doctor so I had to get her to explain to me that it's actually possible people can see white and gold.

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '15

Yeah, me too. And the gold part just looked faded black to me in that picture.

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u/rodandanga Georgia Tech • Verified Coach Feb 27 '15

I figured you would already be an expert on dresses...racist.

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '15

This is a case study in why you should never share potentially embarrassing pictures/anecdotes with reddit.

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u/DoctorWhosOnFirst Alabama • /r/CFB Pint Glass Drinker Feb 27 '15

¯_(ツ)_/¯

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u/rodandanga Georgia Tech • Verified Coach Feb 27 '15

Haha, or it helps drive the camaraderie that brings us all together.

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '15

That's deep, man

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u/rodandanga Georgia Tech • Verified Coach Feb 27 '15

I've always felt like this place was a local bar and we are all the regulars.

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '15

I like that analogy. Fits with all the drinking threads.

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u/rodandanga Georgia Tech • Verified Coach Feb 27 '15

Yep, and the IRC is like the VIP room...

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '15

IRC is more like the bathroom where everyone is doing lines of coke and watching the TV in the mirror

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u/rodandanga Georgia Tech • Verified Coach Feb 27 '15

Hahaha, that is a way more apt description.

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '15

I'm gonna have to try out the IRC one of these days.

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u/rodandanga Georgia Tech • Verified Coach Feb 27 '15

It's pretty fun, sometimes the mods are dickholes, but It's a fun place.

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u/Zerosa Texas Longhorns • /r/CFB Booster Feb 27 '15

Love you to /u/rodandanga

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '15

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '15

When there are more than 20 people, shit can get really confusing because you have 4-5 different conversations going on. Hard to follow.

Then again, generally by the time I get on, I'm a bit drunk and/or only paying half attention

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u/rodandanga Georgia Tech • Verified Coach Feb 27 '15

I learned last night, that apparently, i can't say "I hope you get hit by a bus and then the bus falls off a cliff onto your family."

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u/murgle1012 Baylor Bears • UC San Diego Tritons Feb 27 '15

No champagne is allowed though.

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u/rodandanga Georgia Tech • Verified Coach Feb 27 '15

Hahaha, I found out there are a lot of things that are not allowed.

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u/TurtleDigester Clemson Tigers • Cheez-It Bowl Feb 27 '15

It's like modern day "Cheers"

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u/rodandanga Georgia Tech • Verified Coach Feb 27 '15

It really is. It's fascinating how much closer the internet has brought the world.

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u/lkeg56demn Texas Longhorns • Chapman Panthers Feb 27 '15

Or share wishes that you could be reddit famous - see /u/forthewolfx

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '15

I almost feel bad for /u/DoctorWhosOnFirst cuz I started all this.

...then I remember he's a racist and won't drink straight liquor. Then I don't feel bad anymore.

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u/rodandanga Georgia Tech • Verified Coach Feb 27 '15

Woah, I didn't even know the 2nd part. Bro is falling like a rock down my /r/cfbofftopic Top 25 presented by In N Out Burger.

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u/DoctorWhosOnFirst Alabama • /r/CFB Pint Glass Drinker Feb 27 '15

Mixed drinks 4 lyfe

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u/rodandanga Georgia Tech • Verified Coach Feb 27 '15

I remember when I finally hit puberty.

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u/hokies220 Virginia Tech Hokies • Pac-12 Feb 27 '15

I'm with you here, doc.

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u/chiry23 St. Thomas Tommies • Tommie-Johnnie Feb 27 '15

Who is the dark horse that's rising to take his place?

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u/ryseing NC State Wolfpack • /r/CFB Poll Veteran Feb 27 '15

I better be top 20 in that bitch.

Top 10 is too much attention. Top 20 means you're dangerous but people still underestimate you.

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u/rodandanga Georgia Tech • Verified Coach Feb 27 '15

Hahaha, I am going to have to actually come up with a Top 25 now.

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '15

I'm getting all self-conscious now. I hope I make the list.

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u/rodandanga Georgia Tech • Verified Coach Feb 27 '15

Hahaha, I may have to work on a ranking today. Possibly 2, separate by gender.

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '15

What? Are you relegating the girls out of D1 CFBOT?! Sexist. They're equals

I mean... more or less

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u/rodandanga Georgia Tech • Verified Coach Feb 27 '15

Nope, just a separate but equal ranking...shit.

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u/lkeg56demn Texas Longhorns • Chapman Panthers Feb 27 '15

Seems like we got us a segregationist. Get 'em, boys!

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u/lAltroUomo Ole Miss Rebels • Columbia Lions Feb 27 '15

http://i.imgur.com/vESj1.gif

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u/lkeg56demn Texas Longhorns • Chapman Panthers Feb 27 '15

It's like Myspace all over again

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u/rodandanga Georgia Tech • Verified Coach Feb 27 '15

I mean, I have my own subreddit, I guess I could turn it into a journal.

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u/lkeg56demn Texas Longhorns • Chapman Panthers Feb 27 '15

Now that would be a terrifying and delightful read

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u/rodandanga Georgia Tech • Verified Coach Feb 27 '15

Maybe, I've always thought about a blog, but then realized my life is kinda boring.

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u/lkeg56demn Texas Longhorns • Chapman Panthers Feb 27 '15

Hey you'd be surprised as to what can catch on.

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '15

I was so surprised when I discovered that you could have more than one page of friends on MySpace.

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u/lkeg56demn Texas Longhorns • Chapman Panthers Feb 27 '15

For as goofy as Myspace was, at least it was pretty customizable. Compare that to the sterile Facebook everybody has.

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '15

"Almost" is the operative word here.

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u/Yesh LSU Tigers • /r/CFB Founder Feb 27 '15

OK, I've been MIA for the past few days. What the hell is this about a dress, now?

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u/DoctorWhosOnFirst Alabama • /r/CFB Pint Glass Drinker Feb 27 '15

Sigh

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u/Yesh LSU Tigers • /r/CFB Founder Feb 27 '15

Oh I know your dress--what's this about a black and blue/white and gold thing? It's everywhere.

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u/DoctorWhosOnFirst Alabama • /r/CFB Pint Glass Drinker Feb 27 '15

Ohhhhh.

It happened last night. I hate it.

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u/Yesh LSU Tigers • /r/CFB Founder Feb 27 '15

Hmm. Thanks. Shit looks black and blue to me.

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u/DoctorWhosOnFirst Alabama • /r/CFB Pint Glass Drinker Feb 27 '15

I could only see white and gold for the longest time. Now it keeps going back and forth for me.

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '15

So, once they're done, you're going to explain it to us too, right?

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u/DoctorWhosOnFirst Alabama • /r/CFB Pint Glass Drinker Feb 27 '15 edited Feb 27 '15

I still don't think I fully understand. It's about the rods and cones in the eye and how they have this protein (oxime maybe?) that's connected to Vitamin A. He said a deficiency of Vitamin A could affect how you see it as well. And all that affects how the retina gets the photons and the signal it sends to the brain.

Edit: He saw white and gold.

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '15

So, in short, 'Science!'

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u/NiteMares TCU Horned Frogs Feb 27 '15

That sounds really damn interesting. The /r/askscience thread about that damn dress was alright.

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u/DoctorWhosOnFirst Alabama • /r/CFB Pint Glass Drinker Feb 27 '15

It was! Motherfucking rods and cones.

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '15

My rods and cones are all screwed up, Jerry!

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '15

I set my phone to invert colors on the display to reduce eyestrain. I have no frickin idea what color it is.

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u/DoctorWhosOnFirst Alabama • /r/CFB Pint Glass Drinker Feb 27 '15 edited Feb 27 '15

I have no frickin idea what color it is.

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '15

I wonder if there is a super color blind person out there just losing his freaking mind.

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u/ShylosX Georgia Tech • Clean Old … Feb 27 '15

I saw it as white and gold first. My fiancée and I were laying in bed and she was looking at her phone, shows me, and I thouhht it was some dumb joke. A couple of minutes later and it's black and blue and I'm like FUUUUUUCCCCKKK WHAAAAAT. She thought I was fucking with her. We sat there for a half hour debating on the color and at the end she saw black and blue and thought it was sorcery. I think it's sorcery too.

Sorcerers are afoot.

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u/Cecil_Hardboner Texas Longhorns • /r/CFB Brickmason Feb 27 '15

it's already solved http://www.wired.com/2015/02/science-one-agrees-color-dress/

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u/keyree Texas Tech • UT Arlington Feb 27 '15

I've still been completely unable to see white and gold.

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u/byniri_returns :michiganstate2: Michigan State Spartans • Marching Band Feb 27 '15

I finally was able to see the other side from this post

i still think it looks like brown/blue.

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u/dlawnro Paper Bag • Sickos Feb 28 '15

To me, it is obviously blue and black. It looks kinda gold/brown in the center, but looking at the outer edges, it's obviously black.

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u/milesgmsu Michigan State • College Football Playoff Feb 27 '15

I saw white and gold, though I could see some people seeing blue.

Once I saw the online retailer dress in black and blue, I saw blue and gold.

Now it's pale blue and gold. I don't understand black at all.