Hi. I will be away from my computer until Friday so thought that I would post a longer-than-usual piece. Let’s see if we can find the world’s rudest illusion! After the break are ten rude illusions – take a look at them and then vote on your favourite (not work safe and not suitable for some children)….
1) Is this a book?
2) Nice lamp….
3) Bubbling
4) Anyone want a massage?
5) Beach party
6) Good shot….
7) Old ad…
8) Camping…
9) Piglets
10) Nice arms…
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December 28, 2010 at 5:33 am |
What is wrong with you, you filthy wench
December 28, 2010 at 6:18 am |
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December 28, 2010 at 8:04 am |
anybody caring to explain what is “rude” in #1 for example?
December 28, 2010 at 10:12 am
It looks a bit like boobs. Boobs are almost as rude as bottoms.
December 28, 2010 at 8:31 am |
Is the first one Nigella Lawson?
December 28, 2010 at 8:58 am |
The second one is a double illusion. It is actually NOT a lamp.
http://www.moillusions.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/lamp-lie-illusion-demotivational-poster.jpg
December 28, 2010 at 9:41 am
Sorry but ‘The Lamp is a Lie’ is a lie
http://thelampisalie.com/itisalie.html
December 28, 2010 at 2:17 pm
I wonder exactly how recursive that one can get.
December 28, 2010 at 10:14 am |
am i the only one for whom the page is blank? no illusions for me
December 28, 2010 at 10:16 am |
No illusions for me, either. Perhaps my internet browser has decided I’m under 18?
December 28, 2010 at 10:22 am |
No see images
… makes me sad
December 28, 2010 at 10:40 am
me too!
December 28, 2010 at 11:08 am
All blank here too
December 28, 2010 at 11:19 am
And me, there’s nothing there
December 28, 2010 at 10:26 am |
I went with #6 as it seems the least staged and the piggy second but running close would be the last one….. but hey where did the photos go? One second they are there and now they are gone?
December 28, 2010 at 11:05 am |
No illusions here for me either…… Using Firefox.
December 28, 2010 at 11:06 am |
No illussions for me either
December 28, 2010 at 11:14 am |
no illusions here either. Being conspiratorial – is this censorship by the unknown?
December 28, 2010 at 11:22 am |
I have no illusions to look at either. What does it say about us that we are commenting on the lack of rude pictures!!
December 29, 2010 at 7:41 am
lol
December 28, 2010 at 1:10 pm |
Rudeness (like pornography) is in the mind of the beholder/listener. It is time that people accept reality and understand that all things, all symbols, all words, will educate–that there is nothing sacred nor profane but a part of life. One sees what one desires to see–and few see what truly exists. It is from this self-centeredness that mortals define their own limitations and create illusions for the mind to placate its quest for knowledge. I applaud the photographs for they, individually and collectively, detail the mentality of each person–much in the same way that religion is an illusion that pacifies those who do not think for themselves but kowtow to others they feel are somehow superior or to a book determined as unique (none are) or a deity that is the ultimate fantasy.
December 31, 2010 at 5:51 am
Love it, well said!
December 28, 2010 at 3:20 pm |
I don’t get the lamp one or the massage one!
January 8, 2011 at 4:22 pm
likewise. didnt get no.4
December 28, 2010 at 5:23 pm |
The lamp one…visualize legs and a thong bikini.
The massage one…look at upper left photo…visualize that it is not a neck that she is massaging.
Hope that helps.
December 29, 2010 at 8:00 am
if you don’t see a neck being massaged then that person has a odd growth on her lower right thigh and is in desperate need of a mega waxing or shave of her right thigh too!…….lol……
December 28, 2010 at 5:52 pm |
No. 9 is the rudest but the beach party one is the funniest.
December 28, 2010 at 7:33 pm |
Thanks miguel
December 28, 2010 at 9:37 pm |
ok I feel like a dumbass but I’ve been looking at number 3 (Bubbling, mostly the top one) all day on my phone and just can’t get the illusion. somebody please?
December 28, 2010 at 9:51 pm
NEVERMIND got it, that was dumb
December 28, 2010 at 9:52 pm |
Just asked my 4 year old what she thought #1 was. “I think it’s a light”
December 28, 2010 at 11:39 pm |
I think the bubbles take the prize. You can use it on your friends which is simply… rude…
December 29, 2010 at 12:02 am |
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December 29, 2010 at 2:46 am |
It sure seems we need to take out ‘dirty thoughts’ bias out when considering what’s rude. At first glance, many people (particularly innocent 4 year olds) may actually see pigs!
December 29, 2010 at 1:15 pm |
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December 29, 2010 at 8:29 pm |
Do you realize that I had seen the lamp image for quite some time before I even realized that it was supposed to BE an illusion? Absent any descriptive reason to believe otherwise it just looks like a lamp modelled after streetlamps.
December 29, 2010 at 11:07 pm |
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December 29, 2010 at 11:37 pm |
The last one always blows my mind. I know it’s the other girl’s arm, yet every time I see it I’m all “hee hee, it looks like she’s naked, hee hee.”
December 30, 2010 at 7:21 am |
‘Not suitable for *some* children’ – nice attention to detail there!
Almost as good as calling able-bodied people the ‘not-yet disabled.’
I hadn’t seen the piglets one before. Beautiful! To use completely the wrong word.
December 30, 2010 at 6:35 pm |
There was I thinking that the internet was free from censorship. I suppose you’ll be telling me that Santa Claus don’t exist next. We used to snigger at stuff like this in the playground during the 50′s
January 1, 2011 at 6:41 pm |
I didn’t find anything really obscene … Maybe my mind isn’t keen enough. The bubbling is, of course, a dirty trick! The last picture struck me as “Ew”, so I voted.
July 29, 2011 at 8:48 am |
What is the point of the massage?
August 16, 2011 at 12:00 pm |
store…
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October 24, 2011 at 8:06 am |
The 3rd images are bubbled. If anyone wanted to have a go at bubbling they can at http://www.onlinebubbling.com/.
I’m listening to Richard Wiseman as I type on Skeptic’s Guide to the Universe