[Mako: You sucked that guys dick? Korra: Yeah…how do you think I knew that he… Mako: wait, but you said that you only had sex with three different guys! You never mentioned him! Korra: Because I never HAD sex with him! Mako: You sucked his dick! – Mako: What?! Something like 36? Korra: Lower your voice… Mako: Wait, what is that anyways, something like 36? Does that include me? Korra: ….You’re 37 Mako: I’m 37?! Korra: I’m going to class! Mako: uhh, my god! – Mako: 37! My girlfriend’s sucked 37 dicks! Bolin: In a row?]
now get ready for the Screaming 20s - coming to a decade near you in 2020
is it too early or can we start screaming now
There’s actually a fair deal of overlap between cultural decades. So not only is it acceptable to start screaming now, we can keep screaming up to the mid 30′s.
I remember when this post was funny
I have been thinking about this exact post since march
I always see the first three panels and think “is this supposed to sound ridiculous? Bc I would love this”, completely forgetting about the last panel, which i then scroll down to and proceed to lose my shit
im not suggesting we immediately transition to full communism or whatever, but you have to admit that Bothov had a lot of good ideas
I’m not suggesting we immediately genocide our enemies, but I think we can all agree their time is ending.
tell me, which of Bothov’s teachings do you disagree with? I bet you don’t even know who he is.
You know, you’re right, I don’t know they guy, never read anything by him, but if his ideas promote communism they’re garbage and so are you.
You’re telling me that you’ve never heard of Bothov? Come on, just ask me if you’re not sure.
Bothov is basic dialectical materialist theory, I’m against Communism myself but you really have to read Bothov to be able to form an argument against Communist on a theoretical
Seriously, @tehgore if you want me to explain Bothov to you just ask, I’m always up to talk about one of my favorite subjects.
Could you explain Bothov
I’ve never read a whole lot about communism. Overall my understanding is everyone works according to their abilities, and receives according to their needs. I think many people have kneejerk reactions against communism because of Soviet Russia and cold war era stuff. Really it’s not a bad concept, but it’s all but impossible to implement on a large scale, and generally attempts at communism have failed due to corruption and bureaucracy. I think it’s socialism that promotes everyone getting a minimum quality of life guaranteed, with the ability to work to increase your QoL, but then “oh socialism is bad because Nazis” happens. Isn’t politics grand
How did you miss the joke it’s literally right there in bold sparkly flaming letters i’m in awe
The fact that every time it’s been attempted there was corruption I think says something about the concept itself. Maybe the True ideal of communism is good, but incompatible with humanity’s desires. Someone has to regulate the communist laws after all, and that single person isn’t likely to be perfect.
Agreed. Under communism the dikfer just can’t be balanced among all members of the population. If you aren’t familiar with the concept of the dikfer just ask, I’d be happy to explain, it’s quite fascinating
What “dikfer? ”
What’s a dikfer, you ask?
You see this?!? You see this horse shit?!?! This is why we can’t have proper discourse.
read the post again and you’ll realize it was never discourse in the first place
Something that amazes me about this story is how absolutely bonkers it is that they got away with it for so long, and how if you just read about the story and didn’t see the pictures, you’d be damn near convinced that they actually took photos with actual fairies or something until basically the very end, and even then you might wonder.
Because most written accounts of what happens goes something like this: they took these photos and someone saw them, and BREAKING NEWS! And now suddenly believers and skeptics alike are itching to get ahold of these photos and determine whether or not they are real, because just looking at the photos had them either completely convinced, or else certain that some kind of photographic trickery must have been used. So there were all these experts who examined the photos, the camera, the film/plates, the whatever, to try and find out how they faked these photos (or IF they faked them). Like, expert experts. Like they got the folks at Kodak to examine them. (Over the next few decades they’d also be xrayed and all kinds of stuff.)
And they couldn’t find anything. There was no evidence of early 20th century photoshop. They examined the photos, the negatives, everything, and concluded that they hadn’t been tampered with. Arthur Conan Doyle was LOSING HIS SHIT because he thought they were real and this proved it. Whether you believed in fairies or not all the experts were coming to the conclusion that the photos were totally real, and the skeptics were getting really really mad about it. Because there was no way these photos were real! Except they totally seemed to be! And the girls were sticking by their story. (And actually Elsie and Frances were 16 and 9 respectively, when the first two photos were taken in mid-1917, and the photos became public in mid 1919.)
Doyle was still losing his goddamn mind and so to put the matter to rest, another believer went to them in 1920, bringing cameras and stuff for them to photograph fairies with. The thinking was that if they were using equipment that had been examined and everything beforehand, and then developed not by the girls, then the opportunity for fakery was cut out and they could determine the truth. And lo and behold, the three pictures they girls took (alone, because “the fairies won’t show up if we’re not alone”), were also verified as being real!!! Okay, okay, you don’t believe in fairies, and believe the photos have to be fake, but still, there is the mystery of how did they do it???
And if that is what you read it’s understandable to be thinking that woah, what did these girls capture on film? Were these children just on to some advanced af photo trickery? What advanced technique did these kids figure out that fooled all the experts? Did they really actually capture pictures of something supernatural?
No. They fuckin cut some drawings of fairies out of paper and took pictures with them. There was no trickery detected with the photos or photo equipment because they didn’t have to fake that part. They were genuine photographs….of little girls with propped up drawings. Elsie copied some drawings from a book, added wings, cut them out, and propped them up. You look at these photos today and they look fake as fuck. These are obviously little drawings. They do not look the slightest bit realistic. There are people out there TODAY who will argue that it’s totally possible that these girls took pictures of actual fairies. Because that’s a better story, I guess. But if you hear that version of the story and then see the photos it’s just laughable.
I can only assume that the reason anybody fell for it at all is the same reason that people praised the special effects in old movies that now look ridiculous.
But at the same time….nobody noticed that these fairies looked like children’s book illustrations???? Like it took another fifty years for this to be put to rest, because even if you didn’t believe they were real, NO ONE COULD FIGURE OUT HOW THEY COULD HAVE FAKED THEM. It wasn’t until the fricken 80s when someone tracked down the girls that they admitted to having faked the photos by using little drawings. And even with that admission and the actual book they copied from, plus computer examination revealing that there were little strings and stuff holding the cutouts in place, there are STILL people who will maintain that these photos were real.
For their parts Elsie and Frances disagreed over the veracity of the fifth photogragh (not pictured here). Both claimed to have taken it, and Elsie said it was fake while Frances said it was real. (Even in the 80′s.) The truth is most likely that it was a double exposure and so both girls did take it. Also they apparently kept up the lie because once they had fooled Arthur Conan Doyle they felt too weird about telling the truth. Seriously, EVEN THEY DIDN’T UNDERSTAND HOW THEY HAD FOOLED SO MANY GROWNUPS. THEY WEREN’T EVEN TRYING TO PULL A HOAX.
Read that last sentence again. They really weren’t. They were just trying to take some fun little photos. And ALL THESE GODDAMN ADULTS WERE FREAKING THE FUCK OUT THINKING THAT THEY HAD PHOTOGRAPHED ACTUAL FAIRIES. AND IT WAS SUCH AN AWKWARD SITUATION THAT THE GIRLS JUST WENT WITH IT. They didn’t keep it up for money or fame or pride, they kept up the hoax because it would be too awkward to tell the grownups they’d fooled them.
THEY CREATED A MYSTERY THAT LASTED LIKE 50 YEARS BECAUSE THEY DIDN’T KNOW WHAT TO DO IN AN AWKWARD SITUATION.
Frances straight up said: “I never even thought of it as being a fraud – it was just Elsie and I having a bit of fun and I can’t understand to this day why they were taken in – they wanted to be taken in.”
TL;DR: Two kids were dicking around with a camera and some fairy drawings, accidentally fool top experts in the world with super fake looking photos, feel too awkward at having fooled so many smart people to admit that it was all fake until a few years before their deaths. True. Icons.
The photos are of (and by) Elsie Wright and Frances Griffith, who were respectively 13 and 11 at the time! Not Victorian, but just after - the pictures were taken around 1920.
i want to shake those two little Victorian girl bitchs hands who faked the pictures of themselves playing with fairies and thank them for paving the way.
“They even fooled Arthur Conan Doyle!” is a less-impressive statement when you remember that Doyle was friends with Harry Houdini, the famous illusionist, and was convinced that Houdini had actual magical powers. Houdini would specifically go out of his way to perform seances and other spiritualist events with the intent of demonstrating how they were achieved with mundane trickery rather than magic or connection to spirits, and Doyle’s reaction was “Holy shit, Houdini has actual magic powers and is in denial about it”.
There’s also a learning curve, though, regarding what ‘looks real’ and what ‘looks fake’ as film techniques advance. In the early days of animation, there would be magic lantern shows where the whole point was just that someone had done some very basic, primitive animation (running still frames together really fast to create the illusion of movement) of some terrible creature, and make it look like it was prowling along the walls and reaching out for the audience, and people would FREAK THE FUCK OUT and faint and have heart attacks because it looked SO REAL YOU GUYS OMG. But if one of us, today, was sitting there, we’d be like “animated” because we’re so USED to it. We’ve seen the techniques, our eyes have adapted to higher frame rates and also to picking up inconsistencies in light and shadow that allow us to determine something (like those faeries) isn’t native to the frame.
I grant that a lot of people wanted to believe, but you also have to consider that human perception has evolved alongside film. The ability we have to JUST TELL when something is CGI because the light is subtly wrong, or the texture, or there’s just something off about its movement, or it doesn’t seem to fully interact with solid objects in the frame, is something we DEVELOPED through exposure. Exposure those people didn’t have.
