speaking of infecting my vocabulary. i saw this post and spent like three days whispering “beepeur” to myself. i don’t know why this killed me but it did so i’m bringing it here.
This optical illusion is driving the internet crazy! The Daily Mail reports that this “Seemingly simple optical illusion will have your brain doing somersaults.” Though it seems like there are more, there are in fact only five bars in this diagram.
Your mind subconsciously interprets this line drawing of an impossible cube as a three-dimensional object, even though it is not actually possible for such an object to exist.
Which rectangle is darker? Though the one on the left appears to be darker, they are in fact exactly the same. Blocking the dividing line with your middle finger may help illustrate this devilish illusion. [h/t Boing Boing]
so there’s this exhibitionist who’s only aroused by being looked at naked & who’s extremely turned off by seeing other people naked. he can’t solve this with a blindfold because he needs to visually witness his nudity being witnessed by others in order to get off but if anyone else whom he can see is naked, it just ruins things for him. his quest to bust and his aversion to the flesh of the Other leads him down an erotic road paved with selfish intentions until, by some stroke of misfortune, he stumbles into the home of a petty bureaucrat holding an orgy. nude but fleeing from the nudity of others, the exhibitionist streaks through narrow halls, down winding corridors, and finally escapes into the Mirror Room. and he sees himself, naked, for the very first time. two hours later when the orgy arrives at the Mirror Room they find a warm corpse on the floor with no reflection in the mirror. panic! screaming. fainting. chaos. the party’s over, the police are called, somebody puts a sheet over the mirror because the lack of a reflection is upsetting people. week later the coroner is able to identify the body of the exhibitionist with reference to dental records and the cause of death is ruled to be sudden cardiac arrest. which is a relief because no one at the scene could even identify the body, everybody forgot what he looked like. no one could remember anything. a whole orgy detained for questioning. you can imagine the inconvenience. anyway, that’s why we keep the dustcloth over it
noticing that for mono relationships you hear stuff like “they weren’t right for each other” or “it just didn’t work out” but for poly relationships it’s always “this is why I could never do polyamory”
okay good, not just me then
The most hilarious version of this happened to me when my boyfriend broke up with me to be monogamous with his other, newer girlfriend, who was new to poly and decided it wasn’t for her. She was just out of college, I understood her changing her mind even if I was heartbroken about it. Anyway, mom said “Hon, maybe you wouldn’t be in this situation if… you know… the poly?”
To which I replied, “Mom. Are you saying if I were monogamous, I would never have to deal with my boyfriend dumping me for a younger woman?”
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“Which rectangle is darker? Though the one on the left appears to be darker, they are in fact exactly the same. Blocking the dividing line with your middle finger may help illustrate this devilish illusion. [h/t Boing Boing]
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