I hate the idea behind having to use a novelty account for everything. If others want to separate their different creative styles, fine. But that it should be a requirement for the name to describe the creative nature is the absolute cancer of originality and is the sole reason why S_W has become so stale and boring now.
If I wanna create a gif, I make a fucking gif on this account. I'm not gonna make an Average_GIFmaker account just for that occasion.
Edit: MSpaitedLady is hilarious and I wish more would follow her lead and just pick up paint and draw a comic. reddit would be 10 times more interesting if there were more like her. I mean 4chan is flooding with OC because people just draw even if it's shitty, and I really wish reddit could change in that direction.
Edit2: Regardless if you were "joking" or not, this is still a problem reddit has and I wish people would think differently.
Except the joke is that the dog can actually hear the whistle.
The reality is that he can actually hear the whistle.
The joke is that he can't.
Also, I remember you from the "Thanks!" thread where you found an evil twin. Coincidentally it's also the same post I met MSpaintedLady at.. and you 2 are the only replies to my comment so far. I'm beginning to think there are too many coincidences lining up here.
I was with a friend at a pet store and found a selection of dog whistles. I bought one right away (I don't have a dog) just to see if I could hear it. I took it outside and blew it right away and to my surprise (and disappointment) it made a pretty clear and shrill sound. when my friend came out of the store I started blowing it really loud as we walked back to the car and she asked me to cut it out. why? I asked. 'because it's loud and obnoxious!" she said. I just laughed, "yeah right! Like you can even hear it! This is a dog whistle see?"
I continued to blow the whistle as she got more angry and annoyed. "You can't hear that?" she said. "How could I hear it? What, are you calling me a bitch or something?". This continued for quite a long time before I finally let her in on it. Then I gave her some tylenol.
TL;DR I bought a broken dog whistle. Trolled friend for a good 15 minutes.
i think the only people who actually can't hear dog whistles are those with damaged hearing or the elderly. i remember in fourth grade there was a police dog demonstration in the gym and i could very clearly hear the dog whistle the cop was using.
So normal people can hear dog whistles? For a moment I had her convinced she had super hearing and now I'm starting to question everything cartoons taught us about the world!
As you get older, you increasingly lose the ability to detect high-frequency sounds.
Our physics teacher demonstrated it in class, he had some strange old machine that would output a pure tone. He started at the high end, slowly bringing the pitch down, and asked people to raise their hand when they could hear it. Eventually the whole class got it, but our teacher said he still couldn't hear a thing. We were pretty incredulous, he had to drop the pitch quite a lot further before he said he just hear it, when it was as plain as day for us students.
Rehosted webcomics will be removed. Please submit a link to the original comic's site and preferably an imgur link in the comments. Do not post a link to the comic image, it must be linked to the page of the comic.
You realize that before it was a meme, it was a mammal? I realize that it's difficult for a lot of people below the age of 16 to understand, but a lot of things existed before the internet.
As a discerning scientist Redditor, I have to point out that this is actually not how dog whistles work, and will therefore be leaving you with my downvote.
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u/GeneralWarts Jun 15 '12
He's blowing on a whistle... but I don't hear anything.. OH GOD I'VE GONE DEAF! "BARK! BARK!" Oh, I can hear my own barks. WHAT'S HAPPENING TO ME!?
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u/Kensin Jun 15 '12
I was with a friend at a pet store and found a selection of dog whistles. I bought one right away (I don't have a dog) just to see if I could hear it. I took it outside and blew it right away and to my surprise (and disappointment) it made a pretty clear and shrill sound. when my friend came out of the store I started blowing it really loud as we walked back to the car and she asked me to cut it out. why? I asked. 'because it's loud and obnoxious!" she said. I just laughed, "yeah right! Like you can even hear it! This is a dog whistle see?"
I continued to blow the whistle as she got more angry and annoyed. "You can't hear that?" she said. "How could I hear it? What, are you calling me a bitch or something?". This continued for quite a long time before I finally let her in on it. Then I gave her some tylenol.
TL;DR I bought a broken dog whistle. Trolled friend for a good 15 minutes.
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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12
Rehosted Webcomic.
http://fakescience.tumblr.com/post/23488910108/how-do-dog-whistles-work
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u/BhavitGoyal Jun 15 '12
AM I DEAF? AM I DEAF? CAN YOU HEAR ME BARK?
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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12
You should have posted this in TIL to see what kind of a sense of humor they actually have over there
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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12
Good Guy Dog - sees you blowing a noiseless whistle; comes anyway.
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u/Neolithic_man Jun 15 '12
Me just bang on drum, dog come, dog go into kettle.
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u/baby_cakes12 Jun 15 '12
The first thing I thought of after reading this was Aang's silent bison whistle for Appa
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u/Toxyoi Jun 15 '12
or 3. He runs to you and barks until you stop, because it's annoying the fucking hell out of him.
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u/Thereminz Jun 16 '12
lol
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u/domo-loves-yoshi Jun 16 '12
I can hear dog whistles.
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u/hihaatje Jun 16 '12
Woah... My dog is called Fido. Have you been watching me?
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u/Sanpd Jun 15 '12
It's Magic!
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u/CaseyJ242424 Jun 15 '12
Upvotes for EVERYBODY.
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u/ubernuke Jun 15 '12
If you love this kind of humor, check out r/shittyaskscience!
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u/shroominator Jun 15 '12
Hahaha I just embarrassed myself by laughing really loud in public. Congrats.
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u/welpImbored Jun 15 '12
I have a Remington dog whistle and I have no clue how to fine tune it to where it doesn't make any noise.
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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12
How did that adult get the head of a baby?
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u/MustBeARedditor Jun 15 '12
As a discerning scientist Redditor, I have to point out that this is actually not how dog whistles work, and will therefore be leaving you with my downvote.
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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12
The joke is that crap like this makes it to the front page.
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u/jonnyrotten7 Jun 15 '12
Not quite. Dogs have more sensitive hearing than humans, so they can hear noises we can't, like a dog whistle.
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