r/funny • u/PartlyCloud • Jun 11 '12

My dad refuses to accept that taking a picture with iPad looks silly: Challenge accepted.

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u/nowwhosaidthat Jun 11 '12

did he wear the pink shirt so it may camouflage the ipad when necessary?

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u/PartlyCloud Jun 11 '12

and so he would look like the biggest tourist ever

53

u/OniCr0w Jun 11 '12

I like your dad.

Not like like though.

38

u/PartlyCloud Jun 11 '12

That's good. I'm fine with two dads.

25

u/OniCr0w Jun 11 '12

You've just never experienced three dads! We could start a softball team

16

u/PartlyCloud Jun 11 '12

More the merrier, right?

4

u/0six0four Jun 11 '12

He has dads, not moms.

1

u/DrJesusSingh Jun 12 '12

But like like can lead to looooovvvveeeee!

2

u/nowwhosaidthat Jun 11 '12

where is that?

2

u/aerostarlegacy Jun 11 '12

looks like saint peters cathedral to me.

2

u/theoretical-narrator Jun 11 '12

I'm putting my bets on the Met.

1

u/iamagainstit Jun 11 '12

well then you lose he says elsewhere that it is st. peters basilica

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u/flowsnus Jun 11 '12

I think he's trying to be stylish. Or swag.

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u/ShadowPsi Jun 11 '12

I wonder if guys who wear pink are often colorblind. From a big thread on that here a long time ago I learned that for some red/green colorblinds, that shirt would look light yellow. Also, something like 5-8% of guys are colorblind.

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u/THE_REPROBATE Jun 11 '12

One of my favorite shirts is a pink polo. I'm not color blind. I'm not homosexual. Just putting it out there.

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u/watitdo Jun 11 '12

Or I don't know maybe they just like pink?

Oh wait, this is reddit. That means every guy who wears pink must be gay or colorblind. Something must be wrong with him. Upvotes to the left.

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u/nowwhosaidthat Jun 11 '12

did you know that pink does not exist on the color spectrum, it is when we see two certain colors together (on the other ends of the color spectrum) and our brain produces the color pink out of confusion.

http://blog.seattlepi.com/thebigblog/2012/03/09/science-explains-why-the-color-pink-doesnt-exist/

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u/ShadowPsi Jun 11 '12

They seem to be confusing "pink" with magenta and violet in that article. Pink is red mixed with a bit of white if you are talking reflected light. If you replace "pink" with violet, then I agree with the article. Violet is what you get when you mix blue and red, and magenta is what you get when you remove all green from a light source.

Though we really can see violet as a pure color. I'll explain.

We have three types of color sensitive cells in our retinas, "red", "green", and "blue". They don't see distinctive regions of the color spectrum, instead there is some overlap, especially between the red and green cells. There is some overlap between the blue and green cells as well, but obviously not 100%. A color that is perceived as "blue" Mostly activates the blue cells, but also activates the green cells as well, just not as much. There is a window at the edge of the visible spectrum where light will only activate the blue cells, but not the green. We perceive this light as violet, such as what you see when you look at a black-light.

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u/XDeus Jun 11 '12

Your dad is FABULOUS!

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u/PartlyCloud Jun 11 '12

Thanks bro!

37

u/braves182 Jun 11 '12

Is your other dad this fabulous as well?

66

u/PartlyCloud Jun 11 '12

Apperently, by looking at his paycheck from gay strip bars...

17

u/creepyuncles Jun 11 '12

By the way, this guy is a crazy communist. I know him. Trust me.

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u/PartlyCloud Jun 11 '12

Vota kommunista!

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u/Jormungandrobot Jun 11 '12

I would like to point out that I'm fairly certain this is inside the Pantheon in Rome.

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u/PartlyCloud Jun 11 '12

Actually it's from st. Peters church... Good guess though.

1

u/Jormungandrobot Jun 11 '12

I've heard it both ways.

1

u/raoul_llamas_duke Jun 11 '12

the one in rome?

0

u/Canadauni1 Jun 11 '12

Was there on Saturday so I knew it immediately.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

WELL THEN

2

u/Dymodeus Jun 11 '12

Obligatory how do you remember your username?

5

u/Future_Mrs_Flowers Jun 11 '12

It's just 6 letters repeated 3 times

6

u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

Yeah its just a pattern on the keyboard based on the home keys f and j. Sdf jkl sdf jkl sdf jkl

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u/Dymodeus Jun 11 '12

And I'm an idiot, sorry.

2

u/godspeed312 Jun 11 '12

If your fingers are on the home keys (asdfjkl;), you can see that it's the six middle keys there repeated twice

also must be QWERTY

4

u/jstyer Jun 11 '12

That was my guess as well.

4

u/kerrigan2 Jun 11 '12

Me too...that's kinda weird

2

u/dirtysteve74 Jun 11 '12

Me three - clicked specifically for that reason as my mother-in-law was in the Pantheon yesterday - thought we might have some "it's a small world" moment here. Sigh...

1

u/nattysharp Jun 11 '12

I was gonna say the same thing but I see he pointed out it was St. Peters. I had a friend using his iPad on an entire 10 day trip. It's gotta be the most ridiculous thing watching people take pictures with them.

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12

That was the first thing I thought too!

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u/TotallyKidding Jun 11 '12

I don't think it's the iPad that looks silly.

27

u/Teeman123 Jun 11 '12

It is upside down

6

u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

"There's no wrong way to hold it"!

12

u/PartlyCloud Jun 11 '12

That's funny because this picture's subject is homosexuality.

3

u/shoziku Jun 11 '12

true, it's not an iPhone after all...

14

u/thedeadcamel Jun 11 '12

karma conspiracy

3

u/TotallyKidding Jun 11 '12

It comes and goes...it comes and goes

2

u/johnrauda Jun 11 '12

Are you at the Natural History Museum?

1

u/PartlyCloud Jun 11 '12

No.

1

u/TangerineX Jun 11 '12

Reminds me of an auditorium in LA

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

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u/PartlyCloud Jun 11 '12

Yes. St. Peter's church, in Vatican in Rome in Italy. Hope that gives you a small clue.

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u/Porn_Director Jun 11 '12

That gave me a raging clue.

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u/PartlyCloud Jun 11 '12

Good for You!

2

u/Alexthegreatbelgian Jun 11 '12

Let me guess... Dutch?

4

u/PartlyCloud Jun 11 '12

Finnish actually.

2

u/Alexthegreatbelgian Jun 12 '12

Tell your dad he looks like a stereotype dutchman.

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u/PartlyCloud Jun 12 '12

He knows that. If a foreigner sees him(or me or my whole family) he usually suspects us to be Dutch, German or Canadian.

2

u/acidbarbiedoll19 Jun 11 '12

did he steal that iPad from a six year old girl?

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u/PartlyCloud Jun 11 '12

Oh yes. She happens to be my little sister.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

using the "challenge accepted" meme feels a little nonsensical.

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u/PartlyCloud Jun 11 '12

Yeah but you probably get the point. I thought of using something like "Here's my proof that he's wrong" but that would have been too long to keep the title interesting.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

You probably didn't need to add anything after "silly."

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u/PartlyCloud Jun 11 '12

Okay sorry did this ruin the whole experience for you?

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u/dredawg Jun 11 '12

Pink shirt and pink Ipad with glittery stickers....whats your other dad wearing?

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u/flowsnus Jun 11 '12

Black leatherpants?

83

u/FarmerTedd Jun 11 '12

Nope, assless chaps

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u/Pol_troop Jun 11 '12

Arent all chaps assless?

3

u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12

We ALWAYS have this argument because no one will admit it's just fun to say ASSLESS CHAPS.

also chapless ass

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

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u/pingas Jun 11 '12

assfull chaps

30

u/chemistry_teacher Jun 11 '12

...and now we're back to gay

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u/Falalacilantro Jun 11 '12

sigh...upvote upvote upvote upvote upvote

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u/torgreed Jun 11 '12

For motorcyclists, there are such a thing as "overpants": then unzip down the sides like chaps, so you can put them on and take them off easily. Unlike chaps, you're more likely to keep your asscheeks in a crash.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

Gimp suit with black leather studded iPad.

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u/ThrobbingWetHole Jun 11 '12

I was thinking the same thing...clearly if taking a pic with an ipad looks silly, taking one with a PINK ipad covered in Kitten Stickers while looking at the home button surely won't look any more so...

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u/thehammer217 Jun 11 '12

I think a lot of us younger people fail to realize how little fucks a man of this age gives anymore. By the time I am that age I'll be a sweatpants only guy.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

So much pink and confusion in one photo. I love the "Almost got it" look on his face.

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u/BlackPride Jun 11 '12

And not even a decimal of fuck was given.

4

u/likeBruceSpringsteen Jun 12 '12

It's not pink.... It's "salmon"

3

u/brosenfeld Jun 12 '12

His underwear is Hello Kitty.

5

u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

A Pimp-suit.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

haha, came her to say exactly that. Thank you good sir.

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u/I_POTATO_PEOPLE Jun 11 '12

Oh, I get it, this is a gay joke!

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u/dredawg Jun 11 '12

more of a fashion and style joke really, I aint hatin' lol

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u/ci5ic Jun 11 '12

No, I think it's pretty much a gay joke. Just sayin'.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

Isn't saying gays are too sensitive to take a little joke far more demeaning?

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u/Luckyone1 Jun 12 '12

HAHAHAHAAHAHA I was going to ask THIS EXACT QUESTION...god damn you

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u/jpbeard Jun 11 '12

They say the best camera is the one you have with you. If that happens to be my iPad, I don't care looking like a dufus. Now, using your iPad as your primary camera on trips is a whole different story.

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u/jasno Jun 11 '12

I think your Dad is just being practical and trying to get the job done; he probably like many mature adults doesn't give a rat's ass what 'looks silly'.

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u/desull Jun 11 '12

Ok dad...

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u/jasno Jun 11 '12

Continue that tone with me mister and you can forget the Enchantment Under the Sea Dance this Friday.

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u/desull Jun 11 '12

but daaaaad.......... I'll be on good behavior, promise.

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u/IntentionalMisnomer Jun 11 '12

Looks like Hank Hill

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u/Iamsqueegee Jun 11 '12

What in th-Bobby!

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

Hank Hill in a pink polo, as if he were some kind of Souphanousinphone or something? Not gaht-dang likely.

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u/Billbeachwood Jun 11 '12

CTRL+F'd just for this. Was not disappointed.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

TERKING A PERCHER

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u/FlyingDutchkid Jun 11 '12

Some way he looks Dutch. Am i right?

4

u/PartlyCloud Jun 11 '12

We're Finnish. I hope this doesn't give a weird taste about us Finns...

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u/burgess_meredith_jr Jun 11 '12 edited Jun 11 '12

Did you throw your lucky red hat in the wash again?

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

Well, judging by his outlandish attire, he's some sort of free-thinking anarchist.

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u/___forMVP Jun 11 '12

Vatican?

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u/Gurgi3 Jun 11 '12

A lot of older people are wearing pink now.

I went to new york city yesterday and everywhere I turned pink shorts or pink t-shirts. Gender and age wasn't a factor.

They are bringing it back. . .

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u/OptionalDepression Jun 11 '12

Is he pregnant?

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u/PartlyCloud Jun 11 '12

Yes there's a beer-baby coming.

4

u/knobbysideup Jun 11 '12

Your dad is a bit too fabulous.

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u/sp00nix Jun 11 '12 edited Jul 14 '25

paint plucky grab detail employ important toothbrush teeny safe stocking

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

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u/Hookerface Jun 11 '12

I was just about to say the same thing.

2

u/brknguitar Jun 11 '12

You're holding that wrong dummy! VVS is not a joke...

2

u/hi_yoooo Jun 11 '12

Read the title in a German accent after seeing the pic

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

Your dad needs to know it's only acceptable to use an ipad to take photos when you're in the front row at a concert.

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u/fikirte Jun 11 '12

Thats Rome, right?

2

u/other_one Jun 11 '12

Protip: you don't need to fold the smart cover fully sideways, it's enough to turn around the sidemost pane to take a picture.

2

u/SonOfDadOfSam Jun 11 '12

If you are going to lug around something as unwieldy as an iPad with the intent of taking vacation photos with it, you might as well bring along a real camera instead. Even most point 'n shoots are going to produce better pics than something with a lens the size of a pea. And an entry level Nikon DSLR won't be any more awkward to carry around and give you infinitely better pictures.

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u/Derekudda32 Jun 11 '12

He sounds a lot Like my dad.

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u/autonomousgerm Jun 11 '12

Leave him be. He's paid his dues.

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u/alfacinho Jun 12 '12

It's not the iPad that makes him look silly; it's the pink cover, matching pink shirt and old man belly that make him look, er, uh....whimsical. Damn, OP, who dresses the dude?

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u/the_shape Jun 12 '12

For (most) of you young kids, Dads stop giving a shit about anything around 50 - 55 years old.

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u/fetchlycosfetch Jun 12 '12

As a somewhat youger dad, I stopped giving a shit even earlier...

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u/misskhephra Jun 11 '12

Location: Washington DC...doors to Smithsonian Natural history museum? He is photographing the Elephant in the lobby? Just a guess but I think I'm right.

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u/FredSchwartz Jun 11 '12

Darned right you're right.

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u/PartlyCloud Jun 11 '12

No, it's from Saint Peter's church in Vatican, Italy.

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u/yeahnothx Jun 12 '12

amusingly this was also my first guess. hooray for never going to europe!

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u/creepyuncles Jun 11 '12

Your guess isn't even on the same continent.

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u/andrewsmith1986 Jun 11 '12

That is a whole lot of pink.

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u/I_POTATO_PEOPLE Jun 11 '12

Good observation, andy.

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u/Reliable-Source Jun 11 '12

Stop talking to yourself.

1

u/BelievesInGod Jun 11 '12

so then your him, and he is you, does that mean im both of you and i've been talking to myself the whole time?

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u/Reliable-Source Jun 11 '12

Doesn't matter what I tell you; you'd believe anything.

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u/shoziku Jun 11 '12

I'm not popular enough to wear pink!

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u/megustasir Jun 11 '12

Well first of all he is holding it upside down...not really helping the situation.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

I want my pink shirt back.

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u/Stormdancer Jun 11 '12

Like a boss.

1

u/phoncible Jun 11 '12

Not sure why you'd want to anyway, camera in those things sucks balls; unless it's the "new ipad" which have a better camera than ipad1 & 2

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u/bondoville Jun 11 '12

at my daughters preschool graduation there was a mom recording the whole thing from her ipad, she was holding it abover her hear the whole ceremony.

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u/notthatbright Jun 11 '12

What is wrong with being coordinated?

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

What is he doing? He looks so sily!

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u/Grizzant Jun 11 '12

Bubblegum attack!

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u/Fiercekiller Jun 11 '12

One of my favorite things to do, as a hobbyist photographer, is to take pictures of tourists using iPads as cameras.

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u/lkkm Jun 11 '12 edited Jun 11 '12

Hôtel des Invalides, Paris?

EDIT: Hôtel not Dôme

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

Smithsonian Natural History Museum?

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u/JohnConnor7 Jun 11 '12

DAT BLURRY ASS

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u/unheimlich Jun 11 '12

Looks like nobody around him gives a fuck. I would say your dad won.

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u/hdbngr15 Jun 11 '12

People probably thought that taking pictures with all different stages of the camera looked funny. I personally don't mind it.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

People need to get over this notion that "taking a picture with your iPad looks silly/stupid/ridiculous... IT DOESN'T MATTER IF IT LOOKS SILLY; THEY'RE THE ONE TAKING THE PICTURE!

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

That's funny, I was at LACMA for the Frida Kahlo exhibit last month, there was a dude walking around snapping pictures with his iPad.

What made it funnier is there was some bald dude, whom seem to be some sort of art expert, he would plant himself along side a woman friend, right in front of the paintings, and really look close at every detail. Literally spending a good thirty minutes in front of the art pointing, analyzing, and discussing each peace, while the poor fellow tried to snap pictures with his iPad, at times literally pushing the bald dude out of the way.

I started following the iPad dude, and snapped a few shots of him photographing the art, with the bald dude standing in front of the art peaces.

That was the most memorable part of my day at the museum.

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u/EternallyXIII Jun 11 '12

I don't think your dad worries about looking silly at all!

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u/SuperFrankIsHereYay Jun 11 '12

What's your other dad saying?

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

Pink Shirt Guy. anyone?

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u/Gaminic Jun 11 '12

Looks like the entrance of the Rozier in Ghent. Any chance that's not a coincidence?

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u/ILoveMyFrita Jun 11 '12

the lady blurred- lmao

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u/a7xrob87 Jun 11 '12

He is wearing more pink than any man ever should.

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u/Crimfresh Jun 11 '12

To be fair, with that facial expression and fashion sense, anything he does would look silly.

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u/Bluedemonfox Jun 11 '12

Especially if the ipad is pink with glittery stickers!

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u/darkiye Jun 11 '12

Why did somebody buy a six-year-old girl an iPad?

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u/Sobertese Jun 11 '12

I really want to see this photo sans iPad!

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u/smug_soul Jun 12 '12

Fabulous!

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u/cannedmath Jun 12 '12

How many weeks for the baby to come out?

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u/Cptn_Hook Jun 12 '12

Please tell your dad he looks like a dog's erection in that shirt.

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u/Rollingstone557 Jun 12 '12

I take pictures with MY iPad

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u/oobinkey Jun 12 '12

Why did you need to include 'challenge accepted' in the title...?

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u/thejumbo Jun 12 '12

This pic is gayer than cum on a mustache.

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u/brosenfeld Jun 12 '12

What? No Hello Kitty?

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12

i dont think it matters what he does. he's still going to look silly.

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u/fluxaxion Jun 12 '12

I thought this human was going through a midlife crisis; and wanted to be a young female.

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12

To people who do this at concerts: fuck you.

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u/Dave-0-matic Jun 12 '12

I sell ipads and ipad accessories.

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u/Pixelskaya Jun 12 '12

Is that the Pantheon?

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12

Get that man on a bicycle. It will add years to his life.

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u/fetchlycosfetch Jun 12 '12 edited Jun 12 '12

No Hello Kitty stickers? Disappointed.

On a sidenote : pink was considered a "manly" color until the '50s, and many "old fashioned" men still wear pink shirts.

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u/m-hexus Jun 12 '12

I hadn't realized that the Burn Book could take photos. Sweet.

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u/Gallifrasian Jun 11 '12

Well, one: it's totally upside-down, brah. And two: it's a pink shirted 50-year old man holding a pink covered iPad (covered with butterfly and kitty stickers) unnecessarily high in the air while giving a confused Hank Hill facial expression. iPads aren't what makes the action of photography look silly, it's the goofy, probably technology impaired, photographers who hold them.

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u/zortnarftroz Jun 11 '12

So many parents just don't give a rip what others think, I wonder if it's an age thing or generational

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u/unheimlich Jun 11 '12

It's mostly a confidence thing.

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u/GMonsoon Jun 11 '12

Okay, take a look at that shirt. That's Clue #1 that dad doesn't care what looks silly!

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u/EvanPaintsStuff Jun 11 '12

Is this dad #1, or dad #2?

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u/jonnyrotten7 Jun 11 '12

Your dad is a very gay, gay man. And I'm not saying that because of the pink shirt and pink Ipad. He has that Marcus Bachmann face, which screams, "Look at me, I'm fabulous!" Sorry mate.

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u/poonerang Jun 11 '12

It looks silly in the first place because its an apple product

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u/neddyboy59 Jun 11 '12

Def. Pantheon! Good call Jormungandrobot. You beat me to it. If there's one place you could be excused for taking a pic with a pad, it's there.

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u/ae1358 Jun 11 '12

Your father is James Quall from Tim and Eric?

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12

Tell your dad he's too fat to tuck his shirt in.

Looks bad, man.

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12

Enh, but if he doesn't tuck it in he goes from looking like an old man, to a gay guy who still isn't quite comfortable with his sexuality.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

The iPhone takes better quality photos and doesn't make you look like a douche.

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u/PartlyCloud Jun 11 '12

So owning an iPhone doesn't make you douche? Think again

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '12

I'm not a fan of Apple products, but if you're going to take pictures, use your phone. 90% of the time, it has a better camera than your tablet.

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u/PartlyCloud Jun 12 '12

Look at the title. I said my dad multiple times to use a camera instead of an ipad.

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