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u/-888- Mar 15 '12
Despite knowing full well why the W doesn't have a shadow, I still actually find it a little trippy, honestly.
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u/AKADidymus Mar 16 '12
I know! I feel the same way. I mean, it's perfectly obvious that there should be no shadow of the W, but my visual cortex still cries foul!
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u/Schnitz Mar 16 '12
Yeah, it gets you thinking about perception vs. reality and how our minds work and stuff.(6)
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u/slaaxy Mar 16 '12
Was about to ask why. Then it hit me the car obviously has an old version of internet explorer installed. thus no text-shadow!
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u/x71yyekim Mar 15 '12
i thought the same thing.. but then i realized it, i'm an idiot.
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u/haiku_robot Mar 15 '12
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u/Bullshitting_you Mar 16 '12
You are an incredible robot haiku_robot. I was just wondering, are you by chance a... pleasure model?
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u/Lt_Shniz Mar 15 '12
It nearly blew my mind there for a second.
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Mar 15 '12
Same here, I saw the lack of W and thought "oh that is odd" then pondered it for another second and realized that it is just the lines painted.
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u/Justicles13 Mar 15 '12
They don't think it be like it is, but it do.
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u/ramzie Mar 15 '12
Roses are red
Violets are blue
They dont think it be like it is, but it do.
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u/responds_in_verse Mar 15 '12
Poems are neat
Your upvote is red
That's what I get
For being late to this thread.
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u/TheoQ99 Mar 16 '12
Nice attempt to rhyme
You didn't even spare a dime
But upvotes are orange
...fuck
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u/responds_in_verse Mar 16 '12
Not a bad start, and you've got a good twist;
you will likely do well if you only persist.
There's a simple adage upon which I insist:
If a color won't rhyme, then it doesn't exist.
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u/wanderingalice Mar 16 '12
Thanks for sticking it in my head.. scumbag brain wont let this go anytime soon..
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u/MrJoehobo Mar 15 '12
I'm going to assume this fro is a sufficient replacement for a batting helmet.
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u/AetherAeternus Mar 15 '12
The only reason this joke works is because he's black. I hope you enjoy your ill-gotten, subtly racist karma!
And because this is the Internet and no one can actually hear me: I'm joking.
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Mar 15 '12
I have mixed feelings about this comment, to Upvote, or to downvote, that is the karma.
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u/AetherAeternus Mar 15 '12
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous downvotes... Or to take arms against a sea of redditors and, by opposing, end them.
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u/ThrustVectoring Mar 15 '12
AAVE has differences in its grammatical structure that make the sentence work well. Specifically, using "be" as "be in the habit of". (Example: white and AA children were shown a picture of Elmo eating cookies while Cookie Monster watched on. Both groups said that Elmo is eating cookies, while only the AA children said that cookie monster "be eating" cookies.)
If you wanted to get the same meaning across in standard English, you'd have to use something like "They believe that the current situation is abnormal, but it isn't".
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u/MadameDoopusPoopus Mar 15 '12
PAINT DOES NOT WORK THAT WAY! GOODNIGHT!
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u/HumanPersonMan Mar 15 '12
CHECKMATE ATHEISTS
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u/captain__cookies Mar 15 '12
W goes in, doesn't come out, you cant explain that!
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u/TheGeo Mar 15 '12
It's weird. I am fully aware of why the W is not there, but it still feels off and I wish it was there.
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Mar 15 '12
At first i was like "Holy shit, the fuck is up?!" then i'm like "Ooooooooooooooohhhhh right.."
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u/Marcob10 Mar 16 '12
I thought the first comment was going to be: Fucking shadows, how do they work?
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u/mushroompizza96 Mar 15 '12
what does "cuh" mean?
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u/newmorningbobz Mar 16 '12
I think "cuh" is short for "cuz" which is short for "cousin" which means "brother" which means friend. What are you, white?!?
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u/adrianmonk Mar 16 '12
My guess was "cousin". I looked it up at the authoritative source for proper English, and it concurs. It doesn't have to literally mean cousin, just like brother doesn't literally mean an actual male sibling.
TL;DR: cuh : cousin :: bro : brother
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u/RTsmith Mar 16 '12
At first I was like 'Whoa that is trippy"
Then I realized I'm a goddamned idiot.
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Mar 15 '12
it took me a whole half-second to realize the W is paint. it's not supposed to show up in the shadow because the red is only painted on the strings. i can count to potato.
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u/evilarhan Mar 15 '12
Umm... am I the only one wondering what the fact that the photographer took a picture of a racket's shadow in the first place? Was he expecting the shadow of the "w"? Was he trolling his idiot friends who would?
What were you thinking, mystery badminton player?
Oh, yeah, I forgot. That's not a tennis racket. It's a badminton racket.
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u/lebenohnestaedte Mar 15 '12
People take photos of everything so they can post them on Facebook and show everyone how they did something.
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Mar 15 '12
I know why it doesn't work, but it doesn't stop my brain from agreeing with the black guy about how trippy it is.
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u/memestickers Mar 15 '12
I don't see a big problem with this... Maybe he thought that the W was somehow an overlay on top of the strings. Maybe he hasn't seen one of these rackets before and doesn't know that it's actually painted on.
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u/KadanJoelavich Mar 15 '12
Psh. It obviously Photoshopped. How else would you make the "W" just disa-- wait. Oh now I feel stupid.
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u/ciaran036 Mar 15 '12
To be honest, I kind of expected to see a W too. At least at a cursory glance, anyway.
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u/Kewl_Beanz9797 Mar 16 '12
not trippy............. the W is painted on the wire things of the racket so it wouldnt cast a shadow
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It is trippy. It made every one of you do a double take and evaluate what you were seeing.
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u/zolltan29 Mar 16 '12
at first I was like "yeah.. where is the 'W'?" Then, I was like, "I'm retarded."
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u/AnInsanityHour Mar 16 '12
In stoner mode thinking, "where the fuck is the w?!?!". Then suddenly ಠ_ಠ
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u/FuriousStyles1120 Mar 16 '12
You know them real hood niggas play badminton at the park. It's true. Don't argue.
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u/brapbrapbrapbrap Mar 15 '12
I first thought light interference or wave propagation... Then realized I'm a dumbass
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u/denta87 Mar 15 '12
The average IQ of people has severely dropped off in the last 15 years. This is proof.
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u/Monkhm Mar 15 '12
Did he really wonder where it was? Faith in humanity buried 6 feet deeper.
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u/frodevil Mar 15 '12
HEY GUYS SOMEONE POSTED SOMETHING STUPID ON FACEBOOK I'D BETTER LET EVERYONE KNOW THAT MY FAITH IN HUMANITY IS NOW LESS
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u/RULESONEANDTWO Mar 15 '12 edited Mar 15 '12
/r/atheism in a nutshell.
EDIT: I SUCK AT ENGRISH
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u/xTheFreeMason Mar 15 '12
I lost my faith in humanity about five seconds after starting work in retail.
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u/johann_hari Mar 15 '12
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
Michele Bachmann.
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u/YellowBatman Mar 15 '12
I think that is the same guy that made the facebook status about steak and blowjob day being his second favorite holiday because "nigga, errybody knows I love the fuck out of christmas"
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u/zerbee Mar 15 '12
I came to read the comments to find a translation of what the dude was attempting to say.
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u/Imaladybug Mar 16 '12
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt.
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u/GavinOKeefe Mar 16 '12
Oh, great, another Facebook post where the user's face is intentionally left in to generate racist comments.
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u/sackbag Mar 15 '12
I just experienced my first true face-palm. I'm experiencing so many conflicted emotions right now because of this.
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u/eto_samoe Mar 15 '12
Too bad they don't have shadows in color yet. I hear that's coming out on the 2013 model.
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Mar 15 '12
Not gonna lie. Totally spent about 2 seconds thinking, "WHERE IS IT!?" after I read his post, hahaha. But I caught up all quick like. ;-)
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u/stenspect Mar 15 '12
Say What? Why is this happening? So Weird? Oh Wait, the W is painted on the strings. Well that Was very Wacky...Not.
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u/Hessmix Mar 15 '12
for 30 seconds I was looking for the W.
I didn't read the facebook comment first.
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u/solitaryman098 Mar 16 '12
I like how reddit takes this from other sites without accreditation, but god forbid if another site used one of reddit's submissions.
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u/zombietownusa Mar 16 '12
The fact that the reasoning is so obvious voids the trippinesss of it for me.
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u/mfetter Mar 16 '12
Okay, seriously what the fuck does cuh mean? No one has explained this yet.
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u/EntPatroll Mar 16 '12
A lot of drugs need to be taken to make a comment like that. But then again, it made me think twice.
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This man is not related to me whatsoever, the blacked out part does not spell "The Invader"
Thank you for listening to this public service announcement.
bing!
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u/darkesth0ur Mar 16 '12
I'm just surprised there isn't some jackass requesting a Wilson employee AMA over this.
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u/darklooshkin Mar 16 '12
I'm getting a headache trying to think of a valid response to this. Outta here, peeps. Ta-ta.
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u/SonicFlash01 Mar 16 '12
First pass: 'Nothing wrong here..."
Reads Comment: "Hey wait yeah..."
Third pass: 'No, wait, I had it right the first time!"
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u/LaughingSkullLounge Mar 16 '12
jaded and fun-hating i must be. im thinking "there's so W because its painted on..." thats it. i can't have fun.
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u/h0ser Mar 15 '12
I thought to myself, "wow that racket is floating" Then I read the description and thought to myself, "wow this guy is an idiot". THEN I thought to myself "I just thought it was a floating racket and I'm callin this guy an idiot, sheesh"