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/r/pics/comments/7x67g4/homesweet_home/
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[
"Reminds me of Courage the Cowardly Dog",
"Makes me think of \"the colour out of space\". ",
"First thing I thought of as well",
"What are they burning in that fireplace?",
"It almost looks like the northern lights are coming from the chimney",
"😂 Was gonna say the same thing. ",
"Came to write this. Just needs that wind vane.",
"/u/cuntfruitcake93, thank you for your submission. Unfortunately, it has been removed for violating the following rule(s):\n\n* Rule I - No screenshots. This includes pictures of screens and photos where the interest is the contents of a screen.\n\n\n\nFor information regarding this and similar issues please see the [rules](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/about/rules/) and [title guidelines](/r/pics/w/titles). If you have any questions, please feel free to [message the moderators.](https://www.reddit.com/message/compose?to=/r/pics&subject=Question regarding the removal of this submission by /u/cuntfruitcake93&message=I have a question regarding the removal of this [submission.](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/7x67g4/homesweet_home/?context=10\\))"
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Home,sweet home.
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/r/pics/comments/7x67jx/joanne_mcarthurs_photo_of_a_gorilla_hugging_the/
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[
"Get the fuck out.",
"Pathetic",
"What is bushmeat?",
"Anything killed in the bush if I understand it correctly. You'll see primates, bats, rodents etc. ",
"Look at those smiles, absolutely precious.",
"That Seal?",
"Wow. What a great photo and beautiful moment.",
"What did he/she say??",
"Gorillas are insanely intelligent. Watching documentaries on the gorillas that learned sign language really opened my eyes to how these animals think and feel. Fucking love gorillas",
"What's win's?",
"What a gorgeous photo. You can feel the humbleness from both the man and the gorilla. Made me smile 😊 ",
"He implied the man was a guerilla. Classic racist bs.",
"Bats. The chicken of the cave.",
"I watched a Fred Armisen stand up routine today in which he said all photography competition winners are black and white photos of poor people holding something that they are proud of. I don't know how poor this man is, but that definitely sounds like something to be proud of.",
"*Shikaka!*",
"Because of commercial fishing and pollution, Africans have become more dependent on critters from the jungles and plains for meat, bush-meat. Also many traditional fishermen have turned to piracy and smuggling.",
"[*\"Shikawkaw! ^...Shikawkaw! ^^...Shikawkaw! ^^^...Shikawkaw!\"*](https://youtu.be/1yhOkOvbee8?t=34)",
"Wow fun with racism!",
"No one calls it that, Champ.",
"In before lock!",
"Reddit Photo of the Day!",
"We're the same family as gorillas -- primates.",
"The fact that people eats apes actually make me sick, they are way too intelligent to be food.",
"If you are in a plane crash and stranded in the jungle would you eat the dead passengers? Food is food when you are in the middle of nowhere. ",
"If i would starve i would eat pretty much everything as long as it's dead first, i wouldn't kill something that intelligent for food though.",
"Our *order* is primate, but the family for humans and gorillas is hominid, or great apes. ",
"They eat each other though. Just gonna throw that out there. Opposing families of apes and chimps will kill and eat each other, it's just life.",
"But the person hunting it is in the bush. Maybe the other guy traded the hunter a sack of rice for it. ",
"Omg, I want a gorilla so bad ",
"Beautiful",
"It’s literally anything out of the jungle... and scientists think it’s where many diseases originate. Like AIDs may have come from eating bats or apes. I can’t remember. \n\nOh, and in some fucked up places like Libya (if I remember correctly) have human body parts for Sale to eat right in the sidewalk. There’s a VICE episode with that if you dare to watch. I’m sure a google search will provide. ",
"Yeah, and there are groups of humans that kill other humans and eat them too. If we consider ourselves more intelligent and more culturally advanced, we should probably have higher standards for ourselves than the standards that Gorillas hold themselves to.",
"[Here](https://i.imgur.com/jjSR3RK.jpg) is a higher quality version of this image. [Here](http://www.weanimals.org/gallery.php?id=81#ph27) is the source. Credit to the photographer, [JoAnne McArthur](http://www.weanimals.org/) who provides the following caption:\n\n> Oops, sedation wears off just a bit too quickly and a gorilla awakes during the truck ride from the vet room to the new enclosure. Lucky she is with Appolinaire and feels safe.\n\n[Here](https://www.sundaypost.com/fp/pics-wildlife-photographer-year-launches-peoples-choice-award/) adds the additional context:\n\n> Pikin, a lowland gorilla, had been captured and was going to be sold for bushmeat but was rescued by Ape Action Africa.\n\n> Jo-Anne took this photograph as the gorilla was being moved from her former enclosure within a safe forest sanctuary in Cameroon to a new and larger one, along with a group of gorilla companions.\n\n> She [was first sedated](https://i.imgur.com/Lo9YXum.jpg), but during the transfer to the new enclosure she awoke. Luckily, she was not only very drowsy, but she was also in the arms of her caretaker, Appolinaire Ndohoudou, and so she remained calm for the duration of the bumpy drive.",
"This will be a wholesome thread ",
"came in and scrolled right to the bottom to see [delete] and [removed]\n\nwas only slightly disappointed.",
"Became Hutmeat shortly after this picture was taken.",
"Only the dumb ones.",
"People gotta eat.",
"i thought this was seal.",
"Also asymptomatic carriers of Marburg.",
"If they’re so intelligent why haven’t they evolved into humans? Huh? Tell me that me smart guy!!??!!^^^^^^^^^^/s",
"Name checks out",
"Because gorillas and other primates who learned sign language never used it to ask a single question.",
"Which groups of humans?",
"I'm not finding it.",
"What i get if she doesn't trim",
"Sorry, wasn't Libya... it's Liberia.\n\nI can't watch the entire episode right now, but I think somewhere in this episode there is a part where they see human body parts for sale on the sidewalk.\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRuSS0iiFyo",
"Links for the theory that Bushmeat led to HIV.\nhttp://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/10/26/1098667757404.html?oneclick=true\n\nLink for the theory that Bushmeat led to the spread of Ebola.\nhttp://www.bbc.com/news/health-29604204",
"Sorry, wasn't Libya... it's Liberia.\n\nI can't watch the entire episode right now, but I think somewhere in this episode there is a part where they see human body parts for sale on the sidewalk.\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRuSS0iiFyo",
"As someone who has lived on a farm with pigs and cows, I would say that are just as emotionally intelligent as dogs, if not more. That's why I only choose to eat chickens, because chickens are basically personality-less robots. ",
"Whatever belongs to win is win's.\n",
"What's for dinner tonight? \n\nBush meat\n\nNot again ! \n\n",
"That is probably where Ebola came from.",
"African who have lived where they can catch it have always eaten bush meat. It is not a new phenomenon, although infrastructure and growing populations have created new markets for it.",
"That look like, \"When I get you home, imma show you the meaning of 'bush meat'\".",
"Have people tried getting a question out of them before?",
"Chi - Ca - Go! You’re outta there !",
"Prick ",
"Deep bro.",
"Gorilla be like \"Yo cousin, thanks for the assist.\"",
"My god what has Reddit become ",
"Gorillas and other primates don’t recognize that other people or apes can know less or more than they do. They don’t understand the concept that they are a distinct entity, that there is such thing as oneself.",
"Unlike way back when africans all had successful ranches and farms and before big oil turned the Sahara Rainforest into the desert it is today. Wypipo"
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Jo-Anne McArthur's photo of a Gorilla hugging the man who saved her from becoming bushmeat, win’s her People's Choice Award in the Wildlife Photographer of the Year.
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/r/pics/comments/7x697m/the_third_atm_hack_ive_experienced_this_week/
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[
"Scammers are getting sneaker every time they get caught. Just look you can barely see the device they've used.",
"That Shia Labouff is everywhere. Or is that Whill Wheaton?",
"This hack is hard to spot, but if you look carefully at the bottom of the screen. You'll see extra feet, which is the dead giveaway to otherwise, a perfect camouflage.",
"Hey OP is that the corner of Market and George?",
"He's got two sneakiers.",
"Yep",
"oh, he cornered me alright!",
"Dørs it lock in the open position, or is he just hoping no one decides to push on it?"
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The third ATM hack I've experienced this week.
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/r/pics/comments/7x6asr/oc_classic_tweeker/
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[
"The upper left pic... he’s so satisfied. ",
"Just smoked a tina",
"Isn’t that the actor who did Stewart on Mad TV? ",
"I thought it was Robert downy jr",
"Cantu wait to see what shenanigans Lorenzo gets into next!",
"I was just gonna post that lol, Michael McDonald is his name. "
] | 5 |
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[OC] Classic tweeker
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/r/pics/comments/7x6cid/last_year_i_went_to_florida_for_a_week_during_one/
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"Uh, cool?",
"I dont get it",
"and...?"
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Last year, I went to Florida for a week. During one of the days, I ended up going to a park a half hour before the parking lot even opened. This is the entrance to said parking lo t.
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/r/pics/comments/7x6crv/nature_at_its_finest/
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[
"Is this Mordor?",
"Is that an elk looking at a gerbil in the stars? ",
"Woah this looks otherworldly "
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Nature at its finest
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/r/pics/comments/7x6dpz/this_art_make_you_think/
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[
"I see nachos for some reason. ",
"The Olympics are a cluster fuck. ",
"All I can think is salsa.\n\nMaybe because I almost read salsa in the image like 3 times. I don’t know. All this image makes me feel is “salsa”"
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this art make you think.
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/r/pics/comments/7x6dsg/pablo_escobar_in_front_of_the_white_house_wow/
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[
"Photoshop 😉",
"Is it fake? Wanted to believe. Damn you internets ",
"I believe it's [legit](http://www.businessinsider.com/photo-of-one-of-the-wealthiest-drug-lords-in-history-posing-in-front-of-the-white-house-2015-9)\n",
"Yeah I can't believe he actually went and wasn't caught or something or did the authorities even know he was there..hmm ",
"/u/syedshazeb, thank you for your submission. Unfortunately, it has been removed for violating the following rule(s):\n\n* Rule I - No pictures with added/superimposed digital elements.\n\n\n\nFor information regarding this and similar issues please see the [rules](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/about/rules/) and [title guidelines](/r/pics/w/titles). If you have any questions, please feel free to [message the moderators.](https://www.reddit.com/message/compose?to=/r/pics&subject=Question regarding the removal of this submission by /u/syedshazeb&message=I have a question regarding the removal of this [submission.](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/7x6dsg/pablo_escobar_in_front_of_the_white_house_wow/?context=10\\))"
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PABLO escobar in front of the white house! wow
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/r/pics/comments/7x6dsj/found_in_canada/
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[
"I dont get it",
"It's piled up behind the sign. Don't you see it?",
"Coca-Cola made in Mexico ( real sugar) ",
"Mexican Coca-Cola has real sugar. ",
"Well, yeah. I know that. Is there some reason that it would be weird that its in canada?",
"Pretty sure OP was trying to make a drug reference ",
"Probably kinda rare. Big trip from Mexico and all. ",
"I guess Im just oblivious. ",
"I didnt know that! I dont know if I've ever seen Canadian coke in the states. At least in OR that is. ",
"Yeah, that’s actually a thing people seek out. Apparently it’s better.",
"US loves their HFCS",
"if i had some gold you'd have it.",
"when i lived in Tucson we could get a&w root beer made in Mexico. totally different taste. we would make the most incredible floats for grown ups with it.",
"I prefer Columbian, but to each their own.",
"mexico and south America is the only place you can get real sugar soda.... they dont have corn syrup processing plants down there. they also protect the sugar cane industry by keeping it out.",
"It's a slightly different taste, which is subjective. We have it here in Florida, along with the sugar-base formulas of Pepsi and Mountain Dew too (which are sold seasonally).",
"Canada probably uses High Fructose Maple Syrup",
"Omg I used to live on Ayer in my 20s!!. They have the best subs! What I wouldn’t do for one right about now! Good old Moncton nb right next to the coliseum! I live in Colorado now so too far for an Ayer sub. ",
"You can get it at Costco in the glass bottles.\n\n",
"Mexican Coca Cola IS better."
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Found in Canada.
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/r/pics/comments/7x6f0j/when_an_unstoppable_force_meets_an_immovable_ice/
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[
"try a metal spoon and let us know",
"Must be mostly water, not ice cream ",
"I can’t believe that’s not butter. ",
"Butter pecan ftw.",
"20 sec in the microwave. ",
"Too thicc",
"looks like that force was stopped quite abruptly",
"Plastic scoops are a practical joke. ",
"It was quite a stoppable force.",
"/r/n00b",
"For the win? Or fuck the world? ..",
"It’s french vanilla actually ",
"The force didn’t stop, the tool applying the force stopped."
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When an unstoppable force meets an immovable ice cream
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/r/pics/comments/7x6gd2/hometown_3_am/
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[
"Is this Salmon Arm? ",
"Where do you live?",
"This is my hometown Akureyri and since we are practically sitting on the Arctic Circle the sun never really sets in the summer. The summers are really bright and it's very energising. There is even a golf tournament held at night in august called the arctic open.",
"Figured it was up there in longitude. I’m from Alaska and there’s plenty of villages that look just like that. Yes the winters are brutal but the views are fantastic "
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Hometown 3 am
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/r/pics/comments/7x6h2f/this_cuban_singer_looks_like_taylor_lautner_after/
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[
"Haters will say it's photoshop",
"Why is his head so big 😩",
"Is that Eric Stoltz?",
"or just taylor lautner in 2018",
"It really is a Cuban singer hahahaha \n\nThis is the one picture where they look the most alike though.\n\nHis name is Marlon Fernández, he got first place on some Puerto Rican singing show. \n\n",
"If Jay Leno and Taylor Lautner had a kid",
"Whatever happened to Taylor? ",
"What’s up with the strategically glued coffee grounds on his face.",
"Equipo Jacobo.",
"This is what Eugene looked like before the zombie apocalypse.",
"Actually it looks like taylor Lautner not experiencing an allergic reaction. \nhttp://www.naughtygossip.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Screen-Shot-2016-04-04-at-3.33.57-PM.png ",
"They couldn't Photoshop the mole?",
"bahahahahahahaha",
"pftttttt",
"lmao it's the remake, starring Taylor.",
"p.s. the dude's actually a decent singer.\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0zvz8bnlIc",
"[I don’t mean to stare.](https://i.imgur.com/eK04snT.gif) "
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This Cuban singer looks like Taylor Lautner after an allergic reaction
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/r/pics/comments/7x6he5/some_people_say_wind_turbines_are_ugly_i_disagree/
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[
"I find them fascinating ",
"Well beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so what's that say about them.",
"Have you ever driven through the giant wind farm near Snyder, Texas? It's absolutely gorgeous at night when all the lights blink at the same time.",
"Sadly, I’ve never been to Texas. I’d love to go someday. This wind farm is in eastern Oregon/Washington. It’s really a cool location. Rolling hills mixed with deep canyons, and the backdrop of Mt. Adams and Hood. I was hunting last fall and camped on a hill in a farmers field (don’t do this without permission from the farmer) and it was an amazing night watching the sun set and the red lights of the hundreds of turbines light up. One of Oregon’s least populated counties. ",
"I enjoy seeing the huge pieces being moved up Island, massive!",
"Who said that? Wind turbines are the sexiest type of renewable energy source. ",
"Ah. It looked a bit like Wyoming to me. \n\nBut yeah, the one in Snyder, Texas is the largest in the country. First time I drove it was just after sunset when a little bit of light remained, the Stars were just coming out, and the windmills all blinked in synchronicity. Just beautiful. Also another great windmill farm place is out in California on I-10 towards Palm Springs. ",
"There's a huge movement in my area about the turbines ruining the landscape. People would rather see desolate fields than renewable energy.",
"I met the man who did the survey work for the first company to develop this wind farm. He told me that he thinks they are incredibly ugly. Loved being paid to go to beautiful places, hates ruining them. \n\nI find them an absolute marvel, and a massive benefit to the local community. But everyone has different opinions. You’re very right though, I’ve met more people amazed by them than put off. ",
"go through there every time I travel up to Colorado, always a fun spot on a long drive",
"“It’s hurting my property value durrr”",
"Yep. Basically farmers not wanting to lease land forever. I'd lease all the land I could if I had property around there.",
"Same, I’d get as much land and specifically allow it to be used for wind farming. Or solar, or both ",
"Around here the farmers love them. They get a few thousand per year per windmill on their property. Every resident in the county gets $600/year, and the towns also get a chunk of cash. \n\nThey’ve been a well liked boon. ",
"Wish oil would just accept that they’re a problem and transition to clean power ",
"I operated a concrete truck to pour a lot of the bases for these turbines in west Texas. Fun times!",
"There was this one time I was heading home for the holidays and I drove past a field of them late at night. It was a surreal sight. Hundreds of red lights fading in and out all around me. That’s just what they do, but at that particular time of year it was kinda like some sort of crazy Christmas light display.",
"Many people here in France says that wind turbines ruins landscapes...\nI love wind turbines, they are gorgeous.",
"I think I’m a human",
"I drove past a wind farm just north of Palm Springs. It looked ugly to me.",
"I feel the same way, it's peaceful how they gently rotate in the breeze. I've always been a form follows function person so thinking of all the free energy they are producing makes them beautiful"
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Some people say wind turbines are ugly. I disagree.
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/r/pics/comments/7x6iao/my_92_yearold_grandpa_takes_my_91_yearold_grandma/
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[
"Very sweet, is this a hoarders home though? ",
"Not really. I mean kind of. I don’t know. They’ve accumulated stuff for 90+ years, so whatever that is. ",
"Sorry, sort of insensitive. Just looks like a lot of stuff on the counters.",
"I’m not crying. You’re crying. Stop that.",
"r/aww )",
"Not insensitive. Grandpa might be a little bit of a hoarder. Who doesn’t need mason jars from the summer of 1974",
"I don’t know who I think I am, my mom is the worst. She’s the person who saves whipped cream tubs even tho she has tupperware spilling out of the cupboards.",
"I think grandpa prioritizes and cleaning may never have been part of his life until grandma couldn’t keep up anymore.\n\nOP, they probably need some gentle nudging to accept assistance around the place. ",
"These things rarely happen now a day! ",
"Just got them some home health help a few weeks ago. They love the help!",
"Huh?",
"They’ve made it this far. I don’t ask questions. 🤷🏻♂️",
"Omg that’s just precious . You are so lucky to have such loyal loving grandparents . Bless them . We should all be lucky to have such a loving partner like that ",
"They really were the greatest generation. ",
"They’re the greatest example of love I could hope to have. ",
"LOL..sorry man, my previous comment didn't make any sense. I was sidetrack earlier.\n\nAnyway, I love how your grandpa took care of your grandma. I wish everyone would treat their husbands/wives like that. ",
"Indeed",
"Agreed",
"My grandma lived in her house for 50 years before moving out. You can accumulate *a lot* of stuff in 50 years in the same house.",
"You’re doing right by them, I didn’t have local grandparents so I never was able to ‘pitch in’ that way. I did with my own parents tho.",
"I live about 45 minutes away but am a physician and have a family of my own. I’m glad they have some help, even if it’s not by me.",
"Is that a half sick of butter on the dinner menu or am I seeing things? ",
"Photo taken at 3pm",
"I work with elderly in their homes and it can be really sad how messy things can get... just help gpa pick up some of those food dishes so the bugs and pest stay away.",
"Imagine the things they've seen. Incredible. ",
"Secret of being an nonagenarian?",
"If that’s the secret, I’m doing the right thing. I just like to melt mine down first! 😜",
"Underrated comment. I mean I believe the world is truly good despite what is mostly portrayed on media. This supports that notion.\n\nNot only is this true love at it's peak, it's respect and responsibility. Taking pride in the little things in life, really makes them have a bigger positive impact. This made my god damn day.\n\n",
"Dinner is at 2:30pm. Breakfast is at 9:00pm. ",
"Chances are she doesn't have a big appetite man. Sometimes that happens when you're old.",
"If I can do that for my wife when I’m 91, that would be great.",
"The main dish is in the cup. It is soup. ",
"This is very wholesome. In a world filled with so much negativity it’s refreshing to see something so simple yet so meaningful and pure. Thanks for sharing. ",
"Nah, the main course is the butter. ",
"Yooooo is that butter!!? This man knows.",
"Whipped amirite!?",
"Lol if this were my grandma we were speaking of you would be correct. That woman adds flavor to her butter with bread.\nI'm sure this just woman just likes to butter her bread as she eats so he brings her the whole dish.",
"Why should we care? ",
"Lived through the Great Depression and now they text me emojis",
"Kind words for people that are near and dear to me. Thank you!",
"He reminds me of the older gentleman, Geri, from the Pixar universe. ",
"Lazy broad. ",
"The world is not full of negativity. It’s actually full of a lot of really good positive people with good intentions... but news outlets don’t draw viewers by telling those stories. ",
"That mug, it's a Corelle, Indian Summer pattern. I love that pattern. Absolute favorite. Sorry, I'm a dish nerd.",
"He could cut glass with that jawline ",
"My parents have that same design of cup. ",
"They had a late dinner that night.",
"My 93 year old grandpa is like this with my 91 year old grandma...who suffers from dementia and hallucinates things all the time. The things she's seen...most of the time don't even exist. It's amazing how much attention he gives her though...it's really something.",
"They don't call them \"The Greatest Generation\" for nothing. They were the peak of human decency. It's been downhill since them.",
"😍 this is so incredibly sweet. ",
"Why do my grandparents have the same kitchen tho lol",
"I absolutely love the amount of butter he includes.",
"I only see a stick of butter soup and I’m guessing some toast... what’s the hella sharp steak knife for?",
"Cutting and spreading the butter I'm assuming",
"I would do that if my wife still lived with me. ",
"Grandma can’t get up to get her own dinner but she can hack away at a stick of cold butter with a chainsaw? Come-on grandpa soften the butter ",
"Half a stick of butter and a cup of soup. Her arteries must be solid at this point.",
"How sweet of him at that old age. Maybe you could help them by cleaning up the kitchen a bit, I'm sure you have better mobility. ",
"Respect!",
"My parents eat supper every day at 2:30 pm. ",
"Dude sure as hell is messy for that little bit of food.",
"To spread the butter on the soup? ",
"No there is another container behind his arm you can see the corner of it I'm guessing there is bread or toast in that",
"Please don’t tell me you’re implying that butter is unhealthy. I mean really. It’s 2018. Leave skim milk, low-fat everything, and the food pyramid where they belong—in the 80s. ",
"Open relationships are not okay. ",
"TLA",
"That's so cute",
"KETO ",
"GIMMIE A BIG OL' PIECE A BUTTA",
"You need to have Grahss fed cow butter or you're eating cancer.\n",
"I agree ith low fat products are not the aay to go but are YOU implying esting half a stcik of butter is healthy?",
"It's not unhealthy. Fats are good for us. And that's not a whole half stick. ",
"I kknow fats are good for us, though saying that having a big chunk of butter for dinner is healthy. Idk. Also because butter is on the low end of healthy when u wanna eat fats. ",
"The first thing I noticed was the mug too! I have that set! My grandparents had it for years and I always bugged them about wanting it one day. Always brought me good memories. Once my grandad passed, my grandma handed it down to me. That set has been going strong at least 30 years (probably even longer, but I don’t want to put an exact time amount on it). ",
"Yes I am actually. Eating half a stick of butter is much healthier than eating say....a bagel. Or any other kind of processed carb. ",
"This is the real love forever. ",
"This is one of the cutest things I've ever seen. Thank you for sharing.",
"Oh yes for sure the industrial produced breads people eat in the states are disgusting cause any flour that fine is just garbage!",
"Nope, the *only* fats that are unhealthy are trans fats. Saturated fat is not unhealthy at all, and the idea that high cholesterol and saturated fats contribute to heart disease is an outdated idea. ",
"There's as much butter as there is soup. Guess when you're 91, eat what the fuck you want.",
"If you're on a low calorie diet, a lot of butter is bad. But otherwise, it's a good source of vitamin K2, A, D, and E and high in healthy saturated fats and multiple essential fatty acids. Someone long ago was confused and tried to convince the world that fats and oils and dairy foods would make us fat but it's just carbs that do that. ",
"Help ur grandparents with cleaning the kitchen, op. ",
"\"How's your soup, hun?\"\n\n\"NEEDS MORE BUTTER!\"\n\nMy mom and dad are in their mid 80s, and my mom's health isn't doing to well. She's not bed ridden, but my dad does a lot to help her and take care of her, he's totally devoted to her. Plus still works part time.\n\nI'm moving back in with them to help out. My dad is so tired, and so stressed over my mom, I want to take some of the load of of him. Plus, once one is gone, there's no way either could finish their days alone, and there is no way I'm putting either one in a home or care facility.\n\nYour grandpa is a great guy.",
"I agree but I'm questioning most vitamin statements when your product is pasteurized. Can there be much left of these glorious vitamins?",
"Stop taking pictures and clean the kitchen for him.",
"Did you ask if you could share this photo with thousands of people? Seems like something I would not be okay with. ",
"Yeeeeaahh... fuck outta here with that.",
"Grandma loves her bullet proof coffee.",
"what is the dark drink? is it coffee?",
"I think its just some cheese. Note how thy side left in the picture appears to be cut. Also the texture looks more like it. \n\nSource: I'm Swiss. ",
"This is life goals right here! Btw your grandpa looks like the old man from the Pixar shorts. ",
"Advantage to being 91: you can eat whatever you want because you're gonna die in the next five years anyway. ",
"Yeah, medicine hasn't advanced greatly at the hands of any other generation, nor has notions of racial equity or a more fair global economy been advanced by anyone outside of that generation, nor has the perils of climate change been discovered and alerted by any one younger...\n\nEvery \"generation\" is simply that - a loosely defined group that happened to live at a random period in human history. None of us is any better or any worse ",
"She eats butter?",
"Maybe help clean up instead of taking photos for internet points.\n\nAnd I know you said you got them help but clearly that help isn’t doing shit.",
"Can you provide a source for this claim? I do not believe that saturated fats are all that healthy.",
"Word",
"Doctor here.\n\nNope.",
"good meme.",
"Love the Indian summer correlle, my grandparents had it as well. ",
"I wouldn't be able to call that \"supper\". That's a late lunch. What time do they go to bed?",
"He's got other plans for the butter.",
"There is nothing inherently unhealthy about it. It's just high calorie. if you otherwise run a caloric deficit, it's healthier than an equivalently caloric carb load.",
"Just thinking that as well.",
"Since nutrition is still a nascent science, and is only tangentially related to the actual practice of medicine, being a doctor doesn't grant you any special authority on this subject. \n\nGenerally in science, we aoid appeals to authority, especially when no one is really an authority on a subject yet, and especially when the authority is tangentially related. It's better to look at the latest studies, and see what the evidence is telling us. In the case of carbs vs fats, the evidence is becoming increasingly overwhelming that high blood sugar, primarily driven by carb consumption is a bigger risk than fats, but either in the presence of a caloric deficit are safe https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/23-studies-on-low-carb-and-low-fat-diets\n\nSo, since most people ar enot running a caloric deficit, the butter would be healthier than the bagel, assuming caloric content was equivalent. ",
"Help him clean, man. ",
"It might be a foreign concept to an American, but in most parts of the world just because an amount of food is placed within reach, doesn’t mean you have to eat all of it.\n\nFor example in England, a stick of butter is usually placed on the table during meal time. This does not mean someone will pick it up and eat it. Rather people will take a small portion, then return it to the fridge.\n\nThe more you know!",
"Aw bless.",
"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20071648\n\nThe actual evidence is very slim. The small correlation we once identified was probably die to people with high sat fat diets eating more calories, and possibly being more stressed and less healthy in general. ",
"Literally thought the same thing when I saw this! Have an upvote",
"I didn't even know, \"dish nerd,\" was a thing. I like it.",
">dish nerd\n\nBand name, called it!",
"Wow, I can’t believe that so many people still think this. I can show you some sources, but there are countless ones. There’s also a million books on the subject too.\n\nHere’s one from NPR, just to name one:\n\nhttps://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2014/03/17/290846811/dont-fear-the-fat-experts-question-saturated-fat-guidelines\n\nAnd here’s one from USA Today:\n\nhttps://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.usatoday.com/amp/101461372\n\nThere’s also a great book called Why We Get Fat by Gary Taubes. And many many others. ",
"That kitchen is filthy mate. Sort it out",
"Powerpoint.",
"Was gonna comment this.",
"Late? That’s like regular lunch time for me. And unheard of at Christmas. ",
"I agree with most everything you said except for one thing. I have come to the conclusion that processed carbs and refined sugar are never “safe”, even in the presence of a caloric deficit. Some people might be able to tolerate them better than others, but in the long run, we simply weren’t meant to eat a lot of sugar. There were periods in my life where I was counting calories and all that bullshit, but because I was still eating a lot of carbs, I was never truly lean. It was only when I cut out sugar almost completely did I really start to lose body fat. Why do you think they feed animals corn? To fatten them up!",
"God bless them! That's love.",
"regular lunch time for insomniac? i approve this",
"Are you me? I never trust a sour cream container in my fridge because at least 4 of them are some sauce/gravy/starch leftover from dinners",
"Oh here we go—another European with an inferiority complex who tries to cover by acting superior to Americans. You’re an idiot if you actually think we walk around eating sticks of butter. If anyone said that on here, they were most likely joking. And you realize that England is just as fat as America right?",
"A slice of butter = dinner?",
"Take it easy there friendo, you shouldn’t subject your enlarged heart to any more strain.",
"Who wants butter alone like that though? The only one I thought in this world would even do that was Honey Boo Boo.",
"That's fascinating! Thanks for letting us know.\n\nYou know, there's something else I've always wondered, maybe you can clear it up for me! Is it a lot of work to act like a cunt all the time? It's not a popular personality trait here, so I thought I'd get your expert opinion.",
"Wholesome. \n\nWhat did the world do to deserve *actual decent fucking human beings*",
"Lol I’ll take that as an indication that my comment got to you. You know what actually is a major cause of heart disease? Rotten teeth (absolutely not joking); so I imagine you Brits are all a bunch of ticking time bombs. ",
"This is so sweet that I want to cry",
"TIL that dinner plate enthusiasts are a thing",
"Funny since I'm the second most favorite nationality of you and your fellows from the island, I'm german. But as you said yourself on the table and not the tray which is solely for granny and not multiple people it seems like alot. ",
"Mmm a thick piece of butter with no utensils and some soup without a spoon!",
"Whoa an English person on the internet?? I thought you were all to busy telling each other how superior you are! Limey cunts ",
"You sound like the stereotypical cartoon bully. \nYou do know those are supposed to be exaggerated, right?\nThey aren’t supposed to be the role models in the show?\nGenerally, you don’t want to be like the ones that say “fuck old people” and “ur opinion is lame”. ",
"That’s an interesting hobby and I’m glad you get interest out of it. Thanks for telling us!",
"Yeah was thinking rather than karma points how about he/she helps clean up",
"Cheese ",
"Til op's 92 year old grandpa doesnt eat his 91 year old grandma for dinner as the title would suggest.",
"Bulletproof coffee for dinner is next level shit. ",
"that grandpa looks like the guy who fixes up woody in toy story 2",
"Some elderly are a little harder to help than you'd expect. Home health aid to CNA to nurse speaking over 10 years. Definitly eccentric folk.",
"Excel",
"Yeah please help clean the kitchen and update us with another photo for more karma pts",
"I like to think he wants it that way because he has back pain and prefers everything to stay on his counter making it look like a mess but in fact is a smart mess because everything is placed in a certain way to be the most efficient for him to spend less time in kitchen preparing food and more by his wife and i hope they live until 150 yo minimum and they have all the love and help they can have by their family.\n\nI miss my grandparents :(",
"You're a good person.\n\nMy mother did this for her parents when my Grams started going downhill and my Grumps needed the help. He was too stubborn to ask for it but we all knew. He passed years before she did, but my mother never stopped caring for her. Finally my Grams insisted on being put into a facility and passed just a week or two later. ):\n\nThoughts and prayers with you friend.",
"Some people like it messier. Grandpa probably has all the stuff he uses a bunch out all the time anyway because at that age, especially if he has to care for grandma, putting everything back and taking it out is a hassle. I dunno, I'm sure if grandpa wanted some help cleaning up then he'd get help cleaning up.",
"Yeah we'll just ignore all the racism, sexism and oppression. ",
"Were these kind of kitchen designs quite popular during the time of now 80+ year olds getting houses or something?\n\nJust quite a curiosity, never really seen anything like it with most people I hang around with in my own friend circle who are mostly early 20s, but those drawers, cupboards and floor are almost identical to the same kitchen as my Nan's house on my Dad's side. First time ive seen it anywhere else, and it's scary how similar they are.\n\nThanks for any answers to my off topic question though! ",
"I think it might be cheese.",
"Send your kids over. They'll cherish the memories and maybe help as well!",
"Damnnn dat jawline tho 😍😍😍😍",
"Is she a mouse?",
"Came here to say this. Clean your grandparents' kitchen, you will be supporting their health and being kind!",
"There is literal garbage all over the counter, so no.",
"Bada bing!",
"The kitchen looks pretty damn clean. Looks a little untidy, almost like a family gathering is occuring.\n",
"The kitchen looks pretty damn clean. It looks a little untidy, almost like a family gathering is occuring.",
"Gotta get them internet points, eh OP? Put the camera down and help clean the kitchen.",
"Far out that kitchen is atrocious.",
"And every night, she gives him dessert right after ;)",
"My grandpa loved eating straight butter. He spent his later years living with my aunt (his daughter) and she would always yell at him for sneaky eating butter.",
"Yep. That looks like an old a.f. person dinner",
"egg drop soup is amazing, good on him. ",
"CLEAN THE FUCKING KITCHEN. It takes 30 min TOPS. You have the time to take this photo and post it to Reddit? You have the time to organize some shit- or at least throw away trash! I helped my stubborn ass Grandparents out for years- my Gpa is gone but Gma still needs help. Don't be lazy, OP. Get it the fuck together. ",
"Most folks in their 90s ate butter all the time. They didn’t have a diet or eating plan. They are food. They’re 90. They did something right. ",
"Wouldnt hurt.",
"A thought. I work with patients in their homes. In the counties that I work in, there are senior services that provide homemaker services. A better solution might be for OP to look in to that. Grandma and grandpa may wave off help from the kids, they want to be independent and want to spoil their “babies.” They May not wish to have the youngins they reared taking care of them. I see it often. ",
"It really depends, a lot of elderly people have a hard time getting enough calories in a day, if there's something high calorie that they'll eat you give them as much of it as they'll put away. If it's the difference between keeping weight on or wasting away, it's healthy. My mum did home care for a guy who spent the last six years of his life eating nothing but deviled eggs and brandy. At that age you just need to get a bit of fuel in you.",
"Please stop positing about what causes cancer. Please. It’s so hurtful for cancer patients and families, but such an easy throw away comment about things people find unhealthy. Please, stop. ",
"Messy as fuck i call bullshit!!",
"My greatest example is when I was cramping really bad and my boyfriend wanted to play games etc but instead he laid in bed and held me and got me medicine to ease the pain and kissed me and told me he loves me. I don’t deserve him but I’m so grateful and happy I found him.",
"I'm just here to enjoy the buttery American tears this comment will produce.",
"Whoa, I wouldn't want to see your idea of messy.",
"I hate getting old. ",
"Hey, I'm with you, I'm just saying, butter eaters, there are dozens of them. Dozens!",
"That's a hell of a lot of aftermath for making a mug of soup and with a side of butter ",
"Oh. My. God. That mug is the very first thing I noticed in this photo and I immediately went to my kitchen to check that it matched mine. \n\n\nI actually lifted the one I have from my job. I would use it for a cup of coffee at work for around five years until I realized nobody would miss it.\n\n\nIndian Summer Pattern. Thank you so much for this. ",
"Please clean kitchen",
"Best year ever!",
"Clean the kitchen for your 90-something year old grandparents! ",
"He's finally tired of her shit. ",
"why does all that trash look so clean?",
"Just had my \"dinner\" at 5:00am... I should get out more.",
"How long have they been married op?",
"Consensus has not been reached until every citizen has agreed. It seems a compromise will be needed. ",
"Gary Taubes has been widely disproven, and the whole \"butter is back\" Time magazine article (that the npr followed on) is based on a very flawed study. Unfortunately, the consensus of evidence still pointsto overwhelming data that saturated fat, butter, and oils should be avoide\n\nWhich is why researchers and medical professionals should make health claims. Not journalists. Gary taubes has no medical or scientific background IIRC, which I could forgive if he were right... but he's not.",
"Love this pic. There is something about the back of the neck in very elderly men that just looks so vulnerable....it always catches me. Makes me think of my mom's funeral, driving behind the hearse with my dad sitting in front of me in the big old black limo...watching his little thin neck while he tried to keep it together and stay strong for his 3 daughters. I miss the strength and integrity of that generation so much.",
"Oh boo fuckin hoo. Way to take what everyone else has been saying for seven hours and add your own personal douchey flair. Your comment is stupid. ",
"You can determine temperature by looking at a picture? That's impressive. ",
"I was thinking the same thing.. Why would you let it get like this at a gathering anyway, kitchens are pretty much the one place you can always find a bin..?",
"They prob won’t let him/her bc they need that for later. They also need that, and that, and that. ",
"Can't help when he's karma whoring his grandparents ",
"Instead of making fun of them, you could, you know, maybe help them with household work, because clearly they are not able to do it themselves anymore.\n\nThere is a special place in hell for assholes like you, OP.",
"It is a litrle untidy. Or messy. It is not unclean.\n",
"Outlook",
"Exactly what I was thinking, put your phone down and make that kitchen spotless for grandpa. ",
"I missed the bit where it said dinner... I thought you were talking about the sex",
"Clippy...RIP",
"They are food?!\nSomething you need to tell us there champ?",
"Access",
"/u/Mals1767 life goals",
"Zero carbs!",
"Too late for dinner,too early for breakfast. something i can comprehend by my own experience. deadline sucks.",
"She eats straight up butter huh?\n\nDope",
"Ah the old tea, chunk of butter and beetroot juice, the perfect meal.",
"Great guy.\n\nBut on a side on hindsight as a kid i've always thought it was awesome having meals brought up to me in bed like in movies or what not, now i just think its straight up gross.",
"Thats my breakfast time...",
"Do I have to explain this? Butter is delicious! We started buttering up our grands before we were born. Mmmm, ",
"That's a lot of mess for a cup of soup and a block of butter",
"Onenoooote",
"Is she a corpse? Judging from that dirt ass counter it wouldn’t surprise me if he just pours soup down an old decaying bodies mouth every night.",
"When I was a young kid, I was at the golden coral buffet for breakfast and there was a giant thing of butter on the serving line. The little kid in me thought it was vanilla pudding so I piled it on my dessert plate. Definitely a gross surprise!",
"You could have brought it up for him instead of taking a picture. ",
"The real hero.",
"100% badass right there. Wish I were .1% the badass that he is.",
"No shit",
"That's a big mess considering gram's getting what looks like a glass of root beer, a cup of coffee and a lump of butter.",
"No time. grandson needs to get karma online",
"Nice. \nAnd we have the stereotypical elderly household with the random candy cane sitting in a coffee cup. ",
"Reminds me of the grandpa from *Up*.",
"VISIO MOTHER FUCKER",
"Roomba",
"RIP? I hope he burns in hell",
"Take my upvote and leave before I cry",
"Aww gpa and gma goals. Although, while you’re there, maybe you should clean the kitchen?? ",
"> Most folks in their 90s ate butter all the time. They didn’t have a diet or eating plan. They are food. They’re 90. They did something right\n\n\nPhrasing my man!\n\n\nThere is a big difference between \"Lets eat, Grandma\" vs \"Lets eat Grandma\"",
"“I like to think an old man lives in such pain that it forces him and his wife to wallow in squalor. I also hope he continues in that tormented existence for an unnaturally long period of time.”",
"Well I think there's some toast or crackers hidden behind his wrist. ",
"My first thought!",
"Instead of taking pics, why don't you help clean that shithole up 😒",
"> Consensus \n\na general agreement.\n\"there is a growing consensus that the current regime has failed\"",
"Not to be rude or anything, but is ur Gpa feeding ur Gma a stick of butter every night? If not, what is it? ",
"Douche",
"Because apparently living like that will put you in the grave early. ",
"#######goals",
"And the paddle game...and this lamp. That's all I need!",
"I feel like you could reduce almost any nice statement in this way. ",
"She has gotten way too comfortable!",
"I have those same mugs/teacups. I now feel closer to your grandparents. I believe I am due some soup in bed. ",
"You were more on the money just calling the Brits fat. They actually have some of the healthiest teeth in the world.",
"Love that side dish of \"hunk of butter\". Plop that bad boy right in the soup...give it a stir...welcome to flavor country",
"Can we please repost this countertop on mildly infuriating ",
"Knowing someone like my dad, that kitchen was totally clean about 35 seconds earlier.\n\nMy dad had the ability to just make it look like a bomb went off while assembling a sandwich. ",
"Yeah it looks like they just ordered take out food and haven’t eaten yet. When finished, take 5 seconds to throw containers in the trash. ",
"probably still paying for a blowski he got from that floosie in 72. ",
"Wow, you really are Swiss, huh?",
"I just found a set of these at a thrift store! So beautiful!",
"Since theirs soup I'm guessing there are crackers we can't see. My grandpa loves soup and buttered saltines.",
"Yo that's rude! He's bragging about how amazing his grandparents are, he's not using them he's showing mankind love even after years and years together ",
"How bout helping you dude organize his food prep area.",
"Wow, the ‘clean that kitchen’ comments are getting old. Nothing is mouldy, nothing has been left out more than a day or so. \n\nSome people don’t have the energy to do things that aren’t absolutely essential. Home helps are great but they’re not there every day. I’m often in a similar position to OP’s grandpa health-wise, and if I have family over I want to spend time with them, rather than set them off to tidy the house.\n\nI just...wish people would work a little harder to understand what it’s like to live on so little energy, and be more flexible in their standards.",
"People complaining about the kitchen need to remember, this man grew up in a different time. Real men had no need for *mise en place*. If your making a cup of soup and coffee, you are gonna destroy a kitchen.",
"Soup, butter, and a couple slices of bread. These people lived through some hard ass times. This was a staple meal for Americans in The Great Depression and many years afterwards. \n\nFast forward to 2018 where people are arrested for hurting someone’s feelings. These ice caps can’t melt fast enough to wash away the weak.",
"The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.",
"Amen",
"While this is sweet, if that tray rattles as he walks and he makes \"old man\" noises I'd be far too tempted to lock him in a walk in freezer. ",
"#whipped",
"Brought a tear to my eye. It’s true, love is a verb.",
"Seriously, less time snapping and posting and do something useful. I’m sure they would appreciate that more. They could care less about Reddit upvotes. \n\nOn another note, that’s very sweet :) ",
"I had to do a double take because that looks exactly like the kitchen in my parents house. The layout, the wood used the counters. Very eerie.",
"Get to being 92. ",
"That's clearly the container it's stored in. They use what they need for dinner and then put it back in the fridge.",
"My favorites is the classic Crazy Daisy. I inherited my grandmother's entire set when she passed a few years ago. ",
"Spoiler alert: op is a shitty grandchild",
"Look at that jawline",
"So he’s trying to kill her with plates of butter? ",
"Same kid who was singing while his grandma is dying in bed.",
"I haven’t read the “clean the kitchen” comments but my first thought was the grandchild who posted this, and probably took the picture, should clean the kitchen, not the grandpa. I have elderly grandparents and I and the rest of my family take turns helping with cleaning ",
"She eats a lot of butter?",
"That is so darn sweet!",
"This is too pure😣💖",
"Was about to post this.",
"Now that I can agree with. ",
"The optimist in me is hoping its cheese. ",
"Eye sea what ewe did their. ",
"This is so weird.",
"Given enough time they will all become the same thing.",
"In college people's clocks drift later and later, while old people's clocks drift earlier and earlier. This means that at some point they've met halfway.",
"Why not? When you are that old you can do whatever you want.\n\nMy grandmother lived until one week shy of her 96th birthday, and she would eat the fat part from the brisket. She loved her bacon, also. \n\nThe funniest thing about old people is they also say whatever they want to. It's hilarious!",
"Gottta have 50 empty Parkay Margarine tubs...just in case. ",
"I feel like those claims are music to the ears of people that were eating a stick of butter everyday and just wanted to feel butter about it.",
"Oh boy. You've only just scratched the surface...",
"Youre insane",
"Clean the kitchen",
"For fucking real.",
"Dad?",
"Seriously. That's too big of a mess to come from making that dinner (what is it? Soup and cheese?)",
"Wow, this blew up!\n\nA couple of things:\n\nThis picture was sent to me by an uncle. I wasn’t present.\n\nMy grandpa will not let anyone help with the serving tray. It’s his way of serving and loving my grandma. We let him do that as long as it’s safe and I think it’s great.\n\nAs for the kitchen mess...it happens. I have several awesome family members who make sure they go to bed each night with a well kept home.\n\nI posted this picture to spread the love. I’m a grown ass man, I couldn’t care less about online internet points.\n\nEdit: As for the butter. No clue. Guess grandma likes butter.",
"Certifiable!",
"granny has to keep her gains bro",
"Kick-ass Elderly Training & Optimization",
"Clean the kitchen",
"That's What I Call \"Life Friend\".",
"Damn you all are harsh. Lol. I don't think it looks too bad. Just a bit of clutter but it's there stuff so they prob prefer it this way. ",
"Clean the kitchen or hire someone else to do it ",
"It's probably for buttering bread or something at the bed ",
"Not concerned about the mason jars, but a little bit about the trash on the counters. It looks like my kitchen, and my kitchen is a constant reminder that I am not doing well at taking care of myself. Maybe it was just the timing of the picture before clearing up in their case, though. Or maybe I'm projecting and they're happy and it just doesn't matter. If no one has, though, it might be a sign to look into whether they would accept some help with the work of household chores at 91 and 92. ",
"There’s a bigger story to this picture than a dirty kitchen. Our family helps and makes sure they live a clean and comfortable life. ",
"I think his sleeve is covering up some crackers",
"You put that so much better than I did.",
"As for the butter in the container. It's not unusual for the butter to be presented as a whole and used accordingly, and the remainder is put away and then retrieved again the next day to be enjoyed again. \nButter mystery solved. ;-)",
"*brings",
"I was wondering why all the comments were so tame. It’s because I didn’t read the word “dinner” which changes things a bit. ",
"Lucky gal, poor guy",
"Remove the word \"dinner\" from the title, and be horrified at the thought.\n\nI missed that word on my first pass-through.",
"How else do you get to 91 years of age...",
"whats the story?",
"I’m picking out a thermos for you....",
"Wow, this comment section is sure full of judgmental pieces of shit.",
"Cheese?",
"But... I love \"Singing In The Rain\"!",
"CLEAN UP",
"Health/mental health issues should encourage you to clean their kitchen OP.",
"Link? ",
"Because that's what you do.",
"[Looks like he forgot the toast/bread](https://imgur.com/a/UXsE9)",
"\"Every day I hike 10 miles to clean my grandparents kitchen. This was my grandpa's face when I bought him a new house\"",
"But thats not eating butter straight. That's eating butter on pancakes... ",
"Lmao. ",
"The plate nerds probably won't be happy about that... ",
"... Charlie Bucket?",
"Yea you’re right! Looks mostly like the take out wrappers from dinner",
"Likely need help with the whole house. Do it. ",
"Most people are shitty grandchildren.",
"My stepmom once mistook the horseradish sauce brought to the table with her prime rib order as butter and slathered it all over her bread. Surprise of a different sort.",
"I want this kind of husband.\n",
"He is too lazy to help them\n\n^^^^^^^^/s",
"That’s a lot of butter. ",
"STANLEY STEAMER",
"So thats why most men just die early. Live long enough and *You* become the wife.",
"bad bot",
"Who knows that you'll crave after nearly a century on the Earth. I think at the 9/10ths of a century mark, you get a pass on anything. ",
"no u.",
"There is another dish next to it. Could be crackers or bread.",
"I used to buy my ex percocet until she developed a crippling heroin addiction. Me and this guy are basically the same.",
"is that a piece of butter for dinner?",
"Im guessing the container next to the butter could be crackers or bread.",
"That's for the post-dinner coitus",
"It was seeing that kitchen is what put grandma in bed.",
"This is cute but man I can smell that house in my brain. ",
"My mom saves every kind of container like that. They come in handy for holiday dinner leftovers.",
"My grandmother, in her later years with dementia, would absolutely flip anytime someone tried to help clean or throw things away. I'd do my best but always risked getting on her bad side. Not everything is always cut and dry as it may look.",
"Why not the other way around? ",
"F",
"Someone I saw on YouTube has an entire shelf of different dishes. We all get obsessed over different things. Why not dinner wear? lol ",
"Aw...that's the pattern of dishes my parents have. Used them my whole childhood, and when I go visit the folks now I still pull these out. The mugs were always my favorite.",
"r/unexpectedcannibalism",
"It actually doesn’t look that bad. It’s just cluttered, probably from an evening of cooking for multiple people. They may reuse containers and stuff. You can see in the back that it’s clean, and the sink is clean of dishes. Honestly, it looks like my kitchen after a morning of prepping my daughters food and my food for the day. Then it all gets cleaned up right before I leave for the day. Albeit that my kitchen is a bit more organized on the countertop than this photo. But this man is 90 years old and may need to keep thing out on the counter so he can easily access. My parents do this and they are in their 70’s.",
"How exactly would punctuation have saved that sentence? Telling food that they exist? ",
"It's treason, then",
"Dunno, you probably had the same principle when you were 85",
"Free healthcare will do that for you",
"Came here just to say that.",
"We used to have those same cups!",
"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgLK0Ofa64w",
"I just heard a song that reminded me of the way we were",
"Mmmmmmm... chocolate covered butter stick....",
"It's nice and all, but I can just imagine it being like the scene in 'It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia' when Frank has been taking soup to Pop-Pop at the hospital, and the room is just littered with loads of old gone off soup that hasn't been cleared up.",
"That's what mobile games are for",
" Wish my husband cared that much! This is the sweetest thing ever! ",
"My grandma ate sugar and lard sandwiches every day for lunch as a child. ",
"Help your grandpa clean up his kitchen you lazy sack!",
"Your gramps is a fucking bro.",
"Take my upvote for the love and the butter edit. Towards the end of my papa’s life I would have fed him straight icing if it would make him eat.",
"I think it depends a lot on your developmental needs. Someone who needs calorie dense foods (like an elderly or sick person who has trouble keeping food down) would benefit a lot from fats like butter. My daughter was low weight when she was 1. The doctor actually recommended giving her lots of butter and cream cheese to get her weight up and provide the fats she needed for brain development. ",
"Well if he was mid cooking it might be a poorly timed photo.",
"Probably my favorite comment so far!",
"well thanks, lad/lass!",
"Nice picture of an old man.",
"Why would he take it? That's mean that",
"My mother moved in with me. In better shape than yours and only 69, but lonely and a little bit helpless about things I wouldn’t have thought of. I felt a little put out at first, I’m ashamed to say, but I’ve since really learned to appreciate the time with her and enjoy doing things to make her life better.\n\nThe stress of having older parents is pretty huge, but i like to think she and I make a good team at making the best of it.",
"I made you chicken noodle soup with a side of butter. A quarter cube of butter.",
"See above post",
"I love those vintage corelle patterns. I never really thought about it before and am definitely not a dish nerd, but I was drawn to the mug too. Growing up, we had the corelle strawberry sundae set and if I ever see it at a thrift store, I'm definitely getting it. \n\nSomething so simple holds so much nostalgia. I remember my sister and I waiting for dinner after setting the table pretending to eat all the wild strawberries on the plate. I remember tracing the green rim around the outside of the bowl with my finger, listening to my mom talk about what was in store for the day while dishing out oatmeal. I remember cleaning the gravy off my plate with a piece of white bread so I could see all the little blossoms. The color became faded and pattern started to crack. By the time my mom got rid of them, the strawberries were no longer red and half of the pieces had long-since shattered on the floor in some pre-meal chaos. \n\nYou know, I haven't thought about those dishes in a long time, but I almost want to cry right now. I can see why you are a dish nerd. ",
"That's beautiful. I hope I am upright at 80 let alone 92! You go Grandpa!",
"She loves butter,eh?",
"Looks pretty clean to me. I mean there's a lot of stuff in random spots, but none of it looks at all dirty. Leave the old folks alone.",
"Wholesome post",
"Your grandpa needs you to stop taking pictures and help him clean that fucking kitchen!",
"You butter believe it. ",
"Respect ✊ \n\nGrandpa don’t need no help cleaning the kitchen. He got this",
"Man, talk about *whipped*.",
"Right? If youre gonna farm your grandparents for karma at least have the decency to help him pick up or be judged by all of reddit.",
"I guess healthy teeth doesn’t translate into good looking teeth then. What, do you study British people’s teeth for a living or something?",
"You think that it's easy to get grandparents to listen to you or let you do stuff around their house as a grandkid? It's not always that easy. I can't get the smallest thing done because I have to spend all my energy trying to get my grandparents to let me actually do something. I also try to respect their wishes as much as possible, I feel that they've earned this. So it's tricky.\n\nI'll find money in my bag afterwards eventhough I barely got anything done.",
"You just had gross butter ",
"Survivor bias I believe that's called. ",
"I didn't realize people were so passionate about vintage dishware, until I met my girlfriend. I swear, you could drop a stack of hundreds in front of her, and she still wouldn't be as excited about that as finding a Pyrex bowl with a rare pattern at an estate sale for $5, unless of course she extrapolated the amount of rare Pyrex she could buy with said stack of cash.",
"Ayo clean their kitchen!!!!",
"Came here to say this. WTF, OP Help them?",
"That's why I still call my grandparents once a week because there will be that day when they are gone and you don't want to regret talking to them. ",
"To me that just makes it all the more reason to clean it up for that poor old man. Making him live in filth and clutter. ",
"Damnnn dat jawline tho 😍\n",
"I can't believe it's not butter... Sooo many containers lol!",
"My grandad was Exactly the same. This is the sweetest thing I've seen this week. ",
"> They are food\n\n\nI'd say that kinda seals the deal on phrasing",
"Okay that last statement is definitely hyperbolic as fuck. But without taking the photo into consideration, who seriously cares so little about they’re grandparents that they don’t WANT to clean up their kitchen for them? Regardless of severity?",
"My gram is 90, she houses butter and she's tiny",
"But then... would she still have to get down to brush her teeth?\n\nTotally admiring the love BTW!",
"Although I don't know Op's grandparents, I know my great grandparents had very similar looking counters. I think it has to do with them living through the great depression era. They always saw value in anything that they had. Any person in this day would throw out a single paper plate, a Styrofoam containter, single serving saltine cracker pack etc. These people know what hard times look like.",
"My granny tried to stab me with her fork when I went to open a salt packet for her during her first day at the stroke rehabilitation center. ",
"You don't know many old people, do you...ha. way easier said than done. They've grown accustomed to having things their way and they don't give a good GD how it looks. ",
"Youre just being polite. \"A little harder\"...more like impossible. ",
"Yeah, his grandfather probably wo t even make it to 105. ",
"Maybe they dont want OP to fuck with their system...like every other senior citizen on the planet. ",
"I don't mind moving back in with them. Yes, it's a huge change; especially at my age. But it's something we talked about years ago. We knew this was going to happen, so we've been prepared for it. I think that makes it a little easier.\n\nThe hardest part in all this is me and my dad watching my mom being pretty miserable in her last years. It's a fucked way to end your life. And I, in turn, see mu dad becoming more and more tired, and his sadness for my mom. So his last years aren't so great, either.\n\nAfter all my parents have done for me my entire life, I don't know how I could live with myself if I didn'r do this.",
"He’s too lazy to update us with the story. ",
"facebook? is that you?",
"Or more likely, they don't want help from a stranger. \n\nWe got a lot of resistance from my mother-in-law, saying she doesn't want a stranger in her house, touching all her things. Whenever a fall would put her in the hospital and she'd get a temporary home health care aide afterwards, she couldn't wait for those two weeks to be up. So eventually she got so bad at taking care of herself that she had bedsores, and then one day she accidentally lit herself on fire. That was bad enough to get her from the hospital into a nursing home, from which she never left. If she hadn't been so stubborn and had let us pay for even a part time helper, she'd likely still be alive today.",
"And people have no idea how hard it is to do things at this age, even at an earlier time in old age.\n\nAlso please know that sometimes it is perceptive to let a person do it themselves, even if it tries your patience a little. The feeling of being able to do a thing for yourself can be very important when a person is challenged by age or illness.\n\nThese are not necessarily unhealthy conditions. A little messy, but maybe he or OP tidied up a while later.\n\nSource: caregiver for my 92 year old mom 24/7, and letting her s-l-o-w-l-y do things that she shows are important to her to do.\n\nYou really may not know until you get there.",
"Looking behind his right wrist, looks like there's some toast there maybe. \n\nAnd people often have the stick of butter there so they can use a little bit while they eat.",
"It's easy to expect perfection when you're young and healthy.\n\nOP knows and loves him and he (grandfather) knows what she wants for dinner, or what she is able to eat. \n\nLife gets different when you are old.",
"That is really true love, for better or worse. Hope i can someday have such long lasting love",
"God I wanted this. I waited until I found the guy I thought I could count on. This here, this is like winning the lottery. ",
"Haven't you seen butter on the table, so a person can take what they want of it?",
"I have a ridiculous amount of Pyrex bowls and casserole dishes. And Fire King mugs.",
"Yes, it does get very different. Their health will suffer and they are massively exposed to infection and illness so keeping their space clean for them is essential. OP is not the only one minding elderly people, some people do it for a living as well as minding their own elderly relatives. I would never risk their health and allow them cook in a kitchen that was clearly unhygienic. \n\nPeople downvoting because “you shouldn’t judge” have obviously never had to help an elderly person clean their soiled bedsheets because they are so ill from food poisoning. Helping keep their home clean is not a suggestion, it is a necessity if he/she cares for them \n",
"Instead of just taking pics why don't you try helping out, cleaning up a bit.",
"That's not at all what that statement is supposed to mean",
"You have clearly experienced a particular situation which may apply in some cases.\n\nHowever, there is nothing in the photo to prove that the home is unhygienic.\n\nSorry that it's been traumatic for you, but I wouldn't generalize from this photo.\n\nEdit: I didn't down vote here.",
"Nice original post",
"No, I can’t explain this enough hygiene and cleanliness is a requirement when it comes to food prep for the elderly and infirmed. I don’t want to take credit for that, that is just facts.\n\nThat much clutter in a damp hot space like a kitchen absolutely guarantees bacteria growth. Again, not an opinion, just basic facts \n\nEdit; These aren’t my grandparents and OP is obviously not bothered so dropping this now. Wish them health and happiness🤟🏻",
"I eat lunch at 3pm every day.",
"well that's not really healthy.",
"Over 65 years",
"Hey now let's not get caught up in semantics. ",
"Awesome, my comment is in the negative. Niiiiiceeee 🙏🏽",
"Oh you have no idea. Mid Century Kitchen ware is my jam! I have a huge collection of Pyrex, Glasbake, Fire King and a few pieces of Hazel Atlas. ",
"Maybe. JUST MAYBE, they had just finished making everything? Not everyone cleans as they go. Its humorous you call something hyperbolic when you're acting like this is some health issue rather than a bit of clutter than can be cleaned up. Relax dude, youll live longer.",
"he's making a joke about his uncle alfred. the \"big story\" is just that uncle al is the fatass who has made the mess in this photo.",
"Yeah I can't say I mind that much, because she's super frugal about it too. She loves the hunt, but will scoff at prices above $5. It's also cool having tons of mixing bowls and casserole dishes with that kind of character. I feel like a more legit chef. She has this old ass mixing bowl that has a detachable metal clasp handle and it's pretty sweet, not going to lie. She's kind of converting me into one of you guys, just a bit.",
"Hoarders: Buried Alive, featuring /u/padsert",
"Came here for this",
"That's a really neat hobby ",
"Is that a huge chunk of butter to go with the mug of soup? ",
"Lies ",
"There is bread there as well. I’m going to go ahead and assume that at age 90 you stop giving a fuck about exact portions. ",
"That's disgusting.",
"Hey OP, if G&G are living on their own and don't have someone there to help everyday you should consider getting them signed up for Meals on Wheels. It would lessen the burden of cooking and cleaning on your Grandpa, and he could totally still bring it to Grandma in bed. ",
"I love it! Thanks for sharing, it made me smile. I hope you can enjoy your grandparents for a long time.",
"Good point! I’ll look into it ",
"[it's time for another \"Good Idea, Bad Idea\"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhWJPBqEkXU)",
"someone's never ridden a city transit bus packed with old people before. biggest group of miserable, rude people you'll ever find.",
" I realized I have those cups and matching plates. Little baby cups for tea. Can't have much soup in that sucker I reckon.",
"You're grandpa makes a huge mess in order to make some soup and I hope is a chunk of cheese and not a 1/2lb of butter",
"It's a great depression thing 🤷",
"Those had to be tough times for sure.",
"His reasoning cuts like a Swiss army knife",
"Aw. How long have they been married?",
"Why not help cleaning up its better for your karma that a photo",
"RIP the cat you could change him to.",
"Over 65 years",
"The most original thing I’ve read all day...",
"If my grandma watched her kitchen turn into this at a family gathering she would have stroked out many years earlier.",
"Awww",
"My grandpa does this for my step grandmother but it more resembles the relationship of Jaba the hut and Princess Leia. My grandmas a fat bitch",
"Ha! Man. I set you up to use that cliche food.",
"Soylent green is PEEEEOPLE!!",
"Sure. Plus data. ",
"This is why I am not doing it.\nI'm in my early 30ies and won't risk 60+ years of having to do it daily.\n\nRemember kids. Not even once!",
"I guess the other option is let her starve? ",
"Elderly people are much more vulnerable to infection than are younger people (except babies, they are also very vulnerable.) Squalor and filth create infection risk- places for bacteria and mold to breed to excess. Maybe they did live 92 years in filth, and it didn't kill them then: it can totally kill them now."
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"That's sandtastic.",
"Jim Morrison? ",
"The Dude.",
"It’s Art.",
"Butter Jesus rises from the ashes!",
"Did someone sandbox the GNU project?",
"But then where's Paul?",
"Looks like Jim Carrey to me. ",
"Its some giant bearded face! \n\nGasp* GBF!!!"
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"Slenderman in a refrigerator box waiting for a Subway train",
"Nice",
"Can I make a 3D model of this?",
"Subway stations man...",
"Oooh Id like to see the finished product.",
"Go for it.",
"Thanks! :)",
"Beautiful and errie. Reminds me of Metro 2033. ",
"I've definitely built this in Minecraft.",
"Your argument is invalid"
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"Fuck that",
"Im ok to go... wheres it at?",
"What if I don't quite make the cut but I identify as a 6' 4\" person? ",
"If they're advertising Wasatch Brewery Root Beer and have a picture of men in white shirts and ties I'm gonna say with 100% certainty it's a mormon party in Utah, probably around Lehi/Saratoga Springs area, though that's harder to suss out from the information I have.",
"Sorry, there are only 2 heights- 6'+ and too short",
"I bet he owns many leather bound books, and his house smells of rich mahogany. ",
"TALL PEOPLE UNITE"
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"If there are no guns. There are no gun deaths. ",
"Don't worry, you're not the only one with a jackass for a boss.",
"If there are no cars. There are no car deaths. ",
"What if there were no pencil then no misspellings?",
"Hard upvote. Guns are a right and your boss is right.",
"Unfortunately, we as a species have quite a talent for finding ways to kill each other. \n\n1. Thinking guns will go away is an absurd thought.\n\n2. Some thing else will just take the place of the gun anyway.",
"If there are no doctors, there are no malpractice deaths.",
"Username checks out. #murica",
"`2. If it's less effective at killing people, that's a win.",
"Cocaine is illegal. Does that stop people from getting it?\n\nAssault rifles and high capacity magazines are already illegal. Does that stop anyone from getting them?\n\nPeople are the real problem.",
"It would most likely be more effective. ",
"I get the point about people actually being responsible for doing these things but the problem of gun violence isn’t even in the same league as your (what I presume your boss thought were super clever) other topics of comparison. Here’s why his flyer is wrong, incredibly misleading and flat out stupid.... People used to drink and drive a lot and then we put in place some legislation to curb that and it worked. People who don’t know how to spell get an education, which is standardized through law. People who are fat admittedly don’t have many laws governing their body fat, but they can change through education. All three of those things were problems and we have successfully come up with solutions for them through law or education and training. Gun violence in America is truly unique and there isn’t a single other developed country with a gun violence problem of such magnitude. It can be and should be addressed through law, training and education. ",
"I thoroughly dislike how it is publicly acceptable to target famous people based on their appearance, whilst there is such a supposed effort to curb bullying. All bullying is bullying. ",
"But meth is illegal and people still do meth herr derr!!!",
"That's stupidest fucking thing I've read all day.\n",
"Cars serve a purpose that *isn't* killing things, unlike guns.",
"Guns serve a purpose that isn’t driving things, unlike cars. ",
"No shit. There are still people who drink and drive, but the laws did have an impact. Nothing is perfect, but to be so cavalier about it and pretend that there isn’t anything you can do about because ‘people will be people and find a way’ is foolish, lazy and dangerous.",
"I'm clearly using the same logic as OP's comment to make a point. You taking that seriously is the fourth stupidest fucking thing I've read all day.",
"Since when are assault rifles illegal ? I missed that memo. ",
"The majority of gun deaths are caused by people with legally registered guns. The ban on guns would likely reduce the number of people killed just as the ban on cocaine minimizes the number of people taking cocaine. ",
"lmao I actually have a framed note next to my door that says my neighbors don't own any guns, have a pretty daughter, and lots of nice things.",
"The real joke is always in the comments",
"\"People will always find a way\" ummm what about the many toddlers who die every year because of mishandling guns? That would not happen",
"it's American macho culture. ",
"> Guns are a right\n\nthat right is debatable, has been for some time.",
"That is due to stupidity",
"> Thinking guns will go away is an absurd thought.\n\nTrue. Thinking that what is happening to our government was also thought absurd. ",
"Have you ever heard Rosie talk about other people? Especially republicans. ",
"Everything is debatable. But gun rights are easy",
"to the uninformed\n",
"This argument might have some merit if spoons made dozens of innocent bystanders fat. Or one person's pencil could randomly misspell a word on someone else's test. Or if driving drunk wasn't already illegal, with a lot of scrutiny and police checkpoints to test people during holidays. \n",
"i agree that society is too rough on amy schumer!",
"Stupid message, and a stupid font.",
"The boss seems to disagree with those that assign blame or intent to inanimate objects. He's not saying these objects are miraculously doing things.",
" The U.S. Supreme Court disagrees with you.",
"Really, registered guns huh... What states other than NY havr a registry for anything other than \"assault weapons\"?",
"Assault rifles are very tightly controlled, have to have been made 1984 or earlier and start around $25,000. \n\n\"Assault weapons\" is a political term that gets redefined with every bill. Typically it means box fed, semiautomatic long guns with some largely cosmetic attachments. Assault weapons are banned in a few states.",
"Not by me. I've been watching this farce for decades.",
"Damn right. Somebody isn't teaching those toddlers how to properly clean a gun.",
"$25,000 for an AR? What the fuck type of rifles you looking at lol. Heckler and Koch MR556A1 costs around 6000. And that's one of the best you can get, most of the others are plenty cheaper. \n\nI live in Canada , one of the most progressive countries in the world . And AR's are not illegal. Yes you have to have your magazine clipped at 5 rounds. And they are even easier to get in the states. To call them illegal is just completely incorrect. \n\nBtw nice copy paste from whatever source yu were using ",
"Except that pencils were not invented to kill people, and guns were. Spoons were never intended to be used to take human lives, and guns were. Rosie O'Donnell was not bred to be a killing machine, but guns are designed to kill.\n\nSee, the difference here is that those other things when misused are doing something they weren't intended to do, while guns-- whether used properly or being misused-- are doing what they were created to do: Kill other humans. \n\nIt's funny, by the way, how conservatives are so obsessed with a former VJ and comedian. ",
"Well said.\n\nYou never do hear about a neighborhood kid being accidentally fattened by his neighbor cleaning some spoons.\n",
"An AR-15 is not an assault rifle as it is not select fire. You can call it an assault weapon and still be correct.\n\nAnd I didn't copy paste anything.. ",
"Don't know where the phrase of guns killing people came from. Guns don't kill people. People with guns kill people -- and a lot more effectively than with most other weapons. ",
"How does the above make any difference to the point being made?\n\nThe point being made is that it is human beings who misuse things in ways to hurt people. Guns can be used to defend yourself in a legal and moral manner. They can also be used for senseless violence.\n\nI'm not even American and I'm pretty much in favour of tight gun laws. But your argument was utterly irrelevant to the point this post was making. Which is that it ultimately comes back to the human beings deciding to do awful things.\n\nThe better counter argument is what damage each item can do. A handgun allows you to with almost no skill to kill several people. The same is not true for a pencil, knives or a spoon. All of which it is significantly harder to kill people with. If you make it harder to commit mass murder then mass murders will reduce. ",
"She knew what she was getting into. Live by the sword.",
"Oh fully auto , yea those are illegal .",
"They aren't, they are just very tightly controlled, have to be made prior to 1984 and are really expensive ",
"That's crazy , in Canada no citizen can get their hands in those. But that's why in my first comment , I said it's incorrect to call them illegal .",
"...and this guys a BOSS! No doubt the business is doing swell.",
"A gun is a tool, just like all of those things, it can be used for good or bad. You can write terrible things or great things, you can drive the Indy 500 or get into a horrible crash, you can use a spoon to eat cereal or to put a lighter under dope. And yes, you can shoot someone to death or protect someones life. Does this mean we should get rid of the tool? No.",
"Have you ever fired a gun?",
"Your boss is a fucking moron.",
"In the United States, gun ownership is an explicit right.\n\nThat's not debatable.\n\nWhat is debatable is whether or not it should be a right. For that we look at data. The data show that gun violence rates in the US is shockingly high. If you don't count suicides it goes down... A lot. You can argue about whether or not people should be allowed to take their own lives, but most gun owners tend to have libertarian ideals, and suicide is one of those things that is none of the government's business to them. If you are going to convince a gun owner to give up their weapons, it'll help if you don't count intentional suicides as part of gun violence data. Next, the highest gun crime rates occur in South Chicago and New York City. In both of these places, it's really hard to get a gun legally. The overwhelming majority of gun crimes committed in these places are committed with illegally obtained guns. Since the overwhelming majority of gun crimes in the US happen in these places, then that means that the majority of gun crimes committed in the US are committed with illegally obtained guns.\n\nThis means that the trick you'll have to pull off is convincing people to voluntarily give up their legal property in order to stop people from using illegal property to commit crimes. Legally obtained guns aren't the problem, and the people pushing anti-gun legislation largely can't tell the difference between single action and double action without looking it up first. \n\nEither learn the field enough to effectively govern it, or leave it to the people that already understand it to do so.",
"I know right. It's like guns are bad! We should ban semi-automatic weapons because they can be used as machine guns! The AR in AR-15 means it's an assault rifle!\n\nthis shit is easy for the uninformed.",
"> an call it an assault weapon and still be corr\n\nYou cannot call a AR-15 an assault rifle as the AR = ArmaLite Rife. An Assault rifle is fully automatic not semi-automatic. ",
"It's not that absurd. This is what happens to a republic when it's citizens abdicate their responsibilities. History is full of examples. We're watching the fall of Rome.",
"The majority of those numbers are intentional suicides. That's another issue. If you are talking about actual crimes committed with guns, then the overwhelming majority of crimes are committed in gun free zones with illegally obtained weapons.",
"an AR isn't an assault rifle. It's a hunting rifle dressed up as an assault rifle. ",
"If there is no food, there are no choking deaths.",
"Accidents happen with guns & cars. Sometimes you hit the wrong lee when you tttext. Sometimes you're even attacked by rouge breakfast meats. I know. 😤😕",
"The Supreme Court also thinks that corporations should be treated as people. Meaning they can donate as much money they want to politicians. Do you agree with that also? Just because it is law does not make it financially, morally, or ethically correct.",
"I disagree with a lot of things the Courts say and do. I also disagree with off topic straw-man arguments. ",
"Yeah. I grew up around guns and served in the military. \n\nWhat’s it matter? Guns were invented to kill, that is their purpose. Yes, they are fun, yeah, people use them to hunt, yes, they can do good things in those regards, and yes, at the end of the day guns are inanimate objects that must be utilized by people to do harm. \n\nMy point was that comparing them to doctors making mistakes or deaths from cars is absolutely asinine and completely disingenuous. \n\n",
"Last time I checked, there was no eraser on a gun capable of undoing the damage that was done using it. ",
" Just because the courts had a ruling does not mean it was a \"correct\" ruling. \"The supreme court disagrees with you\" is not an argument. I am just pointing out a flaw in the logic. ",
"I think the comparison is a stretch, yes, but it seems like most people come to the conclusion of guns being bad not by facts or experience but from emotion. To many people, it’s just as asinine and disingenuous to say that guns themselves are the issue.\n\nWe have to ask questions and come to the best conclusion. And the most crucial question is...\n\n\nShould a liberty be given up for an increased chance at safety? \n \nI say no. For the simple fact that governments can turn tyrannical, and I firmly believe that the founding father knew exactly what they were doing when they gave us these rights.\n\n\n\n",
"lol @ stupid font XD",
"I don't know that I'd call the Supreme court upholding Constitutional Law that's been in place for well over 200+ years, \"A flaw in logic.\"\nThat's the thing with that pesky Constitution... there's always parts someone doesn't like. There's always someone that wants to take away the rights of 'The Other Guy.' All while fighting for the rights they like and that benefit them. ",
"Guns do kill people. I’ve never understood this logic. Without the gun, the gunshot victim would not be a victim of a gun shot. Without the chicks there would be no egg. So therefore the gun DOES kill people but is activated or triggered by the human with the intent to kil. If you point a banana at someone, there’s no chance of killing. If you point a gun, there is. Therefore the gun is the very thing in this scenario that is doing the killing, or rather the bullet that is fired out of it. \n\nAnd I should note that I LOVE guns and shooting guns and owning guns. But this argument that has been around forever is just stupid. ",
"You’re right what you’re saying , but if you remove guns from ordinary people then just the government and the criminals will have them. Guns have spread too far and exist in numbers too massive to ignore. So let sane people do what they wish and purchase what they wish, and don’t stifle their rights because of a few bad seeds. You can buy a Toyota Land Cruiser and drive it into a busy area and run over and kill 30 people. Are you gonna ban cars or suvs? Obviously the car is not invented to kill like a gun is, but it’s the same principle. You’re saying because government says it’s a law doesn’t mean it’s right, but then you’re also saying that very same government should remove your rights. Logical fallacy. We should educate and have more gun control, but removing our right to bear arms will not solve this problem. All these murderers have shit lives and are deeply troubled mentally and emotionally, almost always as a result of something in their home life.\n\nAs usual, the problem starts at home. We need to rehabilitate our society, our family unit, our compassion; not our gun laws. With a good upbringing free if violence or abuse in its myriad forms you woUldnt have these gun issues. Strike the problem at the source, not at the weapon used after the source had gone on for decades and created badness in the heart and mind of the murderer. ",
"Saying you are wrong because the supreme court said so is flawed logic. ",
"Firecrackers can't blow off your fingers. Matches can't blow up in your hand. A person has to light a match and ignite the firecracker to do any damage. Pretty crazy that some systems or actions require more than a *single lone input*, right?",
"Okay.. What Federal Laws don't you follow because you don't think they're the \"correct\" ruling or law? I'm still going to be fined and jailed for Federal Tax evasion, even if I don't like it or think it's \"correct\"",
"OK...yes. Guns don't pull their own trigger. The real offense is all the dumb sloganeering crap that comes out of the \"gun people\". Sorry your boss is a douche.",
"If guns were illegal, it is quite possible that many suicides would be prevented because other means of killing yourself are not as easy. The gun free zone argument is a joke, it is pretty easy to drive to the next state over, buy a gun legally and bring it back.",
"Then there will be bomb deaths, fire deaths, stabbing deaths. Oh wait there already are. If someone wants to kill people they gonna do it. If the government is so stupid as to try to take peoples guns away you're gonna have about 65 million people marching to Washington with guns. You think the military is going to stop them, them agreeing, \"ok we'll go to war with our own country cus a bunch of libs don't like guns\"",
" Are you guys hassling your boss about gun control or something? I tend to find a lot of gun nuts posting things as if someone actively challenged them on it, when in reality no one ever brought it up. ",
"I'm not opposed to suicide. We're overpopulated, and if someone wants to check out, that's their prerogative. \n\nIf you want to take away peoples legal rights to solve a problem, then try enforcing the laws that are already in place first. Legal gun owners aren't the ones committing the crimes you are worried about.",
"What about the legal gun owner Stephen Padock? The one who legally purchased 30 rifles, and then killed over 50 people at music festival? ",
"The problem is that the laws the vast majority of the people who claim to be proponents of reducing gun violence want to enact would have little to no effect on reducing gun violence. It's clearly just an agenda to ban guns. If it were about actually reducing gun violence, then the legislation gun-violence people would be proposing would be things targeted at reducing gun violence instead of things like assault weapon bans, bump-triggers, silencers, etc. \n\nFurthermore, gun violence is pointed to like a national emergency and guns treated like the worst thing in the world (\"their only purpose is to kill!\") - yet more people die from alcohol, more lives are ruined from alcohol. Alcohol serves zero useful purpose whatsoever but nobody cares about all the people who die from it and whose lives are ruined from it because everyone likes to drink and have a buzz.\n\nSo all the stuff about deeply caring about the victims of gun violence tends to ring quite hollow when the victims aren't actually being respected with legislation that would have helped them, nor are the actual reasons for gun violence being addressed, nor are other issues that kill countless people and ruin countless lives being given any consideration whatsoever because they aren't political hot-buttons for those pretending to care about the victims of gun violence.\n\nIt's just that some people don't like guns, and most people are would-be dictators inside and want to legislate their viewpoint upon everyone else. Most people don't really care about the Constitution at all or rights, and want to strip rights away from others in a heartbeat and just want to find a way to effect that - whether it's abortion rights or enacting prayer in schools or teaching creationism in schools or banning guns or whatever else. People just want their views codified in law and to strip the rights of others.\n\nFact.",
"Is that the only one, or is there an endemic of legal gun owners committing massacres?\n\nWe allow people to drive even though some legally licensed people will intentionally commit vehicular homicide. If legal gun owners become a problem, then you'll have a point. \n\n Let's try not devolving into throwing talking points at each other, otherwise this isn't going to go anywhere.",
"Pencils were made with the sole purpose of misspelling words. ",
"Well guns makes it easier, Pencils makes it easier, cars makes it easier, Spoons are probably the reason why",
"You also have to get a drivers license to drive a car. But in most states anyone can buy a gun, all it takes is a background check. \nI am not saying ban all guns, because at this point there are way too many out there, but they need to be restricted. Majority of mass shooters use legally obtained weapons. No other country on the planet has as many mass shootings as the US. It is obviously a problem. ",
"Syria has more mass shootings than the us",
"Syria is in the middle of a civil war..... I'll just leave this here:\n\nhttp://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/compare/Syria/United-States/Crime",
"What is so stupid about this message? It implies that people need to be held accountable for their actions. Seems straightforward to me. ",
"Which is a real shame, those tiny hands can clean all the nooks and crannies.",
"Yeah. That's kinda my point. \n\nThis is a touchy subject, and depending on how you group your data, you can make it say almost anything.",
"Very accurate",
"It's against his narrative and narrow mind.\nAustralia is the perfect example of how gun control does NOT work, as an example, but it's parroted like it does the opposite.",
"Fun trump facts: Pencils, cars, and spoons kill people too. Just like misspellings, drunks, and Rosie O'Donnell's fat. One specifically kills better than all and is solely designed to do so.",
"You’re not wrong, but I don’t think it’s necessary to have fired a gun to make an informed decision about them or laws regarding them. \n\nI don’t think banning guns outright is the right decision, but I think decreasing ownership would be smart, and so would making them harder to get with actual training required to do so. We have proof in the form of many other countries with strict gun control that it works to reduce gun deaths. \n\nOf course gun deaths aren’t the only consideration we should have regarding gun control, but it’s certainly at the top of the lost for me. ",
"loet's deal with the situation as it is, not as you'd wish it to be",
"Let's kill more kids. If you don't have a solution, and just say things like \"this shit is easy for the uninformed.\", kindly STFU ",
"I'm glad you came to my way of thinking. I didn't think you would deal with the situation in any other manner.",
"Simply the definition of militia is debatable, and your views are set in concrete anyway",
"The definition of the word militia is debatable. If you are looking for more info on what exactly the framers had in mind when they put the Second Amendment into the Bill of Rights, you can read what they had to say about it. \n\nMost of them were prolific writers after all.",
"You get my point then.\n\nIf we're going to talk about this, lets do it like adults.",
"this one maybe ( show a reference why don't you) , not so much in the past, and probably not in the future\nThe current administration is influenced by lobbyists paid by gun manufacturers, as is the NRA, which I used to belong to when it was an organization dedicated to ideals, not profits",
"I have, but since time travel is beyond my scope, we all only interpret what we THINK they meant ",
"The problem with your logic is that gun murders are for the most part not committed by the common legal gun owner.\n\nHigh crime occurs in large cities with high poverty rates. For instance, take Chicago, it has some of the most strict gun laws in the nation, yet year after year it tops gun death lists. \n\nAs for nations with strict gun laws, just go look at how many large cities they have with high poverty rates and population compared to the US. The US is one of a kind with its demographics so it’s really not translatable.\n\nAlso, “gun deaths” is a very misleading statistic. Almost 2/3 of gun deaths in 2013 were suicide(Over 20,000), and that leads me to believe that you can point the finger towards mental health. ",
"stillo, guns, gun ownership, remains a problem, because off the use of guns by some. How many kids, churchgoers, people just out for the night, have been slaughtered? Saying you can't take away my guns does fuckall to stop it",
"They're pretty clear on it. You can really read what they have to say. If you're feeling like they weren't clear on it then I can't say I believe you've read everything on the subject.",
"> They're pretty clear on it. \n\nConstitutional experts disagree, but since you say so, it must be true",
"Alright. So how do you recommend we solve the problem?\n\nWhat we're looking at is a situation in which people who haven't broken any laws, and have legally acquired a means of self defense against a government in case it turns tyrannical, are being threatened by that same government with having their means of defense taken away.\n\nI think I get it right when I say that your side of the argument is that these weapons are being used to commit violent crimes against the citizens of that same country, and that legal ownership of them provides a source for black market weapons, and the government should do something to curtail the source. If I got anything wrong, or left anything out, please let me know.\n\nBoth of these ideas have merit to them, and they aren't mutually exclusive. What do you suggest as a good compromise between the two groups? As it stands right now gun owners are negotiating from a position of power, and at least from where I stand many of the arguments from the gun control side are weaker and often show a misunderstanding of how guns even work, though I obviously see the reasons behind those arguments. It just feels like people are trying to legislate something they don't understand because they are afraid of it.\n\nIf you know anyone who is well read on the subject, I'd be interested in hearing the dissenting view and still understands the difference between an M4 Carbine and an AR-15.",
"Constitutional experts would point out that the framers of the constitution weren't all the same person, or even the same political persuasion, and that they had different ideas on what should be done. They would agree though on the definition of militia with respect to the early American government.",
"> They would agree though on the definition of militia with respect to the early American government.\n\nPlease, you're an embarrassment \n\n",
"> Alright. So how do you recommend we solve the problem?\n\nI'm not that smart, but having one side say you can't take them awa, and the other side say get rid of them all, and the subsequent yelling solves nothing. When both sides agree that the current situation is untenable, and something MUST be done, is when progress will start ( I'm a gun owner, BTW, so there's that) If you get a chance, read \"Guns\" by Stephen King (that Stephen King) , on Amazon. ",
"How so?",
"I'll read Guns by Stephen King if you read up on what the framers of the constitution meant when they said the word militia.\n\nedit: I'm an asshole. We're having two different conversations and I thought this sounded more playful than it reads. I don't want to scuttle the conversation we're having by devolving to insults though, so sorry about that one.",
"i'm not offended, so far",
"I would like to see this ended. The gun ownership side has already given up full-auto, and now there are people calling for a ban on semi-auto, or writing legislation that would outlaw triggers in an attempt to get rid of bump stocks. It seems a bit ridiculous to point out that gun violence is always going to exist because guns exist. What's more, with how affordable a CNC mills are becoming, guns aren't going to go away, even if they are made illegal.\n\nThat one hard libertarian that was in trouble for 3d printing guns already has the files up on the internet, so anyone who wanted to print a gun, or carve one out using a mill can do so. \n\nIn that case, getting rid of legal guns won't curtail the supply of illegal ones. If criminals are going to be arming themselves, I have a hard time telling people that they can't be armed as well, especially since that shooting at the church in Texas a few months ago was a textbook \"Good guy with a gun\" scenario.\n\nI don't think that relieving people of their personal property is going to be an effective solution to the problem. Especially if it's done against their will.",
"and America is an example of how allowing guns results in the most deaths by gun violence every year, oh yea ",
"The amount of flaws in this argument is staggering.. First of all you dont need bump-triggers to A) protect your home, B) Hunt. If you own a gun for reasons outside of that spectrum ie. fun... your part of the problem. How do you think literally every single illegally used gun was aquired? from a magical gun fairy??? no they are either bought on the black market from somebody who carries a FOID card or stolen from guess who!? a person who legally owns a gun. \nFYI i believe we should be able to own guns for hunting and protection, BUT if you think your going to stop a would be dictator from taking over you by having any kind of assault rifle automatic or not you are confused! Mother fuckers have drones they can bomb your entire neighborhood with without you even seeing the plane. ",
"You think you can stop a government turning tyrannical with guns? thats the funniest thing ive heard all day",
"Yes. I do. The people are the government and the government are the people. If a sitting president or any government official decided to take the law into their own hands, the citizens would have the right to take it back. \nIf we were left with your ignorant thinking, we would’ve never become a nation, and the Nazis and Japanese would’ve taken over the world.\n75+ Million armed Americans, I’ll take those odds.",
"What if I told you reasonable gun laws were for people not guns. ",
"You are all over the place dude.. we created our glorious nation by fighting back with guns when’s guns and cannons were the only weapons. With the weapons our military has today that’s like comparing the revolutionaries back then fighting the British with swords. \nGood luck shooting at drones though \nAlso the WW2 reference is sad.. those Americans that fought against the axis had all the available weapons of that time. Grenades tanks airplanes ATOM bombs for starters ",
"This is obviously about gun control, and idiots like you just don't get it. I'm sure when a toddler shoots you in a Walmart because they found moms purse gun you will still have the same opinions. Fuck humanity is doomed. ",
"Mexicans terkin Er jerbs! Mah guns! Hilary's emails! America is doomed. ",
"There are no flaws in my argument - you just don't like the clarity of truthfulness of it so you skirt the logic of it.\n\nWhat does protecting one's home or hunting have to do with anything? The right to bear arms isn't conditional on protecting one's home or hunting anymore than the right to free speech is conditional upon educating others or speech based on research. You're adding conditions that don't exist and are therefore irrelevant.\n\nLike I said, most people are just wanna-be fascist dictators inside that don't care about the Constitution and are itching to impose their viewpoints on everyone else using the club of law. You're one of them. You deem everyone who doesn't see things your way as \"part of the problem\". There are millions just like you - some of them think abortion should be illegal and would happily codify that in law if they could. Some think the USA should be a christian nation and would happily codify that in law to stop the erosion of traditional value systems. But the bottom line is that most people don't possess the intelligence or wisdom necessary to understand and accept that it's OK for people to be different and think differently and have different values and beliefs and that's OK. They just want to be little mini-Hitlers.\n\nThe last part of your message isn't really worth replying to with much depth because it's just something people repeat because it sounds good when they haven't given the matter any critical thought. But think it through... conflicts are not fought with opposing forces lined up in fields where the enemy is well defined. Neighborhoods are not razed to the ground and doing so is a war crime. And no amount of military technology has ever been able to thwart the guerrilla with a gun blending with a civilian population. I mean, if we hadn't *just* gone through a decade plus of conflict where this very issue was front-and-center, this error could be chalked up to not knowing history - but c'mon.. this was one of *the* top foreign policy issues over the past 20 years!",
"I didn’t say the right was conditional I said your part of the problem. There goes your first paragraph lol \nSaying you shouldn’t “impose viewpoints” is so critically mislead. If people didn’t “impose viewpoints” we wouldn’t have gotten anywhere as a society. Imposing view points like murder is bad, people of all races are equal and many others had to be imposed.\nMaybe you’d like to live in a lawless no imposed viewpoints society? \nbut militaries have defeated guerrilla warfare armies. Examples include the Confederates, the Japanese in WWII and many many British colonizations. I don’t know if you aren’t familiar with history or just can’t see past your narrow viewpoint\nAlso, I own guns and have a FOID card myself",
"> \"Good guy with a gun\"\n\nOne time , and the perp was fleeing the scene. That good guy stopped nothing. I want to see a national, computerized data bank for background checks, then we'll talk about what comes next. \nLike I've said, I own guns, and I worked in some of the sleaziest areas of NY City. A Bulldog 44 once saved my life. My grandfather came here from Poland in '95, bought me my first 22 when I was 8, and taught me what and what not to do with it. Taught all my kids too. But SOmething has to give. \n\n",
"It's proof of concept. The good guy with a gun showed up, and chased the shooter off before the police arrived. If the shooter wanted to stick around and continue shooting people, he would have had to do so with an armed man trying to stop him.\n\nWe already have a national computerized background check system. I disagree about making it public though. A lot of legal information is private for good reason. \n\nI own guns too. I'm not denying that you own guns. It's irrelevant to the conversation though.",
"You justified gun ownership on the basis of hunting and protection and stated that people who want guns for other reasons are \"the problem\". You are wrong and provably so. The Constitution exists to limit the power of the government and protect the rights of the individual. The individual has an inherent right to bear arms - it is immutable in the same way that the right to free speech is immutable - those are facts. It is your opinion that people shouldn't own guns except for hunting and protecting their home. That's nice. Nobody really cares about your opinion. There are plenty of religious people whose opinion is that abortion should be banned and that creationism should be taught in school. Law and rights is not a matter of whose viewpoint wins out and gets legislated upon everyone else. You seem to think that's how things work but you've shown you have a very naive understanding of governance and where rights are derived from - so I'll give an overview.\n\nRights and laws aren't about imposing viewpoints. It's not about gaining a critical mass whereby that group then imposes their will upon the rest. In fact, a foundation of our representative republic is the protection of the minority from the tyrannical majority - which is why we protect gay rights, even though they make up a minority of the population - regardless of what evangelicals think. Same with racism - it doesn't matter if blacks are 13% of the population - it's wrong to have laws that unfairly disenfranchise them from society. Who came up with these laws? Why the people that came up with the Constitution. They were intelligent people. They understood that fundamental concepts of governance and society transcend individual preferences and viewpoints - i.e. mob rule is bad. \n\nAs for guerrilla warfare - you're moving the goalposts - why? Aren't you confident in your claim? Why the need to move the goalposts \n Your original point was that a gun was useless against a modern military. Now you're saying militaries have defeated guerrilla armies before... and they have been defeated by them too. Which means you were wrong. And this is not a historical point of debate - this is something that we have seen in our own lifetime - in this very decade! And you really want to pull out the \"aren't familiar with history\" card right after you claimed the Confederates and Japanese in WW2 were guerrilla armies? \"LOL\" right back atcha.\n\nIt's very simple....\n\n-Rights are not about what the mob/majority wants to impose on the rest. This is *specifically* at odds with the founding principles of the US of A\n\n-Your contention that the right to bear arms is about hunting and protection is a fabrication of your own invention.\n\n-Your contention that firearms are useless against a modern army is not only untrue, but unless you are a teenager, you have LIVED through daily news reports of the most powerful and best equipped military in the world losing men and women daily to a rag-tag bunch of peasants using junk Russian stamped metal shit guns on a daily basis, ultimately leading to us pulling out and effectively ceding two countries back to the hands of those we originally fought.\n\n-Regardless of all the above, it really doesn't matter because laws aren't about what you and a plurality of people want. You lack the wisdom to understand that - but think it through and realize how many people would LOVE to make abortion illegal or force your kids to be taught creationism in school or be forced to recite prayers.\n\n-Yeah, and you're not a racist because you have a black friend. Nobody cares about your claims of owning guns. It's irrelevant. \n\n(waah I can't read all of that... )",
"Why don't you use the example where the good guy totally screwed the pooch and shot the wrong person, or themselves?. \nThat computerized system does wonders at gun shows\nIt IS relevant, because I swear, if just one kid's life were saved if I gave them all up, I'd do it in a flash.\n",
"There's always someone that wants to take away the rights of 'The Other Guy.' All while fighting for the rights they like and that benefit them. ",
"> There's always someone that wants to take away the\n\nability to have children killed in schools ",
"I'd suggest putting away your book of snappy anecdotes.\nIf you really care about children and not a political agenda.. Try looking up the top 10 or 15 causes of death in the USA.\nGuns don't make that list. \nhttp://www.worldlifeexpectancy.com/usa/top-15-causes-of-death ",
"Made the list at a lot of schools and churches. I'd suggest you put away your book of gun \"rights\" platitudes, and try for some common sense",
"My point is that guns can be used to successfully defend yourself and others.\n\nNo one is stopping you from selling your guns. Do what you want with them. What I'm more curious about is how you feel about stealing other people's property when it would make more sense to implement laws that are already in place vis-a-vis the registry.",
"\nIf you're really as concerned about children as you claim. I'd suggest looking at drowning deaths. Also, how do children fare at the hands of priests, at these churches you mentioned? ",
"WTF does that even matter? People drown, so deaths by guns are fine? Just how stupid are you? You're the result of education cut backs. SMH",
"missing the point. I'm angry that there are so many mass killings in the USA, so you bring up something else. Don't tell me about the one time someone used a gun lawfully, don't tell me about the faults in our legal system, tell me how to stop the slaughter. The United States has more mass shootings than any other country. ( I have references should you deny). 146 mass shootings between 1967 and 2017. THREE A YEAR on average. And it gets worse every year. That's the problem, not what kind of gun can or can not buy, not if you can or can not open carry. The rest is bull shit. People are dying, all because of our Wild West mentality. \n",
"You've made several claims of supposedly caring for the lives of children. My counter claim has been clearly stated... You don't care, you simply have a political agenda. If you truly cared, you know that gun deaths don't even make the top 15 causes. You'd should know what the top causes of child mortality is, (since you care so much) however, you don't.\nYour Straw man and Ad hominems, simply show your true colors.",
"What do you propose we do about it?\n\nI'm not going to agree with stealing from people who haven't broken the law. \n\nOh, look at that. It's square one.",
"Thats actually a pretty solid argument.. I guess my viewpoint on the guerrilla warfare is changed slightly now so thanks \nI do disagree about the passing of laws though. Bills and legislation are voted on and need a majority to be passed. Yes this is done by the branches of government and not the public but they typically follow what a majority of their voter base wants so they can be reelected.\nRights are also not absolute like with free speech you cannot yell out \"Fire!\" or \"Bomb!\" in a public place. Those are restrictions on the right of free speech to protect the safety and rights of other americans just like we should have certain restriction on gun laws. Mentally ill people should not be able to own guns and violent criminals should also not be allowed to own guns.",
"Another mass shooting today......",
"what do you propose is done about it?",
"You are an idiot, this conversation's over. ",
"[Kiss off wanker](https://edition.cnn.com/2018/02/14/us/florida-school-shooting/index.html)",
"You too....\nNicolas de Jesus Cruz, a 19 year old Cuban, has been identified as the Parkland, Florida, school shooter. Even before the seventeen dead bodies of his victims have cooled, anti-White hoplophobes are trying to use the leftist created tragedy as a political football. Literally, even though Cruz is a registered active Democratic voter in Broward County, liberals are cynically attempting to disarm Whites using these murders as their gun control propaganda.\n\nThe Communist killer was a known security threat, and was not even allowed to carry a backpack to school last year as a Senior. He was then expelled from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School for “disciplinary reasons”. Cruz also belonged to Middle East Muslim “resistance groups” on social media. Florida Cubans are, of course, not White.",
"> leftist created tragedy\n\nAre you serious? B\nIf vso just stay the fuck out of my way\n",
"Christopher Hitchen gave a very good speech on this logic. http://blog.skepticallibertarian.com/2014/09/30/christopher-hitchens-freedom-of-speech-means-freedom-to-hate/",
"Make America great again! Bring back sporks! ",
"You know what country has the highest population to gun crime rate? America... Now you could say that's because the country is shite. However it doesn't help that gun bans have worked in literally every other country...",
"where's your sources?",
"If I need to cite that then you shouldnt be fighting for guns. Ignorance is bliss as the saying goes.",
"I can fight for what I want, you gonna tell me what a should and shouldn’t do? You shouldn’t just make shit up and expect the world to believe it. "
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"I totally thought this was an old pic of a young Johnny Cash. ",
"So Drake Bell just casually went to your highschool to preform?\nHmm",
"Drake Bell.... ruined the Fairly Odd Parents movie by being in it... I shall never forgive him. ",
"Wouldnt you hate life itself if your career in entertainment culminated into this?",
"*Record player scratch* you're probably wondering how I got here.....",
"Can we get an ID on that sweet meat? ",
"Nah it would be awesome (assuming you didn't get diddled while working at Nickelodeon). Any time you want you could throw in some old episodes and laugh at yourself but also know that you made thousands of other people laugh too. Could be worse, you could be a *real* nobody with no accomplishments at all that anybody would have heard of, just flicking back and forth between porn and shit talking on Reddit, idk."
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"It doesn't really detract from the painting unless you're looking for it",
"Uhh, aren’t paintings made to be looked at??\n\nAlso, I find copy/paste to be a really lazy way of creating art work. Jackson Pollack never used copy/paste.",
"It’s a pattern. It’s meant to repeat. It’s intentional. It was hand painted. With technique and skill. You’re obtuse. ",
"That cheater!",
"Are brush strokes a repeat/ copy?",
"Am i the only one who looks at this Presidential portrait and thinks, “wtf is up with all those damn leaves and flowers?” I don’t get it. ",
"Out of all of the artists you could have referenced here, you went with Pollock? Would it have made you happy if the dude just dripped green paint behind Obama and called it a day?",
"I mean, that’s if these are brush strokes. Zoom in, they’re pixel perfect copies. I think the background (at the least) was made digitally.",
"It's a painting, not Photoshop. Knock off the bullshit",
"Not to get onto you, but zooming on my phone I see various changes in color and shading. If it’s a painting then how is that possible?",
"A few of the boxes are incorrect, but most of them appear to be pixel perfect copies of the flowers. It looks like it was digitally copied.",
"Are you sure? I’m trying to find more info about it too.",
"OP, look up Wiley's [other work.](https://d1lfxha3ugu3d4.cloudfront.net/exhibitions/images/2015_Kehinde_Wiley_EL137.18_3198W.jpg) It's an aesthetic choice to use [repeating patterned backgrounds](http://www.themodern.org/sites/default/files/el137.43-web.jpg) that mimic wallpapers, [stained glass](https://d1lfxha3ugu3d4.cloudfront.net/exhibitions/images/2015_Kehinde_Wiley_EL137.55_cropped_square.jpg), etc. \n\nOne of the beautiful things about this portrait is the patterned nature of the background. I assure you, it was one of the reasons why Obama went with Wiley. ",
"Idk, it seems kind of lazy to paint on top of pre-printed backgrounds, doesn’t it?",
"Its not the \"official\" portrait. The official one will hang in the white house. This one will not.",
"Sorry, it’s the official portrait of the National Galleries though.",
"Not in my opinion. It seems like a technique an artist uses in order to create an eye-catching pattern.",
"But it’s not very eye catching. It’s bland, repetitive, and offers no perspective. In this portrait 0bama isn’t even on the ground with a wall of ivy behind him, he’s just oddly floating there. And I would think to a presidential portrait, you wouldn’t be lazy and repeat elements.\n\nMaybe it’s not too late for him to hire a new artist.",
"Do you think Trump's presidential portrait will depict him during the trial, or actually behind bars?",
"Ayy wait you’re not the other poster...",
"I think it's meant to emphasize the impact of the subject.",
"Then why have a distracting background?\n\nAlso, this goes against what you said earlier about it being an “eye catching pattern.”",
"Agreed.",
"The artist uses the renaissance and interiors as his inspiration. His backgrounds usually look like like the patterned wallpaper of Versailles. But he also likes to paint his subjects as hyper-realistic with intense attention to detail. The background is decorative and opulent, but Obama is clearly the subject of the painting. ",
"Eh, seems too contradictory.\n\nI’m still not a fan, I think it’s terrible and repetitive.",
"Take your t_d bullshit somewhere else.",
"In high-res, it is clear that they are nowhere close to \"pixel perfect\" upon even the most casual inspection. Actually, it's clear even in low-res.\n\nhttps://www.obama.org/wp-content/uploads/NPG_BO.jpg",
"it's not a pattern though, there are simply repeating elements.",
"With the degree to which you're still upset a black guy was a great president for two terms, do you even sleep at night?",
"The portrait is perfectly fine. It's your irrational hatred for Barrack Obama that makes you dislike the portrait. ",
"You could never be a fan of a portrait depicting Barrack Obama because for some reason you hate a black guy who had two great terms as President of the United States. Maybe it's because you hate the US, I don't know.",
"If you think that's weird, wait til you find out that the artist paints similar portraits of black woman holding severed white womans heads!",
"Have you seen some of his grislier work? The ones with black wean holdng white womans heads?",
"I loved the Obamas, both portraits are garbage.",
"Many of us loved the Obamas and still do yet can think these portraits look hideous simultaneously.",
"It's not about that at all. It's not about politics. Obama himself looks really good in the picture (other than those oversized hands), but the background is garish, ugly, and totally out of place when compared with every other presidential portrait (tell me [this doesn't look ridiculous](http://i.imgs.fyi/img/2mqn.jpg)). Not to mention it was quite possibly created digitally by a black supremacist artist than specialises in promoting the murder of white women.",
"You've been spouting contradictory nonsense this entire time, and when you realize you can't hold your own in the conversation - you claim the other guy is racist?\n\nJust sad.",
"What were the Obamas thinking selecting this artist?!? Severed heads...along racial lines....the deplorables are gonna eat this up. ",
"Am I sure it's a painting? Yes, of course I'm sure. It's a portrait for the National Portrait Gallery. ",
"Subjectively, of course!",
"They'd be right to.",
"You mean his interpretation of [Judith beheading Holofrenes?](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Beheading_Holofernes_(Caravaggio\\)) A classical motif in paintings that [*literally dozens* of artists](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_beheading_Holofernes) have used over centuries?\n\nBut *oh my god, it's a black woman beheading a white woman* is definitely the correct take. ",
"You mean Judith beheading Holofrenes? Yes. It's [very classic motif.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_beheading_Holofernes)",
"Why bring race into it?\n\nOP brings up a good point, is this a Photoshop creation?\n\n\n",
"Don't agree? Just rage and blame The Donald, the question of shading and color is legit, are we not allowed to critique.",
"It could be a photoshop that was then projected onto the canvas and copied by hand. ",
"A final \"Fuck You\" to America.",
"So the one all the way on the left about two leaf bundles down, and the one in the top row about 3.5-4 leaf bundles to the right... what's your verdict on that? To me it looks like the dark green pattern at the tip of the leaf is identical. I don't really think that \"proves\" it's a digital painting. It just seems like an odd coincidence and I don't know why it would be done on purpose (obviously coming from a layman haha)",
"Well, I wasn't really talking to you, but thanks for letting us know.",
"Again, I'm talking to the OP who is a racist piece of shit, not you. He's trying to make the black artist look lazy for copy/pasting.",
"[Yeah, I wonder what the differences are...](http://3qk03r3wav8p9e8t232mj341-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Kehinde-Wiley-12.jpg)",
"You can't even spell the name of the guy you're vehemently defending.",
"K but how are you sure the background wasn’t pre-printed? I haven’t found any video or pics of the artist painting his backgrounds by hand.",
"It is for the OP. Check his comments.",
"Stop being racist.",
"Speaking of his hands, what's going on with the bottom of his left hand? Like like a thumb but that wouldn't be possible. I do agree the resemblance (in the face) is very good. ",
"How is he racist? ",
"I don't even know the artist's name but I guess you know best.",
"Excuse me, that is highly insulting. I hope you have the wherewithal to remove this comment.",
"I'll try. Can you tell me what racist thing I did so I can avoid it in the future?",
"That’s possible. But I’ve watched videos and I haven’t seen any where the artist was painting the backgrounds by hand. All of his portraits feature elaborate photoshoots, then the artist painting the portrait area by hand on top of (what appears to be) a pre-printed background.\n\nOr maybe he has interns or other staff create the backgrounds from a photoshopped or projected image, I’m not entirely sure.",
"Not much beautiful about this portrait.. ",
"Racists think exactly like you.",
"So what if he was a black guy. The color of his skin had nothing to do with his ability to be a great president. I'm not going to argue whether he was good or not, I don't care. \n\nWhat happened to judging a person not by the color of their skin, but by their character? The more people divide things among racial lines, the further away from true equality we are.",
"Yes, racists think a guy trying to shit on a black artist for perceived copy/paste is racist. You make a lot of sense. ",
"Go to sleep. Try to be a better human being tomorrow. Today is a L.",
"What makes you think I judge Obama by his skin color and not his achievements? Projecting a little, are we?",
"If it's quite alright with you, I'm not going to go to bed at 3PM. And tomorrow I'll still call out racist pieces of shit for trying to shit on black people, thank you very much. ",
"Christ brah you're going to die alone. So much anger in you.",
"Maybe the clear fact that you plainly stated his skin color? It has nothing to do with what he did as a president, that is all I'm saying. Getting a little defensive, are we? Lets ignore everything else I said, I'm just an ignorant closeted racist, right?",
"You're bringing race into this. I checked OP's post history. He made a few comments on a single post that mentioned the race of the artist in the title and called the artist a hack, and stating that he's shown this image on other art subs. The rest on this topic mostly appears to be him not being very fond of the style used in the background and the method used to create it.",
"Yeah, people who dislike racists are know to be really lonely and unloved. Your projection is showing, pal ;)",
"> REEEEEEEEEEE! ",
"So you missed him shitting on Obama at every opportunity. I guess that makes me the racist.",
"Can you not be a mature adult? If you disagree with some one there is no need to insult.",
"[Obama's presidential portrait with all the others](http://i.imgs.fyi/img/2mqn.jpg)",
"It does. What does shitting on Obama have to do with race?! I don't like Obama either, and it has nothing to do with his race. I used to be for him back in 2008.",
"You have been hounding him in multiple threads about this, you keep bringing up race, and in every single one he's the one being upvoted and you are being downvoted.\n\nDoes that not tell you anything?",
"Bingo. I can't get this point across to him.",
"You keep saying \"Barrack\" like barracks. Before you try growing your edgelord points try to spell the former president's name correctly.",
"Browns, blacks, grays, yellows, and reds, and oh look, a giant splotch of bright green.",
"The point he was making was that Pollock used actual paint. ",
"Why does the medium matter? Arranging a digital pattern to fit without obvious seams would take just as long, if not longer than dripping a random paint pattern onto a canvas.",
"Wiley's whole MO is copying the poses of old master works using contemporary subjects and intricate patterned backgrounds.",
"Look at the dudes post history, he swiped the idea that the background was Photoshoped and posted his fake outrage post here.",
"Your history is filled with anti trump spam, who cares, OP has a good point.\n\nIronic isn't it? you are so similar like two sides of a coin.",
"No he doesn't, because it's not. His base argument that its copy and pasted is a lie.",
"Original vs Wiley version of [Judith beheading holofernes]) https://imgur.com/a/xUa1G). ",
"In the classic trope the tone is uncertainty and involves a frightened white woman beheading a belligerent white male of similar age. Jn the wiley version it is a defiant black queen displaying the decapitated head of what looks like a white child. [judith beheading holofernes](https://imgur.com/a/xUa1G). The painting in Wileys own words was meant to draw upon the idea/fear of black people “killing whitey” http://www.telegraph.co.uk/art/artists/obama-portrait-painterkehinde-wileys-past-work-depicted-black/ , http://nymag.com/arts/art/rules/kehinde-wiley-2012-4/ [edit, replaced source for original place Wiley stated Kill Whitey trope inspiration NYMag- 2012 sorry for adding wrong source. ]",
"What are you so worked up about?\n\nHe is a mirror of you, maybe you should reflect on yourself",
"...in which you draw art commentary from a white supremacist?",
"Are you calling the artist a white supremacist? The commentary on \"killing whitey\" is the artist himself saying that.",
"Paul Kersey is a white supremacist. ",
"Damn, people still think you are a racist if you don't like Obama? How stupid can people be?",
"This is a public forum sugar. If you can't handle reality coming from someone on your own side I'd opt out.",
"Sloppy link pasting previously. Here is where quote came from -NY MAG article from 2012 quote is from Wiley. http://nymag.com/arts/art/rules/kehinde-wiley-2012-4/",
"Copied the link wrong- original was a Ny mag article I read a few years ago. The first result when I researched the original was not the source article. NY mag 2012, artist own words. http://nymag.com/arts/art/rules/kehinde-wiley-2012-4/. ",
"Dude you are like Don Quixote off to fight \"racists\" aka people who disagree with you.\n\nYou may notice you have stacked up a bunch of down votes, and the people you are calling racist! are not.\n\nTake a second to think, \"Am I wrong\" \n\n#YES YOU ARE WRONG ",
"(Puke) what a disgrace ",
"One he one hand you have no arguments, only insults. But on the other hand you're using a really big font. I guess I must be wrong, then. Thanks for teaching me this awesome way of winning an argument.",
"I'm defending the artist. Before you dish out edgy insults you should learn what's being talked about.",
"Funny coming from another member of the cult.",
"Oh please. Fuck that guy. I am fully out of patience for racist, xenophobic nitwits and their blind following of Trump's cult of personality. ",
"No one care about your buzz words and anger issues please move on ",
"I don't think he looks very good, tbh. His legs and torso are on different planes, his left ear looks odd, the hands are way too big, his legs look unnaturally thin/too far apart which means his hips are super wide somehow, and it looks like the left arm of the chair must be imbedded in his back. Plus the perspective of the left and right sides of the chair don't work, it's not square.\n\nThe general pose/facial expression is nice at least.\n\nThe weirdest thing is that the face reminds me strongly of him but doesn't totally look like him, can't put my finger on why it strikes me that way.",
"Look, \"sugar\", it's fine if you hate the portraits, it really is.That's your opinion, not \"reality\", though, so there's really nothing for me to \"handle\". I still wasn't talking to you so your input here is entirely dispensable. You think you can handle that without another condescending reply?",
"What is it supposed to tell me, exactly? I have a spine, I don't need other people deciding whether my opinions are valid or not, I'm perfectly capable of deciding for myself and standing up for my convictions. \n\nVotes on Reddit seem to be very important to you. It sounds like you think only opinions that are shared by the people frequenting a certain sub are valid. Does that not tell you anything?",
"No, it doesn't. That's not how racism works. \n\nShitting on Obama has, in general, nothing to do with race. You can like a person or not, completely regardless of skin color or any other factors. That's not true *for this particular guy I'm talking to who I know to be a racist piece of shit*, though. He shits on Obama at every opportunity because of his racist tendencies. Feel free to check his comments and come to the same conclusion. In the meantime please review your process of labeling people racists. ",
"Sounds like we're having similar problems here. \n\nhttps://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/7x6p6r/in_obamas_official_portrait_the_artist_kehinde/du87q27/",
">Check his comments.",
"No. It's a public forum. That means its open to response and criticism, by anyone.",
"It is, which I appreciate. In those public forums sometimes people have conversations you're just not part of and have nothing valuable to add to. You can (and do) barge into these conversations and sometimes people will tell you they weren't talking to you. You're still free to comment, the forum is still public and yet your interjection can be unwelcome. ",
"One cannot barge into a conversation on a public internet forum. You don't know how this works.",
">A: The portrait sucks. \n\n>B: The portrait doesn't suck, you just hate Obama. \n\n>C: The portrait sucks and I like Obama. \n\n>B: I wasn't talking to you but thanks for letting us know. \n\n>C: BUT IT'S A PUBLIC FORUM!!!1\n\n\nSounds pretty possible to me, why wouldn't it be? Plus, there's a whole thread here that shows you doing it. \n\nPlease elaborate on what you think \"this\" is and how it works.",
"This is Reddit and YOU don't get to decide who responds to your post or how they do it or decide on your own that your public conversation was actually private and not open to scrutiny, that's NOT how REDDIT works.",
"Maybe open your eyes to the faintest of ideas that maybe, just maybe, people have different opinions than you, and there is nothing wrong with that. I don't care of your opinion one way or the other, I don't know you, I don't judge you.\n\nYou keep bringing up \"a certain sub\" just to try to validate your opinion: *I can't be wrong when its just a bunch of trolls from TD arguing with me.*\n\nI started this conversation just saying, \"so what if he is black?\" Now I'm not even sure what you are arguing...\n\n*Edit: Also, why can no one criticize Obama without it being racist? Isn't that, in itself, actually racist? Just think about it... ",
"I feel like we're going in circles here. I appreciate the caps but you're really just repeating points I already addressed. \n\n>YOU don't get to decide who responds to your post\n\nRemember this? \"You can (and do) barge into these conversations and sometimes people will tell you they weren't talking to you. You're still free to comment, the forum is still public and yet your interjection can be unwelcome.\"\n\n>your public conversation was actually private\n\nIt wasn't and I never claimed it was. All I said is that your reply is dispensable because it added nothing of value. I didn't say you *shouldn't* reply or were not *allowed* to reply. I said your reply is dispensable. You didn't make a critical observation or examination. You just yelled \"But I hate the portrait!\" \n\n>that's NOT how REDDIT works\n\nYes, I know. Do you? Because you've been telling me for two days now what you can and can't do on Reddit while doing the thing you said is impossible. Also, please stop insinuating things I never did, it's rude. \n\nQuick recap so I don't hear the same points all over again: \n\n1. You're free and able to barge into any conversation on Reddit. \n2. People might think that your comment doesn't contribute to the discussion and tell you so. \n",
"> I don't judge you.\n\n>in every single one he's the one being upvoted and you are being downvoted. Does that not tell you anything?\n\nSounds like you do judge, actually. Based on votes on Reddit. If you were not, what are you insinuating the downvotes are supposed to tell me?\n\nLike you implied before, people who downvoted my comments have a different opinion than me, so you can stop condescendingly implying I do not know that people can have different opinions than me. What I'm trying to get through to you is that downvotes are not a suitable means for me to change my convictions because I decide on those for myself. \n\n>You keep bringing up \"a certain sub\"\n\nYou put a lot of interpretation into the *one instance* I wrote the phrase \"a certain sub\". I don't \"keep bringing up a certain sub\" and I don't mean /s/t_d. I mean \"the people frequenting a certain sub\". Because you seem to think the people in the sub you're currently visiting decide with their downvotes what's a valid opinion and what isn't. \n\n>your opinion: I can't be wrong when its just a bunch of trolls from TD arguing with me.\n\nThanks for telling me my opinion out of thin air. *You* mentioned /s/t_d, I did not. Like I said before your premise is entirely misguided. \n\n>I started this conversation just saying, \"so what if he is black?\" \n\nYes. And then you added \"The color of his skin had nothing to do with his ability to be a great president\" which is also true. It's just that the OP of this post does not think that way which I was addressing.\n\n>Now I'm not even sure what you are arguing...\n\nThe OP is a racist piece of shit who is using perceived copy/paste in a painting as evidence that the black artist must be lazy like all black people are in his opinion. \n\n>why can no one criticize Obama without it being racist\n\nYou can and I never claimed otherwise. OP is a racist piece of shit, though, and is criticising Obama based on his racist tendencies. \n\n>Isn't that, in itself, actually racist?\n\nNo, it's just stupid and you obviously didn't \"just think about it\" even though you suggested I did. \n\nThinking a person can't be criticised due to their skin color doesn't imply inherently bad traits due to that skin color or race, so it's not racist. It's still very stupid, though. Let me be clear: an asshole is an asshole, regardless of race, skin color, religion or gender. A Norwegian can be a great guy, another Norwegian can be the most massive asswipe. An Iranian can be the sweetest, most thoughtful guy, another Iranian can be the most petty dick. Being an asshole or bad president has nothing to do with race, skin color, religion or sex. This isn't even anything new or mind-blowing - we experience this every day. Every racist piece of shit knows way more assholes within their own race than any other race and still they think other races have more assholes than their own. They just don't have the best brains. \n\n"
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"Having the weight of the world on your shoulders must’ve been a real mind-blowing experience. ",
"Jfk is and forever will be my favorite president i mean one slip just one and the world could have gone up in flames .. truly life is more impressive than fiction...",
"That's because he was a president like no other. We'll never know how he might have changed the world had he been permitted to live.",
"This album's gonna be lit",
"Came here looking for this. You did not disappoint. ",
"The weight of the world on his mind and the weight of Marilyn on his face.",
"That's a man who knows where the aliens are. ",
"Oof",
"Still too soon",
"Was this painted before or after his death? It seems like such a melancholic pose for a still-living president to make.",
"Shortly after. You can read about it [here](https://periodicpresidents.com/2013/03/23/jfks-portrait-why-is-he-looking-down/)",
"He lied to the citizens of the United States about Vietnam, overthrew and assassinated the president of South Vietnam and upped the stakes on Eisenhower's gamble.",
"Didn't he die?",
"That’s super interesting! Thank you for the link :)",
"Yes...he was assassinated. This was painted shortly after. ",
"One of the true presidents that I believe really cared about the American people. What a shame, such a threat to the systemic corruption that exists they killed him. \n\nRIP",
"\"Do not pray for easy lives, my friends. Pray to be... Stronger men.\"\n*ChinaLake cocking*",
"\"These...shoes...are...*illll*.\"",
"He also saved the world from nuclear devastation, built the civil rights act, and put a man on the moon. And you're smearing his name by claiming he assassinated the president of South Vietnam: \n\n> Kennedy learned of the deaths on the following morning when National Security Council staffer Michael Forrestal rushed into the cabinet room with a telegram reporting the Ngô brothers' alleged suicides. According to General Maxwell Taylor, \"Kennedy leaped to his feet and rushed from the room with a look of shock and dismay on his face which I had never seen before.\" Kennedy had planned that Ngô Đình Diệm would be safely exiled and Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. recalled that the US President was \"somber and shaken\". Kennedy later penned a memo, lamenting that the assassination was \"particularly abhorrent\" and blaming himself for approving Cable 243, which had authorised Lodge to explore coup options in the wake of Nhu's attacks on the Buddhist pagodas.[27] Forrestal said that \"It shook him personally ... bothered him as a moral and religious matter. It shook his confidence, I think, in the kind of advice he was getting about South Vietnam.\"[28] When Kennedy was consoled by a friend who told him he need not feel sorry for the Ngô brothers on the grounds of despotism, Kennedy replied \"No. They were in a difficult position. They did the best they could for their country.\"\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrest_and_assassination_of_Ngo_Dinh_Diem#US_reaction\n\n\nJFK wasn't just a great president, he was a great man, murdered in the prime of his life. He lived a life marred by tragedy and kept his head held high through all of it for the sake of his country. Don't disrespect his name by spreading lies. ",
"The inspiration actually came from his brother Ted, who took this pose while at his funeral. Ultimately Jackie chose this one out of all the other sketches provided to her.",
"Okay, you're correct. I made a flippant comment and I apologize.",
"Thanks. I didn't mean to be harsh, I just have a great deal of respect for the man",
"It's like no other because he was dead when it was painted...not because he was so melancholy he had the artist paint him like this or something.",
"If not for this man and his handling of the Cuban missile crisis, I probably would not be here today.",
"For context, this was painted posthumously. You can read about it [here](https://periodicpresidents.com/2013/03/23/jfks-portrait-why-is-he-looking-down/).",
"Wait, I thought this was a painting of Michelle Obama ",
"I liked him too but he also cheated on his wife, a lot, so he really wasn't that great a man.",
"Take a look at the [gallery of presidential portraits](https://periodicpresidents.com/research/presidents-portrait-gallery/) to understand why you're wrong. ",
"Story time?",
"I think monogamy should not be the default for humanity. It doesn’t work for way more people than we publicly admit and demanding everyone - especially public figures - pretend it does causes so much strife.",
"Fair comment, but “put a man on the moon” is a tiddly-bit of a stretch. He died 6 yrs before Apollo 11.",
"Maybe, but it was his decision to pursue the moon and it was his speech that sparked the moon landing in the American imagination. Not to mention that he gave NASA unprecedented funding to actually get it done. ",
"JFK is his dad and his mom was the cuban ambassador",
"Is it also because he was smashing some total babes 😏",
"Cool, if you don't believe in monogamy, don't get married and emotionally abuse your partner by cheating on them. ",
"Most of the Western world/Asia would have been turned into a nuclear wasteland and humanity would have been kicked a good 150-300 years backward, killing OP or his parents in the process. The end. ",
">He also saved the world from nuclear devastation\n\n\"I saved a life by not killing myself.\"\n\n\nWhile I will always be eternally grateful for the Nuclear Presidents restraint and ability to withstand tremendous amount of pressure, the picture you're painting is just as disingenuous. He saved the world from nuclear devastation..... that he himself was going to bring about. Yes, I'm glad that the trigger was never pulled but neither side of the Cold War should be applauded or lauded as the \"saviors of humanity\" for their insane game of nuclear brinkmanship. ",
"Yeah, I'm a polyamorist, but lying to your spouse about it is not the way to go. ",
"He didn't bring about the cuban missile crisis, it was the Soviets that first placed nuclear weapons in Cuba despite surely knowing how the US was going to respond. You can blame Kennedy for the Bay of Pigs, but the fact of the matter is that any given the context of the cold war, any president would have attempted the Bay of Pigs invasion. Not every president could have defused the situation as he did. ",
"Am I still on Reddit? What just happened?",
"I actually saw this in person when I was younger, prior to them stopping public tours of the White House. ",
"Given where I was during the Cuban missile crisis (Houston, TX) we were in the crosshairs of any retaliatory response by Cuba and the Soviet Union. \nI was a small child at the time but I was given emergency instructions in case war broke out. I was shown an emergency route from school to home. I think if war had broken out I would never have made it.\nI recall my parents discussing what would happen if there was an attack. Even at that age I knew something was terribly wrong and I could sense the fear in my parents. Even though they kept their composure when I was near.",
"Then why don't we also have a Turkish, Korean, Japanese, etc. Missile Crisis on the books? Kennedy's reaction is what created the Cuban Missile Crisis. Whether it was right or wrong is an entirely different question. It was not the first tactical placement of nuclear weaponry around a Cold War power nor would it be the last, but it was the only one with such a strong political reaction from the slighted side that it nearly brought about an apocalypse. ",
"wasn't it painted this way because it was after his death and the artist refused to paint the eyes of a dead man?",
"Or marry one who you share this belief with? Or communicate instead of hiding it? \n\nIt’s not cheating if the partner isn’t deceived. \n\nLying is the valid ethical issue, not sex. ",
"Famously after. It’s one of the things that makes it great. ",
"Simply because Cuba being communist was far more dangerous for the US and far more lucrative for the USSR than any other country. The prospect of long-range missiles in Cuba that could easily hit the US was an unprecedented fear and one that warranted a strong reaction. Like I said, any other president would have attempted a bay of pigs-esque invasion or overthrow in cuba, but not every president could have handled the ensuing conflict like kennedy.",
"That's a man that was killed by his own people.",
"Obama’s is missing, there. ",
"I haven't seen any evidence that that was the motivation for the artist. What I've read is that the pose was chosen by Jackie Kennedy, not the artist. ",
"\"Hey babe, I'm going to go fuck my secretary!\"\n\n\"WHAT!?!?!?\"\n\n\"It's not cheating since I told you and you weren't deceived.\"\n\nBrilliant. ",
"As opposed to missiles from the incredibly lucrative Turkey or Italy being dropped on the USSR?\n\nAlso, get your facts straight. The majority of Soviet missiles weren't long range, they were short-medium range which is why they needed Cuba in the first place to counter act the USA's long range missiles and superior sphere of influence. \n\n",
"Not that it matters, but the missiles were [medium-intermediate range](https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/csi-studies/studies/vol46no1/article06.html), with a max range of 2000km for 6 of the pads and 5000km for the other 3. Considering that a range of 5500km is considered long range, and 1000km is considered short range, I'd say I was closer than you were. ",
"I fail to see how you come to the conclusion that 6 short and 3 long equals long. ",
"Or...is that gum on my shoes?",
"One of my favourite portraits. \n\nI often wonder what he would be thinking about in this painting. What would make him curl up like that, deep in thought?",
"you are a gentleman sir.",
"Fair point well made.",
"At the end of the article you reference, is the most ill-proportioned painting of Jackie Kennedy I've ever seen. \n",
"I'm not familiar with either sides of this, but Props for this response.\n",
"\"Fowah suppah, I, er uh, wanna pahty plattah!\"",
"Then he was killed by the CIA, just before he was going to free the people. ",
"My understanding is it hasn't been painted yet. ",
"OP, did my wise crack comment from an earlier thread (about his painting being NSFW) inspire you to post this? If it did, I think reddit law requires you to give me 1/3 all sweet sweet karma you reap from this post. ",
"I have no idea what you’re talking about. I saw an /r/art post about Obama’s new portrait, and one of the commenters said that their favorite presidential portrait was Kennedy’s, so I googled it and it really struck me so I posted it here.",
"Man, reagan really opened the can of worms for american presidents/politics.\n\nI miss when it wasn't a shitshow ",
"Damn! I was so close!\n\nIn all seriousness, in that same thread, a comment was made that presidents official portraits are usually painted 2 years after they leave office. I made a comment about JFK's being NSFW. Thought maybe you read that and I was, for a moment, your inspiration. ",
"That portrait wasn't painted from life. JFK didn't have his portrait painted with him affecting that pose.\n\nThat's a solemn and sentimental \"artist's impression\" of JFK, painted posthumously.",
"Nothing, he never posed like that for any painting. This is a posthumous portrait.",
"I think two people just communicated in a healthy fashion... ",
"It's a case of projecting what we want onto the image. Personally, I find it just as easy to imagine him pondering deeply, \"Are feet shoes?\" but I'm not much fun at parties.",
"Lampooning around getting painted posthumously in a TAN SUIT! \n",
"\"Hmmm who should i fuck tonight, marilyn or jackie?\"",
"I really hope that within my lifetime I see a president as dedicated to his service to the people.",
"It's absolutely terrifying. Like a malnourished witch.",
"\"Yer a wizard, Harry!\" \"Awww, fuck.\"",
"Wow JFK does seriously look so conflicted and struggling compared to everyone else. That's insane. ",
"This portrait reminds me of a painting in the Vienna weapons museum. the ground floor is dedicated to WW2 and unobtrusively behind the 88mm cannon there is a painting that looks like it is black canvas. I was there in 2013 and it grabbed my attention because it looked black to me. When I got a little closer I saw that there was indeed colour in it and if you stood to a side and the light hit it a certain way a picture came through.\n\nIt took me nearly 5 minutes to get the shot but I got a [picture of it](https://i.imgur.com/mvkkF83.jpg) and it hit me like a sledge hammer. Even if you are in the wrong as a Country or a block there are still young innocent men and women that are sent into the grinder and if you are lucky to survive it you are spat out to your mother damaged as a human being.\n\nWe as a species can be so incredibly cruel.",
"Is it just me or can you just make out the spot where the assassin's bullet will have impacted his head? It's like the artist foreshadowed the blast in his hair lines.",
"Wilkie Collins' *The Woman in White*",
"This was done posthumously ",
"Most people who are ever killed are killed by their own people",
"I really hope they just refuse to do a portrait of Trump. ",
"I bought these in a pocket-card size when I was at the Clinton Library. I loved the Kennedy one so much, I afixed it to the wall behind my kitchen sink ",
"The end-times must be coming.",
"no john adams",
"Weight of the world on shoulders , Marilyn on chest",
"Can we use that picture of the bear float fucking trump for his portrait?",
"He purposely escalated the war in Vietnam for his own political gain, he didn't want to appear weak on communism. Despite the advice of nearly everyone of his advisors and generals who counseled him not to. He has the blood of countless Americans and Vietnamese on his hands.",
"At least he didn’t have to carry the weight of his head \n",
"Hardcore Communist shitposting meme revolutionary? Man that comment history is a doozie.\n",
"Isn't the JFK painting a bit disproportionned too? Imgine him uncrossing his arms and suddenly his top look way too thinly long, imo. ",
"Hey. How about you BOTH shut up :) ",
"The only actual democrat that ever existed.",
"Holy shit... This is a once in a lifetime thing... I'll never witness this again...",
"I'd disagree. Heart disease isn't a people.",
"He continued to decline any deal with the soviet union during the Cuban missile crisis, even the one where the Soviets demanded the US removed missiles from Turkey that were being scheduled for removal anyway. He almost caused nuclear war over missiles that didn't have strategic significance.",
"At least he had something on his shoulders..",
"Obviously I am not making the claim that most people die from murder. I’m saying that most people who are murdered are killed by their own people.\n\nTypically, people don’t use the word “killed” when describing death from natural causes. Most people would say “he died from heart disease”, not “he was killed by heart disease”. Of course it’s fine to say it that way if you want to, but I suspect everyone else who read my sentence knew I was talking about murder specifically, and not death in general.",
"That's a pretty pessimistic analysis.\n\n\"Like all presidents, Kennedy had successes and failures. His administration was dominated by a remarkable number of problems and crises—in Berlin, Cuba, Laos, and Vietnam; and in Georgia, Mississippi, and Alabama. Some of these, he managed adroitly and, at times, courageously. Many, he could not resolve. He was a reserved, pragmatic man who almost never revealed passion.\"\n\nFrom a [more balanced analysis](https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/08/the-legacy-of-john-f-kennedy/309499/).\n\nI wonder if you could have done any better in that job, in those globally tumultuous times?",
"It's just a storm, Dick. \nCalm down.\n",
"It appears all the smiling ones were the ones you had to watch out for",
"That weight was reduced a bit there at the end.",
"Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present, are certain to miss the future.\nI SAID ARE CERTAIN TO MISS THE FUTURE!",
"A lot of portrait paintings are elongated because they were meant to be hung above eye level - usually above a mantle. Look up John Singer Sargent or Whistler portraits for reference.",
"Better than Obama's ",
"I'm pretty sure \"It was heart disease that killed him\" is a pretty normal way to say it.\n\nEdit: I wasn't trying to argue him on the original point at all. Just commenting on the language. I always thought it was a normal thing for people to say. ",
"It’s his internal monologue:\n\n“Ah, shit, how am I gonna tell Jackie about Monroe? Shit shit shit...”",
"Fuck that noise.",
"\"Hooray for Peter Pumpkinhead....\"\n\n\n😥",
"Just to add, in his early presidency he took a lot of advice from \"experts\" on certain matters. Matters like the bay of pigs. After that failed he was absolutely shaken by it and lamented trusting the \"experts\".\n\n\"I got where I am by not trusting experts. But this time I put all my faith in the experts and look what happened.\"\n\nThis was crucial to him blocking military options against Cuba during the missile crisis. His generals wanted to start the final world war, he did everything to block it while negotiating through back channels with Khruschev.\n\nI think his presidency really speaks to the politics of the time and the sentiments of the military staff.",
"Which inspired a man with the weight of hubris [on his shoulders](http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-dlQU98nK0io/Tw4jxrwKpXI/AAAAAAAACwU/V1gTLSCUuJk/s1600/brannigan+kennedy.JPG)",
"Or...\n\nFind a like minded individual and be in an open marriage?",
"You seem like a total dweeb.",
"> one slip just one and the world could have gone up in flames\n\nYeah thats how i feel about the current president",
"That’d be a stupid thing to say to Jackie Kennedy",
"Which he didn’t. We’re not arguing the ethics of polygamy, we’re arguing about the ethics of JFK lying to and cheating on his wife.",
"Props ",
"Would have been way cooler in front of some ivy. ",
"he didn't even care for his own wife yo",
"Are we? I thought this conversation was a bit of a side bar from the original topic. Nvm then, carry on. ",
"The deal that ended the cuban missile crisis included the US removing those missiles. He also declined to nuke and/or invade Cuba which is what the top US military officials, including WW2 hero Curtis Lemay, we're strongly advising him to do. It's pretty easy to look back with hindsight and criticize when you're not the one who has to guide the nation out of maybe the greatest political crisis it's ever faced. ",
"Needs more ivy.",
"This is more like it",
"Sure, but in context I think it was pretty clear what killed meant so there’s no reason to be shitty about it.",
"By now we can be pretty sure there never were any aliens. Otherwise the orange president would have babbled about them on twitter, probably blaming them for something he did.",
"These comments are always so low effort and add nothing to the conversation ",
"\"Who do I smash tonight? The really hot but angelic wife or some temptress with huge boobs?\" ",
"Only one slip? He keeps slipping and is at this point sliding around a frozen lake on his arse.",
"Well Oswald took some weight off his shoulders for him ",
"I always found Five to be the hardest zombies map on Black Ops, but damn it was cool playing as JFK.",
"Yes. A US citizen named Lee Harvey Oswald ",
"I disagree. The world needs to remember what happens when you don’t care. ",
"You’re exactly right. I have to screenshot.",
"Too bad he was a serial philanderer, a total jack ass leftist and almost started world war 3",
"You should read the book The Dark Side of Camelot by Seymour Hersh. ",
"\"I hope they managed to get all the cigars I asked for because I have a party with Marilyn tonight and the embargo is now in force\".",
"They're everywhere too. Can't talk about any interesting, even mildly political topic without someone chiming in with what amounts to \"But... but Trump!\"",
"Last good president. Everyone who followed were either tragically bad or just mildly decent.",
"Nobody is murdered by heart disease though.",
"I have to agree! So many Easter eggs on Five though.",
"Username checks out",
"She looks like every hotel ghost ever portrayed on TV/film.",
"You can stop pretending not to understand what /u/NutStomp meant.",
"The guy from Grantchester could definitely play him.",
"That's beautiful. Do you happen to know the name of the painting?",
"Why does he look ashamed? ",
"It says, “We the people” failed me",
"Own people? ain’t nobody own nobody anymore",
"It sucks for now, but I feel like it will be a good thing eventually because of how disgusting the political climate is right now. I forget who it was, but someone said Trump will save America only because after he is out we will realize we should never do that again. I think that person may have too much faith in the population, but an interesting thought nonetheless ",
"Sorry I don't, this was 5 years ago and I've never thought about this until I saw the Kennedy painting, it just popped into my mind and I remembered I had a pic of it.",
"It adds to the conversation, yours on th other hands adds nothing to the conversation ",
"I don't understand why everyone dislikes Obama's portrait.",
"That's a great quote: \n\n>\nO, do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be strongermen! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks! Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle. But you shall be a miracle. \n\n> \n-Phillips Brooks\n",
"I only disagree in the everywhere part. I feel like it's select people who feel the need to bring it up. I was at work and talking about the superbowl with a coworker. I'm not big into football and he asked why I wasn't routing for the Pats. I said I had heard and it could be false that during the football investigation they requested Tom Brady's phone and he either broke it or did a factory reset and I think that's a bad judge of character and poor example of sportsmanship and a role model. He goes, \"Yeah like that damn Hillary and her emails,\" casually. I know maybe a total of 10 people who would do that out of everyone, they just happen to be the loudest people in the room.",
"Thank you for the reference. Very insightful.",
"Reminds me of that episode of the Crown about Churchill's portrait. God damn that was a great episode. John Lithgow's Emmy was so well earned.",
"It says, “I tried to splinter the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter it into the wind.”",
"Imagine what the portrait of the president immediately to follow Trump's administration will look like....",
"He is Slenderman.",
"He was too busy caring about his country, cut him some slack",
"It's not going to happen unless that President also has a death wish.",
"No one asked you what you think you are.",
"Those fingers...",
"He undeservedly receives accolades due to his assassination",
"Why you americans say JFK has the world on his shoulders? We have our own shoulders and worlds... We don't need anyone's shoulders...",
"See this was not painted in Hawaii",
"Is anyone else kind of depressed that Trump's goofy mug is going to be hung among paintings such as this",
"I got a tour of the White House last year and saw this in person. jfk https://imgur.com/gallery/UWEss",
"Was he that ginger?",
"!dreambot",
"Addisons Disease Man",
"You either die a hero or live long enough to become the villain.",
"This is hanging in the main hall of the east wing of the white house right now. its stunning to see in person. (Although the white house tour as a whole is incredibly underwhelming. seeing this was one of the highlights) ",
"and the whole 'graceful royal family' thing, too. He was otherwise a good, if not average, US President. ",
"A man with the weight of Marilyn Monroe on his face.",
"> a total jack ass leftist\n\nYou have no idea what \"leftist\" means if you think JFK was one.",
"He had less weight on his shoulders after his trip to dallas",
"NEED SOME BEANS FOR THE CHOWDA HERE!",
"Like [this](https://2016.alamidwinter.org/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/speaker/cory_booker_220x220.jpg?itok=emvmFBIs).",
"So much better than Obama’s one\n\nWhy so much green? I don’t care that he’s sitting or looking casual, but the bright green removes any class from the setting",
"Waaaaaaaaahhhh! Not my president! Waaaaaaaaaahhh!",
"Looks like Cody Rhodes. ",
"Ok, I giggled.",
"Hey can you paint a picture of JFK for us?\n\n\"Yes, but no eyes.\"\n\n\"Well shit, I guess its impossible for us to hire another painter since this one doesn't like eyes\"",
"Nice painting, but complete ripoff of portraits by [Thomas Eakins](https://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fupload.wikimedia.org%2Fwikipedia%2Fcommons%2F8%2F89%2FThomas_Eakins_-_The_Thinker%252C_Portrait_of_Louis_N._Kenton.jpg&imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FThe_Thinker%3A_Portrait_of_Louis_N._Kenton&docid=3dJNK_PM0a2zmM&tbnid=ZWEQuA5R8CmKoM%3A&vet=1&w=1872&h=3664&hl=en-us&source=sh%2Fx%2Fim). At least the Obama portrait is, as far as I know, original.",
"Lol mind blown 🤯 ",
"Meanwhile, trump's will just be him sitting on the shitter, pants around the legs, hairpiece sitting on the counter, phone in hand, tweeting sick burns at dae librulz.",
"Ha, as someone with Addison's Disease this made me giggle",
"Assuming he's been told about them.",
"You should blame Harry Truman for not responding to Ho Chi Minh petition for vietnams independence from the french.",
"They still offer public white house tours, a tip I always give to to write your local senator prior to going to DC. They have the capability of giving out free tour passes.",
"They got some weight of his shoulders via bullet didn’t they?",
"No",
"Would that it were so simple to accept loosing Vietnam and focus on building your *great Society* Mr LBJ.",
"I always find his words more inspiring than his record. In reality, he was pretty average President. ",
"i was really confused for a second",
"I don't see weight. There's plenty of classical Atlases straining under globes and their copies, down the years, down to Wonder Woman and her tank. That's a brute statement for pre-modern people about heroes and power.\n\nBut this is modern, this is for us. What I see is doubt, inner conflict leading to humility, loneliness, humanity, the knowledge that you are going to have to take the harder road. It really is unique for a historical picture of a leader and (IMO) a feather in the cap of the culture that created (and hopefully internalises) it.",
"Lurch's sister ",
"Yeah I miss when all we had to worry about was those damn redcoats. Those were the days I tell ya",
"He could just buy the company that does the painting so I wouldn't count on it ",
"Shut the fuck up...",
"?",
"They should draw Trump in crayon...just giving it to a couple of cheeseburgers. ",
"Back when America was somewhere proud to be from. The foreshadowing of the America we've become since then. ",
"A conspiracy theorist dies and goes to heaven. At the Pearly Gates, St. Peter tells the man that he has been granted a special audience with God, where he is allowed to ask 3 questions that God must answer truthfully. \n\nThe man goes to meet God, and God asks \"What are your three questions??\"\n\nThe man asks, \"Was the moon landing real? Did Bush plan 9/11? Who killed Kennedy?\"\n\nGod replies, \"Yes, No, Oswald, alone.\"\n\nThe conspiracy theorist turns to himself and says, \"Jesus, this goes deeper than I thought...\" ",
"Where are the chunks of his head? Pretty fake",
"This political drawing of [Abraham Lincoln](http://content.invisioncic.com/r16296/post-7-1193987741.jpg) reacting to Kennedy's assassination always chokes me up... :(",
"Read a fucking book about the man. Have some respect for what he was dealing with and how he managed the situation. ",
"No it fucking isn't, what's even wrong with you",
"I'll be sure to put your limb next to my Pulitzer.",
":D :'(",
"Been working on your upcoming Christmas album?",
"I've always heard that his assassination was planned by the CIA, but I've never heard why.",
"Idk just being an asshole because youre getting too deep lol",
"It's the part where there *were* some long ones, you silly sausage.",
"The policy of containment, per Kennan's direction, worked. The war was necessary and achieved its goal. It was a circuitous way to stop the expansion of Communism, but it worked. \n\nhttps://history.state.gov/milestones/1945-1952/kennan",
"You are aware that with the fall of Saigon Vietnam became communist?\n\nAnd that a memo of LBJ's DoD listed the reason for continuing the war as:\n\n>**70%** – To avoid a humiliating U.S. defeat.\n\n>**20%** – To keep [South Vietnam] (and the adjacent) territory from Chinese hands.\n\n>**10%** – To permit the people [of South Vietnam] to enjoy a better, freer way of life.\n\n>**ALSO** – To emerge from the crisis without unacceptable taint from methods used.\n\n>**NOT** – To help a friend\n\nThat was in 1965, so quite early in the open war. I have no doubt that the fear of international communism, Eisenhower's domino theory and containment as a \"solution\" to it were core to the USA getting involved in Korea and inheriting the conflict in Vietnam from the French...but lets not pretend that the war was primarily fought for because of such theories - it was fought for the most part because LBJ and later Nixon saw no way to loose a war without it embarrassing them and the USA tremendously.",
"Because people like far fetched stories.",
"\"but then they found out and wouldnt let me\"",
"Way better than Obama’s anti-white artist who portrays strong power black women holding the heads of white women lol",
"I think this is displayed at Harvard ?",
"The war forced Vietnam and its proxies to expend resources it couldn't spare. It's specific brand of communism was contained to the country. Laos and Cambodia had their own, but they were also thwarted by the war, significantly. The war achieved exactly what was needed at the time. Saigon wasn't the point. What's more is to disrespect the sacrifice that 35,000 (debatable number. see below.) humans made to prevent the expansion of communism is to slap them in the face.\n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War_casualties",
"Are you aware of the billions that China spent that it didn’t have to spend on that war. It’s real politic Kissinger style. It’s not nice but it worked. We could afford the billions of dollars China couldn’t. Proxy wars are dirty awful things. The government at the time also didn’t know about the sino soviet split at the time and thought the soviets were also helping the Chinese. It’s all complicated and hard to explain in a paragraph. I think it was unnecessarily brutal but it did work. ",
"That's a Bible story, man. It's a classical painting theme.",
"Obama's looks like Homer Simpson disappearing into the hedge. ",
"Trump’s portrait will be made by Ben Garrison ",
"My godfather who was in the navy at the time Kennedy was president says he was no where near as popular as he is now. ",
"I liked the Obama one better.",
"He also doesn’t have sperm on his face. Neat, huh?",
"Actually, I would say 0bamas is like no other 😂",
"That's a really good one.",
"When I visited the White House as a kid, this painting was hanging in the Lincoln bedroom on view for everyone. Does anybody know if it is still there?",
"Because be was seen as a traitor after the bay of pigs and his peace talk with the Russians. He also fired Allen Dulles, the head of the CIA. Who wierdly enough was on the Warren Commission and got reinstated after. And an ex CIA agent confessed on his deathbed, Howard E. Hunt. There really are a lot of holes in the official explanation, I'd recommend you to look into it.\n\nEdit: And he didn't want to go into Vietnam",
"And he supposedly wanted to reign in the CIA, and was against the military-industrial complex. I don't know how valid that is, but it makes for a good martyr story. I think it's like The Things They Carried: the story doesn't need to be true, because the message is. Or some shit",
"Yeah pretty sure he's not actually given normal presidential permissions. Like driving on your mom's lap, sure your hands are on the wheel but more capable people are looking out for you.",
"Knowing Kennedy directly opposed the suggestions of top Navy and military Brass at the time during the Cuban Missile Crisis he wouldn't have been popular in those circles. Thankfully Kennedy did have more restraint than his generals or the Cold War would've gotten hot.",
"Some children who believe in boogeymen grow into adult-aged children that still believe in boogeymen.",
"The dude was a living legend, he was a womanizer before Donald Trump.",
"He was the best we ever had, if only because he was the last true president we ever had, before the coup.",
"Best to tell ourselves lies about how they died for no real reason instead of admit our mistakes and try to not repeat them again in the future? \n\nHave you ever heard of the Pentagon Papers? The government knew that the war was unwinnable for YEARS before they finally withdrew American troops. In that time 1000s of Americans died needlessly and a bloody war that killed millions of Vietnamese was prolonged. ",
"if only that were true.",
"Not really too far fetched, considering the Vietnam war around the corner, and the possible thaw in the cold war that could of come with Kennedy's second term. See his speech at the American University, couple months before his death, and the Soviet reaction to it.",
"Kennedy, a scandal-free President?\n\nWat?",
"Maybe everyone would be allowed to cheat on their wives? That would have been cool /s",
"Wow this is such a cool subtle reference.",
"China Lake, California? Don't really understand ",
"He pissed them off essentially. His policies wanted less actions on their part and more actual spy/intelligence gathering. ",
"Something can be purposefull and worthwhile to senseless and stupid regardless of the lifes lost and sacrifices made for it, I have no qualms judging either way and a high death toll won't make me consider something more worthwhile - it has to be despite the death toll (which is far beyond 1M).\n\nThe USA slided into the war and LBJ dove deeper into it...but he was negotiating with the North in 1968, negotiations which were then sabotaged by Nixon (or Nixon asscciates) for political gain - he promised a better deal. Nixon's government then created a peace deal which had as a core objective that Vietnam wasn't lost before the '72 election. I have no doubt that it had many side effects but lets not pretend it was fought because of high minded ideas, in the beginning it was but once the USA were stuck in it, it became very much a political consideration and tool.\n\nAnd you claim it did contain communism to Vietnam (and prevented a spread beyond it), tell me, why didn't it spread beyond Vietnam (excluding the Cambodia episode) when it became communist?\n",
"I'd be ashamed too if my own people murdered me",
"Ha ha ha! Conyo. I missed that.",
"But not the weight of his head...",
"Well... no. He was just like every other president... except he was shot and murdered.\n\nA JFK administration saw the red purge against communists in Hollywood. He appointed his brother to head the committee.\n\nHis administration started the war in Vietnam and refused to communicate with the North Vietnamese, the Vietcong, The Chinese or The Russians. He considered negotiations to be a weakness of character.\n\nDuring the Cuban Missile Crisis he made a secret deal to pull missiles from Turkey if Russia doesn't bring missiles to Cuba. He colluded with the Russians to keep his popularity strong so he could win re-election.\n\nHe submitted a medical to the public. But his medical was... a lie. The doctor fraudulently produced a document giving him a clean bill of health. But actually he suffered from Addison's and it crippled him. His father created drug caches across America in case Kennedy ever had a low and was low on drugs.\n\nKennedy attempted and failed to annex Cuba.\n\nHistory revered him for what are known as the worst handling of global politics of any presidency. Nixon who finally cleaned it all up comes out as a villain.",
"Shit president tho. ",
"It's a reference to Call of Duty Black Ops, in the zombies game mode there is a level where one of the player characters is JFK. There is a grenade launcher in the game called the China Lake.",
"He meant in the country as a whole. Not because he was in the navy. He was an enlisted guy so he didn't have access to top brass circles. ",
"Gandhi was a terrible father. So was Lincoln. Clinton cheated on his wife. Isn't it possible for someone to care deeply for their country but to fail as a husband or a father? ",
"The last real president.",
"you mean he was busy shagging marylin monroe ",
"Looks more to me like the caption 'FFS America' is missing.",
"Yep! Nixon, regularly considered by historians to be one of our best presidents ever! Get real, guy.",
"Of which he was, cheating on his wife with Marilyn. Typical Kennedy tho I guess.\n\nBig on the rhetoric, not so pure in regards to action",
"Do you by chance know the actual name of the museum? I spent quite a bit of time in Vienna and I'm not aware of something called the Vienna weapons Museum. I'd like to dig into this and see if I can identify the painting.",
"I guess wives dont count as american people then",
"Mattress Jack looks a little bummed out,, maybe because he passed Marilyn over to his brother Jack to soon, Or, maybe he was thinking of his other brother Teddy the swimmer who left a girl to drown while he made good his escape, didn't report anything until the next day. Yes, a real fine family, Don't get me started on his father, another scumbag for the ages. \n",
"I'm going to give him some credit for not vaporizing the world with nuclear war. ",
"\"Prime Minister Castro, this missile crisis was the last straw. Now we invited you here today....\"\n\"IN GOOD FAITH!\"",
"Thank you for sharing.",
"On the phone now so cannot expound. To the point, it’s only theorizing to imagine alternate histories. We are where we are now due to the past. Communism WAS contained and YES, it was an actual policy of communism to expand beyond borders. And yes, I know of LBJ’s approach (he was actually prey respectable in regard to the war) and more disgustingly, Nixon’s use of the war for his purposes. Nothing is black and white. Bottom line is that I get pretty annoyed when people suggest that the was didn’t serve a purpose. It absolutely did.",
"#metoo would have destroyed this man today",
"I replied to another person. Please read it. It applies to your statement. The war did exactly what was necessary, sadly. Communism is a scourge. Wonderful in theory. An abattoir in practice.",
"No shit. \nThere was post yesterday asking which historical figure is spinning in his grave the fastest. George Washington was in the top five. Another \"FFS America\" moment.",
"This is great, but the entire reason we had the Cuban Missile Crisis in the first place was Khrushchev's impression of Kennedy at the 1961 Vienna Summit. Khrushchev basically left that summit with the opinion that Kennedy could be pushed around fairly easily. This is covered in Hardcore History's episode [\"Destroyer of Worlds.\"](https://www.dancarlin.com/hardcore-history-59-the-destroyer-of-worlds/)",
"Read a fucking book and don’t compare the man to Trump. ",
"That's a very low bar considering both sides didn't want to fight another war especially a nuclear one.",
"In high school art class, we had to do a chalk drawing, I chose this picture because I can’t draw eyeballs for shit. ",
"No, it's the official portrait of Kennedy that hangs in the White House.\n",
"That the USA were paranoid about the Domino's falling and Communists early on at least *really* drunk the cool aid that communism would spread around the world doesn't make it so.\n\nIt failed to do spread after Vietnam went communist and also didn't successfully expand to many other places, yes, partly due to efforts to contain it whereever it might appear but also because the system was *fucking flawed* and in many political and economical systems not an attractive alternative to people.\n\nWith the Amiercan Vietnam War the country mostly just went communist a good decade later with a whole lot of people dead and the USA humiliated.",
"well if it came down to it id hope theyd pick the country over the wife",
"Remind us which story that may be?",
"This has to be the first time I've seen anyone admit they were wrong on the internet. What a time to be alive.",
"This is by far the best presidential portrait, politics aside.",
"https://www.wien.info/en/sightseeing/sights/from-g-to-k/museum-military-history\n\nThey have Franz Ferdinand's car and the clothes he wore when shot, it is well worth a looksie if you are in the area, the painting like I said is in the WW2 exhibit on the ground floor.",
"I'm not sure why they'd come to the conclusion that he needed to die though. Plenty of presidents have been at odds with their own intelligence agencies.",
"Yeah, so the CIA totally misread the situation and your ass sees reality with your limited scope of material. Your spin is your masturbatory spin. Enjoy your smug life.",
"I wasn’t saying that because we force people into monogamy we should legitimize his cheating. I’m saying that we would never have elected an openly polyamorous president because we believe that monogamy is the “right way”, and so of course he pretends to be monogamous, even to the extent of lying to his spouse... gay people go into the closet too, and lie to all kinds of people. It isn’t right, but we are creating that situation by having unreasonable standards.\n\nI would have preferred him to have been elected with people knowing that he had an open relationship agreed upon by everyone.",
"He did have a long-term affair with a 14 or 16 year old intern. I seem to remember he got her pregnant too.\n\nHe was a great president, but there is always nuance. ",
"A *living* legend? Are you fucking stupid or something?",
"Oh geez..",
"You mean overly melodramatic?",
"So much horseshit I don't know where to begin",
"Heeresgeschichtliche Museum Wien (Military‘s History Museum Vienna)",
"Such as?",
"The red purge in Hollywood was during the late-40s and 50s. Kennedy’s administration has nothing to do with it and Robert Kennedy fought the Mafia and organized crime, not communists.\n\nKennedy didn’t start the Vietnam War, though he did expand it with more special forces and advisors. Still no combat troops. We were there under Eisenhower and the war is commonly though to have “started” under Johnson with the Gulf of Tonkin. \n\nKennedy did not attempt to annex Cuba. His administration simply helped to support Cuban exiles to return and take their own country back. Yes, the CIA, under his administration failed to live up to the promises of the plan.\n\n",
"I agree, the US presidency is very much tied to US social norms for better or for worse, and it’s usually for worse. Like you said, I doubt we’ll ever have a polygamous or gay president (but 100 years ago, we would have said the same of a black president, so who knows)",
"I didn't realize JFK was Geese from KOF.",
"He didn't try to annex Cuba you idiot. That operation was first authorized under Eisenhower and Kennedy withdrew air support at the last minute. The Hollywood blacklist started in 1947. The drugs Kennedy was on were prescribed by his doctor. I've already wasted enough of my time on your baldfaced lies you worthless shitheel.",
"LeBron did nothing wrong",
"Eh, I don't blame him",
"Have you read Noam Chomsky's book \"Who Rules the World?\"",
"Or...is that gum on my shoes?\n\n",
"Yes he was a genius and we were lucky to have him. Fuck Trump",
"Hey you’re the only other person I’ve seen on here with Addison’s! This made me laugh too.",
" Think he was just guilty about banging Marilyn. ",
"Nice edits, by the way, but you’re not fooling me.",
"Judith and Holofernes from the book of Judith. One version of the painting is in a little known place called the Sistine Chapel. ",
"Looks like he’s napping. ",
"Someone please Photoshop this with Kennedy in the bushes.",
"Are you being purposely dense? I'm sure there's a banker in America somewhere that he didn't care for as well. You realize that PassionateSizzle was generalizing to make a point and he didn't literally mean that Kennedy cared equally and without bias for each and every American citizen, right? What a silly point you're making. \n\"Psh.. he didn't care about the American people; he didn't even give his mother a call on her birthday... clearly he doesn't care about the American people.\" ...uh.... okay.. crazy much? ",
"That is the way Dan Carlin portrays it in his podcast. But many people have pointed out before that Carlin tends to embellish and simplify complicated subjects for entertainment purposes, rather than stick to the facts. Not disagreeing with you, just stating his podcast might not be a reliable source. ",
"Before the dark times before Democrats blamed racist frogs for losing elections.",
"And 2 bullets....",
"He was an enlisted guy so he didn't have access to the country as a whole...",
"needs more shrubbery",
"NVA generals claimed we had them on the ropes but with any insurgence , I mean you always do but you just can’t kill it , \n\nAnd 59,000 approximately lost their lives , ",
"> There is a grenade launcher in the game called the China Lake.\n\nAnd it's the worst weapon in existence in that level. The memories of the box giving me the goddamn China Lake!",
"Reference?",
"Huh?",
"Have you considered using the ole CSI ENHANCE, ENHANCE, ENHANCE trick until you could read the placard? \n\nJokes aside, if only.",
"Can you post this classical painting theme so we can have a comparison to the painting in question?",
"yeah it was really great for america to know our president is making a cuckold out of the first lady",
"That's the portrait of a man who died in office. Obama's is more, \"**I'M OUT BITCHES!**\"",
"Now here's a man that didn't live long enough to see himself become the villain of his own story",
"No he wasn’t. ",
"I would love to know who painted this if anyone could figure it out. ",
"The current president has 16-17 sexual assault accusations against him and the Republicans voted for him anyway. \n\nThey probably would have loved Kennedy too. ",
"It would be very very great and tremendous, believe me. ",
"If it wasn't for this man authorizing the CIA backed invasion of Cuba we probably would of never had the Cuban Missile Crisis.",
"Sigh, this is just going to be one of those conversations where I say something, and you ignore everything I say while repeating yourself, isn't it? Well, no thanks. \nI made my point. I believe you are being deliberately dense. Like I said above, it's obvious to anyone who doesn't have an ax to grind (which you clearly do) that folks were generalizing to make a point and no one literally meant that Kennedy cared equally and without bias for each and every American citizen. ... I guess that point is lost on you. \nLike, I could say that Ghandi cared deeply about India... and that's true... despite the fact that he was a terrible husband and father. Both things can be true at the same time. Do you understand that? ",
"So melodramatic",
"Dude, there have been literally hundreds of variants on this from Renaissance masters like Donatello, Botticelli, and Michelangelo to Caravaggio, Rembrandt, and Klimt. You can easily track down any one of these through your good friend, Google.",
"This. We are all flawed. Shit like that just proves he is human. \n\nSo just because I’m not the greatest fiancé means I can’t be good at other things. It’s nonsense",
"It looks like he's thinking, \"What WAS her name last night?\"",
"Heeey macarena!",
"but you still haven't acknowledged my point? that his infidelity weighs on the entirety of the population. if he really \"loved\" america as you say then maybe he could have had the self control to not shame the presidency",
"also for some context, here's an easy ad-free gallery of all other presidential portraits:\nhttps://www.whitehousehistory.org/galleries/presidential-portraits\n\nit really does stand out in comparison.",
"I wonder what kind of things Jon F. K would tweet about if he was president today. /s",
"Did you go to high school?",
"Yeah... because you just brought this point up for the first time right now. But sure, I think that what you're saying is fare. His infidelity has more national and global implications than the average joe for sure. And it is a hit on his presidency because he brought shame to the office while he was in it.\nBut even with that, I think it does him a large disservice to say that he couldn't really care for the country because he didn't care for his wife. Was his infidelity a nock against his presidency? Absolutely... but I think he did a lot of good, and I would argue that, on balance, he was a great American President who did care a great deal about its citizens, despite breaking his wedding vows. I'm not willing to throw out the legacy of great men because they cheated on their wives. I don't deny that it's bad... but it doesn't destroy all of their other achievements. ",
"Funny, my dad who remembers that time very well says otherwise. He says the 3 years Kennedy was president, the general public and the country were absolutely in love and obsessed with the man... they always try to keep up with Jackie's fashion trends and loved his kids and always swooned whenever he spoke...",
"Nope.",
"Interesting, didn’t know they still did tours there. I definitely recall this standing out amongst the rest. I particularly remember my Moms reaction to it, who was alive during his assassination, she was in a sort of somber awe. ",
"“God damn I’m old”",
"Eh I'd say avoiding a nuclear war that everyone around him wanted to start is enough to make him a great president...",
"The podcast, Hardcore History, does a fantastic job describing the stress Kennedy faced with his own brother at one point using backdoors politics to practically beg Kruschchev to have Russia back down to avert World War 3. It is quite sobering to hear how close we were to nuclear war. ",
"Not everyone is an American ",
" #AllPortraitsMatter",
"Read a fucking book? The whole Kennedy family is scum. The dad made their money from prohibition and had ties to the mob. Stop being a hypocrite.",
"You’re right, but unless you start your statement with “I fucking hate trump, but...” you can’t criticize Obama on Reddit.",
"Looks like she's trying to find a few dozen Dalmatians. ",
"Randy Marsh's The Woman in White",
"Yep. This does nothing to capture Obama’s essence. When the hell did we associate him with sitting down in front of a large bright bush?",
"He just tries to look like James Dean",
"Hopefully it means your country won't forget that it let this happen.",
"> accolades \n\nYou don't even know what the word means\n\n",
"I think the Kennedy era during the Cuban Missile Crisis is really one of the most fascinating moments in recent history. This world could be a wasteland without this man at the helm. The mind games that happened with nuclear weapons in this era is just absurd, I can't imagine what it would have been like to live and be reading the papers during that time.\n\nYou know it's bad when the government at the time was actually telling the truth about how bad this was actually going to be if they went off. No masking the truth, no downplaying...just total and \"mutually assured destruction.\" How this didn't throw the public into an absolute rioting panic is beyond me.",
"The alien hands!!",
"This is a good one. My favorite is still Teddy Roosevelt by John Singer Sargent. \n\nhttps://uploads7.wikiart.org/images/john-singer-sargent/portrait-of-theodore-roosevelt-1903.jpg",
"What's the medium? Fingers on a suede couch?",
"> And he didn't want to go into Vietnam\n\nThat’s the exact opposite of what happened.\n\nThere were 900 American troops in Vietnam when Kennedy took office.\n\nThey quadrupled by 61.\n\nThey nearly quadrupled again in 62.\n\nOnly increased by 50% in 63 though.\n\n",
"I love the sketch-like quality paired with the realism.",
"Looks like he's got six fingers on his left hand.",
"I wonder if they will save Drump's \"red hat\" for historic purposes.",
"No matter how many likes this gets....Underrated comment ",
"Idk the Obama's are pretty unique",
"More so now that he changed his hair color.",
"Why is there no mention of the portrait's artist past the 14th president (Franklin Pierce)?",
"I don't get it",
"God himself tells the conspiracy theorist the answers to his questions, all of which are conspiratorial in nature (conspiracy theorists believe the Moon landing was faked, Bush did 9/11, and Kennedy was killed by a conspiracy involving multiple people). A normal person would accept these answers as true and move on, since they're the word of God, and God would have no reason to lie. But the conspiracy theorist thinks even God is in on the conspiracy and is hiding the truth from him.",
"If you said that this was made in 2017 during the Trump administration, I would believe you.",
"Ok lol it's still common knowledge JFK was assassinated even if you aren't from America.",
"That’s a very arrogant thing to say. Some of my politicians were assassinated, and I wouldn’t expect people from other countries to know them all.",
"The JFK assassination was widely publicized around the world when it happened. The reason no one knows your politicians is probably because they are no where near as famous or influential as JFK. ",
"We do understand that the Cuban missile crisis was partially due to the botched Bay of pigs invasion which was authorised by him and Dulles.",
"So what, bitch. Again. Read. JFK had a photographic memory AND was a saint relative to most presidents. He was an intellectual AND he was a war hero. What the fuck does it take to impress your sorry ass?! You wanna sit in your white trash ivory tower and throw stones? Read a fucking book. ",
"LOL",
"Also hands are a bitch to draw.",
":D :'(",
"How much outrage would there be if the races were reversed?",
"Didn't he fuck all the hoes?",
"you could try sending an email to the museum or even contacting them over Facebook if they have a page. You are free to use my pic if you contact them.",
"That looks like Prince Harry.",
"I can’t stop looking at his hand",
"The Meth-Powered Addison's Man?",
"Chow-dair. ",
"Considering the number of times he tried to have Castro assassinated...his own death may have been the only thing to have prevented that. ",
"Marilyn is just one of many. Gotta wonder if all his sex partners were as willing as her.\n\nhttp://www.viewzone.com/JFKteen.html",
"Okay does that take anything away from what he did during the crisis?",
"Same with the Obama Garden portrait this ISN'T his official portrait.",
"Get yourself a paintbrush and the skill to do the job and find out.",
"I don't care what you think, we all know he still is scum. You can edit stuff in the book, but still is a scumbag. \n\nPhotographic memory of using the tunnels to hide his women ",
"I thank you kind sir or madam ",
"Yes, it is. Obama's is not, this one is. ",
"Yes.",
"Okay what does it take away?",
"Well, he ended with less weight on his shoulders am I right?!\n\nI’m goin to hell.",
"You and the 30 people in this thread that have made that joke before you",
"Actually all that information is ABOVE the president if you can believe that. ",
"Late to the low-hanging-fruit party. ",
"Not a big fan of this portrait.",
"You’re self-aggrandizing slime. Back to Burger King with you, ",
"Also participated greatly in making a huge slaughterhouse out of south america.",
"He had advisors in Vietnam, but not ground troops per se. Johnson is the one who started the direct involvment of the United States in Vietnam. Historians disagree as to what really was Kennedy's policy at the time of death. But the truth is that with national security memorandum 263, he had ordered 1000 military personell home by christmas, and the bulk of all personell home by the end of 65. This is achknowledged in Robert Macnamara's biography.",
"Bout to drop the most fire album this side of cali ",
"Yep. Usually the jobs that require a great responsibility leave the man or woman doing it incapable of being emotionally open.\n\nThe toll becomes one their families must pay.",
"Just read from an article, he was the biggest horny son of a bitch in the office. All he was thinking about sex. Man you right, reading is cool. He be and Weinstein be good friends. Heres some hush hush money ",
"He was threatening to \"dismantle the CIA into a thousand pieces\". The CIA had been doing as they pleased up until that point, and had been serving american business interests well abroad. They would lose their power, and they would not allow that. And you also had a power hungry vice president who had his back against the wall. He was about to be exposed in the Bobby Baker scandal, and would face political death and maybe even prison. A certain Jack Ruby even pointed to Johnson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsZ59X2_46M\n\nAnd the mafia also had great interest in removing Kennedy, as they were being prosecuted heavily. This is a complicated subject where many parties had an interest in removing Kennedy. Everyone but the american people.",
"Look Dude. We’re all fucking horny. There’s no crime there. The fact is that JFK was smart as fuck and he’s worth respecting. The guy was anElon Musk. I dare you to take the effort to convince me otherwise. We can get way into it, and I’m glad to. Just know I’m not gonna back down on this. The guy was a rock star of a president. ",
"I've always loved this painting. To me, this is THE presidential portrait. Creative, evocative, unique.",
"Considering his immense back pain, maybe that's as straight as he could stand",
"Is his left forearm making a 15 degree bend or am I seeing things? Look at the cuff-to-fingers.\n",
"Heey! Yeah there aren't many of us, which is a good thing as it sucks, but nice to hear from a fellow Addisonian :) I've been diagnosed a year now, what about yourself?",
"It’ll be a year in May for me :) ",
"No but Obama's...wowzer",
"I almost feel bad for him...NOT",
"I hope everything is going as smoothly as it can be and you're able to get lots of rest, it's a finicky disease haha far too demanding!",
"Thanks! Been having other issues pop up, but it’s getting there. I hope everything is going as well as it possibly can for you as well! :)",
"Thanks very much!",
"Doesn't change anything that Kennedy did.",
"Recht herzlichen Dank!",
"It seems people round these parts don't like Clone High. We should riot! FLIP THE POOL! ",
"Would have been a lot more weight on those shoulders if the #metoo movement owned a time machine. ",
"Went to the Henry Ford museum, did not know I'd find Kennedy's limo from Dallas on display there. Powerful stuff. Only time I've cried in public.\n\nAlso almost unbelievable is that LBJ continued to use that limo. Of course, they made a few changes to it....",
"See a lot of paintings of Jackie Kennedy, huh?",
"\"I want to shatter the CIA and splinter into a thousand pieces and scatter it to the winds” - JFK after the bay of pigs\n\nBut wait, that could never happen! J. Edgar Hoover was a good guy and the CIA never does anything wrong.",
"But you see this is what happens during every Republican administration. I, too, was all over W during his administration, to the point of derangement. And then Obama and the media was nowhere to be found. \n\nThe same derangement was present during Reagan/Bush, but absent during Clinton. ",
"I guess I'm not old enough to be aware of that first hand. People are definitely more upset with Trump as a whole than they were with GWB though. A lot of Americans still see GWB and the rest of the Bush gang as good honest people",
"Did Obama request to have a photo instead or has the painting not been finished yet? Feels so out of place...",
"So I guess you have no issues with the other two points though..haaa, did I mention his scumbag father made all his money as a bootlegger during prohibition, oh and his brother left a woman for dead after drunk driving a car off a bridge, not to mention Bobby was running raquets for the mob? Hey his head should hang low.. for shaming the office almost as much as Clinton did.. anything else dumbatorius?",
"Is it documented that he was lying and cheating on her? Has she claimed this? I've read a few books on JFK and don't recall this ever coming up.\n\nAnd when it's people in powerful positions like this, I tend to assume it's consensual until someone complains.",
"Yeesh. So call it deceiving, if you prefer. My point was that there's nothing inherently unethical about extramarital sex unless it's done in secret.\n\nIf the hypothetical \"babe\" in your example was aware of it all along and was not upset, is it still cheating to you? If so, why?",
"We've almost certainly had polygamous presidents, and maybe even gay or bisexual one or two... but I suppose you mean an *openly* polygamous or gay one, and you're probably right.\n\nPeople are very very quick to get their backs up and tell you the right way to live, in this country.",
"Is there a reason they chose to do so so publicly? Literally in front of everyone?",
"They responded pretty quickly and sent an image of the painting as well! \n\nHans Wulz (1909-1985)\n[Kriegsheimkehrer wird auf dem Wiener Südbahnhof von seinem Vater umarmt / post-war-soldier at the Vienna rail station south, embraced by his father] (https://imgur.com/a/Hr0Kq)",
"lol, at very least Obama wasn't a clown",
"It was probably because it would make it easier to put the blame on a lone assasin. I don't know if it could have been done in a convincing way in a closed setting. And if the shooter can not be seen it's easier to blame it on their designated patsy.\n\nBut I can tell you it is not random it happened in Texas, Johnson's home state. Johnson had connections in Texas, among them Edward Clarke, known as the secret boss of texas. That gave them control over a lot of things, for instance the Dallas police force. Rich Texas oil men have also been linked to the murder, among them H. L. Hunt and David Byrd. \n\nAlthough Miami was also discussed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdbVyhzCcq4",
"Oh wow thank you for that. This depicts much better how you see it in person when you know what you are looking at.\n\nAbsolutely astonishing piece of art.",
"Johnson conspired to kill Kennedy and assume his role?",
"Yes, many believe so. To become president, which he had always dreamt of. Then he could kill the Bobby Baker investigation control the cover up. He set up the Warren Commision who's task was to prove Oswald did it and he did it alone. Not to find the truth.",
"Oh no! I'm sorry to hear that! Thank you very much :)",
"he's better than i am at hands. it's always the scale that gets me, if it looks good it's way smaller than it should be. ",
"pretty sure they just gave him the contract. usually that's how it works and then the painter does the job and doesn't take input throughout. they are presented with a final product and if they dont like it they can refuse it but this one he said \"i didn't want to paint the eye's of a dead man\" and the final product was beautiful anyway. they want to respect the artist as much as the subject. ",
"nah she likes it. she said it would've blown her husband's mind.",
"I know this late, but although Kennedy was probably less popular then then he is now (which isn't saying much, given how popular he is now), he was [still very much popular.](https://historyinpieces.com/research/jfks-presidential-approval-ratings)",
"Not far fetched at all. "
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"except it's not.",
"That's not the cup of a carpenter.",
"We already got wunnnnnn"
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"I see not one, but two smiles.\n\nKid did good.",
"People look for so many ways to divide us, but this image reflects the singularity of humanity.",
"Fucking gorgeous colors",
"Has anyone got some history on this? What did France and India have to do with each other in this period?",
"This was during the first world war and India was under British control. They went to fight the war.",
"WWI on the African front.\nIndia was under British rule at the time. ",
"Front two guys look very modern, great pic",
"They had 1.5 million troops apart of ww1, huge amount of supplies to the British including a heft loan.\n\nThey also were part of the western front, Gallipoli and Egypt. Likely combed with French forces somewhere along the way. ",
"Yup. Probably missing their own kids.",
"They shot him in the neck soon after. ",
"Too many pronouns. Be more specific?",
"Such a clean photo, when you imagine the past you imagine grittyness. Not here at all!",
"Of course he approaches the one with the best done head wrap, appearances matter people.",
"I have so many questions about the Indian soldiers uniforms. Here goes the next hour or so to researching that. Didn’t need sleep anyway.",
"If you had seen my smile it would have been three.",
"There is a movie coming on this background. Not exactly this one.\nhttps://youtu.be/n7YddfDo4N0",
"Is this an Albert Khan commissioned photo?",
"Three, cause the guy cut out on the left is smiling a little. \n",
"More like 1914-Colonized",
"Sleep is for the weak, trivia lasts FOREVER!!",
"Just out of interest, do they not teach World War 1 where you're from?",
"> image reflects the singularity of humanity.\n\nIn a time where humanity was divided in two camps and viciously slaughtering each other?",
"You shall be known as Paul Muad'dib. ",
"Soft serve hats",
"Smile? The guy's gleaming! ",
"I believe so",
"2:27-2:29 has almost the EXACT scene as this post.",
"In India, they do. Not in as detail as WW2 but it is taught. ",
"I thought the guy cut out on the left was obvious. Mr ImTooCoolForAFullSmile on the right was more subtle.",
"The Indian shaking the kids hand has a face straight out of the portraits from Crusader Kings 2.",
"One and a half to be precise",
"Gotta say, the thing that stood out to me despite it all was that they all have glorious mustaches ",
"do you mind sharing what you have found? ",
"Indian troops fought in European front too (Indian troops participated in all fronts of both the world wars afaik). This particular picture is of Indian troops stationed in France after all.",
"Tide ad*",
"More of Marina Amaral's work can be found [here](http://www.marinamaral.com/portfolio-2/).",
"It’s only been 10 hours. He probably hasn’t clicked through every relevant wikipedia article yet.",
"Just watched the trailer -- *holy crap* I hope this movie gets released in the US. I need to see it.",
"TIL: Indians are slavs",
"If there's a significant Indian population near your area, look for a theater that plays Bollywood movies. They may show this movie even if it doesn't get a US release. ",
"At least it'll give time for a crowd to form.",
"It’s amazing what adding color to old photos like this does to them. They seem so much more...real and recent compared to black and white which feel old and ancient. Like they’re from a different world altogether",
"Rags?",
"No, Slavs are like Russians, Poles, Serbs,Croats, etc. You are wrong here.",
"They were colonised by the British. But today, India is a growing superpower.",
"*glorious mustaches* that's what i thought. epic win.",
"Nah, look at those whites. It's a tide ad. ",
"Probably the most pertinent besides the general wikis: http://www.militarysunhelmets.com/2013/turbans-of-the-indian-army\n\nBut I’m still curious about the wraps on their legs and open shoes.",
"yea was going to say, I've never seen that head gear before, anyone got any knowledge about them?",
"they're secretly coneheads",
"High school in the US. It was such a confusing conflict that we really only glossed over it. We had a much larger focus on the Second World War. To be fair, my love of history only blossomed after I finished school, so anything that was taught I didn’t pay much attention to. ",
"Open shoes? It can get hot in India and that is what they wore, apparently.\n\nThe pants are loose on top, but tight up to, but not including the knees. There are significant benefits in the functionality of this design. Loose up top allows for freedom of movement. Your legs can move without resistance from your pants. Being tight around the shins makes the pants less baggy, so that part doesn’t get caught on things, and keeps that part of the pants from sliding all over the place.\n\nThis is just slightly educated reasoning without specific knowledge about this particular uniform or regiment.",
"Pagri, pagg, dastaar, patka. Four different names for turban, in India."
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"“To Boddah\n\nSpeaking from the tongue of an experienced simpleton who obviously would rather be an emasculated, infantile complain-ee. This note should be pretty easy to understand.\n\nAll the warnings from the punk rock 101 courses over the years, since my first introduction to the, shall we say, ethics involved with independence and the embracement of your community has proven to be very true. I haven't felt the excitement of listening to as well as creating music along with reading and writing for too many years now. I feel guity beyond words about these things.\n\nFor example when we're back stage and the lights go out and the manic roar of the crowds begins., it doesn't affect me the way in which it did for Freddie Mercury, who seemed to love, relish in the the love and adoration from the crowd which is something I totally admire and envy. The fact is, I can't fool you, any one of you. It simply isn't fair to you or me. The worst crime I can think of would be to rip people off by faking it and pretending as if I'm having 100% fun. Sometimes I feel as if I should have a punch-in time clock before I walk out on stage. I've tried everything within my power to appreciate it (and I do,God, believe me I do, but it's not enough). I appreciate the fact that I and we have affected and entertained a lot of people. It must be one of those narcissists who only appreciate things when they're gone. I'm too sensitive. I need to be slightly numb in order to regain the enthusiasms I once had as a child.\n\nOn our last 3 tours, I've had a much better appreciation for all the people I've known personally, and as fans of our music, but I still can't get over the frustration, the guilt and empathy I have for everyone. There's good in all of us and I think I simply love people too much, so much that it makes me feel too fucking sad. The sad little, sensitive, unappreciative, Pisces, Jesus man. Why don't you just enjoy it? I don't know!\n\nI have a goddess of a wife who sweats ambition and empathy and a daughter who reminds me too much of what i used to be, full of love and joy, kissing every person she meets because everyone is good and will do her no harm. And that terrifies me to the point to where I can barely function. I can't stand the thought of Frances becoming the miserable, self-destructive, death rocker that I've become.\n\nI have it good, very good, and I'm grateful, but since the age of seven, I've become hateful towards all humans in general. Only because it seems so easy for people to get along that have empathy. Only because I love and feel sorry for people too much I guess.\n\nThank you all from the pit of my burning, nauseous stomach for your letters and concern during the past years. I'm too much of an erratic, moody baby! I don't have the passion anymore, and so remember, it's better to burn out than to fade away.\n\nPeace, love, empathy.\nKurt Cobain\n\nFrances and Courtney, I'll be at your alter.\nPlease keep going Courtney, for Frances.\nFor her life, which will be so much happier without me.\nI LOVE YOU, I LOVE YOU!”",
"Who wrote the last part? Looks like two different people wrote it.",
"He did",
"Conspiracy nut answer? Courtney wrote the last part.\n\nCourtney was fucking around, Kurt wanted out of Nirvana and out of the marriage. Courtney's star was rising, Hole was successful. She didn't need him anymore. She has him whacked and tacks on the last part of the letter. Some people are silenced. Some disappear. And here we are.",
"Too soon. ",
"I don’t know man, that whole situation and how everything happened was fucked. I just felt sorry for his family, and his band. Mostly for Francis though. ",
"*cough cough* bullshit *cough cough*",
"Who the fuck cares? Cobain was nothing special. "
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"SPACESHIP!",
"This pic makes me so happy!!",
"Everything is awesome!! I truly enjoy that movie.\n",
"SPACESHIP!",
"This is at Space Center Houston, right? I grew up near there. If you're still in the Houston area make a trip downtown and check out the Museum of Natural Science it's awesome. Any of the museums downtown are worth a visit, but the HMNS is baller. Don't miss the gems and crystals area! ",
"SPACESHIP!",
"We take our students there every year! Just visited there last month! Best fossil exhibit I’ve ever seen",
"I'm a grown man and have no regrets admitting I watched this movie quite a few times. ",
"Sounds like you are an educator? What do the kids/students think of NASA? I was kind of depressed when I finally made it down there - lots of cool relics and science exhibits but it felt extremely dead with regards to anything currently underway.",
"His face is so happy because of the spaceship. ",
"Charlie Day was born to play this role",
"SPACESHIP!",
"This movie was so good, Benny is such a great character, and yes, every single one of my childhoods LEGO Astronaut helmets was broken like his. ",
"Why that guy and not the one that used to come in the creation club kits?",
"Valid question. I went on a visit/tour there too. Didn't seem like we saw a single employee actually doing anything. Im sure there are things going on but it did just seem kind of dead.",
"ROCK IT PARK",
"Whaaaaat, we would only ever go to the Houston Natural Science Museum. I mean, it was always super cool and fun but I always wanted to go to the Space Center!",
"I vote you create an entire series of these... this just made my day. r/wholesome",
"I’ve been lurking r/ar15 too long, can’t unsee gas block...",
"SPACESHIP!",
"I've lived near the space center my whole life, cool thing was until about 7 or 8 years ago you could see the ships from the road till they covered them.",
"He looks like hes seen some spaceshit",
"SPACESHIP!",
"SPACENIP!",
"WAIT, there were fossils in space?!?!",
"Get downvoted son.",
"fanks for that! :)",
"I went to JSC a couple of years ago. Nearly crashed the car when I saw the space shuttle on top of that 747 in the car park. The level 9 tour was brilliant.\n \n$90 each, all you can eat lunch in the astronaut's canteen, a tour round the neutral buoyancy lab and the piece d'resistance was getting to go into historic mission control and sit in Gene Krantz's chair and press the buttons. \n\nTotal highlight of the tour was going to the Saturn V display. I knew it was going to be big when I saw the shed with the picture on the side but I wasn't prepared for the scale when we went in there. \n\nThey must have poured that shed over the rocket. Less than a foot away from the wall at the pointy end and those 5 enormous F1 engines you are presented with when you go in took my breath away. To anyone who hasn't been, go.\n\nE: sp & formatting",
"Saturn V in Houston.",
"Come to LA, I'll show you things you the world. Tar pits, JPL the Getty, LACMA, The Huntington, the NHM, the Griffith Observatory, etc. You think of LA as a cheap movie industry?? We'll culture the shit out of you guys. (Except maybe DC, damn you Smithsonian!) ",
"I swear to God I can't remember laughing as hard to that part in the movie than I did when watching that for the first time.",
"Christ, I was gonna be ironic and upvote you but then yoi wrote 'fanks'",
"glad to see it functioned as intended.",
"Go to NASA Cape Canaveral. EVEN BIGGER building, with the Saturn V suspended *so you can walk underneath it*",
"+2 on Level 9. (My sister and I.) I thought the highlight was the historic mission control. They said that they were soon going to rail/plexiglass it off so people couldn't go in there, so call them to check & go soon.\n\nIt's also a great value. As I recall: with it, you get admission for 2 days -- the day of the tour and then a day of your choice in the next few days. My sister and I didn't see everything on day 1, so we came back the next day. So this Level 9 tour was effectively much cheaper for us.\n",
"It's a great movie with some great messages. Grown adults grew up playing with Lego bricks, and they should feel no shame in enjoying a movie that handles a major part of their childhood so well. Especially when then movie delivers important lessons for their own children too. And from a technical standpoint, the CGI is amazing. The first time I saw it, it had me guessing which parts were stop motion. ",
"Definitely on our list. ",
"Do you have Instagram?"
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"I think it's the foreboding background",
"IT 2",
"The Road II",
"Watch out for that VVitch",
"\"A lot can be said, not a lot told.\"",
"/u/your_post_as_a_movie",
"Small boy, \" Hey Mister, I'm kind of afraid of the woods at night.\"\n\nMister Murderer, \"How do you think I feel, I have to walk out alone.\"",
"Are they going to the upside down?",
"\n/u/thatonerapist, your comment was removed for the following reason: \n\n* Instagram links are not allowed in this subreddit. Handles are allowed (e.g. @example), as long as they are not a hotlink. (this is a spam prevention measure. Thank you for your understanding) \n\nTo have your comment restored, please edit the instagram link out of your comment, then send a [message to the moderators.](https://www.reddit.com/message/compose?to=/r/pics&subject=Request to restore comment by /u/thatonerapist&message=This [comment](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/7x6t8r/i_took_this_picture_of_a_father_and_his_son/du634b7/?context=10\\) was removed for containing an instagram link.)\n\n\n*I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/pics) if you have any questions or concerns.*",
"This was taken at Falls Ridge Preserve in/near Blacksburg, Va. It's got a really cool waterfall and a couple smaller waterfalls as well as a few mini caves. If you're in the area it's definitely a cool little spot to check out. My instagram is @dylanfraley (didn't know about the instagram comment rule oops)",
"That road, oh you dont wanna go up that road. ",
"I think it's the heavy editing. Don't get me wrong that's an awesome picture, but either you live in Silent Hill or there's been... a high amount of post processing. I don't think if I whipped out my phone and pointed it at them it'd look like that.",
"The Road II: Another Road",
"It's an old joke, so you're wasting impact with the setup. Brevity is key.\n\n\"Jeez, mister, these woods are really scary at night.\"\n\n\"Tell me about it kid. I'M walking back alone.\"",
"From the mind of M.Night Shyamalan",
" And now I'm sad... and confused.... and sad again....",
"So a clown and a small child are walking into the woods at night.\n\nThe child looks up at the clown and says \"Mister.. Mister.. I'm scared!\"\n\nThe clown says \"You're scared?! What about me! I have to walk out of here alone!\"",
"I always heard the version of the adult wearing a clown mask carrying a shovel. ",
"Welcome to the club. More than confused I’m sad. But it’s a good book/movie. ",
"Alternative title The Road II: Fire Within. ",
"IN A WORLD WHERE...",
"Why are you photographing parents children? ",
"The editing emphasizes it that's for sure. It still has a creepy feeling due to the low clouds, dark shadows in the middle section, and the overall scale. "
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"http://www.ebaumsworld.com/pictures/my-favorite-rapper/85577455/",
"You realize this is the cash me ousside girl right? She may be a lyricist but she's terrible. And I highly doubt she has any sort of degree. ",
"She's also like, 14...",
"I don't believe she can rap without sounding like she's having a stroke",
"Also, LOL EBAUMSWORLD "
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TIL this rapper already has 3 college degrees, been accepted into 2 universities, plans on becoming an engineer, doctor, and medical researcher all before she turns 18.
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"Those socks though!!",
"Is your cat's name Colby? If not, keep on experimenting, the picture came out great!",
"Haha his name is Oliver. But thanks! ",
"Such majestic!",
"need cats."
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"These drifts are roughly 5.5 feet high!",
"That's a very nice reminder of why I moved to the south U.S. from Wisconsin.\n\nI still live where the air hurts my face, but at least I don't have to shovel snow.",
"Why does the air hurt your face in the south?",
"Wow I bet you're ready for your one week of summer to come. ",
"Just because these mounds will turn glacial and will last until June doesn’t mean it won’t be a beautiful 6 weeks until the killing frost returns in early September...",
"Gets damn hot in the summer. "
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"It will look nice on his desk, I want to deliver it and get him to write a google review for my engraving shop.",
"Makes me think of a urn.",
"So wait, did you fire this round for him in combat or what?",
"It was fired at his inauguration ceremony, it's a blank round. Im just doing the engraving work.",
"Nice job, Ricardo.",
"Noice. For a moment I was thinking it was a random mortar. Cool. "
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I Engraved This Howitzer Round For The Governor Today
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"Very creative!",
"r/phonesarebad",
"Son you got a panty on your head. "
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"Such a precious and adorable little sweetheart <3 take care",
"What a beautiful smile! I wish you both the best and I hope that little one of yours recovers quickly and fully. ",
"Beautiful baby!",
"She is gonna grow up to be one tough cookie",
"That's the smile of a champion if I've ever seen one.",
"I don’t know you, but this makes me genuinely happy for you. ",
"That's the cutest smile I've seen in awhile.",
"Wow\n\nEdit: my wow is in amazement of this little guy and how strong he is. Thanks for the down votes ",
"If you would like to learn more about CHD, visit /r/CHD or consider reading these resources:\n\nhttps://mendedhearts.org/chd-awareness-week/\n\nhttp://www.childrensheartfoundation.org/about-chf/fact-sheets\n\nIf you would like to donate, please go [here](https://mendedhearts.org/donate/?doing_wp_cron=1518498843.8908109664916992187500)\n\nWith the amazing medicine that we have, we can allow these children to live normal, fulfilling lives. Thank you for the post OP. :) ",
"Oh my. What a beautiful little one. Can’t imagine having to watch your child go through that. Prayers and blessings to all of you.",
"belongs on r/aww because my heart just melted.",
"The dichotomy of the scar and that smile. Pretty incredible kid you got there.",
"If this is recent, best wishes going forward! My guy is through two of three for HLHS, he is a constant inspiration.\n\nIf anyone wants to meet a true hero, shake the hand of a pediatric heart surgeon. ",
"What a precious baby! ",
"Love the beautiful smile! This makes me so happy. My daughter also had open heart surgery but at 6 weeks old. It amazes me everyday how strong these Lil ones are! ",
"He’s absolutely adorable and love to you - you must have been terrified. Love our children always xx",
"Whenever I see a fresh wound like that, on any person, I immediately feel a chill down my body and my heart skip a beat. They look so inherently painful that I can't help but wince just by looking at them.",
"Live long and prosper. ",
"Let's get this guy to the top page. What a super strong lil guy.",
"Hi OP,\n\nBorn with TGA, had surgery, scar still visible today. In mid 20's now and very physically active.\n\n\nJust want you to know that your child has a very bright future ahead. Also very adorable. Congrats!",
":( poor little one ",
"Absolutely adorable! Wishing you and your family all the best in the future.",
"What a wee smiler. All the best for the post-op recovery OP. \n\nSeriously amazes me just how resilient kids are!",
"My best friend of 24 years would not be alive today were it not for these kinds of medical interventions, may your little boo make someone else as lucky as me :)",
"Amazing to see such a happy baby after such a big surgery. Good luck to you all!",
"\nI don't know how to post, as I rarely do; so I guess i'll just \"reply\". I also was born with a CHD called Double outlet right ventricle (DORV) and I had a pulmonary artery sling that crushed my trachea. I had it repaired when I was a month old, but then at the end of December I had surgery to repair my trachea again! I just played my first basketball game since the surgery and I am currently running 2 miles or so every other day!\n\nBy the time this guy grows up he'll be an olympian",
"Happy for u!",
"turn that frown upside down...",
"Little guy is a trooper! I'm a Tet. of Fallot and Arnold-Chiari Syndrome survivor and I never looked at healthy as a baby!\n\nAlso I had no idea there was a CHD awareness month and I have it lol",
"Me too! Never talked to anyone else born with it. So, how’s life?\n\nTip for the child: people will believe any sort of story when they see a scar, so have some fun with it. ",
"‘Tis but a scratch! Such a cute smile! ",
"My sister was premmie and had a hole in her heart but her tiny body didn't survive until surgery 😔",
"Proof of scar and attractiveness please!",
"Hey! I had heart surgery when I was only a week old! My surgery was called the Transposition of the Great Arteries. This happens when the patients aorta and puinary arteries are switched while in the stomach of the juices to be born I believe. I'm 18 and very healthy and active, good luck!",
"I don't know whether to smile or cry. Poor cute adorable baby.\n\nAll the best to yoy both.",
"I sent this to my Dad, he’s 68 and about to go on the donor list at OHSU. He’s just about ready to give up, doesn’t have enough energy to get out of his chair. 25% function left. I hope it gives him as much hope as it gave me.",
"Beautiful",
"Cutest new member of the zipper club. Sweet kid, and obviously tough too.",
"As a parent of a one year old who spent a whole heap of time in hospital their first few months of life, just wanna say well done for everything you’ve been through. Also your kid is super cute. ",
"I'm sad to see how fresh the wound is, but glad he's young enough not to remember the recovery. ",
"What a precious baby! A special little fighter who is happy to be on the ride. Don’t forget to care for yourselves, too, parents. Wishing strength, kindness, compassion and brilliance on your medical team! ",
"I thought he had chest hair at first...",
"That may be the cutest baby I have ever seen. Im glad he is ok.",
"What a beautiful baby and beautiful smile for a little one who has been through so much :) smiles make it all worthwhile and I can only imagine how much more it means to you having been through such major surgery together.",
"I’ve only recently become aware of this condition. This photo gave me instant tears/feels. Thanks op. But seriously so happy for the strength! You can face anything now!",
"What is CHD? I am unaware. ",
"Look at that face melting smile :)",
" Best of luck to you all! May you live happily together! ",
"Congenital Heart Defect. Basically anything wrong with the heart at birth, but most commonly ventricular septal defects.",
"Geez I wanna cry. Such an amazing little one you have ",
"OP, I am 23 years old. I have a connective tissue disorder called Loeys-Dietz. I have had 2 open heart surgeries, chest reconstruction, spinal fusion, and cardiac ablation. Believe me when I say it is a good thing to have these procedures done before they are able to form memories. Glad to see your baby doing so well. Should they ever need to have to surgery again after they have entered school, give them a pillow to hug when coughing, laughing, throwing up. That will save them from so much pain you wouldnt believe it. Surgeons may have the ego of a god at times, but I will happily say they absolutely deserve to have that level of ego. Hope the chairs in your babies room were comfortable!",
"What a cutie! I hope all is well!",
"Post your scar please!",
"Oh my goodness that smile wow haha so cute looks like a little elf ",
"He is adorable. Thank goodness for modern medicine. Here's hoping he has a bright, long future. I had a double bypass 6 months ago, and it was difficult having to use my arms so little. I can't imagine how hard it is to keep a baby from using his arms.",
"54 year old member of the zipper club. Made me cry seeing that your beautiful baby went though this. But look at that smile. Wishing speedy recovery and love.",
"Ouch my heart.",
"There is nothing wrong with 99.9 of these people, a lot of it is just to make money. Cancer, diabetes, aids and all that garbage can easily be cured by going vegan.",
"Dude :(\n\nCoping with something like that is a superpower. ",
"Get out",
"The wound part is not too bad, or atleast it wasn't for me. What really hurts is your chest, since surgeons literally cut the sternum either completely or partially, straight down the middle. After the surgery you have to wear a posthorax vest since the sternum doesn't completely heal for ~3 months, and the vest is basically for support and to prevent complications. And it isn't just the fact the sternum gets split, but also because they contort the shit out of you on a cold hard steel table with your chest split open. The next few weeks my rib cage, collarbones, and shoulders were sore as hell. Again, probably from being twisted and turned after they split the sternum.\n\nThe first few days were the worst, but the pain meds made it mostly bearable. On the second night however, I made a tragic mistake by not keeping up with my oral pain medicine before I went to sleep. When I woke up during the night I was in the WORST pain of my life and immediately started crying. It was very horrible, but the nurses quickly came to the rescue by giving me intravenous fast acting morphine.\n\nAll good now though and I'm incredibly grateful that I could go back to my normal life like nothing had happened. Modern healthcare is amazing.\n\n\n ",
"Why pierce the ears so early?",
"What a cutie!",
"What a little legend!",
"Oh my lord! What a gorgeous tiny human and champion. ",
"Amazing",
"r/mademesmile",
"That little dude is happy as a clam! 😀",
"OP,\n\nI was born with tricuspid atresia and pulmonary stenosis. I’m 30 now, blessed with health and a career. Your little one is a bad ass, more resilient than you can possibly imagine. He’ll be just fine :)",
"Happy lil bub. Awesome to see.",
"What a little trooper and what a smile!",
"He’ll have that scar for the rest of his life. I’m 26 and had Tetralogy of Fallot and still have the scar",
"My son had heart surgery to repair a coaractation of the aorta at 6 weeks old.\n\nHe’s two now and he has so much energy, I can’t keep up with him. \n\nWishing you a speedy and full recovery! Before you know it, you’ll be out of breath trying to keep up with endless dance parties and playground races.",
"That's the cutest little badass I've ever seen! ",
"Healthcare is huge business. Why do you think the government wants to be so involved? Truth sucks I know.",
"Fellow TGA survivor myself, always cool meeting others!\n\nTotally true statement there. That little guy and others after him will lead very healthy lives.",
"I had open heart surgery as well. Just know that your child has a great future ahead of him. He’ll grow up to be amazing.",
"As a nurse working in a pediatric CICU, for 18 years this May, I love seeing this! We see the patients when they're at their sickest but not when they go home. Patients will sometimes visit the CICU when they come in for their cardiac clinic follow-ups but I work nights and miss their visits. This happy healthy baby makes me feel good about what I do because there are some shifts when things are rough.\n\nAnd I'm especially loving the comments from those of you who had your repairs years ago, and you've gone on to living healthy and happy lives. I've been in this line of nursing long enough to remember when many of these defects could not be repaired and if they could, the life expectancy was short.\n\nHappy CHD Month!",
"I wish all the best for you and your family. Your kid is so adorable, what a smile. <3",
"****Braveheart****",
"Aww. What a little angel. Hope she’s doing well",
"Looking good !! Yeah",
"Cute little guy. As the father of a 6 month old, I cannot possible imagine what you and your partner had to endure throughout the process. Glad to see he is doing well! ",
"I had a portion of my lung removed when I was a few days old and the scar is now probly 12-14\" long along my ribcage. Growing up my favourite response to people when they asked what happened was: \"I don't really know but I woke up in the back of a Korean restaurant in a bathtub full of ice.\" Sometimes people would buy the story enough to ask follow ups like if anything was missing. ",
"[Chest-bursting aliens.](https://i.imgur.com/gMKqjo9.gif)",
"turn that frown upside down...",
"Get well soon ",
"so sad .",
"Little elf ears!",
"What a cutie! Keep on smiling little one. ",
"What a gorgeous baby ",
"Born with CHD. BAV and Aortic Stenosis. Had OHS at 38 to correct. Felt like I was run over by a bus for a month. These pictures are nothing short of amazing.\n\nEdit: LMNOP",
"When I see pictures like this, sure its so sweet to see the little ones in good spirit under the circumstances. But geeze I wanna ball my eyes out. I wish I could sacrifice myself to stop any kids from events like this. I'm almost 38 but Yeah, i just cant handle little dudes and dudettes having to go through life threatening illness.... brb onions ",
"I couldnt agree more, my younger brother has the same thing and I used to watch over him like a hawk, he will do great OP",
"born with VSD and had surgery at 18months. my health and physicality has blown my doctors away ever since! all the best ",
"My daughter (6 years old) wishes your little one a long and healthy life!",
"OP my mom said to tell you what a beautiful baby you have!",
"My baby is also 7 months hope that everything is well",
"Your baby's beautiful!!! \n\nSide note: Doctors are amazing. ",
"It may be a cultural thing. When I was a baby, this was also fine where I am from. ",
"\"How the fuck was I meant to know? You expect me to tear open a fresh wound and check to make sure all the pink bits are there? Far as I could tell everything was working as it should and I should be glad im not on the menu.\"",
"I wish him all the best.",
"Imagine the pressure the surgeon must feel operating on a tiny baby like that. Adults must be hard enough, but a tiny baby. Not only is everything smaller, which I assume make stuff harder, but also it's a god damn baby.",
"Breaks my heart and yet makes me so happy at the same time. Have a speedy recovery little dude!",
"That resilient smile!",
"What amazing doctors... to be able to do this kind of procedure it truly amazing to me. Good luck, OP, your kids almost as cute as mine ;) (unbiased)",
"Tetralogy of Fallot here. 2 corrections and a new valve/stent. I'm 53. \n\nYou wee one has a great future as medicine improves tenfold. Good luck to youze.",
"Now this is a brave guy. High five. ",
"Poor baby. Hope it does well! Xo",
"Beautiful baby, I wish him a life as beautiful as his smile. Truly beautiful",
"It doesn't get much cuter than that smile.",
"As a parent of a CHD baby as well, that's one happy looking kid. My monster is now five and you can't tell anything ever happened, except for his \"zip line\" that he has. We've tried to teach him to be proud of it.\n\nTo everyone else, if you're a McDonalds eater and pay with cash, please think about dropping that change in the Ronald McDonald House bin. The majority of their budget comes from things like that and having had to stay there for 10 days, they're doing miracle work for parents that are there much, MUCH longer than we were. It is honestly one of the best charities out there.",
"You have a beautiful and happy baby! I couldn't imagine how scared I would be if my baby had to have open heart surgery. I'm so glad your little one is well and happy.",
"Poor little bugger... Get well soon buddy!!",
"Hey, be proud of that scar. My son is, he tells all his friends about it (he's five.). He's also a ToF survivor.",
"Got a daughter with a CHD. No surgery yet in our future, so I'm thankful there. Glad to see your little one has such a big smile on his face! Hoping for a speedy recovery and bright future!",
"She’s so precious! ",
"This post makes me feel selfish.\n\nAfter surgery (I have not had heart surgery but have had emerg appendectomy and 4 knee procedures requiring general) I now think I shoulda gone back to the hozzy with flowers or a tray of coffee and treats or something to say \"thanks for doing such a great job\".\n\nThe care we get (Canada) is amazing and yes, going back to the hospital to acknowledge caregivers and medical staff should be a thing. I'll be on it next time.",
"Aw, what a beautiful nugget! ",
"Look at that smile!! What a kid. What a life he'll have with that amazing attitude.",
"Great to see your kid so happy! Wish your family happiness and health!!!",
"Is February CHD awareness month? Well, hot dang!",
"What a beautiful smile!",
"Happy baby! ❤️",
"Very bittersweet. Heart breaking to see a child that has to go through this, but very uplifting to see that big smile!",
"Thanks for posting this!! I find out in a few months if my toddler need surgery to repair her large atrial septal defect. She has her own heart beat because of it (skipped beats) but has no symptoms. If it hasn’t closed or shrank significantly they will repair it so that she doesn’t have problems later in life. \nIt is nice to see the smiling face on the other side of surgery!!! ",
"Your little one is gonna rule the farkin’ world one day 🤘",
"Also born with TGA, doing well and I'm glad you are too! Cheers :)\n\nAnd OP, your little one is adorable!",
"Hi OP! Fellow CHD parent here. My daughter has Tetralogy of Fallot and my son has a right sided aortic arch/ring.\n\nHeart babies are the toughest, silliest, funnest kids ever. You have to have a sense of humor after going through so much at such a young age!",
"What a beautiful baby! Strong like mama :) ",
"That smile just touched my soul.",
"I had TGA and as a kid I thought everyone was just born with a scar. Also, I've never even thought of saying it was something else.. Usually the truth is still enough to make people go, \"Wow, holy shit\" but you've inspired me to make a crazy back story. ;) ",
"\"Mambo baby\"\n\nI am melt.",
"Say the whole name, not the acronym - if you want to raise awareness. ",
"What a beautiful and happy smile! ",
"ASD (atrial septal defect) is really common as well.",
"What a great smile! You've got a cute kid there.\n\nFellow zipper club member here, too. Surgery at age 5 for ASD / leaky mitral valve. Over 30 years later and I've through-hiked the Pacific Crest Trail and gone 1.5 miles down to the bottom of the ocean, among other things. My doctors did a great job! Here's hoping your sweet child has a great recovery and a life full of grand adventures.",
"Such a beautiful smile! Such a sweetheart, so you kiss that baby every chance you get. :) All the best for the future! ",
"You see a child. I see a warrior. ",
"best of luck OP. what a smile !",
"The cutest!",
"I was born with two large holes in my heart VSD & ASD docs fixed the ASD at 5 weeks old (still have a beautiful scar and the women love it at 30 years old) doctor punctured both lungs and paralyzed my left diaphragm during first surgery. Developed Pulmonary Hypertension at the age of 13 had the VSD closed at 16. At 22 they removed the wire since it started to feel like a razor blade was cutting me on the inside and than developed Mrsa Staph Infection which ate my skin to the point that I had a soda can size hole in the middle of my chest for about 6 months (still went sky diving) than the doctors used my pectoral muscle to fill the hole and sew my skin to it and now living life like a normal person and pushing through life being police and not letting it effect me. Your boy will be solid he looks so happy. The scar isn’t a flaw or a bad thing it’s a mark of over coming something so serious that most people don’t have to endure. God bless this little boy and everyone with birth defects. God built us this way so we have to be happy and run with it not let it bring us down. ",
"Great picture OP. I can't imagine, nor do I want to imagine, the fear you must have experienced finding out your child had a CHD. I am grateful that your child looks happy and healthy now. ",
"So i have a congenital heart defect known as ToF...with all the love and assuring comments i just want to give you some advice as well. Get genetic testing done specifically for any known variant that is related to the defect. In my case; my mother, brother and I all had that variant causing us to all exhibit right heart issues.\n\nAt worst it would be a helpful fact for when your child is ready to have their own kids. I hope your child lives a long and wonderful life.",
"Both of you are sooo brave! I can't imagine as a parent, emotionally dealing with the stress of this angel being in surgery\n :-(",
"This breaks my heart. No pun intended. As a father I can't imagine what you all been through. Very cute kid, wish you all the best.",
"omg hes so beautiful ",
"listen here you little shit...",
"I had tetralogy of fallot as a child, and also had open heart surgery at 7mos old, and a pulmonary valve replaced at age 12. I am now 31 and have almost zero issues. (Besides not being able to do hard drugs I’m a normal functioning adult haha) seriously though medical breakthroughs are happening every day and it’s a blessing that your baby was born in a time where these issues can be fixed. \n\nI wish you and your precious little one a happy and healthy future! ",
"My sister had this. She had a lot of problems early on. At birth, She had some infection thing my parents didn't really explain well to me that caused cerebral palsy, but was caught before permanent damage was done and was able to use physical therapy to catch up with other kids. Didn't walk until she was 3. At the same time, they found CHD, in this case literally a pin prick sized hole causing slow internal bleeding. She had high risk heart surgery at age 1anf still bears the scar today. She's normal, active and in her early 20s with no complications we're aware of. \n\nCHD is scary, but medicine in the last 30 years has kicked its ass.",
"That kid is a badass. CHD? Pshhh... That's nothing for this little dude. \nHappy for you OP!!",
"My little brother had open heart surgery at 3 weeks. At the time, he may have been the youngest person ever to get the surgery. He was missing most of the wall between his ventricles. He's now 25 and plays softball! Good luck with your child! ",
"I thought it was coronary heart disease 😅",
"In this thread: Lots of acronyms that I don't know.\n\nCHD? TGA?",
"Thanks for everything you do! I had open-heart surgery over 30 years ago and still remember how kind the nurses were, especially in the ICU post-op. I was 5 at the time and being taken care of by wonderful, friendly nurses made me feel much more relaxed about it all.",
"Gorgeous! ",
"She is gorgeous. Congrats. That smile makes me smile :)",
"My oldest son (8 now) was born with a congenital defect that affected his gut, so he has a large scar on his abdomen. Depending who he is talking to, it is the result of either a shark bite, a biking accident, or a birth accident involving an ax. ",
"Your baby looks so healthy and happy. Obviously it worked. Hurray science! ",
"God bless your little one....",
"Cool thanks. My father was born with CHD then!\n\nFound out at 15 years old - aortic valve finally replaced at 37. ",
"Oh my god their smile. ",
"Your child doesn't know yet how brave and strong they are, and looks so happy too. Wishing a long happy and beautiful life for your child, God bless",
"My little brother had ohs at 3 weeks old to fix an almost complete septal defect. He's 25 now and plays softball with the Special Olympics (his condition was due to his Down Syndrome).",
"Six year old son says \n\" You have a cute smile there baby!!!\"",
"This is 100% the cutest baby I’ve ever seen, way to go little fighter ❤️❤️❤️❤️",
"He looks like your little one is doing great! Also, who's a little boo boo baby?! Sooooo cuuuuute! XOXOXO",
"With regards to your olympian comment: this is quite literally possible and has already happened. Shaun White Olympic gold medalist snowboarder was born with a CHD - Tetralogy of Fallot. Just an interesting piece of trivia.",
"That picture is heartwrenching. Pun sligtly intended, sentiment very sincere. Nice to see a smile go along with that scar. All the best wishes to you. ",
"I don't know how to post, as I rarely do; so I guess i'll just \"reply\". I also was born with a CHD called Double outlet right ventricle (DORV) and I had a pulmonary artery sling that crushed my trachea. I had it repaired when I was a month old, but then at the end of December I had surgery to repair my trachea again! I just played my first basketball game since the surgery and I am currently running 2 miles or so every other day!\n\nBy the time this guy grows up he'll be an olympian",
"God bless you my good man!",
"I have the very same scar for surgery for tetralogy of fallot, from when I was about the same age! It makes me so happy to see anyone still smiling after the ordeal, I wish you both the best!",
"Beautiful baby. Congratulations! ",
"glad to see the little guy has a big smile after such a tough surgery.",
"What a trooper! That smile says it all.",
"CHD is the most common birth-defect in the world! If affects somewhere around 1/100 live births, possibly even more. It’s a pretty big deal!",
"What a goober!!! He’ll wear that proud for the rest of his life!! He’s lucky to have such an awesome and supportive parent(s)",
"Interesting - thanks ",
"She survived open heart surgery and you comment on her ears?",
"I was also born with TGA, and am in my mid 20s, and I can agree with you that OPs child has a bright Future. And the scar is pretty awesome tbh.",
"It is confusing, because a lot of people use CHD to refer to coronary heart disease. Often, people use CAD (coronary artery disease) to distinguish!",
"Hmmm... birth accident involving an axe... tell us more ",
"Hitting all my feels!!♥️",
"Hey OP,\nMy daughter also had open heart surgery at 7 months old. She is now well into age 2 and doing amazing. I would never want any parents to have to go through a day like that. I wish the very best to your family and hope this amazing little trooper here has a bright future indeed",
"She looks beautiful! Adorable smile. You can clearly see she’s a happy child. She’ll do great things ",
"Don't want to be a dick but i was eating when i clicked on this. Please mark it nsfw.",
"Ah yeah, I think CHD as coronary heart disease is an old school term my old fart of a paramedic instructor used",
"Hey there OP and everyone else! I had a coarctation of the aorta. Look it up it's pretty interesting and I'm lazy (can't put a link, I'm on mobile). I had an experimental surgery where the docs went through my back and basically cut a curve along my left shoulder blade and cut my aorta at an angle instead of striaght down. That was all at a few weeks and here I am still alive and very active and living totally normal! Humans are crazy",
"His smile give me a motivation. God bless him",
"Beautiful smile! I wish her a wonderful rest of her life. ",
"I hope everything goes well for you and your family for years to come, god bless you",
"It must have been tough on you to live through that. Happy to see your little one looking happy in spite of everything. They heal so fast and take everything in stride. Much love. ",
"That’s what I was born with! My parents never did anything about it and half the holes closed on their own. I was always told just to do what I felt like I could handle and not to stress my heart too much. ",
"[Here](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/7jnnv7/serious_parents_of_reddit_whats_the_scariestmost/dr8kbxz/) (two months ago) OP explains:\n\n> My daughter had open heart surgery to fix a hole in her heard (VSD) at only 7 months old. Up until the day of her surgery, her father and I were emotional wrecks, but we kept that from her. We didn’t cry in front of her but instead we would try to laugh and joke in order for her not to see our worry. Even up to the day that we had to hand her over to the surgeons, we made a clapping song when they carried her away. Once that curtain closed, my husband and I just held each other and cried. She is now 14 months and very healthy!",
"S/he can't be just curious?",
"My daughter had open heart surgery 5 1/2 years ago to repair an especially large hole. She's now in second grade and loves telling the other kids all about her scar. \n\nThe Olympics have been pretty cool too because Shaun White also had open heart surgery at a young age to correct a CHD, and [his scar can be seen in many of his commercials.](https://i.imgur.com/Z7jPPPI.jpg) She tells all her classmates they're part of an exclusive club - the zipper club. \n\nIt's also interesting that the song Shaun White considers to be his theme song - Iron Man - is the name of a superhero who gained his superpower as the result of a heart defect. ",
"I'm you at 26, any advice?",
"Aww! I'm glad your child is still smiling, OP! They're a strong kid!",
"I can't imagine the fear and stress this must have caused. Good luck and give that little dude so many snuggles!",
"Babies get sharply downvoted there. Try it! ",
"Looks at him he is so happy. I love his smile and become a fan of him now.",
"Well done little human! You are bold and beaming! Here's to a bright, healthy future! :)",
"Such a cute little badass. ",
"My family has a CHD angel. We lost my 13 month old nephew in January. He had HLHS and a slew of other problems. In spite of everything, he was the happiest, most loving baby I’ve ever known. We were lucky to have him for as long as we did. Hold your sweet baby tight! ",
"me 2!!\niv decided that i wont ever have my own genetic kids, but adoption is always an option",
"Our little champ. God bless him",
"Agreed",
"My little girl was born with Long QT syndrome. She just turned one year old last weekend. Not a day goes by where I am not terrified that something catastrophic will happen to her. \n\nI am glad your little one is doing great! What a cutie.",
"Just goes to show people aren’t instantly hindered by medical issues. Know a lot of folk who thought this or that would keep them from doing anything with their lives. Also got a buddy who’s got some really fucked up knees that he’s probably gonna need more than one surgery for, but he still plays basketball all summer and is the best player from around here ",
"In this thread: tga, chd, cicu, vgca and pingpongshingshong\n\nCould people please write out for us people unaware...",
"Awe beautiful 😊😍😍",
"Glad hes ok",
"You fucking go little guy. I'm rooting for them.",
"I bet the surgeon(s) have shrines to shaun in their office..\n\n",
"God bless this little angel!",
"How am I both sad and happy? I can't imagine what it was like to wait for him to come out of surgery. ",
"I was born in 1980 with a ventricle septal defect (hole in between the lower chambers of the heart). Had it repaired in 1983. My original life expectancy was only about 21 years, but thanks to life saving open heart surgery, I’m alive and well. I’m excited for your child, and wish him or her a full and happy life. ",
"Oh my God, poor little guy ",
"Love the smile",
"So this is what I looked like at 8 weeks old? Turning 32 and I'm probably more active and healthier than most people. He has a bright future ahead of him. Glad he's fine ",
"What a badass! Smiling after surgery like it ain't no thang!",
"I just had a similar experience - found out at around 10, had the Aortic Valve replaced last October at the age of 32. Was a weird experience, first time I'd ever been in hospital. \n",
"I was born with TGA and had surgery at that age, in 1979. He's going to have his cool Zipper Scar his whole life, and shown it off proud! ",
"The way the question was worded sounds pretty judgemental. It may be unintentional but that's how it comes off.",
"I had both. Overlapping, apparently. Fortunately, they were able to close it up when I was too and I haven't really had any problems since.",
">Tip for the child: people will believe any sort of story when they see a scar, so have some fun with it.\n\noh boy I had fun with this one growing up. Back in high school I told a kid I got it from a knife fight - funniest thing ever.\n\nLife's good though. I've only met one other person in real life. But every now and then with posts like these I'll come across quite a few other people on reddit.",
"[Shaun White wears his scar loud and proud](https://i.imgur.com/Z7jPPPI.jpg), as I hope my daughter will someday. Kids who undergo something so heartbreaking (irony intended) so early in life can definitely use it as a source of strength later in life, whether they become an Olympian or not. ",
"TGA ! Wow. What an amazing kid. Best wishes to you and your child in the future. Give your surgeons a big hug. ",
"Glad he’s doing well wish you guys the best",
"I tell people that I got in a gangland knife fight! 😂 ",
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"Your kid is an absolute badman.\n\nMassive scar in their chest and still grinning away.\n\nThis child will do great things.",
"My son is 6 and through all three surgeries for HLHS. Great that this post is spreading CHD awareness. Join our small subreddit at /r/HLHS! ",
"*raises awareness by using abbreviation",
"I have neurofibromatosis, and I had a couple of fibromas removed from my abdomen in high school. With my fresh bandages over my incisions, I told my friend I was mugged and stabbed in a Wal-Mart parking lot. He believed me for two weeks until his girlfriend spilled the beans. ",
"A relative of mine was born with CHD 36 years ago. The techniques used to save him wouldn't have existed if he'd been born a few years earlier. Now,he's a happy, healthy, fit and physically active adult and the only signs of what he went through are a faded scar on his chest and a rule of avoiding contact sports. \n\nBest of luck to you and your beautiful baby.",
"holy shit glad you're ok! Yeah keep up the sports. definitely worth it. I do a ton of mountain biking myself.",
"OP, congrats on such a beautiful baby!\nI can imagine it's been a rough 7 months. Please make sure you are taking good care of yourself and your mental state. I went through something similar with my first boy and while staying strong for him and the rest of my family, I neglected my own stress levels, which lead to me developing general anxiety disorder (which I managed by smoking weed before bed every night). \nThere's nothing wrong with taking care of yourself at the same time you take care of everyone else!",
"He is a hero! Good luck with everything!",
"Hey OP, my son has heterotaxy with TGA and had three cardiothroacic surgeries. He’s now 11 and is probably the most active kid in his class. While no two cases are alike, if you’re concerned about quality of life rest assured these kids never remember their surgeries and it doesn’t stop them enjoying life!",
"Isn’t it incredible that there are very skilled doctors out there who can work on these little ones? I can’t imagine how difficult it is to perform open heart surgery on such a small child. I am forever grateful my two little ones are healthy as can be. God bless the doctors who perform miracles everyday! ",
"So you can have your own kids it's just expensive...there is a process called PGD where they can take a cell from a 5 day old blastocyst and use a test specifically created for your defect and test to see if the embryo has it. The test and IVF process is expensive...but it is possible.",
"I was born with VSD. I'm in my 30's and I have lived a normal life.\n\nMy scar is still visible and it gives me great talking points to new friends. Welcome to the chest zipper club kid! ",
"I could never be a Pediatric Doctor. If I lost ONE baby... that would be it for me. I could never feel like I would ever do enough good to offset that.",
"What a beautiful baby and what a strong parent! I don’t know if I could emotionally handle that ",
"I tell my TGA 3 year old that he has a lightsaber scar, he thinks it's cool :)",
"Wow i can't believe i didn't know this. With ask the press coverage he gets from x games to the Olympics, I've never heard this ever brought up. I'm sure it was covered, and i just missed it. This is a perfect \"Olympic background feature\" story the network does on certain athletes\n\nThanks for sharing! ",
"Hey! Me too, I was born with TGA, had surgery in England, scar is still visible and in my early 20’s. \n\nI just thought it was cool I came to post the same thing and the first comment is essentially the same! \n",
"Nothing wrong with being curious but let them enjoy the moment. The question implies it is a negative.",
"That makes a lot more sense than a baby having Coronary Heart Disease.",
"Beautiful and Precious baby,",
"Don’t do hard drugs.",
"Oh my gosh. They are so beautiful. I am so happy for you. - fellow nicu mom",
"Cute happy little fella. Wish you all the best",
"His smile makes me feel happy! I have a 6 month old and can’t imagine how scary that must have been for you and for him! \n\nSounds like he has an amazing future ahead of him! ",
"Just weird to me that's all she did great",
"Masha'Allah. May he live a long and healthy life. ",
"Blessings",
"As a parent I gotta say... You’re a friggin super hero OP. This stuff is harder than anyone could have guessed and no one knows what you feel in your heart. But with this smile right here, I hope you’re crazy proud! You’re parenting at an 11 with the difficulty set on just about max. High fives to everyone helping keep you and your partner sane!!",
"Love that smile! We’ve got matching scars :)\nGlad to see him doing so well!",
"Adorable! Glad she's recovering well!",
"Also VSD (ventricular septal defect). I was born with that, and my scars are wicked. ",
"I just want you to know-you are doing such an incredible job as a parent and your little one is so lucky to have you. Good on you.",
"Thanks for what you do. ",
"Aww sweet angel, look at that smile! ",
"Almost the same. I'm just a lazy slob but the heart operation hasn't impacted my life at all. Only bad choices.",
"I was born with holes in my heart so they I had surgery when I was 6 months old and because of that I developed a bump on my chest, when I was 2 the patches fucked up so I had my 2nd heart surgery, then something was leaking so I had my 3rd heart surgery when I was 8 years old.\n\n",
"My daughter almost two years old had an AVSD repair at 6 months, scary stuff. Sick kids and Ronald McDonald made our overall experience much better.\nHave fun trying to keep up with your little one now, it was like night and day before and after our daughters surgery. ",
"Cute kid!\n\nAnother CHD patient here.",
"Love it!!! Keep on fighting.",
"Fellow PCICU nurse here! Definitely awesome to see the success stories, we don't see nearly enough of them... \nIts unfortunate, but I feel like we (at my hospital, at least) tend to become much more fixated on the negative outcomes, usually because those tragedies happen within our unit where we are directly involved; the positive outcomes typically evolve at home where we don't hear much about them. This is a great reminder that a difference is being made.",
"Nah, just a writing surface dedicated to the sport he represents. They call it the White Board",
"Was born with VSD (ventricular septal defect), had surgery at six months old. 28 years old now with a clean bill of health and no more cardiology appointments! ",
"I kept reading that as a birth accident involving an *ex* and was very confused",
"Born with TGA. Now 36!!!! ",
"Same reason why some parents decide to mutilate their sons' penises immediately. They like the way it looks. ",
"My daughter had her first open heart surgery at 3months. She is 14 now. A happy but tough girl who has had more thrown at her than most. \n\nShe has had 4 open heart surgeries and many procedures so far. She is a candidate for the Glenn Shunt.\n\nYou are doing so well. Technology is advancing at such a rate. We were told she might only live 5years back then.\n\nStay strong!!\n",
"What a sweetheart.",
"Born with TGA in 1981. Still very physically active, some days are hard to breathe but I am still active. And still work.",
"Such a happy and adorable little one!!! As a person born with VSD, my heart goes out to you and your family. ",
"Hi everybody. \n\nI was born with Tetralogy of Fallot- a congenital heart defect in where there are 4 problems with your heart. To keep it short, there was a hole in my septal wall, my heart was enlarged, and my pulmonic valve was basically so small that it was hard for anything to get through. I was a “blue baby”. I had the surgery at 6 months old, and then again to replace my pulmonic valve again just 5 months ago. It was probably the hardest thing I have ever been through.\n\nSeeing all this support for children going through what I have makes me insurmountably happy. Not just that, but the parents and siblings as well. This effects a lot more than we realize. The support is certainly needed. Thank you, everyone. \n\nEdit* \n\nHow could I forget the angels on earth put here operating on us? The doctors, pediatricians, cardiac rehabilitation staff, surgeons, nurses, techs, everyone involved. They are all heroes, and I hold no one to a higher regard. God bless them.",
"What a beautiful baby! He looks so happy with you OP :)",
"Such an adorable little man . He just made my day .May you have the brightest future , Angel ! God bless ! 💞",
"I was told that was for hygiene lol makes sense tho",
"Metoo!",
"What a little warrior!!! Hug her for us. We also have a family member with CHD, she is 3 now and doing great so far. Obviously she isn't done with her surgeries yet but she has handled them all with the spirit of a true warrior. ",
"Scars are cool \n\nLike a a memorabilia of a bad thing u had the courage to get through",
"Mambo Baby, now you can do the Mambo for years to come!",
"I don't know much about CHD, but awareness month seems like a good time to learn more. Also, I have an intense need to very lightly pinch your child's cheeks. That is one A+ baby. Nice work, OP.",
"Such a beautiful smile :)\n",
"My little boy has ASD and PAPVR, he’s getting open heart surgery next week. It’s very scary. I love seeing and reading these stories of kids that were just fine after. Your son is super cute :)",
"It’s so great seeing that smile !",
"My niece had double inlet left ventricle. It's amazing the doctor's know how to treat/repair these sorts of things. Her outcomes are not likely to ever be anything like yours, but I'm glad some are able to really thrive. Yay modern medicine!",
"He was born with an axe in hand, and immediately went at the doctor. \n\nThe doctor, however, use to be a karate instructor and easily deflected it with the umbilical cord, saving him a step, but he forgot about the placenta!\n\nIt fell on the floor with a wet *plop* and a nurse had just took a step forward to help stop the axe wielding baby but slipped on the placenta!\n\nShe somehow managed to fall on the axe in a way that turned it around and sliced the baby's soft sternum. \n\nHe gave up the axe in return for the nurses name and a promise to keep in 18 years.",
"As an edgy male teenager, I usually don't find babies cute, but that is one cute baby. I wish him/her a great life.",
"...the way the comment was worded also sounded pretty judgemental.",
"One century ago, or even 50 years ago, that smiling kid would be a likely addition to the child mortality statistic, or have lifelong limits on physical activity (with all associated health problems). \n\nJust because some bad luck (or an at the time little understood dietary deficiency) caused some little vein or valve to not grow exactly right. \n\nNow with one operation these kids suddenly can get all the opportunities of the world. Beautiful.",
"Is it OK to have the baby in water like that with a still healing wound? No judgment just wondering",
"Must've been scary OP",
"Male circumcision is usually done because the parents were sold some BS about cleanliness or because of religion.\n\nThat obviously doesn't make it right, but the motives are definitely not \"the way it looks\".",
"All medical professionals are well aware of CHD",
"Mended hearts is fantastic. We try to give back whatever we can.\n\nOur second child was born with hypo plastic left heart syndrome which we caught early in the pregnancy. We relocated to Boston to have the delivery and subsequent surgeries. Mended hearts was awesome for support and a local mom helped bring toys over for our oldest so he wouldn't be bored.\n\nThe whole ordeal really helps put in perspective what's important and how resilient babies are. Our boy is almost 2 and doing well after a valve replacement last year.",
"if i could give a little friendly advice: don't get too attached.",
"\"You should see the other guy.\" Lol.",
"This picture made my morning! What a beautiful happy baby. It warms my heart.",
"This is amazing, imagine how skilled the surgeons have to be with such a tiny delecate little thing. That is some serious skill.",
"Looking at this picture overwhelms me with so many emotions I can’t help but to get misty eyed. Your child is an absolute champion OP and he’s not even a year old. I wish nothing but the best for your son and family ",
"Dude. ",
"What operation did you have? TGA/Senning in early 30s here.",
"I couldn't be a surgeon because I don't think I have it in me to cut into a baby, much less use a fucking bone saw to pry its rib cage open...\n\nHell, I'm not sure I could do that to an adult.",
"What is TGA?\n\nAsking for a dumb friend. ",
"Thank you for everything you do. I've had three separate surgeries for my aorta over the course of my life (I'm 19) and without the nurses around to make sure I was taking my meds or even just keeping me company so that I didn't go insane, I'd probably not be here. You guys are arguably one of the, if not the most vital part of a patient's recovery and yet you very rarely get good recognition for what you do. \n\nSo thank you. Nurses are awesome. You're awesome. Without you I wouldn't be running 3 miles every other day, rehearsingband performing in theatre, or even just going to school. ",
"My son was born with Transposition of the Great Arteries and has the same scar after having open heart surgery at 3 days old. He's 10 now, healthy, happy, and thriving.\n\nWe call his scar his zipper. \n\nGood luck to you and yours.",
"Me too thanks",
"What a warrior! Congratulations, OP!",
"Such a badass",
"Oh yay, I can get involved, I have a VSD. Never impacted my life though.",
"Beautiful baby, OP! Happy parenting!",
"My daughter was born November 2016 and had two OHSs at 2 weeks and 3 months of age. Aortic coarctation, mitral stenosis, ebsteins, HLHS, pulmonary stenosis, ASDs and VSDs were all working together to try and take her from us, but the teams at UofM Motts have some outstanding hands and minds. Now at 15 months, we only live with mild Mitral Stenosis and one medication a day. Heart babies are the most incredible humans I know.",
"That's amazing to see, I hope she has a bright future!",
"OMG every mom-cell in my body breaks to see that big scar, but fill with joy to see that amazing, beautiful happy face! Children truly change you forever, don't they? Enjoy your little one! ",
"Can you imagine how stressful it must be to perform open-heart surgery on a 7 month old? Doctors man, that's crazy",
"Thank you for posting this. \n\nMy daughter is six months old and has CHD, and reading all these positive replies has given me some peace of mind. \n\nGood luck.",
"My eyes welled up when I 1st looked at OPs photo of their little one. After reading your post about being born with TGA and your amazing comment, I’m full on crying. Thank you for being awesome at life. ",
"Am I missing something here? There's a water droplet that maybe kinda could be mistaken for an earring, except that it's too low down. Neither earlobe is in sight. Has mum said elsewhere they are pierced?",
"Such an adorable baby. The big scar on its chest makes me so sad",
"Open heart surgery has changed a LOT since the 80s (when I had open heart surgery at 4 days old and again at 6 years to repair a single ventricle CHD). First, they went through the back on infants (I have a scar all along my right shoulder blade as well as the one on my chest from my later surgery). Second, there aren’t a dozen little scars marking his chest and belly where various tubes were inserted. Neat!\n\nFor the record, I’m 37 now, so if you’re worried, he’s got a long, healthy life ahead of him.\n\nWelcome to the zipper club, little guy!",
"Thats a cute little gaffer",
"we have to be realistic, here.",
"Tee hee ",
"Hi there. I had ASD repair when I was 9 months old. No medication, limitations, or issues since! I was self conscience about my scar when I was young but my parents helped me embrace it. ",
"Man, what was your hospital bill for that? \n\nMy stepdad had to have his chest opened up and it costed him $110K.",
"Kids are so amazing. They can go through so much and still have a smile. Your little one is adorable. ",
"Don't feed the troll",
"It blows my mind that doctors can operate on tiny humans like that. I can barely tie my own shoe without magnification. ",
"Honestly just live your life like a normal person and don’t let it hold you back. I don’t hide my scar it’s part of me. It’s a miracle we are alive and we should embrace it. \n\nSome things I do are:\n\nDon’t smoke. (Cigs but I do smoke pot sometimes.) \n\nExercise, but don’t overdo it. \n\nEat junk and fat food in moderation. \n\nBasically be good to your body. ",
"Thank you so much for sharing your story. It gives me some hope. \n\nMy nephew is diagnosed with tof as well. The doctors in my home country are painting a very depressing picture. He will have Glenn shunt surgery from UK in next few months followed by fonton completion at age 5 to 7. \n\nWe are very scared as doctors told us that he can never be an active kid and would require constant monitoring for his entire life. \n\n",
"Whoops. I replied on a new thread.",
"I normally downvote kids pictures but I'll make an exception this time. That's a legit cute kid.",
"Thanks to the acronyms, I have no more awareness of anything than I did before opening this thread.",
"Cute. He looks like Don Rickles!",
"That beautiful uncorrupted smile the most purest thing in the world ",
"That sounds rough as hell, hearts are pretty well protected in our chests, which must make them a nightmare to get to for surgery! Hope you're doing well and fully recovered now.",
"My ears were pierced in the hospital when I was born. I guess it’s a cultural thing, nothing wrong with it imo. ",
"Face of a champ right there!",
"I was born with VSD. Had it fixed when I was 4.\n\nI swim 6km a week in my 30s. \n\nMake sure she enjoys life and realizes the gift she was given. ",
"I'm you at 29. My only advice is: don't eat yellow snow!",
"Born with a VSD that was repaired in 12/1979 right after I turned 3. My mother worked a shitty fast food manager job just for the health insurance to keep me alive.\n\nUnsurprisingly, three of my four children also had heart murmurs. Oddly enough, the pediatric cardiologist who treated them was trained by the same doctors who treated me way back in the day. Later on in years, I had his daughters as my students in my chemistry classes. Nice circle, the people who gave to me I was able to give back to. \n\nI'm so glad that all of children's murmurs healed on their own, but I still have my scars 38 years later. It's a constant reminder of the fragility of life and how far we have come in medical treatment.\n\nAnd thank you mom, I would not be here without the countless horrible hours you spent at Burger Chef.",
"Dude..... that smile ",
"Better than my dumbass brain thinking \"Child Heart Defect\"",
"One day at the scene of the fire, the cop found the perfect axe. That was the day he became... Axe Cop!!",
"My sentiments exactly - I sobbed when my boy went for his vaccinations! I can't even begin to imagine going through this. Let's hope we never find out how tough it is.\nOP, You are brave parents and have a brave baby, wishing you all the best for the future xxx",
"I was born with a CHD (atrial septal defect), but didn't have surgery until I was 5. I'm 36 now, and outside of the scar (and a minor murmur that doctors hear when they listen to my heart), I have no issues. I can't imagine what parents go through (or what mine went through), but these little ones will pull through just fine. Rock on!",
"This little one couldnt be happier",
"What a beautiful boy. Really happy he’s okay I’m sure he has a bright future ahead ",
"Why are babies so god damn cute",
"/r/writingprompts ",
"What a smiley little trooper 😄",
"Tough little fighter! ❤️❤️",
"I think that's something in the background. 7 months is young even for travellers to pierce. ",
"I have a nephew who was born with Hypoplastic left heart syndrome. He's now a healthy 14 year old. Your little one has a bright future ahead of them. ",
"Axe Cop ",
"He looks beautiful op. He will grow to be strong and awesome. ",
"Hey OP my brother was born with CHD and has had several open heart surgeries growing up. He is now 17 and you would never know. He is full of energy and despite being my younger brother is significantly bigger than me. I am sure everything will go just fine for you too. \n",
"My husband also has TGA. He's 30 now and literally climbs mountains! Glad you're doing well too!",
"I work with adults, but feel similarly. We take care of liver transplant patients pre and immediately post-op. By the time they get a transplant, they are so incredibly sick, its hard to imagine their recovery process. They transfer out of the unit to our transplant floor after a few days so we don't usually see much of their recovery. If they are lucky and things go smoothly, we'll never see them again. Winter is especially tough for ICU nurses, in my opinion.. Everyone has the flu and the sepsis, and older folks have a really tough time recovering. It can really mess with your head when you have several deaths in a row. I need to bring my crew some candy tonight. ",
"Please search for \"my scar my story\" on Facebook - it's a gallery of CHD survivors :) ",
"Beautiful baby! Happy to see that smiling face.",
"We're not quite there yet with our 6 yr old son. He had his repair at 7 months and if you ask him about his scar he'll tell you that his little sister scratched him there. (In his defense, that girl brings out the claws early in every fight.)",
"Can I see how hot you are?",
"A lot of people do it because theyll want them pierced when the kid is still young and they wont remember it hurting being so little",
"Such a beautiful smile. \n\nTo many more days with that wonderful smile. ",
"It blows my mind that there are doctors out there that can perform such mind blowing surgery on such tiny patients. Bless them and bless your child. So adorable ",
"Wow, when she grows up she'll be able to show bobs and vagene **at the same time!**",
"Maybe, knowing these guys they probably have more shrines to the ones they lost.\n\nCHD medical professionals see a lot of death, I’m in the PICU and I wouldn’t do what these docs, RNs, RTs and NPs do without an army of therapists.",
"A picture doesn’t raise much awareness if you don’t say what CHD is.",
"The only limitation is yourself.",
"Wow, amazes me of science's advancements. We can he much more happier than before (in most ways at least, and this ise one such happy moment).\n\nThe feeling that your haby is well and hopefully will be just fine and healthy is beautiful",
"Looks quite happy! How has the recovery been? My 3 month old daughter is going in for open heart surgery next Tuesday and we’re super scared at this point. Her first surgery was an emergency situation at 3 weeks old and everything happened so fast we didn’t really have time to process everything. They did that one through her side, but this one will he from the front. We’ve been convincing ourselves since then that she won’t need a second surgery, and over the past few days it’s gone from no surgery to eventually surgery to surgery in the next week. ",
"Children are just amazing. They just get on with it. That smile would melt your heart. Hope all goes well with the recovery OP",
"Hey bud, check out camp bon coeur. It’s a support network for kids with CHD and their parents. Very cool organization. \n\nwww.heartcamp.com\n\n",
"That’s a cute baby!",
"I wish you guys the best. You have an adorable kid.",
"I am proud of it. I don’t know why I’m getting downvoted. ",
"As a person (now retired) that spent his life as a Respiratory Therapist working in a Pediatric Interventional Cardiac Catheterization Lab, these stories warm the cockles of my heart (pun intended). I can tell you that there is no feeling on this planet better than the feeling you get from the look in the parent's eyes when you return their child to them after a successful procedure. We always felt so honored that you trusted your child to our care.",
"I thought it was black history month, did we run out of months?",
"Because Reddit. It's a damn shame. You keep on keeping on!",
"Both my nephews were born with ASDs. My one nephew was total heart failure and had open heart surgery at 11 months, his brother will have a minimal invasive procedure at 2 and 4. It has made a huge difference post op for my one nephew. So happy to see your little one is healthy!!!",
"he already a bad ass mofo...",
"I think it's truly amazing that a little baby can go through open heart surgery and survive. I know it's a fairly common thing, but to me it's still pretty awesome.",
"OP! I’m 24 and I have Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome. I grew up just like a “normal” kid. I played sports, was involved in forensics, was on the trivia bowl team in school. I graduated from college and have a job I enjoy. I love seeing these little kiddos doing well because when I was their age, I didn’t know anyone with a CHD. I hope the healing process goes better than planned and if you have any questions or need encouragement, feel free to message me.",
"disgusting. pls delet dis",
"I’m 26 weeks pregnant with a little boy with VSD that will most likely require surgery. Thanks for posting!",
"My daughter had an AVSD repaired, and it's absolutely mind boggling how resilient they are.... They heal like super humans...",
"Adorable! I have a 15 month old heart warrior (Tetralogy of Fallot). Her surgery was at 6 weeks old- amazing how strong these kiddos are! 💜",
"I had 3 open heart surgeries. 1 was five days old, 6 months and 9 months. Sending all my love ",
"I have a massive scar on my stomach from an emergency appendectomy (I was 7 or 8 at the time), and I can assure you that it becomes a part of you just like the color of your hair. I would not even consider covering it up for a photo.\n\nDon’t fuss over it, accept it as part of your child, and they will accept it as part of their identity.",
"Bless this little one. So precious! ",
"Your little one looks precious and healthy",
"This picture/post is literally all I need to know that you are a TERRIFIC parent. ",
"Thanks for what you do! Parent of a TOF/APV patient here. We were always so grateful for the CVICU staff, they were superstars. My child is nearly 3 with 2 OHS's under her belt, but she's been doing really well for the past year. You've reminded me that it's been a while since we took food into the staff. I'll have to do that this month. ",
"Little one’s got a bright future ahead!",
"That little dude is gonna have the most bad-ass scar when he or she grows up!",
"VSD here! 20 years old and running Boston Marathon in April!",
"Look at his lil badass face :)",
"Damn, doctors are amazing.",
"And my lack of funding, I can’t afford a rocket to send my car into space.\n\nBesides that the world is just what you make of it ",
"How strange.\n\nHe’s still doing well at 59 - it’s still ticking anyway.",
"Such an amazing smile! ",
"Unbelievable.\n\nModern medicine is fascinating. Very happy looking baby.\n",
"That baby is such a cute little miracle :) ",
"Oh my god, poor little baby :-( im becoming a father in about two weeks and i feel very sad when i look at this picture.\nNot only the poor baby...you as parents what you have gone through..the diagnosis, the operation, the waiting time...a really unbelieveable big horror :-(",
"That smile is contagious!",
"Could be crossposted to /r/misleadingthumbnails as something along the lines of 'Baby with Brock Lesnar tattoo'",
"My daughter isa TOF patient- post second surgery and doing great. I had to look up Arnold-Chiari syndrome. That's crazy. How are you doing now? Do they do any surgical repairs for that? ",
"wasnt aware of that, but it doesnt change my viewpoint, because my views also correlate about the fact that many unwanted kids want families that love them",
"I just showed her picture to my 11 month old and he started grinning wildly! She's already breaking hearts!",
"Glad your daughter is doing well OP. My little one just turned 9 months last week and was born with a very mild form of Shone's Complex which resulted in her having a Hypoplastic (narrow) Aortic Arch, a ASD, a VSD, and an undersized mitral valve.\n\nShe had surgery to enlarge the arch at 1 week old. Her ASD closed up on it's own and her VSD has steadily improved. Some concern remains about the mitral valve, in a couple months we should know if she will require any more surgery any time soon.\n\nWhile the first 6 weeks of her life were terrifying she has been nothing but amazing. She has been the happiest baby that I think I've ever seen. You would never suspect what she's been through until you go to change her clothes.",
"Sweet child :-)",
"Beautiful ❤️❤️❤️❤️",
"Wow! Woke up this morning to see my post on the front page and receiving Reddit gold! (Thank you so much kind stranger!). And thank you everyone for the overwhelming support! Here’s a bit of a backstory, my daughter (no worries to those assuming she’s a boy! :) ) was diagnosed with a VSD (ventricular septal defect-which pretty much means a hole between the two lower chambers of the heart). Her hole was very big, about the size of a quarter. Before her surgery, I was desperate to speak to other parents who have gone through this and also see pictures after an open heart surgery on a baby. But it was hard finding after care pictures, which is the main reason I wanted to share this picture for other parents who are going through what we went through up until her surgery. The cardiologist, surgeon, and nurses were heaven sent and really helped us through the process, as well as a non profit program called mended little hearts. Now, my daughter is 16 months old and an amazing heart warrior. She has become our heart hero and we are so proud to be her parents.\n\nCongenital Heart Defect (CHD) awareness is in the month of February and if you would like more information, please visit [mended little hearts](https://mendedhearts.org) \n\nA quick fact: 1 in 100 babies born in the world has some type of CHD. \n\nTo all those parents who are expecting their baby/child to undergo open heart surgery (OHS), self care is very important as well as social support. Our babies look to us for support and if we are falling apart, they will enter surgery with so much fear. Be strong for your little ones and take care of yourself too!",
"It would be nice if you provided an explanation as to what CHD is. Otherwise, it’s just a photo of a baby with a huge scar. ",
"My daughter was born with TAPVR. She had surgery to correct it the day after she was born. We’re so thankful it was caught early and corrected. ",
"CHD is not a birth defect. Rather it is a group of birth defects. ",
"Your son is one cute and brave fella.",
"Dear Nurse, you folks rock! When my daughter had her heart valves repaired, we were a mess. The surgeon was arrogant and distant (but ... Well he could back it up. He was very good!). Anyway, it was the nursing staff who pulled us through. Thank you! And now my girl is as happy as a goat in a dumpster.",
"Another CHD parent here. Daughter is TOF, as well. Can I ask a really personal question? Did you have any difficulty deciding to have a second child? My daughter is nearly 3 and we want another, but I just now feel like I'm recovering from the PTSD of my daughter's birth and subsequent treatment. She was undiagnosed prenatally, so it was a crazy roller coaster. ",
"I was born with ASD but the docs through it was a heart murmur. Should have had surgery as an infant but didn’t get it until I was 12. Turned out that I didn’t have a wall separating the atria at all and would have died before age 15 had they not caught it.",
"Transposition of the Great Arteries",
"I'm part of a research team doing longitudinal cognitive and adaptive functioning studies with kids who have CHD, so this hits close. What a cutie!!",
"Looking good! I have twin 24 weekers and know the roller coaster well. Both have a laundry list of surgery including heart and kicking butt at 4yrs old now. \n\nKids are so resilient they don’t know any better. Survival is in their DNA. Those scars are proof they are bad ass!",
"You may have the cutest baby I've ever seen. 🤗",
"My best friend’s son had this surgery performed at 8 months old, and is doing awesome a year later. \n\nThey celebrate his actual birthday, but they say his real birthday is the anniversary of his surgery, because that’s when he really started living. \n\n",
"Father of a CHD kido myself and I agree, the Ronald McDonald House was amazing. Luckily we didn't need to rely on it too much, but the fact that it was there really was nice. I know a lot of family's really depend on it",
"I'm glad your child is doing alright! They will always be sporting a pretty impressive battle scar!",
"She looks awesome, she will have bright future for sure. I wish you and your family the best. ",
"What a champ! Got me right in the feels.",
"Congrats OP. My littlest one was born with ASD and PAPVR. Had surgery when he was 4-1/2 back in the summer of 2015. He does anything and everything he can. Has more energy than his brother and sister, and way more than mom and me. He plays football (full contact) and has never had any problems and is not restricted at all. \n\nTake care of that baby, and like everyone else here is saying, teach him to make up a bunch of stories about the scar. My son's favorite is it was a heat vision blast from Superman (although he's said ninja attack, and shark attack too).",
"Oh my lord. My little girl is a little over a month old. If someone talks about a surgery like this on a newborn I can't look and I try not to think about it because I can't fathom what that's like to go through as a mother (or father.) But that smile. Ugh. My heart swells just looking at her. I'm equally sad and happy for you all at the same time and I felt compelled to say it. What a beautiful girl. This will resonate in my mind for some time. Thank you for sharing.",
"I'm pretty sure most people are already aware of congenital heart defects.",
"My daughter is 9, born with TGA. Her surgery was at 1 week old. Everything is hunky dory! ",
"My friend convinced everyone in highschool he fell on an open fire over a really big birthmark thing he has.",
"Respect",
"Thank you for sharing with everyone!!",
"How old are you? My sister is in elementary and she has DORV too. She recently connected with another girl in her class who was also born with a heart defect and also has a scar on her chest. She told me that they showed each other their scars, I found it very adorable because she was so happy that she was not the only one with a long scar on her chest. It really boost her self-esteem and I'm really happy for her :)",
"Good job to him, good job to you!\n\nBorn with a VSD, had open heart surgery at 8, now 23. It can work!\n\nI also had no idea about February being CHD month. Good to know! ",
"Correct. Congenital heart disease is a group of birth defects. But together, that group is the largest cause of birth-related morbidity and mortality in the world. Sorry if I was unclear. ",
"to the surgeons - may they be blessed.",
"Aww, that big smile put a smile on my face this morning :) It's just horrible these poor little guys have to go through so much so young, really breaks my heart, and reminds me to be grateful. I wish a great life and health for your little one",
"Greetings! I was also born with a coaractation of the aorta and had my surgery at 3 years old, in 1990. I had a question and some warnings. \n\nDid your son also get diagnosed with a bicuspid aortic valve? I was curious because a few years ago, at 26, I went to see my cardiologist for heart palpitations. They ran an EKG, ultrasound, had me wear a heart monitor for a month, etc, and found that my aortic valve only has 2 leaflets, when usually there are 3. They let me know that a bicuspid aortic valve is usually diagnosed at the same time as the coaractation, but mine was missed. From what I've read, this can happen in about 50% of coaractation cases, and that the surgery is not as serious as it sounds.\n\nLastly, I also have high blood pressure and started blood pressure medicine around 14 years old. It could be related to the coaractation, or possibly not since a lot of my family has high blood pressure. \n\nAnyway, I just wanted to give you a heads up about some of the issues I've had and hope that your little guy has a good, long life.",
"Such a great smile! Just beautiful! All the best to you.",
"I had to google TGA because a bunch of people mentioned it, found \"transient global amnesia\" and was very confused.\n\nNeed to start a petition for native English speakers to abstain from using them",
"Life's good though. I've only met one other person in real life.\n\nI won t lie, read just this part first and laughed so hard imagining you meeting a second person, life would be double as good. Just the way your sentence was worded and not keeping in mind what this post was for, it can lose its context but it makes it tenfold funnier. Thanks good person",
"My daughter has double inlet left ventricle. I’m so glad to hear when adults are being active with a CHD, as at first we were under the impression she would never be capable of living an active life. So good to hear ",
"God bless her and protect her! Such an angel and a lovely smile. Give her a huge kiss from me!",
"/r/PunchingBabies",
"Congenital Heart Disease.",
"Yeah, the community unfortunately assumes everyone else knows what they are talking about. CHD- congenital heart defect - refers to a wide range of medical defects, but they are the most common birth defect, affecting 1 in 100 children. TGA- transposed great arteries- one of the many types of heart defects. \nSee also ToF- tetralogy of fallot- (Shawn white had this heart defect) HLHS/HRHS- hypoplastic left/right heart syndrome.",
"He's a happy tike. :)",
"This thread has been really educational. ",
"Aw! What a little trooper! ",
"You can clearly see the spirit of life in your child's face. \n\nAll the best. And to speedy healing from your child's surgery.",
"That is adorable but just seeing a scar like that on a baby so young makes my heart ache :(",
"God bless you and your family I mean it wish you all the best and safety and good health .",
"Fuck, now I’m crying at work. ",
"My duaghter was also born with vsd.heart surgery at 7 money she just celebrated her ninth birthday and gets in trouble everyday happy for u guys ",
"Question: how is pain managed in tiny children and babies such as yours after surgeries like that? Are they prescribed prescription pain killers? Are there instances of addiction in those age groups due to prescriptions? Just honestly curious because I’ve for some reason never thought of it before. ",
"This baby looks like Don Rickles!!! (I'm very happy for you that everything went smoothly!)",
"Unbelievably sad .Tell your dad we all support him on his choices and hope him the best!",
"What a happy smile! This just made my day. Your child has a bright future! ",
"That smile... wow!",
"So, honest question, what does the scar look like? Is it the same size it was when you got it or did it stretch/distort as you grew?",
"That smile! ",
"I'm sure this will get buried, but if OP reads this thank you. My daughter has a CHD and it scares me so much. This tiny person whom I love so very dearly is more than fragile. There has been tremendous movement towards fantastic CHD diagnosis and surgery, but it still keeps me up at night. Thank you x10000.",
"It's never too late to go back and say thank you, or at the very least send them a thank you note sorta thing?",
"I fucking love this so much... The fact that we can just open each other up and fix what's wrong amazes me. I hope your child has a beautiful and joyful life!",
"Huh, I have CHD, have had 3 open heart surgeries so far and had no idea February was CHD awareness month.",
"Hey there. Our son has CHD--he had a coarctation of the aorta (a narrowing of the aorta, giving you high blood pressure), which we were told is one of the most common CHD issues. He had surgery at 6 months, and gets a check-up every two years. He is now 13, plays STEAM games constantly, has a teen mustache, and spends a lot of time telling me how not cool I am. And the chicks at the pool dig the scar. So your son is well on his way! Best of luck!",
"She is adorable. Glad the surgery was a success. Wishing you and your family all the best.",
"Adorable baby :)",
"I have bicuspid aortic valve disease. I don't have a bad case, just a bit of an aortic aneurysm and may have to get a valve replacement surgery in 20 years or so. I've never had any physical symptoms or anything however I have suffered from anxiety and many times in the passed I have worried about my heart being okay.\n\n I used to think thoughts like \"ah I just wish I was just born with a normal heart\". Whenever thoughts like that come up, I remind myself that Arnold Schwarzenegger was born with a biscuspid valve and had surgery when he was 49! Arnold at one point had one of the best physical physiques to ever exist and he has a congenital heart defect. \n\nBefore people jump to the \"oh but he did steroids he did it to himself!!\" do your research. Yeah he did steroids but the amount they did in the 70s does not compare to what bodybuilders started doing in the 90s. \n\nIt's also nice knowing that surgical procedures are getting better and better and less invasive. \n\n\n\n\n\n",
"People like you are the heroes this world needs.",
":)",
"Went in for emergency appendectomy but didn't even go back for a follow up. The doctor saw me before surgery for a brief minute and never again. The nurses didn't change my bandages until a new guy came in on night shift three days post and started screaming at them for not doing their jobs. I don't remember much from those first days because of the medication, but as soon as I could get out of bed I pleaded to be released. Didn't find out they had to remove more than just my appendix until a nurse accidentally mentioned it--someone decided I didn't need to know apparently. Had gone to another hospital first, repeatedly, but they didn't believe there was anything wrong and I just wanted pain pills. Americas healthcare system fucking blows. ",
"Baby's got that Stephen Colbert ear going on.",
"Welcome to this world baby boy. Rock it. ",
"A little late to the party, but my brother was born with TGA and lived a completely normal life so far. He turns 22 in a month and will be graduating college soon. He still has the scar on his chest and when he was a kid he called it his \"zipper\" when people asked about it.",
"He told his cousin that he had to be cut out of me when he was born (true). And when the doctor cut me open, the axe went all the way through and cut him in half, so they sewed him back together. And that's how he got this scar. He's quite a storyteller. ",
"I have bicuspid aortic valve, I’ve read that defect alone is 1-2% of the population.",
"Thank you so much for this. My daughter was born with TOF and had surgery at 11 weeks. We've already had doubters saying she won't be able to do P.E at school etc and I just know that with our support she can do whatever she wants :) ",
"My 4 year old was born with 2 holes in his heart. As a first time parent I was absolutely terrified. He had to have several echocardiograms within the first year or so. They said it was 50/50 chance he would need surgery. Luckily both of them closed up to the point where his last echo they couldn’t even find them.\n\nI remember the first day I went back to college after his birth I broke down in front of one of my teachers after class. She told me about how her mom was born with VSD as well and didn’t know it until she was in her 30s. The doctors said she might not be able to have kids because of the stress on the heart. She already had some and lived a perfectly normal life not knowing!",
"We found out at the anatomy scan and it was a rough few weeks until we met a really supportive cardiologist. He told us the chance of a second kid having CHD was only 4% so it was low...and I've only found a few other families with multiple CHDs and no genetic disorder. (If she'd had a syndrome or disorder it would have been a higher risk for a second.)\n\nHonestly, she was such a wild child I almost didn't have #2. It wasn't about the heart issue. It was that I worried I couldn't handle the feisty x2. :)\n\nBut we had my son when she was 2 and honestly he's way easier. He had a minor heart surgery, and is cleared. He's also a good sleeper/eater and doesn't have the ADHD personality she does...so I say go for it.\n\nI never realized we could have had a kid with a different or more severe CHD...I consider us pretty lucky they didnt end up with something more debilitating.",
"What a cutie and hope she is doing great ",
"Keep Camp Odayin in mind as your little one ages. It's a special camp for children with CHD. They can gather and spend a week together in the summer to be around kids who have scars like they do, and they don't have to feel weird about it! It's really cheap because the camp is run by all volunteers. One of the most rewarding weeks of my life. \n\n\nA camper that I had reached out to me a few years later on Facebook. He ended up going to my University. I showed him what rugby was during camp because I was just getting into the sport myself. Lo and behold, he goes out and starts playing that following spring and I got to play along side him 4 years later. That is the shit that I live for. May your child grow up and have a fulfilling life. ",
"Bicuspid aortic valve by chance? ",
"On the front page, just under the \"Incredibles 2\" poster. This is the result\n\nhttps://imgur.com/a/cttJr",
"Hi,\nThanks so much for reaching out. Yes, he was also born with the bicuspid valve. It’s actually how we found out about the coarctation. A murmur led to the valve diagnosis, and we only found the coarctation after his cardiologist couldn’t find a strong leg pulse. We expect to have to do a cath procedure for the valve sometime soon, but I hear that that is pretty minor compared to what he went through before.\nThanks again!",
"Congrats and good luck brother, you boy is very adorable, hope he will get healthier and happier. Again good luck, you deserve the best.",
"Hey OP, I was born with a double inlet left ventricle and have had 4 open heart surgeries (first one at a week old). \n\n18 years old now and very healthy, hope the same for your son! He'll have a great life ahead.",
"I'm 22 now and had heart surgery when I was 13 or 14. Kids at that age are tough, but I oddly had at a very good time at the hospital. I spent more time with nurses than with my parents, and I loved that the nurses didn't treat me like a little kid even though I was surrounded by much younger children. Seriously, little things like the nurses talking to me like a peer about TV shows that we both watched made me feel so much better and I still remember those moments now :)",
"ASDs usually cause heart murmurs.",
"Tetralogy of Fallot kid here checking in,\n (Plus only 1 functioning lung) tagging on to top comment. 2 open heart surgeries at age 1 week and a year, 2 catheter surgeries, 1 1-month stint in hospital with endocarditis at 13, 1 for bronchitis at 1 year old. \n\nI hate the gym but I still go, perfectly healthy, my scars are all there but I love em. ",
"Have you read the “end of shift report” blog? I’m not a nurse but it is the most fascinating blog, and I tell people to look for it all the time! It’s an amazing look at an ICU nurse’s experience and it’s spellbinding! \n\nStart at the bottom, it reads newest first and oldest last.\nhttp://www.endofshiftreport.com/\n",
"Another CHD patient here. I'm 32, and besides the biennial checkups, have led a completely normal life and have been able to pursue my dreams! You've got a beautiful kid!\n\nOne thing, OP: it will be hard, but if doctors give your little one the OK for strenuous physical activity, LET them do it. My parents were (understandably) cautious about me running around and as a result I never really took to sports or being very active. It's sort of the reason I'm even on reddit at this very moment....\n\n",
"Downvotes for being happy for a healthy baby? y reddit?",
"turn that frown upside down...",
"OP, I just wanna say thanks for the photo and the story. I don’t have kids or any relatable heart condition stories. But something about this photo really touched me. Your daughter seems to be absolutely glowing. We should all be so lucky to have inspirations in our lives like her, or like you as a parent. I wish all the best for you and your family, from one internet stranger to another.",
"Hope he's doing well:) ",
"This hits home for me, my youngest son has had 3 open heart surgeries and 6 Cath surgeries starting 3 Days after he was born, he’s 3 years old now. He is my hero. Lots of love and respect from us. What a cutie! ",
"My son had to have emergency surgery for a condition called intussusception last weekend at 7 months old. This seems much scarier :( best of luck to the little one in her recovery!",
"Oh hey there, fellow tetralogy person! I’ve had mine replaced via catheter again when I was 20 as the one I had when I was 13 got all fucked when I had endocarditis. \n\nAre you still chugging on with your valve from when you were 12 or have you had it replaced since? They’re not sure how long mine will last as I was one of the first to have it replaced via catheter, and then promptly fucked it with endocarditis! PM me, would be good to chat with someone who has it :)",
"I was born with a BAV. Had open heart at the age of 40. I sure wasn't as cute as this adorable baby after my surgery :-)",
"The amazing thing about peds CVICU is how sick they are with us, but how, besides a few, we rarely see outside the post-op period. ",
"I’m you at 28, feel free to PM me :)",
"❤️❤️❤️",
"That is a really cute baby & picture. I love how even at 7 months old he knows to cover his nads when having a photo taken so it will be SFW when posted on Reddit. \n\nThese post-millennials are soooo tech savvy.",
"Godbless that adorable little one 😘",
"My husband had that too! He's still got the scar but it's hidden by a lot of chest hair lol. Athlete in his school days, and overall healthy adult at 31 today.\n\nWhen he had it done the doctors told his mom that babies bounce back so quickly after that surgery. There was a 16 year old girl there too who was having a much rougher time recovering.",
"I hope he will find hope, and best of luck",
"Sending you best wishes",
"Wow...gold and I'm not even competing in the Olympics! \nI woke up at 4 a.m. after sleeping for a very long time after working three busy 12-hour night shifts, and saw this healthy, happy, and stinking-cute cardiac baby. Even in my half-asleep state it gave me the feel-goods and made my aching legs feel better. \n💝",
"This baby is cute as fuck.\n\nSource: seen some ugly babies",
"I thought it was childhood heart disease, ha.",
"How do you keep those little hands from prying those tape/stitches out?",
"in stanley hudsons voice \"ooooooooooo look at that baaaaby\"",
"Not quite the same, but I have a large birthmark on my shoulder. My parents never shamed me about it, so it became similar to my own personal tattoo in my mind. In fact, when I took my senior pictures, I wore tank tops in some of my pics, and the photographer asked if I wanted my birthmark Photoshopped out. I was surprised because I never thought of it as something I wouldn't want to show. It was natural! I said no, of course.",
"This is really cool to see, thanks for your work! I had perhaps a slightly less invasive heart surgery at 18 months or so where I somehow got a bacterial infection that created a thick layer around my heart inhibiting circulation and making breathing difficult. It took a long time to diagnose and 2 surgeries to remove it all. I was too young to remember anything about it but my parents always told me that all of the doctors and nurses were amazing. I'm 20 now, still have the scar and am about to finish up my biomed degree and apply to either med school or PA.",
"Thought that said CDH awareness. Should have known better, CDH being a problem that either basically either kills in the first few weeks of life or lets the person live the rest of their life normally -- and thus, few people know about it.",
"My cousin had his aortic valve replaced shortly after birth. He was always as active if not more active than any of us, and we were all a little jealous of his cool scar.",
"What is CHD, please?",
"Nice and pink :)",
"tatted up already.... good getting through that angsty rebellious stage early ",
"What a happy-looking little guy.",
"Just glad to see the smile!",
"I had a fundoplycation surgery at 8 months! I’ve never hidden not been ashamed of my scar. It’s definitely just become a part of my body, and gives the illusions of a solid pair of abs.",
"This is both got wrenching and heart warming. I can't imagine how much quiet you must've felt.\n\nModem medical technology is amazing. We really are lucky to be living now. ",
"Good to see the rise of awareness of CHD, it means a lot to me. When I was ~12, my friend passed away at ~13 because he was born before they started checking for CHD at birth. I didn't really know exactly what CHD was but I found out it is a heart defect. Really sucks because nobody knew he had heart problems but his dad (my neighbor) came over telling me and my family that he passed away while with his step dad.",
"Congrats! Wishing your family well 😊",
"What a sweet baby. Bless.",
"Your mom is my hero!",
"I tell people I was stabbed.",
"Oh my goodness. I’m crying but from tears of joy because of the beautiful smile on your babies’ face. Sending you and your family all my best.",
"Hey, I have a 7 month old too! \nLuckily my son is happy and healthy, and with modern medicine, it looks like yours is too.\n\nHere's to a long future with our respective families! :)",
"Those eyes! \n*raises glass* to your little ones future! ",
"looks ugly af",
"If you didn’t find it, it stands for Transposition of the Great Arteries. Basically the two big vessels that come out of your heart have switched places, so blood doesn’t get sent to the lungs for oxygenation the way it should be. ",
"This was me 44 years ago. Doing just fine!",
"My 1.5 yr old cousin had a problem with her stomach and she has scars just like those along with a feeding tube, amazingly she doesn't seem to let it bother her",
"While I feel very lucky that I've never had to undergo a surgery like that, those chest scars are really badass. Those people were tougher as *babies* than I have ever needed to be. I hope he is able to be really proud of it one day.",
"OHSU",
"What a cute lil monkey! He looks happy, hes going to be fine 😊",
"I can't imagine the fear and stress this must have caused. Good luck and give that little dude so many snuggles!\n\n",
"No, you’re a dick. ",
"oh God look at this lil baby's smile. May God bless ur baby and ur family",
"Awww! 💕 Bathin’ like a boss!",
"Surgery is absolutely amazing, and babies are even more amazing. We can just slice somebody open, fix them, and put them back together. Then, the body just needs the parts to be close together and it does its thing. Bones? Build cartilage to fuse them so they can heal. Skin? Just add more skin between it. Then babies do this at such an insane pace. They'll be completely healed in weeks!\n\nEverything in this post is so amazing.",
"Fellow HLHS parent. Glad to hear your son is doing well! Have you heard of Sister's by Heart? If your son is having the Fontan surgery they send a care package of things to entertain and explain a little of what's going on. Mine just had her surgery last month and really enjoyed the stuff they sent.",
"Yeah I found it. Thanks! ",
"As a perfusionist, seeing this happy baby and hearing all of your CHD stories make me happier than you could imagine! It’s so rare we get to see our patients after their hospital stays.",
"I think Shaun had a double outlet repair, as well, not tetralogy.",
"It’s really a wonderful thing, and I’ll probably sound disgusting/insensitive for saying this. But honestly this post should be NSFW.",
"The recovery was smooth and I took off 3 weeks from work and my husband took off another 3 weeks. We were told that it takes about 6-8 weeks for the sternum to fully heal so no tummy time for a while. It initially slowed her motor development but she bounced right back within a couple of weeks! ",
"Man that image, seeing that little baby smiling wide with those stitches. I hope you and your child live a long and happy life",
"This is awesome! Thank you!",
"She’s a champ. ",
"My daughter had similar surgery at 3 years old. She's now 26 and teaches high school English.",
"Nope.",
"Beautiful ",
"What a cutie, I cant imagine the stress my 7 month old has a cold and I am bugging.",
"I had my first open-heart surgery at five weeks old while weighing only 4lbs and 7oz. I went on to have three more during childhood. I had a great time as a kid, playing sports and participating in other extracurriculars, and now I live a normal, happy life as an adult, and even got married last year. Everyone with babies and kiddos going through something rough right now, please know that this won’t stop them from being happy kids or successful grown-ups. It’s hard right now, but so worth it later. Stay strong. ",
"Also was born with ASD VSD and coarctation of the aorta. Had 2 surgeries at 3 months and 6 months than a ablation for atrial flutter at 7.. now 22.",
"Thank you so much for your dedication ",
"My son's pediatrician cardiologist once told me that a lot of parents of CHD kids almost become as knowledgeable about how the heart works as professionals in the field, as a way to know what's going on. The cardiologists and surgeons don't all really have the time to spend explaining everything to worried parents, so the parents need a crash course in the names and acronyms. We're also a pretty tight knit community online, and don't really tone down the acronyms on the Facebook groups, and I think that's filtering into this thread. But yeah there's a need for a dictionary lol.",
"This is my kiddo, Apollo. He's still in the hospital at 8 weeks old after initial surgery to place a shunt before repairing his severe pulmonary stenosis / double outlet right ventricle. He had some complications with his intestines as a result so we're going really slow waiting until he is consistently gaining weight before we can go home and wait for his next surgery! 1 in 100 babies are born with CHD. We are with you! https://imgur.com/nE94iZH",
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"Heart mom here! Thank you!!",
"You have one of the cutest kids I've ever seen! Congrats :)",
"What a belting smile! My wife and I have just been given a date for our 12 month old to have an operation for his VSD. How have you found the recovery period? ",
"I’m by no means an expert, but I can tell you that bicuspid aortic valve is the most common form of CHD. However, it’s often not diagnosed until adulthood (sometimes even late adulthood) due to a wide range in disease severity, so that may help to explain the difference in numbers. ",
"Hey OP, I was born with a hole between the atrium of my heart and my pulmonic valve was growing shut. I had open heart surgery 4 days before my 3rd birthday. I was very active as a child and played many sports. I just had a full checkup a few months ago around the 35th anniversary of my surgery. My cardiologist said I was perfectly healthy. Your daughter will live a long and healthy and wonderful life too. Congrats, she's beautiful.",
"Hey! TGA friend here. How has your cardio holding up? I always felt I had this plateau in sports where I couldn’t hold up as well as my sportive friends no matter how much I trained...",
"I had to look up what ToF was. I’ve never heard it called that, but funny enough, it’s what I was born with as well. (My doctors always shortened it as “tet.” I wonder if that’s a regional thing.) ",
"Hey! TGA friend here. How has your cardio holding up? I always felt I had this plateau in sports where I couldn’t hold up as well as my sportive friends no matter how much I trained...",
"Is there a way for CHD to be prevented? What does this awareness do? Isn't this something that can only be fixed after birth? I'm curious about this topic. ",
"My niece is a heart baby. Has had 3 OHS's so far, age 7 and healthy and active! ",
"And we are with you Apollo and family!!!!!",
"❤️",
"I had open heart surgery as an infant to repair an aortic coarctation. I also have a bicuspid aortic valve which is common for this type of CHD. I'm 31 now with a beautiful wife and 2 healthy kids of my own. Had a great childhood and never felt hindered by my heart disease. The scars will fade, but will always be visible as a reminder of your child's strength. Congrats on the successful surgery and I hope you enjoy raising your kid! ",
"Kids. Just incredibly resilient. \n\nThanks for sharing OP. ",
"My 4year old had TGA. He is doing great, and I'm so happy to hear you are healthy. Rock on. ",
"Don't worry about the scar size, it'll get smaller over time",
"I agree. They're an amazing group. We had a \"goodie bag\" of things and information waiting for us in the NICU room, and they were so supportive throughout the whole experience. And you're right, babies are so strong. I saw some really sick kids in there, and they were still strong enough to smile and be happy. It made my day.",
"I was just scrolling through the new comments just to look, but I just wanted to let you know how strong you guys are. Seriously, everyone pushing through such a circumstance, I revere your strength. I will keep your family in my prayers this week!",
"Cute kid!",
"I was super happy by this entire post till I noticed the pierced ears.",
"The recovery period was not as hard as I thought it would be. I took off from work for the first three weeks post surgery and my husband took off the next three weeks. She wasn’t walking yet so tummy time was out of the picture for the first two months (it takes the sternum 6-8 weeks to heal). Everything was pretty normal, food, baths, etc. she did struggle to sleep but that was only temporary. She is now 16 weeks and her scar looks like a hairline. ",
"Courage requires choice. ",
"Hi OP,\n\nBorn with HLHS, had 3 surgeries at a very young age, now 23 doing fine! \n\nYour little one is beautiful, wish you all the best! ",
"It's wonderful and amazing that we have the technology to detect and correct these problems at such a young age. While the thought of a baby going through such a traumatizing surgery is terrible, the alternative is worse. I've known too many people who had these go undiagnosed only to lead to very serious complications later in life that impaired, shortened or abruptly ended their lives.\n\nWhat an inspiring happy trouper your little one is! Wishing you all the best.",
"I was born with a tetralogy of Fallot which is a combination of four heart defects. I had an open heart surgery at 2. To this day, I wear my scar proudly. I am an healthy man in his mid twenties. Keep up, he will have a good life.",
"And if you can, some Ronald McDonald houses let visitors sign up to cook homemade meals for the families staying there so they’re not just eating junk/delivery food. Having done this multiple times it’s an amazing experience and a lot of patients have siblings that love to play with you because you’re someone new and exciting. ",
"IDK about OP but my son had open heart surgery at 3 weeks, and we were encouraged to bathe him and soak the scar, then massage it gently. Keeping the scar area clean was very important. ",
"I've been meaning to go back to the high risk MFM doctors and the maternity ward of my hospital to thank them for treating me so well for every birth I've ever had. It just feels like I've let so much time pass that it would be strange. It's been about a year since I was there, but I really want to bring them some donuts and a thank you card.",
"This photo just brightened up my entire day. Your baby is so adorable! ",
"Nice job little trooper! :)",
"Yes, so very this! We always appreciated the meals that folks would bring in for us.",
"a baby's body is more forgiving then you think, the younger you are the more healing power you have, and when your a baby you can recover from almost any physical injury.",
"Adorable.",
"What a beautiful smile",
"So heart warming to see that big grin on your little ones face after having such a big operation so early in life! My little man was born with HRHS which he was diagnosed with while he was still in the womb. After lots of tears and prayer throughout my fiances pregnancy worrying if our son would have to go through something like this, Miraculously my son was born 10 days early still with a small right ventricle and a hole in his heart but today he is 8 months old and healthy and our doctors say his heart now resembles a normal babies heart which they have no logical medical explanation as to how his heart caught up in size and he will only need to have the small hole plugged potentially when he is a little bit bigger with a minor outpatient procedure. Sending lots of prayers your way and hope you baby continues to grow and stay healthy! Thank you for sharing this!",
"I second mended little hearts!!!",
"Thats on happy ass baby. hell yeah",
"I just hit my big sixteenth of living with a CHD ! Getting close to two years post op with my valve replacement :)\n\n[And they gave me a fancy card](https://imgur.com/a/xvySa) ",
"That’s quite the cheeky smile!! Hugs all around!!!",
"I like his dad-laughing tattoo.",
"Yeah, I've never heard it called tet. I've always just heard it as ToF",
"My son was born 8 weeks ago with DORV and severe pulmonary stenosis. We're still in the hospital as a result of complications from the initial surgery, but he's finally doing really great. When you're in it, it's really hard to see any future past today let alone plan for it. We like to say we don't have plans, we have ideas that we hope will manifest into reality. Your story gives us a lot of hope for our little Apollo (who already has the name of an Olympian!)",
"It is very scary and you are not alone. ❤️❤️❤️from one heart mom to another, feel free to message me if you have questions or want to vent.",
"Still have the same valve from when I was 12. They said it had roughly a 40 year lifespan so I’m coming up on the halfway point. ",
"Not sure why I’m being downvoted. As a parent whose child died from a CHD, it hurts more than you know to have someone see a picture of a cute child with healing scars and say it’s NSFW. ",
"When my Dad left the hospital my Mom gave them 3 boxes of chocolate, one for every shift. \n",
"Awww, he looks so happy! What a champ :)",
"It was always so much fun to be able to come and make meals. And one of the ladies we went with had life-sized Jenga that smaller kids absolutely LOVED because it was bigger than them ",
"So I know that it is CHD awareness month. \n\nSo im confused about is this: why do people need to be “aware”? I was under the impression that congenital heart defects were all treatable with surgery? And the ones that are fatal are untreatable regardless?\n\nI understand “awareness” for stuff that has no cure, such as cancer, but why do I need to be aware of treatable congenital heart defects?\n\nThis is a legitimate question. Please no hate replies :/",
"My younger brother is a CHD kid, he spent about a year at Ronald McDonald house. Serious respect for that organization. Wonderful people. ",
"Wow, that's great! Thanks for your input! ",
"Lol truth. I've said many times that my spouse and I might as well be pediatric cardiologists. ",
"Awe what a happy little thing:)",
"Honestly, she was just given Tylenol for the pain. Her body was too small for such medications post release from the hospital. ",
"Little one, don’t know you but I am so proud of you! Way to be strong and brave!!!",
"Thank you!",
"It was definitely very very difficult and it helped us to grow so much more closer to one another as a family and a stronger faith in God and our doctors/nurses.",
"Aww\n\nI had a foot surgery and the nurses were great. I am especially thankful of the ones that worked the graveyard shift. This makes me want to go back and take them a tray of homemade food and say thank you. They also only saw me when I was in pain. I am doing great now.",
"I actually don’t know! I can ask",
"Oh wow how interesting! That’s been a concern for me as a parent: if this operation and heart condition has any long term affects with her cognitive and adaptive functioning. Looking forward to the outcome!",
"How is this raising awareness for CHD if you’re not even going to tell people what CHD is and why they should be aware of it/what they can do to help/what the goal is?",
"Its nice to see that you did not lose faith in god and became miserable...no, you made the best out of it and grew. Thats great :-)",
"Yes! I will keep that in mind!",
"That fucking smile! ",
"This gave me chills!!!",
"Woooo happy baby!! :-)",
"Born with VSD. Still rock the scar. Spent most of my life very physically active including riding 50 miles every other day on my bike through most of my 20s. I'm now 48 years old and pretty healthy for my age.",
"CHD?",
"I hope he’s well :) ",
"Love that smile OP!",
"When my son was born they thought he had a CHD; those three days were utterly terrifying. I cannot imagine the heartache that you and your family went through. \n\nI'm so happy your little girl is doing well!",
"Tell your dad not to give up...from one heart warrior to another!",
"Looks like he'll have a scar in the shape of his father's laugh...",
"Keep doing a great job! We all appreciate people like you, more than you can know. Even if some if us don't say it out loud.\n\nHappy CHD Month 🙂",
"I got downvotes for saying that if you were trying to raise awareness, at least say what CHD is and why awareness is needed, and what we can do to help. ",
"So glad she’s doing well! Our 15 yr old was born with double outlet right ventricle and coarctation of her aorta. She had open heart surgery at 8 days old. So far, so good! I love hearing about other children who have gone through similar things. Best of luck to her!",
"I'm sory for your child but 99.9% of people here didn't experience that and while i congratulate op for being able to succesfully go through this, a baby with healing scars is far from cute for me and probably others, even more than that i don't feel like being able to look at that photo especially while eating.\n\nNSFW isn't just for gore/sexual stuff but things that might disturb a bit people when looking at it. \n\nHopefully i chose the right words because i know it must hurt a lot to go through this.",
"Still can't imagine cutting into one is a pleasant experience.",
"Such a cutie! ",
"Can someone repost this in a relevant subreddit with the title about tattooing their own laugh on their child. ",
"No thinking or common sense allowed here. Just delete comments and call people trolls.",
"Well, good thing it’s CHD awareness month then! That’s when the 0.1% of us who have gone through this get to educate people like you. And actually, it’s more like 1 out of every 100 babies are born with a CHD, so now you know! Also, did you ever stop to think about the younger people reading this thread who may be self conscious of their CHD scars, and then insensitive comments like yours come up, which makes them feel even worse? And then on top of it, you’ll probably go back to playing some bloody shooter game on your Xbox while eating a sandwich and not even be phased by it. I hope you learn something today.",
"Had open heart surgery when I was 1 month.\nNow I'm 35, and weeping during my morning commute at your child's smile.\nBest of luck to you both.",
"I feel like sometimes modern techniques is closer to miracle working than medicine.",
"Seriously, the amount of downvotes some of these nice comments are getting is just weird. Definitely some mean spirited people out there today. ",
"NSFW please",
"Holy shit that's a wicked ass scar.",
"Something I can relate too!\n\nMid 20's born with Tetrology of Fallot (ToF). 2 surgeries when I was a baby and had my pulmonary valve removed. 1 more open heart when I 18 to get a pulmonary valve put in. Played sports since I was 5 and still do. Your kid looks like he will do fine. \n\nMy advice to you, treat your kid like he didn't have CHD. If he wants to play sports and run around with friends let him.",
"I have nothing with people who have CHD scars but i have something with recent scars from ANY operation where you can see the blood. It just makes me unconfortable.\n\n>insensitive comments like yours come up\n\nHow is any of my comments insensitive at all? In the first comment i tried to explain that i don't want to be a dick and i asked nicely and in the second one i even apologized.\n\nThird of all games are NOWHERE near as close to reality, even the most recent ones and 9/10 games never show closeups on gore stuff.",
"Give the little guy a big hug from me, a fellow heart patient. Had a triple by pass 2 days before my 45th birthday. Going strong now, this little fella looks a real trooper!\n\nAll the best from the dodgy ticker club :D",
"I was born in 1987 with an interrupted aortic arch and a ventral septal defect. This second defect was what kept me alive long enough to have surgery.\n\nI was flown by helicopter to Mott Children's Hospital in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where Dr. Ed Bove performed open heart surgery on me at two days old. A section of my aorta was replaced with Gore-Tex. I had two additional open heart surgeries as a baby to repair the VSD. \n\nAt age 16 I had a fourth open heart surgery to replace the original Gore-Tex graft with a new one of adult size. This was done at Mott Children's Hospital and Dr. Bove performed this surgery on me as well. \n\nI am now 30 years old and completely 'normal'. The only restrictions I have are that I can't play high-impact sports like football, or max out when I lift weights. I played soccer and ran track and field through my college years, and today enjoy road cycling. I am one of the oldest surviving people born with my defect. Just a couple years before I was born, babies with my same problem died because there was nothing to be done. It's amazing what can be done these days. ",
"I had heart surgery at 4 to repair a hole between my atria. Played soccer like a madman, now coach as an adult. 3 degrees including a PhD. Now a father myself. The hard part is probably over and life can be brilliant. Just thought you should hear that.",
"I can tell this champion is going to give life a well deserved ass kicking.",
"Agreed, baffling behaviour... :/",
"I wish you all the ease for the remainder of your pregnancy, and take heart (hah) - the surgeons who perform these operations are so magically skilled. Your little one will be in the safest of hands. Xx",
"As an older brother I believe all little sisters bring out the claws early. I’m 32 and still have scars from the tv remote wars of the mid to late 90s. ",
"As a pediatric anesthesiologist who takes care of these patients in the OR, it is so cool to see a little one at home and smiling. Made my day. ",
"Just wanted to chime in, I had an atrial septal defect and pulmonary valve stenosis corrected @ 18 months. About to turn 24 and healthy as ever. Your daughter's got a bright future!\n\nIt still amazes me how early we can do these surgeries now.",
"Yes we have heard of them! Our son had I beleive the Norwood procedure 5 days after birth and about a year later a bivent repair at Boston children's.\n\nMy wife and I send extra formula to them for other moms in need. ",
"I hardly ever get something in my eye...but..shit.",
"My girlfriend and I just learned that our first born has a Tetralogy of Fallot. It has been a difficult week, but seeing all comments on how everyone is doing well, really helps me. Your baby is so cute, he is a strong fella!",
"I was born with a CHD called Ebstein's anomaly, as well as WPW. Just wanted to chime in to tell you I am now a happy and healthy adult in my twenties. Your little one is adorable and I am sure will grow up to be awesome.",
"You're being downvoted because some people have a severe physiological reaction to the sight, smell, or even thought of blood. This reaction may include dizziness, nausea, or even loss of consciousness. \n\nI don't suffer from this malady myself, but have watched a friend pass out cold, instantaneously, just because he was reading about the circulatory system. Ask any nurse or med tech how many times a day they have patients pass out while they're drawing blood. ",
"No hate reply here. I used to never understood the awareness thing myself, until it happened to me. 1 in 100 babies are born with some sort of congenital heart defect (CHD). That’s a lot! Raising awareness of the condition can do a lot of things. It can make new parents more aware if something seems a little “off” in their child in the first few days of life. A lot of sick babies actually get sent home with no one detecting their CHD until it’s too late. Awareness makes other kids not make fun of the kid in gym class with the scar. Also, no, CHDs cannot just be “cured”. Some many require a simple intervention in the first year of life and that’s it. Others need a series of open heart surgeries that never actually get the heart to “normal” and that need future interventions, and possibly a heart transplant, down the road. Awareness of the number of kids and adults waiting for donor hearts may lead someone to sign the card to be an organ donor. And pictures like this remind us all that these children are more than statistics, they’re cute little people just wanting their chance at life.",
"Thank you for all the work you do!",
"Thank you!",
"Do the surgeons think about how the scar is gonna heal in the long run, I've often wondered that, like all scars not just in this case, So do they think to make the scars symmetrical ",
"Good luck! I had the same surgery for a Sinus venosus asd and PAPVR when I was younger. No side effects now other than the scar. ",
"Modern medicine and science are so awesome, and stuff like this will continue to get even better ",
"My daughter underwent open heart surgery at 16 months old. She had a VSD and bad pulmonary valve. She's now three and in great shape. We had a wonderful surgeon and even better PICU nurses. https://i.imgur.com/eiYNwBh.jpg ",
"My son (nearly 3) had open heart surgery for his ASD one month ago and he’s doing awesome! A week after surgery he was trying to tackle his sister and run and climb and basically trying to do everything he wasn’t supposed to. I know it’s super scary but they really do bounce back so fast. Best of luck to you and your little one. ",
"Happy yours is doing well. Mine was born with multiple defects and died at 7 weeks.",
"Beautiful heart warrior!!!!!",
"Did they know the hole was big when your child was born or did it start smaller? My newborn has a very small hole which is still detectable by our pediatrician but we don't see the heart doctor for another month. I'm told it should close up on its own but it still worries me. Your photo almost brought me to tears but I'm really glad she's doing so well!",
"I see, so would you say her pain was managed pretty well with Tylenol? ",
"No, nothing was detected when she was born. It was actually discovered when she was 4 months old at a hospital visit for a UTI. They noticed in her x-ray that her heart was enlarged and referred us to a cardiologist who gave us the diagnosis. The cardiologist told us that her hole was so big that she didn’t even have a heart murmur because the blood was freely passing through the hole. So there was no suspicion that there was something wrong until that day at the hospital. Come to think about it, today last year is when we were in the hospital and we were told about her enlarged heart and referred to the cardiologist. Wow",
"Awesome.",
"I believe so, it’s hard to tell with babies because they can only cry. And the crying can mean many things but post surgery, the Tylenol seemed to help manage the pain.",
"Zipper club! 👍🏻",
"how is the scar now?",
"My dad went through something similar at age 57. His heart was working at about 15% function, and we didn’t think he would make it. He’s now been on medication for almost a year, and his heart is almost at normal functioning levels. Tell your dad to never give up hope! ",
"She is so sweet, I love her. Thank you for sharing.",
"Hi Op, \n\nI was born with Cortation of the aorta, had 2 open heart surgeries before 2 months old. Played all sports through out my life and am 36 now.\n Only needed a stent placed 3 years ago since and bp meds. \n Wish you guys the best!",
"This picture makes me feel so sad inside for your little one, yet oddly conflicted because they appear so happy. Cute little one!",
"> \"zip line\"\n\nI would totally have a zipper tattoo, if I were in that circumstance.",
"Heart stuff is scary. I don't know if it was congenital or not, but I Just found out today that I have left ventricular remodeling, possibly due to hypertension. Glad to see that children are able to get this stuff looked at and maybe fixed as early as possible in life.",
"My son had heart surgery when he was six months. He had Tetralogy of Fallot too. He may not become an olympian but, at 10 years of age, he can outrun me and loves to ski. He feels a little shy about showing his scar to others, but I always tell him: You're like Iron Man and Harry Potter all in one! I mean it, too. The doctors told us he'd be in hospital for a week - he was out in three days! Amazing about Shaun White - though our doctor has often warned that he shouldn't push himself too hard (if really out of breath, he needs to rest). ",
"Maybe the cutest baby I have ever seen, inc my 2. ",
"Rock your scar!",
"ITT: Abbreviations known only to the already aware",
"Compressed hunks of data?",
"This broke my heart. Poor little fella. Glad that he’s doing good, his smile too, that’s so damn cute. Hope the best for you guys and his future!",
"Go get 'em kid.",
"So sad - just ruined my day, I can't stand seeing kids hurt ",
"Your little guy looks great! My little guy had heart surgery a week after being born now a month later he’s getting stronger and learning to eat from a bottle better. Hopefully soon we’ll get to go home!",
"I'm wincing reading all this. Just so much.",
"Heartwarming smile that she (?) has!",
"I worked in a cardiac surgery intensive care unit as a nurse for years. There are few things as rewarding as seeing a person before and after recovering from heart surgery. Look at how pink those little lips are!! You have an absolutely beautiful child and I am sure his future is as bright as those little eyes are!!\n\n",
"I've never been one for kids, but well done to this little human for being an absolute champion.",
"Congratulations! I hope he/she grows up to be successful and happy despite this early life hardship.",
"Just thought I would add my words of encouragement and help spread some information. Your daughter is beautiful and looks like she is doing very well. My 3 year old has DORV, VSD, TGA, pulmonary stenosis and a couple other things going on. He is a typical 3 year old and is very active. Without knowing his history, you would never guess he had such a serious health condition.\n\nHe has been through 3 cardiac catheterizations and 2 open heart surgeries. Just this past October he underwent the Fontan and is doing very well. We live in Ontario so all heart caths and surgeries are done at Sick Kids in Toronto. The place is absolutely amazing. I am attaching a video of my son’s surgeon, Dr. Glen Van Arsdell, explaining a new development in printing 3D hearts with various CHD that can be operated on. Surgeons from around the world have been coming to Sick Kids to train with these printed hearts. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=llTGFz8G3L4",
"Just wondering, how do doctors mange post surgery pain for infants? ",
"Thank you for the added information!",
"Hey! I've never noticed quite a plateau like you describe, but I've also never trained seriously for competitive sports. I did rec league sports through middle school and marched in high school and there was never a problem. Even with slight pulmonary stenosis I don't believe there are any obvious side effects and any stress tests I've done have had good results. Have you talked to a cardiologist about why that might occur for you?",
"Picture of a baby",
"Healthcare has come a long way. It still has many problems but in the end, we are saving more lives each and every day. \n\nHuman ingenuity is truly admirable. ",
"That smile is everything!!",
"That is one heartbreaking mended heart picture. Beautiful smile. ",
"Hey OP \nYou have a beautiful baby! \n\nI myself have:\nTakayasu’s Arteritis (diagnosed 2008)\nAortic Valve Replacement (2009)\nEmergency Aortic Valve Replacement (2016)\nUnfortunately I suffered a massive heart attack this January but thanks to my amazing team of doctors and CICU nurses, I’m still here. \n\nGlad to see your little one is doing so well! Babies and children have such awe-inspiring resilience",
"So, as someone with a 7-month old that just had scans done due to a heart murmur his pediatrician heard, might I ask if you were had an actual heart echo, etc. when they thought you just had a murmur?\n\nWe took our son in due to the murmur and they told us it's \"likely\" an innocent murmur after running some tests. Wondering if we should get a second opinion now.",
"What a beautiful kid. You guys are so lucky. Best wishes.",
"I had to have surgery at 18 months old for the TOF which was very successful. At most now I just have difficulty breathing during exercise. As for AC thankfully I didn't have any malformations but I just experience infrequent dizziness, muscle weakness, numbness, vision problems, headaches, problems with balance and coordination which is common effects but they are easy to ignore.\n\nOverall, i've had a full recovery and it gets a lot easier. With 25 years of medical advances, they really know what they are doing with it now.",
"Three time open heart surgery/two artificial heart valve replacement survivor here - I have the same scar. When I first had the surgery as a kid, we called it my \"zipper\" and I thought it was cool.\n\nActually... today is the 17th anniversary of my last surgery! Great timing :)",
"why would there be a need for chd awareness?",
"If it wasn't just an appendectomy, what happened?",
"That’s awesome! ",
"My niece is a survivor, so I have all the sympathy in the world. I'm so happy for your baby, and with that smile, I don't know how you could ever stop trying to entice him into it.",
"See that’s retarded liberals for ya",
"Right, there is no defined “cure”, but there also isn’t any future medical advancements that can fix it any more than existing procedures already do. \n\nAnd in the United States, everyone is an organ donor by default. You have to opt-out, which most people won’t take the time to do. \n\nAnd I think kids in gym class will make fun of the scar regardless of awareness. People are “aware” of eye disorders, and still make fun of people with glasses in school. Awareness won’t change that. ",
"What a beautiful baby. Thank you for spreading the awareness. As a father of 2 girls, 9 months being the youngest, my heart goes out to all parents going the extra mile for their children. Bless you. ",
"A few hundred years from now these techniques will be that of bumpkins ",
"What a great phrase. Consider \"happy as a goat in a dumpster\" officially stolen.",
"Friend’s daughter had a similar condition (and scar) - she’s the only little girl I know nicknamed Scrapiron. ",
"So cute! ",
"Ooh fair enough. Was yours done via catheter (though by my reckoning, I was 13 when I had mine, and I'm 3 years younger and I was the first with my specific condition - only 1 lung - to have mine replaced the new fancy pants way via catheter, if you had you'd also be one of the first with Bonhoeffers method?). I'm hoping the new-way valves have a similar lifespan, so I dont have to have another replaced any time soon!",
"Her color is great! I'm impressed. Hope she heals well!",
"A lines are always a chore in these cases",
"TL;DR: Dr thought I wanted drugs and had a uti, sent me home. By the time I got tests to prove otherwise, my appendix had ruptured. They had to remove parts of my intestines around it due to damage. Kidneys were fucked for some time due to trying to filter out the infection. I fucking hate our healthcare system. \n\n---\n\nLong: \n\nStarted a week before surgery with me feeling ill. No fever or classic side pain. Progressively got worse and couldn't eat. Knew something was wrong so I gave up one night and went to the ER since I was pregnant at the time and concerned. \n\nER didn't believe I was pregnant until they did blood tests to prove it, wouldn't listen to my complaints of believing it was my appendix because \"we know what we're talking about and you don't\" mentality. Someone in the next room was screaming for pain meds and was an abuser, so they then started treating everyone that way. When my urine came back with infection along with my blood, the doctor got shitty with me and said I had a uti and to go home. \n\nWent home. Mad. Upset. In pain. My husband was about to go to work and I just absolutely thought I was going to die. Begged my husband to take me back to the hospital but he wanted to go to work. He went in for a few hours and I called him multiple times until he finally came home and agreed to take me back. \n\nDifferent shift, different doctor several hours later at the same hospital. I still had no fever. The pain was so bad I couldn't sit down anymore so I was standing pressed against the wall. They thought I was a junkie. Finally told them maybe I'm having a tubal pregnancy to convince them to do an ultrasound. Doc told me the ultrasound tech would have to come in after hours and be pulled away from her own family to deal with me and I shouldn't be so selfish. \n\nI talked to the nurse, hoping for a sympathetic ear. She told the doctor she didn't believe I was there for drugs and he called in the ultrasound tech. I talked to her about it and she apologized for how poorly they were treating me, but couldn't find anything via ultrasound. She called in the cat scan lady an hour early. I went into that machine right before the next shift change. I'd been fighting for them to do these tests for eight hours with this visit alone. \n\nBack in the room afterwards, I still can't sit down or bend at all. The nurse is about to discharge me when I hear running down the hallway. It's the doctor with a paper in his hand and he's out of breath. It's my appendix and it's about to rupture. He's just called the surgeon in and they're going to take me into the operating room asap. Cool. Finally something happened. Maybe I won't fucking die now. \n\nBut wait, there's more! Surgeon comes in but won't talk to me because he's busy. He won't do my surgery since I'm pregnant. Okay. So who will? No one here. They'll have to transfer me an hour away. The nurse puts and iv in and has me lay down, they're doing a pain med because the ride in the ambulance will suck. And it did. So bouncy the morphine did nothing. \n\nThe next hospital was a whirlwind. I had a dozen nurses prepping me after ten minutes or so of being alone. Them telling me the surgeon will be in to talk to me but he didn't show until they were wheeling me into the operating room. No one says much of anything. My husband went home and fell asleep so I didn't get to say anything to him or my kids before going under. I made peace with death after seeing the look on one nurses face. \n\nWoke up to hear a woman asking if it was normal for heartbeat and blood pressure to drop so low during surgery. I was the only person in recovery. Listened for a while before actively moving to let them know I was awake. Went back to my room and was on crazy meds that day and went through withdrawals the next three days when they stopped it. Thought I was dying a lot. \n\nNo one cleaned my bandages. They were oozing yellow and green before the new nurse asked about it. I'd requested changes but they'd always say they'd be back and never came before that. Started to come around enough to know I needed to gtfo that hellhole. Had to be eating solid foods and be able to walk on my own. Realized my room was down the hall from where my grandma died and had a breakdown. \n\nAsked a nurse the last day about my incisions and she read the chart from the computer out loud, about the removal of appendix and parts of my intestine. When I said \"what?\" she quickly closed it and said it was nothing and left the room. \n\nSurgeon still hasn't come to discuss it with me by day five. Talked to another doctor to get discharged and he explained that the uti the original ER doctor thought I had was a result of my kidneys attempting to clean up the infection that had already got out from the rupture. Hadn't been told that until then either. \n\nWhen I got released I refused to go back and talk to a guy that did surgery and refused to find a few minutes to talk to me over the course of nearly six days. His office outside of the hospital attempted to contact me for a follow up that was for one of his nurses and still not him. \n\nWhat would've happened if I hadn't argued and fought for my medical care? I hadn't been able to get in with my normal doctor because she was booked. The ER personnel didn't believe me, nor did my family really. The entire event left a bad taste in my mouth. ",
"That must be so horrible. I mean, being so unable to cope with blood that you can't even function just by reading about it. \n\nSomeone should make an awareness month for it. Like they did with CHD. So we can educate and spread the word about people who feel as if blood is terrifying. Maybe we can find a way to help them get synthetic blood that doesn't look like blood. \n\nSeriously, it's CHD awareness month. This is what must be done to save a baby with CHD. Look at it. So many people would rather see this than a tombstone. Those are the options presented. If someone can't stomach their food, good. They should think about how it'd feel to lose their child. Maybe have some thought for others besides themselves. \n\nAnd yes, the original person only cared about themselves. \"I was eating and this picture ruined that. Please mark it NSFW\". I get why people may be uncomfortable about it. But sometimes we need to be uncomfortable. ",
"I have never met anyone else with this! In my mid 20s and still kickin!",
"I don’t know where you’re getting the information that everyone in the US is an organ donor by default. There definitely needs to be consent. And I’m not sure what you mean by there’s no future medical advances, either. There are further medical advances all the time. You seem a little defensive for someone who wanted a “no hate” answer. I tried :/",
"On your drivers license, when you go to the DMV, they make you an organ Donor by default unless you opt out",
"My sister had this when she was a baby. Once when she was this age, another time when she was 4. ",
"Oh boy, ima cringing ",
"Family camp would be bad ass for you and the fam. It gives you a chance to meet with other families who’ve gone through what you’re going through. They’re a wealth of knowledge. Call Susanna when you can. She can give you the details. ",
"Lovely smile <3",
"Yes I will!!! ",
"What a beautiful babe! Hope everything is and continues to be perfect for you and your family!",
"There is no harm in getting a second opinion.\n\nThis happened in 1978, surgery in 1991. Mom says the doctor simply told her I had a heart murmur but they did not do any kind of scan or test other than just listening to my heart. My pediatrician never mentioned it and I saw him from birth to age 12. I needed a doctor visit for an athletic physical in 6th grade but my pediatrician didn’t have any appointments so I went to my mom’s doctor. She didn’t like the way my heart sounded and sent me for an echo. That echo said I had a hole the size of a dime in the wall between my atria. Second opinion echo said the hole was the size of a quarter. Surgery revealed there was no wall at all and my right ventricle was as big as my whole heart and would have burst (doc’s word!) has they not caught it when they did.",
"Love to your family from Tennessee. Great things to come from such a strong little one. ",
"My wife had her 19 week ultrasound which led to a referral due to a \"larger than normal heart\". This referral appointment was today, where we were told our daughter (now 20 weeks) has Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome. We were told it is most likely due to a genetic defect. The option is to perform 3 operations and risk further brain damage or to terminate the pregnancy.\n\nWe are devastated. We both came home and cried. I'm trying not to cry right now typing this. We have no idea what to do. This is (maybe 'would be'?) our first child.\n\nI'm glad to see your baby is alive and healthy. The mental toll for this stuff is beyond insanity.",
"I am so sorry that you and your wife are going through this. Nothing prepares you for such devastating news when you hear that there is something wrong with your baby. When we were told about my daughters diagnosis, I initially took that as a death sentence. I didn’t know anybody that was going through this at the time and no one in my family had heart problems. What helped me through this was my faith in God, my support from friends and family, reaching out to organizations such as mended little hearts, asking LOTS of questions to doctors to the point where I would call them on a weekly basis, and taking care of myself. I’m not saying that that is what you need to do to deal with what you are going through as this is what worked for me. Find what works for you and your wife to deal with this, and know that sometimes things change. I have seen families who have had such devastating news and somehow “the hole closed.” Don’t give up and if you need someone to talk to feel free to message me.",
"I don’t know why I am getting downvotes. I was empathising with the parents over such a confronting and scary thing. ",
"I've got DORV with transposed great arteries. How many surgeries have you had?",
"I have an 8 month old daughter. I cannot imagine the stress and anxiety you went through. Thank God your child pulled through. The stories you will have to tell your child. Will be great. We live in Houston and our house flooded during Harvey and we had to be rescued by neighbors with boats when our little one was 3 months old. I created a gmail account in her name and I send her emails every so often about what we went through and pictures of her. Hopefully one day she will enjoy every story and picture we send her.",
"I had open heart surgery at 6 month old baby now im 33 years old lol",
"It's hard to describe. It's not as pronounced as in this picture because over time it kind of blends in with your chest.",
"Hey so according to my Doctor i was 8th in the world to have TGA, 31 and doing great\n\nEdit comma.",
"So I do a lot of mountain biking myself. Honestly it's pretty good, I try to be mindful of how hard I push myself (you know how they tell us not to lift wieghts?), but I've never felt hindered in anything physically active.",
"Yeah it scales with your chest. So the scar still goes down my whole sternum. As you grow up, it starts to become a little less visible. It's hard to explain. I guess the best way to describe it is a clear indentation in your skin that is just slightly lighter in color than the rest of your skin?",
"Yep. I have nothing but respect for doctors, surgeons, nurses, and all the others working in healthcare. Definitely some wonderful people in the world.",
"Haha yeah I've only met 1 other person in real life, but every now and then when I see posts like this, all the other TGA patients come out of the woods to say hi! Very glad you're doing well!",
"holy crap. Was it at UCLA hospital?",
"Thank you so much for all your hard work.",
"This guy is a little champ!! ",
"Wow, this is terrible. I'm so sorry this happened. \n\nI hate to say it, but your experience isn't unique. A lot of women experience similar issues with doctors/nurses ignoring or dismissing life threatening illness that wouldn't be the case if they were men \nhttps://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/10/emergency-room-wait-times-sexism/410515/",
"No Philly childrens",
"Being a father seeing this picture made my heart drop. Poor little one, I hope you all the best. That smile will heal all.",
"Mustard or Jatene?",
"TGA / Mustard here. Over 40 and still ticking!",
"Awesome! Arterial switch for your fix?",
"I had one when i was a month old, and then I had surgery on my trachea at the ripe old age of 26... Just 2 months ago! And now i'm murdering it! Just got accepted to medical school",
"Hey, I'm 26 and doing great. My most recent surgery was unrelated to my heart, and related to a rare defect with my trachea secondary to a pulmonary artery sling.\n\nApollo should be fine! Hopefully he never needs anything again, but if he does maybe I'll be his Cardiothoracic surgeon one day! (Thats my dream job!) ",
"I had open heart surgery when I was 9 months old. I had a ventricular septal defect that was repaired with a piece of teflon. The notable part of that was, as I was recovering I was in a room a few doors down from the index case of the Jack In The Box Ecoli outbreak that happened in the 90's. The waiting room was full of worried parents who had very sick kids recovering from it. ",
"Nah, scrub that. My doctor told me to go out and go ham! I used to run track, play lacrosse and soccer. My most recent endeavour has been basketball for the past 5 years and I'm on my 3rd ACL. I guess I like having surgeries!",
"I'm old as hell, 26. Trying to grow up and be like my surgeon one day!. \n\nDORV is extremely rare, and she should be proud of it! She's already part of an elite club. Stories for years!",
"preach fam. Shaun White is my guy. He's almost 5 years older than me, so if he's still kicking I will be too!",
"You'll be pleased to know then that as of about an hour or so ago, he won the gold at Pyongchang! Truly the best at what he does. ",
"Another parent of a CHD baby. I can only wish you good luck with your girl and keep an eye on the scar during its healing. With my son, after the first surgery he got an infection and doctors needed to open and clean the skin.",
"Thank you for what you do. My oldest son was born TGA in 1998. Rashkind procedure about 11 hours post partum, arterial switch 6 days old. He's now almost 20, lifts weights, physically no restrictions. His parents would not have survived without the incredible caring and love from the pediatric CICU nurses.\n\nThank you so much for what you do. You'll never know the difference your service and kindness make for those of use living through those times. Please give everyone you work with a big hug from us. We love you.",
"TGA/Mustard here, over 40!",
"That's so awesome!!! Hard work but it will be worth it. One of our nurses was a CHD baby :-)",
"For my son, who is 8 weeks old, and is post-op from heart surgery (1 of 2), they used a low dosage of morphine for the first week or so, then use Tylenol as needed.\n\nIt's hard to tell at first one a person so small you are still learning so much about, but there is a lot you can gather off the monitors for when pain management is needed. I've learned far too much about being a nurse so far lol.",
"Thank you for your reply, my thoughts go out to you and your son. ",
"This picture describe that no matter how bigger your worries.? But if you want to keep smile so you can forget all kind of sorrows and become happy always.",
"https://www.reddit.com/r/AmItheAsshole/comments/7xb172/aita_for_trying_to_ask_nicely_for_something_to_be/?st=JDMVKD0M&sh=97a9aa5bhttps://www.reddit.com/r/AmItheAsshole/comments/7xb172/aita_for_trying_to_ask_nicely_for_something_to_be/?st=JDMVKD0M&sh=97a9aa5b",
"Mustard procedure. ",
"G'day OP, born with TGV, had surgery, scar still visible today, im 17 and everything is great, i am no different than my colleagues. Just letting you know that your kid has nothing to worry about in the future. ",
"Thank you!",
"i had VSD.Didn't have it corrected by surgery until 9 years old. Scar still completely visible, as well as my tube scars. \n\nThey don't bother me too much, it adds character. \n\n\nLate 20's and am relatively normal. Don't be worried about what he will or won't be able to do in his life. Keep it as \"normal\" as possible\n\n ",
"Will do!",
"Ah awesome. How are you faring?! The transition to 40s scares the shit out of me based on some of the stories I’ve read...",
"Wow. I’m a little weirded out he even posted that, honestly. Dude needs to learn to let things go.",
"That’s so great to hear!! It’s very disheartening being told my child will have limits. ",
"I had to look up who that was and you are so right!",
"Honestly, she didn’t even try to take it off. ",
"Congenital heart defeat ",
"I am so sorry 😞",
"There was actually a CHD picture contest called Rock Your Scar which we entered her in!",
"Thank you family from Tennessee!",
"Lucky. Lol\nMy lil'guy squirms so much we'd probably have to Velcro his arms to himself if he had that kind or surgery. O_o",
"Awesome, me too. ",
"Nope. My time was before newfangled replacement techniques. I had my rib cage sawed in half twice. Third time around will be laparoscopic thank God! ",
"I'm doing well, have had PM since teenager, but still very active with sports a kids, etc. ",
"Hi OP,\n\nMy daughter was born with TOF, had open heart surgery at 7 months. At 21 months, the main line of the scar is still visible but it's very faded and the small scar where the drainage tube went in is now fully gone.",
"That is wonderful to read!",
"I’m currently 32 weeks pregnant with a bub with TGA, sitting in the hospital waiting room for an ultrasound, having just had our tour of the NICU where baby will be from birth up until the day before surgery (the surgery will be at another hospital). I have to stop reading all these replies in public because you’re making me cry (happy tears). Thanks to you and all who replied.",
"It means the two main arteries of the heart are switched (transposed). It means the one that is supposed to take deoxygenated blood from the body to the lungs takes it straight back to the body, and the one that’s supposed to take freshly oxygenated blood to the body, takes it back to the lungs.\n\nIt means that while baby is fine in the uterus, as soon as baby is born and started to rely on their lungs for oxygen, they can’t get enough to their body/brain. While in utero, there is a septum (hole) between the two sides of the heart, which allows the two types of blood to mix, and circulates oxygenated blood to the body. That closes in the hours after birth, but in cases of TGA, they attempt to keep it open, in some cases by keyhole surgery to basically tear is open/bigger. Then open heart surgery is performed in the first week or two to correct the switched arteries so that things are back to normal.",
"I know it’s not the same thing as needing a donor heart, but my pa had quadruple bypass surgery when he was 55 after a massive heart attack. He was told afterward to go home and enjoy the last few years of his life, they’d given him some time and quality of life, but not to expect too much, maybe 5 years. He passed away 31 years later after seeing his grandchildren grow up. And encouraging us to eat all of the chocolate eclairs, magnum (ice creams), and apple pie we could.",
"Fuck that must have been hard, don't think you'll se this but hey, I'll hope.\n\nMy son will be one on the 12th of March and I can't imagine your pain, and how hard it must've been when you didn't know if s/he was going to survive or not.\nThe scariest thing I know is losing my son and I haven't been a parent for long at all. \n\nMy son has been healthy his whole short life and I get scared the second he gets a little warmer than usual. So I really can't imagine your feelings.\n\nSorry if I'm stepping too far now but: \nHow was it, knowing you might lose your kid? What were your first thoughts and what did you do/think/feel during the operation?\n\nAgain, sorry if I'm being to forward.\n\nI really hope Kiddo lives to be the best they can be. Feel free to update me regularly through DM on how Kiddo is doing if you feel like it :)\nHave a fantastic life.\n//wty261g",
"Hi there! It was definitely very hard and you are not being forward at all! I will be very honest with the dark side of this experience. When we were told of her diagnosis I took it as a death sentence for her and I isolated myself from my family and friends. I grew up catholic and I even became very angry with God. I still talked to God and prayed for strength and one day I had enough courage to immediately reach out to family, friends, and even mended little hearts. I needed to speak to other parents who have gone through this. My friends and family were amazing and I found the greatest support speaking to parents who have gone through what we went through. It gave us hope and at the same time we also had to be realistic about the possibility of losing her and those were the hard days. One of the greates advice I received was to be strong for her. Obvious right? But it was easier said than done. We tried very hard not to cry in front of her and breakdown in my husbands arms ar night AFTER she fell asleep. I was told that my fear can be transferred to her so we did all we can do to keep that from her. When it was surgery day, we had a clapping game in the prep room and I was choked up with tears. When the took her from my arms I broke down. I would constantly tell myself that I will see her again and I didn’t allow myself to think that she wouldn’t make it. I couldn’t bring myself to think like that. The hospital we were at gave us updates every 30min while she was in surgery and t lasted about 3-4 hours. After she got out of the surgery room I never left her side. I mentioned somewhere in the post that this experience, although it was very hard, i grew so much more closer to my family, husband and little girl and most importantly to God. That is what helped me through this. ",
"Cabbage Patch perfection. <3 <3 ",
"I’m late to the game, but ASD is easily diagnosed by an ultrasound of the heart. If the hole between the atria is big the murmur will be more faint when listening with a stethoscope (smaller holes are more easy to hear, the same way smaller ventilation shafts are more noisy than larger ones).\n\nI had a large ASD which was diagnosed and corrected at age 32. Pediatric care and subsequent stethoscope examinations missed it prior to that because the hole was so big (almost an inch in diameter). If you don’t catch it and fix it it will lead to premature death since it enlarges the heart and changes the relative sizes of the atria/ventricles and at some point leads to fatal reversal of blood flow.\n\nDepending on the size its either fixed by implanting an umbrella-like disc by means of non-invasive keyhole surgery, or by open heart surgery where a piece of the pericardium is transplanted to close the hole.",
"Thank you for the information, makes me feel a good bit better. \n\nGlad you got yours sorted as well!"
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"That portrait looks like a REALLY badly done copy/paste job in Photoshop. I have a degree in fine arts, and that portrait is worse than first year garbage in my (educated) opinion.",
"Sure, your degree in fine arts totally makes your opinion more educated than somebody world famous in the field. Just like I took several science courses and in my educated opinion that guy Stephen Hawkings is a hack. ",
"That's because that's exactly what it is.\n\nsee:\nhttps://pbs.twimg.com/media/DV2be1FUQAAekH2.jpg:large\n\nand this post:\n\nhttps://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/7x6p6r/in_obamas_official_portrait_the_artist_kehinde/\n\n>Someone wanted to know about his use of Photoshop. “With Photoshop, everything is conceivable,” he said. He also uses projectors, computers, studio artists, “the whole nine yards to arrive at the images. …I do work with a team. I do paint the figure, but I can’t bear to do the decorative stuff.”\n\nSpecifically, the portrait is copied and pasted over a background of vaguely repeating elements painted by a Chinese studio team. Who knows exactly what procedure they use to create the repeating elements, but they are hand-painted and thus not identical.\n\nedit: no the first pic is not \"real\", it's a photoshop done intentionally badly",
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"Would this be considered DIY?",
"Nature did this itself, not me unfortunately ",
"Ahhh an ice wall - like the one I’ve formed over the years to surround my heart",
"fancy as fuck.",
"I want to lick it so bad.",
"I've got an icebox where my deck used to be",
"But is it dragon-proof?",
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"Whoever made this has my eternal admiration. ",
"I regret clicking on this.",
"Over a year into presidency, still not a single solid bit of evidence of russian collusion.",
"As fucked up as it is that DJT is president, I am so thankful that I can openly call him a conniving, crud-for-brains, justifiably insecure, middle school-minded, anti-progress, selfish/racist/bordering incestuous waste of space, thrown into a sack of smugness and grossness, and I don’t have to worry about the cops knocking on my door in 10 minutes. \n\nI don’t know firsthand, but I’ve heard that criticism of Putin in Russia is not met with leniency. So fuck Trump, he’s a piece of shit, and I hope he ends up in jail. If you’re not allowed to criticize your president for fear of death, I’m sorry and I hope you get to one day. It feels great.",
"A puppet doesn't really collude with a hand",
"You're having what's called Trump-derangement syndrome. It's a mental breakdown commonly associated with liberals. It's similar to the \"zombie\" brain-eating viruses displayed in various Hollywood movies. You may want to check yourself in, you're rambling complete nonsense based on quite literally nothing. Get help while you still can.",
"This needs to be put up all over. ",
"I'm privileged to be able to spout off my hate for my president, and you're privileged to defend him. Aside of our political differences, it's awesome that we live in a country where we're allowed to speak our minds and disagree with eachother without fear of incarceration(for the most part... I know there are way too many exceptions... the anti-kneeling movement is literally the opposite of a free country.)",
"Do you people ever stop? ",
"What if I told you that Putin made this?",
"So you're saying Trump isn't a piece of shit? \n\nHe checks off pretty much all of the criteria for being a piece of shit. \n\nMaybe you should ask yourself why you are a supporter of a giant douchebag and why you find it weird that people are not fans of said douchebag. ",
"Collusion, at least attempted collusion, is proven. Collusion though is not illegal. Do you not remember Trump Jr meeting with a Russian in Trump Tower to get direct help from the Russian government? He released the emails himself. \n\nAlso do you ever wonder what Mueller and his team do everyday? Do you think they just sit around thinking today will be the day we find evidence? Do you think they'd show you the evidence during an ongoing investigation? \n\nEdit: u/aaaaaart I just want answers. I want to hear your side. I just don't understand why you made your comments and then ran off to T_D, screenshot it, and then posted that people are mean to you. I've responded to you twice. I just want you to try to convince me that Trump is the way, the truth and the light. Sell him like you're on shark tank.",
"I like how you guys cant even come up with your own catchphrases, it’s always microwaved leftover bullshit like that. Obviously you can’t think for yourself, but could you at least pretend like you can? Just for the sake of dignity?",
"But enough about the 2016 ballot...",
"Did you say \"eternal erection\"?",
"The anti-Trump train don't stop/won't stop. It's like your Trump train, but with more hair and less fat.",
"\\*disclosed publicly directly associated with Trump\n\nHis best people, otoh...",
"You're an idiot....how's that for Liberal you jackass. Stupid Fuck",
"Damn right!!! It's still the USofA",
">What if I told you that Putin made this?\n\nOhhhh someone just got trumped ",
"\"Anyone who doesn't like having their every waking moment inundated with Trump is a Trump supporter\"",
">I'm privileged to be able to spout off my hate for my president, and you're privileged to defend him. Aside of our political differences, it's awesome that we live in a country where we're allowed to speak our minds and disagree with eachother without fear of incarceration(for the most part... I know there are way too many exceptions... the anti-kneeling movement is literally the opposite of a free country.)\n\nWith great power comes great responsibility. That's why freedom of speech doesn't apply to televisions.",
"THE ANTI-TRUMP TRAIN IS NOW TRAVELING AT 23,069 KPH. CAN'T STOP WON'T STOP!",
"I'm not sure what you're getting at... but thanks for giving your input.",
">So you're saying Trump isn't a piece of shit? \n>\n>He checks off pretty much all of the criteria for being a piece of shit. \n>\n>Maybe you should ask yourself why you are a supporter of a giant douchebag and why you find it weird that people are not fans of said douchebag. \n\nWait a minute wait a minute... There's a checklist? Should I take the test? I didn't bring a no.2 pencil... Can I borrow your **dick?** Hahahaha! ^seriously ^I'm ^horny ^as ^fuck ^^I'm ^^not ^^even ^^gay ^^^i ^^^have ^^^a ^^^problem ^^^^help ^^^^me",
">I'm not sure what you're getting at... but thanks for giving your input.\n\nAyyy.",
"You have to fight these in the game Darkest Dungeon.",
"Sharing is caring.",
">Sharing is caring.\n\nTeamwork makes the dream work ",
"You're damn right.\nI don't even know what we're talking about anymore. ",
"So you don't expect any evidence at this point?",
"DAE BLUMPFF IS RUSSIAN PUPPET",
"You think the people who plead guilty are not enough? And this is by the way an ongoing investigation.",
" Dehumanisation. And there I was thinking that it was a tool of fascism.\n",
"So how do you feel about the Trump dossier paid for by the DNC? A tad worse than Donald Trump junior meeting with a lawyer, wouldn't you say?",
"I don't think Trump himself is intelligent enough to engage in this level of collusion. He's just a doll on a string.",
"How will Drumf survive this deepest of burns?",
"You know that research was initially funded by conservatives against Trump",
"This is funny cuz its the grotesque body melt style of Patricia Piccinini as trump, but Podesta is actually way more into her [art work.](https://steemit.com/pizzagate/@gizmosia/art-podesta-admires-and-buys-you-may-never-sleep-well-again)",
"What did you think of the Fisa memo? ",
"Yeah, can do that too this is America. Could also tell Jesus or Krishna to fuck themselves right up their imaginary arses",
"How so? He's rich as fuck, is weakening many countries, and has no opposition that can actually depose him.",
"Aww who’s triggered now you neck beard Trumper. Go post some more hentai you loser.",
"Putin is putting Assad back in power in Syria without the US fighting it. We're letting the Kurds get massacred. We're not enforcing sanctions on Russia (that both dems and republicans in congress voted for). We're not talking about how his regime is oppressing opposition and ignoring human rights. The administration is actively trying to derail investigations into Russian meddling in the election. Russian meddling in Europe is proceeding pretty much unhindered. He's destabilized pretty much all the developed western world, where's he going to *expand*.",
"I'm not going to waste my time trying to debate or convince a liberal that is being completely ignorant. I'm the one asking for facts here, and I'll I've gotten is people spitting in my face. It's so typical and hypocritical of the left who claims we're the ones who're intolerant. Obama colluded with Russia, as well as Hillary. Why is there not an ongoing investigation into their obvious collusion and wiretapping, and doing literally everything they can to prevent Trump from winning the presidency? I just want to know why it's so one-sided.",
"Under Obama we were supporting the kurds, were supporting anti-assad rebels and had sanctions on Russia, it's not the same at all. \n\nWe(the US) are going to be down from full strength for a while at current rate. The EU will soon no longer trade with us because Trump pulled us out of the climate accord. China and Canada are suing us over solar panel tariffs(and will likely win). Basically no one sane wants to deal with us right now because us going downhill either won't affect them or is a bonus(bonus for Russia and China at least).",
"K",
"MAGA fellow pede!",
"Well that's not true, not even a little bit but u have no doubt many rebuplicans didn't want Trump in office. You keep drinking that liberal cool aid champ! https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/the-digger-who-commissioned-the-trump-russia-dossier-speaks",
"So you're saying the article's mention of Free Beacon's funding of “open-ended examination of Trump’s business record\" is incorrect?",
"If it says it was originally funded by Republicans then yes it's incorrect feel free to show your source champ.",
"I said conservatives, and the article you linked to mentions the 'Free Beacon' and their engagement of Fusion GPS.",
"Stop whining and show your damn source",
"lol- it's in the article you linked",
"Really? Because the article I linked says this\n\nIn the past twelve months, we’ve learned a good deal more about the Steele dossier, including that it was commissioned by the Washington-based intelligence firm Fusion GPS, which received funding from the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton’s Presidential campaign. Some of the allegations in the dossier, including the one about the sex tape, haven’t been corroborated, and Trump has described it as a “Crooked Hillary pile of garbage.” (In publishing the dossier, BuzzFeed noted that the allegations it contained were unverified and that it contained errors.)\n\nShow me where it says it was funded by Republicans, stop whining and show the source or the paragraph where it says that!",
"I'm going to assume you are talking about this?\n\nBut in September or October of 2015—Simpson was vague about the exact date—a client hired Fusion GPS to investigate Donald Trump. (The Washington Free Beacon, a conservative Web site that has received funding from the hedge-fund billionaire Paul Singer, has acknowledged hiring Fusion GPS to investigate candidates during the Republican Presidential primaries.) Simpson said the mandate was to carry out an “open-ended” examination of Trump’s business record, including his bankruptcies, and, he added, “it evolved somewhat quickly into issues of his relationship to organized-crime figures.”\n\nOne of the early subjects of the inquiry, Simpson said, was Felix Sater, a longtime business associate of Trump’s who reportedly was linked to the Russian mafia, and who played a role in the development of the Trump SoHo building. Another subject of interest was the financing of Trump’s various real-estate projects. “We saw indications that some of the money came from Kazakhstan, among other places, and that some of it you just couldn’t account for,” Simpson said. But, for the first six months of the work, he added, the probe wasn’t focussed only on Russia.\n\nWell that was investigating all the Republican candidates, as they do every single election. It wasn't the Trump dossier champ, nice try though! Hahahaha ",
"Evidently you missed that I said conservatives- twice",
"I'm going to assume you are talking about this?\n\nBut in September or October of 2015—Simpson was vague about the exact date—a client hired Fusion GPS to investigate Donald Trump. (The Washington Free Beacon, a conservative Web site that has received funding from the hedge-fund billionaire Paul Singer, has acknowledged hiring Fusion GPS to investigate candidates during the Republican Presidential primaries.) Simpson said the mandate was to carry out an “open-ended” examination of Trump’s business record, including his bankruptcies, and, he added, “it evolved somewhat quickly into issues of his relationship to organized-crime figures.”\n\nOne of the early subjects of the inquiry, Simpson said, was Felix Sater, a longtime business associate of Trump’s who reportedly was linked to the Russian mafia, and who played a role in the development of the Trump SoHo building. Another subject of interest was the financing of Trump’s various real-estate projects. “We saw indications that some of the money came from Kazakhstan, among other places, and that some of it you just couldn’t account for,” Simpson said. But, for the first six months of the work, he added, the probe wasn’t focussed only on Russia.\n\nWell that was investigating all the Republican candidates, as they do every single election. It wasn't the Trump dossier champ, nice try though! Hahahaha ",
"So the research that led to the dossier was funded by republican financiers, but not the dossier itself... k\n\nIt is odd to see you quoting that article to try and prove this point about the dossier but you don't seem at all bothered by the other content of the article regarding Trumps shady financing. So for fun lets say the dossier is all a DNC contrivance- it's all big bad Hillary and Co- where's that leave us? There's still an ongoing investigation, and collusion aside- we know a foreign power is working hard to influence our elections process and the recent beneficiary of that influence doesn't seem too bothered by it. Is all that cool with you or is it all just liberal conspiracy or what? I'm just curious where you are with the whole thing.",
"Evidently you missed that that wasn't the Trump dossier. That was background research that is done on every Republican candidate in every election. The Trump dossier...... That was all the DNC!!!! \n\nUnless of course you have a source that says otherwise! Hahahaha ",
"I replied to your other comment, let's keep it to one chain.",
"The Russians have done this for 70 years you twit! We spent billions to take down the Soviet union!!!!! This is nothing new champ! You can say it for fun or for any other reason but the dossier was 100% the DNC and the Clinton campaign! There has been zero evidence of collusion and what about the millions of dollars Hillary got directly from say Saudi Arabia? Do you think that was just a gift from a friendly state? Hahahahaha come on man, time to take your head out of your ass. So no, I'm not at all bothered that Russia attempted to influence the election because it would be odd if they didn't! If you had a single independent thought in your head you would realize the Russians didn't care who became president what they wanted is exactly what's happening, a divided country and political turmoil and who's causing that? Once again the democrats! What are they calling their movement again? Resist? A nation divided against itself can not stand! The Republican that fought the democrats to free the slaves said that.\n\nSo try to step out of your liberal echo chamber for a second, knowing how Donald Trump is do you really think he would be someone's puppet? Do you really believe that? Libtards are always calling him a megalomaniac well meglomaniacs don't let themselves be controlled, they do the controlling. So knowing someone like Donald Trump couldn't be controlled why would putin try to put him in power? Putin is former KGB he would know you can't control someone like that. And if you knew anything about the KGB this is how they disrupt governments, not by supporting a candidate but by turning the country against itself then once the civil war starts they support a \"freedom fighter\" honestly use your head champ. ",
"Well thank god we put a meglomaniac in charge then ammarite? I honestly can't tell how much of that you believe and how much is the show but in any case it's always interesting to see the Trump interweb defense team in action.\n\nSo what are your thoughts on this Porter business?",
"The sad thing is I think you believe all the nonsense you are saying and even after being proved factually wrong on the dossier you still believe you are right, that's next level indoctrination! \n\nWell I hardly see how you can condemn porter while supporting Hillary who actually threatened women who her husband raped! Hahahaha \n\nNo matter what mud you sling at Trump the democrats have far worse shit all over them. \n\nBut I don't think Trump did anything inappropriate, he didn't hit Porters wife and before all you social justice warriors started screaming your nonsense we had a little thing called innocent until proven guilty. That was the defence slick willy used and we all know he did rape those women, we know Hillary threatened and mocked them so weigh that up to Trump saying \"we wish him well\" \n\nDon't feel bad that you are getting owned in this debate, you are defending an indefensible position! The only reason why you think you usually do well is because liberals attack in groups, one on one with an intelligent conservative and you will lose every time!\n\nYou know the old saying, if you aren't a liberal when you are young you have no heart if you aren't a conservative when you are older you have no brain!",
"Good stuff. I'm learning a lot from getting 'owned' in this 'debate'. So do you think we're going to hit these growth targets the tax cuts are relying on, and what do you think is Trump's game plan on opioids?",
"You're right, what a waste of time. Your time is much better spent drinking peppermint extract. Truly worthy use of your valuable resources."
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Trump’s Presidential Portrait is still the best.
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"Doesn't really seem effective to keep the rain away smh.",
"Bath, England?",
"Hello Pensacola :) "
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Downtown Art Project
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[
"The action is a little nonexistant.",
"You found junk. ",
"Hey man, I like this thing. It's all in one together. Just a little paint and a couple mounts and I have great Wall art for my smoke house.",
"To be clear this is a 4 foot long prop.",
"I guess the electrical outlet should have been my clue. I just assumed it was far away. Decent prop, I figured it was a cheap Asian knockoff from the '70s. I also thought \"I would throw a neck on that just because\".",
"As a piece of art it makes sense. It's got a good look. ",
"If I did it would be close to 10 feet long. It's huge. But I love it.",
"I would definitely find a place for it, it's cool.",
"Congrats.",
"Man, I was confused too. "
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I found a guitar today...
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"Haha! Good spot!",
"Haha nice",
"As in Stargate??"
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Come on Teal'c.
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"Posing at the arcade seems more accurate.",
"I’m a portrait photographer 🤷🏻♂️ What can I say 😂",
"If she’s playing, she ain’t winning ",
"Uh I guess? ",
"Looks good 👍",
"The new face of STD. ",
"?",
"Ignore. I'm just trolling.",
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ITAP of a friend playing at the arcade.
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[
"My kid will LOVE your Totoro. I'm sure I spelled it wrong!",
"Dope as fuck. Always winning. I need to visit. ",
"That was a great movie",
"loved watching that (and other Gib movies) with my daughter when she was a toddler. Only movies she would sit still for.",
"Nope, pretty sure that Totoro is the correct romanji spelling of 卜トロ.",
"My neighbor Snowtoro?"
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From Japan with love
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"I can’t ever see him as anything but Merle ",
"He's making sexier eyes, regardless. Of. Her...hotness...ok, she's pretty amazing.",
"Did she get the teeth right tho ",
"Is it just me or Yondu looks like Connor McGregor?",
"This is awesome!",
"SHE'S MARY POPPINS Y'ALL!",
"She needs to stop appropriating Zatoan culture.\n\nZatoans are a wonderful people with a beautiful history & culture and **not** a costume.",
"does that mean she is Marty Poppins?"
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Yondu Udonta Cosplay from Guardians of the Galaxy by Gooby Cosplays
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"I’ve never heard of that dish, but I do love cheese. I also like the double decker presentation. Hope it was great!",
"Check out Pav Bhaji/ Pao-Bhaji. If you have a local Indian restaurant around you, chances are you might find some. It’s a popular Indian street food dish and it’s meant to be presented in a double decker fashion.",
"Awesome, thanks for the information!"
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Cheese Pav Bhaji. Mumbai 2018
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"So if this thing breaks down in the middle of nowhere...\n\ndoes the situation still blow?",
"Wat",
"Looks like a lamprey ",
"Second most closest to your mom.",
"Thomas's Uncle.",
"I wonder if they just plug that in to a usb or what ",
"Snowpiercer IRL"
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Impressive Giant Snow Blower Train
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"Is that a mantis?",
"Kill and paint its blood on the wall, that the others may know what happens when you rest on the wall!!",
"Should I it's still here ",
"Seems like it "
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Homeless little bug.
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"You should sketch more often. ",
"Thank you. I appreciate you saying that.",
"I like it! Happy you found inspiration again, keep at it ",
"Love to see a beautiful creation inspired by an event like the Olympics! Thank you for both creating and sharing, fellow artist. Love the color and line in the clothing. Feels like a Polaroid painting-like snapshot from a sweet jump. I'd love to see more drawings from you!",
"Thank you!",
"Dang, I really like the style. It brings the art to life.",
"I hope it’s not cheesy that I’m responding to every comment. Thank you though. Hearing this makes me smile and gives me motivation to do more. I appreciate you! ",
"Thank you!🤙",
"This is pretty neat! I'm definitely a fan",
"It looks so effortless, yet it's still quite amazing",
"God knows why this got upvoted, it's objectively awful.",
"r/doodles would appreciate this i reckon ",
"Many people don’t use skills they have. \n\nIt’s sad for others. But you’ve got to enjoy using that skill or it becomes a chore. \n\nI hope you find yourself using your talent more. And that you love it!!",
"It’s all an elaborate hoax just to annoy you"
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Don’t draw much anymore. Sketched this up while watching the olympics and wanted to share. Hope y’all like it.
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"Yes. I *hated* them. Give me a Clearly Canadian any day over that",
"I feel like this is what started the Boba faze",
"And you'd be wrong. Boba has been around since the 80s, and Orbitz appeared briefly in Canada and failed in the late 90s and then was marketed again recently in the US.",
"They were thick and gross. ",
"Recently? When?",
"[2015](https://www.news-press.com/story/life/food/2015/05/26/clearly-canadian-returns-market-thanks-fans/27959279/)",
"Yeah I used to like those!",
"Yep. Gross."
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Who else remembers this drink?
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"It begins !",
"Only if it’s bacon flavored.",
"mmm, love me some good housemeat!",
"You’re all idiots. That’s cotton candy..... ",
"I'm not promoting this, but I like the term housemeat. "
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Tide Pod Challenge was so January, behold the Housemeat Challenge!
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"Better look at the stats Obama-hater\n\nhttp://www.newsweek.com/trump-has-already-killed-more-civilians-obama-us-fight-against-isis-653564",
"Lol",
"Not the place for memes i think.",
"trump is garbage too",
"Whataboutism? ",
"A bit, yeah, but also a fair enough comparison, I think?",
"I'm just over the tired \"if you don't like the Democrat, you must like the republican\" and \"well this one killed a bit less so we shouldn't acknowledge it\" mentalities.",
"so like..just keep it moving? the joke made me laugh, that's why I posted it. it's accurate whether you find it funny or not.",
"I guess. Regardless Obama started with his tuesday morning kill lists the large-scale drone war. so I guess he gets the first mention. \n\n(But in this regards both him and the orange baboon are equally horrible.)",
"Lol... When I first saw his portrait, I thought of the Homer disappearing into the bush gif. It's only a matter of time.",
"Not really accurate because neither of them have ever flown a drone and killed people. They don't even make drone strike decisions so i don't really know why people post shit like this.",
"You know, I think there is an Infowars Reddit page somewhere, why don't you go there. ",
"By actions in this regard, yes. Obusha was just smoother about it.",
"That's what I like about Japan and some European States. When shit goes down the Head Bureaucrat takes responsibility because *it was on their watch*. Not here.",
"Wonder what the response would have been if he sent Americans there to fight instead.",
"Yeah OP don't you know that /r/pics only tolerates political posts when they are making fun of Trump?",
"Cuz it’s totally not been a place for partisan politics either. /s",
"You had 8 years of making fun of Obama. It's your turn now. Bend over",
"I didn't make fun of Obama during those years because I stupidly believed in him. Now I recognize dems and repubs are two sides of the same coin, so I make fun of both of them. ",
"Both sides....no, incorrect\nhttp://politicsthatwork.com/voting-record/\n",
"both sides are bought and paid for (I voted for Obama cuz I believed he'd really try to get money out of politics 😂). both sides work for the ruling class, not working people. ",
"This a totally unbiased link. Thank you for your contribution. ",
"The facts of who voted for what speak for themselves. ",
"It's biased in the fact that the topics displayed on what Dems voted for, are all things in line with what Dems value highly. The topics displayed for what Dems voted against are all topics Dems typically vote against.\n\n\"Here is a bunch of topics liberals like. Notice how Democrats vote for what Democrats like?\"\n\nThese are all topics that Republicans would obviously vote against. To the liberal's eye this reassures that Repubs are the bad guy. To the conservative's eye, this is a \"so what?\" observation.\n\nEdit: for the record, im not a conservative, or anywhere close to it. I just wanted to point out you shouldn't just link an article critiquing Republican's for voting against things they don't value. As important as those issues are for you and yours, you have to remember that ~50% of the country is glad Republican voted against those issues, and are happy to see graphs like that."
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When a drone strike kills a bunch of innocent children
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"This is fucking incredible!",
"A perfect likeness",
"Do you teach?",
"Gal Gadot, remarkably penciled.",
"Very well done!",
"The thumbnail looks like a picture. Nice job, OP.",
"This is so, so cool!",
"Raise your hand if at first glance, you also first thought the pencils and sharpener were her clothes",
"Amazing!!",
"I had to go back up and look, so yes I did too.",
"I came here to see a Gal Gadot colored pencil, not a Gal Gadot, colored pencil. ",
"I'm no expert but that's pretty good",
"**pretty [snazzy photoshop](http://www.thelegendarytrend.com/index.php/2016/03/21/tlt-profile-gal-gadot/) skills there, brah....**\n\nAlmost as good as your gaming skills. *Almost.*",
"Looks more like Famke Janssen to me, but still amazing.\n\nGood work OP",
"Well I guess I’m fapping to a drawing now",
"Nice, source ?",
"Yep I actually thought she was in a md/nurse's white uniform haha",
"Involuntary Art",
"Very good work",
"Incredibly life like...",
"Crap. There goes another subreddit",
"God i wish i could do stuff...",
"Hey guys, sorry for the confusion. I'm not the original artist, and it took me some time to track him down. The artists name is Omri Granit (sometime Omry Grnit). An Israeli sketch artist that bases his work on photos. Check out his Instagram",
"I don't but the artist does! Omry Grnit",
"I appreciate the search into my profile, but I'm not the original artist. I too had the same question, but was told by the artist that he bases most of his work on existing photos",
"Damn that is almost picture quality. Really good.",
"Fucking amazing ",
"Didn’t realise drawing nazis was a thing ",
"Raised every thing.",
"Wha....how th.....err.......wow",
"Where is the blue colored pencil used?",
"No frickin wayyy.Bossman!!",
"[Here you go](https://kingsframingandartgallery.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/1800x/040ec09b1e35df139433887a97daa66f/s/a/salmon_pink_prismacolor_premier_coloured_pencil_pc1001_.gif) ",
"This makes me mad because someone can make something gorgeous out of paper and I can maybe color in the lines on my best day",
"Mother of [**censored**] I would give my left lung to be able to draw like this.",
"She's annoyingly pretty, like how is that fair? And you are annoyingly talented, it's bullshit. ",
"Nice work on the hair. What sort of witchcraft is this?",
"Squint slightly and it looks like a picture.",
"I can't even draw a stick figure this good ",
"My heart melts again. ",
"Wow. That's amazing",
"Everything?!:-)",
"I didn't see pencils until I saw you.",
"Excellent realism.",
"I refuse to believe it's a drawing and not a photo it's too good. ",
"I'm seeing a little Natalie Portman",
"This is masterful. It is very difficult to draw realistic portraits of a human face. Many come close but there's just something off about the image. Not this one. Well done! She's a real beauty, inside and out.",
"No thanks, I’m full.",
"Everything.",
"Tq",
"errtang",
"No but I thought they were part of the drawing.",
"Homer Simpson, smiling politely.",
"If I could draw like that I'd draw her naked",
"They prefer to be called pencils of color",
"T H I C C",
"That is so impressive. It's so hard for me to fathom that another human is capable of creating something like this. I wish I could somehow tap into that part of my brain. It makes me wonder what else I'm missing out on",
"She looks like Natalie Portman",
"Wow, incredible. Really shows her beauty. Great job. ",
"Absolutely phenomenal! Wow. ",
"She is the most beautiful woman on the face of the earth",
"This is amazing.",
"As was the artist's intention.",
"It is a picture.",
"They’re both from Israel ",
"It is a picture.",
"I completely agree.",
"They’re both Israeli ",
"I like Jewish girls apparently ",
"They’re fun ",
"Plus they know how to handle a weapon if they're from Israel ",
"Well done.\n",
"They’re part of the drawing",
"i was trying to figure out if that was some sort of weird pin she was wearing in the photo or something.\n\nedit- oh shit i just realized the colored pencils aren't a multi-colored striped collar.",
"Such a handsome guy. ",
"That's really special but I prefer the term 'pencils of color.' ",
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"Gal Gadamn that is good",
"Needs a gloss varnish",
"“Give them nothing...but take from them...EVERYTHING!!”",
"Everything is a picture",
";)",
"[Its very very close to the original.](https://herosfact.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/gal-gadot.jpg) Possibly an overlay.",
" The forehead should be larger. ",
"Especially from the thumbnail ",
"Where are those IDF pics where they carry their M16s to the club?",
"A very good deep fake.",
"Holy shit, thought it was a real pic ",
"why would you ever draw an actress non-nude? ",
"Do me!!!!\n\nBut for real, this is one of the most impressive things I’ve seen in a long time. ",
"Like one of your French girls?\n",
"\"give em nuttin... but take from them... ERRTANG!!\"",
"Lewd!!!",
"Your drawing looks 10 times better than Gal Gadot IRL.",
"People are so amazing at art 😱",
"I'm okay with her not being on TV anymore cuz she sets me off too much and I have to spank it every time I see her",
"Oh wow a realistic drawing of an attractive woman, the pinnacle of Reddit Art.",
"That is fucking amazingly good. Holy shit.",
"I thought she was in a tae kwon do/karate uniform ",
"Stunning. Looks like a photo. Great job 👍",
"Same",
"I'd watch this film.",
"Reminds me of Freddy Mercury",
"I can count every strand of hair. Impressive work!",
"How is this even possible? My god, this is just beyond amazing.",
"I thought this was a god dam photo. ",
"If humans can do this, we can do anything.",
"Lol!",
"Everything on reddit is a picture but you. ",
"My dick loves it ",
"It's crazy how much she looks like wonder woman",
"That is fuckin amazing!",
"**unzips pants**",
"I’m sorry I have to be that dick head. And I could be completely alone here; \n\nThe right side of her bottom lip looks like it was stung by a bee and swollen. That general area anyway. Could be the lighting. \n\nOther than that this is fucking amazing. ",
"Everything is a balloon ",
"Insane amount of skill to draw that. Thats crazy!",
"Emma Watson maybe?",
"I don't see that ",
"Lol the artist based it on this photo: \n https://i.pinimg.com/originals/f2/c9/c2/f2c9c2f100da4fd0041917dafc1696c5.jpg",
"Lol the drawing is a sketch by the artist of a real photo \n https://i.pinimg.com/originals/f2/c9/c2/f2c9c2f100da4fd0041917dafc1696c5.jpg",
"r/art, not r/pics",
"Good question. My best guess is that it was used in shading her hair. Many artists use blue or purple instead of black if they want the overall feel of their piece to be softer.",
"I’ve never in my life wanted to hang a drawing but here we are ",
"Indeed",
"Lol the artist based it on this photo: \n https://i.pinimg.com/originals/f2/c9/c2/f2c9c2f100da4fd0041917dafc1696c5.jpg",
"That looks like a graphite pencil. I have some Staedtler ones that color.",
"Fits like a glove.",
"They don't like things other than the \"picture\" in the picture",
"https://imgur.com/a/5dzFV",
"Bellissima \n",
"All I see is a big Gal Gadot. Where's the little Natalie Portman? Did he hide it?",
"I see more Natalie Portman there",
"I had the same thought, and then I thought about my [hypothetical] wife not being ok with a picture of this goddess hanging in our hallway",
"Afaik, Natalie Portman didn't serve in the IDF. Gal Gadot did as a combat instructor, so I imagine she had an M16, but I did a little google search and found [this image](http://www.jewishpress.com/wp-content/uploads/Gal-Gadot-1.jpg) - this is definitely not an M16. Seems like an Uzi to me, but I might be wrong. Also, as a general rule of thumb, most soldiers in the IDF don't carry a weapon regularly after their initial basic training. There are three types of soldiers who regularly serve in the IDF - combat soldiers, combat service support and what we call \"Jobnik\" -\nmainly soldiers who don't handle combat-related duties. Most of the soldiers are combat service support and jobniks, and most of those don't carry around rifles regularly, unless they are assigned guarding duty. So yeah, we don't see many of those in the clubs, also because getting intoxicated with a weapon is a shitty idea and the penalty for losing your rifle is huge. ",
"Is this one of those deepfakes posted without the celebrities consent?!",
"IIRC it's 'illegal' to drink while in uniform/carrying a weapon.",
"Actually I think she’s Israeli ",
"Oh reheheallly?",
"Good to know, great for small talk.",
"Also very, very true.",
"[This is what I found when I typed “IDF Girl rifle” in google.](http://phillips.blogs.com/.a/6a00d834515c6d69e201b8d0d8bebc970c-pi) \n\nNot to dismiss, just find it fascinating.",
"I feel like this is prettier than her irl",
"Whoever that girl is, if her CO found out, she'd be looking for an immediate court-martial and probably end up with a long time of detention to her base or army prison time. ",
"I tried to do a simple overlay once. It's much harder than you think.",
"Seriously thought that was a photo when u looked at it.\nSo wish I had the skills to be half as good as this ",
"The hair is incredible. ",
"i.. love.. her",
"That's a great deep fake!",
"Right? The whole time I was watching Wonder Woman I was thinking how inhumanly beautiful she looked. It wasn't even in an \"I'm attracted to her\" kind of way. She was just practically glowing.",
"Whoa... and I can’t even draw a potato (aka self-portrait).",
"That's not... creepy...",
"Don't send them money. You won't get Gal Gadot. You may never see the pencils.",
"Everyone's out there worried about deep fakes, little do they know... some people can just draw the deep fakes.",
"I've got terminal jewkemia as well. Rachael Weisz slays me.",
"Wow, yep that seals the deal. Need to hit up my local synagogue lmao ",
"How come no masters throughout history could do this? ",
"That's a really great question! I asked myself the same question, and after thorough study I've come to the conclusion that it's because Gal Gadot was only born in 1985. ",
"Duuuuuuude",
"I’d Gagot all over those Gals. ",
"I would love to see this being filmed from the start. ",
"Yeah like a track jacket with striped collar or something",
"I’m no expert but I think you’re right",
"I'm just girl, in love with a boy, who drew another girl with colored pencils",
"Bad human",
"Fun fact: I wasn’t much into more than Batman when it came to DC. Never learned Wonder Woman’s name.\nGal Gadot is such a badass name that I just thought that was the name- not Diana Prince (?)\n\nI felt REALLY stupid a few days ago, when I was talking to my friends about Wonder Woman and how I still want to see it.",
"Bam",
"It looks real Gal Gadot superb artist.",
"Nice to see your work here! 😀",
"Whenever I see weirdos like you making fun of Jews for looking stereotypical, I visit /r/peopleofwalmart and make myself feel better with images of the \"master race\"",
"Sharp and to the point",
"That is indeed an Uzi, which is an Israeli SMG. The IDF is mostly transitioned over to the Micro Tavor, which has a nifty bullpup design that allows it to maintain the reach of a modern carbine but also maneuver in tight spaces easily.",
"Yep. Additional circumstances: when on expanded duty (outreach, tour attachments, speaking engagements) when they may not be armed or in uniform, but are still technically on duty.\n",
"No, she wouldn't, not for just being at a bar. She'd have to actually have ordered alcohol. Source: was just in Israel with some soldiers, they can enter establishments, they just can't imbibe alcohol.",
"Wow",
"This is amazing, the hair is the best part I don’t even know how you are able to draw hair so good ",
"Shouldn't it say, \"Gal Gadot, actress\"?",
"Anyone else grit their teeth when people pronounce the \"t\" in gadot?",
"Your entire bloodline should have been in the concentration camps in WW2. \n\nGo fuck yourself. ",
"[No, because she says it with a 't'](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-V4XyghZQ-4) (the last syllable rhymes with \"boat\").",
"Now draw the bobs and vagin",
"I'd say realistically, techniques improve through time and technology helps both master the techniques, and share the techniques. I don't believe OP would have had the capacity to improve his talent to photo realistic levels without a photo to compare it to 200 years ago. The only thing you can go on back then is the person's face in front of you, which is not static as they keep moving and shifting and the change in lighting over time. Or alternatively, someone else's drawing/painting which even when trying to be as photo realistic as possible, had to use the same setting as before, or just do it from memory.\n\nAlso I think an actual bigger reason though, is that hyper-realism and photo-realism weren't even sought after until the 1970s in the first place. The art scenes back in the Renaissance had realism for example, but I doubt it ever occurred to someone to attempt hyper-realism. Mostly because none of them had ever seen a photograph before.",
"I thought she was wearing some kind of Olympics outfit. ",
"It's not real art unless you include the colored pencils in the pic. ",
"Everything is a balloon",
"l'chaim",
"Cool story bro",
"[talking with her voice ](https://youtu.be/pgE33YeVqg0) ",
"I prefer the deep fakes medium of art",
"Am I wrong for really liking that I can *see* that this is colored pencil? As in I can see the streaks of the shading and the like.\n\nI love the \"texture\" of pencil art, so whenever I see someone make a photorealistic with pencil I think \"wow amazing ability to do that with pencil\" but I don't think \"wow that's great pencil art\".",
"Funny how that is isn't it. There are millions of people across the world who have this level of talent, but up to recently nobody did it because... Nobody thought of it. Wild. ",
"Basically right? Art moves forward. :D",
"The placement is pretty good. The blue in between the browns is a nice touch but the lack of eraser along with the other items really brings this down for me. A light dusting of shavings sprinkled around the sharpener would have been a nice replacement to the missing eraser but with both those elements missing I just can't take it too seriously....... 70/100",
"That is amazing! You have some serious talent.",
"I’m pretty sure we’re not supposed to say “colored” anymore. ",
"RemindMe! 6 hours",
"I thought Gal Gadot was the name of the character.",
"Draw me, like one of your French girls.",
"I might not have ever noticed, actually...",
"👋",
"Funny there is an NCIS rerun that’s just ending in a few minutes that entailed one of the main NCIS agents having a relationship with a rogue Mossad (Israeli FBI/CIA) agent, without giving too much spoilers at the very end, when the Team returns to Washington from Tel Aviv, one of the NCIS computer lab team is looking at “GSM” magazine with Gal Gadot on the cover. ",
"Sorry, I was under the assumption she ordered some sort of liquor.\n\nEdit: still not quite sure how the martial law would act in this cirumcstance... Soldiers are allowed to enter bars and pubs, of course, but I am not sure they are allowed to bring their rifles in with them, even when off duty. As a soldier, I didn't carry weapon myself, but friends of mine did and none of them ever brought one into a bar. Could be because its a shitty idea, could be because of law. \n\n2nd Edit: consulted a friend who was also a combat instructor. Apparently to carry weapon you must have what is called \"Hoger\" - a military ID - to carry weapon. You must have it on you whenever you carry weapon. The law in the IDF states that if you are home off duty, you must disassemble your weapon to 3 parts and lock it under a double lock. If there isn't one and you are the only one in the house with the expertise to handle weaponry, you must take the weapon with you to make sure it's safe, even to a bar, and keep the Hoger with you. You aren't allowed to drink alcohol, obviously, but depending on the circumstances, you'd have to take it with you. The image is too vague to know for sure what is behind it, so I retract my statement; it depends if she were ordering alcohol or not. Also, apparently the background behind this image is a known one, said girl is apparently in a wedding. So yeah, overall, we need more details to know if she'd be court martialled or not.",
"You’re incredibly talented. This is as gorgeous as the original <3",
"hypocrisy of Hollywood Mel Gibson and Charlie Sheen among others are nearly boycotted by Hollywood for racist and obscene remarks and domestic violence under influence of alcohol an drugs which they even apologized for but Gal Gadot faces no backlash for actively supporting those that murder Palestinians.",
"Is it just me or does she look like Keanu's sister?",
"It's not even a bar (too bright, no stools). It's probably a wedding. ",
"God damn armchair colored pencil drawing critics",
"Well I just did my risky click at work for the day.",
"She was a combat *fitness* instructor, which is basically a gym instructor.\n\nThe picture is probably from her boot camp.",
"I don't know how I went 23 years of my life without knowing she exists. ",
"*sigh*....unzip.",
"What a gorgeous Gal.",
"Best I can do with colored pencils is stickmen",
"Incredible work mate. ",
"Her eyes and cheek bones remind me a lot of Keanu Reeves. Anyone else see it too?",
"That's so impressive! ",
"I see Keanu Reeves",
"Gal is a human, not a pencil.",
"Yeah, but why not just leave out the pencils?",
"Idk, ask the artist Omri Grnit (as I'm mentioned below). Judging by the top comment being about the pencils, imagine he put them in for aesthetic reasons",
"[Everything You Do Is A Balloon](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSQIxo96HcQ)\n\nBoards of Canada",
"I know I'm gonna to sound like a douche bag but celebrating celebrities always makes me cringe a little bit. I know it's just a picture and not a big deal but it reminds me of how distracting it all can be from the people who really deserve our idealization and respect. Not that those things are finite but time and attention are finite. Celebrities do great things and I'm sure they appreciate their fans but I imagine many of them would agree as well. This is a fantastic drawing and very well executed and people should create whatever they want. I'm only talking about how I feel personally about this kind of thing. I've never been comfortable with it. ",
"\"Just in case you don't believe me, here's my pencils and sharpener\".",
"God damn armchair colored pencil drawing critics critics\n\n",
"And I can barely colour within the lines... not fair. ",
"I know it's not what you mean, but it's funny you say glowing because she was pregnant at the time. Which honestly might be more impressive",
"Looks like a doctor",
"To me she looked (as Joey Diaz would say) \"like a doctah, son\".",
"God damn armchair colored pencil drawing critics critics critics",
"Spicy ",
"I actually know her, served some time together in the army. sending her the pic now.",
"That looks amazing!!!! How long did it took you?",
"Oh look, a Zionist who supports the slaughter of Palestinians!\n\n What a treat. ",
"OMG this is amazing!!!",
"I stay behind my words. The sketch is better than the photo and better than Gadot IRL",
"Those pencils are no longer the only hard wood",
"Great drawing of Natalie Portman",
"Woooooow 😃",
"Gal Gadot needs to play Lydia in the future Skyrim movie.",
"I love how teens talk about how hot she is. She’s old enough to be your mom!",
"This is absolutely amazing! I totally thought this was a photograph. ",
"That's really good, wow ",
"Armchair colored? How could you. That's racist.",
"[search better](http://poracponders.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/IDF-Girls-on-The-Beach-With-Guns.jpg)",
"*They're not?*...",
"She is a rare gem."
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"And those were his last thoughts...",
"|Doge \n|Take a picture \nPic one.",
"Looks like\nThe division ",
"*thump*",
"Should’ve had a blunt in the pic ! Great healthcare yay , Go Canada !",
"Honestly looks like the poster for a scary movie titled “Snowy night in Toronto”",
"Where a bus becomes sentient one night a year to avenge unpaid bus fare. ",
"My new phone wallpaper, thank you. May put a text caption on it to make it into a makebelieve film poster!",
"That’s awesome! Appreciate the support 😊 That would be cool!"
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Snowy night in Toronto...
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[
"Goodbye cruel world!! ",
"You gotta teach ‘em early. ",
"Wabbit season.",
"source?",
"To be fair its like a human looking down the barrel of a howitser while no one is running the fire control system. Its still stupid but you probably wont die"
] | 5 |
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Childrens book
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"He is pretty big for being -3 years old.",
"r/thathappened",
"Hahaha, cute. I guess he will fall asleep."
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Wow wow wow.... I'm surprised when saw my just -3 year old son meditating like this.
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"This is beautiful ",
"Thank you so much! \n",
"Love this kind of scence."
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My friends at the lake after a day of photography
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[
"Proof that it's the same artist?",
"http://www.telegraph.co.uk/art/artists/obama-portrait-painterkehinde-wileys-past-work-depicted-black/\n\nHe's made 2 paintings of blacks beheading whites",
"Yes, I see now. See my other comments to you on politics. He explained why. So, I've seen artists that depict things in all kinds of gross ways. What do you think it means?",
"kill whitey",
"A play on kill whitey.\n\nA play: N \n\n\"a piece of writing that tells a story through the actions and words of characters and that is performed on a stage\"\n\n\"the action in a sport or game\"\n\nSo, what you are saying is theres no such thing as art that isn't completely 100% literal. No such thing as satire, or whimsy, or irony, or mocking, or narrative: aka what the words \"a play on\" means. \n\nSo lets say, if someone paints a historical massacre, they support that massacre. Like Piccasso's guernica means he supports war."
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Another painting by the artist who made Obama's portrait
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[
"Well damn. She cant ever get her pinky x-rayed again",
"Can you tell me where you got this image?I searched all website from China but can not find it.Thanks for replying,Thanks.",
"Wife is of asian decent with a predisposition towards pretty bags. Standing instructions are if we get mugged to save the handbag and leave her behind.",
"Here! https://www.pearvideo.com/video_1279996",
"Thanks "
] | 5 |
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Dongguan, China: Woman follows precious purse into X-ray machine
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"Romantic setting.",
"needs bacon. ",
"damn, you're right....",
"it all looks really pretty tho. with or without bacon lol "
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Dangerous Valentine's Day Session
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[
"Ducks don’t eat fish, they dive for tiny shells in the slack on the bottom of the lake/pond",
"Wow TIL, thank you! \n",
"Very pretty! I can’t wait for the lakes to unfreeze where I’m from. ",
"Ducks also eat small fishes.and it's omnivorous animal.",
"Oh shoot TIL"
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A duck preparing to dive for fish
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[
"Aww jeez",
"Rick and scared Hitler",
"Haha, I did not see that...",
"*Get Schwifty!*",
"You have to have a fairly high hand eye coordination to build these. ",
"Seriously, though - these are great. "
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Course had some modeling clay to mess around with, made these guys...
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"The proper way to handle this is to gang up and beat the shit out of them. Those people are nothing less than pure evil. ",
"but mardi gras is technically religious ",
"Some people need more things to do with their time",
"They’ve been doing that for years. The best reply is to enjoy your drink and laugh in their face. ",
"Ah, the annual “Christian” protesters on Bourbon during Mardi Gras. I used to be a part of the sect that did this. Their belief is kinda like, “Any publicity is good publicity.”\n\nThey cling to a verse that states, and I’m paraphrasing, “Any way someone hears of Christ, at least they’re hearing of Christ.”\n\nI always thought it was counterintuitive, but I was a kid, so I didn’t say anything. ",
"Stand on bourbon street with a sign? That's gay!",
"After they're done with the Muslims and atheists, these kinds of Christians turn on each other... notice the anti catholic signs. ",
"These dummies actually think they’re accomplishing something, lol. ",
"Fun fact: hell doesn’t exist ",
"Honestly, I think that would just inflame their hate further. Best to just ignore them imho.",
"If you ignore them their ideology spreads and soon they elect like minds to power. ",
"more people would be christian, if Christians didn't act like they do. "
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"!dreambot7",
"/r/test",
"confusing "
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Test - Will Delete
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"Holy hell ",
"End is near :(",
"I pay $125 for 25 Mbps, \n\nI'd love to have 70 for $100",
"Yep. Us Aussies have managed to completely fuck this up as well. Electricity and gas prices here are horrendous, water, fuel - pretty much everything we need to function above the level of the caveman. It's like being stuck in an early 1900s Groundhog Day with political attitudes to match.",
"It's as though we've been at a party for the past 25 (or so) years. \nAt first only a few people turned up, and they made small talk on the sofa. \nThen a few local kids arrived and started playing music. \nSome girls turned up and everyone started dancing! \nThen the popular people arrived and brought loads of booze! \nCurious neighbors came over to see what was going on, \nNow we've reached the stage where the landlord has realised he could be making money off this, and is kicking everyone out and charging them tickets to get back in! \nOnly short while before the grumpy old lady across the road calls the police on everyone :(",
"Point is it's fucked, they're limiting our speeds.",
"is it just me, or does 2500$ for 2 years of internet seem super expensive? ",
"It’s okay our healthcare prices suck. ",
"The whole NBN system is bullshit! They should have stuck with the original plan of replacing all of the copper wire, all the way to the port inside the house, instead of having it stop at a node in your neighbourhood and having your house still connected by copper wire. this system they have only solved a small part of the problem. ",
"And?\n\nWhen you buy a car, do expect every car to be able to hit the same speed for the same price?",
"Cars are different fuckwit.",
"I don't know if you know this or not, but most internet companies have caps on their data speed.",
"Fucking brutal. ",
"That is some shit ISP offering!\n\nI pay $45USD/month after taxes for 250dn/10up",
"turn that frown upside down...",
"$2500/24=$104.17 per month",
"Yeah we're slowly fucking that up too. Private health insurance is virtually compulsory now, very expensive but limited in which procedures are available and what costs are covered. Public health system is fantastic and most people use it - even though we're required to have private health coverage. ",
"Unlimited ftth NBN iiNet with speed boost is so good though. ",
"iiNet is fucked, anyway.",
"Welcome to our lovely Australia where Telstra's monopoly on the market grows exponentially and the ACC can do nothing :/",
"I'd trade for any of those plans. I pay $70/month in California for 15GB. Satellite internet sucks.",
"Sorry to tell you, it's always been that way here.",
"I get gigabit fiber for $80/month in Austin with AT&T. I get that speed all day long.",
"You probably live in the middle of nowhere, because that's the only time satellite Internet is an option.",
"This is how it's been for a long time. 20 years, I'd say. We've always had speed tiers, and bundles with Internet+TV, or Internet+Phone, or all three.\n\nWhat hasn't happened yet is paying extra for standard channels. We are pretty much already there though, for at least a decade, with having standard TV, and then adding sports packages and movie packages that give more channels.",
"damn dude you can get 42Mbps? for only $80?\n\nThat's fucking solid bro.\n\nI can get 10mb for $60, or dsl for $55."
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This came in the Aussie mail today - Don't let this be you America.
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[
"Thats an elderly woman. Possibly her grand mother.\n\nKhoisan women sometimes wear headbands (such as this [here](http://c8.alamy.com/comp/DYNG9F/bushman-woman-with-beaded-traditional-headdress-tsumkwe-namibia-DYNG9F.jpg) )\n\nAfaik men do not.",
"Wow, I want to meet them. ",
"Ah, ok. My mistake. Thank you for the clarification.",
"They're so unique. They've been genetically isolated from other ethnic groups for thousands of years but they have such a wide range of phenotypes. \nhttps://www.saddlensurf.co.za/images/carousel/IMG_2026.JPG",
"And that lady's been there the whole time.",
"They are surprisingly photogenic for an isolated group",
"They have some cute females. ",
"That's kinda cool. I wonder who's the youngest",
"Women, they're called women.",
"This is what being in the sun all the time make you look like. ",
"There is a model on Instagram named Carmen Solomons, she is Khoisan. She’s an interesting example of their diversity, she’s a natural auburn with light eyes! :)",
"Amerindians I believe.",
"Really? Pretty interesting, that is. ",
"Look at their teeth, I want their dental plan!",
"Her forearm skin looks like a shirt sleeve that's a bit too large. ",
"Yep, a raisin.",
"The one on the left.",
"Or the skin on hot chocolate. ",
"They look like Xi from The God Must be Crazy. The Bushmen are a subgroup of the Khoisan. TIL.",
"She need some cocoa butter. "
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The Khoisans are the oldest ethnic group of modern humans, originating over 100,000 years ago
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[
"i hope it's written by the doggo himself",
"I hope I got the subreddit right, someone's cutting onions at the office so my vision is blurry",
"Seems more like requests?",
"11. No take, only throw.",
"Hard to read. I just had to put my nearly 15 year old dog to sleep 4 days ago. ",
"fuck you you're the one that's crying",
"Thanks for reminding me of [one of the best wholesome memes of all time](https://i.imgur.com/q46L4QH.jpg).",
"you seem more like a request?",
"I'm a cat owner. The only thing is see is \"bark bark bark woof woof\". Do you see something else written there?",
"I'll be honest, number 10 made me choke up a little bit.",
"Damn... I feel for you, brother. May his soul find peace and that long lost ball.",
" am i turned out to be a werewolf?",
"Number 7 is not applicable to chihuahuas.",
"A request you seem more like?",
"I tried to make one for cats but it just said \"fuck you, feed me\" ten times.",
"God dammit OP, it's 5am and I'm in the middle of a heavy lift day at the gym. I don't need to be crying right now",
"This just makes me wanna hug the next stray dog I find",
"Right in the feels, and I don't even have a dog",
"It's amazing how they wiggle into a spot in your heart and claim it.",
"Damn invisible ninjas cutting onions!",
"Damn this is.. really fucking deep.",
"My only problem is #4. We have a very large ex-fighting pitbull, she's old now so finally calmed down, but she never would have learned how to not attack people if she wasn't crated as punishment occasionally. I like the sentiment, but the opposite point is they're animals and have animalistic impulses, they need to be trained if they're going to be expected to live amongst humans. Immediate Edit because I lost my train of thought, the point I was trying to get to was that positive and negative reinforcement work with animals. If you're locking up a little dog for 12 hours because it escaped when you opened the door, yeah you suck. But if you're being a responsible pet owner telling your dog to go to the crate is absolutely fine.",
"Yesterday for me.",
" Christ almighty someone is chopping a 10lb bag of onions somewhere because I can't see so well after reading #10. \n\nThat's my biggest fear right now though. I have a cat and that cat is my world next to my wife. I don't know if when the time comes I can be a strong enough man to hold my little girl but god I hope so.",
"Lol",
"It’s just awful, isn’t it? I pretty much cry whenever she crosses my mind. I know at some point I’ll remember her as she was, but that feels really far off right now. \n\nI’m glad that I was able to lay down next to her as she passed. \n",
"Worked as a veterinary assistant for almost 10 years and nothing made me more angry than people who would drop off their pet to be put down and not stay! Wtf! You are abandoning your baby because it’s “too hard for you?” Eat me. This is your baby. My voice should not be the last one they hear telling them what a good boy/girl they are. There’s a special place in hell for people like that.",
"I came here to laugh, not to feel!",
"The point is that you don’t want your dog to see staying in their crate as a punishment, you want them to like their crate. Now I’ve crated my dogs at times after they’ve barked at guests or otherwise gotten excited, but it wasn’t a punishment. When crating I don’t use an angry tone, nor do I tell them that they are bad dogs.",
"What?! Fuck you! I'm not crying! You're crying!",
"Who's cutting the damn onions.... (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻",
"The poor dog, in life the firmest friend, \nThe first to welcome, the foremost to defend, \n Whose honest heart is still his master's own, \nWho labors, fights, lives, breathes for him alone, \nUnhonored falls, unnoticed all his worth, \nDenied in heaven the soul he held on earth. \nWhile man, vain insect, hopes to be forgiven, \nAnd claims himself a sole, exclusive heaven. \nOh, Man! thou feeble tenant of an hour, \n Debas'd by slavery, or corrupt by power, \nWho knows thee well must quit thee with disgust, \nDegraded mass of animated dust! \nThy love is lust, thy friendship all a cheat, \nThy tongue hypocrisy, thy heart deceit, \nBy nature vile, ennobled but by name, \nEach kindred brute might bid thee blush for shame. \nYe! Who behold perchance this simple urn, \nPass on, it honours none you wish to mourn. \nTo mark a friend's remains these stones arise, \nI never knew but one - and here he lies. \n\n- Lord Byron",
"Credit to the photographer, Imgur user [tonysai](https://imgur.com/gallery/58cH6/comment/1085378957).\n\nAlso, credit to the author, [Stan Rawlinson](https://www.doglistener.co.uk/about-me), a dog trainter from England, who wrote this in 1993.\n\n[Here](https://www.doglistener.co.uk/humour/commandments.shtml) he states:\n\n> **You can use my Ten Commandments in websites,blogs facebook etc, as long as it is not for financial gain. \nI would require being credited as the author, and linked back to my site with the following:**\n\n> Stan Rawlinson Dog Behaviourist and Obedience Trainer. Author of the \"Ten Commandments For Pets\" \nYou can visit his website and articles at https://www.doglistener.co.uk/",
"Had to say goodbye to my pup back in June. I wish I could say things get better by now. ",
"I didn't fucking come here to feel today damn it!",
"Just saw this at the gym. Now im crying after puting my girl to sleep 11 days ago. Thanks for making me cry while trying to look tough at the gym.",
"Didn't expect a sign to put tears in my eyes.",
"Don't you just hate the rain? ",
"Now I want to go home and love on my silly “stink butt”. ",
"I had a cat growing up, I'd essentially raised her myself and the only person she really tolerated was me. She developed cancer and my parents refused to do anything that could potentially save her... They didn't even want to pay to put her down when the tumor got so large that she couldn't effectively eat any longer. So I paid for it myself, thanks to my new job (I was 16). My mom wouldn't let me stay. I didn't get to say goodbye. I remember looking back at her, on that table meowing after me as the door to the room closed and I walked away, and I knew she was in pain and confused, panicking. It's been 15 years. It still haunts me. I wish I'd had the choice. I'd have stayed with her until the end. ",
"Why is it raining in my eyes?",
"Put our Aussie down two weeks ago, and one of our horses last week. Had to put dogs, cats, and horses down before but it doesn't get easier. You do what you can for them and be there when the time comes.",
"That’s fucking traumatic. My vet (very close friend of mine) let me do the deed myself. Before I gave her the injection to numb her and make her fall asleep she reached out to me with her paw and a last meow. Sucked then, and still sucks now. ",
"Beware all, this image is made of chopped onions.",
"Mine tried a feeble attempt to stand up and I assume go run when he got the injection. I had to give him a nudge to push him back onto his side so he wouldn't make it any worse than it was. It'll never not suck, man.",
"As a fellow dog owner, I read on here once that a pet companion is a loan of happiness, with interest.\n\nWhile somewhat true, I think of the happy times spent with a pet outweigh time when they leave us.\n\nSorry for your loss.",
"A dog owners ten commandments",
"2 years ago for me, and this still hit me in the eyes.",
"Today at 4:15 for me. ",
"always fulfill number 10. \n\nalways.\n\n(I didn't do it once)",
"I will be there. I will be a mess, but I will be there, talking to him, holding his paws, rubbing his belly, and crying like a robot is trying to supply every restaurant in the country with minced onions under my nose. And when he goes, a part of me will die in that room with him.",
"[\"It looks like it is beginning to rain\"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kQukPQDSag)",
"Goddamn. Your parents sound like shit. I’m glad you learned that animals are important and deserve to be cared for. It’s up to us to provide them with the best we can.",
"I’ve been through it more times than I care to remember. I’ve been with each of them until their last. It kills me. It rips me open but absolutely nothing could keep me out of that room. It’s their time and it’s about them. The last words they all hear is how much mom and dad loves them. From mom and dad.",
"All of my dogs have been crate trained, except one, all we had to do was say \"go to your crate\" and they'd go sit in it. They never got locked in, but if it was punishment they would sit there until released (it was never for extended periods of time).",
"Glad you had the time together. Sux it has to end..",
"Or German Shepherds. The only way I've been able to teach mine what's naughty without using a shock collar is by giving her light smacks. Really couldn't be considered abuse either judging by how hard she plays with my brothers dogs",
"Who's cutting all the onions in here!?!?!",
"Question about number 5. Is there any evidence to suggest dogs prefer you to speak to them? I feel like if I were an animal, I'd find human speech off-putting and creepy. Imagine a giant staring at you and mumbling gibberish. ",
"That's not far from pretty good marriage vows.",
"Mine's only 9 but he may have to go soon. Tearing me up.",
"WHO PUT ALL THESE TEARS ON MY KEYBOARD",
"Yeah you have to go with your pet. Don't let him die in a room with a stranger confused and scared ",
"Damned ninjas and their onion cutting again",
"I'm so sorry to hear that. It does get better. It's been just over three years for us and it's still painful to think about, but nothing like it was in first few days.\n\nKeep the memories alive, and cherish the photos you have.",
"I have a 14 year old dog that I can't imagine life without. This brought a tears.",
"All except #1 is me in a relationship.",
"http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/dogs-can-understand-human-speech-scientists-say-a7216481.html \n\nThis is an article of a study done in Hungary and it showed that dogs understand human language more than previously expected. It’s not what I was trying to find. I was looking more for studies done that shows that the human voice is calming to a dog but this study implies that it’s also about the content, not just the tone.",
"A dog's kennel should be where it goes to feel safe. Personally how I've trained my dog is that he cannot be punished in his kennel or used as punishment. From my experience the worst punishment is to neglect them of your attention for about 15 min, I don't even make eye contact. And the end result for me was a dog that hates to disappoint me.",
"Put my old pup down back in November. Nothing prepares you for that moment and nobody prepares you for how much everything relating to dogs will hurt. \n\nI think of my old pup everyday. ",
"Ahhhh my baby girl is turning 17 in July. Jack Russel Terrier and I’m so afraid ): ",
"Bastard, my baby girl is 12 this year. Every morning i wake up a lil scared she might not wake up today.",
"Hard to believe people do that. I had to have mine put down a few months ago and it still hurts. I couldnt imagine leaving him there as the last thing he sees is a room full of strangers",
"My pup died when my family was in the middle of a separation and I didn't get to see her for the last year of her life.\n\nTreasure your memories. ",
"Who’s cutting the fucking onions goddammit",
"Aaaaaaaand I'm crying.",
"I had to leave my dog behind at my parent's house when I went away to college. At some point I came home for a week and noticed she wasn't doing so well. It turns out the family had been mistreating and neglecting her. I blew up at them, but there wasn't much more that I could do. A few months later she died. She was my friend for 13 years before I had to leave and whenever I think about how her last six months must have been it tears me in half.",
"Aaand I see this as I'm in the waiting room, and my pup is in surgery for flail chest after he fell yesterday. 8 or 10 feet. Perfectly onto a 3 or 4 inch diameter stump. Had to get fire dept to come extract us from the woods.",
"Yeah, I remember our golden retriever in this situation. She'd been through multiple homes before we got her from my sister-in-law and finally got her a stable home. She ended up passing away in the back yard by her food bowl with my wife and I both there with her.\n\nMy Jindo, though. That stubborn dog wanted to be by herself for her last moments and fought it every step of the way. Too proud a dog to be seen in her weakened state. She was a wonderful dog, though.",
"My vet came to my house to put my dog down in my living room. It was tough but so much better off. Do yourself and your pet a favor and ask your vet, they might do it. Who cares if it costs a little more? Make those last moments a little less painful for everyone and cut out the stress of the vet's office. Dogs don't normally associate all the noises and smells there with a pleasant time. Allow them to be relaxed at home with their family. Worth asking about when the time comes.",
"Right in the feels...",
"My in-laws had a vet come to the house so the dog would be comfortable and with his family. ",
"I still get sad when I drop a piece of food and my old roommate's dog isn't there to win-win with me. She scores a treat, I don't have to bend over and clean. Nothing wasted. Perfect relationship. \n\nShe wasn't even my dog, she's still alive and it's been 3 years since I lived with her. \n\nReally don't want to imagine what people in your position are going through. ",
"Just take it home!",
"Pooping and crying really is a rollercoaster of feelings",
"Just lost a cat today and wasn't ready for this.",
"This brought the feels -- had to put my best friend down 2 years ago - I tear upon remembering that day",
"is someone cutting onions around here or something?",
"Man, it's been at least 10 years since my dog passed away and this post still brought me close to tears. I haven't been that attached to a pet since then. I keep her dog tag on my keychain so i always have something to remember her by. I miss you Sparkle, hope you are resting well.\n\nAnd by not as attached i mean i've lived with people who had pets, but i haven't had one of my own since she passed. It's less painful for me if they are someone else's pet and i just get to give them love and pats all the time.",
"Why is my face wet? Excuse me whilst I go and cuddle pupper!!! ",
"I know for a fact that our doggo understands what we say. We will tell her to get a certain toy and she does every time.",
"I'm not crying YOU'RE crying.",
"I went with my wife (girlfriend at the time), when she put her cocker spaniel down. He had this massive tumor on his back leg, would randomly lose the ability to walk and stuff. Bubba apparently didn’t like anyone, previous boyfriends included, but bubba liked me. By like, I mean he didn’t incessantly bark at me or try to bite me. Whenever we hung out, Bubba was pretty chill, I’d pet him, normal dog/human interactions. My wife couldn’t bear to be in the room, so it was me and my wife’s mom in there with bubba. \n\n\nWe now have a Staffy, Hurley, who’s 8, and I don’t know what I’m going to do when Hurley goes off to college.",
"It's been a while since I had to put mine down. She had gone through a period of eating barely anything. When she was on the vet's table, we offered her treats. She ate veraciously. It broke my heart to think she knew she was about to die and that was her last meal. \n\nFuck me for not bringing a burger.",
"Ha! In that they *couldn't* really hurt you or they *do* wish to bite you?",
"Damn right. And maybe something people should be made to read and sign before becoming parents.",
"Oh no... good luck to you both!",
"We did this. My partner couldn't stay in the room while he was put to sleep, but I stayed with him until he left for cremation. The vet and nurses helped me put him in a sleeping bag afterwards so my partner could say goodbye one last time and he could be taken out to the crematorium vehicle that was waiting. ",
"My first pup and I said our goodbyes about 2 1/2 years ago and for a bout 2 months I could not think of him without crying. Slowly, I was able to smile about him From time to time. Just last week, I bawled my eyes out, but the happy memories far outnumber the memories from that last terrible week. Like you, I was holding him at the end, and as much as it hurt then, I wouldn’t have it any other way now.\n\nCry now. It’s okay. It will get better and the happy memories will outweigh the bad. ",
"Suddenly my eyes are wet...",
"When my parents had to put the dog I grew up with down, I FaceTimed with them as I was many states away. She was really more my dog than anyone else's. It was hard, but worth it to be with her in her last moments. ",
"I'm really sorry for you. Im happy you're able to make the decision for your pup to let them leave their suffering. I'm sure that doesn't make it any better though",
"awww that hit me in the feelz",
"Great. My boy is 7 years old and we have more years but now I'm crying. ",
"I've prepared for the downvotes. When we put our Aussie shepherd down about 12 years ago we didn't even know you could do such a thing. The vet told us it was for the best to put him down but neither he or his staff ever offered to let us be in the room and we just didn't know. \n\nI feel sick about it and our current good boy will not be treated that way when his time comes.",
"It's a mixed bag. Some people have said it'll forever make them think of what happened in that room that they are in all the time. With that said, I did it, because it was the right thing for my animal. About twice as expensive as going to the vet, but it was absolutely the right move for us. ",
"Try to take some comfort knowing the time spent with your furry friend far outweighs the pain at the end! Hang your head high that you provided a life for that furry guy! And it’s awesome you had the strength to get another good boy! Hang in there to everybody going though this. I dread that day. They may have to put me down too. I’m crying like a baby trying to play with him now. Why’d I come here?",
"I’m crying :-( Someone must be chopping onions somewhere...",
"Ass hats. And who the fuck started cutting onions?! ",
"Just remember it was written by some dude who has no idea how a dog thinks",
"This really hits home especially #10.\n\n2 years ago when my previous dog got cancer at 8 years old, he spent his remaining few weeks sleeping in my bed and hanging on the couch with us. \n\nSince he wasn't eating his good, I switched his diet and every night he had steak (tenderloin) and sweet potatoes, chicken and rice or salmon for breakfast and dinner. For a pup that wasn't eating, he did pretty well the night before he left us. 2 tenderloin steaks (little bugger ate his steak, then mine), followed by a half a roast chicken. I had Mr Noodles...\n\nWhen the vet said it was time to move on, I was laying on the floor wth him until he was gone and I wouldn't have it any other way.\n\nMan I miss him. Love you bud\n\nEdit: spelling",
"This is good stuff. My cat Charlie passed away a couple of weeks ago, and I just keep trying to tell myself that every moment of happiness with her was a gift, I was never entitled to have her forever. \n\nIf never having her would take this pain away, fuck that. We had an amazing life together and I’ll gladly pay the interest on that loan. She truly made me a better person ♥️",
"I know exactly wha you’re saying. All along I’ve known the day would come, and my plan was to give her the biggest steak she could eat. It came on so suddenly that I didn’t get the chance. That’s going to bother me for ages. ",
"My biggest regret.. it was expensive and I knew my parents were struggling ",
"These aren't commandments for a dog, they're for a dog *owner*",
"I hear you. At least we can take solace in the fact that they didn't know what we had planned so they didn't know there was anything to miss out on.",
"Thank you! We're back home now, and he's much more himself. So far so good healing from surgery.",
"Thank goodness for that! I'm so happy to hear it :)"
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A dog's Ten Commandments
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[
"wow, great work",
"I see no banana for scale.",
"Where is the car ?",
"Lol, This was made back in August.\n\nSo the car is in the planet. Try zooming in on earth.",
"Thank you.",
"India?",
"Yes",
"I miss Pluto.",
"The scale seems a bit off.",
"I couldn’t find proper size of balls for this. "
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I made a solar system model-chart for my cousin. She loved it and is now into astronomy. She is in 4th class.
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[
"Pretty sure it’s looking at me...",
"well that's awesome haunter on your skin",
"Haunted water 0_0",
"The Juggernaut?\n\nhttps://www.google.com/search?q=the+juggernaut&client=safari&channel=iphone_bm&prmd=ivsn&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjfi-m1yKLZAhXQ0VMKHdBBDoMQ_AUIESgB&biw=414&bih=622&dpr=3#imgrc=NBcbsYS_mp0whM:"
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This splash of water
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"It looks like this post is about US Politics. Various methods of filtering out content relating to US Politics can be found [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/wiki/v2/resources/filter/politics).\n\n*I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/pics) if you have any questions or concerns.*",
"Trumps hands are waaaaay too big. ",
"The finer points of Trump jokes have not made it across the Atlantic."
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Trump and Kim Jong-un at the carnival in Mainz, Germany
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[
"lol kidnapped",
"Pretty accurate representation of what Uber is like for women.",
"Oh god, they're learning!",
"He's backpacking the outdoors",
"Crocodile shoes?",
"This is staged (i.e. [both animals are taxidermied](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2016/12/14/she-staged-a-viral-story-you-fell-for-her-hoax-she-thinks-thats-beautiful/?utm_term=.33dcb2ce5f41)).\n\n[Here](http://i.imgur.com/xy7p2QA.jpg) is a higher resolution and less cropped version of this image. \n\n> In case you don’t remember: In 2015, there was an incredible viral photograph, a “lucky” shot, that showed a raccoon perched on the back of a swimming alligator. A man named Richard Jones told the local news that he’d snapped the picture himself, and a lot of Florida news outlets ran with it. The story spread to larger publications. It went viral.\n\n> There were plenty of doubters, of course. But also many believers, people who would prefer to live in a world where a raccoon could use a predator as a ferry. And that preference is exactly what Zardulu understands so well.\n\n> “I staged the raccoon and the alligator,” Zardulu said. The animals are taxidermied; she sprayed each with a commercial product used to waterproof leather to protect them from the water. Zardulu showed us photographs of the setup, and some of herself, in costume, clutching the animals.\n\nI'm sure many people have never seen this before. Reposts often aren't a bad thing, especially if it hasn't been posted for some time. But as some of the previous threads have a lot of useful information about this image, it's worth linking to them.\n\ntitle | points | age | /r/ | comnts\n:--|:--|:--|:--|:--\n[A racoon casually riding an aligator.](http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/64r120/a_racoon_casually_riding_an_aligator/) | 73 | 10^mos | pics | 11\n[A raccoon riding an alligator](http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/5w9kg2/a_raccoon_riding_an_alligator/) | 7697 | 11^mos | pics | 97\n[Guardians of the Galaxy 2 looks sick!](http://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/58jv4p/guardians_of_the_galaxy_2_looks_sick/) | 508 | 1^yr | funny | 11\n[Trashpanda riding swamplizzard](http://www.reddit.com/r/trashpandas/comments/4t3sl5/trashpanda_riding_swamplizzard/) | 265 | 1^yr | trashpandas | 9\n[Somebody in Florida snapped this photograph of a raccoon riding an alligator in Ocala National Forest.](http://www.reddit.com/r/aww/comments/4lfx58/somebody_in_florida_snapped_this_photograph_of_a/) | 41 | 1^yr | aww | 2\n[Somebody in Florida snapped this photograph of a raccoon riding an alligator in Ocala National Forest.](http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/4ld6li/somebody_in_florida_snapped_this_photograph_of_a/) | 4759 | 1^yr | pics | 104\n[Trashpanda riding swamplizzard](http://www.reddit.com/r/trashpandas/comments/4hw6ps/trashpanda_riding_swamplizzard/) | 347 | 1^yr | trashpandas | 13\n[Florida.](http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/44p0m5/florida/) | 53 | 2^yrs | pics | 2\n[Raccoon riding an alligator. Ocala National Forest, Florida.](http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/5jizs6/raccoon_riding_an_alligator_ocala_national_forest/) ^**B** | 59 | 1^yr | pics | 5\n[Racoon riding an alligator at the Ocala National Forest.](http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/7qf9t4/racoon_riding_an_alligator_at_the_ocala_national/) | 27 | 29^dys | pics | 3\n[Take me to your leader](http://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/6tbwxr/take_me_to_your_leader/) | 225 | 6^mos | funny | 11\n[Onward, my reptilian friend!](http://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/39u0uv/onward_my_reptilian_friend/) | 68 | 2^yrs | funny | 4\n[Someone in Florida snapped a picture of a raccoon riding a gator at the Ocala National Forest.](http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/4jv883/someone_in_florida_snapped_a_picture_of_a_raccoon/) | 44 | 1^yr | pics | 9\n[Rocket Raccoon's Redneck cousin](http://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/42y4et/rocket_raccoons_redneck_cousin/) | 118 | 2^yrs | funny | 5\n[Even raccoons use Uber](http://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/3lol2s/even_raccoons_use_uber/) | 1384 | 2^yrs | funny | 30\n[Someone in Florida snapped a picture of a raccoon riding a gator at the Ocala National Forest.](http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/39tj96/someone_in_florida_snapped_a_picture_of_a_raccoon/) | 7104 | 2^yrs | pics | 1748\n",
"Sigh.. Of course it's staged :(",
"turn that frown upside down...",
"Swamp uber. I think I'm witnessing history as this may been a meme birth.",
"I can assure you that women don't get eaten by Uber drivers. You're thinking of Uber Eats.",
"):",
"Thats a lotta risk for a McDonalds run",
" I like it more now I know that.\n>Nobody",
"Nope, Chuck Testa.",
"Taking a ride in the majestic Florida Swamp Cat",
"I find the term \"trash panda\" for raccoons far funnier than I should.",
"Still though, Title 10/10.",
"I demand to know who took this picture of me last Mardi Gras\n"
] | 16 |
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Trash panda catches swamp uber...
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"That's not your dog, this pic has been going around for ages ",
"I have not seen it once!",
"But op claimed it was his ",
"[Reminds me of this](https://i.imgur.com/Rp3lgHg.jpg)",
"nice try op",
"Nope",
"No you didn't ",
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"The original is @smilingbrinks on Instagram, who posted it on July 22, 2016.\n\nReposts:\n\ntitle | points | age | /r/ | comnts\n:--|:--|:--|:--|:--\n[Painting](http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/5vvvob/painting/) | 52 | 11^mos | pics | 5\n[A happy dog with his own painting](http://www.reddit.com/r/aww/comments/6pusu3/a_happy_dog_with_his_own_painting/) | 4547 | 6^mos | aww | 49\n[this is the greatest thing I've ever seen in my life.](http://www.reddit.com/r/aww/comments/5v3vai/this_is_the_greatest_thing_ive_ever_seen_in_my/) | 15847 | 11^mos | aww | 164\n[A model doggo](http://www.reddit.com/r/rarepuppers/comments/4ycc0k/a_model_doggo/) | 1863 | 1^yr | rarepuppers | 25\n[This is the greatest thing I've ever seen in my life.](http://www.reddit.com/r/aww/comments/3z1u4d/this_is_the_greatest_thing_ive_ever_seen_in_my/) | 73 | 2^yrs | aww | 6\n[this is the greatest thing I've ever seen in my life.](http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/3z0az2/this_is_the_greatest_thing_ive_ever_seen_in_my/) | 3959 | 2^yrs | pics | 249\n[PsBattle: Dog imitating picture](http://www.reddit.com/r/photoshopbattles/comments/5v6fb9/psbattle_dog_imitating_picture/) | 67 | 11^mos | photoshopbattles | 3\n[Smile inception](http://www.reddit.com/r/aww/comments/5crku5/smile_inception/) | 221 | 1^yr | aww | 4\n[A picture of a picture of a Good Boyeee](http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/7qsagp/a_picture_of_a_picture_of_a_good_boyeee/) | 62 | 27^dys | pics | 2\n[Dog recreates picture of Dog](http://www.reddit.com/r/aww/comments/7qmqre/dog_recreates_picture_of_dog/) | 30 | 28^dys | aww | 5\n[When your doggo has a beautiful smile, you gotta make a portrait of it.](http://www.reddit.com/r/Eyebleach/comments/7q9y8p/when_your_doggo_has_a_beautiful_smile_you_gotta/) | 36869 | 1^mo | Eyebleach | 175\n[This dog has the best smile I've ever seen!](http://www.reddit.com/r/aww/comments/47bigm/this_dog_has_the_best_smile_ive_ever_seen/) | 26 | 1^yr | aww | 1\n[doggo vs painting](http://www.reddit.com/r/aww/comments/5dd7lu/doggo_vs_painting/) | 4163 | 1^yr | aww | 51\n[Super model!](http://www.reddit.com/r/aww/comments/6tdy9u/super_model/) | 893 | 6^mos | aww | 9\n[2 Happy smiles](http://www.reddit.com/r/aww/comments/5jedwn/2_happy_smiles/) | 56 | 1^yr | aww | 4"
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i got a portrait of my baby girl.
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/r/pics/comments/7x8jbd/selfie_from_1934_complete_with_selfie_stick/
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"Is that Dr. Who? \n\n\n\nI'm not wearing my contacts yet. ",
"And I thought Asians were the first to use selfie sticks.",
"Well the doctor knew that then he went back to the past and remembered the \"technique\".",
"her?",
"Exactly, because before selfies were called selfies they were just called portraits. ",
"It’s not a selfie stick, it’s a remote trigger for a camera on a tripod, but yes we’ve been taking our own portraits since the camera was invented.",
"Yup"
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Selfie from 1934, complete with selfie stick
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/r/pics/comments/7x8lkr/blooming_tuscany/
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"Photographer: Daniel Rericha ",
"This is beautiful. ",
"Reminds me of Gladiator."
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"Blooming Tuscany"
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"German drug fort ",
"Heisenberg would be proud of the boldness of this. ",
"Meth District?\n\nWould you kindly direct me towards the Cannabis district? Whats that? Look for the plume of smoke?"
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An new logistics arm?
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"Adoraboy ",
"Murderboy? ",
"I'm pretty sure that both are grumpy boyes, but the one on the right has a very humanising blep. Still looks grumpy, though. ",
"He looks so badass and cute.",
"Hehehe",
"Yeah that dog looks out for blood"
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Grumpy boy/Silly boy
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/r/pics/comments/7x8p3l/bathroom_at_the_top_of_seoul_tower/
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"Pretty nice view. The Shard in London has a similat bathroom like this.",
"Now, are they facing North Korea or not? If it was me I would prefer to piss towards Kim Jung Un. ",
"I understand the intention begins the social media window decals. To give visitors the idea to take a picture there and too promote their own page, but who wants that crap in their photo? Not I.",
"Came here to comment this. Would piss me off as I don't feel the need to capture absolutely anything and everything on my phone."
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Bathroom at the top of Seoul Tower
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http://i.imgur.com/WIxwd02.jpg
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"That’s Lissard Estate in West Cork for those wondering, wonderful place",
"What's that big hole?",
"That's the Sky Garden. "
] | 3 |
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Irish Sky Garden
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/r/pics/comments/7x8tv5/the_red_district_makati/
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[
"Bottoms Filling Station? That sounds...gross.",
"Its a wonderful place! Go watch midget boxing, then head to the cowboy grill for music, then stagger el chupacabra for tacos..\n\n\nIts actually fairly safe, some random people will show you a menu of women(i believe theyre called pimps) but its a very alive night life.",
"They are actually two separate places. Bottoms is a girly bar and filling station is a 50s diner. ",
"Well, that's much better. Haha."
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The Red District : Makati
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/r/pics/comments/7x8u5s/heres_my_son_who_had_chd_when_he_was_born/
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"Chd?",
"Just recently having a son myself, I cannot imagine going through this.\n\nI hope your little guy is doing well, and everything with the procedure went as planned.",
"He's doing wonderful, thanks. Just a normal kid now days. Full of life and energy. ",
"Congenital heart defect. OP saw the other one hit the front page and decided to cash-in",
"scum",
"Right?! OP is scum for karma-whoring his baby out.",
"Read where my reply was directed at.",
"I'm aware.",
"The thing is you're not"
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Heres my son who had CHD when he was born.
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[
"I can only see walls and windows, no matter which side of my apartment I look out. :(",
"Dude. I can feel you. I lived next to the railway station before moving here. It had a fairly busy intersection right under my 3rd floor window and a ugly ass 60s building right across the street. Had to have my curtains in front of the windows 24/7 and heard the traffic all day till about 10-11pm. I fucking love this apartment. Its cold as fuck sometimes but i don´t care. I love that i can see so far and i never feel like i´m in a box. Also i takes me like 1-3 minutes to get to the town square with my bike so the location is perfect.",
"There goes my tears.",
"turn that frown upside down...",
"This deserves waaaay more upvotes..."
] | 5 |
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Different seasons as seen from my window. [Finland]
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/r/pics/comments/7x8wkf/just_some_soldiers_playing_an_old_school_game/
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"r/oldschoolcool",
"Rayman",
"Hahahahahaha that's awesome"
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Just some soldiers playing an old school game
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/r/pics/comments/7x8wki/obamas_shortly_after_the_photo_unveiling/
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"It looks like this post is about US Politics. Various methods of filtering out content relating to US Politics can be found [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/wiki/v2/resources/filter/politics).\n\n*I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/pics) if you have any questions or concerns.*",
"“That pic *does not* look like me.”",
"I like his, but hers is so monochromatic. She's such a vivid person - bright primary colors in her clothes, rich skin tone, bright eyes. I feel like, however stylish and elegant that portrait is, it isn't reflective of her. ",
"> photo \n\n*Portrait*",
"I wasn't particularly impressed with either portrait, but I do love this photo of them. #couplegoals",
"For reference: \n[Barack Obama](https://imgur.com/NScNaYU) \n[Michelle Obama](https://i.imgur.com/Is1LU9M.jpg)",
"I like how he's manspreading. Miss my man, Obama and his lovely wife. COME BACK!",
"Troll level 10/10",
"And hers doesnt look like her. Head is done so poorly. I feel awful for her. ",
"They hired that artist deliberately, she is known for that style. ",
"What a shame. I've seen a lot of Reddit artists that would do a much better job.",
"Poorly shopped photos. Wow",
"Now I can't stop looking at his hands ",
"Such a classy couple!",
"I really love his portrait and am glad to have learned about the artist, Kehinde Wiley, for the first time. His portraits are awesome and vibrant and I love the vaguely surreal feeling of the backgrounds. I am not good at talking about art but I really like this. ",
"I thought the Barack one was fantastic. The Michelle one looks nothing like her",
"These are paintings.",
"...\n\nLOL ok. Yea you can do better in your sleep I’m sure.........",
"They never claimed they could do better. People are allowed to be critical of stuff even if they aren’t experts in that field. And it really just seems like OP is just saying the picture doesn’t look good to him, which is fair (and I agree). ",
"I don't think you know what \"*manspreading*\" is.",
"Every time I see Obama since the election. \"Don't know what you've got\" by Cinderella plays in my mind.",
"I don't have strong feelings about Barack's one way or another, but Michelle's is objectively bad, in that, it looks nothing like her.",
"[A little from column A…](https://i.imgur.com/w52cNjl.jpg)",
"Man legs.",
"Obama is somewhat concerned with the rate at which the creeper vine has taken over the room, but this is no time to cause a panic.",
"I’ve seen many kehinde Wiley portraits and they have all been fantastic and lifelike...but Michelle’s is terrible. It looks nothing like her and her eyes seem off idk..",
"Now that they have some free time on their hands, could they do a reading of the \"Where is my Super Suit?\" scene from The Incredibles? Please and thank you.",
"I mean, that's the position... it's just not in a public seat.",
"The artist is a dude.",
"Or rather, why do you try to explain to us what \"manspreading\" is...",
"Exactly! Not like I said they were the worst portraits I've ever seen or anything. (They definitely aren't.) I'm just not a huge fan of their artistic interpretation. However, I do absolutely appreciate the skill and talent of the artists.",
"I get it being into the ‘classic’ styles... that is ok. This stuff will be part of the classics in 50 years. I can have my opinion about you’re opinion, too.\n\nP.S. give me a few more downvotes because that was the best thing I’ve ever said to receive so many, and now I wanna shower in em!! ;P ;P ;P",
"When you said that, my brain started singing Big Yellow Taxis by Joni Mitchell",
"disgusting manspreading",
"Two dudes just hanging out. ",
"hate them"
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Obamas, shortly after the photo unveiling.
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"I always find it interesting that they feel it’s necessary to change people’s skin colours like that ",
"british girl vs spanish girl",
"Ugly in both",
"Melanin is prettier",
"The one on the right tho 😍",
"Gorgeous in both though.",
"It doesn't exist tho",
"Yeah, well, that’s just like, your opinion, man.",
"Yea it is. I never claimed it not to be.",
"Definitely both girls I could not even get a sane word out to back in High School. I..I...",
"Both look great.",
"Delete dis",
" Found the Spanish guy ",
"In one she's wearing a bathrobe. In the other, she's wearing her dad's sweater. I'm feeling like the continent just wants her to be comfortable. ",
"> Melanin sufficient guy\n \nFTFY",
"verdad",
"Verde ",
"spanish one forever!",
"Hermana Granger. ",
"neither exist really, if you want to go like that",
"Pale Irish girls with freckles is prettier.",
"Targeted advertising ",
"No post-production necessary, that's just lighting.",
"That surfboard. MEH.",
"> simple-minded guy\n\nmore like",
"Maybe she just got a tan during her trip to Spain ",
"And a lot of hair/makeup work ",
"Has anyone ever noticed that no matter who the magazine is targeted towards, it commonly features a woman on the cover that gazes towards the camera. ",
"True, but the makeup isn't changing her skin color. She might have tanned some between shoots, but almost all of the difference is in lighting.",
"What color was Jesus' skin? Depends on who/where you ask",
"Heeeey Hermana...",
"Please, please keep being my daughters role model. ",
" Herminia Granero* would be her actual translated name lol. ",
"\"5/10, elbows too pointy, would not bang!\"",
"Of course makeup changes one's skin color on many occasions.",
"[Here](https://i.imgur.com/IqFCduu.jpg) is a higher resolution and less cropped version of the second picture.\n\n[Here](https://i.imgur.com/naKNSC6.jpg) is the cover of the magazine with the first image. [Apparently](http://country-magazines.blogspot.com/2014/11/emma-watson-elle-magazine-australia.html) that was also used fort the cover of the Australia version on November 27, 2014.\n\n[Here](https://i.imgur.com/RLRbTt5.jpg) is the actual cover of the magazine with the second image. It was used for the October 2015 edition.",
"Hermano",
"Who is thus Hermano!?!?",
"She has turned into legitimately a very beautiful young woman. She almost has that Audrey Hepburn kind of beauty going. \n\nBut I can’t help but see the frizzy haired ten year old girl, and then it kills it. ",
"Of course, but that's not what is happening in these photos. At least any glamour shoot that I worked on wouldn't waste money paying a make-up artist to do something we can accomplish by fiddling with camera settings and gels.",
"Yeah bro, like, it is. Your opinion, I mean. For sure.",
"I've made a huge mistake....",
"Right. You can see this effect if you use Snapchat and pick the 'beauty' filter or whatever they call it. The camera app on my Galaxy S7 Edge has a similar thing. Its really strange.",
"Damn, I like Spanish Emma Watson!",
"I like that filter it makes me look great for pics ",
"*Illusions*, Michael. ",
"Yeah. Attractive women sells. Who knew",
"Freckles are melanin.",
"It's hard to make Emma Watson look not great. ",
"Feaux-tina",
"vs. Hermoine Gringo?",
"She makes me feel like an unfrosted pop tart ",
"That's because it's always cloudy in England and in Spain people spend their day at the beach getting tanned. They do it to appeal to their target audience and what they are more familiar with.",
"Touche, touche!",
"How can you speak for their intent?",
"Bathrobes and sweaters for everyone!",
"Guys! I think he might be onto something here.",
"Lighting and camera settings, but yeah, it's not like someone went and painted her brown-ish in Photoshop.",
"Upvote for you, mon frère. That means “brother” in French. I don't know why I know that. I took four years of Spanish!",
"So does everyone. 15 years ago the same effect would have taken about 5-10min/pic and you'd pay a professional retoucher to do it in batches.",
"This just in! Finding a beautiful woman attractive ACTUALLY means you're simple. ",
"To me, the sweater version is actually hotter.",
" How would lighting and targeted advertising be racist, really. ",
"For the German version we will put her in a Maybach to make her extra comfy.",
"All that extra studying to be a metamorphmagus really paid off. ",
"*Whoosh*",
"Salsa",
"They changed her god damn skin tone",
"You must be new",
"Adorable in both. ",
"Pretty outside. Ugly inside.\n\nEdit: I admit I was being a little hyperbolic.",
"I didn't know I preferred Latino Emma Watson until now. ",
"Feet look huge. ",
"Despite what old-timey pictures would lead you to believe, growing up in the church I never knew anyone who thought actually thought Jesus was white. It was generally believed he was “olive” to light-brown like other middle-easterners. ",
"She's gorgeous in both",
"> ...Ugly inside.\n\nnever really knew/followed celebrities\n\nis emma watson actually mean or?",
"I'm not sure what this means",
"Hmm interesting, this doesn't happen for me. Maybe cause I was a frizzy haired ten year old around the same time she was.",
"Spain for the win ",
"I’m editing this, apparently I’m wrong. She’s 27. \n\nSo I’m 12 years older than her. That’s still a lot to me. ",
"How does that work? Jesus was American.",
"But she was airbrushed. And I agree, she wasn't browned in post.",
"Also, she sports no freckles in the Spanish version. Are those frowned upon in Spain? Considered a beauty flaw? ",
"Username checks out",
"Eh, not that bad. Plenty of people in my family went for similar age differences. My parents are 15 years apart.",
"British girl vs British girl from Essex",
"nah, it makes you look incapable of taking a good one",
"No she's incredibly pleasant and don't a lot of work for the UN. People dislike her because she gets political and is a feminist. She's an excellent role model for young girls. ",
"TIL i like spanish girls more than british girls",
"Her teeth are too straight in the British one.",
"Very attractive either way.",
"Username checks out",
"holy shit",
"Plain and undesirable.",
"Well I am incapable which is why I use it ",
"Is her face photoshopped from another pic in that second one?",
"What went over my head? That it was a big Lebowski quote? ",
"In the British copy, she's wet because it's more realistic with how much it fucking rains.",
"Aha. It does make sense lol. Well, I bet you really are a frosted pop-tart and just aren't giving yourself enough credit.",
"Didn't work for them, but my grandparents were 11 years apart and worked out great for them. ",
"Photo comparison of Pixel 2 vs Note 8?😁",
"[What we're all picturing](http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/291/121/989.jpg)",
"Its definitely the lighting. I like the one on the right more I think. Looks more wholesome. In not into that wet hair look. \nStroking your womans hair is an awesome way to be intimate. I don't want my hand drenched afterwords",
"Lol, dunno where you spent your time in Spain, but most Spanish people are white homie. ",
"Plain, undesirable no. 1",
"Confidence is attractive ",
"Beautiful people are always dry in Spain. That's because the rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain.",
"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stHFaqQMzrQ",
"Left: Elle | Right: Ella",
"Spent my time in Spain in Mexico.",
"They assume everyone is as racist as they are.",
"Pushing their own ideas about beauty onto everyone.\n\n",
"How is that any different in this context?",
"Heeeey Step-Hermana...",
"Based on outdated racist conventions.",
"It's not a reflection of the countries.\n\nIt's a reflection of the editors.",
"The picture on the left is great, but the picture on the right is also great.",
"Fictional characters can look however you want them to.",
"I just love those eyebrows. So tired of people plucking them out of existence.",
"TIL Spain is in Latin America /s",
"lol",
"Dem Brits want tits. Dem Spanish will banish.",
"Who produce content that will sell well in their respective markets.\n\nWho's tastes are in-turn a reflection of the countries.",
"Over-exposing an image doesn’t make it softer. You would use a filter for that. Over-exposing is allowing to much light to hit the film/sensor. ",
"There's no way not to. If they're trying to present people in ways they think are flattering, they can't help but conform to their own ideas on the subject.",
"Then I guess I didn't mean over-exposure.\n\nI meant shining a shitton of light horizontally at the subject.\n\nLike all the teen youtubers do.",
"15 years apart is not that uncommon. It only seems like a lot when 15 years is the bulk of your life. When you are are 45, 35 doesn't seem like robbing the cradle.",
"No she’s not like that at all. She’s a real feminist. ",
"Just Undesirable No. 1",
"all i gotta say is mami on the right is fuego",
"I know you know this, but you only pointed out a 10 year difference. A 15 year difference is a tad weird if you meet when the chick is 20. But on the other hand, good job dad!",
"Right.",
"and yet i agree ",
"Asking a serious question: I always thought racism meant prejudice against a different race. Wouldn't the target audience be the ones to determine if they're offended by the picture or not? Her skin tone is a few shades different in one pic versus the other, which could be the result of nothing more than an artistic opinion by the photographer and editor. ",
"That's not anything that couldn't be done with makeup and lighting, or even with just a good tan. ",
"I don't totally agree with every word she says but there are much worse ",
"All the feminist activism I've seen from her has been very level-headed, equality-based feminism. I've never gotten the impression from her that she has any animosity toward *men*, just toward misogynists.",
"Burn...\n\n\n\n\n\nin hell",
"It’s more about the softness of light than the amount. How has the light been diffused. A shit ton of hard light directly at the subject will feels harsh and cast shadows. A lot of soft light with fall evenly and give a “soft” look to the subject. ",
"Maybe she got a tan in spain",
"this is what my friends told me and what i personally, though, so i don't really get why people dislike her?",
"Ah yes, the Mitt Romney effect.",
"No doubt. Poor Sammy Sosa can't catch a break with this.",
"this is what i thought and what my friends told me. why would they hate her if shes not feminazi",
"They brownwashed her!",
"The Spanish edition looks so much better. She looks like she has a HUGE forehead on the British one ",
"Yes, and I like a spotted banana. ",
"So what you're saying is that she's a witch.",
"In fairness, we do like clean women too though.",
"Spanish Emma Watson can get it.",
"I really don't think that qualifies as racist. They're both Western European countries. It's just easier for people to relate to what looks like them. ",
"A more interesting question is who hasn't noticed. ",
"Your use of the word \"actually\" is a curious there.",
"I know we're not really supposed to objectify women, but godDAMN she is fine.",
"Even if you speak Portuguese! ",
"What about this is racist? It's targeted demographic advertising. ",
"Nah. Ever heard of “not my type” when referencing appearance? Skin tone/ pigmentation has a lot to do w appearance. Nothing racist with being more attracted to white women over black, or vice versa. ",
"It's just an effect of lighting. You don't have to change skin color, it can be done by the right lighting.",
"He never said they weren’t. Homie.",
"She's gorgeous in either picture, but the one on the right *woof!*",
"They didn't change her skin color, it's just different lighting. The same photographer took [these photos of me](https://imgur.com/a/6rpwM), but the lighting is drastically different in both. ",
"Americans are dumb lol ",
"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUzRcO3c1Ak",
"Left for me",
"It's literally raining as I read this post..",
"Hermione Granger, my first crush ♥️",
"bravo!",
"Pale vs tan",
"No one plucks their eyebrows anymore. Thick brows are in. The thin ones went out like 5 years ago or more.",
"Well I just met my quota for learning today",
"OK, I'm lost.\n\nI don't see how the monkeys are relevant.\n\nI swear you edited some highly-upvoted post and replaced it with a bunch of monkeying around.",
"Harry Alfarerío and Ron Mustelante.",
"I'll make the girl into a strudel =]",
"i feel like this comment may have been changed slightly",
"what is this edit",
"it's just lighting, is it not? no need to read too much ",
"Thank god. Now if we can just get rid of bowl-cut bangs, we'll be getting somewhere.",
"If the sun don't come, you get a tan from standing in the English rain.",
"I'm actually from whatever country you're from so suck it, fellow loser.",
"Can't say as I like it. I tend to look ridiculous with \"beauty\" filters, it's so obvious when they're on. My skin pigment is lacking to the point of translucency, and my features are poorly defined, so the filter evens the skin tone so much that I look glowy and blurry and kinda blends my nose in with my cheeks.",
"I am so confused about all of the responses to the original comment, but thankful for the series of random facts. ",
"Literally.",
"Heh, good one.",
"There’s a reason reddit had decided to ban them. Don’t be a creep.",
"[Tequilla](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77Ms1oCiDH4)",
"Not my fault Spain came, raped, murdered, plundered half of the country and suppressed the native culture. I'm not saying USA ain't guilty of it, I'm just saying 'fuck you'.",
"What colour would Spanish people be? They are in Europe and therefore look like other Europeans. I said they spend their time at the beach - hence the tan on the cover picture. It's a lot sunnier in Spain. English people tend to be paler because its always cloudy over there. So the cover intended for England looks paler. It's called targeted advertising. I hope you're not making reference to skin tones of South Americans and confusing them with Spain and the Spanish people.",
"I wonder what would happen if I told you photoshop was a thing since the advent of the personal computer. People used to (and still do) photoshop celebrities faces onto porn, the only difference between that and deepfakes is that you’ve got an AI doing it frame by frame instead of overlaying a video over a video.\n\nDon’t be a fucking sheep, just because you read some fucking Vice article doesn’t mean it’s bad. It’s completely harmless, just like the decades upon decades of photoshop people have tolerated before.\n",
"I’m confused is there something I’m supposed to be noticing between the two?",
"yes, but we are here to judge her on the one positive thing she can offer the world. Her looks.",
"It's just a darker picture",
"That doesn’t make Spanish people Latino. Spain is in Europe whereas Latinos are from a a continent thousands of miles away.\n\nAnyway, calm down with the Spaniard hate mate.",
"Still fuck you, calmly.",
"This is the second comment I've seen like this from this user. Was totally WTF, but interested at the same time.",
"I’m English not Spanish so I don’t know what you’re talking about.",
"God she's beautiful",
"it's his own personal meme. He's got it showing up on top comments on two front page posts right now. ",
"One-size-fits-all software solutions will struggle with people who are extremes - in your case, extremely limited melanin.",
"it was just an engorgio gone wrong mate, chill. I'm sure she'll do a quick reducio when she's got a minute.",
"Huh! I'd have thought people were mad at her because of her hypocrisy with the whole panama papers thing",
"By George, he's got it! ",
"Good with butter on. ",
"My point is that \n\n>Spain people spend their day at the beach getting tanned\n\nis not true because they are mostly white. Firstly, thats a very general statement, and secondly, its not true. Spanish people are not particularly known for \"going to the beach. I mean sure, compared to the English, but compared to the English, penguins at the South Pole get more sun. ",
"it's a fucking stupid meme and it's grounds for deletion if you ask me",
"Who cares she’s literally SO hot regardless haha",
"huh? Interesting facts but again, huh ?",
"I think you're on the wrong side of this. It was never acceptable or harmless, it simply wasn't wide spread enough for there to be an outcry.\n\nThere is nothing \"harmless\" about creating fake porn of someone.",
"Mediterranean white, not Northern white.",
"On girls? Naw I love that.",
"You think she'll want your chode, #174?",
"Left one cuz that's what she actually looks like and she's absolutely gorgeous.",
"I don't understand why you think white people can't get tan",
"....and pastier because there's far less sunshine",
"Yeah. Im in a place where I'm trying to be wok (I'm not bring sarcastic). To much fake stuff out here this is toxic for my mind. I'm trying to find my intelligence again.",
"Personally, my favorite PopTart is unfrosted strawberry, but to each his own.\n\n*edit - Thanks for the gold! (my first) \n\n[To celebrate, here's a link to unfrosted goodness](https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=unfrosted+pop+tarts)",
"She just not hot anymore, as soon as you know her socio political views she looks like a prawn scratching. Shame. ",
"Yea, she looks Spanish for the Spanish magazine. In real life, she isn't that colour. ",
"Have you ever been to southern Spain? Have you ever seen their beaches along the Mediterranean? They have a very long Mediterranean coast line. Ever heard of Ibiza? You really need to travel! http://www.touropia.com/beach-holiday-destinations-in-spain/",
"It's accurate information, though.\n\nSo at least I've got that going for me.",
"I didnt say that no one is darker complexion. Just that its false to suggest that \"Spanish people are \"tan\"\" as a rule. They are not. Which I learned when living in Barcelona, and then traveling around the country. \n\nSo please leave your inane judgements about my qualification to speak on the issue out of it. ",
"Put yourself into their shoes. There’s no consent, and even though it’s edited and not their actual body, it’s still wrong.",
"Whole time she's Meh",
"In the us she'll be in a snuggy and crocks",
"I lived in Spain for 2 years (work related). Traveled extensively through Europe. Do you even understand that white people get tans? Do you understand that people in Mediterranean European countries are more tanned than northern Europeans just because of the climate and daily exposure to the sun? Do you even know what a tan is? You must be American!",
"So hot... https://i.imgur.com/6Kl3Ked.gif",
"Actually looks like... what? It’s closer to what she “actually” looks like. Not even close to what she actually looks like though I’m sure. I mean she’s even wearing a bunch of makeup here not to mention all the photoshopping that probably took place. ",
">most Spanish people are white homie.\n\nThere are people with white skin that have super fair complexion (think light blondes and gingers) that tan pink and get instant sunburns and theres people who are white who tan brown. Its genetics.",
"Ok sure but she's certainly not Spanish and very pale so it's a better representation ",
"Uh, in the first high res image, why does it look like those aren't her legs?",
"I don't even know why London is famous for being \"the rainy city\". \n\nThere are an additional 20 rainy days/year in Munich compared to London. Munich has 130 rainy days/year to offer, while London has only 109. ",
"Fair enough, sorry for misinterpreting :)",
"I hate this meme and want it to stop",
"She has a satellite dish as a forehead. It’s the makeup that makes her look good. Her brain is mush. ",
"Guess that's one way to get people to pm you boobies. Well played OP.",
"No shit--I took my US infantry company on a vacation in Lloret de Mar on Costa Brava, and the bastards kept wanting to get tequila.",
"...which is nice.",
"Damn, can't relate myself. I'm always interested in animals/plants/weather/earth science info.\n\nAnyway, this is actually easier to scroll past then a long chain of puns. So I don't feel too bad about typing it.",
"Do you know her personally? Is left or right her natural skin colour? ",
"Somerset.",
"*[insert Gob Bluth gif here]*",
"I dont care to speak with you anymore. Please fuck off. ",
"Look at the username. He does this a lot. He posts a comment, it gets a lot of votes, then he edits it with stuff like this.",
"This is nothing post. She is wearing different clothes and everything. This most likely just different lighting and make up to match the clothes. \n\nEven if it was exactly the same photo and they made her skin darker for the Spanish version I would still not have a problem with it. They are for different audiences, not everything is controversial. ",
"She can sit on my face anytime. My vote goes to the right picture.",
"Give it a couple years",
"He taught me to walk and to talk like a regular Redditor. ",
"Right is soooo much better. Wet hair is fucking gross.",
"Bronzer is very easy and common to use",
"today's hypocrisy moment goes to /u/ExcerptMusic!",
"I have about 25 minutes of photoshop experience and believe me, that swirly tool can do wonders",
"Funny thing is that the song is totally lying. The rain in Spain stays mainly in the mountainous regions of the north. Not quite so catchy. ",
"On the left is a white lady. On the right is a white lady.",
"Who shit in your coffee this morning?",
"TIL it's more dry in London than in Seattle.",
"i saw that afterwards, finally kinda boring",
"...its a joke",
"Frost world problems",
"I see freckles in both versions...",
"bad humor then. Not exactly witty",
"In Russian edition she wear clothing made from concrete in sub-zero temperature with bear warning cutting photoshoot short.",
"I am Spanish and pasty as fuck. Almost paler than my British friends. Actually, most of my Mediterranean friends are retardedly pale. Its not really as much about genetics as it is about time under the sun. The only thing that's keeping me from appearing Northern is the fact that I have brown eyes, if that's what you mean by Mediterranean white. ",
"I think you forgot the /s tag. Otherwise, you think people don't understand things look different in the dark than the light?",
"This is probably ~~sarcasm~~ a reference to arrested development but for the uninformed “hermana” means sister not brother (hermano). \n\nEdit: edit. ",
"The unfrosted ones are the best. The icing is bad and ruins the pop tart.",
"It was a reference to Arrested Development. Cheers!",
"At least that'll keep her from talking and spreading her feminist propaganda in that whiny voice.",
"And my city Vancouver has 160ish days of rain each year.",
"The unfrosted pop tart still has a rich, gooey, delicious filling in the center. It's not all about what's on the outside. ",
"Unfrosted cherry here, but they're difficult to find, and I like the strawberry variety as well.",
"So apparently Emma Watson is hot in English AND Spanish! Who knew?",
"Holy fuck, tan Emma Watson is something I never knew I wanted...",
">\tIts not really as much about genetics as it is about time under the sun.\n\nThat’s essentially what /u/styphelus said above, and what I was trying to reinforce. Although I also believe Mediterranean locals tend to tan a little better, whereas lots of northerners just turn pink or red in the sun. Even those who work outside.\n",
"Take your upvote and go, you beautiful bastard. ",
"When I used to go out with Emma I had her always darken her skin even darker than that. Much darker.",
"So are lights.",
"wut?",
"Unfrosted maple and brown sugar 😚",
"spanish edition ftw",
"Well, of course she's going to be more pale than in the first one - she just washed off her spray tan.",
"Out of curiosity how can you tell just by looking?\n\nI believe you, I just want to learn",
"> no freckles in the Spanish version\n\nI submit that you might need corrective lenses, friend.\n\n",
"Non rainy days in munich are actually nice whereas in London it is always grey",
"Also because she caught sight of my magnum dong.",
"Da rein in spein falls meinly in da plein.",
"Nah, an Adidas track suit. And she'll be squatting.",
"That's what I tell my wife too",
"You know what that means!",
"I was in London and met two girls that looked identical in style. One from Essex, the other from Newcastle. I'm a Yank so had no idea about regional differences and could tell by the accents that they were form different regions but both were as sassy and trashy. Good times. ",
"That sounds delicious! Never seen that variety in the stores though.",
"Even their gin is dry.",
"She is much better looking in the picture on the left. You can see freckles, which makes her just that more attractive.",
"You my friend are a poet! Enjoy my upvote ",
"Spanish pic is the first thing I’ve seen of her that actually makes her look attractive",
"Shit and I thought this was a highly boring and unoriginal meme the first time I read it. But the second time is gonna make me get off of Reddit for the day, so thanks.",
"Would have sex with either version. ",
"I've always been lucky with weather in London. Rained once in those 15-20 days I've been there. ",
"I think they're just called brown sugar cinnamon now. Uggghhhhh so good.",
"Nice use of Breaking Bad filters.",
"Tricks are what prostitutes do for money!",
"which one is which?",
"K.",
"We're hardly known for our fake tan in Somerset?",
"After sixteen tubes of bronzer.",
"Considering the person I replied to deleted their comment, I think my response was pretty spot on",
"It reminds me of a photoshop thing they did with artists from artists around the world and they edited the photo however they wanted. Most every country changed or tweaked the skin/hair/eye color. ",
"Unfrosted blueberry, also getting hard to find now.\n",
"It's not related though. It's just stupid and doesn't belong. If you originally typed it instead of editing it in later you'd be down voted to oblivion. I love STEM and I'm a physician, but that doesn't mean I'm going to post about pathology or surgical procedure in a thread about a smiling puppy. You're shitposting much worse than a joke thread of puns regardless of how you justify it to yourself. You. Are. A. Shitposter.",
"Remind me! 25 minutes ",
"Apparently the Brits prefer Tits.",
"So is their humor.",
"I have a hard time finding regular blueberry!",
"I was thinking uncomplicated and delicious, but yours makes more sense in context. ",
"Look at her hands and legs. Anything can be photoshop or makeup, but those are harder than just using lighting and camera.",
"Isn't it a bit racisssss that they made her appear Latina in the Spanish addition? Very strange. ",
"The brains in Spain drain mainly from the lousy economy. ",
"Best not post the African one",
"I demand examples",
"> You're shitposting much worse than a joke thread of puns \n\nEhhh no. You open a post because you thought it was genuinely interesting, and then all the real discussion and appreciation is way at the bottom? Not great.\n\nOr when there's a gif/pic of an awesome animal, and every comment is about how it loosely resembles some video game character? Same thing.\n\nWith my comment, the person who finds it boring just scrolls right past it. And let's be real----my original comment was about *lighting*...it's hard for me to believe that that would actually be more interesting.",
"I'd frost her pop tart",
"¡Hahlt es Ron, haaahlt!",
"Catchy! ",
"Turns out Londoners are just world class whiners.",
"Don't worry we make fun of Vancouver for being rainy too. ",
"It's no coincidence that we have two Jersey Shore-esque shows in the UK - Geordie Shore (Newcastle) and The Only Way Is Essex",
"All I see is that she’s pretty in both ",
"That is indeed true. I do burn at first but then eventually manage to tan. About... months into the summer. Lol.",
"So are their sockets.",
"That's just not true. London usually gets a lot of nice weather in the summer.\n\n\nMild winters too.",
"I'm really surprised no one is pissed off about this.",
"I don't know that London is particularly known for being \"the rainy city\". (If anywhere, that's Seattle.) London's actually in one of the [drier areas of the country](https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/learning/rain/how-much-does-it-rain-in-the-uk).\n\nThe reputation for rain applies to the whole of Britain. And it's not so much the rain itself -- neither the number of days nor the total precipitation -- as the fact that much of Britain is almost perpetually overcast. (Thanks, Gulf Stream.) Even when it's not raining it frequently feels like could start at any moment.\n\n",
"I predict that this will have gold on it on approx. 4.5 hours. ",
"Someone should ask a representative from /r/emmawatsonsfeet for confirmation.",
"S'mores. Frosted.",
"the brown is sloppy seconds version",
"That doesn't make sense, because in Hertfordshire, hurricanes hardly ever happen. So why would she be wet?",
"And editing software.",
"Accurate but irrelevant.",
"What are gels in this context?",
"It's a conversation about lighting....how much are ya missing out on?",
"[Or was she?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYhCn0jf46U)",
"Latina Emma Watson?\n\nGiggity.",
"You could have provided accurate, interesting information about lighting, but instead you chose to meme it up with irrelevant shit about monkeys. \n\nAre you just karma-whoring to sell that account?",
"You're universally being told it's stupid and unrelated by everyone who comments. You choosing to believe otherwise, to believe that you're being interesting and/or witty is your own mental gymnastics, it doesn't make it true. Everyone has said this concept is an abortion that was boring, asinine, and just plain confusing from the first time they saw it. Keep jerking yourself off about how good of a shitposter you are though.",
"I'm waiting!",
"Ahaha, yes, as I watch my Spanish mum get mistaken for Scottish, I'll agree, most of the ones I met are competing with the rainy lands complexion. Some people who are just naturally a bit darker, but I have to wonder if we're just seeing a modern continuation of the old English novel's line \"as dark as a Spaniard\". Just an idea that's been planted in peoples minds.",
"> just karma-whoring to sell that account?\n\nLol what? If that was my plan, I wouldn't have edited my original comment.\n\n> interesting information about lighting\n\nI did, but it was way less interesting than Madagascar. And if you disagree, all ya have to do is scroll past the comment.\n\nAnyway. If 10 people are pissed at me but 2 are interested, that's a net benefit for the Lemurs of Madagascar.",
"You miss the point. Everything’s racist now. ",
"Is it her giant forehead?",
"Honestly, one of the best when toasted. Next to brown sugar ~~cinnamon~~ unfrosted.",
" If 10 people are pissed at me but 2 are interested, that's a net benefit for the Lemurs of Madagascar.",
" If 10 people are pissed at me but 2 are interested, that's a net benefit for the Lemurs of Madagascar.\n\n> boring\n\nDamn, dude. If you're really that indifferent about animals, this probably isn't the right comment chain for you. \n\nProbably should've just scrolled past my comment, big dawg. Instead you gave yourself a hernia over it.",
"Gels are the filters (plastic, glass, other materials) that are placed over lighting.\n\nThey can change the color (or range of coloring), how diffuse the light is, how sharp the light is, etc.",
"It's a perfect way into getting yourself or your comments banned/removed though because you're taking relevant comments/posts and turning them into spammy irrelevant garbage.",
"7 years, what the Christ...",
"Confirmed as new DLC character in SFV",
"I am the eggman\n\nEdit: I’m actually the walrus but I’ll carry on the song for you",
"I think so, yeah. Maybe it has to do with dark hair/eyes or the fact that we have sunny beaches at arms reach and seem to have different beauty standards (not me, I like Brits more). And also because Spaniards in the XVIII century worked under the sun and tanned more. I've noticed recently the costumes, actors and lifestyles we seem to export to the rest of the world have a lot more to do with Andalusia alone than the rest of the country. Bullfighting for example is prevalent there while the rest of Spain is thankfully starting to condemn it. Same with flamenco and bailaores. That's more of an Andalusian gypsies type of thing than national identity. And the kind of actors and actresses that make it to Hollywood are there because of this romanticized version of Spain (the one you talked about). Kind of annoying, really, but I still prefer that to being asked for tacos and tequila¯\\_(ツ)_/¯.",
"Of course that's a thing",
"> spammy\n\nMmmm, nah. Ain't got nothing to sell. \n\n> garbage\n\n*Damn*, dude. That's harsh. If you're that indifferent about animals, this is probably the wrong comment thread for you. Probably should've just scrolled past it and saved yourself some time.",
"It's called lighting. They didn't change her skin color.",
"Actually her name in the Spanish translations of the books is.... Hermione Granger.\n",
"Oh, except for those fortunate souls who lasered them out and painted them later. Those will look like SSJ level 3 Goku forever.",
"AYE CARUMBA!",
"Big socks!",
"Your friends sound like assholes",
"I like brown Emma now that I’ve seen her like that. Hubba hubba. Hermione sure did grow up.",
"On the left: Hmmm... yeah she's hot\n\nOn the right: Hmm... different lighting, yep still hot.",
"It isn't, though. Seattle only gets 92 days of rain per year.",
"Indris are the friendliest lemurs! I used to know one named Rose.",
"Cheddar Man reference.",
"I can see you Google things and just take the top answer without doing any actual research. Want to try again before I show a bunch of evidence otherwise?",
"\n[88] \"Mean Number of Days with Precipitation 0.01 Inch or More\". NOAA Satellites and Information. Archived from the original on September 28, 2013\n\nFollow that citation to find a number >140.",
"Beautiful picture.",
"Ahaha, fair enough. I somewhat expect the old \"as dark as a Spaniard\" line was condescension grounded in the Ummayids and el-Andalus history, so they weren't seen as 'proper' whites by England and ideas about Iberia being naturally \"hot blooded\" and naturally predisposed to dictatorships. Definitely some casual racism involved to try and place Spain as 'lesser'.\n\nI have to say, Andalusians I've met tended to be more tanned than the Catalans I meet through family, and I happen to bump into more Andalusians here, which may be why the idea carries. That or people simple don't recognise/notice the paler Spaniards cause they don't stick out from the British.",
"im spanish. spanish people are clearly darker than british on average. not sure how you cant see that. ",
"^ this is the post where the person realizes they lost the argument and just gives up",
"Um, this seems like a a super desperate way to have an excuse to post a Sears Studio photo of yourself.\n\n\"Oh, what? You haven't heard of men with manicured eyebrows? Well here, look at my glamour shots. That should clear it up.\"\n\n\"Who says men can't wear women's shirts? Here look at my tinder pics. They are professional!\"\n\n\"Hey I know we are talking about the Falcon heavy rocket launch, but have you seen my head shots? My buddy took them! # NOFILTER\"\n\nOh, brother.",
"Then it should be easier to understand: fuck you.",
"Boston gets literally twice as much rain as London",
"its weird how cities get these reputations, ive heard paris, london, seattle, and portland all described as rainy cities on a regular basis, but boston gets on average 10 more inches of rain per year than seattle. London and Paris are dry as hell compared to NYC and Boston",
"And what have I done to upset you, bar correcting a bigot? \n\nIf you wanna believe that certain Europeans are from a different continent then go ahead be wrong for the rest of your life.\n\n",
"Hyde Park material right here folks!",
"Oh boy. I think either I or you misunderstood something? Maybe? \n\nAnyway here's my go with 2 mins of online photo editing. I am very skilled in this domain. \n\nI managed to sneak in a big ol' smile though.\n\nhttps://imgur.com/xNX8ZoT",
"Stupid joke and you should feel bad.",
"Jolly chap, tea bags, big Ben, tally ho! Fuck you.",
"Ok. Not my best.\n\nI’d argue it was still clever though since it references the OP’s burn comment and applied an extra religious reference that an offended religious person would say. It can be taken in different ways depending on the person’s religious background.",
"Yep! That's what I mean. That and you don't really question someone's nationality if they don't look foreign. I'm pale, wear my hair blue and have a British accent, so people usually have a hard time guessing my nationality whereas some of my colleagues who happen to be dark-haired and not fall onto the obvious 'guiri' category (I'm an English teacher so I know plenty of British people) get a lot of 'oh you look Spanish to me' comments. Stereotypes man, they're evil.",
"It's an *ILLUSION*, Michael.\n\nA trick is something a whore does for money.",
"You're not wrong, you're just an asshole.",
"I've been called worse by better people.",
"Average doesn't mean a whole lot in the \"rainy\" context of Portland and Seattle. It rains a whole lot, but it's a light, constant rain, so not much falls. It's much more sunnier in boston too, and cloudier in Seattle. That's what people there mean. ",
"That's insane!",
"Fun fact: Miami gets more rainfall than Seattle.",
"It’s from the boiling. They boil everything. ",
"I think the original debate centered around days of rain per year, not actual amount of water that falls from the sky.",
"K",
"pissed about what, different lighting conditions.",
"Are you insinuating it rains so much in England, because they boil most of their foods? 😂😂",
"Oh, never heard the term 'guiri' before, that's fantastic, will need to remember that. Fits the whole joke that northerners only know how to say 'uno cerveza por favor'. \n\nAnd yeah, stereotypes are evil. People seem extremely reluctant to believe I was born and raised in Scotland because I don't have a Glasgow accent, so cannot be a 'real' Scot. Guess that at least means the lack of imagination isn't only applied to the Spanish.",
"no i mean my friends say that she's okay since shes not feminazi",
"Yeah, its part of why people complain about magazines/other media sources influencing young women's body image. \n\n",
"It's even easier to do it in photoshop. I'm unconvinced that it didn't play a role in her bronzing.",
"Nice job Dot ",
"You can tell because one the first one is a harsher light so it will wash her out more (and everything around her), the 2nd picture is a softer light (most likely with a filter) and gives softer shadows and a darker tone.",
"Yes. Toasted lightly with butter melted on top. So good...",
"Interesting, the skin completion is lighter in the British version as well as the white versus beige garment.",
"It still changes her skin colour for the picture. The point remains.",
"You are correct, just an adjacent fun fact.",
"How much for thee woman?",
"Agree. Portland native here. I’ve always told people Portland doesn’t get THAT much rain. It just takes a long time to fall. And from what I understand, Seattle is worse. On the bright side, best summers in the U.S. Sometimes have to wait til July 4 though. ",
"It's because it rained 56 consecutive days in 1940.\n\nI don't think Munich can top that",
"Hi Frank",
"Can confirm. My dad lives there.",
"So... feminism?",
"Her hair and pose are definitely specific to the audience they're trying to sell to.",
"Umm. No, but I’m glad the thought amuses you. ",
"It did amuse me, it's a pretty good joke.",
"[So, in case you're serious, here's a link to the website of the photographer - watermarked in imgur link above the comment you're replying to.](https://www.jeremycowart.com/women/)",
"I have a box in my pantry, just sitting there. Bought them on accident and assumed it would be crap. I'll have to give them a go. ",
"I'm gonna leave this here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tH5oQ05Bs70",
"Unfrosted strawberry is low key my favorite flavor. When they had paper wrappers it was a great morning snack",
"I wish we only had that many rainy days in St. John's, Newfoundland!\nAverage of 215.6 days of precipitation per year.",
"She’s just Moist",
"How do you when a Portlander is a 'native'? They'll tell you.",
"Or cocaine!",
"Sure I'd agree. Count me part of the two interested. ",
"I'll take door number 2, Monty.",
"I was just joshing around. I am sure the photog is brilliant, gifted and passionate. Cheers, mate.",
"She should have been little mermaid instead.",
"[Picture of people in Madrid.](http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2010/SPORT/football/07/07/wc.spain.fans/t1larg.rejoice.afp.jpg) They're clearly darker than British people. In fact their shade is pretty close to Emma's in the Spanish edition.",
"I'm too distracted by the picture I'm not looking at to analyze either one",
"It’s actually in the property tax code that we have to remind people we are “native” if we have been living in Portland for longer than 4 and a half years ",
"Just seems intentional. I don't really care either way, I've just seen people get triggered over way less. \n\nEDIT: Maybe people misunderstood me? This picture doesn't offend me, I'm just commenting on how ridiculous PC culture has become.",
"Guess the DNA test was right, I'm English.",
"I did not believe you.\n\nI now believe you.",
"I’m among the few who enjoy unfrosted pop tarts more than frosted pop tarts. ",
"Okay, since we are using small samples to make unilateral claims, here's a [picture](http://www.eurobasket.com/Spain/basketball-National-Team.asp?Year=2016) of the Spanish Olympic BB team. \n\nI never said that *many* Spanish people don't have dark features. I said that saying broadly that \"Spanish people are always tanning\" as though its some truism is fucking stupid stereotypical bullshit. \n\nCritical reading. Do it. ",
"She wears darker shades in Spanish one, more sexier ",
"FYI, latin(o) is masculine. \n\nMaybe you meant to say that. ",
"Houston gets more than Seattle also. ",
"yeah it didn't come with enough context to appear ridiculous. If you went more overboard on absurdist zealotry it'd be less mistake-able for a real offended Christian.",
"The drain from Spain is mainly of the brain.",
"If it weren't for the Gulf Stream northern Europe would be basically uninhabitable.",
"Yeah still super hot either way 😍😍😍",
"It's got nothing to do with indifference to animals. It's got to do with the fact that when I'm reading about x I don't want to suddenly have the article be about y unless it's organic to the flow of information. I love technology as one of my hobbies, but if I click on a link to an article about the war in Syria, I don't want to have 4 paragraphs on the inner workings of a new augmented reality system set to hit the market next month shoehorned in the middle. If I wanted to read about that at this moment I'd have looked it up.\n\nFurthermore, I live in Africa and have actually been to Madagascar and have seen many a lemur there and elsewhere. I'm well aware of them and the issues that they face, so trying to guilt me with \"won't somebody please think of the lemurs\" isn't going to work. It's got nothing to do with the discussion at hand or why your shitposting is so insufferable.",
"No self-respecting makeup artist would put a foundation that was 5 shades darker than the model's actual skintone on her entire body for a photo shoot. It's easier and looks much better to fiddle with the lighting. ",
"Holy fuck I’ve always had a thing for her. She is absolutely beautiful.",
"Yeah for sure not post-production, lol",
"That's what I said.\n\nThe deleted comment above mine had asked if she was a \"feminist\" or a \"feminazi.\" I think I answered that question correctly, making the distinction between feminists and man-haters.",
"RIGHT! It really gets on my nerves but it’s nice too.",
"Hermana oh na na, i want to be up in Hermana oh na na.",
"You don't have to put it on the entire body unless they are naked and you are shooting the entire body from every angle. ",
"Seattle probably has more hours of rain though...",
"you know what would go well with this incredibly unhealthy poptart? butter.",
"Half of my heart is in Her man na oh na na. ",
"You'd have to put it on her neck, legs, arms and hands. Nobody does that. Spray tan, yes. Full body foundation for Elle magazine, never. ",
"If you look at multiple pictures of yourself, your skin tone will be different in every one of them. If you look at yourself in mirrors in different rooms of your house, it will be different. That's just how lighting works. There is no such thing as a correct skin color since it's constantly changing depending on the lighting. You just don't notice unless you compare them side to side. ",
"Retouching costs money - clients and producers are sort of intense about that in commercial shoots.",
"Do you huff paint?",
"It's elementary, my dear Watson.",
"If it makes you feel any better, I'd frost ya.",
"I’m Latino and love white women. Both these photos speak to me. ",
"I don’t think it’s the rain city as much as it is the gloomy city. It’s always cloudy there.",
"Either/or, she's still stunningly gorgeous.",
"so pale, so tan",
"To hell with Spain, remember the Maine.",
"Surprised nobody mentioned the fact that she's wearing white in the photo where she looks paler and bronze where she looks more tan. This is no coincidence!",
"Is it because they’re winning the argument? ",
"Es muy caliente!",
"Na you just lost the argument, sorry. ",
"No Spanish people aren’t tanner on average than British people\n\n-some dude higher up in this thread angrily arguing nonsense",
"Yes, I prefer my feminist propaganda delivered in baritone.",
"Definitely use the second photo when applying for your US visa.",
"She looks like a Tim Burton character now.",
"It's kind of like how every city tries to claim the \"if you don't like the weather, wait 10 minutes\" joke, like it somehow makes their location special and unique.",
"But it's intentional.",
"Bacon",
"So much photoshop",
"What do they say? ",
"Do some more sit ups and maybe we’ll reply to your dms",
"I mean sure, they chose the lighting and camera settings deliberately in both cases. I think projecting anything beyond commercial motives onto that decision is maybe a bit much.",
"The rain in Spain stays mainly in terrain?",
"Try living anywhere in Scotland. There are 360 rainy days/year.",
"Damn straight.",
"hurricanes are cheating",
"You ever put butter on those and stick em in the microwave? Game changer right there.",
"The Spanish edition makes her skin darker than it really is because they're RACIST.",
"Damn, she is one of both my Girlfriends and I's celeb crushes.",
"We're Pop-Tart soulmates!",
"Sorry, but I don't think it's an accident that she was framed to look more Spanish for a Spanish audience, lol.",
"You see the bit where I said \"commercial concerns?\" ",
"I kind of just figured you would go to the beach while on vacation there, not that everyone is tan.",
"In Chinese culture, thin lips means rough and possibly short life.",
"> I never said that *many* Spanish people don't have dark features.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n>most Spanish people are white homie.",
"Oh, I did totally miss there was a deleted comment there...",
"Still a difference between many and most buddy",
"And clothing",
"You don't need to put it on their legs if their legs aren't in the photo, or covered with pants of course. ",
"Yeah good job and your comment got removed",
"https://youtu.be/i9AHJkHqkpw",
"Okay I'm going to stick my neck out here and ask it: why?",
"It’s essentially a form of identity theft.",
"pasty is racist. ",
"So the photos were probably taken a year apart? Not that crazy that she may have gotten tanner. ",
"I guess I am a huge fan of Spanish Emma",
"Yeah I feel this. We're moving to Seattle from Atlanta. Everyone keeps asking how we'll deal with the rain, but Atlanta gets more annual rainfall in inches. Seattle rains 2 out of 3 days but it's only part of the day and then overcast the rest. In reality it just feels rainy because the sun isn't out and the ground is wet.",
"How can Emma Watson compete with Emma Watson ",
"*right click* [flip horizontal]",
"Why was I not informed?",
"I wanna eat her butt....",
"Sorry British propaganda machine, Spain has you beat on this one..",
"Mmmmm........bacon.......",
"or just one Photoshop.",
"My mom loves the brown cinnamon",
"Never judge a book by its cover. I've tried soooo many different flavors but the unfrosted strawberry (also sitting in my pantry right this moment) always wins.",
"Yay!!!",
"Hah nice catch! I was pretty out of it this morning.",
"I prefer it delivered [like this](https://youtu.be/SmcLbIVC_WM).",
"Yeah, looks like I was wrong. Google tends to have good results for trivial little details like this. My mistake trusting them. ¯\\\\\\_(ツ)_/¯ \n\nAlthough I do love how passionate you got about this. First commenting about \"showing me a bunch of evidence\" in a really condescending tone, then coming back an hour later to provide your evidence in the form of just copy-and-pasting the references section from the Seattle Wikipedia page.",
"I prefer the british one, Im spanish",
"According to Wikia, [the books just use Hermione Granger](http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_characters_in_translations_of_Harry_Potter#Hermione_Granger_.28Gryffindor.29). \n\nOnly Dutch actually seems to change her last name (not counting having to spell it differently in some languages.)",
"Do you happen to know how they say her name in the movies, assuming they are dubbed? Not just her first name, but her last name, too. \n\nGranger seems like it would be a weird word to say in Spanish. ",
"> I don't even know why London is famous for being \"the rainy city\".\n\nIs it famous for being that? No one in the UK would think of London as being a/the rainy city, that would go to Manchester if anywhere",
"> best summers in the U.S\n\nIt gets humid as shit up there. I certainly wouldn't call that the best summer",
"Subreddit co-founder here. I’d kindly point you towards /r/emmawatsonslegs for a comment as this is clearly above our jurisdiction. \n\nThank you for your understanding. ",
"Whilst it may be drier due to its southern location, London seems to get the lion share of all the good our country does, it can surely at least harbour a token nickname nobody in the uk calls it? I know it more for it’s smog.. haha",
"Would it get too hot or too cold?",
"Stahp",
"Lighting and make-up can do amazing things for how a person looks.",
"I don't know why you're being upvoted, because that's incorrect. Yes the lighting is markedly different between those two, and yes lighting can have an effect on skin tones. But the colour difference you're seeing here is almost entirely due to choices made in postproduction, as well as make up and her actual skin tone at the time of shooting. The lighting has pretty much no effect on the skin tones here, although it clearly does have a strong effect on the look and feel of the images. \n\nSource: I'm a photographer who shoots for Elle on a regular basis. ",
"that's because that's her name, we don't call Juan to all the Johns yet is the same bible name. \n\"your name is not how it looks on paper, but how its pronounce\" \n\nbut Herminia Granero, would be the actual equivalent \"meaning\" of her name. a (hispanization-Latinisation of her name)\n\nlike (Louis Moon ) would be ( Luis Luna ) Luna being the Spanish translation of the Moon. :)",
"Much too cold.",
"I agree, but in this case I think it's obvious that's it's been done deliberately to make her skin look significantly darker so she looks more \"Mediterranean\". \nOf course that's complete speculation.",
"> London usually gets a lot of nice weather in the summer.\n\nTwo weeks... But still better than the North where you could miss summer if you sleep in.",
"Hermeoan Grandger",
"How stupid must you be to think that I'm talking about finding a beautiful woman attractive? ",
"More/different makeup or just suntan?",
"oh its plain? I always thought it was plane, but plain makes more sense.",
"Like in English. ",
"It might be because Munich isn't miserable as fuck all the fucking time. ",
"I always find it amusing when someone says \"that's true\" and follows it up with a personal anecdote as proof.",
"This just in! Being responded to by this user ACTUALLY means you're simple. ",
"Well there’s overall more sunlight so that would make most people more tan. It’s like living in LA vs New York. ",
"I was about to call bullshit on that claim too, I do a lot of video work with the occasional photography gig. but you obviously have way more authority to call it than I do haha",
"To say that it wasn’t enhanced/altered in post is absurd.",
"Bullshit. ",
"Sorry bro. I'll back everything I say with as many statistics and peer reviewed work as I can from now on. Life will probably get terribly stressful and uninteresting but at least it will be scientifically accurate. Thanks for opening my eyes :). ",
"Most major cities do, it's just ours is a constant drizzle and everywhere else gets a couple rainy days.",
"If you're stupid and say stupid things you can expect to be called stupid",
"Those guys in that pic all look really swarthy.",
"Bergen has 195 rainy days on average, and 2,4 meters of rain (94 inches). \n\n",
"Pastry is delish",
"\"People want to see people who look like they do\"\n\n",
"I'm not doubting the name Jesus was given to some people back then, just that none of then walked on water and came back from the dead. \n\nProving a guy named Jesus was alive does not mean that the story of Jesus is real.\n\nI'll spare you the same condescension you couldn't resist.",
"Your attraction is heavily effected by your opinions. \n\nIf no black people are attractive to you you might need to do some soul searching.",
"Oh fuck. I answered the wrong person. Ooooops. That was supposed to go to the \"go to hell\"-guy.",
"Based on the idea that you want to see people who look like you.\n\nThat idea is ethnocentric, which is racist.\n\nThat doesn't mean you want to lynch black people, just that you have a racial bias.",
"Race isn't just black, white, and Asian.",
"Did not get that.",
"Racially biased ideas, yes. That's my point.",
"That they think will sell well.\n\nJust because it sells well doesn't mean everything they're doing is contributing to that. They're a fashion magazine, not scientists.",
"Take a 3 hour siesta every day when your country can't pillage an entire continent anymore and it's bound to go to shit.",
"Should I have just said \"Burn..\" and let the reader figure out the religious connotations?",
"There are obviously some beautiful black girls out there, I know a few. But ya it is my opinion that blonde chicks are more attractive in general than black girls. and then brunette over blonde if you really wanna know. Soul search yourself",
"I can only assume you think they should just take pictures of their subjects without any colouring alteration, that they should just show their subjects as they truly are. If so, then you're showing how little experience you have in photography. If you've only used digital cameras or (if you're old enough) taken photos to be developed at local stores, you can be forgiven for thinking there are such things as unaltered photographs, with the 'real' appearance of things. *Unfortunately, there aren't.* Light intensity, distance from the light source, direction of light, the kind of light, and exposure time all have radical influences on apparent colour. Also, since there's no rule on how much [filtering](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photographic_filter) during and/or after taking a picture is required for that picture to have the same colour balance (among other qualities) you would've perceived if you were in person at the site of the photograph, when it was taken, the photographers/developers have to use their best judgement. Digital photography may have expanded people's abilities of manipulation, *but there was never such a thing as a true, unadulterated photograph*.\n\nMy point in bringing all of that up is this. Define when someone looks 'washed out'. How much 'definition' should a person's facial/bone features appear to have? What is overly dark? You can't definitively answer any of that. It's all very culturally dependent. And, even then, it's still too nebulous to define. What's worse, the person who takes the photograph isn't necessarily the same person who does all of the subsequent processing. As a result, the person doing the final work on the images may not even know how the subject in the photograph appeared in person during the shoot. They're simply working based on what they think looks good without any concrete context.\n\nPeople are so quick to leap to assumptions of racism that they never stop to consider how blurred the lines can really be. Yes, there's racial bias, as in there's a tendency towards assumptions and results which correlate to norms with some sort of ethnic basis, but that's not necessarily people trying to impose anything on anyone. Very often, as in this case, you probably just have people creating works of art and marketing materials based on what they consider normal and what their customers consider normal. Since there's no ultimate baseline standard for them to adhere to, you can't say which images skew reality and which don't.",
"I cannot deny that.",
"You're not wrong. But the difference here is tanned people vs not tanned people (just a difference in sunlight). They're more or less culturally (for the large part) and genetically the same ",
"This just in! Being stupid ACTUALLY means you're stupid. ",
"Most young Spaniards nowadays aren't even tanned.",
"Most Spanish girls that are Emma's age are very pale.",
"Well done, you got it!",
"Jesus that's a lot of text.",
"Sorry. At least this comment has just nine words!",
"*Whoosh*",
"Aww I thought you had a moment of epiphany there, but looks like it was just more rambling of a fool :(",
"Get blocked, creep. ",
"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgXCR5URZqE",
"Just remember you're feeding into a dead thread. Nothing you say has any weight, as life is meaningless. ",
"We are actively participating in the thread every day. Is there anything you can get right? At all?",
"I feel like you missed the part where that went over your head",
"Wow you're going through my history now? I guess you're just another pathetic piece of shit I can block and never be worried about again! Bye, loser!"
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Emma Watson comparison of the British and Spanish edition of ELLE magazine
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/r/pics/comments/7x8z2x/the_rigging/
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[
"Cable management... do it. ",
"You probably only got metapods. ",
"You're my hero.",
"Yea this was great until I saw those cables ",
"[This isn't their setup.](https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=throw+money+at+screen&tbm=isch&tbs=simg:CAQSmQEJvvfAhEYVgDAajQELEKjU2AQaBggVCAQICQwLELCMpwgaYgpgCAMSKN4KgA2KDaMYtReGDfsU_1gzdCsMXkzbYKpA21SqSNpQ21iqINoY21yoaMBc8lMsA_1uTOWUJDnJTYgsRY1yJRvl9Y34AH-kgE6Ci4NLJdeN0-wXMKcZbO3eYTGCAEDAsQjq7-CBoKCggIARIEOOVCEAw&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjFiu6S_aLZAhWEc98KHS-kAQYQ2A4IJSgB&biw=1418&bih=758)",
"For a second I thought this wasn't just a wallpaper."
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The rigging
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/r/pics/comments/7x91em/so_much_for_two_scoops_here_kelloggs/
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[
"Advertising is a lie? Who knew? ",
"I've sometimes made my own using bran flakes like special K and raisins. I discovered that a little bit goes a long way. But not that little. That's just sad. ",
"Pfft Bullshit. \n\nI eat raisin Bran everyday and there are raisins in literally every spoonful. \n",
"Strictly speaking, they never specified how big the scoops were. Maybe they've been researching scoop miniaturization technology, and this is the result.",
"first, there was raisin bran. then, there was a raise in bran.",
"Because there are so many, I usually take a good amount out of my bowl to reduce the sugar and calories. ",
"Yeah this can’t be real, I haven’t had a complaint about the amount of raisins since the 90’s",
"It would take over 30,000 bowls of your fiber cereal to equal the fiber in just one bowl of Colon Blow.",
"Put that banana out of its fucking misery. ",
"Colon Blow. For when you absolutely definitely have to blow out that fucking Colon. ",
"Finally, a banana for scale.",
"They never tell you how big those scoops are. Checkmate.",
"Maybe they ment \"enough raisins for two scoops of flakes\". ",
"The other scoop is piss",
"Growing up in the late 80s early 90s this legit was my fav cereal. \nMy dad always said that the two scoops of raisins was for the entire box not the bowl-full \nSeeing this I think old pop was right ",
"Class action lawsuit, ready set go!",
"Nobody gives a shit when the ad campaign was \"two scoops of raisins in Kelloggs raisin bran\" and there's a picture of two scoops of raisins on the fucking box, and it's literally called \"TWO SCOOPS raisin bran\".\n\nThat would be an indication to any reasonable human that these are the \"two scoops\" and you could estimate the amount of raisins based on that. \n\notherwise - they need to change their campaign to \"Approximately 35 grams of raisins in every kilo of raisin bran\" ",
"That's an entire jumbo box in one big bowl. ",
"I don't know what their current packaging is, but this and/or similar pics have been around since the 90s.",
"Look at the box, those are the implied scoops.",
"the scoops are literally depicted on the outside of the box...",
"I don't believe this whatsoever. Some else needs to re-test this.",
"Credit to /u/graeme3 for this [gilded submission and title](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/4dutwz/so_much_for_two_scoops_there_kelloggs/). OP didn't even rehost the image. ",
"A banana for scale for scale.",
"Yes, because the pictures on the box are always 100% accurate."
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So much for "Two Scoops" here Kellogg's...
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/r/pics/comments/7x935d/asia/
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[
"They even included the island of Iceland just off the east coast. Noice.",
"Afrisica... Shame it's inhabitable ",
"*west coast FTFY",
"I genuinely don't see an issue. Looks completely fine to me. ",
"“Look at how tiny Japan is!”",
"Oh, my bad. Tyvm. 😉",
"\"Asia\"",
"Intentional - It’s an imitation designer shirt. https://www.farfetch.com/shopping/men/sankuanz-asia-print-t-shirt-item-12474949.aspx ",
"“I bless the rain down in aaaaaaasia”",
"That's Madagascar. It's right where it should be.",
"Really? No way... /s",
"Asia-ish",
"I miss the rains down in asia",
"Sent it to Trump, he will please. I knew it!",
"I honestly would wear something that, just to see everyone's reaction",
"Lol, being from South Africa. I would buy this for the random looks and lolz in public. ",
"Don't be silly, Madagascar is in Africa, while this is clearly a silhouette of Asia, it says so right there.",
"Holy cheezeballs!! I thought it was \"miss\" the rains. I'm 38 and only now realize it is bless, not miss. ",
"unsubscribe",
"Next time just scroll past something that bores you, instead of replying with that.",
"looking sideways, it morphs into australia. which it obviously is.",
"How the fuck is that worth $120?",
"whooosh",
"This is not Australia? Jk",
"Holy cheezeballs!! I thought it was \"bless\" the rains. I'm 38 and only now realize it is miss, not bless. ",
"What just happened here?",
"Did you miss the /s in the end?",
"It's cost is $120, for fuck knows why. It's worth is entirely dependent on the observer and if worth>cost then it's a good buy. So never.",
"And it's probably made in.... Asia "
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Asia ✔️
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[
"Hahah she’s a trekky. She has the Starfleet Commbadge on her hip. ",
"It's because she has pot in her bag",
"/u/mrdoubleq, thank you for your submission. Unfortunately, it has been removed for violating the following rule(s):\n\n* Rule I - No screenshots. This includes pictures of screens and photos where the interest is the contents of a screen.\n\n\n\nFor information regarding this and similar issues please see the [rules](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/about/rules/) and [title guidelines](/r/pics/w/titles). If you have any questions, please feel free to [message the moderators.](https://www.reddit.com/message/compose?to=/r/pics&subject=Question regarding the removal of this submission by /u/mrdoubleq&message=I have a question regarding the removal of this [submission.](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/7x94r1/a_woman_refused_to_leave_her_bags_in_an_xray/?context=10\\))"
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A woman refused to leave her bags in an x-ray machine.
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[
"What do the rest of the suits look like?",
"Any idea where I could buy them?",
"[A Pack of Dogs](https://www.artiphany.com/products/pack-of-dogs-playing-cards) playing cards.",
"[Google is our friend when OP doesn't know how to P source.](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/6gkm6e/dog_cards/dir2kun/)",
"Not sure. Clubs work because \"puppy feet\" is a common nickname for the suit. ",
"I was able to find them. \n\n[Dog Cards](https://www.artiphany.com/products/pack-of-dogs-playing-cards) ",
"[Dog Cards](https://www.artiphany.com/products/pack-of-dogs-playing-cards) ",
"I always knew those things looked like puppy feet. Supposedly, they are actually 3 small clubs, perhaps for juggling or something.",
"I can’t be the only one who counted the clubs to make sure they add up. ",
"Sure, these dog playing cards are great and everything, but this is reddit after all..it just wouldn't be right without including [cats.](http://catplayingcards.com)",
"I need these in my life",
"That's funny, for the longest time I thought that suit was called \"Puppy Toes\" instead of \"Clubs\" because what's what my mother always called them.",
"I ordered these for my groomsmen in JUNE and they're still on backorder because of reddit.",
"Yup saw them, bought them. Thanks reddit ",
"Well fuck that’s adorable",
"https://m.imgur.com/gallery/UEYkg\n\nA pack of dogs playing cards",
"i’m sorry but they’re just not as cute",
"<3",
"At first sight, I thought the dog was shitting the 3 of clubs ♧. Turns out it's just footprints. ",
"Is someone going to make a stop motion of the cards 1 to 10?\n",
"Hey my buddy created these cards. John Littleboy 👍",
"Dammit i just put an order in for a late vday gift. ",
"Someone commented saying they are on backorder from june. Is this true? \n\nEdit: just realized he created the art and doesnt distribute them. ",
"I was certain this was going to be the loss meme.",
"I club my dogs too.",
"Same here",
"[These] (http://www.wopc.co.uk/usa/inky-dinky/kitten-club) are by the same artist.",
"[Cat version](http://www.wopc.co.uk/usa/inky-dinky/kitten-club) by the same artist.",
"You guys REALLY don't wanna see the 10 of hearts....",
"Between this and the l[ink to buy them](https://www.artiphany.com/products/pack-of-dogs-playing-cards), we know what all the suits look like but one. What do the spades look like?\n\n(We also don't know exactly what the Kings of Spades and Diamonds look like, nor the Jack and Queen of Hearts, but we can get the general idea.)",
"What are the king, queen, jack cards?",
"I would expect the spade dogs to be sad...",
"Didn’t realize that was a dog until reading the title... ",
"Last time this was posted I bought a pack immediately. They're actually good quality cards. Plus they threw in two dog coasters so you can't lose.",
"http://www.wopc.co.uk/usa/inky-dinky/pack-of-dogs",
"Shut up and take my money. ",
"maybe you'll get them by next valentines?",
"\"puppy feet\"? never heard that one. i always called them clovers (and 'shrooms).",
"Same. ",
"I’m not one to use playing cards or coasters, so I couldn’t really justify the purchase myself, but I can appreciate to artwork at least, especially as a pet owner.",
"Jesus christ I saw this repost and came here to say that exact thing again.\n\nI love you",
"Jesus christ I saw this repost and came here to say that exact thing again.\n\nI love you",
"I was wondering what J K and Q looked like, that did not disappoint, Jokers were pretty cool too",
"That dog appears to have a clubfoot..",
"The suits we know today are the French selection (hearts, diamonds, clovers, pikes).\n\nThe older Latin suits were Cups, Coins, Clubs, and Swords. (Italian and Spanish cards used the same suits).\n\nThe speculation is older suit name \"Clubs\" carried over from the original Latin suits. Likewise, Swords (Espadas in Spanish and Spade in Italian) also remained rather than translating the French suit name to Pikes, leaving us \"Spades\". The english \"spade\" to mean a shovel post-dates the introduction of the French playing card suits by more than 100 years.",
"What's the spade???\n\nEdit: [here you go. They are noses.](https://www.google.com/search?q=pack+of+dogs+cards&client=safari&hl=en-us&prmd=svni&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjr04-ZmKTZAhVokeAKHUDMCYQQ_AUIFCgE&biw=375&bih=559#imgrc=YjofO23t42ryhM:)",
"Pretty cute!",
"Those face cards though. Priceless.",
"Maybe. ",
"And ears!",
"Oh shiiii. Didn't even notice!",
"Amoled Edit https://www.reddit.com/r/Amoledbackgrounds/comments/7xf94y/dog_cards_amoled_edit_1000x1324/",
"There’s dogs, cats, bones and mermaid. Oh man, I can’t decide which one to get!! ",
"I want these. Where can i get them. What website?",
"If the 2 is anything other than the dog dropping a turd then a golden opportunity was wasted.",
"Me too",
"I'm sorry you didn't get your order but I can fix that. so many orders from the reddit bonanza in June\n (hug of death) that we must have missed yours.",
"Oh hey buddy. \n\nI don't think you missed the order completely, I got follow up emails about the backorder status and stuff, so I was still being kept in the loop.",
"Hello all you wonderful Redditors. \n\n\n John here from Artiphany\\-\\-the man and the little store behind the Pack of Dogs cards you see above! I wanted to reach out to all of you here to let you know that I will be doing an AMA this Sunday, June 10th, from 10am PST onwards to say hello, answer qs about my art and, most importantly, give a big THANKS to all of you who found delight in my cards and supported my small business by buying them all up and sharing them with friends.\n\nI'd love to see you all there: June 10th, 10am PST, on the AMA subreddit. Come curious!! \n\n\nLove and dog bones, \nJohn"
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"This is heavy... Story? ",
"Very true, I wonder the circumstance, year and location of the photo and if that info could provide any deeper insight into why the diverse emotions?",
"Public execution in Poland 1939 ",
"It was a German firing squad executing some hostages in Bydgoszcz,1939",
"My goal in life is to be smiling upon death. Just like Gold Roger.",
"Human condition man, we all react differently to the same stimuli."
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One of the greatest pictures that represent men against death one is laughing at death ,One is crying and fearing death and, one is welcoming death with open hand, three are in shock
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"Where is this? Looks like a correction facility.",
"This is in the Chinese city [Guangzhou](https://youtu.be/m9QZJicOxBQ?t=145)\n\n"
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Just some basketball courts and soccer fields.
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"Very sorry for your loss. ",
"Thank you",
"Sorry for your loss. She has a cheeky glint in her eye and this photo looks like she is having a little pole dance with her IV stand. ",
"Right?! Such a funny lady. Thank you",
"She looks like she truely learned how to LIVE and not just exist",
"But secretly jealous because statistically none of us will probably live that long and still be standing at 99.",
"She looked like a hoot!",
"What a great picture",
"Great bod too. \n\nEdit - She's wearing a comedic, novelty \"Great bod\" t-shirt so to whomever shot that first downvote: GFY. ",
"She really did. ",
"Hehe",
"Could only imagine the full fun life she lived... R.I.P. ",
"well that's ..funny dress thought.\n your grandma look like a cool hippie in her younger days. rest in peace grandma. godbless.",
"sorry for your loss. i hope she had a long glorious life",
"Seems like she was hilarious! That’s a key to life right there, humor.",
"So true!",
"I'm guessing she had a few stories she could(n't) tell in her life.",
"And one hot ass bod!",
"Sorry for your loss.",
"Thank you",
"You're welcome\n"
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My 99-year-old grandma passed away yesterday. She had the sharpest wit and the best sense of humor.
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"https://i.imgur.com/B1xWK73.jpg",
"Oh look, it's this post from literally 2 hours ago. ",
"oh ya, but can he do a back flip?\nhmph! didnt think so!\n\nPS I NEEEEEED A SNOW KITTY!!!!",
"Why is it always Mongolians with the most badass work animals?\n\nImma just take my GOLDEN EAGLE out for a quick flight, maybe catch a rabbit or two.\n\nAfter that, I'll let my herding Leopard chase down the wolf I clipped with my AK.\n\nMongolians are badasses.",
" He tear down our shitty wall",
"Plot twist. Not his snow leopard. That’s why he has the AK",
"Let’s just hope they decide not to go round 2 in the whole Empire building.",
"Pet. Snow. Leopard. ... Wut?",
"That looks more like an AK74 than an AK47 to me. Note the elongated muzzle break that came standard on the 74s. ",
"Thank you Reddit.",
"How does one even keep a snow leopard",
"Per /u/Mr5wift [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/5hspze/a_mongolian_shepherd_with_an_ak47_and_a_pet_snow/db2ovff/)\"\n\n> Shopped [snow leopard](https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/ab/1e/1c/ab1e1c533b6c10907a1f3294df46ea63.jpg)\n\nFurthermore, /u/DukeOfGeek added [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/5hspze/a_mongolian_shepherd_with_an_ak47_and_a_pet_snow/db2wiea/): \n\n> Also that's either the AKM or AK-74, probably the AK-74 since it has a custom long barrel. It's a pretty swifty rifle for a shepard to have, so maybe photo shop too? Who knows.\n\nLastly, as /u/Emerald_Triangle said [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/5hspze/a_mongolian_shepherd_with_an_ak47_and_a_pet_snow/db2zsd4/).\n\n> So horribly edited - why are you people upvoting this?\n"
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You might be cool but you'll never be as cool as this Mongolian Shepard with his AK-47 and pet snow leopard
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"..shit....that's really really cool. I genuinely like that. ",
"Nice tribute, good choice of placement. I'd have liked to see sharper definition which I believe would have been possible, but all in all, honestly not the worst tattoo decision I've seen made.",
"\"hahahaHHAha^heheeeeee \"",
"This is a meaningful way to keep your Dad's presence in your life",
"For my 18th birthday I got my boyfriend's name tattooed on my ankle. Three months later I kicked him out because he was horrible and we were just so young.\n\nThis tattoo here is lovely and something you have a great chance of never regretting. ",
"I really hope that’s a Phil Ken Sebben style “ha-HA”",
"That is a fantastic idea.",
"Whoever tattooed your boyfriend's name on you should be slapped. ",
"I tried to find an app for you that could scan it and play but the only thing I saw required you to have them create the tattoo.\n\nedit: It's impossible to put enough resolution into a tattoo to recreate an understandable sound. ",
"Looked like a horrific scar in the thumbnail... Cool idea OP. ",
"No ragrets ",
"Isn't that like the #1 rule of getting a tattoo, to not get one of your SO's name? Isn't that the *only* rule?!",
"Right?! I think back to that tattoo artist and he didn't blink an eye when I told him the plan, however, I was a fool.",
"When my dad really starts laughing he gets silent and then gasps so I don't think it's have the same effect for me",
"Wow! This is really smart, thoughtful and inspiration. No one will have regrets getting tattoos like this one. ",
"Is it really the tattoo artists job to baby sit? No they have a job.",
"inb4 front page",
"Maybe not. But it says a lot about the artists character. ",
"I love that you went with his laugh. Of all the ways to remember someone, that is really special. ",
"No but generally a good one with give you gentle advice/guidance about what you are asking them to do.",
"See I've been thinking about this right, call me insensitive towards OP's loss, but isn't this like a shout in skyrim, they write the sound down on something like a wall. ",
"Kids, parents and dead people. Only names allowed.",
"Personal tattoos are the best tattoos, dad would be proud.",
"What a great idea! I’m sorry for your loss. ",
"It wouldn't work without some markings indicating the amplitude anyway.",
"Now I want Mark Hamill's Joker laugh on my arm.",
"You should cross post to tattoo subreddit. That’s awesome. ",
"You could have a speaker installed in your palm and a play button in your armpit.",
"We did something similar for my mother, with my son saying \"I love you Nana\". We recorded him saying it, printed the waveform out and framed it. I mean it wasn't because anyone died, just looked like a cool gift idea for her birthday one year.",
"Ok. Now somebody turn it into sound.",
"Yes it would. The amplitude is rescaled by the amplifier in your sound system to feed your loudspeakers anyway. however without a time axis / sampling frequency we would need to guess, and based on that the sound would be of lower or higher pitch. ",
"Yeah I really like that idea. It's a fun tattoo, visually speaking, but it also has something unique and personal. It's a cool concept. ",
"*OP, we are sorry to inform you that your dad was Jack the Ripper.*",
"Not if it’s 190 bpm",
"Munchkin laugh!",
"Some badass stitches or something.",
"Someone plug this into some high tech disco machine and show what it sounds like",
"I heard of something like this. The one I heard of had an app so you could scan the tattoo and hear the tattoo. ",
"Is it really that much of a \"cool\" idea? I mean just Google \"Soundwave tattoo\" and there are thousands of the exact same thing. \n\n Also I don't know why OP mentioned his dad died three years ago. That's a pretty long time anyways.",
"I did something similar in 2014 when I had to upgrade my Gateway PC and Bonzi Buddy was no longer available for download. Now, thanks to a waveform tattoo, I'll always be able to imagine that little purple ape greeting me everyday and asking to give my computer HIV.",
"Have you gotten it covered up with another tat?",
"“Sorry! I was eating a Milky Way!”",
"Well, the fact that he was a time traveler is pretty cool.",
"could always try audacity, that shows the sound WaVeY things ",
"I'm not a fan of tattoos, generally, but this one is great. Well done.",
"What a dip shit.",
"If you haven't tattooed it on your forearm you'd forget about him within a week. ",
"I got a tattoo of the Chi Rho because at the time I was Christian and knew it would always stick with me. My viewpoint has since changed, but I feel like the tattoo was a part of my history and molded me into what I am today. No ragrets.",
"I created a picture collection with my gf and me and framed the sound wave \"I love you forever\" in German in the middle of the Canvas. After 5 years she still says its the best valentines gift she ever received",
"This!",
"Dumb Ass...How much did you waste on that? - Your Dad",
"Dead people.. I'll always love you, Adolf. ",
"Yeah, I've seen the heartbeat done a few times, and it's always really touching, but the combo of using a laugh, and the father-son dynamic has me leaking out of my optical sensors.",
"This is neat and a great way to remember your father :) ",
"Possibly the sweetest and coolest idea for a tattoo I've ever seen.",
"Is there a phone app that would read it? Could be a cool just for fun project.\n\nEdit: Oh there is.. Skin Motion. https://skinmotion.com/\n\nWow so much shitty advertising on reddit . \n\n\nApp cost $39.99 the first year and $9.99 each year after. You pay for the tattoo separately. This is too much.",
"That they mind their business and enjoy making a living practicing their trade?",
"I expect nothing less than for some redditor to copy that into an audio synthetizer and share an audio file of the reconstructed sound.\n\nIt will sound horrible due to the resolution but with a bit of good luck something is left.",
"I can set this up if OP will contact me. I just need the original sound file and a more straight-on photo of the tattoo.",
"r/totallynotrobots",
"are you satan?",
"Thems the rules",
"did you kick him out with the foot that had his name on it?",
"is such sorcery possible?",
"so now my question is this since op has this waveform of his dads voice would a program be able to replicate the voice or would it need thousands of audio samples of his dad talking before it was replicated correctly?",
"you must be fun at parties",
"Also I have a feeling the waveform isn't accurate enough.\n\n...not even close. It's like trying to draw a waveform manually in Audacity and expecting it to sound like something sensible.",
"they’ll never forget. they have the tattoo and now the picture of the tattoo along with all the internet points for posting the picture. ",
"it’s not lol, i just download the app and it’s clunky and pretty shitty",
"a little maybe?",
"Omg.. stop making me laugh about horrible stuff",
"Wonder is any smart person on reddit can turn this into sound so we can hear it?",
"The problem is this only shows amplitude. This is just a picture of volume, not frequency.",
"[It's just a heartwarming tale](https://media.giphy.com/media/jCFzmdhghXYti/giphy.gif)",
"Oh man. I wish I had my dad's laugh recorded and I'd do the same. It was always this back of the throat chuckle then \"Ohhhh shit.\"",
"i found one but it didn’t work, but i have the original video where i got the wav. file from so it doesn’t matter :)",
"That could be, although it's good that it seems a continuous line plot and not just \"filling\" between the envelope of the waveform, as in many of these tattoos. With a hi-res scan a conversion to sound could be attempted I think. In any case the amplitude of a waveform is trivial, since it only changes the volume but not the content of a sound.",
"I did. There is a big black star over it now. ",
"Would it be possible to say, take a picture of that waveform and convert it to a sound file?",
"Nice idea & gesture,\nbut jeeeez - that big AND on the arm? ",
"Thanks for the Fathers Day/Mothers Day idea for the grandparents of our kids!",
"And a possible pick up line and a sad story to melt her feelings",
"That's not how this works. A typical audio waveform is sampled at 44,100 times per second (this can vary down to 10,000 up to 196,000 depending on source), so to convert a picture of a waveform to audio, at 2 -3 seconds, that would have to have 88,000 - 132,000 slices (at 44,100) to actually be clear. Even if you dropped that down significantly to say 12,000 times per second, which is about Radio quality, it would still require 12,000 points of data per second unfortunately.\n\nIf that were turned into audio, it would likely be very muddy and not recognizable at all.\n\ntldr; An audio waveform cannot accurately be represented as a Tattoo or picture, aside from a basic sinewave which has very little data to begin with.",
"Because you cant. I can create the same waves with my voice. Its all about the tone. There is nothing personal attched to that.",
".....you just hit me with a full on wave of nostalgia. In my head I now have the typing sound of ICQ and that fucking purple fucknut of a monkey. Man.....I need to go listen to some papa roach. ",
"“what’s that tattoo?”\n“my dead dad laughing.”",
"It's a terrible day for rain.",
"Any waveform can be converted to sound with the correct program. ",
"This hurts my soul. I don't have anything like this from my dad. Son of a bitch I miss him. ",
"Without reading the title, I thought you cut yourself and were bleeding black.",
"So you could just fake people out and act like you're taking a picture of the tattoo and hit play.",
"It's a great idea and I also wanted to do it some time ago.\n\nThe thing is, if your tat artist isn't very precise and if he don't have a decade or two of experience, those thin lines will spread in a couple of years and the tat won't look so good.\n\nMy guy is very good and talented but he advised me not to do it.",
"As a Bills fan this makes me insanely happy. ",
"You're a good kid.",
"Yes then that would be on her.\n\nBut most people know about the jinx of getting another lover’s name tattooed on you",
"I’ve always said I’d only get a tattoo if it was something really personal, interesting, and something I’d never regret. Using an audio track is brilliant; so minimalist and deeply personal. If I ever get one, I think I’d steal this idea because it’s so good.",
"You can never be replaced, Dahmer. 😔",
"If that was my dad it would probably just be a big fat bar. His laugh is so dumb lol. Nice tat. Cool idea. \n\nEdit: my highest rated comment is me making fun of my dad. He'd be proud. ",
"Yep there are apps that do that. Only issue is you have to be really good at making those tattoos exact. ",
"I've never really been into tattoos.. like I'm not anti them or anything, and I certainly can appreciate the artwork that goes into them.\n\nbut honestly.. this is the first tattoo that made me go \"damn... that's amazing\".. and I can see myself doing something similar should I be unfortunate enough to be in a similar situation.\n",
"I wish I had something like that that I could do. I have a large cross on my back. That I designed for him. We lost him before he could get it. So I did instead.",
"I may do one with my girlfriend's cute little fart.",
"That’s going to be hard to explain",
"Oh boy. The r/pics Nazis are going to have a field day with this one. \n\nCool tattoo btw. \n\nE: Eat a dick losers. ",
"Amazing tattoo. I see a lot of waveform tattoos that say \"i love you\" or the heartbeat like someone else mentioned, but I personally have never seen a laugh done before. What better way to fondly remember someone than by their laugh. :)",
"When I was googling for an app I found a guy that converted them back and forth but the image had to be significantly higher resolution than you could get from a tattoo for any kind of clarity.",
"Those damn ghosts are cutting invisible onions again.",
"as far as i have seen, theres something out there that you can scan that with that will play the audio",
"Interesting thing, it's actually more of a QR code linked to the audio file. Pretty cool though.",
"So you are a communist now? Nice!",
"Cool idea!",
"http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1138283/Manchester-City-fan-gets-needle-pals-having-Kaka-tattooed-chest.html\n\nGoogle \"man city tattoos\" for more similar stories",
"I recall a guy doing that over at /r/DIY he spend a ton of resources on it. I think he used a molding method or something to get a 3D version and then framed it.",
"You know you're Gunna have to explain that to every person you meet now, right? Constantly reminded that your father isn't with you ",
"Thanks for ruining it ",
"Most generic tattoo that exists",
"Youd be surprised what people would pay to be able to hear a loved ones voice anytime they want...that being said, fuck that app for being greedy...and that being said, people have to make a living.",
"Any dad worth his salt would run his finger along it and laugh as if he was reading the sound wave.",
"I can almost hear it.",
"I am generally against tattoo, especially pictures of the likes of Justin Bieber, etc., but this I can see myself having one done. Bravo.",
"My friend from high school, created these tattos, Soundwave Tattoo. ",
"I thought you were a football.",
"I was wondering the exact same thing...There's no way a tattoo artist could accurately transcribe a .wav file to your arm. Now if we had robots doing the tattoos it becomes a bit more feasible...",
"I regret my Harvey Weinstein's face full back tattoo now..",
"Damn... this hit me hard",
"Your second ex was David Bowie?",
"This is something really special. You did good.",
"That's a really nice sentiment but a really awful tattoo. Looks like you doodled with a bic pen. I know this is going to get downvoted but just because he has a nice backstory doesn't make it any less of a shitty tattoo. It is also a low quality photo, I don't see why this is in this sub. ",
"We are all just a pattern of information, really cool you carry a specific part of your father now. ",
"*Everyone’s* doing it.",
"That will blur.",
"Ads work better when the company/product is actually mentioned. So this wasn't an ad for them until your comment.",
"I love this. ",
"Wish I had that kinda relationship with my father",
"That is absolutely beautiful.",
"This is my general view of \"bad tattoos.\" Ugly, outdated, or badly done, it's still something you loved at one point and looking at it is like flipping through an old photo album. Unless that shit's on your face, neck, hands, or upper chest... then idk, man.",
"Gacy, you just make my heart racy. ",
"Looks like an acoustic signal?",
"Even if there is an app to read it, the lines will blur over the years sadly. But it is a really sweet idea.",
"The voice actor for the main character in Cowboy Bebop did the same thing with the last line he recorded for the show! This should become a thing.",
"That’s fucking awesome. I lost my dad 2 years ago. We had two tattoos done together, every time I see my them it makes me think of him. You’re awesome, this is awesome.",
"I TOO AM FEELING AN EMOTIONAL RESPONSE TO THIS, FELLOW HUMAN ",
"This makes me sad. ",
"The Lossiest compression",
"Yeah but the quality converting from a tattoo is dubious ",
"sure, but this one won't sound like much because it's not detailed enough",
"repost",
"This is sweet and a good looking tattoo. ",
"You know that's pretty much how those \"apps\" (I personaly call them money grabbing scams, but \"apps\" it is) that /u/geak87 was trying to find. Reading the lines from a tattoo is just. not. possible.\n\nIf it would be possible, the requirement to have *them* create the tattoo would not be necessary. It's all bullshit and lies.\n\nOP's tattoo though is making my eyes wet for some reason... (extra moist for choosing dad's laughter)",
"But can we scan a virus from human bone?",
"i didn’t know that!! thats awesome ",
"Thank you Buzz Killington",
"You can be a good businessman *and* a good fellow human being. If a forty year old is doing something like that, sure, mind your business I guess. If it's an 18 year old, a tattoo artist with any life experience should think about mentioning a couple of horror stories like this one and maybe suggesting some alternatives. Talking someone out of a bad decision can be good for business...",
"Little do we know it's an audio file of his Dad laughing at an old lady falling down the stairs.",
"Isn't there an app where you can scan soundwaves? Or that might be weird",
"It's a nice symbolic gesture, but so are most tatoos.\n\nThe sad part about them is that any noise could make a very similar wave form. This could just be some random dude clapping 4 times. I wonder if any audio engineers have gotten one of these...",
"Not to put OP down, but I feel like it's a good idea with a cool meaning, but the turnout is kinda ugly. ",
"My friend got his own nicknamed tattooed, he's not the brightest but at least he can't have a fight with himself right?",
"That is really beautiful. \nEdit: why the downvotes? The idea is beautiful, positive and unique.",
"> sound WaVeY things\n\nThis is about my extent of understanding of sound. How in the hell does *one* speaker shaking make all the sounds of a symphony *simultaneously*?!?!?!?",
"> something you have a great chance of never regretting.\n\nTotally unrelated to your previous comment, but my sister at 15 was such a HUGE rebel - I'm talking run away in the middle of the night to go party and get drunk or trying to run away with her new boyfriend. Anyway, one of her rebellious acts involved her getting her first tattoo. No one knew about it until I found her alternate Myspace account on accident (she was using my mom's maiden name), her profile picture was her shoulder with the words \"love life, no regerts.\" I laughed my fucking ass off because I don't think she realized at the time until I bashed her on it. She is now 24 and as a rule I never say the word \"regret\" properly around her. ",
"I want to believe. Get this guy to the top.",
"That's really cool. ",
"Bad joke ahead alert:\n\nI like OPS idea, but like can you really read the sound wave to know what it says. \n\nIt reminding me of those Chinese character tattoos where the wearer thinks it's one thing, but really it's a completely different word. \n\nLike, OP thinks it's his dad's laugh, but the tattoo recording probably says, \"you mother and I deeply regret adopting you. You're adopted\". ",
"You can almost hear it <3",
"Really bad idea for a tattoo though. In a decade or so it'll look like a weird skin condition.\n\nNever go with fine lines in a tattoo",
"*from a distance*\n\n\"Why is that man making arm pits farts and crying\"\n\n*Gets closer*\n\n\"Why is it laughing?",
"I can feel a tear rolling down my cheek rn. ",
"That is such a great idea!!! 👍 Very unique",
"Creepy as fuck. Like you go on a date, the girl asks what's that, and you say it's your father's laugh permanently embedded in your arm? \n\nGo ahead and downvote, I'm calling out OP's regrettable decision. Not at all adorable or heartwarming.",
"I'm not a tattoo guy at all. But I can get behind this type of tattoo. ",
"Great idea! ",
"All good mate, it’s her/his dads laugh. I’m sure when s/he looks down and sees the tattoo s/he can actually hear the laugh. It’s amazing. ",
"The fact he'd look like he had blackface on with all the names makes it even worse.",
"I'm gonna do this except it's gonna be jimmy carr's laugh. ",
"I have my mom's on a painting but I never even thought about a tattoo. Awesome man",
"I hate to break it to you /u/drewsoulman but we've been best buds forever so I can't let you make a fool of yourself. I know it was supposed to be your dad laughing but all anyone hears are badly recreated fart noises...\n\nWait...why are the sound waves getting taller?",
"That is awesome! My sister in law took the \"love dad\" from her last b-day card and had that done on her arm. Im all about rememberance tats",
"That’s essentially what the real app (or at least the most popular one) does anyway. Which is why you need them to do the tattoo/setup for you.\n\nIt’s not scanning the tattoo and reading the wavelengths and playing it directly off of there somehow. It’s more like a qr-code. It scans the specific tattoo and that tells it to open up a specific sound file from their database. \n\nThey put the image used for the tattoo and the sound file itself into their app so that it’s ready to go. You scan it, it matches the image, the image opens the sound file.\n\nStill cool, but a bit of an illusion.",
"Even if the tattoo was a perfect copy of those lines, there's a lot more to audio than just those lines.",
"Quit clowning around",
"this is probably the best tattoo i’ve ever seen\n\nedit: ahh reddit downvoted for an opinion, you’ll never change lol",
"Always gonna be that guy",
"It's not possible from a photo like this, there's actually teeny tiny details in each spike and portion of the waveform that's captured to make up sound, it'd need to be printed with a needle at the scale of like 10nm (rough math) ",
"That's one of the most meaningful tats I've seen dude. I'm 52. Your dad is looking down so proud of your originality...",
"A few times? That's it? I think every nurse and porn star has that shit by now. It's become the barbed wire on the bicep!",
"We've got a real Captain Killjoy over here. ",
"See, this is awesome. I've wanted to get a tattoo for awhile, but can't decide on something \"important\" enough. \n\nI have my kids, but they're still young and not into anything that I think can define them yet. I'm afraid of pulling the trigger on something I'd regret. A tattoo of something relating to dad, I could never regret. ",
"The app would just recognize the image and play the pre-existing sound.",
"modern recordings are sampled at 44.1khz. good luck getting represented that on your skin! people don't get these because they think they can be \"played\" (if they do, feelsbadman), but because it has personal meaning. \n\nthose apps don't \"read\" the tattoo but remember the shape and play the pre-loaded sample you specified. ",
"And a positive attitude!",
"Just piling on with the other comments in here. The app is disingenuous. You can't draw a waveform and have it interpreted as a specific sound. That's not how audio works.\n\nPitchfork me, plz.\n\nEdit: I oversimplified and I am sorry. You must use an exact waveform of the source audio in order for this to work. Hence, drawing is not a good way to get there. That's all I was saying. ",
"Not every person you meet will poke about your tattoo... plus the OP will never go a day forgetting their dad passed away, so what’s the difference? Let them have fun with their tattoo. ",
"You could scan it and come up with some way to play it as audio, but I can absolutely guarantee you that it won't sound remotely like anything, just garbled noise.\n\nTo draw a waveform like this, it has to be massively downsampled to avoid weird aliasing artefacts. It's obviously a little different when it's a tattoo and not something being displayed on a screen, but either way, this is more like a vague artists impression of an already-intentionally-distorted-to-look-nice representation of an audio file. Still cool, though!",
"... so what did we learn here today?",
"That escalated quickly.",
"What about a dead SO?",
"How did you get a pic of it though? I know that sounds stupid the way I worded it",
"It's not that special at all. It's a gimmick.",
"I would be honored for my child to carry around my happiness and joy everywhere with them. ",
"Don't worry. He'll be dead soon then you won't regret it!",
"Why isn't there an app that would let you share his laugh from the tattoo on your arm? Or is there...",
"As a pats fan, it makes me happy too",
"I wish I was as close to my dad as you were. I grew up in a mom dominated household as an only child. Dad didn't think socialization and sports were important to a pre-teen and teenage boy. Now we've drifted apart since we have no like interests and he can't even fake being interested in anything I am into. Just awkward. We aren't mad at each other just distant.",
"Calm down, James Joyce",
"Here on /r/pics, quality content isn’t needed. In fact, we encourage the most basic, most grainy cell phone picture you can take! Just make sure you have a sob backstory to go along with your shitty picture, that way the upvotes can just roll on in. ",
"Is this enough data to reproduce it?",
"Could make a QR code type of app to scan the waveform linking to a sound hosted on a server somewhere though",
"Aslong as he doesn’t laugh like Tidus in Final Fantasy X then you golden!",
"Until you find out it wasn't your kid..",
"Awesome! How do you listen to it?",
"It’s not like OP just played a sound of her dad laughing and told the tattoo artist, “yeah, I want that but in sound wave form.” ",
"I wonder if you could do a QR code or something that you could scan w/ a phone to actually hear the laugh.",
">It’s more like a qr-code\n\nThe term is 'fiducial marker'. ",
">Your dumb.\n\nLol.",
"That's actually really fucking cool. I wish we had Blade Runner tech where our cell phone could just scan and play the laugh right off your arm. I'm truly sorry for your loss, man.",
"*You're",
"Says the person who doesn’t know the difference between “your” and “you’re”. ",
"This is absolutely beautiful.",
"This is the greatest idea I've seen in a long time. ",
"There's a famous equation (the 'wave equation') which dictates how waves moves through something (so in this case, sound waves through air). It just so happens that if you have low-enough volume sounds, this equation and can be made what we'd call linear.\n\nWhat this means, is that if you add two 'sound waves' together, the result will be just that - those two sounds added together, and not some weird jumbled thing. This is why you can take two things you'd perceive as different sounds, and 'add' the signals together and it'll sound like the two things added together and not something weird and different. Hope that's a reasonably helpful explanation :)\n\nThere are some outlying possibilities where this doesn't hold exactly like this, such as with out-of-phase signals which can 'cancel out' (so you'd hear them if they were individual but not when added together), but that's not all that important for understanding the basic idea!",
"You are forgetting the SAAS business model behind it. You use a companies app, it identifies the waveform, looks up a similar waveform in your account and plays it with a nice animation on top. All for a low price per month. And if you stop paying, it doesn't work anymore. ",
"Dude laughed so awesome it showed up on a seismograph.",
"It's like a permanent nametag is all.",
"[Multiple different sound waves can be played as one](https://qph.ec.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-48a9a8ad1f43c70b47c048935d8b0d69-c)\n\nThis gives you basically infinite amount of combinations. ",
"That's really awesome and I love the idea.\n\nMy sister got a tattoo of the last \"I love you\" that my mom wrote to her. My mom had amazing penmanship so it looks amazing.",
"may your dad rest in peace...",
"Wish my dad laughed too....he doesn't",
"I'm not crying, you're crying",
"I just found my dream tattoo: the the permanent mark of a sound",
"Yeah, you are correct. Those apps are basically acting like a QR code. The app sees the tattoo as a symbol it recognizes and then plays the corresponding stored audio file. It is not \"playing\" the tattoo image, it is impossible. ",
"how do you get the graph or the chart?",
"This is so wonderful so don’t get me wrong, but if I had that tattoo I would just think of my dad laughing at me every time I do something dumb :)",
"Can we hear it?",
"My brother has a somewhat famous voice as he is the stadium announcer for a few pro sports teams. \n\nA fan of one of the teams got a sound wave tattoo of my brothers voice introducing the team, but the sound wave part was negative space, the tattoo was like the outline of it. \n\nHe then had an app that could successfully project onto his skin and fill the gap and read it somehow and play the sound. \n\nAt least it seemed that way in his twitter video of it. \n\n",
"Within the first year, perhaps. It won't last though. Black ink detail like that inevitably bleeds out and will become a fuzzy dark smidge where the lines are close within a few years. Wish more people understood how tattoos age. \n\nA good artist is about more than just laying down a good looking tattoo initially, but rather also designing the work so that it looks good for years to come. ",
"... why do you need the original sound file? Isn't that what you would create using the tattoo....?\n\nEdit: thanks for the explanations, but it still doesn't make sense what the OP I responded to means then? So you'll get the audio and then... Send it back to them?",
"When my father passed away the only real thing he left was a voicemail to me, a day before he died (suddenly). \n\nHe didn't know it was going to be his last voicemail to his son.\n\nI listened to it for a while until AT&T deleted my voicemail messages when I upgraded from an iPhone 4 to a 5.\n\nFuck you AT&T",
"And not on the face, I think.",
"It’s a bad tattoo tho ",
"Hahaha don’t be silly fellow ~~robot~~ human haha ha",
"I like this ",
"OP, is this a Skin Motion tattoo? At the risk of sounding like HailCorporate, you should check them out. They can link this kind of tat to the actual sound file using a cell phone interface. Then you could actually HEAR your father.",
"That's really fucking weird ",
"Who’s cutting the onions?",
"I remember that one. It turned out really cool.",
"Yeah, I saw that. Much less cool.",
"So imagine that tattoo was highly accurate representation of the sound wave. What other info would you need to play it correctly?",
"I wonder if there would be a way to encode something vaguely similar into a tattoo-compatible image. Closest thing I could think of would be a QR code with a midi file, which is fine if you want to beep out Camptown Races or something, but nowhere near human speech.",
"Wow. Your artist did a REALLY good job of keeping the lines clean and straight, you can actually see every individual one",
"http://geekologie.com/2017/05/soundwave-tattoos-waveform-tattoos-that.php",
"I think the idea is nice but I’m not a fan of how it looks. Maybe it would fit better with a sleeve. Not trying to bash op tho. ",
"Any chance you have the laugh uploaded to the internet so we can all here? Let your dad's laugh be the laugh for the internet!",
"real shit",
"You need the original sound file because a tattooed waveform *absolutely does not* contain enough information to reproduce a human voice. The application used to \"play\" the tattoo just recognizes the image and plays back an associated sound file.",
"You can get your SO's name for your 25th wedding anniversary.\n\nThat way if you break up, I mean that bitch was still a huge part of your life.",
"That app only works because they store the soundfile, and recognize the waveform because they drew it in the first place. The actual waveform does not store any information on the sound, except amplitude. You could have two completely identical waveforms from very different sources.",
"That's amazing.",
"Yeah, the tattoo is cool for it's sentimental value, but there is not even remotely enough information in that image to create decent audio out of.",
"You aren't going to get that far. Shaking their head and walking away...",
"Because this trash sub is all about the backstory. Any hint of hardship or Republican bashing and you'll get upvoted no matter how crappy your picture is.",
"There's really not.\n\nedit: I think I'm confusing some folks so I'll clarify. The tattoo is 100% completely insufficient to reproduce any kind of meaningful sound that's in any way close to the source audio. I am simply pointing out that Irishminer93's statement that \"there's a lot more to audio than just those lines\" is not true. The audio can be 100% captured and represented in a waveform that looks just like that (but would require considerably more resolution than what a tattoo can provide). So *if the tattoo was a perfect copy* you'd have all you needed to get the sound from it.",
"Wow, that is beautiful. ",
"That's actually a way better idea. Makes for a funnier story as well.",
"App doesn't purport to \"play\" the tattoo. It essentially links an image of the tat to a sound in their database. ",
"*finger guns* I got that reference!",
"One of the best things I've learned about on reddit.",
"Ah so that’s why my neighbor has a swastika tattoo",
"This is the best kind of tattoo, something that is deeply personal and meaningful. Something you want to carry around forever. I hope it brings you happiness despite the tragedy.",
"When my sister was 17, she faked a birth certificate and got \"Mrs. *boyfriend's name* tattooed on her arm.\n\nA few months later, he dumped her while she was in rehab.",
"can op give an mp3 of dad laughing?",
"> Also I have a feeling the waveform isn't accurate enough.\n\nWell, yeah, that's pretty obvious, but it doesn't stop us from being curious.\n\nTheoretically, once we know how long that clip is, everything is there to recreate the recording. Obviously it isn't going to sound perfect, but we all want to know just how recognizable it would be.\n\nMy guess is that it will sound slightly more human than just plain white noise, but not much. Being able to distinguish it as a laugh would be completely impossible. But since you can't even count how many times the wave crosses the axis, it's possible that it would just sound like white noise. I'm still curious.\n\nIf you really wanted to make this work, you would probably want to use a graph of the Fourier transformation of the clip. It would still be pretty bad, but it may actually be somewhat recognizable if you did this. ",
"Stop, I can't be crying in school",
"My mom always says she doesn't like anything enough to tattoo it on her body forever. People say \"What about your kids?\" \"*Especially* not my kids.\" \n\nThanks mom. ",
"You're correct. Most fine line work like that, especially close together like those waves, will merge within a few years. One of the best things my artist did when I got my first tattoo was to explain what would and wouldn't work long term with a tattoo design I was thinking about. I went with his suggestions and my ink still looks good years later as a result.",
"You cannot create the sound file from the tattoo because it doesn't contain enough information. The tattoo basically shows you the relative volume levels of the laugh. It doesn't show you the pitch or vowel sounds involved. ",
"I feel like long-term spouse might also work, but I’d wait 20+ years before committing.",
"No problemo: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/ca/5e/67/ca5e673b3feb53aca7a58f2df4d69ff1.jpg",
"\" one isn't truly dead unless he is forgotten \"",
"the effect of the blurring of the ink and general low resolution would make that laugh into a series of demonic guttural bursts.\n\n",
"That's amazing, my father passed away a few years ago and I wish I have something like that to immortalise him on my skin too, I'm sure your dad will be proud of you.",
"So heartwarming. I’m glad you can forever remember him",
"**LuChador**\n\nAnd get a lucha mask above it.",
"Thats a laugh? Looks like some lines ",
"Guy on opposing wrestling team in high school had his nickname tattooed across the back of his shoulders. I figured it was in case he got lost people could just check the tag to figure out where to return him.",
"Look behind you! Louis C.K seems to be enjoying it very much",
"[Found it.](https://i.imgur.com/DuebJpv.jpg)",
"Well yeah he needed a snack for the road",
"Now, someone is going to recreate it. ",
"Nope",
"The apps just look up the picture in a database and play some pre-recorded audio - there's no real way to actually 'play the tattoo' unfortunately. ",
"Wouldnt it just be easier to ask OP for the file?",
"Or implant a small circuit with a speaker and a button",
"I would have gone with one of my dads farts. Far more iconic.",
"sorry to hear that but this is amazing. btw I'm stealing it. i still have a couple voicemails from a best friend of mine that passed away over a year ago, one of them starts off with him yelling, \"hey fuck nuts!\" in his canadian accent of course and i totally want do this with that.",
"QR?",
"How do you reproduce it? ",
"Ikr! Almost everyone I know has their dead dad's laugh inked on their forearm. Get an original tattoo! \n/s ",
"That's a guy's arm? 18 year olds have normally hit puberty. Dude's arm looks like it's been shaved.",
"How do you play it back?",
"Dude, I fucked up. Ever since I made that comment, I've been listening to Good Charlotte and considering an eyebrow piercing. I gotta update my Xanga now, but hit me up on ICQ later, 14614992.",
"I just don't get it. Even if he signed with them... Football players move around *a lot*.\n\nIt's like Arsenal fans getting a Giroud tattoo",
"Incredible ",
"Hey OP, how did you capture the wave form? I've wanted to get something similar of each of my kids saying \"love you daddy\", but I can't find software to give me a nice image like yours. Any help? ",
"Even kids and parents can get a little weird... I cannot imagine my mother or father to have my name inked. ",
"I really dislike tattoos for a variety of reasons, but this is a great tattoo. Forever, this guy will have something on his body that immediately stokes a conversation about his father. It's darn good way to remember someone. ",
"STOP YELLING PLEASE. ",
"Shouldn't take it out on your mom like that, though. ",
"Super cool idea",
"Good choice, literally every time you look at that will be a reminder. ",
"(If you're not joking) I think you underestimate how much detail there is in a real waveform.\n\n[This pic](https://i.imgur.com/fhUT0Qm.jpg) shows 0.05 seconds of audio. In other words, copy that 20 times and you have one second. Now you can imagine the tattoo isn't quite as detailed :D",
"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vK0BIb-A2HQ\n\nhard to convert a picture of a waveform back to a real waveform.",
"passe",
"As an Eagles fan, I've been happy since last Sunday and it just keeps getting better and better",
"Why are sob stories allowed back on /r/pics?",
"Saw this on iFunny a year ago so not sure if this is real",
"This is so dope! :,)",
"I think there's a vas deferens between someone who can't spell one time and someone who tattoos a fucking signal onto their arm.",
"I lost my dad 5 years ago and wished I had a recording of his voice. This made me cry a little! Beautiful tattoo!!",
"I love this. wish I could have something for my dad. He passed this past Easter. I may not have audio for this, but I have a birthday card with his handwriting on it. Going to try to find someone who will be able to do it. ",
"This is a great idea. Shortly after my dad passed, I found a piece of paper in his desk with a quote scribbled down. \"The lives of the dead are in the memories of the living.\" I got that in his handwriting on my ribs. ",
"Pretty cool. The placement makes it look like you slit your wrist though.",
">If that were turned into audio, it would likely be very muddy and not recognizable at all.\n\nI think we can all appreciate that it wouldn't be recognizable. But we're still curious what it would sound like regardless. ",
"It's a visualization of a sound wave, not Braille.",
"Great game dude. Happy for your city",
"I got my sons first laugh exactly the same way on my right shoulder blade. Best thing ever",
"You are the best man",
"100% cool he would be proud to see it",
"Ignore the other commenters, you can't replicate sound from a waveform. You can only see how loud the sound is over time.",
"Am I really the only one around here that has seen this hundreds of times before?",
"I really like it but quick question, was that when you first got it or now? It looks a little red and I'm curious if tattoos tend to leave red after you get them.",
"Ive thought about getting one of these of my kids before they get too big. My sons 11 and my daughter is 4 going to be 5. I love that OP did this!",
"Shows you had a dad you laughed with and weren't laughed at by. Beautiful idea.",
"Its really easy to get the sound wave from an audio file. He could have done that and used that picture of the wave.",
"Well that's not what you said. That's also not generic either.",
"That's awesome. Very cool. ",
"I was going to say the same. I like the idea, and the execution is good. It will look good for the first couple of years, but after that it will become one enormous blob. \n",
"I know people that have had this happen. Yikes.",
"No because you can't tell what sound is being made by a waveform... it only shows loudness at each moment. This tattoo could be interpreted as anything as long as it has the same amplitude. However it does have meaning to OP so it is still pretty cool.",
"Disgusting ",
"Kind of like when Ernie aka Ice from Hocus Pocus shaved the word ICE into his hair.",
"There is a special place in hell for them.",
"I know you're making a joke but!\n\nCheckout \"skin motion\", I don't know much about them but they work with tattoo artists to create soundwave tattoos that can be read on a phone/tablet. ",
"Downvoted but that's right. \n \nNot to bring OP down either, but so many people are amazed by how original this is. It absolutely isn't.",
"From the thumbnail I thought this was the Elder Wand from Harry Potter. Great tattoo though. Sorry for your loss.",
"Unfortunately the only thing possible to obtain from this is the relative amplitude of the signal over time. There is essentially no harmonic information left. Even if we assume that the tattoo artist was able to recreate the original waveform accurately, our skin isn't really known for having great resolution. The pigment would likely smear far to much to obtain any useful information. Again, besides relative amplitude.",
"That is the coolest idea I've ever seen!!! I hope everytime you look at it you hear his laugh. So creative!!!",
"This is just creepy. \n\nIs everyone losing their mental stability?",
"Thank God for this news. Now I can finally show my Jimmy Saville tatoo in public\n",
"Yeah that's totally unacceptable, given how much money you give to Reddit every month to get a top notch service. /s \nYour sense of entitlement is off the charts. Oh, but yeah you are absolutely right in complaining about something you literally have no role in creating, distributing and broadcasting. \nAlso this kid is missing his / her dead dad. Good job champ",
"What a beautiful idea and way to remember your late father.",
"It probably has been. That's usually one of the first things done before getting a tattoo.",
"Audacity does this.",
"Audio can be perfectly represented by it's waveform. The only issue is the resolution, but at some point the human ear cannot tell the difference.\n",
"My mom passed away 3 years ago this coming may. Best of luck my man and know you're not alone. I think it's a great way to memorialize someone by remembering them at their happiest.",
"I wish I remembered what my dad’s laugh sounded like.",
"Now, if only we can make it so you can actually play the audio wave-- that would be some next level tattoo stuff. I saw a video on FB one time of a company that claims to do it but it was BS cause you can't scan the wave and have it play back audio lol. But the concept of audio tattoos is awesome though, wish it was really a thing.",
"Which would actually work much better.... Until that server, or domain goes down, or the domain gets purchased by someone else, and then you have a qr code to a dead domain or porn site. :( Unfortunately nothing is permenent, unless you use a QR Code to a domain you own yourself, and pay for the domain for 20-50 years well in advanced.",
"It’s a repost sorry for the downvotes ",
"That's an amazing tattoo",
"\"My tattoo? This is a sound wave to remember my girlfriend\"\n\n\"Oh, I'm sorry, did she pass?\"\n\n\"Sort of. She passed gas.\"",
"Not the best location. Looks like you tried to slit your wrists and got stitched up ",
"Probably the last thing your dad would’ve wanted you to do with your arm. ",
"1. original\n\n2. personal\n\n3. badass",
"This is amazing. Now I have to scour and see if I can find a video of my grandfather laughing. My dad won’t get it tattooed, but I know he would love to have it framed. ",
"I read that in Red Forman's voice. Of course, I read pretty-much everything in Red Forman's voice.",
"Looks cool too.",
"I wonder how it would sound in terms of accuracy?",
"Such an app would essentially use the tattoo as a QR code, and play back the file from the phone storage. There is no harmonic information left in the tatoo, sadly -- besides relative amplitude.",
"nerd af",
"Or maybe it's you? :)",
"nice ad. Is that tattoo really sound waves or does it just scan a code with a phone and play a prerecorded sound bite?",
"Not trying to be a dick but but i think your dad is some kind of dimensional rift if thats him laughing",
"I think I'll do the same, but with the entire audio of Sandstorm by \"Darude\" ",
"If you plan on re-dating and don’t mind explaining, go for it, though I doubt you’ll be successful.",
"That's really not that big of a tattoo and if they made it any smaller it would probably just look like a blotch. You need a certain size for all tattoos so the details are clear. ",
"I can wrap my head around all the technical aspects. I simply can't visualize what the speaker itself is doing.",
"No, the tattoo encodes amplitude (volume), but not frequency (pitch).",
"/r/ATBGE/ wants to have a word with you.",
"This is awesome, never would of thought of it but it’s def a really special way to remember him by",
"Please don't ever masturbate with that arm. ",
"For what precisely?",
"Ah ic, this didn’t work? https://www.keyflow.com/news/listen-tattoos-new-app/",
"Maybe from far away.. besides if someone did try to slit their wrists and got “stitched up”, that’s not the worst thing. They survived and are hopefully getting help. So sick of this stigma against mental illness. ",
"Absolutely the best tattoo I've seen!!",
"Is there a way you could recreate this in a computer and hear his actual laugh? Or would it sound robotic?",
"Lol ",
"That’s some next level sarcasm",
"**SORRY, IS THIS BETTER?**",
"not normally a fan of tattoos but this one is amazing. Very touching way to remember someone so dear to you.",
"A girl I know got her boyfriend's name on the inside of her lip.\n\nGuess what? They're not together anymore. ",
"I understand the laugh but then what’s the point of the tattoo if it can’t be heard? We can’t read waveforms. ",
"I'm going to be that guy and say at first glance I thought you cut yourself and got stitches",
"My mom has her dads handwriting on her wrist, it came out really nice ",
"Amplitude is on the Y axis, frequency is on the X axis, it has both, but not in practical enough resolution to reproduce from it of course ",
"Maybe it's a double entendre...",
"That is a beautiful tribute",
"Well most people who aren't into tattoos probably haven't seen a soundwave tattoo. ",
"I mean you definitely can accurately represent audio in a tattoo or picture.. just not a very compact one lol",
"[Here is the actual sound decoded](https://youtu.be/s637-5A9Gro)",
"Rest in peace dad. You still live in memory. ",
"That's awesome- even if you don't know what it is it looks really cool! ",
"That's really stupid.\n\nEveryone knows that it should be \"No ragrets\".",
"You CAN, just not with a tattoo on skin.",
"Jeez I eish I had my late fathers laugh recorded somewhere. Then again I couldn't get a tat anyways",
"Why come on the sub then? ",
"What was his name? Wondering if you can change it to something else.",
"Good, im gonna do the same thing but with my dog´s fart.\n",
"This is the 20th time I've seen this, it isn't OP's idea",
"How does a normal person without fancy equipment make a recording like that?",
"Awesome, thanks. I'll try that tonight",
"Wow that's really cool and unique. ",
"Probably has a .wav file recording of his dad laughing. Take a screenshot, print it out, and give it to a tattoo artist.",
"What are the odds you have a pic of said tattoo? I think it would serve as a good reminder for some.",
"How the fuck is that generic?",
"Someone scan this into audacity and post the mp3",
"You could just tattoo the binary bits, you could even get some pretty encoding, encryption and/or compression to make it pleasant to look at too.",
"An audio file be written out in binary, but it would consist of at least a couple thousand digits.",
"I read that first as I got a tattoo and my dad laughed, he passed 3 years ago. Who is laughing now.",
"\"IIII was just learning to love\"",
"Well his skin is red so its still fresh, itll fade and look right with a little time. And if somehow it could be scanned and played, it wouldnt be the same because human error when it was inked on. Its more a visual memory for OP",
"30+ years of being a joke in your own city and then winning the football owner lottery is bound to make a few people lose their sanity.",
"I couldn't think of a better way to remember someone that that",
"It's a good weeding out tool. I wouldn't want to date someone who took issue with that anyway. ",
"“...ahh ha ha HA HAH hah..”",
"Yea how would the tattoo artist know where to begin? ",
"probably something similar, i just got the tattoo last Thursday, i can post more pictures if people are wondering if it’s actually mine ",
"To follow up, in terms of preservation by physical display:\n\nEncoded audio (any bitrate, probably 8kbps) > spectrogram > waveform\n\nThe first two arent very good for artistic purposes unless youre making a tribute to your cats or something.",
"Looks like a horrible stitch job from afar.",
"Oh god, my fucking heart. Why do people have to make me feel?!",
"Also dolphins become whales in time.",
"Also, even assuming your scaled down measurement rate of 12,000 points/second (at 3s, 36,000 slices) and assuming this tattoo is about 10cm long, the \"resolution\" of this tattoo would need to be at least 2.7 micrometers, actually less (Nyquist Sampling Theorem and all that). Call it 1 micrometer. Impossible for a human to tattoo, and also impossible to get sound from even an image of a sound wave (unless you're talking about a picture about a million pixels wide).",
"My dad just passed away on Sunday and reading this whole thread is killing me\n\nI appreciate everyone's nice words. We're lucky enough to have a ton of great friends and family that have been helping my mom, brothers, and me out a lot so we're all doing okay. Thanks everyone!",
"Incorrect. Ass",
"Im not a fan of tattoos as most people seem to do it for immediate fashion reasons oblivious of future consequences.\n\nThis on the other hand is probably the best one I've ever heard/seen. Brought a tear to my eye.",
"I don’t remember my father’s laugh.",
"I have Snapchats of my grandmother laughing. \n\nShe passed last year.\n\nI didn't record her laughter, but I am so glad I did. \n\nI think laughter is the best choice to remember someone by. It's a weird (for me) feeling of smiling and tearing up. ",
"Couldn't agree more. It's a great sentimental heartfelt idea, but you can't hear a tattoo of a soundwave. ",
"This makes absolutely no sense. It's not DNA, afaik all it is is a measure of amplitude and frequency",
"George. He'll never beat me again.",
"Just gotta kill him",
"Wow.... this hit me right in the feels. My Dad will be gone 2 years in just a couple of days. His sense of humour is the biggest part of him that I miss. ",
"Amazing idea. ",
"Until you get fat and old, then it's just noise and hideous",
"I'm not into tattoos. \n \n[Check this out](https://www.google.com/search?q=soundwave+tattoo&safe=off&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjF892En6PZAhXFKZQKHT6iA0cQ_AUICigB&biw=2560&bih=1319)",
"I'm really sorry your dad wasn't around when you were growing up. \n\n/r/FamiliesYouChoose ",
"YES, THIS HAS CREATED EMOTION WITHIN MY HUMAN NEUROLOGICAL SYSTEM.\n \nSYSERR MOV AH,9: \n44 65 73 74 72 6f 79 \n4d 65 61 74 62 61 67",
"This is what 0.05 seconds of audio looks like https://i.imgur.com/fhUT0Qm.jpg\n\nThere's no way you could enough detail in a tattoo to replicate a waveform that sounds like anything.",
"My sister got my mom and I necklaces that say \"I Love You\" in my dad's handwriting. It's hard to put into words what it means to have that with me all the time.",
"Absolutely agree. The op has been through a a lot. Not only did his lose his dad but I bet if the dad was still around he would've been there to tell the op he's not allowed to get shitty tattoos. Two tragedies. Hope life gets better for op soon.",
"My mom's laugh is too loud, it wouldn't fit on my arm.",
"I've always thought that the best tattoo are the ones that have personal meaning and it doesn't come more personal than this. This is a tattoo you'll never regret having, nice one.",
"*brings up politics on a post about someone’s dead dad*",
"What are you, a wise guy?",
"That's not really possible, reading waveforms only give you very limited information. ",
"He explained why it wouldn't work, if op expected it to work he should have done more research. Don't hate on him for teaching us something ",
"there was a Harvard study a few years ago that showed that we don't actually need the pitch or vowel sounds for us to recognize that something is a sound",
"I have an old tape of my dad from when he came back from Desert Storm. It's the only recording of him I have and it's stuck in the camcorder that recorded it. I haven't touched it out of fear that I'll ruin it. While I don't touch it, there's still this possibility in my mind that I can find someone to convert it to DVD so I can see him and hear his voice again.",
"This is so badass",
"I went ahead and did a little digging. [It was a unusual Christmas card of his daughter saying \"Happy Christmas\"](https://www.reddit.com/r/DIY/comments/7lowet/unusual_waveform_christmas_card/)",
"*Gets closer*\n\n\"Why am I getting closer?\"\n\n*Gets closer*",
"On what console is this rendered? :+",
"That's gonna look awesome when you're old",
"Fuck yeah!",
"OP You have a giant fissure leading to another dimension on your arm, might want to get that one checked out by the doctor...",
"🎶 Feel Good 🎶",
"Awesome meaning. \n\nWhat a bad, bad spot.\n\nInstead of a soundwave of a family memory, it's a huge scar for when you tried to cut now. That's what everyone is going to think. Hope you got your job figured out because people are going to think the wrong thing. \n\nWould have been a bad ass rib piece...set horizontally, because that's how it comes out on the machine.",
"I looked into this after a customer called and the whole thing just sucks. Basically you pay $60 as the customer for them to generate the QR for it and then $10/year forever for them to keep it stored. Assuming they stick around as a company for very long.\n\nFor the artists you have to pay $500ish to get set up with them and agree that anything you put around it can be used in their marketing without your name. ",
"The app just recognizes the image and plays an audio file it has stored. You can't legibly tattoo all audio file as a waveform on your skin",
"Thats fucking stupid",
"Never seen someone get a sound waveform tattoo before. I think its an awesome and creative way of getting a tattoo to remember your dad. ",
"Even if robots did the work it still wouldn't be feasible. The \"resolution\" of a tattoo isn't that great and it gets worse over time.",
"I kind of like it, don't see how it's creepy.",
"I keep the screams of my victims on my body.",
"http://www.iactive.xyz/2018/02/love-will-find-way.html",
"gay",
"At what point did you record his laugh to get this waveform?",
"That's impossible. It only shows the loudness and not the frequency. ",
"Please dont tell me you jack off with this arm.",
"Supposed to shave the designated area before tattoo.",
"Instant tears.",
"His mother's last words to him: \"quit pushing me you little shit\"",
"scam you say?!?!!? that's like saying 'the cloud' is just really expensive off site storage and processing. pish posh!",
"I did the same thing for my wife's and my \"I Do\"from our wedding video.",
"No, that would be June666",
"What an awesome tattoo.",
"It's actually more about the resolution of those lines. There is way too much detail lost in the tattoo to make any meaningful sound.",
"Waveform tells you nothing. That could just as easily be a waveform of someone ripping ass.",
"There's a website called soundwave art that does this. You can upload a recording or video, and for an additional fee when you scan the print it'll play the video. I got one for my fiance and it was so worth the money! ",
"Awesome🖤",
"I would say several Bits more interesting.",
"It can be a cool idea without being a unique idea ",
"Any decent tattoo parlor should have warned him about it.\n\nOP, go to a different artist and get those little lines filled in. Just go for the general shape of the soundwave, it'll work better in the long run",
"Whatever you do, don't Google soundwave tattoos.",
"Unfortunately OP, it's not possible. The app that's out ther is a fake that plays canned audio files over the internet when you scan the photo, the photo acts more like a tag to a file location more than actually having the detail to 'produce sound'\n\nTo elaborate, a male human voice is 85 to 180Hz, Hz, for the uninitiated, is a measure of frequency, where the waveform passes over the horizon, under, and then back up (think of a typical Sine Wave, where it's just an S that passes up, under and then back up, but only passes the 'horizon' once, that's ONE hz.\n\nSo the human voice is a range of 85 to 180, Let's say 130Hz to average the values out. That means that, for every second of visual waveform, you need to have the detail and granularity in the tattoo quality, to have ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY oscilations past that center line(horizon)... \n\nSo given that the waveform doesn't appear to be complicated, I 'm gonna assume it's only about 2-3 seconds of audio, and another guess is that the tatto is about 6-9 inches long.\n\nI'll assume 9 inches to play it safe, and 3 seconds.\nThat means for every 2 inches, is one second, and the tattoo would need to have ~=130 lines per inch (remember each oscillation is one line up and then one line back down, so it's technically 2 lines per HZ)\n\nTL;DR Those 'waveform tattoo' apps really bug me because we don't have the ability to actually do that, and it gives people false hope for a half-ass product. Unless you want to have a 2ft waveform of only a few seconds of audio on your back, still that'd be hard to do. ",
"Be cool if it was like a QR code and you could open an app to listen to how it sounds.",
"The tattoo basically shows the volume of the recorded sound and not the tone. For all we know the tattoo could say “oooooooAHooAHoooAHoooAHooooAH”",
"(Respectfully) disagree. I wouldn't have put it where he did but I like the execution.",
"Very cool, very thoughtful tribute. ",
"He lives. As long as you remember. A great son. A great dad.",
"Yes there is. Pitch cannot be seen in resolution that's as low as the tattoo, the only thing you'll be able to make out is the amplitude, which is just loudness. ",
"..because they shave the area first.",
"My dad passed away while I was in 6th grade and I’m really interested in how you were able to do this? Did you take it from a recording you have of him? ",
"Lol I wish my dad had an audible laugh. He’s one of those freaks that just goes *deep* red and looks like he’s laughing but all you hear is the occasional wheeze",
"I tHink we might be siblings.",
"Wtf is wrong with you?",
"Just to get some perspective, I zoomed into 0.05 seconds of audio from music https://i.imgur.com/fhUT0Qm.jpg\n\nThat alone has more waves than the whole tattoo which represents several seconds of sound.",
"So, he laughs while you jerk off? Nice.",
"As someone whose father recently passed, this is so lovely.",
"Your father's laugh track on your arm???",
"Audio isn't working for me",
">all it is is a measure of amplitude and frequency\n\nThat's all a sound is...",
"Here's an idea, use [phonopaper](http://www.warmplace.ru/soft/phonopaper/). Then one can actually scan the tattoo with a phone and hear the laugh!",
"So could someone take a picture of that and translate it back to sound? That would be pretty cool.",
"I feel the hell out of this. \nMy dad passed away almost a year ago, and I've archived every voicemail I could find, just so I never forget the sound of his voice. \nBe strong, internet friend. You've got his good will and laughter by your side now. He'll always be with you. \nMuch love, man.",
"Nice. I have my daughter's laugh, same spot.",
"\"I can't fight this feeling any more\" \n\n*Gets Closer*",
"Whilst I think Crythos is being a dick about it, you can actually get an app to play them, so it must be more common than we all thought... \n \nhttps://skinmotion.com",
"The memory of his laugh wasn’t enough but this scribble of ink changes something?...",
"I think that's allowed in a specific sub-clause ",
"Language in the general direction of your female parental unit, fellow Homo Sapien.",
"Your dad had a weird looking mouth",
"I regret the business name I chose... Weinstein greenhouse and plant nursery",
"That’s really fantastic. Rip to your dad. You’re a good son ",
"More like you try to go into an employer and the first thing they see is a gnarly ass scar from when you tried to kill yourself.\n\nI mean...the spot they picked and the VERTICAL instead of horizontal aspect of it...how could you not see that it looks like you had serious mental and body harming issues?",
"Yep terrible line work and that's the only thing they needed to do right on this piece. ",
"Huh, interesting. I've never seen one in the wild before lol",
"It would sound like white noise going louder and quieter at points.",
"/r/greattastebutawfulexecution?",
"FUCK i haven’t thought about this, well time to use my left hand ",
"I feel like that tattoo is gonna look terrible in a few years. Just a fuzzy, black mess. ",
"Can we hear it please? ",
"It doesn't have to be \"adorable or heartwarming\" *to you*, because it's not *for you*.",
"Odds are pretty low of me having the picture. She deleted the alt account as soon as she found out I knew about it and I didn't think to save it. I'm not sure if I can talk her into sending me a picture of it now but I will try...",
"My dads dead. Give me karma \nEDIT: Thanks",
"One might say his dad was in stitches laughing.",
"Robot in Disguise as tattoo artist, Soundwave.",
"Awesome! Starting my day off right, thanks for the post. ",
"My first husband \"forbade\"me from getting my first tat, so of course I absolutely needed to. It was beautiful before color was added, then it just looked like a Rorschach image. 25 years later had it covered with a cat tat. No regerts. ",
"I have the same thing going on, on my left arm. Too bad I’m the original",
"Sound is just vibration of air molecules. A speaker is just a thing that vibrates air molecules. If a speaker vibrates air in the exact same way that a violin does it, why *wouldn't* it sound the same? \n\n",
"But a memory alone wouldn't give him attention on social media.",
"The message isnt lost on me, and while i think it is great that you did that, that tattoo looks terrifying",
"Skin motion tattoo?? If you’re not familiar look it up they make an app to play it. ",
"That’s a pretty clever idea. Sorry for your loss, but we have to live with it and keep moving forward. ",
"Must b white",
"Umm the anchor on the ankle would like a word with you. \n\n“But my sister and I both got them.”",
"Who has hairs on that side of their arm you weird hairy beast. ",
"/r/ATBGE ",
"In theory, if the tattoo were high enough resolution, there actually would NOT be anything more to audio than just those lines. The problem is that it is impossible for ink on skin to produce accurate detail needed on a tattoo this size. The tattoo represents a 'zoomed out' simplified version of the waveform. \n\nIt would be virtually impossible to tattoo any sound of any audible length with near-perfect resolution. The most typical (CD quality) wav sound is 44.1khz which means 1 second of laughter would require 44,100 precise points of data to be accurate. It is also 16-bit meaning that each of those precise points must be in the correct amplitude (height) out of 65,536 possible values.\n\nEach of those up and down parabolas seen in the tattoo is far from a simple arc. They are usually [complex](http://jeanphilippepernin.net/ressources/3.%20traitement%20des%20medias/4.%20traitement%20du%20son/documents/manual/m/images/4/4d/waveform_clipping.png) shapes and often each peak that you see in a zoomed out waveform is a trend made up of many smaller [oscilations](http://www.zytrax.com/tech/audio/time-wave-1.jpg)\n\nIt would be extraordinarily difficult (I always hesitate to say impossible) to accurately depict such a thing in ink on skin by hand.\n\nNow, waveform file formats come in lower resolutions and bitrates, but we're still talking about thousands of samples per second and thousands of possible values to get any defined sound.",
"Quite emotional, it's an innovative thing what you did.",
"Lame",
"This, Thank you! I wasn't in the state of mind to be doing this level of math and calculations, but precicely, the resolution required wouldn't even be able to accurately be stored with ink on the skin due to the unevenness, pores in the skin, etc, even if it were able to be accurately \"Printed\".\n\nFor those that don't know what a Micrometer is, 1 micrometer = 0.001 millimeter.",
"What do you mean Adolf Dassler was, and is one of the greatest men I know. I know Nike is leading the shoegame by sales right now but that doesn't mean Adolf's little shoestory Adidas is horrible :(",
"Most pussy magnet tattoo ever",
"Do you just think tattoos of soundwaves are dumb or do you not like how it was done? What would you have done differently if you got a tattoo of time series data?",
"How did you get the soundwave?",
"You could probably embed an RFID chip into your arm underneath the tat, then [scan the thing and play the audio out of it](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zdo6S2Ukwlk)...but that's a lot of work.",
"That's an awesome idea and a great way to remember your dad!",
"That's an interesting idea.",
"I ain’t no got’dang scientist!",
"Well he did post it on Reddit, so technically it is *for me*.",
"> speaker vibrates air in the exact same way that a violin does it, why wouldn't it sound the same?\n\nfun thing is they don't exactly, which is why Live performances are still a thing. But they do a really good job of it.",
"No..that is what he said. \n\nIt also **is** generic.\n\nHere is a soundwave tattoo that isn't generic:\n \nhttp://nextluxury.com/wp-content/uploads/lion-roaring-soundwave-mens-bicep-tattoo.jpg\n\n[now here is a Google search of hundreds of identical tattoos op has. ](https://www.google.com/search?q=soundwave+tattoo&client=ms-android-google&prmd=vin&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwirzbaWoKPZAhUG0WMKHQhGDpQQ_AUIEigC&biw=485&bih=836)\n\n\nNice tattoo op. I hope you moved past from your body harming. Those stitches look like you had cut really deep and got hospitalized.",
"That's going to make masturbation kinda awkward.",
"I have been thinking about a very meaningful tattoo for years now that cannot be translated in any other language. It is a quote in French that means the world to me and I wanted it on my wrist so that it can be a reminder to myself when life gets tough. Thank you for this beautiful (both metaphorically as well as visually) idea!\n",
"When did we start feeding the trolls again?",
"Or you could, you know, listen to that .wav every once in awhile. Or just remember his laugh. Or really anything other than tattooing a waveform on your forearm.",
"I have seen that a few times actually.",
"Alright, I’m getting my first tattoo!\nSomething to do with my kids frequencies",
"That's pretty weird. Not really a fan",
"Well what else are they going to do, get \"hahahaha\" tattooed on their arm?",
"I have a dead person on my leg!",
"What if your kid was Hitler?",
"LPT: wait at least until you're married",
"ZOOP ZOOP",
"I can almost hear it looking at that. You can see the individual \"ha\"s. ",
"I love that! Sounds waves are such a great way to honor those who you love! Amazing ",
"Could you link it please? I'd love to hear his laugh.",
"Okay I am sorry but that would still make me sad if I got that tattoo. Guess I’m not strong as you. ",
"You could try not emasculating strangers on the internet.",
"They'll probably have to let people know it's not a self harming scar more than it's a memory of their dad.\n\nI can't believe they put that on their forearm...vertical.",
"\"And yet I'm still afraid to let it flow.\"\n\n*Gets Closer*",
"Then attempt a backwards laugh as he went back the other way... ",
">Nice tattoo op. I hope you moved past from your body harming. Those stitches look like you had cut really deep and got hospitalized.\n\n?",
"How about the people that are [recreating speech just watching inanimate objects vibrate near a person talking?](https://www.ted.com/talks/michael_rubinstein_see_invisible_motion_hear_silent_sounds_cool_creepy_we_can_t_decide)",
"ok i just did, im not seeing anything sexual/penetration just a bunch of crappy tattoo artists...what you mean?",
"Daaaaad! ",
"Its trashy no way around it.\n\n[also](https://www.google.hr/search?q=tattooed+wave+sound&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiBnrHan6PZAhWEkiwKHabdAPsQ_AUICigB&biw=1304&bih=677)",
"No program ever can read a wave form into audio. There was a company advertising such a feature but it was simply recognizing a pre set code linked to a database.",
"Dude it's number one post on front page",
"That's what she said.",
"Because all sound is it air pushing on your eardrum at a certain specific frequency.\n\nA piano hammers a a string and that vibrates and causes the air to vibrate at a specific frequency which a speaker can replicate. A drum head does the same thing, but with different types of oscillations. As long as the mechanics a speaker can control the tweeters and woofers to control how they vibrate, you can replicate the waves.",
"Was your dad an audiophile? ",
"r/imnotcryingyouare",
"People won't be able to hear the tattoo of a soundwave but I bet a lot of people will hear about the story behind it. He'll bring it up to anyone he meets for the rest of his life.",
"Yeah that's what I was getting at.",
"Just make long and short lines for awhile. When they ask you if that is right just say \"I have done thousands of these, no worries\". ",
"I mean it's not original. At all.",
"It's because nothing can simply read this and interpret it into sound. \n\nIt's a visual representation of sound, it doesn't contain enough data to turn back into the original sound. \n\nThe tattoo versions that have apps to play the sound are gimmicks that take match the signature to a sound that's stored on a server somewhere.",
"He doesn’t need your prayers he already really really loves Jesus ",
"So is it possible to reproduce the sound with just this picture? ",
"Now this is a tat with meaning. My skin is naked at the moment, I want a tat, but I don't have anything that would truly resonate. Something like this truly makes me glad I don't have anything yet, as I'd want something that has true meaning.\n\nAnd I'm not downing anyone that has a ton of tats at all, I personally just want 1, 2 tats max and I feel like I don't have anything worthy of tatting myself with yet.\n\nOP I'm sorry for your loss, but you did a great job of remembering your father.",
"[All laughs matter](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYnhckZcllU)",
"What? ",
"Awful taste? Not really imo",
"[All laughs matter](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYnhckZcllU)",
"Serious question, doesn’t the tattoo artist have to be perfectly accurate, to the cm, for it to work and be able to play the correct sound? ",
"I think the only time a tattoo artist should question an adults decision is when they appear not to be sober, they want it on a bad spot (like the face), or they want something truly inappropriate like a swastika or something.\n\nIf artist stopped doing names or started probing and trying to get people to second guess a decision they’ve made, I don’t see how that could possibly be good for business. Hell, they’d get more business for doing the tattoo because the person might need to come back to get it covered.",
"so what should one do if one wants to recreat the sound by scaning some tattoo, if that's possible?",
"Your username is very relevant.",
"As someone who had their dad pass away awhile back. I'm really jealous of this tattoo! Very cool!",
"That’s beautiful dude. ",
"Hey, that's still funny.",
"This is amazing! Truly special and well thought out.",
"No it's not. You and someone else could make a sound at the same amplitude and frequency without it sounding the same.",
"Sorry for your loss, friend. If you need to talk I’m here for you. ",
"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGwf1BJBL6E",
"That is so dear, my dad passed away over 12 years now. I do not do tattoos but that is a very good idea indeed. Very sorry for your loss and his spirit is with you always.",
"You're right about how the app works, but the waveform does store information about the sound. The waveform is the information in the sounds, if it was high resolution enough you could really play the sound. \n\n> does not store any information on the sound, except amplitude\n\nThat's all information you need to create the sound.\n\n> You could have two completely identical waveforms from very different sources\n\nYou couldn't.",
"Look who’s laughing now. ",
"This is incredibly beautiful. ",
"Suppose we get a 200mm long tattoo. The spacial resolution to record 1 second of audio at a terrible 8kHz sampling frequency would be 0.025 mm. So yeah it's not even close.",
"Respect.",
"I'm just surprised that the post is not given gold yet.\n\nEDIT: There it is. This post absolutely deserved it.",
"Having a fair emotional day, and this has just topped me off. Why are my eyes wet dammit! ",
"This is so beautiful. I’ve been wanting to get something to remember my father. I have saved voicemails of him saying I love you. Thanks for the idea!",
"Finally someone said it! This isn't a sound, it's a waveform! Still very cool, and it has sentimental value.",
"how very morbid",
"Damn, that is pretty interesting.",
"You were right bad joke but I upvoted anyways because it certainly added to the conversation.lol",
"No. Waveform only holds information about volume, nothing else.",
"Nice!",
"This is the first sensible comment I’ve found - lovely sentiment but awful idea. You’re stuck with this for life OP...",
"Sorry to hear that. Hope he went easy and that your family makes out okay from here on out ",
"Jesus Christ.",
"That's fucking beautiful op. What a great tribute and anamazing idea. Sorry for your loss I also lost my father a few years back and got a tattoo in his honor. Hope you're doing alright and just know he's always with you! Much love",
"In two years, you have negative karma. Delete this account and try making one where you’re not a constant shitbag and barnacle on the collective side of society.",
"I feel like the only laugh you could guess from a sound wave is Dr. Hibbert.\n\nCool idea",
"How do you know they didn't? If a client comes in and wants something like this and you warn them what will come and they persist then give them the tattoo. I don't know why new age artists think they're some kind of fucking baby sitters. ",
"Did anyone else see this as a lifeline? Like built up slowly.. peaked.. then nothing. All the same cycle ",
"Genius! Last summer I got my father’s signature from his 1989 library card. He died 22 years ago this month. I wish I could have his laughter too. ",
"I just hope someone doesn't read the waveform backwards.",
"Eyeball cancer.",
"I've seen some unique tattoos. This one is easily in the top 5. Dad's laugh wave signature. I love it.",
"Retarded ",
"Would be awesome if you have a device that could play the laugh off your arm.",
"I mean, if he had the original sound file couldn't he just put it on his phone and when anyone asks to hear it, he could just play it?",
"That is probably, no, definitely, the best tattoo, I have ever seen.",
"My wife was having a conversation with her friends about what they would like to witness if they could travel back in time and see anything and anyone. They were all mentioning a lot of monumentally historic events. When she asked me, the first thing that popped in my head was any moment that my dad was laughing. He had a big full body laugh that was very contagious and I really miss it.",
"You might consider the post to be for you, the tattoo isn't, and that's what we're discussing. \n\n",
"Absolutely amazing. \n\nReally love the idea behind this. \nSorry for your loss, but you'll always hear that laugh when you look at your arm! ",
"Yea, what kind of fucked up person wants to get a funny tattoo to remind them of someone special?",
"It's just literally tracing out the path of the waveform you'd see visualized in audacity etc (assuming they're not doing log scaling). [with some extra vibrational modes and stuff going on, but that's not intentional]",
"Oh come on. Every idea put there has been done before, nothing is ever truly original. That doesn't mean it can't be cool/special to the person, and still original in the sense that nobody in their area has it.",
"Why would she want to be reminded of the youth you sucked out of her?! \n\nJust kidding I’m sure your mom loves you!",
"That would be so many bits",
"I can’t hear it. ",
"This is so wonderful. One of things I realized after my Grandpa passed was that I would never hear his laugh again, and it broke my heart. He had the best, most infectious laugh. Congrats on a beautiful tattoo!",
"What a great idea!!",
"That'll heal into an unrecognizable blob.",
"If a guy I was on a date with told me that, I would think how incredibly beautiful that sounded. I would think the guy was thoughtful and creative and I would feel like I could really talk to him. \n\nNot saying I couldn’t have a conversation with a guy with a Skull tattooed on his arm, but I wouldn’t necessarily feel like I had to open a conversation about it. ",
"Very clever and touching ink! He always be with you...",
"This is so cool. My dad passed away just over a year ago and I've been racking my brains thinking of a tattoo to do him justice.",
"99% of people who catch a glimpse of it will think he is a cutter and the tattoo is some form of reminder. Seems like a very poor location for a design like that. ",
"my buddy did the exact same thing with the last recording of his [father] (https://imgur.com/efl1hSK)",
"Probably looks like stitches from a distance",
"I understand now, I thought you were saying that actually had scars. \nI agree the tattoo is ill placed.",
"Is this this kind of tatoo ? The one you can play the audio in it ?\nhttps://www.keyflow.com/news/listen-tattoos-new-app/\n",
"stitches on Joker's laugh was my original thought.",
"Father is the special person of all peoples..Happy Birthday..I pray for you..",
"This will probably get buried or whatever, but I just wanted to say how beautiful and wonderful this is. My dad died really suddenly in ‘15 and the best recording I have of his voice is a voicemail he left me that summer. He opens with “Hey, it’s your dad” and I’ve been thinking about getting that tattooed in the same way you have your dad’s laugh. God bless you, internet friend. I hope the days get easier and you share your dad’s joy (and your own!) with everyone you meet. ",
"I wanted matching tattoos for my husband and me but wanted to follow this rule.\n\nWe ended up getting a symbol from a podcast we both listen to that means a lot to us individually and our relationship. Much better than names.",
"Thats very nice. Reminds me of the movie Predator when he recorded Jesse Ventura's laugh.",
"Record it to digital on the pc. Its pretty easy.",
"https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=blpe_sGnnP4",
"While i agree that his is a neat idea that tattoo is going to look like crap in 10 years. ",
"Even 180Hz is being extremely generous; that's not going to be audible. Although you will read that 180Hz is the primary frequency of a typical human male voice, you cannot understand what is being said because you are missing too many higher frequencies. In my experiences, the typical male voice will not be audible until you hit around 750–1000Hz, and even then it can be tough to make out.",
"My dad's laugh is making noise as he inhales. Not overly unique laugh, but haven't heard anyone else laugh like that except for myself. ",
"@OP This is amazing. My father passed away one year ago yesterday. I want to get a tattoo of something he said in his last voicemail to me. Or him saying my name. Thank you for this. How did you pull the waves for his laugh? ",
"Good lord.",
"He died inside years ago. ",
"Nice bait, redditors are thinking you're serious.\n",
"Hate to be that guy and somebody else may have said this but this really is just peaks in amplitude over time, not a wave. Any arbitrary tone can be applied to this envelope. It's a graph.",
"Man that's so cool. My mom is losing her voice along with other things, and it's devastating to see, she's everything to me. I'm copying you for sure. ",
"Sorry. The sarcasm was probably hard to tell",
"I love the thought behind it, it's very special but the actual tattoo, aesthetically speaking, isn't very nice at all. ",
"Oh that's a relief, before I read the title, I perceived the thumbnail to be a suicide scar.. ",
"They already have something similar connected to an app. It has the audio stored in it and just recognizes the image then plays it from your phone. Pretty cool.",
"I would've gone with \"real fart\" sound by RCR",
"What a stupid idea",
"Well I didn’t know I needed a good cry so thanks",
"that's not right, ho.",
"Very nice 😊",
"There's probably a way to visually compress it.",
"Even you admit this is a hypothetical situation. Irl you would not go for a second date, I wouldn't, and no one would. This guy has mental health issues with a bizarre tattoo like that obsessing over his father's laugh on the most visible part of his arm. Not attractive at all.",
"Not true. If you ignore the low resolution of the tattoo, a sound wave like this one can not be reproduced with your voice (unless you imitate perfectly the voice of his dad). Tones, speech, and everything is encoded in here. Beside the resolution, nothing is lost in such a format.\n\nsource: was a voice recognition researcher.",
"YES THANK YOU FELLOW HUMAN. ",
"Looks fucken stupid ",
"This is really amazing.\n\nI'd also like to congratulate you on being one of the few 18 year olds who won't regret their tattoo when they're 80. :)",
"A tattoo of a fart is fucking weird. ",
"I'm thinking of Alvin the chipmunk on my kneecap. ",
"I could Google 'tattoo of penis' and find loads of results. Doesn't mean it's a common/generic tattoo ",
"OP probably pointed at the spot.",
"that's super cool do you have a video? ",
"> That doesn't mean it can't be cool/special to the person\n\nNot what I'm saying. \nBut this guy got 60 downvotes for saying it's not a \"cool idea\". But it's not..",
"Wow. That’s a terrible tattoo to get on your forearm. It’s cool but it looks like human shit, should probably have hidden that somewhere like your leg. Obviously you put it there for attention as this post speaks for itself but man. That looks terrible! ",
"That’s fucking hilarious. She definitely regerts that one.",
"As an anyone but the patriots fan, this too makes me happy. \n\nAlso, I’m by no means a tattoo expert and it may just be the plastic distorting things but that looks like some shaky line work right there. ",
"> How do you know they didn't?\n\nWell, I don't. I never implied I did, I merely said any decent tattoo parlor WOULD have.\n\n\nEDIT: Also, an artists work is their marketing, if an artist is willingly doing tattoos that will look terrible then they are either desperate or they just don't care.\n",
"You're just awkward",
"Love this post, really do, but what’ll that tattoo look like in 30 years?",
"I offer my worthless Internet condolences... Hang in there!",
"That’s pretty gay/corny.",
"Shut the fuck up\n\n/r/pics is cancer",
"I think it’s pretty cool! \n\nI would like to know how you know that that waveform is your dads laugh? Did you use garage band or logic or something ? ",
"so would he just shove his arm into a USB port and press <enter>?",
"As a father and son, i love the idea. \n\nIf you hate criticism, stop here.\n\nAs a tattoo artist and shop owner, i really worry that the lines will blur together and it wont be very recognizeable. Some of the linework looks like it blew out and if that is the case, in 6 months, some of those narrow areas at the bottom and top will end up being wider. Its very easy to turn lines this close into a solid mass when healed. Also the consistency of lines from bottom to top is very different with deep solid strokes fading to very light on top in some areas. The whispy fade at the top may fade out and leave much shorter lines as well. \n\nI hate to be a buzzkill but i want folks to be aware of things i mentioned for when they get their tattoos. These things need to be and should be explained by tattoo artists. Its why we see more heartbeats. Because the linework is more spread out and much easier to hold and read after healing. No tattoo artist should ever do this many lines, this close. Just look up some small font lettering tattoos and you will see the blur and how it becomes unreadable. **Fortunately, if it does happen to THIS tattoo posted by OP, a quality artist will be able to fix it.** Dont just go to your local shop. Its worth an hour or 2 drive to get a meaningful tattoo done right by a quality artist.\n\nAlso, the quote to live by when getting tattoos is, **\"Good tattoos arent cheap and cheap tattoos arent good\"**. Price should never be a concern. If it is, dont get tattooed. Also, good shops want to do custom work. We want to sit and talk and want you to nitpick our drawings and find what you want. Unfortunately, this costs money if it takes a while, but when the final product is done, it is beyond worth the extra couple bucks. \n\nEdit: ive responded to some people below with some basic advice on how to find a quality shop with quality artists. And how to approach decision making for what you want. ",
"Go visit /r/WeListenToYou if you ever need to talk or just share a story. A kind bunch of people there. Im truly sorry for your loss. ",
"I'm just imagine your dad laughing in one monotone breath. HAAAAAAH.",
"Have an upvote funny person ",
"/r/atbge",
"Ugh ",
"That bag of chips is being filmed at 2200fps, so there's a lot more resolution there than a simple 30fps video.",
"Could the sound change as your body change? ",
"On his other arm we can hear dad crying",
"I don't understand why people get meaningless tattoos. Even meaningful ones, i usually wouldn't consider for myself. But this is amazing, literally might be my favorite tattoo idea ever. ",
"I see posts on the front page all the time that I don't click on. ",
"I'm in love with this. ",
"You missed phase, but we don't really hear that.",
"Why I aught'a!",
"As a dad, i truly hope my children love me this much.",
"Care to share the original recording of his laugh? like on SoundCloud.",
"I think that would qualify as unique if you've never heard anyone else laugh like that.",
"Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!",
"He could go back and have a unique qr code put next to it that would be recognized by an app",
"You would need to use a spectrogram if you want to be able to somewhat replay the sound. The pitch wouldn't be perfect but you would be as close as you can be with an analog representation and the available resolution.",
"See I've been thinking of getting a tattoo but I know a lot of people regret it after some years. This is one that can't be regrettable.",
"This is true, but it's much cooler when you point your camera at your tattoo and the phone appears to \"play\" it. But yeah, you're right, it would really be no different.",
"I agree that it's generic, I've seen a million Soundwave tattoos. Doesn't mean it's bad though",
"I'll just be over here thinking about earthquakes and tremor…",
"For my sister’s birthday this year I found a handwriting sample from our dad that said “I love you” from an old letter he wrote me and had it made into a bracelet. It turned out so well! I want one now haha ",
"That's fucking gay",
"that's beautiful\n\nEDIT: so many people mention what it looks like and what it will look like in the future, but it's not there for how it looks. it's there for what it means, and that won't change",
"I made a keychain of my 3 y.o sons heartbeat to give as a Christmas present to his mum. ",
"Ah okay dokey",
"can i ask how is this done? this is such a dope idea and i’m very interested in getting something similar",
"As a father I 100% dig the concept.",
"well, that's redundant. ",
"Why'd you get banned? ",
"They do something like that for pet identification, right? Seems doable. Maybe I could stick an NFC chip in there and turn myself into an amiibo.",
"It's also not over the top. its just a nice pattern.",
"I didn’t get the tattoo a first ",
"Mb I'm dead on the inside but as a person who has had a father my optical sensors remain unevoked ",
"It's kinda pointless unless an app or something can play it back. ",
"Do you have any letters or anything written by him? [I got this small shoulder tattoo ](https://imgur.com/a/eXgsJ) when my dad passed (it’s a few years old, so excuse the fading). I’m adding flowers around it on Thursday. Maybe you could get something like that? I’ve also seen linework portraits become more popular recently, that could be a nice, simple tribute. \n\nI’m sorry for your loss. I know it’s cliche to say this, but I’m here if you need someone to talk to. ",
"the sentiment notwithstanding, i can't help but think of the fact that in a short time, the detail in the tattoo will bleed out and it will become blurred together. ",
"* Missed a comma \n* Sentence fragment\n* Missed a comma\n* Comma splice\n\n0/4",
"/u/BarbatisCollum is willing to help set you up with an app! Take advantage ",
"But it can be [done](https://skinmotion.com/)",
"Very cool",
"Your mother never loved you ",
"From a distance, at first, I thought your dad was Joker... and I saw everyone talking about sound waves. Nice idea indeed!",
"CAN OPEN DOOR NOW, SOURCE: AM HUMAN.",
"That is insanely cool. I'm sorry about your father's passing and I hope all is well. ",
"https://skinmotion.com/",
"It is unfortunate that you think anyone with an opposite/negative opinion somehow hows their decade ruined. You do know not everyone in the world likes or agrees with your view, right? Those people don’t need prayers because they share those thoughts. I’d pray for you but that would just be ridiculous. ",
"The Xbox Zero.",
"Your going to die of cancer ",
"That's fucking awesome. I bet he had a great laugh.",
"If i may, why were you banned?",
"I said its a bad taste. Attempt to look edgy and original and in reality its been done numerous times.",
"Dude. I love it",
"Your best bet would be a QR code",
"Your family hates you ",
"Oh, I was assuming the tattoo was just about one second of sound.\n\nIf there is one second of sound, and you can sample it 200 times, then that is 0.2kHz. \n\n4kHz is enough to convey speech. Some early AMPS cell phones used 4kHz. So, what would you get at 0.2kHz? I'm curious to find out.",
"Hey, OP, how did you do this? I want to do something similar. \n\nI have the MP3 of my mom's last voicemails to me, and I can see the image in Audacity, how did you bring that to the parlor to have it created? ",
"Holy shit, I know someone with their first name tattooed across their whole forearm and last name on the other, as if he'll forget his damn name. Worst tattooes I had ever seen. Until today. That is just terrible.",
"I'm not crying you're crying...",
"[You and everyone else](https://www.google.com/search?q=sound+wave+tattoo&rlz=1C1NDCM_enUS733US733&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjpqebioaPZAhUQq1kKHQPRCDgQ_AUICygC&biw=1152&bih=686#imgrc=_)",
"I swear to god I’ve seen this post before",
"That's basically what this app does. Instead of scanning a QR code it uses image recognition to scan the tattoo and plays back the sound file stored on its servers. https://skinmotion.com/ \n\nIt's a subscription service, though -- $40 for the first year and $10 a year after that. Kind of a rip off for a dumb gimmick.",
"You’re life is a fail",
"The first time. If you watch the entire video they talk about the algorithm working on regular HD video off YouTube.",
"Cringe",
"We must become robots.",
"Soundwaves are a very common tattoo. Not saying it's bad, but it's not original",
"Seems like Ipod would have been more effective.",
"I'm generally opposed to tattoos, but wow, what an awesome tribute! The feels.\n",
"I'm fed up with this attitude that people feel like they are always entitled to the best content ever when their only involvement with the product is to open a window and absorb like a freeloading sponge. \nRE: good tattoo / bad tattoo topic: anyone is entitled to their opinions. \nMy opinion is that OP shared the image as part of the healing process after the loss of his dad. The quality of the tattoo is not important at this stage, methinks. \nSorry for your loss OP. I'm happy your tattoo helps you remind of your dad. \n",
"I love this idea so much. My father passed along 17 years ago and I have thought very seriously about some way to honor his memory and keep him with me. This is such a unique way to do that, truly impressive idea!",
"At least he can fix it if they win it next year. After that he's fucked lol",
"/u/drewsoulman, this is awesome! I don’t know where you are with your dad’s death but I wanted to put an organization on your radar in case you (or someone else reading this) is looking for some informal support. There’s an organization called “the dinner party” that brings young adults together for potlucks to have an informal group to talk about grief. (Think of it as like most of the comments in this thread but IRL.) The website is www.thedinnerparty.org. Anyways, great post and good luck to you!",
"Real nice. Why don’t you shut the fuck up bitch?",
"Looks like it went something like \"ha ha ha\"",
"8 digit ICQ number? Sigh... rookie. :)",
"Not gonna lie, this is an awesome idea. ",
"It doesn't look terrible now. The tattoo artist isn't gonna track this guy down in 10 years and put a picture of the messed up tattoo on his Facebook, he has a picture of the brand new, nice looking tattoo in his portfolio. ",
"My last names is (seriously) Hoes. I can't even tattoo my own last name.",
"Once it blurs, won't it be the general shape of the sound wave anyway? Why bother filling it in now? Even if it looks a little... \"liney\", it will surely still look no worse than having it filled in?\n\nAnd even if none of that is true, can't they just enjoy the tattoo looking awesome for the next couple of years, and have it filled in *when* it starts looking bad?\n\nCorrect me if I'm way off base here, I know very little about tattoos.",
"Sorry for your loss",
"What a cool way to remember your Dad ❤️",
"You might have what it takes for a career in tattoo cover ups",
"There are a few conversions kits for older video formats to DVD available! If the recording in your camcorder is on a cassette tape of some sort, then there is a kit called VidBox that you can use. We have one for converting old videos of my brother and I to desktop files/DVDs, but I didn't get around to figuring it out when I was home. The possibility and technology is there though!",
"Plus it will blur and need rework ",
"😭😭😭😭😭that's Amazing ",
"Can’t really reconstruct the audio from this unfortunately ",
"Sorry for your lost bro bawling my eyes as I type\nthis ",
"Hey! 👋😎 You forgot ☝️😎 these 👈😎👈",
"In the near future.. \"LOL\" or \"LMAO\" will be the thing that gets tattooed.",
"My best friend got a tattoo of the coordinates to where her mom is buried in white ink over her heart, love this kind of tattoo, only ones i would get. ",
"Super cringe",
"I love this. Really unique way of honoring him. \n\nAlso I'm sorry for your loss OP. Can't imagine how hard it must be to lose your dad so young.",
"Damn, I'm usually not about inking your body to remember someone but this is cool af",
"do kids have to be related to you, what if you happen to record a particular laughter on the subway.. oh just thinking out loud 🐻",
"Waveforms can produce sound if enough resolution is provided. This tattoo cannot play a sound, but not because of the reason you said.",
"Yeah, I think it's a really nice tattoo. To the average person they'd see it and it would mean nothing, to him it means everything.",
"As a Dad, that is badass.",
"Damnit, just do your best.",
"Also, and this is slightly harrowing, even if you were able to get high enough resolution onto the tattoo, the reproduced audio would become increasingly morphed and distorted over time as the skin ages. Eventually it would sound unrecognisable and probably quite scary. ",
"It looks like cut marks.",
"I think they are talking about the motion amplification, not sound recovery. The second sound recovery example (of voice) is at 20,000 fps, so I'm just going by what they are showing. Even if they do *talk* about doing it with a regular HD video off of YouTube, they certainly didn't demonstrate it here.",
"*It’s just a CPU-warming tale",
"This is a wonderful idea! ",
"either take a screenshot of the wavelength or draw over it, take it to the parlor and they’ll do the rest (:",
"Amazing idea...Wish I had of thought of that sooner!\nBetter late than never though",
"This is beautiful. My mommy was diagnosed with ALS in September, I wish I had recorded her laugh before it was gone",
"It'll be the general shape but the coloring will be all over the place due to the bleeding effect. And yeah, he can totally enjoy it for what it is now and get it touched up as the years go on. ",
"I did my best to translate it to audio: [link](https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ) \n\nIt’s a little rough.",
"There are subreddits dedicated to sob stories and people helping others going through hard times.\n\nr/pics isn't one of those and the fact that it's the top post of the front page shows how much of a hugbox Reddit can bes sometimes.",
"What about 3D printed dermal implants that you can run a needle over?",
"That's a really neat idea, also kind of looks like a city skyline being reflected on water. ",
"I want ben brodes laugh tattoed on me",
"“Every day is a winding road.”\n\n*I get a little bit closer.*",
"Or a majority of tattoos like this aren't *really* marketing because no one outside of a small friend group and family of the client see it. Cheap flash and shit like this is an easy $150 for twenty minutes of work. It's not advertising its bread and butter for lots of artists. ",
"Maybe it’s not original, but I’m not exactly tuned into the tattoo scene. I just really thought the idea of it being something like your dad’s laugh or your kid’s first heartbeat would actually be something that could make me consider a tattoo. That’s all.",
" > OUTP 79 ':'\n > OUTP 79 ')'\n > RSTE\n > G0",
"I absolutely can! Just hit me up, OP. The app you will need to download for your phone is free.\n\nI figured this out a year or so ago and have been looking for a chance to set one up for somebody, so just get in touch and I will set you up.",
"We have an image of our three year old son's laughter framed and hanging in our house. Your tribute is touching, and I understand the feeling it gives when you look at it!",
"You're* /s",
"Oh well, it could be just one second indeed.\n\n>So, what would you get at 0.2kHz?\n\nWell that's 200 Hz and if you low pass some song at 200 Hz you get pretty much the bass line.\n",
"You are really just throwing some \"tech\" terms you've heard without actually knowing what you are saying.",
"who left all these onions out?",
"To anybody who knows that tattoos bleed that picture is going to be a warning sign.\n\nOr at least it should. ",
"Totally agree with you. Sure, it might look good now, but with something as permanent as a tattoo, you HAVE to think about longevity. ",
"he's not though",
"Not much of a tattoo guy but that's awesome",
"That's really cool! I wish there was an app that could scan that so we could all hear it",
"...I’m stealing this, and using recordings of my three kids.",
"Holy shit! 2008 called! They wan't their meme back!",
"I think there's an app that will read those \"sound tattoos\" can convert them into the sound ",
"That's such an interesting idea I just had to stop scrolling and comment. Kudos.",
"\"Let it gooooo\" 🎵\n\n*Gets closer*",
"As a Titans fan, what is happy?",
"That's exactly how it sounds. ",
"Tattoo is a good stylish,,,\nI wish you again\nHappy birthday\nI pray for your long life\nTake care",
"I don't know how to feel if a girl got a tattoo with my name... That's just too much pressure ",
"Nice in theory... but it looks terrible and will look even worse over time. ",
"Nice",
"I was planning on doing this with my grandmother.",
"And it's a crappy tattoo.",
"Yea, I'm an Electronics Technician, I like waveform theory, but I'm no specialist. Those numbers were from a quick google, but yea you're definitely right. I just wanted to take those numbers and show how even they are near impossible to achieve.",
"https://youtu.be/pOMqqI-kzHY?t=1m18s",
"/r/GTBAE?",
"Bang?",
"That would be fine in an ideal world, but unfortunately, companies do take notice of these things when hiring.\n\nMental stability is definitely a factor they take into account. Not saying this is OP's case, but I'm just saying what someone else might think.",
"🤨",
"My exact thoughts. Line work that small and close together never ages well. OP is going to have a weird blob in a couple years. ",
"Your gonna regret getting that..",
"As a dad... <3 ",
"The creator of that app spent a good portion of last year claiming that the app does indeed \"play\" the tattoo. Only after getting blasted on social media did the marketing change to reflect that it's not actually playing it back.",
"I'm imagining a boat horn laugh",
"That's awesome. Great way to remember a loved one",
"My ex and I had been going through kind of a rough patch and one day she randomly came home with a tattoo of my name above her heart. We had genuinely never even talked about the possibility of getting tattoos of any kind, and apparently this was supposed to be a reaffirmation of her love and commitment to the relationship. I didn’t know what to say, since I thought it was pretty ridiculous and I kind of think she was hinting that she wanted me to reciprocate and get her name inked as well. \n\nNeedless to say it didn’t work out, but luckily for her, her dad and brother have the same name as me. So I guess that’s the backup plan, make sure a family member has the same name so you can always just use that as the reason you got the tattoo in the first place for anyone that asks about it later on. ",
"Do you have it on an mp3 too? i'd prob do that instead of a tat\n",
"That seems pretty popular in the world of fighting, tons of MMA fighters have similar tattoos. Frank Mir has his last name tattooed on his arm, Cris Cyborg has her whole fighting name on her forearm, Joe \"Diesel\" Riggs has his nickname across his belly, and Wanderlei Silva has a picture of his own face on his chest.\n\nFighters are weird. ",
"**PC LOAD LTR**",
"Lovely thought, but that tattoo will look bad in way less than 3 years. Every super fine line will bleed eventually, giving you a real nice looking line of trees being mirrored into a lake surface",
"13227839",
"My mother's friend had all three of her kids names tattood on her side\n\nUntil her middle child sexually molested his 2 year old daughter. Now she's seeking to have it removed. Not even children are sacred.\n\nThat being said, I have a tattoo of my gf's lips that I could never regret. Even if she leaves or fucks me over, I'll have a reminder of the happier years of my young adult life.",
"You could actually hear the soud by scanning the tattoo with your phone with an app called Phonopaper, but it reads a different form that needs to generated from the app",
"did this for the wife last year with our kids...she liked it. I recorded the kids saying \"I love you mom\" on my phone and then I believe I uploaded it to a site that generated the waveform. then I was able to get that printed/framed.\n\n",
"I want this but with my parents telling me \"I love you\". That way I can always have those words with me no matter where I go.",
"all she has to do is date guys with that name for the rest of her life or get pregnant and name their kid after their ex\n\neasy fix",
"My mother passed when I was 19 and father passed away when I was 20. I wish I had an audio clip of either. It's great to hear you were able to keep something as happy as a laugh and never let it leave you. ",
"Not saying he's not being a dick here but I think that second one was intentional.",
"Used to work with a girl who has Japanese Hiragana that she believes says love and hope but she is mistaken... Never wanted to be the one to tell her.",
"You're right it is!\n\nWhen I was a kid, my family and I ended up leaving a horse show because my mother couldn't contain her laughter over an old lady falling down the stairs.... The old lady slipped down a step or two and landed on a man's shoulders who was sitting in the aisle seat. Neither got hurt and it was HILARIOUS! The sounds that came out of both of them was just too much. So yeah... still funny.",
"He also said this:\n\n>Also I don't know why OP mentioned his dad died three years ago. That's a pretty long time anyways.\n\nBeing an asshat gets you downvoted. Go figure. ",
"That’s incredible, so sorry for your loss.\n\nMy parents divorced when I was 10 and didn’t get to see my dad too much, and now my dad lives in another country so it’s incredibly hard to see him, this tattoo means a lot to me too because his voice and laugh are really all I have",
"This is really heartwarming,.. amazing tatoo aswell!",
"CUT MY LIFE INTO PIECES\n\nWhenever that song comes on my Spotify I feel an obligation in my soul to sing at least until the first guitar riff",
"When the ink bleeds and the tattoo fades, the waveform will start to sound less and less like your dad. \n\nDamn, that’s morbid. ",
"To be fair you could get away with a lot less than 44.1kHz. Landline telephones often use a sampling rate of 8kHz and are (fairly) intelligible.\n\nOf course, you'd still need 8,000 lines in your tattoo to encode a single second of laughter, so it's still a bit of a tall order.",
"Hey guys, whenever something like this comes up there's always a discussion of whether it can be played. The answer is no, the resolution if these tattoos is not high enough to repeat sound. There are companies that allow you to get QR codes tattoos that will allow the sound to be played through an app that looks it up in a database, however. \n\nBut regarding whether it's possible to pack an audio file into a tattoo - my professional opinion as a computer engineer is that it is 100% possible. There's a lot of false information that people will roll with. \n\nSuppose the resolution of a tattoo was about 2 dots / mm, or 4 dots per mm^2. That's about 100 bits per inch. You can instantly increase the resolution using colors. 16 distinct colors will give you 1600 bits per inch.\n\nFrom the audio side, you're going to want low resolution and resolution. Even 8000 Hz would be over the top. Human voice ranges from 85 Hz to 255 Hz, so you can pick a sampling rate of 500 Hz. Let's say you had a bit rate of 4 bits (16 audio levels) per sample. It wouldn't sound good, but it would be audible. You can also compress the data. But I'm not an expert in compression, so I can't comment on it. Ignoring compression, it would take 200 bits per second.\n\nThis means you could store up to 8 seconds of human voice audio recording per inch^2. You could easily increase the quality at the cost of s/in^2. Add in compression, and you might even be able to store more.\n\nThis is all just ballpark estimates though.\n\nEdit: it would also be a pretty good idea to throw in some additional overhead. Redundant bits, error checks/correctors, and some type of visual structure to allow cameras/software to easily scan the data and correct for tinted lighting.\n\nEdit: people coming here, down-voting this comment, talking about how they're also an engineer/audio engineer and this is all wrong because XYZ misunderstanding of digital audio and I'm an idiot, then when they get corrected they delete their comments. This is what I was talking about. Happens every time.",
"Super position on waves :p",
"WHAT HAPPENED TO YOUR MOUTH?",
"Personally, I think it's pretty recognizably a soundwave, but I can see why you would think it looks like cut marks.\n\nJust be happy OP got it on his harm and not yours mate.",
"these are always the worst looking tattoos. why do people try and design their own \"meaningful\" tattoos? just why?",
"just because i could see your name in my peripheral vision, i read your comment as \"Wish my dad laughed tooooooooooooo....he doesn't\"",
"I thought the same! I actually have a horrific scar...not a tattoo...that looks like that. ",
"Oh boy those are even worse than this one.",
"Loop! [👉➰👈](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/7qm7zk/the_universal_sign_for_done_with_your_food_is/dsq8dqh?utm_source=reddit-android)",
"r/retiredgif ?",
"TBF that's what it looks like now. How much worse can it get lol?\n\nStill a nice idea, if you're into tattoos.",
"Well I guess that's fair enough. I completely ignored that sentence, since it's not what caught my intention. \n \nBut you'll notice that my downvotes are on the way too, and I don't think I've been an asshat!",
"June is the 6th month",
"is there any sort of app out there that can scan this and play it back?",
"Do you think they have machines that can translate waveforms like this into real sound so that you can hear it too? ",
"That's just epic.",
"Hey! Tattoo twins! \n\nI did this with my daughter saying \"I love you, Daddy\" when she was about 3 years old. \n\n-----------\n\n\n\n\"I love you, Daddy!\" - 2009 https://imgur.com/gallery/NVktV",
"This is maybe a challenge for the neural networks with deep learning for the following years. \n\nRemindMe! 1000 days \"Waveform (low resolution image) to sound\".",
"If you remember the sounds in your mind (and I image they had a recording to create that), you could literally \"read\" the stereograph on your arm whenever you wanted.",
"I need more information ",
"this is dumb ",
"I wonder how that would sound if the image were scanned and converted to audio again. Anyone have any software that can do this?",
"the other rule is to not design the tattoo yourself, because you think it should be meaningful.\n\nits an art form....let the artist do their job....your ideas always look terrible.",
"I don't understand tho. It's not like it's against the rules. And you can of course dislike and think it's not the case to post such content. \nBut to be so vocally douchy about it like you pay 30 bucks a month for the service seems a bit too much to me. \nToday a free service you enjoy gave something you dislike along with loads of things you like. Take it for what it is. ",
"6606?",
"Yes please, someone play that!",
"Looks like the Tidus laugh. Awesome.",
"Thats awesome!! Came out really nice ",
"Love it",
"If you put one on the other arm, his laugh will be in stereo. Ha Ha Ha Ha",
"LAUGH.EXE -MEMORABLE > AUDACITY.EXE",
"Thats a cool way to honor your dad",
"For sure. And by being generous and showing that a tattoo *still* couldn't reproduce it at 130Hz, it just does an even better job of illustrating how hard it would be to reproduce at 750 or 1000Hz (which, frankly, still sound awful, but are just barely audible).",
"Ikr",
"\"hu huu ha huu HA huu Ha huu Haa uuu hAAa\"",
"mission accomplished OP! attention and gratification achieved!",
"Well you could sample at 7khz. 3500 lines tattooed for a 0.5 second recording isn't too bad.",
"Heartbreaking moment",
"I received a free tattoo a while ago that I still am incredibly unhappy with. I posted a picture of it calling it a \"piece of shit\" in the title and asked the community if there was anything I could do to fix it. Apparently this was a large enough violation of the rules (my fault for not reading them) to merit a ban. It's a shame because it's one of my favorite subs. I've messaged 2 different mods asking for an appeal, but have not gotten a response. \n \nEDITS for typos and run-on sentences: This was when I was newer to Reddit and didn't have much posting experience. So yeah. It was a bad move. ",
"It is a thing, Soundwave tattoos are so overdone.",
"I would have thought you'd still require units of some kind on the actual wave to have some idea about how to recreate it. I guess it makes sense that the relative distances are still accurate without unit indication, though. TIL.",
"Make an App for that. People would buy it. Make it so something can be recorded on the spot, turned into a graphic, and then output color separations for the artist. And then add in a way to \"read\" the tattoo and replay the sound from a photo of the tattoo.",
"> 44 65 73 74 72 6f 79\n> 4d 65 61 74 62 61 67\n\noh yeah well 1A2B3",
"There's not enough information in a soundwave to play anything back. The companies that make playable tattoo apps just save the sound file on their server and use the soundwave tattoo like a qr code to call the file for playback. If the app developer goes under, you lose that functionality. ",
"Ill tell the other tattoo people about this. thanks.",
"This is awesome. I wish I had a recording of my step dad's laugh so I can copy this. ",
"I have a similar tattoo. I recorded my wife and kids, then captured the waveform on my computer, printed it out, then turned it into a tattoo. I don't know if it would replicate their exact voices, but it works for me. I posted a pic of it further down in the comments.",
"Explaining it to everyone wouldn't be a problem. Why else do people get tattoos?",
">Isn't that the *only rule*?\n\nYou think so until you run a tattoo idea by your friends and family and they all think it's dumb for the fifth time.",
"Oh I agree, there's no way to represent such an audio as a tattoo. \n",
"Isn't the amplitude the y axis? Isn't the frequency defined by the peak-peak x axis value?",
"Some haters in here",
"> Again, besides relative amplitude.\n\nWhich is all the information an audio file stores.",
"They're just fancy barcodes for that specific app that has a back end of stored sounds, the shit on your skin is not enough to store a sound bite.",
"\"Here you go hon, I came up with this idea totally on my own\"...will be my line this year.",
"Solanum tuberosum",
"Sorry, wrong link and it wasn't YouTube it was just a standard rolling shutter camera. Super distorted though. [Around 10:00 mark](https://www.ted.com/talks/abe_davis_new_video_technology_that_reveals_an_object_s_hidden_properties/transcript#t-250587)",
"ohhh. well as someone that has a few portraits and browses /r/tattoos i guess i dont pay much attention.\n\nOP's tattoo falls into category 2. personal",
"That is soooooo warm bruv",
"Exactly, thanks Stranger!",
"97% sure that it reads the image, matches it to an online database of high quality audio, and plays that back.",
"Instead of thinking \"wow that's so meaningful\" and shit, have you ever thought \"wow that looks ugly, its not aesthetically pleasing at all\"? ",
"This is full of awesome. ",
"Comment from YT:\n> Yeah, you can get it done but as a guy that has worked with music for a long time and wave samples it's not \"Reading the wave file\". You have to download a special app, then upload the wave file, then upload a pic of it and it is played from that and not really reading it.\n\n",
"Thought that you had some serious stitches going on. /r/misleadingthumbnails",
"But you asked why come on this sub? ",
"Not to diminish the value of OP's tattoo, but this image only represents amplitude and time. It does not encode frequency. In other words, the best you could do with any software would be to play the volume and rhythm back.",
"Thats one of the coolest reasons behind a tattoo and a good idea plus it looks pretty cool",
"r/misleadingthumbnails ",
"Well.... can we hear it????",
"I'm super new to tattoos, it's crazy they can be so accurate. Wait, they trace over it? ",
"frequency is oscillations over time, so the X axis.",
"> edit: It's impossible to put enough resolution into a tattoo to recreate an understandable sound.\n\nNot only that, but the data simply doesn't exist in just a waveform. That app that works scans the waveform as a proprietary barcode. It doesn't actually _read_ it. It's a scam.",
"So whenever you look down your dad will always be laughing at you.",
"Excellent tattoo, OP. Excellent way for you to always be able to hold on to what his laugh sounded like. And the added bonus to me, is that you'll constantly get asked what it is! That might suck for awhile, because it will be a reminder that your Pops is gone. But eventually, it will be that thing that has given you 1000 extra reasons to talk about your dad. Will be 1000 other people on Earth that will now know about him, and who he was to you. \n\nI lost my Mom in August, and it's by far been the darkest time in my life. I'm so sorry that you lost your Dad. Thank you for sharing, OP. \n",
">If you ignore the low resolution of the tattoo\n\nBut the low resolution of the tattoo is exactly what limits it. This tattoo contains nowhere near enough information to replicate his dad's exact voice, so it's entirely plausible that another, different sound could replicate the waveform we see.\n\nSource: I wrote the book on digital sampling theorem \n(Obviously, that's not true; just demonstrating how useless it is to name yourself as a source)",
"Me as a parent lol",
"Little did you know he was really an evil galactic emperor in human form scouting out Earth for invasion.\n\nAt times like these I take refuge in the absurd. It sometimes helps.\n\nRIP (your) Dad.\n\n",
"That looks like a Rorschach Test",
"Makes sense, I was just adding that it was a thing that existed, I assumed the \"tech\" behind it wasn't exactly complicated. Thanks for the explanation! ",
"Yeah, i know. That's why i said that with some luck.\n\nYou know people emulate speak using on/off PC speaker audio interface, nothing more than turning speaker min/max (full extension/none at all)",
"That’s so awesome. \n\nMy fiancé has both her father’s and mother’s signatures on her arm. She lost her dad when she was very young, and her mom last year on Valentine’s Day (a year ago tomorrow). ",
"I was making a joke about the play button being in his armpit.",
"ha....Ha..HA..Ha.Ha...Ha",
"> making noise as he inhales.\n\nI'm thinking of Eddie Murphy's laugh. He kind of just makes a weird goose noise on the inhales",
"Wow... That's an amazing idea, man. ",
"No time axis?",
"thought it was \"No Rugrats\"?? ",
"Yeah but its a story you can't fully tell. \"Oh that's your dad's laugh? And no one will ever be able to relate to how funny it is because you can't hear a tattoo of a soundwave? That's great... \" \n\nPeople want to be drawn in and feel sentimental stories, this one no one can feel but him ",
"CPU is the brain, I’d say a powersupply correlates more with the heart.",
"That was a beautiful idea and I think it came out great! This really hit me in the feels. I hope you don't mind but I may be using your idea as inspiration for finally getting the tattoo I wanted for my mom who passed a couple years ago. She too had an amazing laugh, and I know for a fact I have recordings of her that I can take the audio from. ",
"[This his dad ?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6ubsI_eyac)\n\nyuryuryur",
"The post is of the tattoo. This is an internet forum, you don't post a photo of something unless you're okay with it being torn apart. You may not like it but we are all allowed to have a strong opinion & express it, regardless of the backstory or context of what's being shown. Welcome to the internet.",
"Thanks funny but my dad won't laugh",
"Don’t forget face",
"I assumed as much, I was just providing a source that shows that it does exist is all :)",
"As an ultrasound tech I think this is absolutely awesome. Very classy tattoo ",
"Someone much more ambitious and smarter than me should try playing this back.",
"Lmfao",
"Is there an app where you can point it at that and it’ll play the sound? ",
"Forgot the /s",
"It's almost like the tattoo has sentimental value to him and reminds him of a special time and person when he looks at it.\n\nBut it's not a portrait tattoo so fuck OP, right?",
"Hmm. Ok. I thought it was pretty clear from the start it didn't actually play. I emailed the creator and he was pretty up front with me.",
"It's using small caps... \nThey're evolving.",
"Oooh sexy",
"I am VERY close to my father. We've had a turbulent relationship in the past but that's all behind and now we are thick as thieves. He had a good amount of rules for his 3 kids while we were growing up, but the only one that all three of us have yet to break is the \"No Tattoos\" rule. I'm the oldest but we are all just over 30, none of us have gotten one.\n\nIt might be because my dad is a pretty intimidating guy and we take him at his word when he constantly says \"If I ever see a tattoo on one of you, I will dig it out with a rusty spoon\".\n\nThat being said, when my father does finally pass, I will get one tattoo: a rusty spoon. It's something that will be unique to us and I know he would love the humor of it even if he doesn't appreciate the sentiment. ",
"What about spectrograms? The only downside is it can't really be tattooed by hand. ",
"Hate to break it to you, but in Chinese, that waveform translates to a fart.",
"This is quite possibly one of the most disgusting things I've ever seen in all honesty.",
"WHAT IS WITH THESE FUCKING ONIONS!!",
"Weird tattoo on a flabby arm thats never seen an iota of physycal activity.",
"Yeah but people get tattoos to remember their deceased loved ones all the time. It’s not that creepy. At least it’s not his dad’s face. ",
"Since they are polling each line of the rolling shutter, they effectively have high speed video (1080 lines of resolution * 30 frames per second = 32,400 fps). The point is that digital sampling requires thousands of samples per second unless you are just trying to recreate the lowest of low frequencies.\n\n**edit** They were using 60fps camera, so that's closer to 64,800 fps. Point stands.",
"which works great until they close the business and poof your tattoo is now meaningless.",
"Pretty silly and doesn't even work, what's the point.",
"\"I've forgotten what I started fighting for\"\n\n*Gets Closer*",
"Its gayforjesus666 down below ",
"There's not enough space on her whole body to get the all the names down",
"WHAT DID YOU SAY?",
"In a year that's how it's going to look anyways.",
"How about a hhaha",
"ayy lmao",
"I mean I clearly wrote that this is a bad joke. ",
"> distorted over time as the skin ages. Eventually it would sound unrecognisable and probably quite scary.\n\nNow we know why ghosts always talk all wobbly.",
"Jimmy Carr?",
"This is the most unique and thoughtful tattoo I've ever seen. Happy birthday.",
"Weird as fuck. Everyone is going to be like why is there a picture of a stitched wound on your arm? ",
"Thanks! You too!\n\nAnd I found this a few months ago... Here's me and a receptionist at a recording studio in Chicago:\n\nTattoo triplets! https://imgur.com/gallery/KYTZE\n\nI don't remember what her wave was. Regardless, we should all start a gang. ",
" do you have a recording of that laugh? It must have been a good one! /r/contagiouslaughter is waiting!",
"You say this here, but I'm honestly wondering if you would react that way in real life in all genuine honesty 🤔 ",
"Spouse, maybe. Fiancee or fiance, no. Girlfriend or boyfriend, hard pass.",
"That was really thoughtful of you. ",
"I hope you kicked him out with the tattooed ankle foot",
"Middle C is 262 Hz. So, you won't get anything above that. \n\nIn fact, to hear a middle C, you would need to be sampling at about twice that (512 Hz), so ....\n\nOk, my guess is that the output would sound pretty much like someone rustling newspaper.",
"But... It doesn't exist, it could just as well be a picture of a duck or even a YouTube url permanently inkrd on your skin. No sound form is being read and it's not like it can tell a million shitty tattoos apart, it is, \"does this look like a shitty tattoos? Yes, play linked account holders sound\"",
"You can see the \"ha ha ha\" in the diagram",
"I went on a blind date with a guy who got his own name tattooed in huge letters across his stomach the morning of the date. He wrapped it in plastic wrap so we could go swimming in a lake and it got infected. And that was the best part of that date. 😐",
"Hahaha my thoughts exactly. As if he need something like that to even remember his dad or the fact that he can hear his tattoos. I just keep a photo of my mom in my wallet - but then again, that would be boring and no one is ever gonna ask me about it if they can't see it. ",
"Brilliant idea - i wish i had a recording of my dad....",
"That's exactly how those apps work. They don't actually \"read\" the tattoo per-se.",
"It can't be played back because it is a tattooed picture of a waveform and not an actual waveform of a sound as it originally was. Is that not correct?",
"Obligatory [Stephen Lynch](https://youtu.be/DGwf1BJBL6E).",
"I sincerely hope so 😂",
"Isn't that right down his arm? ",
"/r/wholesome",
"Calm down, jeez",
"I'm not usually one for tattoos but this made me smile. Would be one I'd consider having (with a sound unique to me obviously).",
"*You're",
"They have to graduate officers school and pilot training, first",
"Isnt it just the App you use that plays the sound bite and not the tattoo itself? Cause wouldn't they be able to make it much smaller?\n",
"And a camera with a resolution on one of the dimensions of more than 8000",
"Dude calm down, it's just a Reddit thread",
"My dad passed 2 years ago. He always drew a particular smiley face with his handwritten notes and birthday cards and such. I found one of those and had [his handwriting and his smiley](https://imgur.com/OKQFXNo) tatted on me. I love it, it's the closest I could get to him writing me a note again.",
"OP, please upload a higher resolution photo, and try to only take a picture of the waveform. I'm trying to recreate the sound using PhotoSounder!=D\n\nI'm getting something, but the resolution is too low",
"Laugh lines :)",
"If you could tattoo it with high enough resolution and then digitize it using relatively simple cameras, you could most certainly play it back. ",
"That's awesome dude sorry for you're loss but it's a tattoo you won't regret I bet ",
"Yeah. I did it on Apple Logic. Their waveforms were pretty bulbous. ",
"This is an awesome tattoo :) love the idea and its symbolism",
">My mom's laugh is too loud, it wouldn't fit on my arm.\n\nAnd just to add insult to injury, each time you yanked the rusty trombone, she'd be laughing...",
"The only type of tattoos I like",
"You’re going to get ball cancer ",
"I want to. But I don't have a single video :(",
"*grunting* hehehe *mphh* hahahaha *ahhhh fuuuuck* teeheeeteeeheeeeeeee!",
"Couldn’t you technically get a QR code that links you to the sound?",
"This is why she never loved you and left you in that shopping mall",
"Alright haha.",
"I would share my icq number but it is now in like all of my passwords",
".....and you put OP down.",
"That would make for some awkward dabbing\n",
"At a glance it looks like you were cutting yourself. Probably not the best tattoo.",
"You can upgrade to 100% sure. They are using software licensed from HP. The original app is called Aurasma, though it has recently been rebranded as HP Reveal.",
"Hugs to you, friend :)",
"Well I wanna hear it anyway!",
"A decent sounding laugh could easily be compressed to below 40KB. Thus a 600x600 grid of red/blue dots would be sufficient to represent the song. You could reduce this size of the grid further by using more colours. Definitely possible to have as a tattoo....",
"A tattoo is a very personal thing. You don’t get to decide what is weird for someone else.",
"I’ve never wanted a tattoo because I could never think of anything that meant something to me enough to have on my body. \n\nNow this is something. This is amazing. ",
"I hope you don't mind someone stealing this idea off of you",
"Why? It's a relatively easy-to-process paragraph of text, your CPU shouldn't overheat from that.",
"I keep keep bleeding keep keep bleeding ",
"Dude, that's Smoke On The Water ...",
"It wouldn't sound like coming out of a human. No musical tone either. just noise. the further the curve is from the symmetry axis, the louder the noise gets. The noise would be similar to the one on the radio when not tuned to any radio station. the reason for the noise is the thickness and the tiny changes of the sides of this curve. Each micrometer change represents a frequency shift, which results with a white noise.\nLike this: https://youtu.be/1etKNs1cCkU",
"Could someone with the skills and equipment accurately reproduce a sound from something like this? Obviously not from an arm tattoo, but, is that at all possible? I’ve never understood how this works or what that’s showing. \n\n",
"Oh, I see. So this guy's dad isn't a detailed enough laugher for you. I get it. Look at this fancy guy over here with this *highly detailed* laugh!",
"the feelz",
"Awful tattoo I agree. Only going to get worse.",
"Regardless of where it is drawn, a waveform is just the representation of amplitude over time. No machine can take a drawing of amplitude and turn it into the sound that created it. The machine needs additional data to recreate the sound. ",
"I love your tattoo! I have always wondered what program or software people used for sound prints for tattoos. I have a tattoo in mind but I can't find a software to create the image.",
"Reminds me of [this pic](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/7x722q/in_honor_of_chd_awareness_in_the_month_of/)",
"\"son get me a beer\"",
"Must be unreal to have had parents that you developed such an emotional bond with that you do something like this. Though your dad passed, seems like you got a great gift in life having the time you did with him. ",
"That is beautiful, good job.",
"Oh no, he's stuck with something that will constantly remind him of his late father, what a drag",
"Well if they break up and someone asks about it “IT’S A FART. NO SPECIAL FART. JUST A FART.” At least it’s not her name or their anniversary or something",
"I'm pretty sure that app is semi fake. Unless I'm mistaken, these waveforms do not contain any information of frequencies. They are just the loudness or all frequencies over time, on the left and right channel (\"up\" and \"down\" on the tattoo). The tattoo in this image might as well come from the sound of a chirping cricket or whatever. \n\nMy guess is that the app (which by the way requires you to upload the tattoo AND sound file) scans the tattoo, matches it to the uploaded picture of the tattoo, and then plays the uploaded soundfile that matches the tattoo. It can't convert the tattoo into sound (even though that's how they want to market the app because that would be much cooler). \n\nTL;DR: You can't fit the auditory information of a 2 million bit soundfile into a tattoo like the one in the picture. ",
"Yeah this is one of the coolest tattoo ideas I’ve ever seen.",
"One of the best tattoo ideas I have seen ",
"Yes, why would someone who hates this sub come to it? ",
"I agree that it's so good but I don't think it is so \"minimalist\" as it pretty much covered the inside arm. ",
"I NOW UNDERSTAND THE TRUTH BEHIND \"This statement is false.\"\n0x0000002B",
"I actually love the execution. People say it looks like a scar, and that's exactly why I like it. It's like a scar that represents the pain of having OP's father cut from their life. While also representing the joy of his laugh.",
"That's the best idea for a tattoo I've seen in a long while.",
"If you still have audio of him save it in a safe place. I lost my father in 2008. This was way before all video was on your phone... And we weren't a big video/cam-corder family. I can't remember what his voice sounded like... Much less his laugh.",
"Pitch is a function of the \"closeness\" of those lines. I completely agree that the resolution on the tattoo is *way* insufficient. But Irishminer93 said \"even if the tattoo was a perfect copy of those lines\"... If the tattoo was in fact a perfect copy of the wave form, then that would be completely sufficient to reproduce the sound.\n\nI responding simply to the statement that \"there's more to audio than just those lines\". And there really isn't. Sure, there are properties of the equipment reproducing the sound that would need to be taken into account (speaker range, etc.), but if the tattoo was a *perfect* representation of the wave form, then that's all you need. The rest is just a question of the technique for reproduction.\n",
"Millions of love letters have been sent in the past centuries, but they are still deeply personal when you get one.",
"Audio is literally just those lines. I know for a fact that a few ARG's have had the need for you to scan a waveform into playable form to decode something. \n\nThe problem is that you're never going to get the exact lines and quality. Ink is ink, you're not going to get it as sharp as you need to.",
"Reposts IRL",
"There are a few things out there that 'play drawn wave forms' but they always end up sounding nothing like the actual sound (or only vaguely close) and that's because there are a thousand little nodules and bumps in each line that aren't going to be visible this far zoomed out and definitely weren't part of the tattoo process.\n\nI dig the idea of being able to do that - but it isn't really possible.\n",
"Looks like you got the last laugh.",
"I think her body already contains enough reminders of her kids",
"Is this one of those tattoos you can scan and hear? Regardless it’s a kickass tattoo and I’m sorry for your loss ",
"That's... Certainly something.",
"Next billion dollars idea",
"You forgot this.\n\n👈👁👄👁👈",
"my dad also passed 3 years ago this month. I've gotten my dream j9b and a baby girl since then. I still think aboujt calling him and telling him about my day, but remember I can't. Good tribute subby",
"its original to OP it his dads voice, and its personal as well which was points 1 & 2, now quality is in the eye of the beholder.",
"There are a few more but this is the #1 rule. Even if you've been married for 25 years it's still not a great idea. Others include tattoos facing inward (or otherwise known as upside down), getting a tattoo outside of a shop, bartering for price, face neck and hand tattoos... It's only permanent though so don't worry about it it'll go away eventually ",
"This is quite the coincidence, here. Yesterday there was a guy on a Belgian talkshow who had a track tattood as well. They scanned it and it became a part of a song. If it is true what you say (I'm not saying you're lying), it was all bullshit what they did on the talkshow?",
"I'm stealing this, what a wonderful idea and sentiment. That's a great way to remember someone and I'm sorry for your loss",
"Like a record? If it did work I imagine it's be hard to get consistent playback. Also, skin has too much elasticity to generate precise grooves like a record has. \n\nMore probable than a tattoo of a waveform.",
"Resolution, sag, and fading.",
"That is nice. My dad passed away 14 years ago and I don't have a recording of his voice anywhere, I wish I had that. Keep that wave file somewhere you can't lose it!",
"Story time. ",
"Maybe write your own instead of photocopying someone else's.",
"Also dead, that works too! ",
"Guys, obviously this tattoo plays a recording of his dad's laughter when scanned from an accompanying iPhone/Android app.",
"One needs to find a damn good tattooist for this, otherwise it might end up sounding chinese surely? ",
"That would be a robot ... or a ghost . . or one of those weird kids that can talk backwards and have studied waveforms ",
"Who cares? It's for him not anybody else ",
"Let me rub one out, oh hi dad hahhaheeheteeheeeeee",
"One of the most clever and meaningful tattoos I’ve ever seen on reddit. Possibly ever to be honest. Good on you bro",
"Lool",
"Those apps exist. I’m so confused why everyone thinks they’re being innovative ",
"How so? ",
"More like Fact Statington.",
"Can I ask how you went about this? I’d love to do this for my family as well. ",
"You need a geek. (A real one, not a Best Buy geek.) Put together a list of VCR/TV repair shops in your area and make a point to visit one every week. Tell them your story and let them know you're just shopping around for a repair place right now. (Repair geeks are like tattoo artists, you need one you're comfortable with.) Be sure to take along the exact model of your camcorder so they can look it up. I only repair my own personal stuff and I'm confident I could do this for you. Someone who does this every day would have no problem.\n\nDesert Storm was long enough ago that your camcorder used magnetic media. That shit degrades over time. Just say, \"Help me out here, Dad!\" and get this done. It'll be *SO* worth it.\n\n*edit* Also, the camcorder may need to be literally ripped to pieces to spare the tape. Just so you know. *edit2* If the shop looks like it belongs on an episode of Hoarders, that's actually a good sign. You **never** throw away a dead item, you just toss it on the parts stack. ;)",
"Am I some sort of moron, but a drawing he did, with I love you Nana written below it seems much more touching than this utter fucking bullshit?",
"I meant the part where I actually like him enough to tattoo a reminder of him on my body",
"Frequency is just change of amplitude over time. Thus technically the tattoo encodes frequency as well, except the resolution is far from good enough to actually represent anything ",
"Like this?\n\nhttps://skinmotion.com/",
"These tattoos are like /r/noisygifs. If I got a tattoo like this of my dad's maniacal vampire cackle, I wouldn't be able to look at it without hearing it on a visceral level, and chuckle. This is what tattoos are all about.",
"I see not all hope is lost yet. You are able to learn things. Next lesson after spelling should probably be basic social behaviour.",
"What an awesome idea. Sorry for your loss. I lost my Dad in 2008. Good Dads make the world so much easier to handle.",
"\"my dad passed away when I was in high school, so I got his laugh on my arm in memory\"",
"The only additional information you need is the \"playback speed\". A .WAV file literally is exactly what you describe- a series of amplitude values over regular intervals. You do not need any additional data.",
"That is a stupid tatoo",
"My mom would hate me if I did something like this",
"Please update us if this works!",
"Counts in the \"dead people\" category. This is totally an acceptable one.\n\nRemembering someone important shouldn't be a threat to a new person you date, but an important part of who you are and perhaps a part of you they'll feel sorrow for but never understand. Though I do know people who both have dead SO's understand better because they share the same type of loss. (Same with dead children)",
"How funny would it be if the tattoo artist just did a mad wee scribble and passed it off as a peice of audio.",
"The sound is only represented by the waveform; countless things could appear identical to this in a digital audio workshop. The waveform is just a visual representation of a sound.\n\nThe app associated with tattoos like this recognize the waveform (probably in association with specific users) based on a variety of parameters, and then play the sound from a library.\n\nBasically: you have to have access to the recording from which this waveform was created to actually hear it.",
"That’s incredibly moving. What a wonderful idea.",
"This is the coolest thing I've ever seen. I'm not crying, you're crying!",
"Instructions unclear. Image stuck in clipboard after step 4",
"waveform is not actually a real representation of the music, it is merely a representation of the loudness so you are effectively just using the waveform as a unique key for triggering a audio file in a platform. You would never be able to reverse engineer a waveform like in the tattoo back into the actual music because the pitch/overtones aren't represented at all. ",
"Pffft... not even stereo :/\n\nIn all seriousness though, that looks pretty cool.\n",
"Cringy",
"TIL there are a lot more assholes on reddit than I thought. \n\nIt’s his Tattoo and it means something to him. If you don’t like it then don’t comment. \n\nDon’t assume everyone is a karma whore. This person shared a cool tattoo that has meaning to them. They didn’t say it was for everyone or that the Tattoo was the best thing that has ever crafted. \n\nWhy is there so much hate for ink on skin? \n\nHave some goddamn empathy and compassion. \n\nMaybe a little respect for other people choices wouldn’t hurt either. ",
"Totally not delusional whatsoever. Like he will never be able to roll up his sleeves during an interview or even in an office because no tattooes are allowed, and especially bizarre ones that require an explanation and look like cut marks.",
"CAN EVERY ONE CHILL, I CAN’T HEAR ANYTHING !",
"I'd give anything to hear my Dad again. I honestly can't remember how he sounded anymore after 18 years. \n\nGlad tech has enabled you to have this memory :) when used for something more important than war or money it can be a great thing. ",
"Jesus christ, alright I get that the fucking app doesn't read a soundwave off people's arms. I understand that there isn't data in the ink or some sort of code written into the tattoo. However, the tattoo IS of a legitimate and specific soundwave. I'm sure the OP didn't just look online for the soundwave of some random person laughter. \n\nMy point was that you can get a specific soundwave tattooed on you, and the app/program can play the recording for people. For fucks sake. ",
"So? Almost everyone is pretty generic. Maybe OP isn't trying to be different for the sake of being different. ",
"Same. I never got to hear his voice or anything before he passed. At this point I don't wish that I had a dad growing up I just wish I could have a piece of him or to at least hear his voice say my name. ",
"As far as I can tell, OPs tattoo is not \"photocopied\", but the unique soundwave of his father's laugh. Old idea, but personal variation.",
"I cant be the only one sitting here trying to make that sound",
"To how funny it is? What? I think anyone can feel sentimental to this story, in that it's a great way to keep a memory of your late father. It doesn't have anything to do with actually hearing the laugh",
"Your dad had a good guffaw, eh? ",
"I could eat gravel and shit rocks as a man but this made me cry. Thank you for that. ",
"Is there an app to play wave files like this? If not there should be.",
"To you it might be but to him it means to the world to him. No need to be a POS.",
"I lost my dad 13 months ago and this put me in such a good mood. Great job, OP.",
"Looks backwards",
"I think the soundwave idea is misguided. People think they can scan it and hear whatever it is they got. But they don't realize that years from now, it's going to clue together and those waves aren't going to work",
"This has to be the most awesome tattoo I have seen. And very original. Did you think of this yourself?",
"Is there an app that takes a picture of a sound wave and reproduces the sound? ",
"Nothing left to do but smile, smile, smile. ",
"> It doesn't have anything to do with actually hearing the laugh\n\nAnd see to me it has everything to do with actually hearing the laugh. Hearing that story would be pointless to me without hearing the laugh. ",
"yes thank you fellow human. ",
"Yeah but if he had his dad's heartbeat it would be in poor taste",
"[he's a man eater](https://i.pinimg.com/736x/eb/0d/0a/eb0d0abc242f28a33b8b57e43efd38db.jpg)",
"Tattoos are becoming more accepted all the time",
"How did you convert to waveform?",
"I printed out the wave form of a voicemail my dad left me; saying \"Hey Kid, Love you.\" He passed 4 years ago this week, and all I have left of his voice is a few scattered voicemails, I cherish being able to listen to them every once in a while. Awesome idea!",
"A few years from now it will be a line with black blobs. Nice idea, bad execution.",
"now that's a tattoo with some meaning. way to go",
"It's almost like some people like a pic with a story more than just a pic.",
"No you don't",
"Very cool idea!!!!",
"MOMMY GET THE TENDIES!!!!!!!",
"''Mary had a little Lam''\n\nAleister Crowley had a alien/demon friend he called Lam. He drew a picture of him.\n\nSatanist confirmed",
"So brilliant, what a great way to remember someone. Nice work. ",
"Thanks! I needed that!",
"Hands-down, one of the most unique - not to mention special - tattoos I've ever seen. I'm so glad you have him with you like that. ",
"Playback speed is additional data. We're saying the same thing. Not trying to be snarky. I just hate that app.",
"*throwing karma at you*",
" I Don’t come to reddit to cry :(",
" Love this so much! ",
"If you scan it with a barcode reader, it shows up as a can of green beans. ",
"That's some neat line work",
"That's super awesome, and the first time I have seen this type of creative. Oh, [also this](http://i.imgur.com/YTuF6Mk.jpg)...",
"No. Not exactly.\n\nYou're thinking of offset from DC. The individual points of information in an audiofileformat such as .wav, describes that points specific DC-offset. Which is not the same as the signals amplitude. Amplitude is a well defined concept that describes the maximum positive and negative displacement of a signal from DC. It carries no frequencyinformation.\n\nYou can't derive the amplitude of a signal from each individual point of data in a .wav file in isolation, because each point simply describes a DC value for that time in the file. To convey amplitude, and more importantly frequency, you need more than a single datapoint. But then we're back to the original problem of resolution.",
"That's way cool. I have just one tattoo, imo it's only worth getting a tattoo that's totally unique which nobody else will have. Your's totally fits that bill. Awesome.",
"oh.hhee HE HEE He HE hee...",
"This is one of the results of machine learning.",
"Unfortunately this requires the sound to already be installed on the device. To do it the real way would require unobtainable tattoo resolution.",
"That thing will lose any form of detail with a few years.",
"Scars aren't usually black",
"> cute little fart.\n\nAw, isn't that sweet? You're still in the early stages of your relationship. Wait until you're married a few years, that fart isn't going to be cute or little. I should know, I've been married 13 years and I've brought tears to my husband's eyes on occasion.",
"Exactly where my mind went, too.\n\nEdit: Totally didn't try to recreate it. That would be weird. ",
"I am not a big fan of tattoos, and general am skeptical about claims about how meaningful they are, but I have to admit, this is touching. I am sure it would touch your father as well.",
"No problem, the camera on the Nokia 808 is close enough. Although I'd be amazed if the lens can reliably resolve all 8,000 pixels even in good lighting.\n\nAnd of course you're bang out of luck if you own any other phone in the world.\n\nEDIT: Actually, you could simply do a panorama style scan over the tattoo for this to work with a more normal phone camera.",
"this is awesome man. joy and happiness ",
"Can some one decrypt that sound wave so that we can hear his laugh :)?",
"Great idea an execution. Your father is smiling from above.",
"I'm sorry but that's so weird to me, do you not feel drawn in without experiencing something? Movies, books, stories your friends tell, because you aren't experiencing it yourself?",
"What next? QR codes!?",
"Fair. I mostly meant that they can do a pseudo-version.\n\n",
"I like this. ",
"7774541.\n\nAt least 15 years since I've used ICQ but I still remember that ID better than my childhood phone number. ",
"Actually, even with infinite resolution, this visualization of waveforms represents the energy (signal square) of the raw signal recorded by a microphone, or played by a speaker.\n\nThis translates by an added constant (frequency of 0Hz) which you wouldn't hear, and a savage multiplexing of all frequencies together.\nSo despite perfect resolution, the audio would be very different and I'm very curious to hear that transformation. It can be obtained very simply by squaring any good quality laugh wav file.\nIf anyone is interested I could run this experiment later.",
"One of the few Tattoos that I’ve seen that meets my criteria for a worthwhile tattoo. 1.) meaning, 2.) originality 3.) objectively cool. A truly great tattoo IMO. ",
"I'm not crying...\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n.\nI'm crying",
"Seems fitting to me. My mother-in-law passed away unexpectedly and relatively young (56) about 7 months ago. I feel like I am forgetting / missing all the fine details of her, but her laugh, how she made us feel, how much she loved her only grandkid (my son)....that's still there in memory. Let it bleed out, losing a loved one is a wound that never truly heals.",
"Can we hear it? Isnt there an app that can turn that to audio?",
"> [HAAAAAAH.](http://www.flashkit.com/imagesvr_ce/flashkit/soundfx/People/Screams/Female_S-LadyIT-2322/Female_S-LadyIT-2322.png)\n\n",
"https://youtu.be/IP1eaR6Epco",
"Why? I'm seriously asking why you think it's stupid. It's unique and has a deep meaning for the op. Way better than one of those cookie cutter tattoos picked out of the book that tons of people have. ",
"yeah, have to agree... tats always look super sharp after they are done, but a little wear and tear will make it look more blurry. Cool tat and I think it's a cool idea, but it'll fade and blur in a couple years",
"My dad passed away on January 2nd. It gets easier. Sounds cliche but it’s true. I still feel this emptiness that I think will always be there though. Hang in there bud - be there for your mom/his wife if you can. My heart hurts for my mom. My condolences. ",
"Make sure you end up together or you may be editing it for the next ones flatulence. ",
"mmmm on second thought",
"I love that you can distinctly see the ha ha ha",
"Now we’ll see who has the last laugh.",
"Needs more jepeg",
"Sounds like a beautiful intimate tattoo",
"I’m not sure this is true. I have hearing aid microphones in my lab and I can playback the audio using a simple matlab script and it sounds fine and works.",
"The only other rule of tattoos that come to mind is don’t get something in a different language tattooed on you with out having it proof read by a native speaker of that language ",
"Honestly, I forget my social security number often. My ICQ number is memorized.",
"Looks like a big scar from an incision that’s healed",
"**I hate to be the person to reveal that there's no Santa Clause, but:** \n\nI see alot of people saying things like \"there should be an app that can scan this\". **It's not possible to scan this.** This tattoo is simply the loudness of all different frequencies of sound, over time (on the left and right channel). It's not the same as a mp3 of his father's laugh. It could just as well be the sound of crickets or a ball bouncing or a starting engine or a laser pistol. \n\nImagine a painting. The painting can be any shape, and thus the frame **surrounding** the painting can also be any shape. It's commonly a square, but it could be an octagon or a star, or some really weird curvy stuff. As long as it contains the outline of the paper the painting is made out of. It's possible to have two very different pictures inside a frame that's shaped the exact same way. This tattoo is like the frame. The frequencies (which are not here) would be the actual painting. \n\nYes, there is an app that allows you to **upload** the sound file and corresponding tattoo. Then, when you scan the tattoo, the app simply plays the uploaded soundfile. The app doesn't *convert* the tattoo into sound, because that's not possible. \n\nTL;DR: A tattoo can not contain the information of a 3 million bit soundfile, sorry. Still a great tattoo with sentimental value though! ",
"Well God speed, and keep us updated. The idea of seeing the tattoo is whats helping me get through the day.",
"Can you actually scan and get some kind of sound from it?",
"That's fucking bad ass. ",
"Yes, and the subject of the post is the tattoo you fucking neanderthal lmfao.",
"Woah, that's some real bullshit! Fuuuck that",
"This was a couple years ago, so I don't recall the exact process, but it was something similar to this:\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBOcEMdvYAw",
"Wow normally im kinda sceptic about tatoos, but this is genius. Nice idea",
"scars aren't black.",
"That is so awesome.",
"I love your tattoo! My mother passed away three months ago and her laugh was on of the best thins about her! How did you get the sound thingie, did you have a recording of the laugh?",
"This is going to legitimately make me cry it’s so sweet.",
"reminded me of [this](https://youtu.be/fPyp0_-EuIE) ",
"Give it a few years.",
"Just curious, is this that kind of tattoo you can hear if you put that tool on it or something? Vaguely can remember what I am talking about. Regardless, awesome tat and picture!",
"Thank you. This has been driving me crazy",
"\"I wipe and wipe and wipe\"\n\n*still more poop*",
"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voice_frequency\n\nMultiply that fundamental frequency by 2 and you have your Nyquist sample rate. I didn't say it would sound good, but you would be able to make out voices.",
"acck...hehe..hah..HAH he HAHh Ha. aha.",
"I'm all for these voice records as memoir type things but IMO they aren't too aesthetically pleasing as tattoos. Do what you want though.",
"No, the x-axis is just time. To get frequencies you'd have to take the Fourier transform.",
"Or go analogue so it still makes a sound as it fades away. Would need a bunch of skin or some really clever encoding though.",
"So lovely ",
"Yes, the arm-axis is time.",
"Finally someone said it! Thank you. ",
"I see your point, but still, the idea is in my opinion basic enough (and still personal) that it doesn't hurt when many people do it.\n\nTo use the painting analogy: As someone made already a landscape, you're not allowed to do any landscapes.",
"I love this. \n",
"Absolutely brilliant.",
"I read that as \"Rub salt along it and laugh\"",
"No you stop being a horrible person! :D",
"I don't know about exactly how wav internals work, but most certainly you can get a frequency output by sampling a specific amplitude value at each point in time. This value is the height of that bar in the tattoo, and if the resolution was sufficient you would end up with a waveform and sound when the speaker follows it that is the voice.",
"/r/ATBGE",
"Doubt this'll be seen due to the amount of comments, but something similar. My dad also passed just over 3 years ago, whilst waiting for a heart transplant. \nAll of his kids got tattoos of his heart trace, as everyone's is unique. I planned on possibly getting his old one transitioning into his new trace, but alas it never arrived. \nI'm glad you've got something like this to remember him by. ",
"That’s why I feel like these kinds of tattoos need to more space between the lines- almost like a sine/cosine. But then it doesn’t look like audio waves so idk",
"My dad is one of the funniest guys I know. Great sense of humor and just all around, a great man.\n\nMy dad is 63(born in ‘54) andhis parents passed away in 1998 when I was 12. They were born in 1919. I asked my dad if his father had the same sense of humor hedoes and he responded with, “Not really. Those older guys lived hard lives and life just wasn’t as fun for them.”\n\nI’m so grateful to have my dad for the man/father he is, but also his great sense of humor.",
"As someone who had their father at about the same age as you did, I just want to send my condolences and say that it does get easier. Great idea for the tattoo as well.",
"I'm not crying, you're crying.",
"But it's actually the fart of the tattoo artist's gardener.",
"Was just thinking about this. Thanks for clarifying!",
"Could have gotten a QR code ",
"This would work as a tramp stamp, if the face winks and gives thumbs up to the guy behind\n\nSorry",
"All tattoos are inherently narcissitic. This one screams LOOK HOW DEEP AND SENSITIVE I AM.\n\nMourning should be private, not a trashy 'clever' tattoo on your arm for everyone else to see.",
"I could see this fart being a sweet tattoo as well. \n\nhttps://youtu.be/Tk-5RVMerfI",
"This epitomizes everything I dislike about tattoos. Want to remember your dad's laugh? Keep a recording on your phone! \n\nThis has nothing to do with his dad, it's a selfish conversation starter to ingratiate himself with others. Judging by the comments on this thread, looks like that aspect works at least.\n\nTo all those idiots suggesting using an app to read the tattoo - turn your brains on.",
"[r/wholesomememes]()",
"Are you the new chief of the Reddit police?",
"That's nice...my Dad is going to pass(probably in the next 4 months) soon and I'm trying to figure something out for him.",
"More original too. And braver.",
"That's truly a unique and amazing personal tattoo. I appreciate tats that have personal meanings, as both of mine have them. They're much better than looking through a book and getting ones because they look cool or some crap like that. ",
"That is what a tattoo is all about dude, god bless ya!",
"I'm sorry for your loss.\n\nMine passed not that long ago - coming up to three years, still feels like yesterday. It doesn't get easier as such, but you get better at dealing with it...",
"And pets",
"How accurately could the laugh be recreated from this tattoo?",
"*You're* a towel.",
"Open file in any sound editor, screenshot, show to the artist. Done.",
"How is that tattoo holding up? Does it still scan well 3 years later? I've seen these and I'm skeptical on the longevity of the desired effect. ",
"Nice placement man. I lost my dad in 2010, and have a tattoo for him in the same spot. My dad was cremated and I actually talked the artist into using some of his ashes in my ink. You'll look at this tattoo every single day for the rest of your life and it will allow you to bring him wherever you may go. Best wishes mate. ",
"I though you typed “fart bar” and I was like... yeah. Sounds like my dad. XD",
"It's simulating the intense burst of emotions that's overheating it. But don't trust me, am totally not a robot",
"tattooed over to hide?",
"Even now those waves don't equal anything more than differing volumes of white noise",
"Recognizing that something is a sound is miles different than being able to recreate that sound accurately. ",
"Hey, ummm...🍵🍵",
"Love tattoos like this. A tattoo with meaning. Bravo.",
"Me and my roommate had to talk his girlfriend out of getting that done. She wanted to surprise him for his birthday in a couple months with his name tattooed on her. \n\nAfter we talked her out of it, she suggested “well what about an ‘M’ (first letter of his first name) or initials?” ",
"Not one bit. This is just loudness over time. It may as well be a ball bouncing. ",
"Nice way to hide your suicide attempt",
"That is wonderful.",
"It does not \"scan\" at all. ",
"It looks good now. It will look like a black bar in 20-30 years.",
"I've known a lot of people who've passed away, of all the things I remember clearly about them still(or the few things) the laugh is the one that's the clearest. My mom, my best friend, etc. I have a hard time with how they spoke at times but I doubt I'll ever forget their laugh. ",
"It's not even \"readable\" in the first place because that's not how sound works. The tattoo, the shape, is only capturing amplitude - the changes in volume of whatever is being recorded. Because it's not capturing the timbre or pitch (which would let us distinguish OP's dad's laugh from my laugh, or a strumming guitar, or a washing machine), it's simply not possible, even if technology were \"good enough\" to scan it and hear his dad's voice.\n\nThere are apps out there which will allow you to pair an image of a soundwave to an actual audio file you give them...so you can \"scan\" the wave and hear the audio. But that's a pretty cheap gimmick. Especially since you lose that ability once their service ends. ",
"I don't get it, it's not like you can decode that information when you look at it. If you really wanted to hear his laugh a better alternative would be to just play it through your phone and keep it in google drive so you can access it anywhere. If it was just something to remember him by it doesn't make sense to me, unless you're a cyborg how is it something to remember your father by? Not trying to be rude just don't get it, enlighten me if you so wish.",
"No, see this is what I'm talking about by people propagating false information. My experience is that everyone on Reddit thinks they're an expert in audio signal processing. \n\nFirst of all, waveform drawings are not the only way to represent audio. My suggestion is to represent the audio as DIGITAL data.\n\nSecond, given enough resolution, you could accurately represent audio as a waveform as you've described. That's not a problem at all. That's exactly how audio is recorded onto vinyl. The problem is that it would require an enormous amount of space on a human body to represent the audio as analog.",
"It's not really remembering him, it's showing other people that they remember him",
"r/cringepics",
"They are not entitled to the content, but they are entitled to complain about the content.",
"[This](https://skinmotion.com) application allows you to scan the tattoo and listen the sound. I have seen this long time ago and don't know how does it work . Probably there is something special in tattoo to identify it ",
"The problem with this is that the sharpness of the lines will not stand the test of time. It'll look like a blob of poo that somebody gave a good squeeze to.",
"i actually got it last thursday, i was 15 when he passed, sorry if i caused any confusion, so far it’s holding up pretty well, i make sure i wash it every once in a while. ",
"This is absolutely beautiful.",
"Even when you fap",
"No one else thinks this is a questionable location and looks like cutting lol? ",
"take it up with Harvard my friend, take it up with Harvard",
"My dad killed himself almost 10 years ago, sometimes I hear him when I laugh.",
"I don't get it either, isn't that just an amplitude range bar graph, dads laugh not exactly reproducible from that alone. ",
"You do understand there is a difference between seeing a post on the front page, clicking on the comments, and reading thru the comments long enough to find one to reply to vs just scrolling past a post? \n\nIn case that is too hard to understand, it is the difference between walking by a restaurant you hate vs going into the restaurant, ordering something, and then complaining because you hate the food there. ",
"Deep 🙏",
"It's too much sadness for a Tuesday morning but it's very unique ",
"lol'ED",
"Looks butt ugly imo but nice sentiment",
"Here https://skinmotion.com/",
"Bad idea. Once the service quits, you won't be able to pull this trick off. Phonopaper isn't \"reading\" the audio waveform. It's playing a matching game with the picture/wave you give them and the sound clip you give them.",
"I love this idea of tradition and technology evolving this way. My dad passed away a few years ago and as I get older my laugh becomes more like his, I think soon it’ll be the same and I’m so glad. ",
"This sounds like it would be good, but it isn't.",
"What about a laser? ",
"I have one on my butthole. It's allowed, butt it hurt ",
"I would go with \"Ho-ho-ho\"",
"Dirty smudge or not, he can look at it and know it's his dad's laugh. I think that's pretty nice. ",
"That's a really smart idea for a tattoo. It still puzzles me that people get tattoos out in the open about things so personal and close to the heart. I understand you wanting to share the nostalgia but not with every Tom, Dick, and Harry that wonders what it is. I know this is a dickhead comment.",
">objectively cool\n\nYou shouldn't use words when you don't know what they mean.",
"And before that, he said «KAA... MEE... HAA... MEE..»",
"The tattoo itself is a glorified and permanent QR code to a database. The functionality dies with the company. Neat gimmick though.",
"I know you can use for example Soundforge, but there's definetly a cheaper alternative than spending several hundred dollars on a sound program. \n\nHowever, you should know that the tattoo in itself does not contain any sound. It's merely the shape of loudness over time in the sound file, it does not contain the frequencies. The tattoo in the picture may as well be a ball bouncing or someone brushing their finger across a microphone. \n\n(like I've explain elsewhere, you can't contain the information of a 3 million bit soundfile in a tattoo)",
"Tell your dad you love him, beleive me you won't regret it.",
"Ill join in on the down voting...\n\n\nIt’s also regretable because this is a (stupidly) trendy thing to do. \n\nRemember the guy that sent out Christmas cards with the 3D printed “waveform” of his family saying “Merry Christmas from the (family name)”?\n\nQuite pointless if you ask me. \n\nYou can’t play it back. It’s useless. Sure, might remind you of your dad’s laugh... but why would you need this tattoo to do that?\n\nThis literally could be a “waveform” of someone saying “go fuck yourself” and you would never now. \n\n",
"He means it like the dad was an actual music player \nIts a dad joke.",
"/u/magikarpusedfly this reminded me of that poster you got",
"This is absolutely wonderful!",
"This is correct. There is a reason any experienced artist will explain to you why you can’t have lines that close together in your tattoo.\n\nSource: have been tattooing long enough to see tattoos like this come back healed. ",
"That's awesome. Wish I had thought of that. I have a phrase or two from the last birthday card I got from my dad in his handwriting. I'm really liking these ones I'm seeing of the heartbeats and the laughter of yours though!",
"Op - Can you post an mp3 of your dad's laugh? I would love to hear it!",
"Try https://www.skinmotion.com\n\nIt does require you to upload the sound before you get the tattoo as well as pay to play the sound, but if the soundwave they create is the same as your tattoo, it might just work. Worth a shot. Great tattoo nonetheless!",
"Negative, that would be the mitochondria.",
"That's all the tattoo really is. The soundwave is just prettier.",
"Hi I'm OgFinish and I'm too scared to look at vaginas because they look icky and gross and my mom says my I need to vacuum all the cheeto dust before I go to my Mountain Dew™ Call-of-Duty™ QuikkScope™ Tournament ",
"So, a qr to a dropbox, google drive or whatever service would be a much better option, maybe using one of those artistic qr designs. ",
"HAAh! \n\nThat was better than expected. Lol",
"I'm not a student. I've done a shitload of commercial work with digital audio processing. Including sampling, encoding, streaming, and decoding/playback.",
"This is not true. You only need two dimensions to represent audio: amplitude and time.\n\nPitch and timbre are just the result of amplitude changing over time in a specific way. \n\nThis is the reason a speaker just needs an AC signal (voltage changing over time) to output music. The speaker doesn't need a separate source of information for pitch. \n\nSame thing can be said of the human ear.\n",
"If the tattoo had much much finer resolution then the various frequencies would eventually show, though, right?",
"Rip daddo ",
"Wow what a loser",
"There needs to be an app you can scan things like this and it’ll make the sound ",
"> I love that you went with his laugh.\n\nI had a similar tattoo done of my grandma's farts and I regret it to this day.",
"https://giphy.com/gifs/matt-richard-dccon-12qPtYUESXW4IE",
"Be strong mate :( ",
"That exact thing exists already",
"Sorry to hear that. I always hear that’s the worst part",
"Beautiful",
"I think there's an app that you can download that will scan waveforms and play them back with your phone camera",
"I love the way you live :) ",
"Depends on whether those 25 years were happy or not.",
"looks like stitches. awful.",
"What would be the limiting factor? Needle size? Ink spread? Skin cell size? I think all but the latter could be overcome with better technology.",
"Dang, now I want to see an audio graph.",
"It's possible. But it's not that it scans the wave, it just recognizes the motive and gets back to a database which has linked the soundfile to the picture.",
"HAAAAAAAAAAAAA^HAAAAAAAAAAAAAA",
"I lost my dad unexpectedly in January, so I can sympathize - my heart goes out to you. What a beautiful way to remember your dad! ",
" That's awesome! Fantastic idea and follow through! I recently got a tattoo for my brother in the same area, on my left forearm. We both played guitar and I wanted it in a spot that would enhance my everyday life by having him there with me. Can relate, very comforting. ",
"Good thing your dad's not Rich Evans.",
"He can see you from heaven. Rest in peace uncle",
"A mistake was made and that's actually your dad's sex moan",
"Not to sound wrong or mean, but does that sound alter in the tattoo process or when you age? ",
"I got scared i was gonna see another \"open hand\" surgery or something.",
"I mean, a domain can be like 5-10 bucks a year. 250-500 bucks for 50 years isn't terrible. ",
"I'm not really big on tattoos but that's one I would want myself.\n\nGreat idea.\n\nSorry for your loss.",
"Good idea. ",
"\"..and this here is the bar code of my favorite brand of mayonnaise\"",
"Amazing tattoo and I'm not really into tattoos. A+",
"that's awesome.",
"Gorgonzola sandwich and a glass of burgundy.",
"That's pretty cool. I'm sorry for your dad's passing.",
"Exactly, as long as you own the domain, you're good to go. Hosting can be moved easy enough, you just need something permanent to tie the qrcode to, so pick something you'll want as long as the tattoo itself! ;)",
"Yep! If you have the blu-ray for the series, there's a long behind the scenes that ends with Steve Blum showing his tattoo as well as showing him perform the last line!",
"It's not a fiducial marker. Those are meant to establish a reference of measurement. This is used as a \"unique\" identifier. ",
"My dad’s laugh was a small “heh heh heh”\nLol, wouldn’t make a great tattoo, but yours in awesome ",
"When it's all said and done, you should tattoo the total amount of upvotes this got you next to it as well. ",
"I talked with a tattoo artists about his topic once and his personal rule was that he would only do a name if it was your blood relative. ",
"RIP",
"In sorry for your loss, OP. Awesome idea and execution. \n\nIn curious, how your father's laugh as recorded. An old video perhaps?",
"I saw something similar on TV a week ago, but it was a young woman and she had her tattoo higher up her arm so it probably wasn't you.",
"affirmative: memories of extinguished parental units indeed provoke fluid response in the optical sensor array.\n\nquery: is cardiac cycle tattoo typically depicted in waveform display or EKG?",
"> You can't draw a waveform and have it interpreted as a specific sound. That's not how audio works.\n\nThat's exactly how audio works. That's not how the app works though, the image would have to be incredibly detailed.",
"I hate using this cliche line, but WHY DID I HAVE TO SCROLL SO FAR TO FIND THIS? The whole time people were saying there's not enough resolution in the tattoo, etc. etc. , when really the issue is that this isn't a vocal signature, it's basically just a graph showing amplitude. There's no info here showing the pitch or anything so id basically be a tone that just gets louder and softer , louder and softer, louder and softer. ",
"What an amazing tattoo! That is such a great way to remember him! We found some old vhs tapes from a Christmas in 1994.. my grandfather passed in 2001. I hadn't heard his laugh since and I got to hear it last night for the first time. It brought me such happiness! Sorry for your loss! ",
"Unexpected Goku",
"The op very well could be of a long fart and not a laugh we have no way of telling. ",
"Ima get one, record my dad before he dies saying \"man fk u son piece of shi.......beeeeep\"",
"This has to be the greatest tattoo concept I have ever seen. I'm sure he would be very proud of you... ",
"Now I want to hear it. I’ll bet he had a great laugh. What a beautiful way to remember him. ",
"Ah right, if the tattoo was a perfect copy it would thereotically be possible, but it would be physically impossible for tattoos to even come close to the resolution needed.",
"Is this some sort of magnificent self-made switcharoo?",
"Depends what he was laughing about ",
"The first half of the description I laughed but when I read the 2nd half i was like ‘oh...’ I’m so sorry for your loss. You must be missing him so much. God bless you ",
"That's really nice. I like it.",
"I like it!",
"and everyone is really glad that you are being genuine",
"All that's required to represent audio is amplitude data. You get pitch by passing the amplitude waveform through a Fourier transform. Why wouldn't timbre also be preserved? Look up wav specification. None of that stuff is stored there either.",
"people deal with grief in different ways, and people have different ways of remembering those who've passed.\n\nFor example playing draughts always reminds me of my grandad.\n\nTo say he has mental issues with no context or evidence is just plain stupid",
"Actually pretty similar to Jimmy Carr!\n\nEdit: listened to his laugh and it's slower than Jimmy Carr's and kind of like 'HUH HUH HUH' sound if you did that in an inhale and not enunciating. ",
"Yeah I honestly see these FEELS posts and think it's upvoted by people who trick themselves into giving a shit who comment to virtue signal because it gives them moral agency somehow\n\nBut no, we have an absurdly conceptualized and designed tattoo that even people who ink for a living say is going to blur almost immediately, but because it's some kid's late father it's suddenly beautiful",
"Imagine the awkwardness when someone accidently presses the button during sex.",
"NAAAAAAAAIL",
"Beautiful and clever at the same time.",
"always expect Goku",
"There was a video posted recently of someone playing their sound tattoo",
"\"And if I have to crawl upon the floor\"\n\n*Gets Closer*",
"As a sound designer, I can tell he was Nordic in descent, in his mid 60s, and loved dolphins. I'm very good.",
"The Atari Jaguar",
"Absolutely a better option. ",
"Really cool. I can remember my grandad’s laugh perfectly. Haven’t heard it in a while. Thank you",
"I had a quality artist in my old town, but I just moved. This seems like a perfect opportunity to ask: how do you recommend finding a good artist? It seems like there’s a tattoo shop on every corner here, and I’d hate to get something that I don’t like, or heals crappily ",
"This is amazing. I lost my dad two years ago, and I've been looking for something to remember/honor him for a while. This is the first thing that totally makes sense and fits who he was. I'll have to dig to find a video or recording of him laughing, which will be the hardest part. I haven't heard that laugh since two days before he passed, because I didn't think I could handle listening to any of his voicemails (which I still have) or any videos of him. Looks like I'm gonna have to just suck it up and face it head on.\n\nThanks Op.",
"You wouldn’t download an arm, would you?",
"Oh I like this a lot. Great idea. I wonder if there's a way to get this done in some sort of ink which contains a conductor to where you could run something over it and get it to play sound.",
"Reminds me of Marshall from How I met Your Mother. \nI really like this. ",
"https://www.keyflow.com/news/listen-tattoos-new-app/\n",
"As a person with a dad, I love the idea, too.",
"This is such a “first tattoo” tattoo lmao. Not that that’s bad or anything, but if you decide to get more tattoos I guarantee you wouldn’t put as much thought into them as you did with this one. ",
"Cracked the hex code, DestroyMeatbag. Anyone wanna post on /r/codes and decode the top part? :D",
"That's really cool (and unique!), man. Hope you're doing well!",
"About 15 years ago I had a girlfriend that wanted to do this. I knew the rule, but I also knew telling her why I didn't want to would cause other problems. So I agreed and said I wanted to take some time to design the tat myself. So, what I did was I designed the name along with a second tat that would eventually cover the name without being noticeable that it was a cover-up. That one I kept to myself of course. Today, you would never know there was a name tattooed on my body.",
"No, no, no! Put your monitor in the paper tray and hit PRINT.",
"❤️❤️❤️❤️",
"That SO’s name? Bitch.",
"We need to bring in a forensic fart specialist.",
"I'm tearing up in the bus while reading your post.\nThis is a truly special tattoo and simply the best way to remember a person.\n\nI'm sure that your farther is very proud of you. ",
"It'll stop reminding him of his father after the 100th person asks him what happened to his arm, or asks him if he's better now thinking it's a suicide scar. \n\nPlus, waveforms represent tone, not an actual voice. If you try to pay this back, it'll sound nothing like the dad's voice.",
"Confirmed grade schooler ",
"WHY ARE YOU YELLING FELLOW HUMAN?",
"r/totallynotrobots, reminds me of the first thing I said after my boyfriend came inside me this morning: \"Did you deposit your DNA material inside my vagina?\" ",
"[Like this guy/Dad?](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4Y4keqTV6w)",
"The concept is cool but he execution looks tacky, it's too big, at first glance it looks like a dirt smeer",
"Can we hear the laugh audio?",
"I don’t even have more than 1 picture of my dad. I have a lot from when I was little, but recent before he died just one. \n\nI don’t even remember his voice anymore. He died in 2003 before cellphones and whatnot were a big deal. \n\nI’m kind of jealous. I’d give a limb just to hear what he sounds like again. \n",
"Iw been looking for tattoo inspiration and I'm totally doing this one! With my kids laughing :-)",
"What? My issue is with your comment, not with Harvard. \"We don't need pitch or vowels to recognize that something is a sound\" doesn't equal \"you can recreate a sound from an image that contains no information about what the pitch or vowel sounds are.\"",
"Needs more dynamic compression",
"Glad to see you got a recording of 5 gunshots on your arm.",
"Im imagining the moonbase alpha text to speech thing. \"haaah\"",
"What an amazing way to honour your father. Love it!",
"This is one of the more special tattoos I've seen. I love it. Sorry for your loss, but it shows a lot of character that you went with his laugh to remember him by. ",
"Thatd be nice",
"Yes absolutely. But audiofiles only store the value at each point, which is not what amplitude is. Amplitude is not the same as Y-axis position of any given **individual** datapoint, so to speak, is my point.\n\nI may just be nitpicking. But you can't tell me the amplitude of a single datapoint, because it has none. It has a DC-offset, but the amplitude needs another variable. Time.\n\nIn the case of audiofiles, they store DC-offsets, not amplitudes. An audiofile, that contains a single datapoint and nothing else, albeit a shitty audiofile, contains information of the value of the signal at time=0, but contains no information on the amplitude. That's my point :)\n\nAgain, you can infer the amplitude of the signal contained in an audiofile, but that is not principally what it has stored.",
"I normally think tattoos are stupid, but this is pretty cool.",
"This is stupid. ",
"Is there an app that could play that back?",
"heart touching! U made me smile :)",
"When I see an old lady trip and fall, my first instinct is to laugh. But then I think, what if I were an ant and that lady fell on top of me? Then it wouldn't be so funny.\n\n-Jack Handy",
"This seemed a bit impulsive. Maybe you should have waited or thought it out a bit more since the placement is pretty horrible. Why the arm and not on your heart or (don’t know if this is possible) on the back of your ear?",
"hahahahaha oh man this is the most savage comment yet",
"That's because soundwaves don't record the voice, just changes in volume. Even if you find an app to effectively scan your tat before it starts fading and bleeding (those fine lines will go quick), you'll only hear varying amplitudes of white noise.",
"Instagram is how I found my artists.",
"I'll go further and just say that I never understood the appeal of this sort of tattoo. Or the ones with the ECG heart rate. I understand the symbolism aspect of it, and perhaps that's all that matters. But it just looks so... bland and messy. And if I'm being honest, it's a bit cheesy to me, but that's just my personal opinion.\n\nedit: wrong letter",
"Sorry for your loss. It does get easier.",
"and it's much, much, much harder than you'd think, especially for an area like this. it'll likely never leave. ",
"I love this so much",
"When I got my music tattoo the palor warned me that the ledger lines would not hold their shape as I aged. They then helped me redesign the tattoo so that it would still look good in 20 years. ",
"What’s the name of that app that lets you scan images of sound waves and it plays them for you?",
"I hate tattoos and this tattoo is super cool. Good on ya!",
"It's like I'm wiping a marker.",
"Wish i could have the same tattoo, my dad passed away 5 years and a half ago. Btw, how did you get it?\n(Sorry for my english, not my first language)",
"This is actually makes me cry... Sorry for your farther.",
"What did it actually say or was it just gibberish or something simiilar?",
"You say awkward, I say improved.",
"That is frickin awesome man. ",
"This is an amazing idea. ",
"Also, there's no audio waveform data there, just volume level.",
"you were browsing reddit on your phone while laying on your side?",
"This is a pretty good idea. I've forgotten my father's voice, and if I had a tatto like this I might have looked at it every now and then and remembered his voice.",
"This was my first thought as well. This ink won’t age well unfortunately ",
"[Here's what it sounds like for anyone interested.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4Y4keqTV6w&t=1m45s)",
"maybe in the future, youll be able to scan it, and then plat it back\n",
"I wonder if there's a better way to encode audio as an image on a tattoo -- an audio waveform like this can't be decoded and played back as an actual sound at that resolution. I wonder if a spectral audio waveform would be able to be played back as a tattoo?\n\nhttps://www.mp3-tech.org/tests/pm/RefCdAudioS.gif",
"And you could change the message behind the QR code over time, so you have a nice message for your friends, family, and lovers who scan you, and something really interesting or creepy for the undertaker/med student/plastination technician/archeologist who scans it after your death.",
"Ever take a picture and run it through a converter? I always wanted to compare the tattoo recording to the actual sound, though I am thinking it is more about symbolism than the actual laugh.",
"FYI - I'm a fat bald man...",
"It's gonna suck explaing that to everyone who asks. ",
"What program was used to do this? I've been looking all over for something to make a soundwave tattoo",
"Lol. A lot of those are heart beats.",
"> Any decent tattoo parlor should have warned him about it.\n\nliterally said \"should\"",
"Are you sure that doesn't say, \"Go clean your room.\"?",
"I admit I haven't really put much effort into my comment other than to get the general idea accross but I don't really see any problem with that. \n\nIf you do criticize my reply though it would be nice if you'd actually put in any effort. While my response is very generic it's not incorrect in any way shape or form - prove me wrong. ",
"Definitely worth mentioning but if this was my arm I probably would be happy with the sentiment behind the tattoo than whether or not the lines can be made out. It's not like we can read the audio, it's much more of the idea behind it in my opinion.",
"UH-OH",
"Let's see how sentimental it'll be after it starts blurring, and after the 100th person asks him what happened to his arm, or asks him if he's better now thinking it's a suicide scar.",
"Op- lost a parent as a teen, too (also got inked to commemorate them). Wanted to let you know that they are always there with you. They have shaped so much of who you are, that you will keep finding them in new ways in your life. It's been 10.5 years since I lost my parent, and every week I find new, wonderful ways that my parent shaped the person I am today. \n\nNice ink, keep sunscreen on it! ",
"Holy shit man, my dad passed 4 years ago this March. I'm glad you have that. ",
"That's just pain water. ",
"Has you in stitches, by the appearance",
"Looks like stitches tbh",
"Ehh this is dumb",
"I'm not sure. I only know that from the practical advice that my artist gave me when I asked. My google fu failed me when I tried last time.",
"not sure why we're arguing then? i never said the latter.",
"I love this, I lost my parents when I was young too and have always wanted to get a tattoo in their memory, I don't have any videos or recordings of them so I wouldn't be able to get the same one, but still awesome idea!",
"👉😎👉",
"Hits me hard. I’m learning about sound waves at school and learned (although rather obviously) that everyone has a distinct sound wave when it comes to speaking, laughing, yelling, shouting, etc.\n\nTruly a distinct way to remember him.",
"I love it! Very touching. My father passed away in 09, would love to have something like this on my arm. ",
"This is so cool, dude! You're lucky to have heard and record your father's laughter. ",
"*the comment that sparked this results has been changed, my response hasn’t*\n\n*although I didn’t screen cap the actually comment, I have found another example of how this user likes to add feedback, this is another comment this user left that is very similar to how they responded to my comment, this one has been screen capped*\n\n“Learn how analogies work”\n\nThe original comment was something to this effect, and I took offense. \n\nyou shouldn’t be an arrogant bastard. You also shouldn’t correct people on things that aren’t wrong. I’m sure you wanted me to use subjectively. Using objectively here implies that it is cool regardless of any pre existing biases. Its cool to everyone, which I know isn’t true. It’s a form of hyperbole. And even if I’m still wrong, you’re still an asshoe that offers nothing productive. And For someone who cares so much about debate? you sure are good at trying to shut someone down, and being close minded. ",
"Definitely doing that, my mom’s laugh is so distinctive that if we can’t find her in a store we just text her something funny and listen.",
"I think you should give tips on how to pick your shop. Sometimes the local shop is the best shop....",
"I LOVE that idea. I also lost my dad three years ago (my deepest condolences to you for your loss, btw) and plan on getting a memorial tattoo on my right wrist. I am going to get \"Love, Dad\" written in his handwriting.\n\nI have a lot of issues with anxiety, depression, and PTSD. I want something where when I'm feeling low that I look at it and think about what he would say to me if he were still here.\n\nI think your tattoo is a beautiful tribute.\n",
"You have his smile, his joy, and a little bit of room tone.",
"Yeah, the audio data inflow with realtime analytics wouldn't support that pixel resolution. A ten year old could tell you that.",
"Reboot.",
"Love it! \n\nMy 4th tattoo was a recording of my wife saying \"I love you baby\" in the same spot as you got yours. The reactions I've gotten range from \"that's pretty fucking cool\" to \"baaaaaaaawwww\" when people ask what it is.",
"\"hahaha\" - dad ",
"How will u listen to it tho",
"There's just something in my eye...",
"Ah if you were in the movie business you could've got his kids on your back too",
"Not for nothing, but I hope you're not right handed. That'd make it seem like your dad was laughing at you every time you jerked off. ",
"Sorry for your loss. The universe is unforgiving in that way, but everything around us is constantly in a cycle of birth, death, and rebirth. I feel that nothing in this universe ever truly stops existing.",
"Did you end up covering it up or having it removed? I had a small one behind my ear removed it hurt quite a bit but I'm very happy now.",
"She went into the garage, and made two copies of her birth certificate. She cut up one, and pasted other numbers over her birth year to make it seem like she was over 18.",
"Ask friends, really. Word of mouth is the main way this spreads. The best places are gonna have lots of people recommending them. If you don't have friends, try local Facebook groups.",
"FUNNY THAT YOU SAY THAT, I FOUND A POST FROM THERE RIGHT ABOVE THIS",
"That's bad ass",
"i like it lots but sadly, in the future the lines will get very blurry and probably, they will even fuse together into \"blobs\"?\n",
"I don’t usually rate tattoos \nBut this is a fantastic idea ",
"Really lol?",
"Your Dad must have meant a lot to you, I love what you've done to remember him.",
"Hueeeeeee",
"Don't criticize these posts it's not fucking allowed ",
"That's so dad. ",
"Go to different shops and look at their portfolio or their website, or more likely their Instagram. ",
"You can! but probably not as an amplitude graph like this (frequency information relies on sample density). Displaying the frequency information itself would give you pretty nice results even low res http://warmplace.ru/soft/phonopaper/",
"i love this one because signal is my field ",
"> plus the OP will never go a day forgetting their dad passed away\n\nNot sure that would be an issue regardless if they got the tattoo or not ",
"I think social media is the best place to find good artists now. They will showcase all their art and advertise when they are doing walkins or sales.",
"Lmao this one made me chuckle ",
"Christ, you've really got everything arse over tit, haven't you? \n\nHe's not *mourning* his father, he's *remembering* him. \n\nAs to all tattoos being vain, then I guess anyone who's ever worn a t-shirt with any image whatsoever is also a narcissist? \n\nBollocks. \n\nEDIT If I put a t-shirt on with a picture of cool drawing, it's because I want to meet other people and form relationships and have fun with them, not because I'm saying \"I'm excessively interested in myself\". \n\n\n",
"Good meaning but shitty tattoo",
"As a guy who makes his living making people laugh, ... i think thats the balls....\n",
"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Acr4V0SiApU",
"That's really cool! Is it possible to turn it back into sound, like taking a photo of the sound wave and feeding it into a computer?",
"Never been into tattoos but this is just amazing! ",
"This was from a birthday card to me. His handwritting. The heart is over my pulse point so that when I touch it, it pulses. Miss you Dad. \n\nhttp://imgur.com/Wfkjm8F",
"My parents passed in 2010 and I'm in the same boat. I have 2 old VHS tapes from the 80s that I'm not sure if they even play back anymore and a stack of maybe 20 pictures of them and that is it. It is weird how their voices are so familiar but also so faint now, I wish I could hear them again.",
"thatd be wild to see. \n\nTangent: tbh I wanted to say something like \"put that in your pipe and smoke it\" but I wanted to alter it so that it fit OP, so something like \"put that in your needle and ink it.\" but I think that sounds off... is it just a weird phrase to alter in this context? is it always a weird phrase to alter? what about \"put that in your cake and bake it\", seems ok if the circumstances were cake related. I worry the phrase is too generic sounding for every instance \"put that in your mouth and eat it\" doesnt immediately sound like the Pipe line but actually just a command to eat. \"put that in your glass and drink it\"... \"put that in your needle and shoot it\" works nicely I think and its close to my line about tattoo but the analogy just works so much better. ...anyways... I digress. Funny story. ",
"That’s my point. The tattoo is not an issue to OP. They are getting it because it makes them happy to remember their parent. ",
"How do people \"print out\" heartbeat tattoo",
"or an earthquake ",
"As a father, I don't want my kids to get ANY tattoos... Whether I'm dead or alive.",
"The only person I ever met with another of these soundwave tattoos had a beastie boys lyric. \nYours is just as good, if not better.",
"I mean\n\nIt’s just a bunch of squiggles \n\nCould be anything until they make an app that can scan frequency lines ",
"That is super heartwarming. You marked a great milestone with something beautiful and meaningful. Happy (possibly belated) birthday.",
"\"dead people\". One of my good friends passed away a few years ago and I got her initials on me.. I think a SO is fair",
"I was 6 years old when my Dad passed I didn't know him very well, and my mom did the best she could working 2-3 jobs, and raising 4 of us. She made mistakes but hell I couldn't imagine. Any way as my older brother and I grew we both had the EXACT loud, goofy, hyuk/low pitched Peter Griffin laugh. It became a running joke between friends, and family. Every video every get together when my brother and I laughed at the same time it was always pointed put, and teased which would make us laugh harder. One day on a whim I asked my mom since my brother, and I had the same laugh did dad have the same laugh. She said our identical laughter was, and is the EXACT same as our fathers. I asked her if that was hard for her to hear his laugh all these years later(20 years, and she has yet to heal from his passing) she told me at times she'll drift off while we're laughing, and my father is still with her, and in us, and in our laughter, and that there is no greater legacy for him to live on in us, and his memory is pulled forth in only the most joyous of occasions.\n \n Dad I didn't know you very well but there will be a new little man who will share your name in a few months. Let's hope he shares our goofy laughter rest in peace old man. ",
"Sorry for your loss, I know the feeling. That tat is fucking atrociously tacky, glad you like it and it reminds you of your dad, but that shitty generic waveform that white trash hoes get tattood on their ribcage is gonna look shit in no time.",
"https://youtu.be/jluUBvdpndU?t=12s\n\nWhat I imagine.",
"I teared up explaining this tattoo to my fiancée",
"Can someone ELI5 how detailed a computer could play that file back?\n\nI understand the principle of sound amplitude/modulation, etc, but how detailed is this audio clip?",
"Freaking awesome!",
"One of the few times when that's relevant. ",
"This is a really cool, unique tattoo.",
"No way! I have a sound wave tattoo on my arm too!! It’s my 3 littlest sisters saying “I love you, Big Brother.” \n\nIt’s a wonderful way to have a piece of those close to you everywhere you go. I’m sure you’ll enjoy having it there with every step you take forward :)",
"Would be cool if you could get enough actual waveform data to just scan it with an app and get the audio back",
"I have always wanted a tattoo, but I always wanted it to be something special and important to me. This right here is the best idea of a tattoo I have ever seen and heard. One you can never regret getting and always smile seeing. ",
"This is such a cute idea i love it",
"You are lucky to have had him and that's a great reminder. \n \nThe only thing I have to remember my father is my knee hurting during wet weather.",
"> However, the tattoo IS of a legitimate and specific soundwave\n\nNo... It isn't, are you fucking retarded? soundwaves have FREQUENCY.",
"Wow.. That's so nice! ",
"IM NOT CRYING YOU'RE CRYING",
"https://skinmotion.com/",
"What a great way to memorialize your father! Be sure to keep lotion on that bad boy daily. It's a very fine tattoo and it would be a shame if it started to bleed under your skin",
"What conditions would need to exist for you to accept your life is a failure? ",
"Jimmy Carr?",
"RIP to your dad",
"r/nottheonion",
"I am on the internet, and on Reddit, so it's pretty obvious that I'm not saying nobody can't dislike it, clearly. \n\nI'm not saying people can't rip OP to shreds. But if they do, they should at least come up with something better than \"this is not heartwarming\". Christ, even saying \"*I don't think* this is heartwarming\" would be fine. \n\n\"This is not heartwarming\" is an empirical statement that can easily be disputed by finding someone that does find it heartwarming, like OP. It's a meaningless, pointless utterance. \n\n",
"I've seen programs specifically for tattoos of waveforms like this to be converted to sound. ",
"I hope this will always remind you of your father...When you masturbate ",
"> back \n\nImplying they ever left",
"Have you ever seen a scar before? Outside of a drawing, which is why I assume you think scars are black?",
"my son is turning 12 this year. Never could I imagine what it would be like to love someone so much. I hope my little man will feel like this about me. I hope I can make such a wonderful connection. Lots of love to you OP.",
"You’re mixing the word generic with common, they’re not the same. ",
"It’s also bad. ",
"Why would you go swimming after a new tattoo? That's so dumb. Every reputable artist tells you not to do it. Plastic wrap isn't gonna cut it. It's not hard to give up swimming for just a little while as it heals.",
"[Moth](https://imgur.com/NBNh7CZ)",
"He'll always be laughing at you now",
"This makes me happy and sad. I struggle remembering my father's voice. Only thing that I remember clearly is when he used to use my full name. Cannot fully remember his laugh though.",
"Can you show me how to tie my shoes?",
"Glad you're reverent to your dad but damn that is fucking stupid",
"Because of all this, I'm desperately trying to figure something unique out for my kids so they have something to remember me by :-D",
"I’m so sorry for your loss. I lost my dad when I was 27 and thought that was young. I can’t even imagine what that was like for you. Big hugs and what a wonderful way to remember him!",
"That’s like saying, oh this swastika? It’s an INSIDE JOKE, ITS NOT FOR YOU ITS FOR ME. \n\nI mean, yes, I’m sure that’s true. \n\n\nIt’s still fucking retarded. ",
"I have a tear trolling my cheek rn",
"So the lines will blur together and be less precise over time... as will his memory of his father's laugh:(",
"That’s easy enough to say, but there are plenty of ways for things to end after that much time that can make the tat super regrettable. Source: recently divorced parents after 35+ years married. ",
"It's just ugly tbf",
"I love this idea, and that of the heartbeat tattoos... but how well do they age? ",
"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H47ow4_Cmk0",
"That's not really the same thing. The app simply remembers what your waveform looks like, then plays it back from memory. It's a cheap gimmick. If you show it a waveform it's never seen before, it won't magically play it back to you.",
"So what you're saying is that your dad is Seth Rogan.",
"Lmao you have shitty taste in tattoo work",
"Even Hitler had a girlfriend!",
"*dad's \n ",
"Thinking about getting a tribal band. Thoughts?",
"It's a clock warming tale.",
"I have a friend that is really tatted and speaks really highly of his artist but to me they look like straight shit, and I'm a graphic designer so I have a good idea how shit it's supposed to look, it's not an art style or anything, its just bad lol so I'm skeptical of word of mouth, u just gotta go see for urself imo, but my question is, can u really trust their catalogs?",
"Love it. Good choice, OP! ",
"If you're trying to compare this tattoo and a swastika to prove an internet point, here's an upvote too, you're obviously needing it ;)",
"This made me tear up. My grandpa died in 1989 and I sometimes hear him call my name. This is an awesome idea! ",
"TBH I think the tat almost works better being fucked up. It’s definitely daily practice in not regretting, at least. ",
"You don’t go on many dates do you. It’s a trashy and stupid way to remember a sound. Because YOU CANNOT FUCKING HEAR IT. YOU JUST WANT TO TELL PEOPLE HEY THIS IS MY FATHERS LAUGH, when for all we know it could be a fart. \n\n\nIn fact, the tattoo would be cooler if it was a fart sound wave\nAnd he told people the dad thing to fuck with them. ",
"Nobody expects the Spanish inquisition ",
"Sorry to say but won't that heartbeat be a straight line ?",
"Is that an audio clip of his laugh, or a spectrum of his laugh that was paused at a specific time?",
"That's a really touching tribute! Not everyone will be able to recognise it for what it is and perhaps if they ask, it gives you an opportunity to explain about your Dad to them bringing him to forefront of your mind again and again and never to be forgotten.\n\nWell done young man and all the very best to you...",
"I might sound ignorant on this subject but I think I remember reading that these tattoos weren't exactly what people were saying. Can anyone with experience on these tattoos explain more? I'm sorry.",
"Thank you for sharing! What a wonderful idea. Lost my Dad in August and can't think of a better remembrance than his laugh.",
"(Transcribed) Ha ha ha ha haaaaa.",
"This is beautiful.",
"I’m cringing ",
"Isn't there an app where you can scan your tattoo and play back the sound wave?",
"https://skinmotion.com",
"I was starting to type out an explanation until I realized it was a (decent, if precariously placed) joke.\n\nBut in one instance, an acquaintance of mine knew her husband didn't have long left, so they took the EKG then for the design.",
"Any way to scan this with an iphone to play it back? ",
"That's what I was thinking. All tattoos are about the message whether or not they look the way they started. I'd be totally fine if all the lines eventually blended.",
"Sheldon cooper?",
"Yup. Wanted to get my last tattoo and the more expensive shop I went to said the details wouldn't look good unless I got it 10 inches wide, at the absolute minimum. He said if anyone tells me they can do it (I went it like 5 inches), they're just saying that to get my money. Next shop I went to gave me a much lower price and said they can do it easily. Decided not to get it done.",
"I’d like to see this scanned and converted back to audio and see how it sounds",
"I mean they usually would give you like a month advance notice...",
"Way to miss my point. \nI said it didn't matter if he thought it wasn't heartwarming or adorable, because the tattoo isn't for him. Just as it's not for you. \nThe post is, the tattoo isn't. Pretty simple really. \n\nWell done on neanderthal though, be sure to thank your history or biology teacher at school tomorrow...",
"I will not state it emphatically but there is a good chance of it.",
"Gotta say this is really awful...",
"Now we need like a QR camera scanner that plays the sound waves back. Take this as my patent.",
"From an ekg or something similar. There are home machines that monitor heart beats and can be saved.",
"Someone turn this into an audio clip so we can hear the laugh",
"/r/girlyfarts",
"Yeah, he is. You can create waveforms that kinda look like that but unless they have the same voice it's not going to be the same. Sound guy is in my name why wouldn't you think I knew what I was talking about?",
"Oddly disturbing and yet heart warming too ",
"Thousands of years from now, someone's going to find your petrified, mummified body, and be able to just make out that Tattoo. After much work, they'll realize it's an analog representation of sound, and excitedly work to decode it, only to hear a laugh. This will be the biggest troll in history.",
"My dad is alive. I don’t think I’ve ever heard him laugh, though. I’m 39.",
"thats one ugly fucking ass looking tattoo",
"Then why not just get any laugh beat? If its supposed to be a precise one for a person, i think it matters.",
">Price should never be a concern. If it is, dont get tattooed. \n\nWhich is why I haven't gotten a tattoo yet. Too broke for it lol",
"And as an audio engineer (or anyone that understands the basics of audio) this tattoo is meaningless, from a functionality standpoint.\n\nAll this 'waveform' is, is a measure of amplitude over a timeframe. These tattoo's are literally a graph of 'how loud something is every millisecond, for one second'\n\nThis could be a laugh, or a guitar track, or someone hammering a nail into a wall, or a idle car engine, anything with an oscillating, consistent rhythm. It could literally be a recording of someone playing Darude Sandstorm out of an old 2000's Mobile Phone - Amplitude is not unique.\n\nI'm only playing Mr. Buzzkill here becuase so many people seem to believe you can 'play' these tattoos... **You can't 'play' these tattoo's**, the apps that 'read' them literally just try and match-up pictures with soundfiles, you'd have to match your phones camera up with a similar camera angle stored online to play it. You could essentially take a picture of your hand and match it up with your desired soundfile and it would still work.\n\nSure - This is technically the waveform of OP's dad laughing, but it's not unique to anything, this 'waveform' isn't specific at all and can genuinely be anything you want.\n\nDumb tattoo idea, and mostly they look out of place just as a 'stick of wiggly lines' on peoples arms to literally anyone who you haven't told them explicitly what it is. Aesthetically these tattoo's could look decent if you got them banded around your arm or something, as a decent minimalist tattoo.\n\n[Other than that, it's essentially the 2010 version of this.](https://pics.me.me/this-is-the-absolute-whitest-tattoo-you-could-ever-get-23550918.png)\n\n**Edit:** So I don't have to repeat myself for the 7th time, No. I am not shitting on OP's choice of getting a tattoo to remember his father, I'm shitting on the fact it's a boring, overplayed faddy tattoo that is aesthetically awful (in my opinion), with the tattoo's 'audible context' being completely irrelevant.",
"Except you would know because he would have access to the waveform the tattoo is based on. ",
"If it's a video, it's likely 48kHs, so even tougher",
"was your dad married to Siri?",
"That's really thoughtful",
"Did he die of cancer? This sub loves cancer!",
"Genuinely curious: on what grounds? ",
"Awesome.",
"This is really neat, awesome even. Probably one of the only tattoos I've seen that I'd get (in my own context of course) very cool!",
"> this one no one can feel but him\n\nSo?",
"👊〰️👞〰️👌\n\n👉➰〰️👇\n\n👊〰️➰〰️👌\n\n👌➰〰️➰〰️👊\n\n👌➰♻️👉➰〰️\n\n👊〰️➿〰️👊\n\n💥👞💥",
"Always sounds like he's laughing at someone's misfortune.",
"I may be telling you something that you’re already well aware of, but just in case... there’s an app now where you can hold your phone camera to the tattoo and it will play the sound. Soundwave I believe it’s called. ",
"He was a moron. That was the least stupid thing he did that day. I posted it on an r/askreddit thread once about terrible dates. I'll try to link it later if I have time after work. ",
"Looks like Peter Griffin’s laugh",
"Probably because you're a douche. ",
"Cool",
"r/badtattoos might be of some help. Just read the rules when you go! ;)",
"Look at their stuff on ig and focus on shading, the linework etc. Even if the style of a particular tat in an ig pic might not be 100% for you you can still cop a feel about how an artist is with details.",
"No argument there.",
"Have you tried to scan your arm and play it back in software to hear his laugh again?",
"This is absolutely amazing. My father passed away too but I was only 3 (26 now) so I don't have a recording like that or I might totally steal that idea, instead I have the somewhat generic roman numerals of the day he passed as my reminder for me and the people I want to know to know.\n\nBut your idea is just so original and so incrediblle that it touches me and I have no idea who you two are or what your relationship was. Thats special. You're awesome. ",
"That’s just Jimmy Carr’s laugh ",
"That’s actually really fucking cool",
"That’s amazing. Great way to remember him fondly. ",
"Slightly relevant\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Afim_Ribds",
"That’s actually really fucking cool",
"> People think they can scan it and hear whatever it is they got.\n\nNobody thinks that. It's just a nice design with a nice sentiment. ",
"So then your original comment was just a completely irrelevant non sequitur? ",
"Maybe it's been already said but that's just the volume of the sound over time... Like... it could be a fart with the same kinds of volume changes and look the same.",
"Fucking r/Facebook ",
"Not to be that guy, but those waves show amplitude. There’s no way anyone could translate that into audible laughing. It’s an accurate display of audio volume, but is entirely impossible to translate into coherently audible human sounds.",
"To give an idea, this is probably roughly the audio equivalent of an image that is so pixelated that it's just a handful of pixels. But even worse, the graph doesn't even have a way to follow it on the time axis. A proper sound wave should appear as a single line graph. But this seems to be drawn as really just a bunch of very close together vertical lines. There's no way to really know where in those lines we're increasing or decreasing.\n\nSuch images can be useful when editing audio, but don't really represent audio in a way that's useful to \"reverse engineer\" it.",
"I know you’re trying to be snarky and edgy, but your comment wasn’t actually coherent.",
"At least it's not hot snakes.",
"You sound like a trump supporter.\n\n\nAnd by that I mean you sound mildly retarded lol\n\nI just asked you to define what failing was and your response was “actually failing”. \n\nI think that in it of itself was a fail bud. ",
"Is there some sort of anti-tattoo brigade on reddit now? Controversial is a mess of weird karma. ",
"This is why one should get the frequency spectrum instead.. more spread out and carries the same information. ",
"I like that you added silence to the beginning of the wave right before his reaction to the punchline.",
"Cause it looks interesting and obviously you know what it represents. You can look at it and remember what that laugh sounds like and the feelings it represents. Similar could happen if you got a tattoo of someone laughing, but this is more novel and minimalist.",
"essentially. i wanted to join the conversation but was afraid i had nothing to contribute.",
"Hello I also know about horse shows fellow horse show Redditor! I feel like they're should be some special call for us! ",
"Genuinely cuirous: are you mentally deficient?",
"People with tattoos get real sensitive about tattoos in general. They can get pretty culty about them too. When someone even whispers something negative about a \"serious tattoo\", many often lose their shit.",
"better than a shitty portrait",
"I wouldn’t worry. There’s something unique most of us remember about our parents. For my dad, it’s the sound of elephants attacking from civilization. He always played as a barbarian and it got to the point that I would tune out the sound (our family computer was in the main room of a 900 sq ft home, so you could hear anything on the computer st any time). He’s still alive, but I’ll never forget that sound and every time I hear it or really any elephants I think of my daddy. He’s still alive but I’m definitely going to get something elephanty to remember him. ",
"I know. The second I saw this my \"this will not age well\" alarm rang. Bold will hold.",
"Ah. No arguments, I see. ",
"The equivalent of “fake news” you might say?",
"r/totallynotrobots/",
"That's such a beautiful idea. Thank you.",
"Basically it could scan that image and play back the audio. Kind of useless.",
"Thats one of the most original ideas for a tattoo i've ever seen. Love that idea. ",
"The only reason this waveform has any significance is because the memory associated with it.\n\nAs long as you remember him, he'll be as eternal as OP's tattoo.",
"Me too",
"Thats a cool idea. Sorry about your dad.",
"Well. I appreciate your honesty then. Haha",
"The entire underside? No, you can see his girly peach fuzz along the left side.",
"You must get laid a lot. ",
"Man, I'm middle-aged. My days of pretending to be edgy probably finished before you were born! \n\nHowever, there was absolutely nothing wrong with my sentence.",
"Here you go OP, I've reconstructed the waveform back into an [audio loop](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s637-5A9Gro). ",
"If you press it, does it play?",
"So sorry to hear about your dad, but what an awesome way to remember him",
"Why would a person not be entitled to complain, and yet be entitled to posting crap content? ",
"The only way is really to do some legwork. Visit shops. Ask for portfolios of healed pieces. Most tattoos look great when first done. Its easy to get the ink in, harder to get it to sit well forever. \n\nKnow what you are looking for and ask for and look for artists that specialize in that. Dont go to a traditional color artist like sailor jerry was when you want to get a photorealistic greywash portrait. This is a key thing. Many of the top artists can do whatever you want but prefer certain styles. \n\nWord of mouth! Ask around! Go online and read reviews. Ask for pictures from people or to see their healed tattoos. \n\nLook for the shops with staying power. Since tattoos became popular, like you said, they are popping up on every corner. Look for artists that have been in the industry for years and decades. Look for shops with the same length of time. If a shop is 2 years old, but the artist is well known and been in the industry for 25 years, its pretty safe. And if they have been in the industry for 25 years, they should have an extensive portfolio to show you. \n\nConventions! Big conventions generally have great artists featured. And if shops have featured artists come in and do spot appearances, get those artists. They are the ones that travel due to demand.\n\nAlso look online for what the best artists put out. Many people dont even understand the differences between good and great tattoos because they see their friends or do specific google searches for basic ideas. Look up guys like roman abreggo, niko hurtado, andy engel, kirk alley, mister cartoon, bob tyrrell and sponsored artists from top brands like eternal, fusion, or intenze tattoo ink. Cheyenne hawk machine sponsors. And sullen art initiative artists are the best of the best. Just so you can see what amazing work looks like compared what is currently considered good in your perspective. \n\nThese are some basic tips and tricks to spot the better to best as opposed to decent to good. ",
"*Reads in sarcastic tone",
"The only way is really to do some legwork. Visit shops. Ask for portfolios of healed pieces. Most tattoos look great when first done. Its easy to get the ink in, harder to get it to sit well forever. \n\nKnow what you are looking for and ask for and look for artists that specialize in that. Dont go to a traditional color artist like sailor jerry was when you want to get a photorealistic greywash portrait. This is a key thing. Many of the top artists can do whatever you want but prefer certain styles. \n\nWord of mouth! Ask around! Go online and read reviews. Ask for pictures from people or to see their healed tattoos. \n\nLook for the shops with staying power. Since tattoos became popular, like you said, they are popping up on every corner. Look for artists that have been in the industry for years and decades. Look for shops with the same length of time. If a shop is 2 years old, but the artist is well known and been in the industry for 25 years, its pretty safe. And if they have been in the industry for 25 years, they should have an extensive portfolio to show you. \n\nConventions! Big conventions generally have great artists featured. And if shops have featured artists come in and do spot appearances, get those artists. They are the ones that travel due to demand.\n\nAlso look online for what the best artists put out. Many people dont even understand the differences between good and great tattoos because they see their friends or do specific google searches for basic ideas. Look up guys like roman abreggo, niko hurtado, andy engel, kirk alley, mister cartoon, bob tyrrell and sponsored artists from top brands like eternal, fusion, or intenze tattoo ink. Cheyenne hawk machine sponsors. And sullen art initiative artists are the best of the best. Just so you can see what amazing work looks like compared what is currently considered good in your perspective. \n\nThese are some basic tips and tricks to spot the better to best as opposed to decent to good. ",
"I find a bit enerving how these \"sound record\" tattoos have become popular and people believeing it's a real record, when in reality is just a fancy \"play button\" app with the shitty downside of having to make an stetically bad tattoo. \n \nSometimes I can't even make the price scanner read the bar codes in the supermarket, what makes you believe an smartphone can scan and decode a \"ultracompressed\" version of a sound record over skin? Cross your fingers so the app doesn't get obsolete in 10 years as well. \n \nI've saved one friend from doing this.\n\n",
">I said it didn't matter if he thought it wasn't heartwarming or adorable, because the tattoo isn't for him. Just as it's not for you.\n\nWhere did you get the idea that validity of this guys opinion relies on whether or not the OP gives a shit? It doesn't matter, he posted it to an online discussion forum, and everyone is allowed and encouraged to talk about the subject of said post. Whether or not OP likes it, gives a shit, or reads it. That's how this works. The subject matter of the post is up for discussion the minute OP decides to put it out here to this vast audience.\n\n>Well done on neanderthal though,\n\nDid you have to be taught what a neanderthal was recently? Is that a complex word for you or something? Maybe you really are one.\n\nAnd repeat it for me so I can make sure your ape brain actually understands the words that I'm typing.\n\nThe subject of the post is ____!\n\nOP decided to post his ____ so his ____ is up for ____!\n",
"God damn you for beating me to that clip",
"Exactly. You also only have the waveform on a set time point, so the sound coming from it would only be of one sample of the recording. To get the actual laugh you need all the samples. (44000 samples per second wouldn’t be strange) ",
"keep going",
"That's a good tattoo to get!",
"Very cool idea",
"Thank you! I also find this to be a very effective learning tool: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oo-jv70hzJc",
"I agree with 95% of that. But nowadays, and i dont do it becajse i dont trust it, but inks have alloys in them to make colors and some artists i have seen are able to mix a new ink with extra alloy in it so the magnetism(?) Of the alloy can be played. You are an audio engineer so im sure you know much more about the feasibility of this than i do but i do know its out there...online at least. ",
"Have you tried wet Willie's? ",
"Awesome! My dad had a great laugh, 2 years passed now and his birthday is tomorrow :'(",
"\"not to be that guy\"...\n\nthen DON'T be that guy. ",
"If Seth Rogan was a middle aged bald black dude then sure. Lol",
"I think there are ninjas cutting up onions in my office.",
"I think the most you can do is get a LOT of reviews. Because there's always gonna be idiots who think something is great when it might not be. Heck, there'll be people who like a tattoo artist simply because they're cheap or because they'll do the things the good artists refuse to do.",
"I think I'm going to tell my parents to call me and leave me a voicemail tonight, so if the worst happens, I'll have something.\n\nI dont have anything of them really, and I would hate myself if they passed before I could rectify the situation.",
"2 years this April. It gets better. You have some rough days. You'll always have some rough days. But it definitely gets better. ",
"Bread.",
"[OH NO!](https://i.imgur.com/P6XduSJ.gif)",
"Thanks smart ass.",
"Luckily I inherited my fathers distinct laugh. If he happens to pass before I do, all I have to do is laugh. 🤨",
"This is awesome. ",
"You uhh...you sound like you're being a little disingenuous there friend. ",
"I'd be honored to have a son that remembers me in such a way. Sorry for a true loss, but I hope other laughter lights your way.",
"HOLY FUCK! I was here when it had 31 upvotes! It actually went front page!",
"Imagine OP used the skin motion app to listen to the wavelenghts tattooed only to hear *\"never gonna give up..\"*",
"Amen. And i recommend waiting anyway. Im covered in tattoos i loved at 20-25 that i thought would be who i am my whole life. But its amazing how much a person changes. I was a violent felon in a 1% mc that did drugs and all that jazz. Im now reformed and have a family and kids and businesses and shit and the lightning bolts i got on the side of my head, that i took pride in as a young punk are now a form of embarrassment. I wont cover them just so i can explain to young folks the pitfalls of such stupid shit. Even things like quotes when going through a rough time will be regretted when life picks up and you have a 20 year run of heaven and that quote just brings you down because it was just a silly small moment in life. \n\nI tell young people, if you have an idea, hold onto it. If 5-10 years later, if its still the sole major thing in your life, get it. But most change their mind on it before then.",
"Went from praying to cursing. How typical. ",
"Your dad's laugh looks like the elders wand.",
"Yup. So many hacks in it for the money. When you get a tattoo, give that respectable good shop your money. They deserve it. And they sound quality.",
"what a great idea\n",
"An 8 year old can get a sex change but you want to question somebody's tattoo choices. Hmm.",
"[Darude - Sandstorm](https://imgur.com/a/ThxWB)",
"The one you got on your arm was his fake laugh.",
"Hey thanks, friend! And I will. I've made that mistake too many times. ",
"This looks like a job for AI",
"OP just wanted something to remember his Dad or honor him or whatever. At the end of the day who cares what people think. \n\nIs he really \"mourning\" just by getting a tatoo of his dads laugh? Just somethhing that he thought would be cool.",
"[Did he laugh like this?](https://youtu.be/vDMp3Q_gZoU)\n\n[Or like this?](https://youtu.be/fnfDXznMf0E)",
"I never understand why dipshit tattoo “artists” think it’s ok to tattoo lines this close together",
"I have been wanting a sound wave of my dad singing the lullaby I grew up on. Can you talk about the process for this? Did you print out the sound wave for them to copy? ",
"/u/alucardu is a Predator.",
"Mate, you started off with “if you’re trying to compare this tattoo and a swastika to prove an Internet point”, making an “if” statement with no actual follow up. Then you said “here’s an upvote too”, but you’re not even using the basic word of “too” correctly because it’s not in addition to anything...\n \nAnd you tie it up nicely with “you’re obviously needing it ;)”, which is like...okay if that’s the punchline, but...there’s no lead up to it, it’s just a disjointed fragment lol. \n\n\nYou’re middle aged and yet you don’t have basic writing skills. You’re either a liar or mildly retarded. ",
"you realize you literally just repeated exactly what he said, which you said was incorrect, right?",
"The location is terrible. From a distance it’s just going to look like a wrist cutting scar or something. ",
"And now you can hear him every time you jerk off.",
"this might be the first tattoo ever that makes sense to me and i like it. ",
"LOL\nAlso your username is awesome! ",
"That’s so fucking cool! I love it. I’m sure he would too. ",
"Ooh i looove elephants :) ",
"I’m really NOT that guy, but I am an audio engineer... so maybe I am that guy??",
"I don't hate myself. The sense of loss has been magnified by 100 times however. Gonna go dig through some old VHS for my sanity later. \n\n\nBut definitely talk to your parents while you still have time. ",
"Thanks for filling in a gap in my knowledge! This old audio engineer thanks you. ",
"and then they notice that it isnt a scar and it looks pretty cool? or they dont care if the tatoo can be covered by the clothing. job done.",
"Have you tried going back to digital to see how the tattoo sounds?",
"As someone who isn't close to either of his parents, I really hope either one of my kids cares this much about me. ",
"Remember kids it's not across the road it's down the slope!",
"You could have a high res image too, it still isn't translatable back to sound. This type of display contains no pitch data. You might be able to translate it into one note that rises and lowers in volume, but it would sound really terrible. I guess you might hear the rhythm of the laugh, but it's really just a levels display and there is so much more complexity sound outside of level.",
"I wonder if it's weird for him to masturbate with that hand.",
"Yeah you can, there’s an app that plays the tattoo sound waves. It’s fucking amazing.",
"That honestly makes me wanna cry.",
"Plenty of people, especially phoneticians (linguists who specialize in, broadly, the study and classification of speech sounds), could read this. I’m a different specialization in linguistics, but I‘m decent at reading waveforms (what the tattoo is) and it does indeed look like it’s laughter, something like <heheh ha ha ha...>. ",
"Your comment just made me realise that I've never considered whether digital audio is recorded using amplitude or frequency modulation. Can some explain this \"more better\"?",
"> Price should never be a concern. If it is, dont get tattooed.\n\nThis should be posted at every tattoo shop.",
"I apologize, in no way did I mean to insinuate that you should be hating yourself, I hope it didnt actually come off that way. My comment was directed at me and only me, since I have the ability to talk to my parents and if I don't before they pass, I would kick myself for never getting something with their voice, like a voice mail or a video.\n\nI'm terribly sorry if I insinuated that you should hate yourself. You shouldn't, at all.\n\n",
"That’s not true, there is an app that does that. I’ve seen it done a few times. ",
"Just used in on OPs tattoo. It says \"you're definitely adopted. Sorry this is how you find out.\"\n\nIt is fucking amazing!",
"I’m reading this as “he HEE he he hee” and that he was a very silly, silly man.",
"Mind sharing the app?",
"“Hardy har har har huehuehuehueheheheheeuhe”",
"It does work, there’s an app that does it. It’s amazing. I’ve seen it done in person (avid tattoo collector/friends of good and popular tattoo artists who try new and amazing things)",
"You can't create the same waves with your voice. You can create other sound waves, but not the same ones as a different sound. There is not nothing personal about this tattoo, that was a rude and incorrect statement",
"I am genuinely not",
"Yeah this is...as much as I appreciate the sentiment, this is bad.",
"Not exactly, what everyone pictures as the sound is more or less an envelope of the actual sound, similar to AM radio. But the truth is, it's been zoomed out too far, and if they were able to expand the waveform to view a much smaller period, all of the frequencies would be there, obviously you'd need a high/low/mid/whatever pass filter in order to actually extract any given range, but that's what waveforms do in a medium, they join up on each other and make what we commonly visualize as audio..\n\nBut like I said, what seems to be lost on the masses is the fact that it's not just the envelop that makes sound, it's the entire waveform and all its higher frequency components as well. ",
"I think I'd do my dad's sneeze. it would probably end up looking like a sleeve because he sneezes as loud as a jet engine.",
"looks like regret to me.",
"Don't sweat it, I get ya. TBH, Nerves were a little raw on my end anyway. Nothing like an ugly cry at work when you're a 6'3\", 220lbs IT guy. Yeehaw! ",
"Because the way reddit is structured:\nIt gives anyone the chance to post whatever they want as long as they obey to the subreddit rules. So OP is entitled by the Reddit itself.\nThe receiver of the content on the contrary is not entitled to receive material of consistent quality because they are not paying for the service and are not part of any contract with Reddit.\nIt seems to me one can do if they are dissatisfied with what they are receiving is to keep scrolling or contact the mods to kindly ask if they can add the rule \"no sob stories\". \nThis is the most objective way I can make my argument",
"Chopping onions. Tried and true low-risk, low-reward strategy for long-term shitposters.",
"Are you sure? I was skeptical too. https://youtu.be/lJsY1O-jU-s",
"Fuaaaark\n\nThis cunt lifts",
"Had my wedding ring made with my wife and i laughing at me being a doofus. Love the tattoo idea.",
"That's an awesome tattoo OP, and I'm sorry for your loss. I'm actually saving up for this exact type of tattoo in the exact same spot but it'll be a little bit bigger I think. It looks good!",
"Atta boy, I'm proud of ya, son.....I'm sure dad is too.",
"If I had reddit gold I would give you reddit gold. In any case, here is a consolation prize, Redditsilver!",
"I posted a more in-depth explanation farther up too, I think that nikolaibk misunderstood what I was saying though.. It's not that I'm wrong, I just didn't say the part they think is important (that waveforms are made up of much more components than just the envelope) ",
"That is really cool\n",
"PECKAZZZZZZ",
"Now imagine having sex with this guy and in the midst of it you see his dead dad's laugh. That's a buzz kill.",
"I've never once been to that site in my life, but every time I hear \"How should I find X in my city?\", it always wraps around to that site. I'm tempted to sign up for an account just for that reason.",
"Because the person with the tattoo knows that it's his dad's laugh. To everyone else it's just an audio signal, but to OP it's so much more. Obviously OP wouldn't just want some random dudes laugh on his arm.",
"You're avoiding the point. Users are entitled to leave criticism in the comments. ",
"This exact thing happened to me.. I ended up recoding the voicemail on another cell phone.. the quality is terrible, but I'm crying just thinking about his voice. https://imgur.com/xduL3Gd\n\nThis was for him. He didn't GO in a fire, but he was a firefighter",
"Love it.",
"What an awesome way to remember him. I love this idea so much. I bet everytime you see it, you hear him laugh. ",
"I like it, you my friend get an upvote. ",
"That app only recognizes the image and matches it with a stored audio file on their server. It would work exactly the same if you matched the audio file with an image of anything.",
"How’d that nigga die?",
"Should tattoo wife’s moans on my dick so I can hear her when jerking off",
"Should tattoo wife’s moans on my dick so I can hear her when jerking off",
"Imagine this in a full color spectrogram. So sick.",
"The app is simply matching a stored audio file that they keep on their server with the image/form of the tattoo that they also have stored on their servers. ",
"That is super touching. To anyone who would say getting a tattoo is destruction of the body, I would show them this.",
"I was gonna get Chewbacca’s laugh from Empire. \nYour’s is just brilliant sir. ",
"There is no frequency information contained in that tattoo, only the amplitude, so the answer to your question is no.",
"I'm not. Dude up there did not criticize or discussed the content of pic. \nHe / She criticized the service, which is what I reacted to.\nthen anybody is entited to their opinions about tattoos in this case and are free to express their preferences.\n\nSubjective opinion: whether they should or not in this case is open to debate, but that I can't discuss because it's subjective",
"Life tip for you: hit up Google when you don't know what you are talking about.",
"Their next version will likely allow you to associate an existing tattoo with a sound you upload.\n\nShoot them an email to ask for that feature.",
"Yeesh. You really don't enjoy being corrected, do you? It wasn't an insult, man.",
"This is so stupid ",
"There are actual tattoos out there that are worthy of all this attention. This is a nice idea, not a nice tattoo. Like the tattoo artist commented, those lines are not gonna look good 6 months from now.",
"I mean, we can bang bellies i guess.",
"But it's so easy to be an asshole on the internet. I've realized this anytime anyone on reddit mentions they have a kid then an army of shit hawks swarm in and shit all over the thread.",
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"If you read it backwards he's growling",
"thats metal as fuck",
"I’m not based ",
"yes",
"Glad to help :)",
"That is an amazing tattoo ",
"beautiful memorial idea",
"I have a piece of artwork hanging on my wall that I got as a gift for Christmas. it is my daughter (4 years old) saying \"i love you dada\" and looks like this, but on wood. It is the coolest gift ever. And I can use a QR reader on the back to play it any time i want. It is the little things like this that count. ",
"Looks like an infected failed suicide attempt.",
"*Hmm, after checking your comment history, I’m certain you have changed the comment in regards to the possibility of negative karma, check mate friend. In the future, Please be respectful when you provide feedback. It’s called constructive criticism.*\n\nNo, I don’t mind it. It’s how one goes about correcting another that I mind. I’m very confident you’ve changed your comment, but my original interpretation of your comment was that it was very rude. The original comment was, I’m pretty sure; *you shouldn’t use words you don’t know the meaning of*. That’s quite provocative IMO. It’s a way of belittling someone, trying to Make them feel dumb, shaming someone. Don’t play games with me boi. I’m sure you sensed the possibility of negative karma, and double backed and changed your stance. It’s cute. ",
"What a beautiful idea! ",
"Awesome! I have a similar tat in the same spot actually! It's of my youngest son saying his name and birthday. ",
"Pets, I don't think I'd ever regret a pet.",
"I'm afraid to say it, but whoever told you this was most likely joking.\n\nI can't even find a relevant google search to this, it jsut sounds like complete drivel.\n\nBeing magnetic or not does not allow it to hold any frequency information, we're not turning people into human tape machines here, as fun as it sounds people are not magnetic tape, and you can't tattoo magnetic tape onto people. It sounds like an interesting idea, but I don't think its entirely feasable, considering the fact that magnetic tape also got completely erased if it came in contact with another magnet.",
"You too?",
"I love it. \n\nA few years ago [I got one](http://imgur.com/QHmepK0) inspired by my dad as my first. \n\nHe was a musician, and he was the person who made music a part of my life but we differed in style. He played banjo and sang folk songs, I play guitar and sing and screamed in metal bands growing up. We found common ground in the song \"Turn The Page\" by Bob Seger. \n\nHe said Seger was one of the last \"folkys\" and he was a favorite of my dad's. On the other side I fell in love with the Metallica Cover (at 13-14 I didn't even know it was a cover until he told me). It was the last song we played together before he passed.\n\nIt took my a long time to move on, but I had to put the pain behind me. \"Turn The Page\" means more than just the song we shared, but it signified my beginning the new chapter of my life without him.\n\n(taken from my post and edited/clarified)",
"How? I feel like seeing some strangers opinion isn't going to get OP down. And if it does, my apologies but probably shouldn't post it on the internet. ",
"Can confirm; have small font quote tattoo that looks shit now.",
"Tsss Fawkyeaaa D^o^^oo^^^ooo^^^^d",
"https://youtu.be/ubVaqWiwGVc maybe it has nothing to do with the alloys. \n\nhttps://skinmotion.com yeah, its just the design.",
"Seems like he had a normal laugh, my dad is just hehehehe ***AAAAAAAAAAAAARGHHHHHHHHHH***",
"Great love my friend,I met my father 17 years after being alive, today i would prefer I would never met him, is a piece of shit. Salute to you who had a great father, jah bless you ",
"I remember that MagikarpUsedFly did a similar thing. ",
"I can't help but wonder if a future employer will think it's as cool as we all do.",
"And now your shoes are lookin cool",
"That's fucking really beautiful ",
"Bender is that you?",
"Curious what you mean by a quality artist will be able to fix it? I got a beautiful tattoo done by a really great artist, but these smallish(about 2mm) dots in a line have kind of blurred into each other. Are you saying there’s a way to clean it back up? How does that work? Sorry for the ignorance, I’m just genuinely interested!",
"Let's hope you wear long sleeved shirts for any future interviews, so they don't assume it's some stitch job from trying to slit your wrist",
"Just get out a pen and paper and start doing the Fourier transforms",
"Darrell. DAR-RELL.",
"yeah, esthetically is nothing special ok, even if well done anyway; but the reason why he made it and the idea behind it imho are just wow.. but that is as i said just my opinion ",
"Little tip: Don't assume everyone is as stupid as you. ",
"Yeah, you can only 'play' them as they store a database of photos people submit, and to trigger the soundfile all you need to do is match up a stored 'photograph' with your camera. As I mentioned in my comment, you could probably store a picture of any random object and if you line the camera up right, it will play the soundfile you stored with it.",
"= Please give me sympathy and attention ",
"What a great idea. ",
"I just thought it looked like he was trying to cover a failed suicide attempt. Your criticism is much better. ",
"I absolutely love this! It’s both meaningful and very cool looking. ",
"Yes. That's why it's so big. People dress to look appealing to others. You do too.",
"I thought it was the front/back cover to Life Is Killing Me by Type O Negative.",
"but its in the wrong fucking format.\n\n",
"I wish so bad I had a recording of my ex fiancés laugh now. She overdosed when she was 21 in 2011. ",
"I thought it was to cover a suicide attempt. ",
"Now that’s a tattoo with a real original tangible and durable meaning",
"I'm shocked that I have yet to see one person offer condolences. I'm so sorry for your loss, OP, especially consoldering your age. That kind of pain never leaves. I lost my dad a couple of years back and we were very close so I know how much it can hurt. This is a great homage to him. \n\n",
"It's beautiful how much you love your dad, I bet he was a great guy, may he rest in peace.",
"Imagine if your dad was Mandark.",
"No SO names, no swastika and no Taz. ",
"Wow. Finally tattoo ideas you *know* you won't regret",
"That was the first thought I had....knowing that tatoos don't age well.",
"\"HA HA HA\"",
"thank you buddy i appreciate it💕💕",
"Your dad laughs like a sodium doublet.",
"It just looks like giant stitches...",
"You should do an AMA. There's a Brazilian street artist named L7M and he does a lot of realistic work yet splatters of ink and circles. Some of it looks cartoonish while other parts look realistic and I'm worried about going to just anyone to get his work tattooed on me. Thanks for the tips! ",
"That’s fuckin dope.",
"you wont regret that in 40 years",
"If this tattoo came into my shop and was blurred together, id mix up ink that would match skin tone and lay some nice solid flesh tone lines between them. It seems like the guy who did this tattoo used a bigger needle than they should have as well. Id drop down to a single needle liner(1RL), which a lot of less skilled artists shy away from because it can slice like a razor. But with the 1RL, id feel a little more confident hitting most of the gaps. Id never break out a 5 or 7RL for the original or the fix up. \n\nAnd for yours, at 2mm, id do the same thing with a bigger liner and define the circles edge more with flesh tone. Once we get down into stippling which is basically just poking tiny dots, it gets a little more tedious and id probable just reverse stipple with the flesh tone. Just about anything can be fixed nowadays thanks to amazing inks and machinery that allows for crazy tiny tips on needles. ",
"Tbh the more I started thinking about it I was like: actually, you easily have blood types, allergies and next of kin details on a QR code and actually that'd be pretty awesome. Although it'd have to be a URL in case you needed to change your next of kin.",
"That tattoo looks stupid. Just sayin.",
"This is amazing. My father died, in 4 days it will have been exactly one year. I might do this as well.",
"Find a quality aretist and see if they can fix it with some flesh toned stippling. Many dont want to touch someones elses shit work cuz our name gets attached so they may just offer a coverup with the new font quote included in that. ",
"I have a barcode that over time turned into a blurred rectangle. Thin lines don't last long. \n\nGreat tattoo idea though. I hope it ages better than mine did. ",
"This is the first time I've ever heard someone recommend finding someone else on Instagram.",
"It's hideous. Just looks like permanent giant stitches. It's too big and crowded.",
"So if I want to be a successful tattoo parlor owner, I just need to charge a shit ton on money. Got it.",
"this is nice man sorry for your loss ! but if you think about it, this is only an abstract shape we create and add context to!! \nAnd nothin really matters we all die \n\nPeace\nLive long",
"Who's crying? I'm not crying, you are.",
"Doesn't the sound get all distorted if your weight changes? Or when you get old?",
"My dad passed away in 08. I might make an amendment to the tattoo that is in his writing. By that I mean add below it",
"HUUUUUUUU",
"https://media.giphy.com/media/Hu6zl8U7QdzPy/giphy.gif",
"She had the symbol for \"ka\" and the symbol for \"i\". One on each collar bone so it didnt look like it was supposed to go together.\n\nEdit: almost revealed it to her cause i was reading it and asked \"whats the rest say?\" And she said \"no thats it, it says love and hope\".... Lol",
"Is your dad Eddie Murphy?",
"I would but i try to remain anonymous because i say things on reddit that i dont discuss with clients. Things like politics and religion and shit like that. I always worry itd impact some clients view of me or make em go elsewhere because of difference of opinion. And also, i dont ever want anyone to think im a gloryhound or doing it for advertising. I like my 2 little holes in the wall. \n\nAnyone that wants can feel free to ask questions or pm to talk about anything though. ",
"It'd be sweet if you could scan it and have it play.",
"My shop does free therapeutic tattoos for shit like that and way beyond and id do better than black lines! The quakity artists love healing folks with our art. ",
"Wow, that is an amazing idea!\n\nWhat a beautiful way of remembering him",
"Thanks for taking the time to write this! After working at a shop for nearly 10 years I know it never really gets easy to tell someone their concept isn't going to work when it's something so sentimental. \n\nAs hard as it can be, it's imperative for people to be informed about these kinds of things and I appreciate that you're going out of your way to spread that knowledge! ",
"This made me cry. I love it so much. I just recently lost a good friend in a tragic car accident and all I can hear is his contagious one-of-a-kind laugh. \nThis is amazing. Thank you for sharing. ",
"Yeah, it was misrepresented to me and i never looked into it because its not my kind of thing. Seems like a fad. And now i know and its dumb. If the site goes down, i cant hear my tattoo and its just a blob of black people have to believe was a sound recording. I may do a small one on myself for shits and giggles but i appreciate you making me look into it more and for the clear explanation of the ideology behind this being flawed. ",
" This is very unique, I love it.\n\nNo, your English sarcasm radar is not going off.",
"Its a very delicate thing which i normally dont do very well. Im pretty rough around the edges. I just encourage people to get a beautiful design that symbolizes the loved one. Dont get names or anything. As you know, its a big taboo to artists. Tell me that your grandfather loved to make wine and lets get a vinyard on your arm or a empty chair with a bottle of wine on a small table next to it. Its very personal, its yours and only yours, and its beautiful art at the same time. This was hard because its an after its done comment and i can imagine it sucks reading it. ",
"My father died so young i don't even remember his laugh or voice. And no videos too.",
"And have a 200 page portfolio of amazing healed tattoo work. Simple enough.\n\nMaking money owning a shop is easy. Get great artists. The money fuckin rolls in.",
"On the grounds that reddit earns its ad revenue from its user count; when users complain about the content, they are helping reddit improve its content which in turn gets more hits. If users simply left without expressing why they dislike part of the site, reddit has less information with which to make improvements. Reddit earns money from these people; they don't owe this site one iota of gratitude for being able to use it.\n\nOr, because complaining is a basic human right. Many of the things we enjoy today were brought about because people initially complained about something, then some people made changes based on those complaints.",
"Hey drewsoulman or anyone, \nHow would I get a similar visualization of audio? I've wanted to do this for a friend of mine and was looking for a software recommendation. ",
"I'd like to think if you play the sound clip there a small laugh fart in there ",
"That sounds like great advice.",
"Yeah, but I always forget...",
"I'm just gonna put it out there that without a time axis, this could either be a hearty guffaw or a shrill cackle. ",
"[Soundwave Tattoos by Skin Motion](https://www.skinmotion.com/) is my friend's company. \nIt works by scanning THE IMAGE and associating the sound to the image and playing it back via the app.\n\nI would reach out to him to find out if you can associate an existing wav form tattoo with the sound it's describing.\n\n",
"That’s really awesome. It’s been 8 years for my dad, and I’m sad to admit I am barely remember his laugh... time is a crazy bitch. ",
"Wha! That is pretty lame then. Makes sense. All I imagine is being stuck somewhere, last moments of your life, \"all I want to hear is my fathers dying words...*scans arm* CANNOT CONNECT TO SERVER.\"",
"Then why put it on display like this when it only means anything to him? If it doesn't mean anything to anyone else why do they even need to see it? ",
"> rusty trombone\n\nI don't think that means what you think it means",
"It would be awesome if you could scan the waveform with a mobile phone and hear the laugh.",
"I love this so much. It's almost the 10 year anniversary of when my dad passed and it's hitting me hard. Today would've been his 61st birthday. I've always wanted to get a tattoo or something to remember him by but I was scared that constantly looking at it would make me sad. I really like this idea and the fact that it's such a happy thing. Thanks for sharing! ",
"There are a few gimmick things like this but they don't actually read the sound wave. They 'recognize' the image and then pull the audio file you provide to them from their servers and play it. It's a glorified QR code. I only know all this because I really thought the same thing and wanted to get a few, only to find out upon research.\n\n[Here's one company doing it](https://skinmotion.com/) (https://skinmotion.com/), note the nice yearly fees.\nAlso things like this >:|\n> Currently, the Skin Motion app will only play back Soundwave Tattoo if the user is logged in to their account and the Soundwave Tattoo is created and activated by that user. We are working on a feature that will allow a user who is logged in to play the Soundwave Tattoo of a logged-in user who is nearby and has an activated Soundwave Tattoo. Users will be able to make their Soundwave Tattoo 'private' if they do not want other users to be able to play it back.",
"Our chief weapon is surprise...",
"My mother has been in healthcare all her life and a lecturer. The day she passes, I want to do something meaningful with her last ECG strips and have the rhythms done in a meaningful way. I'm not a big tattoo person, but I do love art so I love this idea. ",
"Sick!!!!!!",
"true, but that wont matter though. True sound waves arent lines, they are actually smoother so maybe it would be even better if it did blend. *shrugs*",
"\"Are you still Christian? No? Oh man... I hate to do this ^^but....\"",
"Great idea!!",
"I just hope he’s left handed ",
"Thats dope. Thats a great way to remember someone. ",
"I came here for this explanation",
"Fuck QA work. This sounds like the move.",
"My dad passed away 3 years ago as well. Everyday it gets a little easier, but we never forget. Stay strong OP ❤️",
"Is it possible to take this image, clean it up a bit, and actually play it? is there enough information? I'm curious to hear what a hand drawn.wav file would sound like. Would this just sound like a tick?",
"hehe that made me lol. Well played. ",
"This is a fucking awesome idea. ",
"Its why i can sit on reddit now after all these years. I just had to earn the money for the shops by stabbing folks for a while. If you have the means, even shkt shops make decent money. Great shops make bank.",
"So sorry about losing your father, but the tattoo-idea is heartbreakingly fantastic!",
"Hahahaha its me dio!\n",
"For full party small talk points make it a pussy fart. ",
"I always wanted to do a tattoo like that with the voice of my mother. Unfortunately I never found any audio or video of her that I could use.",
"bro thats just a bunch of lines i dont hear shit",
"It made me laugh to look at it... Haha... It even makes me feel the joy whenever I see it...! ",
"If I told my dad I was doing that he'd give me the stencil for a sound profile of his fart or something ",
"How did you get this on an audio bar?",
"How do you get something like this done? I have vhs tapes of my father but nothing passed that.",
"I've been wanting to get my hands tatted. My arms are covered in non-shop ink. And I've been thinking about get my hands done in an actual shop. What you said is right. I'm going to pay and have a good tattoo. Thanks",
"Audio engineer here, this is actually the only true way to get the intended pure audio out of this tattoo. ",
"But, this is nothing like what the soundwave looks like anyway. Even if all of the linework is indistinguishable in a few years, why does it matter if it blurs together into a still-recognisable waveform?",
"I'll take a shot. Encryption has no place here, first of all. It scrambles the data to make it nearly impossible to decipher without the key. It would take so much time to randomly end up with something pretty. Same goes for compression. The bits in a zip file are no prettier than he bits of the uncompressed data.\n\nAnd think about how many bits it takes to display a KB. Now think of how many KB are in the laugh sample.\n\nIt's too much.",
"Good point. \nI would completely agree with you if Reddit produced its own content. \nIn this case, Reddit is an aggregator that distributes user generated content for everybody to see and enjoy. In this case, is the complaint against the generator or the aggregator? How's the blame distributed and perceived? Does the generator deserve a public critique? As a Reddit user, where do you stand? And since you are bringing human nature in: is it fair to shut down a kid who lost his dad because one is not entertained enough?\nI'm not trying to be difficult but at this point I'm interested in the debate",
"My friend got this exact same tattoo so I want to say you stole it but that’s definitely not his arm. That’s awesome and such a great way to remember him. ",
"Downsampling is a thing.",
"What the fuck did you waste my time for? I never said any thing about a sex change, an 8 year old or a tattoo choice. ",
"That is such a wonderful way to commemorate him.",
"I too, have something similar. Great idea. Always makes me smile to look down and see him \"saying\" that he loves me. It gets easier. Lost my dad two years ago at 18 and it isn't a pain I would wish upon anyone. (https://i.imgur.com/hDjbPKw.jpg)",
"Ha HA ha..ha..ha...",
"You can. That's literally what these tattoos are for. ",
"i hate to rain on all the positivity but i think waveforms are very inadequate visual representations of audio, especially with sentimentality in mind like in this case. they only show amplitude, not frequency, timbre, or texture, which is what we really think about when we remember someone's voice.",
"Funny, I saw this before ",
"I've seen these kinds of tattoos used as a kind of augmented reality thing. The person uses the phones camera to play the audio represented by the image. Very cool",
"Y u make me cry",
"I hate to be this guy but if the app only views the wavelength shape and then plays the recording why make the wavelength so fucking big. These tattoos are a neat idea but good god are they ugly.",
"I plan on just covering it up with a sword (it's a quote about swords lol)",
"May will make ten years since I lost my dad, this is beautiful!",
"oh",
"I'm cry 😢😢😢",
"[Lower in the thread /u/MangusEE recommended getting a tattoo of a frequency spectrum instead,](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/7x9cq3/for_my_18th_birthday_i_got_a_tattoo_of_my_dads/du6vh8o/?utm_content=permalink&utm_medium=front&utm_source=reddit&utm_name=pics) since you sound like someone who has knowledge on the subject, is that something that could work as an alternative? I'm asking this as someone who has no idea what the difference between a waveform and a frequency spectrum is. This is just an incredible idea, and I would love to know if there is maybe a realistic alternative to making it work.",
"So cool! I love that",
"What an awesome tribute. So sorry for your loss. A school pal of mine lost his dad when we were 14 so I sort of know how devastating that can be. Still, if he's in your heart..... (and on your arm).",
"This, unlike the tattoo artist's comment above, isn't a constructive criticism.\n\nBecause tattoos are never what they are portraying to be. Like that painting from Magritte of a pipe and a text below, in french, saying \"This isn't a pipe\".\n\nWho cares that it isn't the factual representation of someone's voice? It is a symbol that represents it. A tattoo of a bird is not a bird, it is a drawing representation of a bird. And this is an abstraction of OP's dad. It is a symbol that OP thought to represent the voice and laugh of a loved one, which he cares a lot and wanted to embed this symbolism in his skin.\n\nYou not liking it is one respectful thing. You trying to justify with your background in audio engineering is a bit too much.",
"I wonder if there's a way to scan that tattoo, so that we could hear the actual laugh?",
"Lmfao this comment out of the whole chain made me audibly laugh. ",
"My dad passed when I was 4, I am in the process of finding his signature to have tattooed on my left arm.\n\nHe was born lefty, but due to that being seen as a bad omen in Greek, he was forced to use his right hand for everything. ",
"I waited years trying to find the right artist. Distance was never a problem for good ink. Now my artist is one of my best friends ",
"Wow! This one hit me hard. What a beautiful idea. ",
"I just lost my Dad hardest thing that's ever happened to me. Sorry for your loss and good to see you dealing with it in a healthy way. God Bless",
"I know someone who did this with their brothers laugh",
"This one made me tear up a bit.",
"Every SoundCloud rapper",
"There's an app that does that, but I'm not sure if it works with any type of tattoo. \nhttps://skinmotion.com/",
"As a guy who wants a tattoo but dont know what or how yet i was hoping you could give me some pointers.\n\n1. How do i know of a tattoo artist is of the right quality?\n\n2. What should i look for at the tattoo shop fpr signs of professionalism and quality?\n\n3. What should a quality tattoo cost?\n\n4. What should i avoid as a motive to preserve a good looking tattoo for as long as possible ",
"Make sure youre comfortable with career. We call em jobsstoppers as im sure you know. And yeah, find someone that does hands. The thin skin is prone to blowouts.",
"I disagree with u/HGvlbvrtsvn's negative take on this, but I think there should be some reassurance in the fact that the definition of the lines serves no purpose except for aesthetics. In fact, a true waveform of the laugh just wouldn't look like that - the individual vertical lines are too far apart, making the literal interpretation of the waveform a very deep bass noise with no mid-high frequency content.\n\nJust as a tattoo portrait of a loved one won't give you a kiss, a waveform won't play back to you - but it visually captures something that was meaningful when it made its visual mark all the same. Sure you want to make sure you like how it looks as it ages and choose appropriately but I don't see why someone can't love a blurry but recognisable tat.",
"i believe these already exist and yes, requires the sound file.",
"Very creative! ",
"This isn't correct, all the information you need to reproduce sound is a high resolution waveform. That's why it's possible to listen to a record which is binary information. ",
"Well...that's a massive red flag...",
"Someone should take a picture of this, and have a computer program scan it, then we can all hear OP's dad's laugh. ",
"This. This is such a fucking awesome idea! I'm going to respectfully steal it.",
"My dad doesn't laugh. ",
"Understood. And this can be easimy fixed if it does blur together. Some simple fleshtone linework between the blurred lines and tts back to form. ",
"typically the heartbeat of a person who has already passed is a very uneventful line on the oscilloscope\n",
"Brilliant",
"You gotta set an alarm\n\nMay 12thish\n\n745 wake up\n\n830 shower\n\n925 Spanish inquisition\n\n1130 lunch.",
"I'd do that but it would be our cat's meow or purr...\n",
"You said \"it's not a sound, it's a waveform!\". It's not because it's a waveform, it's because it's a low resolution waveform. ",
"i could essentially get a tattoo of a frog and open an app to play a sound when i point at it. that's what this is.",
"Hey man Im sorry about your dad. I have a forearm scar that looks like his laugh though. https://m.imgur.com/a/rkwSs",
"Right nkw im about to log off and get some ink in at the shop but i promise when i get back on ill answer your questions. It may be a message instead of comment but itll be there at some point today. In the meantime, i posted up some ways to find quality shops and artists below. But ill get into the last 2 questions when i get back. ",
"It’s the same reason why I have my name tattooed on my arm",
"That one uses the shape of the waveform or tattoo almost like a QR Code which it then retrieves the audio from a web server. It's not actually playing the audio via the tattoo.\n\n\"Once the Artist does the tattoo, a photo of the tattoo is uploaded to our platform. Our platform processes the audio and tattoo and adds it to the app. When the user opens our app and points the camera on their mobile device at the tattoo, it recognizes the shape of the Soundwave and plays back the audio.\"",
"Hormonal imbalance",
"That's beatiful. It makes me wish I had done it. All I had of my dad other than a handful of pictures was a recording (cassette tape), and that was lost in a move. He killed himself when I was a year old.",
"It's pretty obvious that I was inferring you were having a a bad day if you were trying to compare such disparate things things in that way. \n\nYou're being deliberately obtuse.",
">30\n\ntry 4. ",
"Always remember and tell people, a picture is worth a thousand words. So unless you are getting that many words in that area, a design is the way to go. Quality artists dont do tattoos. We do art and tattooing is our media. Maybe even have the quote wrap around the grip to incorporate it. Im not against words in pieces completely. Im just against words being the complete piece. ",
"You know, it's never too late to have the same exact tattoo put onto your dad. Might cost extra the longer you wait tho. ",
"Once you start telling your own dad jokes, his laugh will live on. :)",
"Sir, that is probably the best tattoo I'll ever see. First time I've ever seen that. Hats off to you. I can still hear my dad's laugh sometimes, it's the most real memory of him I have (I don't have a mind's eye to see images of him, but I can hear him when I think about his laugh. Do you mind if I copy this idea? ",
"Thanks. Not sure why I got down voted. It’s not wrong to say the local shop is the best shop. Depends where you’re from. ",
"Tattoo actual doesn't correlate to any sound.\n\nTattoo lines will blur and mend within a couple of years depending on sun exposure.\n\nYou're going to be a looking at a blurry messy line on your forearm in a couple years. Find a better way to remember someone. ",
"Damn, I just laughed out loud in my uber from this.",
"Also what happens if the app this works with stops working? Is this really a universal sound signature?",
"Yeah, it was just my first tattoo and I didn't really wanna risk getting a bigger piece that I would hate later on (hahaha irony) but now that I have a few tattoos after that one I started realizing my mistake.",
"Because then it will be a blurry mess instead of a crisp, solid tattoo. ",
"Appreciate that but others more knowledgeable than me say it can't be done.",
"And so the salad fingers fandom begins",
"It sure is! Not sure what you're trying to say with this comment though..",
"Dude you think Neanderthal is some complex term? lol",
"Great idea. I like it.",
"It wouldn't. Take this picture and run a few pixel Gaussian filter in Photoshop.\n\n",
"People commenting can say what they like about how much they hate or like it, even whether OP is a dick or not for getting it, that wasn't my point. \n\nSaying \"it isn't heartwarming\" simply makes no sense, because it isn't meant to be heartwarming for *us*. \n\nIf he'd said \"I don't find it heartwarming\" that would be completely fine. \n\nAs to *neanderthal*, I said \"well done\" because I was implying *you* had just learned it recently, hence the bit about school just a couple of words later.... Hardly a zinger I know, but I'm surprised you didn't pick up on it ;) \n",
"Could this be rendered through a clear photo somehow?",
"So stop paying and you just have useless squiggles on your person.",
"> It scrambles the data to make it nearly impossible to decipher without the key\n\nThat might be a desired feature. Why would I want anyone else to read my tattoo data? I'd say encrypted tattoo would be pretty neet. \n\n> It would take so much time to randomly end up with something pretty.\n\nWould look hardly any different from raw or encoded bits. \n\n> Same goes for compression. The bits in a zip file are no prettier than he bits of the uncompressed data. \n\nLess bits = lets skin needed.\n\n> And think about how many bits it takes to display a KB. Now think of how many KB are in the laugh sample.\n\nI mean you have a lot of space to work here, you have color and 2d space. Surely you could come up with encoding to fit couple of kilobytes. \n\nI think it would be doable, though it really depends on what are you are expecting - it's definitely not gonna be a reliable data storage medium, but it can look cool and still remain functional, at least in theory.\n",
"What did the tattoo artist think when you brought a pic of your dad's laugh to him?",
"I know I do, bit that isn't being narcissistic, it's virtually the opposite. \n\nNarcissists think they're the centre of the universe, wearing a t-shirt in the hope of meeting like-minded people is an inclusive thing. ",
"Go for it! sorry to hear about your father ",
"Why does it seem that a disproportionately high number of people can't spell \"regret\"?",
"Indeed, the binary information describing a sampled waveform which you can find in a .wav file is enough to reproduce the sound.\n\nBut on the tattoo, what is represented is the energy of the signal and some information is lost. This representation is wildly used because somewhat understandable by humans. You can easily see where the sound is loud or not.",
"Really sorry. Glad you have a good support network though. ",
"That and don't get a fucking portrait tattooed on you unless the artist is incredible",
"Wow that’s so interesting! Thanks for sharing your insight. Is there a benefit to this approach instead of just trying to laser remove some areas? I’m assuming the resolution of a laser removing system isn’t nearly as fine as the needles you could use. Would there be any concern of the flesh tone ink bleeding the opposite way and blurring the rest of the good tattoo left? Sorry for the ongoing questions haha. You just explain things well! I’m really interested to see some of your work now. ",
"can you input this ina computer and have it generate a laugh that sounds like the person who made the wave length?",
"Still not getting it, huh? Don't know what to say, so I'll not bother...\n\nHave a good night man.",
"Commercial audio engineer here. That's actually the sound of two monkeys fucking. Whoever gave you that played quite the joke on you.",
"> a more straight-on photo of the tattoo\n\nDone\n\nhttps://i.imgur.com/g2b67oB.png",
"Isn’t there an app out there that will play back audio waves?",
"This is so cringey",
"Wow, thank you for the detailed length analysis !\n\nI did my work and tried to reconstitute the sound from the printed waveform (energy of the raw signal). I transformed a laugh wave file into it's energy representation and generated the sound from it.\n\nHere's the original : https://drive.google.com/open?id=1Rnj74VGV5Ej6i3OQbCvYHpmzHBpd8qP_\n\nAnd here's the signal that would be printed on the tattoo with the resolution you gave (with greatly decreased volume in order not to blow up your ears) : https://drive.google.com/open?id=1iU3l_8NZSNKBwSb_I40bjynD7uiTR3fX\n\nBut there's a more clever way to reconstitute the original from the energy. You need to take the square root of it! Here's the closest reconstitution you can have (with original volume) : https://drive.google.com/open?id=1wqVQhTEpF3-9utOuQRzFVO3pMuXqe5i7\n\nOriginal audio from https://freewavesamples.com/woman-laughing\nScript : https://drive.google.com/open?id=1jc5881mxr5uYl2omKLe793hZTnUhNhx8",
"I'm hugging my dad next time I see him ",
"Is this not what that is? Genuinely curious. ",
"Wow what a bad ass you are. Telling people what to do on the internet. ",
"No, this is a time signal. ",
"No it's not! It is a genuine \"QR code for audio\". Sound is synthesized from reading the image -- it is not some table lookup on a server.",
"A crucifix is just a cross made to look like the wood structure that Jesus was hanged, tortured and died. Still people use it to remember him even though the meaning is terrible and it doesn't even looks good. \n\nOP just picked something to remember his dad. He's not going to play his tattoo.",
"Coo.",
"Blowout is the ink coming out?",
"r/grief",
"so dope.",
"u/jax3rir did the maths, and the tattoo would need to be 8.82 meters to have the standard resolution using the smallest cotton needle on the market.\n\nYet, this doesn't represents the waveform, but it's energy. You can try to reconstitute the original signal from it but it will be slightly altered. I ran the experiment with this file : https://freewavesamples.com/woman-laughing.\n\nWhat you could get closest to the original from this representation would be this : https://drive.google.com/open?id=1wqVQhTEpF3-9utOuQRzFVO3pMuXqe5i7\n(It is the square root of the energy, which is the squared signal)",
"Ok man, first, I'm sorry for your loss. Second: That's a super legit reason to get a tattoo! I see people getting tattoos of shit that will fade out in a few years and then they are left with this jumble of sacred geometry and animal deity heads that probably mean nothing to them. \n\nSo kudos for not being a fucking stereotype. 10/10.",
">As to neanderthal, I said \"well done\" because I was implying you had just learned it recently, hence the bit about school just a couple of words later....\n\nNo I got that. The point is that usually you save those grade school level insults for words that are actually rare and complex. For you to think Neanderthal qualifies says more about you than me.\n\n>Saying \"it isn't heartwarming\" simply makes no sense, because it isn't meant to be heartwarming for us.\n\n>If he'd said \"I don't find it heartwarming\" that would be completely fine.\n\nFair enough, have a good one.",
"Wow man. That's awesome. I lost my father 3 years ago in May but I was much older than you and it still wrecked me. At 15, I don't know how I would've even processed it. Very nice tribute and pretty dang original imo. Keep your head up",
"That's pretty awesome",
"I already have a tattoo for my mom on my ankle. I think I may need to record her laughing to add to it. Thank you for the idea!",
"No you have a bunch of squiggly lines on your arm",
"Exactly. Very original and classy. I bet the tattoo artist was stoked to get something like this instead of some old English biblical quote (not that that is a bad thing, just an example).",
"Thats dropout. A blowout is when it spreads past the line under the skin and is blurry. And its so close to bone so it is much more likely. Dropouts and blowouts both. A lil too deep or a lil too shallow and you get one or the other.",
"Lazer is a big process and not very precise. And its expensive and painfull. Much moreso than tattoos. And there is a possibility of the fleshtone bleeding but to go over the bleeding of the dots, we sit on top of that ink so the bleeding(blowouts) are much less likely. ",
"I usually look to pay $100/hr in the US, is that enough? ",
"I prefaced my comment with my lack of knowledge on the matter. Usualky that incinuates someone should look into it more. The knowledge that some artists make their own ink with extra alloys is a fact. The use in the process of sound tattoos is where the lack of knowledge resides and it was clearly stated. ",
"Yes, it just wouldn't sound a lot like a person laughing. But you would hear the rhythm of his laugh at least. Though you'd have to guess at the speed.",
"I upvoted you to even it out. I dont downvote if its reasonable dialogue and i believe yours was. I totally agree with you that sometimes the local shop is the best shop. I think people downvoted because they assume you meant research wasnt being done into the other shops in the area. Reddit being reddit. Shit, anyone who lives within a few miles of my shop may consider my shop the local shop and the best shop. ",
"Sweet az! ",
"Your arm looks like Frankenstein now.",
"Edgey ",
"Brilliant!",
"Makes sense. Thanks again, kind redditor!",
"So real experience with hand tattoos is definitely a must. Thank you",
"Hey OP, thanks for posting this. It's pretty awesome. My dad has cancer right now and he is doing well but only has a few more years, (according to his doctors). I'm spending time with him as much as I can right now and it's been good. I just want you to know that I may do this as well. You have inspired me. Thanks. ",
"I don't yet have any tattoos but I follow some local artists and shots for this very reason. Too figure out whose work I really like for when I get my own",
">as an audio engineer \n\nOh boy, here we go\n\n> this tattoo is meaningless, from a functionality standpoint.\n\n*All* tattoos are nonfunctional, and most require context. They aren't a decoration to impress you, the \"audio engineer\". Are you too emotionally retarded to understand that this is a symbol? The guy misses his dad, and this is a medium of expression and remembrance for a lost loved one.\n\nIf you wouldn't make fun of someone's casket at a funeral, you shouldn't criticize a tattoo in memoriam.",
"you are again repeating exactly what he said. are you just being a troll at this point?",
"As someone who also lost their father within the last several years, this is a truly brilliant idea. My plan for a memorial tattoo for my father was to get a photo of my father tattooed within the ribbon of esophageal cancer since that’s what claimed him 5 years ago. However what you’ve done never even occurred to me. My condolences for your loss, but I must in the same breath congratulate you on an exceptional idea to keep your father close no matter how far away he is.",
"That's fucking deeeeeeeeeecent of your shop. ",
"These tattoos are fucking retarded, and you will absolutely regret such a trendy thing. ",
"He cares what people think, that's my point. He doesn't have the strength or wisdom to keep this to himself and close acquaintances, so he farms it out to strangers, in public and on the internet.\n\nIt is *grotesque*, and all the more so because it's mainstream, this compulsive need to have every emotion publicly and fetishisticaly validated. \n\nYou know, I was at a close relatives funeral yesterday. I didn't post it on instagram or facebook to farm sad face emojis from loose acquaintances. I didn't and won't write some clickbait horseshit about this persons life. It's a miserable culture that only knows caricatures of grief, and runs from the very idea of quiet contemplation. It disgusts me, and OP should *not* be encouraged.",
"Its not unreasonable. Location of the artist impacts a lot. I average about 150/hour. Im in ny/nj though so its a little more pricey than the midwest. Size of piece is a determining factor too. Artists like paul booth charge 300/hour minimum and bob tyrrell is about 200/hour minimum but they get to be 2 or 3 times that price. Bob tyrrell is my favorite but is in michigan and paul booth is a top 10 guy but is in philly. Thats how we can see the price difference. If im doing a sleeve or back piece, the rate is lower because its a lot more hours. Appoittments and prior clients get better rates than walk ins. Then there are complete ripoffs like kat von d who charges a minimum of 200 but usually is about 400/hour and is overrated and ami james charges 500/hour and again, is overrated. Price is flexible when determining quality. Sometimes you get lucky and find a great up and comer for 80/hour. \n\nThe thing to remember is that the artist usually gets 50-70% of the money. So if someone charges 100 for an hojr long tattoo, their rate is probably around 60/hour but they have to pay the shop. ",
"I would hope he doesn't wear short sleeves to an interview with or without tattoos",
"I'm not crying, you're crying.",
"Dad joke?",
"maybe... it would have been a cooler post if she brought it up.",
"yeah man, I love this new tatto trend, some german youtuber lefloid also, has one where his girlfriend says some sentence he doesen't know about. So romantic.",
"edge",
"We are not the only ones and there are some organizations out there specifically dedicated to matching artists with people for these causes. Usually they are more along the lines of surgery scars or burns and things like that. Ive been able to do 8 mastectomy coverups, 4 nipple reconstructions, and 6 burn coverups. Always free or at a steep discount of a donation. I wish more people knew about the options they have with these issues!",
"Often thought if a memorial tattoo idea for my Da who passed away, unfortunately he died in 1999 so no voice/video recordings. I really like the idea though 👍🏻",
"That is really nice. Although I think it could use a frame or smth around it and maybe a short text. Like \"Remember\" etc. Nevertheless this by far the most amazing thing I have seen. I am sorry for your loss and hope you're doing well.",
"so why the inner foreaem vs maybe chest/shoulder/outer forearm?",
"I like the thought behind this one regardless of how it looks according to tattoo taste law. But feel free to keep being a dick.",
"Well you seem to believe that no one thinks they can scan soundwave tattoos, when Google will prove you wrong with little effort. Sooooo....someone here is stupid and I can promise you it's not me.\n",
"I will always carry the smell of boiled eggs around with me.",
"Meh! Technology is advancing way way past ancient tats. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpwR2qBOv1o\n\nWith a little EDTA and a version that has some current to goose the ink under the skin, you could do anything from permanent tats, to temporary touchups, or something that will go away in a few months. \n\nPersonally I think that people who've gotten into overkill mode with getting a new tat every month are gonna look like the indecision ink monster when they hit their 60s and get kinda saggy. :D Probably nothing is going to be much help for them. Outside of maybe, shaving off all their old skin, and recoating em with new skin out of the tanks. \n\nAnd then, 2 months, and insane amounts of pain later, the idiots will go back to getting new tats. \n\n",
"Damnit, got me on that one. Too many feels, aisle 3!",
"Can you play it from a picture of it ? I think it's possible !\n\nEdit: I found [this Youtube video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbKIayyZclw). But I think it doesn't play from the actual tatoo. It just recognize which tatoo it is and plays the audio from another source.",
"A scar would be skin colored, this would not fade to be a skin colored line. And it would probably be easy to touch up.",
"I agree. I was actually surprised you could see the individual lines. Using the envelope only when touched up would be absolutely fine. ",
"No one gives a shit",
" This is so heart wrenching and heartwarming; I'm sorry you lost your dad. What a fantastic way to immortalize him though.",
"And they don't usually laugh, either, but here we are.",
"It says, \"soup\". ",
"Tacky",
"she's a young girl with a normal arm you fucking neckbeard shut in",
"One of the coolest tattoos i have ever seen, I am not a tattoo fan but this makes me rethink my stance.",
"Wait for technology to catch up is resolution is a problem. https://www.wired.com/2016/05/get-ready-world-covered-electronic-paper/\n\nMinimum 10 years though. You'd need the color spheres injected at different depths, and then a means of reorienting them as needed when you wanted a picture formed. If you had extensive work done like that, you can figure on a full body MRI causing you a TON of irritation to re-code all your tats. :D ",
"Must have been an easy 200 bucks for that tattoo artist. Look up a picture of a soundwave, tattoo it relatively similar to it, there ya go.",
"That is a really good idea",
"Are there any apps that turn a waveform such as the tattoo into a sound? Wouldn’t a qr code to an actual clip be better?",
"you had it before getting the dopey tattoo, numb nuts. ",
"Right, what you're saying is that it's too low resolution to the point that it just looks like a big fat wavy block. If this were stretched out hundreds of miles it would be high enough resolution to read. So, with infinite resolution it would be possible to print and read. ",
"I love this! I so wish I had a recording of my father's voice still. Sometimes I wonder if I remember the sound of it correctly, or if it's changed over time since his passing in 2009. ",
"Looks like Alethi womens script.",
"Nice tattoo but the placement looks like you are trying to cover up something... Down the road not across the street kids. ",
"All tattoos are stupid....that’s extra stupid",
"You know what they say about assumptions lol",
"And now whenever you fuck up, pops will laugh at you. ",
"Daisy, Daisy",
"So i spent the past couple of minutes to try and convert this picture into an audio format in the best possible way. unfortunately the picture you took is in super low resolution which is not ideal for this kind of thing. also, either you are bending your arm or the tattoo is not actually 100% straight. also i don't know how long the original sound actually was but here is my best try: https://clyp.it/1akrie2g\n\n\n*note that waveforms have at least like 10 thousand of these little lines per second of audio so the quality is shitty either way with these few lines*",
"Awesome!",
"Do you have a recording of his laugh? You can create a link in a tattoo and hear it using your smart phone. \n\nAnyway, awesome way to remember your father, bro. ",
"We’re twins bruh! https://imgur.com/a/kcGl7",
"Hahahaaa",
"Ok that’s cool ...",
"Very original!",
"He will always be with you, you will always remember him whenever you see the tattoo.",
"My dad died about 8 years ago, I'm going to try my hardest to find a recording of his laugh now.",
"You literally commented to me talking about it's not an artists job to baby sit someone on their tattoo choices, to which I then was showing you that if in many societies today they allow little boys to decide to get their balls chopped off. That I'm sure a tattoo isn't heavy on the list of important things to moderate.",
"You just gave me an idea for my next tattoo. I'll have to hunt through old family video, but my dad used to call me \"Boo.\" That's probably the best way to keep someone in your memory.",
"No. I commented on the artist being a douche for doing the tattoo. I did not comment on her decision to get it. I'm sorry you chose to get your balls chopped off.. but I didn't comment on that either. Fuck off. ",
"I got my one and only tattoo when I was 19 (I'm 26 now) and I've regretted the decision for the longest time. I also won't get it removed because it's a symbol of the person that I used to be. One day, when I have a solid idea, I'd like to expand it and improve upon it to make it something more meaningful, but until that day comes I won't bother with it at all.",
"This looks like that scene from family guy where Herbert pinches himself when Chris wants to live with him",
"Your dad was the joker?",
"Oh... this is gonna be a blurry mess in a few years. Nice sentiment, though.",
"hell yeah!",
"That's lame. somebody's gotta paint that waveform into audacity and hear what it sounds like and upload it. (I know one of the audio tools allows painting waveforms)",
"That’s exactly right. These waveforms are essentially only acting as, say, QR codes to reference an audio track...it just so happens to be the timeline of amplitude, but doesn’t contain enough data to be an actual audio file itself.",
"That is a brilliant, beautiful idea.",
"> I don't think that means what you think it means\n\nYes... I do... he'd be jerking off some dude while enjoying his taint... hence, the mother laughing.",
"Eh, I’m getting older.. \nAfter your first child it’s kind of like work most nights, anyway.",
"Good tattoos don’t exi-",
"Yeah I had no idea this was a thing. ",
"Little naughty farties.",
"But why",
"My tattooist just moved up north. I’m kinda too lazy too look for another, she was the best and I only knew her as Mum. Vancouver is a huge city. ",
"Welp no luck with the picture and now my sister isn’t talking to me, she’ll get over it. Sorry to disappoint.",
"Is there an app that lets you scan these and play them back?",
"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDMp3Q_gZoU",
"Yeah but the heartbeat isn't real. Nobody's heartbeat looks like the way they do in the tattoos when they really die.",
"That's an awesome idea.",
"I mean, try 6 months. Human skin is stubborn and has a will of its own. I would assume that it's important to OP that this represents and respects his father's memory - which is super sweet - the last thing you want is for his tribute to look like shit. ",
"> and the execution is good\n\nA lot of the lines aren't even straight :(\n\nI love the concept though, albeit not great for tattooing.",
"Cool. Very original idea for a tribute. Well done. ",
"Torsades!!! Magnesium is needed! 🤪",
">Oh boy, here we go\n\nWhat? I can't use my professional trade or area of study as a point of reference for my argument? Yeah, nah. I think I can, I'm more qualified than you, and a lot of others in this thread to talk about what I'm criticizing in this situation.\n\n>All tattoos are nonfunctional, and most require context.\n\nSwing and a miss. Tattoo's don't often provide context as usually their aesthetics explain them to a huge degree. That isn't the case here - You have the aesthetics of a waveform, but a lot of people are delusioned (As seen in this thread) that a waveform holds much more information than what they believe, because they're clueless.\n\n>Are you too emotionally retarded to understand that this is a symbol\n\nAs I mentioned in my post, Obviously it's still the waveform of his dad saying something, doesn't mean I can't critique it as being an (aesthetically, it's also common as fuck) shit tattoo and that waveform literally 'means' nothing from an information standpoint.\n\nMy sole argument here was to debunk the fact that a waveform indicates nothing at all. It's a shit tattoo that is literally everywhere, I'm allowed to make fun of it.\n\n>If you wouldn't make fun of someone's casket at a funeral, you shouldn't criticize a tattoo in memoriam.\n\nI'm not shitting on OP's reasoning for getting a tattoo - I'm shitting on the fact it's a shit looking tattoo in which he is tricked into thinking it has more audible feasibility than it actually does. \n\n",
"You can quit doubling down on your stupid comment now. \n\nWe get it. You're stubborn. \n\n",
"> In fact, a true waveform of the laugh just wouldn't look like that - the individual vertical lines are too far apart, making the literal interpretation of the waveform a very deep bass noise with no mid-high frequency content.\n\nBut there's no frequency data in a simple waveform such as this at all, you've completely missed the point. You're simply measuring amplitude with waveforms such as this, that's it.\n\nI'm not trying to shit on the fact OP got a tattoo in rememberence of their father - I'm not an asshole. I'm shitting on the fact that it's (in my opinion, of course) a shit tattoo aesthetically and is stupid conceptually when you actually understand what a waveform is in an audio context.",
"As I've said before, I'm shitting on the aesthetics and the use of the waveform to portray something it clearly doesn't.\n\nI'm not trying to shit on the fact OP got a tattoo to remember his father, I just think it's a shit tattoo given its context and visuals. They're also hilariously common as fuck.",
"This is awesome! Great ink mate. ",
"Oh man I would cry everyday if I had that tattoo on my arm. I love my dad too much I will be miserable the day he leaves :(",
"I want to do this. \n",
"Sorry, was explaining my comments to the morons. :) I am glad you understand now!",
"T[his is what a frequency spectrum looks like](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/hsGTg_7taHg/maxresdefault.jpg)\n\nIt's hard to 'visualize' audio, but this is the best way of doing it. It's something that can't really be displayed accurately as visual information, even studying that frequency spectrum it's impossible to read exactly what it is. There is no computer program that can read that spectrum and 'play' it to sound like your original source, and there may never be unless it's literally a massive bar-code with literal binary information to play the song back. \n\nEven that frequency spectrum is a fairly 'low resolution' representation of what is audibly going on there, you're looking at about 15 seconds of what appears to be 'voiceover' (according to the file name at the top left), and how loud each frequency is playing (Dark being quiet, light being loud) from 20Hz-20kHz. That still isn't enough specific information to get what something will sound like unfortunately.\n\nAudio is something you can't visualise and get enough information from to make an educated guess about what you are hearing outside of rhythmic patterns. **All we can see in that spectrum is where the talking starts, and the talking stops.**",
"I should get the soundwave of my mom saying \"I will never forgive you if you get a tattoo.\"",
"A perspective correction works but the software will detect the tattoo more accurately if the correction is taken from a photo that is closer to being straight-on.",
"These tattoos are really cool.. Kinda makes me wish I had some kind of recording of my dad",
"It won't be a blurry mess because the linework is so close together, the lines merging will just fill it in. It will still look like a [waveform](https://talkcdn.atomisystems.com/uploads/default/original/1X/796cda873134ee8fd30333c52d455ca73346a96f.png), it just won't have the fine detail between peaks (which doesn't mean anything anyway).\n\nPeople keep talking like it's going to just turn into a huge smudge past the 6 month point, I can only assume nobody has ever seen a tattoo with fine linework age.",
"I know what a waveform looks like, I produce my own music. I am also filled with tattoos and am dating a tattoo artist. I am also an artist.\n\nLike I said to someone else, throw this image into Photoshop and run a low pixel Gaussian blur filter on the tattoo and you should get a better idea what a blur will look like on it. I mean a real low number, just so it is subtle enough to emulate the look of a tattoo blurring with age. \n\nNone of this takes into account any blowouts.",
"*Of course* a waveform conveys frequency data. It's a graph of amplitude vs time, and frequency is just the spacing between oscillations in time. Empty space between two amplitude peaks establishes a period of time where there are no additional peaks, putting an upper bound on the frequency content of the signal crossing that space. Sure a series of high frequency pulses *would* result in an envelope which would look like that but it wouldn't sound like a laugh.\n\nWhen you realise that it isn't an accurate diagram of the signal it represents, the reasonable thing to do is realise that it's an artistic impression of what you see when a real waveform of a recording of the laugh is displayed and that's okay. Treating non-literal art as inherently \"stupid conceptually\" is kind of, well, stupid conceptually.",
"I'm sure you know what a waveform is, that picture was trying to point out that the waveform filling in is not a bad thing.\n\nAnd I did run a Gaussian blur on it, 3 pixels, and it looked absolutely fine as a tattoo and totally recognisable as a waveform.",
"That's ibe of the most original tatoos I've seen. Very cool!",
"Nice. Hope you normalized the wav file first",
"Never seen so much negative karma with the use of the word barnacle in the post. Upvote. ",
"That actually looks great. ",
"Awesome. Thanks for the info",
"No, the raw signal stored in the wav file plotted would not look like this. This is a different plot obtained by squaring the signal and mirroring it with the abscissa axis. Even stretched out it would be very different although the envelope is the same. One major difference is that the energy plot does not contain negative values whereas the original did. It's mean was 0 but it will be strictly positive there. You should test it out and plot the original wav file and compare it to what you see on Audacity.",
"A heck of a lot more resolution. Those big black masses? They aren't big black masses. They are thousands of ups and downs, and the particular shape of each up and down and their number determines the sound. If you zoom in enough to see, they look like [this](https://imgur.com/0r64RFQ). Note the time scale: this is two hundredths of a second. ",
"It's fake. The sound isn't on your arm, it's in a cloud database that you have to pay for monthly, and it's associated with your account login. The tattoo is just a prop, you could hold the phone in front of a picture of a cat and it would do the same thing. ",
"Sick tat bro ",
"That's an awesome tattoo",
"*Teleports behind you* Omae wa mo shindeiru",
"This is possibly a tattoo that plays the sounds when scanned with an app. My and my friend are considering getting one soon.\n\nSo its also a voice clip tattoo. ",
"I have a friend who was his mom and dad saying I love you one on each arm ",
"Nice idea. Pretty average looking tattoo imo",
"What the fuck does that mean?",
"Amen",
"same shit. Its conversation piece. Its art, its edgy, its bullshit...",
"Needs more compression",
"> What should i look for at the tattoo shop fpr signs of professionalism and quality?\n\nPortfolio portfolio portfolio. Always make sure they are healed pieces and nkt fresh done work. Fresh tattoos always look good. For the rest, see the comments i made elsewhere about finding a quality shop. And make sure you like your artist. A solid relationship and similar personality go a long way.\n\n> What should a quality tattoo cost?\n\nThis is different in a lot of places. The best artists charge 200-500 and hour. Id say you are safe with an artist charging 100-150 an hour. I can do a full arm sleeve in 6 hours if its a japanese style or traditional. If its more detailed, its about 9-12 hours. A back piece is 20. If you just want a small 5 inch by 5 inch tattoo, itd be a few hundred from me. From a better artist, maybe 600.\n\n> What should i avoid as a motive to preserve a good looking tattoo for as long as possible\n\nAnd really its about lifelong inspiration. If youve played drums or guitar for 10 years and dont see it ending, thats safe. If you see a pretty cool design online, dont do it. Wait a few years and if that design is still in your heart, get it. I would say just give it time when you come up with a good idea. Your mind may change in 6 months or a year. Spontaneous isnt good. \n\nIf you meant how to keep a tattoo looking new for years, just take care of it the way the artist says. Sun isnt good. Always sunblock it. Even if its a big light skin patch all summer, you will be thankful 10 years down the road. The first 2 mo ths are very important for healing properly. Water isnt great for it but not horrible. Dont soak it. Theres bandages that are waterproof and are all sizes if you wantbto go swimming. After the first few months, water is irrelevant and you can soak it all you want. Always lotion it to keep the skin soft and fresh. \n\nThe first 4 days i say to do aquaphor or a&d ointment. Not a lot. Just a nice thin layer. It has to breathe. Neosporin is bad cuz it makes the wound heal fast and pushes ink out. Petroleum jelly can break down pigment. After that, a good fragrance free lotion. Cetaphil is great! No need to spend top dollar on \"tattoo ointments\" as they generally are no better than aquaphor or a&d. Dont let it dry out while its healing. Massage the lotion in. Itll stay moist from inside out. Dont baby it but dont be rough either.\n\nIf i wasnt clear or didnt answer what you were asking, feel free to be more specific. \n",
"He's a douche for doing what she asked. Wow, you poor person.",
"Well it's on her regardless. Literally.",
"I gotta say... u/Siedgex you are wrong and you made yourself look like an idiot. \n\nEdit: but it was funny because the pinto guy got frustrated. So thanks? ",
"I get it now... you were the douche who tattooed her. ",
"> I don't see why this is in this sub.\n\nBro is this your first week in /r/pics? because many of the posts are hot garbage.",
"I agree. I like the sentiment but the execution leaves a lot to improve upon. I have a tattoo artist friend and I've asked: \"looks amazing, but how could the details stay for years?\" no real response, just something about getting touch ups done. Shit, I've seen old people with tattoos, that shit gets faded as hell, how the fuck are you going to keep tiny individual lines making an audio track last? I would bet that you can't but if a professional can educate me otherwise I'd be willing to listen.",
"Forearm too, horrible place for a permanent mistake.",
"Right in the feels that's for sure *sniff",
"Shucks. Well thank you for going through the trouble of trying to solicit a damning photo of your sibling for the amusement of internet strangers. \n\nCheers.",
"AKA this tattoo is hot garbage.",
"This comment seemed to transport me back to middle school.",
"As soon as he has a grandkid you have to get the rusty spoon tat. He'd love it.",
"I wish I could hear my mom's laugh.",
"I think that’s the point",
"Sadly I disagree, she paid him for his tattoo skills not his ethics, and I only say this because I'm the kind of person who doesn't believe that its someones business what I do with my body, if I want a tattoo I should be able to get a tattoo without some guy trying to tell me I can't. But yes, I enjoyed frustrating him more then actually proving a point or anything, I don't think I actually had a point.\n\nEdit: Which to be fair, were I a tattoo artist I would probably advise against it, but still I just don't think it's a requirement, theres a difference between neutral and good. He was neutral he just didn't go above and beyond. Plus going into an opinion based topic with \"You are wrong\" doesn't make sense.",
"This is probably a dumb question but are there any apps that are able to scan a wave length like that and be able to play audio? Also, sorry about your pops",
"That's awesome. My father and I share this rolling belly laugh, like what you'd hear from the bad guy in a spy flick as he's about to destroy the city. \nIs this an app that can turn that image into sound?",
"Sigh... \n\nHe wasn't arguing against your first comment. You keep making this about her choice which wasn't ever the argument that the beans guy made. I think he was commenting on the tattoo artist doing the tattoo. NOT THE GIRL CHOOSING TO GET IT. He stated how he felt about the tattooer NOT THE GIRL CHOOSING TO GET IT. \n\nYou're wrong because you twisted his words, he corrected you and then you twisted his correction. \n\nHere is a simple example of what this argument seemed like.\n\nPerson 1 \"I don't like the color red\"\n\nPerson 2 (you) \"little boys think they are little girls and you are concerned about the color red?\"\n\nSee how ridiculous that is?\n\n",
"Really?\n\nBecause this is a 2px gaussian blur on the tattoo alone.\n\nhttps://i.imgur.com/ZSV5aFk.jpg\n\nIt looks awful. I tried to be proven wrong. ",
"Awesome idea, and excellent line work. Love it!",
"Honestly, I feel you are very confused here o.o",
"Calling it like I see it. ",
"And I'm telling you you are confused. I haven't spoken about the girl choosing to get. Honestly I don't care if she get's it either way, I'm talking about how it's not the tattooers business to get it or not. I'm not sure where you get the idea of that being the subject of this conversation at all.",
"It'll just be another tattoo when the company holding the audio clip goes under.",
"Someone please convert the image back to audio",
"Given the way you say things, like:\n\n> I'm more qualified than you\n\nand\n\n> but a lot of people are delusioned [...] that a waveform holds much more information than what they believe, because they're clueless\n\nit seems that you:\n\n1. Put yourself on a very high horse\n2. Think that everyone else is stupid as shit.\n3. You are entitled to teach us because you are better than us.\n\nLet me tell you a few things:\n\nFirst, who cares that you have a degree? I have one too. Other people could have it too. A degree isn't something that only special people have.\n\nSecond: It is evident for me and for everyone else that the drawing of a waveform isn't like a vinyl where you can put a needle and play it. But who cares? It was never suppose to be like this. We get that. We also get that the drawing is a projection of said voice due to its similarities to the graph that whichever software generated. We, with our tiny little stupid and small brains, can perceive this simple concept abstraction. This ability is one of the most fundamental differences we have from other species. Your comment shows that you lack some of it. But at least you know how to use Audacity...\n\nThird: \n\n> I'm not shitting on OP's reasoning for getting a tattoo\n\nYou are saying that just because you are not criticizing the *intent* of OP's tattoo, you are not being a jerk. But this is a weak argument. The lack of respect does not limit itself on the bashing of the *reasoning*, specifically. It also extends to the content. Saying it is \"also hilariously common as fuck\" deprecates it in a way normal people knows it shouldn't be done in a situation like this. And this is frowned upon, hence other users calling you a dick, because you are being one right now. \n\nFourth:\n\nYou said:\n\n> and that waveform literally 'means' nothing from an information standpoint.\n\nIt does have information. The information is the implicit memory the symbol will generate.\n\nYour problem is that you tried to put yourself on focus. It was never something to be technically analyzed. It was never the intent. But you wanted to be the smartboy on the internet and made it look like what you know is relevant here.",
"Awesome",
"It's no problem. \n\nPeople who actively place themselves in the spotlight have no right to be shielded from criticism. It's unreasonable to seek attention from others and ask that they only confer positive attention, because the person may not always deserve it. The reason people get annoyed with posts like these is because they smack of real narcissism. Most people face tragedy in their lives, but they won't get their own platform for a large group of strangers to pity them. Moreover, the picture doesn't value the viewers. Very little effort went into taking this picture; it's a low quality smart phone shot and the tattoo is arguably bad as well.",
"Well, you managed to point out why I could never get 2 pieces of audio to sound exactly the same, looking at one wave and using a piece of software (don't even remember what it was called, 15 years ago) to create a new one. Thanks for the information.",
"Yes I do. ",
"The simple answer is that digital audio is \"recorded\" by measuring the amplitude at a very regular frequency and quantizing it to the nearest step. This is called \"pulse code modulation\". Since the amplitude is captured at regular intervals, frequency can be derived since frequency is the number of occurrences per unit of time (usually the second in audio recordings).\n\nWith that in mind, maybe if OP's tattoo had a resolution of something like 44100 pixels per second of encoded audio, one could derive the frequency (within human hearing range) of the laugh and not just the amplitude of the laugh over time. ",
"Is this one of those tattoos that you scan with an app and can actually hear it??? ",
"I just hope they tested it after before etc. Be a real cuck move for a artist to make it into a shit piece ",
"So they can harvest that sweet, sweet karma",
"Back when Reddit was cool someone would have taken that tattoo and made it an audio file again for us to hear the laugh.",
"Thanks for explaining. \n\n> maybe if OP's tattoo had a resolution of something like 44100 pixels per second of encoded audio\n\nIn fairness, it doesn't say how long that sample is.",
"That tattoo said 'Rob' with a little heart after it. My best friend and I wete joking about making it a wrap around sentence of some sort....but I decided it should probably just never be seen ever. Ever",
"Y tho",
"As a lifer non-tatooer, I respect this 100%. Tattoos should always represent a major meaningful moment in life. They are permanent and the subject should be similarly important.",
"You are very good person ... i really appreciate you ...",
"These tattoos will fade so badly with age that it will be a grey smudge with little recognisable characteristics. I'm surprised most tattoo artists don't tell people this when they give these tattoos. Seems like they are just happy to take your money and give a tattoo that they know will not age well.",
"Oh my heart. That’s a great idea :’]",
"Yeah, that’s his fart.",
"What I came here to say. I have been trying to stray from most sites or social media apps with a timeline of sorts, but instagram is really something special. I use it exclusively to look at tattoos and blown glass. There are a plethora of solid artists with a load of integrity that just dominate all the work I've seen from local corner shops.",
"It means *Paper cartridge: load 'letter'*, or in other words, the printer's run out of paper so you need to refill it with 'letter' sized paper (which is probably roughly similar to the A4 size we use in the UK, or maybe the 'foolscap' size that preceded it). :)",
"I read \"horse show\" and thought you meant a live recording of Horsin' Around. :/",
"You've got you, probably the most valuable thing your dad ever had.",
"What do you recommend to do? im not creative enough to think of something good... I was going to get a wolf but it was expensive af and people recommended something smaller for a first tattoo, my grandpa passed away last year so when i saw this post i thought it was a good idea until i started reading more into this",
"If its for your grandfather, id ask you what reminds you of him. What did he love? Is there a place you guys would go tbat reminds you of him? Me and my grandmother and my sister used to go to a small local amusement park when we were young. When she passed away, i got a tattoo of one of the rides we loved, the tilt a whirl, with all of us in one of the seats with the sign from the park in the background. An example i used elsewhere is, my grandfather made wine and loved to cook. At thanksgiving, he always sat at the head of the table. So i have a tattoo of a dining room table with his favorite foods and a bottle of wine with his name on it, on the table where he would sit. \n\nIts about what reminds you of that person. Tattoos are one of the most personal outward expressions of our inner feelings. Embrace that. Did he fish? Did he love sports? Put both of you into that scene. ",
"Both of my parents passed 3 years ago. I had recordings from each of them saying, \"I love you.\" I was going to do this same thing but I lost the recordings and cannot recover them. Good on you for doing this, it is a great tattoo!!",
"Wow i would have never thought of something like that. A true original. I love original and creative tatts.",
"Well, all his life was on a farm, grandma still lives there, we used to sit together looking at a big tree that was as old as my grandpa, i don't know the exact word in english but we used to always eat barbecued meat(traductor, word is asado) and then talk for hours on the table with wine and the family, then we would go to the actual farm to see what he planted or the horses(one he gave to me also), thank you a lot for your insight, didn't think about this before since im very new into this world of tattoos!",
"tldr\n",
">Of course a waveform conveys frequency data. It's a graph of amplitude vs time\n\nYou've just contradicted yourself, or believe meaningful frequency data is one frequency's amplitude.\n\nIt's stupid conceptually because you are implying that simple waveforms hold more information than they are capable of. This is essentially taking a single, random pixel of a 1080p colour image, putting it in grayscale and pretending it's the original image.",
"You have a ton of options. You can even get em all into the scene. Personally, if we were talking, i would do a scene of each of you on a horse, side by side, with your backs to us but looking and gaving at that big beautiful tree. Maybe add in a sunrise or sunset depending on if youd like it to focus more on the sadness of the loss (sunset) or the beauty of the life (sunrise). \n\nAnd the other part you mentioned before about size. Tattoos are addicting. You will want more. Not many people have just 1 tattoo. So i would worry that if you make the scene smaller, that at some point you may wish it was bigger and more pronounced. Go big or go home doesnt work for everyone but it does for a lot.\n\nYou cant be afraid of the pain. Its gonna hurt. We are stabbing you millions of times. But its more annoying than painful depending on the location. A really good artist will hurt a lot less. The best artists have some kind of magical way of making it not hurt. I was tattooed by a top artist and it was like a paint brush when he tattooed me. 8 hours and almost no pain at all and after 6 years, its still as vibrant and solid as any ive seen. I havent quite gotten there yet but i can have people sit for 4 or 5 hours before they get uncomfortable. Do not be afraid of doing multiple sittings either. Linework and shading in the first and color in the 2nd or something like that. This way after the first sitting, if its easier than you thought, go back and finish and if its harder, you still have your meaningful tattoo\n\nAlso, i always tell people to find an artist they like, personality wise. This way when you are getting tattooed, you can be distracted by hanging out with someone who is like a friend. It goes a long way. \n\nHope all of this helps and you get what you want! ",
"I wasn't crying a moment ago. That's really touching.",
"> tldr\n\nsaid the \"academic\" who wrote **1000 words** in this thread but won't read a comment that is 40% of that.",
"This tattoo could not possibly have enough resolution on the x-axis for one to decode frequency. At best, one could get amplitude and time.",
"lol at the thought of the tattoo only being 20 ms of a laugh. Unfortunately, there isn't enough sinusoidal look to the tattoo for that to be the case. ",
"Because you've yet to make a compelling argument worth my time.\n\nI'm not reading a wall of text from a moron, make your point concise and I might bother, but I debunked any argument you had so goodluck with that.",
"> I'm not reading a wall of text from a moron\n\nHaha so you are saying you didn't proofread your own comments, then?",
"Meaningful frequency data isn't the same as complete frequency data. In this case the meaningful data is an upper bound on the amplitude of frequencies above a certain level. It's meaningful enough to describe how an actual waveform of the laugh would look visibly different to the one in the tattoo. Of course neither are playable encodings of the signal itself.\n\nYour pixel analogy is way off. It's more like taking a photo of your footprints on a memorable walk on a beach. You can't reconstruct a video of yourself taking the steps from it, or even identify yourself as being the one that left the prints, and it wasn't the fact that you had footprints that made the walk memorable - but they hold some symbolic meaning by illustrating that visible evidence was created by the actual memorable thing.",
"> lol at the thought\n\nOh, snap! 313373 Pwned! Haha. Also, /r/Iamverysmart.",
"also they don't actually get the sound from the tattoo. that would be technically impossible (resolution way too low). they have the sound in a database and just recognize the tattoo to identify which file to play.",
"they don't work from the outset. the resolution is waaaay too low",
"Nice meme, but you have no argument, so bye child.",
">Your pixel analogy is way off\n\nIt really isn't.\n\n[Take a look at Izotope RX6](https://media.sweetwater.com/api/i/q-85__ha-1af819a014ae954e__hmac-36e4c747f0019d565490231c7e828af8e52bc37a/images/items/1800/RX6-xlarge.jpg), literally the most powerful raw audio editing software out today which renders a spectrum of frequencies and their dynamics at any given point in time that assists you in finding harmful frequencies visually. I use this software whenever I want to clean up a audio file before I go into processing - The biggest piece of advice I can give someone for using it for accurate working is to literally ignore what you see and repair/construct/fix with your ears, and not with what you see. Literally everyone who uses this software will agree, because you can't visually comprehend what something sounds like outside of 'oh, there's a loud frequency at 500Hz-700Hz 10 seconds in'.\n\nHowever, even with this image, you are given very little information on what something actually sounds like - If you were to 'play' a soundfile given only the information you see in this image, even if rendered at incredibly high resolutions, you'd get nothing close to your initial source sound. In order to achieve that, you would need an **INCREDIBLY** detailed waveform for every single frequency in incredibly minute snapshots of time, with varying colors indicating dynamics etc.\n\nThe pixel analogy is 'way off' maybe in a way that I undersold it - It could genuinely much less information than a single grayscale pixel of a 1080 x 1920 resolution image, because such a simple waveform as that is absolutely no indication what so ever of what something can sound like ,where as with a pixel at least you're going to get one shade of one pixel right.\n\nOP's tattoo and every other tattoo's like it are cute in that hey, they're memorabilia naively assumed to be a waveform that resembles a recording of a important persons voice. But it's no more than that.\n\n\n\n",
"Bye dad.",
"I want to downvote you for ruining my day... but I'm not gonna because you also delivered an actual reason for why it would never work. But then I want to downvote you on behalf of the OP, who will never hear their dad laugh again. But then I want to upvote you for honesty.\n\nI'm so conflicted.\n\nOh. ....\n\nYou made me feel something. Have an upvote.",
"Yeah okay but I don't see how /u/hemingwayfan's initial response connects to /u/savethesapiens's comment.",
"That's an amazing idea! Thank you",
"my son is turning 12 this year. Never could I imagine what it would be like to love someone so much. I hope my little man will feel like this about me. I hope I can make such a wonderful connection. Lots of love to you OP.",
"This is beautiful, I can only wish I had sound/video of my father to do this. ",
"That's not how amplitude waves work",
"You could also have it on a piece of paper. ",
"You can just scroll up and see the unchanged comment, dude. It's sitting there just as it was before your first reply.",
"How can I be sure the comment is unchanged, and at this point I don’t care",
"Well, you can only tattoo an image... so yes gimmicky but pretty cool nonetheless. ",
"I'd be honored to have a son that remembers me in such a way. Sorry for a true loss, but I hope other laughter lights your way.",
"I've never really been into tattoos.. like I'm not anti them or anything, and I certainly can appreciate the artwork that goes into them.\n\nbut honestly.. this is the first tattoo that made me go \"damn... that's amazing\".. and I can see myself doing something similar should I be unfortunate enough to be in a similar situation.\n",
"I love tattoos, on other people. I don't ever see a reason to get one for myself, however, this tattoo is one I wouldn't even blink before I sat down to face the needle. This is an amazing tribute, a beautiful memory, and an incredible tattoo. I'd be moved to tears if one of my kids did this for me, wow... just wow. ",
"How much did that hurt on a scale of 1-10",
"They're just a few big players. So many quality artists in the industry now.",
"With thousands more absolute shit artists. I was simply pointing out what should be considered quality. So many people are completely misinformed or uninformed as to what is a great tattoo or tattoo artist. I have had way too many people show me their \"amazing\" tattoo that looks like joe schmoe from an alley in the bowery did it. When you show those people a real amazing tattoo from niko hurtado or roman abreggo or guy aitchison, their jaws drop and its not uncommon for them to say things like, \"i didnt even know that was possible\" and stuff like that. \n\nSo as responsible artists, our jobs are to educate. I dont fault the people who think ok or good tattoos are great. They just havent encountered great. So we have to show them. ",
"Yeah too true. Showing stuff like steve butcher or anyone in the #ratpack to people blows their minds. I tattoo and it stills blows my fucking mind. I find most every day joe doesn't like guys work cause it's too weird or arty, but i think they just don't understand organic bio mech. Most people don't understand the difference between good and bad unless it's really bad. Shows on tv have made tattoos more accesible but people now think that they are in the know, but they don't know shit about tattooers or work. 99% of tattooers would not rate nearly 100% of the TV artists in there top 10.",
"Amen. People think the hyundai sonata they drive is a great ride until they rent a bentley a drive that bad boy around and it becomes perfectly clear. I dont hate the folks who think their hyundai is nice. They just dont know any better. \n\nSo if someone wants to call me a dick for trying to educate folks and being blunt about it, so be it. Id be doing all of us a disservice if i didnt. ",
"Because Reddit tells you if it's been edited. Were you unaware of this?",
"Respect!! ✊🏽 ",
"You’re a weird dude ",
"Love it. Good choice, OP! ",
"This is beautiful. Lost my mom, my best friend 2 years ago. Found a card from when I moved cross country years ago. She always wrote mom, this time she wrote always and forever mom. Through all my moves I kept it. A year after she died I got this,(Mom's handwriting :) https://imgur.com/gallery/axYyA) my first tattoo. I know shed love it. Be strong and know he loves you. My moom believed in a bigger better afterlife and I believe in her. He loves you man, always remember the good and remember he watching over you! ",
"Yeah it looks dumb af",
"> The tattoo, the shape, is only capturing amplitude\n\nThat's not true, this look like a time series, which means it contains frequency information as well. Frequency is where pitch comes from, and I believe the majority of what makes up timbre. So if it had an infinite resolution then I believe you could read it and play the sound of his dad's laugh (assuming you know how long it's supposed to last).",
"I have separation anxiety.",
"So you’re a millennial? ",
"Indeed. I just hate the people you think of when you think \"millennial.\"",
"A waveform like in [this picture](https://talkcdn.atomisystems.com/uploads/default/original/1X/796cda873134ee8fd30333c52d455ca73346a96f.png) is zoomed out too far to get any finer detail, and it looks like the waveform has \"area\", so to speak. This gives you loudness information, like how in OP's picture you can see each individual \"ha\" in his dad's laughter. If you zoom in, it should be [a single line being traced out](http://ttmanual.audacityteam.org/m/images/3/3d/Zoom4.png), going above and below the middle axis. This is where all the sound information lies: pitch, timbre, and all that frequency information (oh yeah, the good stuff). As you zoom out, you lose this detail and approximate the shape of the waveform further until it looks more like the first picture. There is not enough information in that first picture to recreate the sound in any meaningful way besides how loud it is in different sections. (Truthfully, all an audio signal is is how \"loud\" the sound is at different points in time, but the original signal gives you 44,100 points a second. That's a ton of information, and it's packed densely.)\n\nEven if the artist was extremely detailed in his drawing, there's a lot of information being lost. You'd be losing the higher frequencies (the ones oscillating at hundreds or thousands of times a second) because the artist wouldn't be able to draw the signal that finely. At best, you might get a signal that sounds vaguely like a laugh but it would be low-passed (muffled) and probably have some distortion due to the artist not getting it quite right. Again, this is assuming the artist actually zoomed in and traced out the waveform on a smaller scale. Judging from OP's picture, I don't know if you could even play it. Remember, audio signals can only define one volume \"intensity\" for any point in time. If parts of the tattoo overlap vertically, you can't play those parts, because there's no unique point to play! \n\n(Another minor issue is that we don't have a frame of reference for how fast it should be played since there's no time axis. In this case, OP could provide that context since he knows how it's supposed to sound. Again, minor compared to the other points I raised.)\n\nEdit: If you took a laugh and ran it through a low-pass filter in Audacity, you could probably get an idea of what the tattoo might sound like. If you're unfamiliar with audio, you want to set the cutoff frequency to some number of Hertz (Hz), which is a way of describing how fast the signal is moving up and down. 100 Hz would be 100 times per second. If you choose a number that you think the artist could hit if they really tried their damndest to recreate the signal, this low-passed version would \"sound like the tattoo\".",
"That is so heart wrenching and its a great idea, definitely a future tat for me 👍 my step dad and I are so close and everytime I think about the future and the possibility of him dying I break down in tears so I cant wait to get something like this.",
"That makes his dad Master Roshi... right?",
"That’s so cute, my nans is really sick in and out of hospital since before Christmas, been told her body is shutting down, I’ve had a massive hip to top of my knee tattoo done it’s a dreamcatcher with flowers and the Alzheimer’s ribbon and cancer, it’s such a hard thing to see",
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"I really like that!\nIt’s a poem that somehow makes me feel guilty about my own life lol ",
"Baltimore city schools have tons of issues currently\n\n[7th grade students receiving 1st grade level reading and math](http://foxbaltimore.com/news/project-baltimore/middle-schooler-getting-first-grade-education)\n\n[Incredibly subpar facilities](http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/education/k-12/bs-md-ci-schools-town-hall-20180122-story.html)\n\n[Money literally disappearing and cutting facilities and budgets because of it, despite Baltimore schools reportedly receiving a good amount of money per pupil.](http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/readersrespond/bs-ed-rr-baltimore-schools-letter-20180117-story.html)\n\nAnd all this is topped off by massive societal and gang violence issues that happen every day in the city. Baltimore hasn't had a murder in 11 days and it's [almost a three year record streak](http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/crime/bs-md-ci-baltimore-no-homicides-10-days-20180211-story.html) \n\nI applaud this kid for going to class, despite the shit storm he unfortunately has to deal with\n\n#Edit: apparently its not written by a Baltimore City school student. Whatever, point still stands, Baltimore City schools are an issue",
"That was actually really well written. Is there a literary term for that sort of “boom” at the end? It’s almost like a couplet kinda thing, but it isnt",
"Dude that’s heavy.",
"I dunno why I rap-read that inside my head. Right from the start. ",
"Woah.. makes one think",
"Lazy kid needs to pull himself up by the bootstraps and **work**, *obviously* he doesn't have a parent at home! Sheesh! No work ethic, kids these days...\n\n/heavy s",
"Ain't nobody teach him no grammar",
"This reminds me of the kids from The Wire.",
"The title is “Cause I ain’t got a pencil”. There’s a picture of a used up pencil right next to it. And yet you’re still shocked when you get to that last line.",
"Because poetry is very nearly rap without music.",
"He ain't got a pencil coz he's too lazy to make one himself",
"His teacher must have loved that poem. They probably gave him an ‘F’.",
"Not white people grammar, no",
"More mass than a collapsing sun.",
"It’s only a small piece of wood with a thin strip of graphite inside.",
"Oh my bad I didn't know that. Still a great poem regardless.",
"Rhythm and poetry",
"The Wire really put things into perspective.",
"This went around facebook last week, and was written by an adult in Atlanta named [Josh Dickerson](https://twitter.com/joshtdickerson/status/963275985654251520). \n\nI don't know exactly why, but learning that this was written by an adult projecting a hypothetical but fictional scenario really deflated the power of the poem.",
"authors like 35, man the school system really *is* bad /s",
"That's not important right now!",
"Back in my day we didn't have lead pencils, just lead poisoning. ",
"> \"My class is full of geniuses.\" - Strawman probably \n \nFTFY",
"If he went to Atlanta Public schools as a teen this poem is still relevant. Atl schools suck",
"Yall know this is fucking bullshit right?\n\nhttps://twitter.com/joshtdickerson/status/963275985654251520",
"I'm sure it feels better to resort to a simplistic view and say \"their country failed them.\" Situations like this (that actually do exist) are never simple and direct, there is usually plenty of blame to go around.",
"Let's turn this to a song ",
"author's*",
"Ok... I don’t know if I would put this in the same category as Atlas Shrug but .... I guess it’s good for Baltimore ... ",
"There ain't no such thing as \"white people grammar\". There is good grammar and there is bad grammar. Grammar doesn't care about your minority status.",
"You mean [*this* student](https://twitter.com/joshtdickerson/status/963275985654251520) of Baltimore Public Schools?",
"Its funny, [Atlanta City schools](https://www.npr.org/2016/04/18/474256366/why-americas-schools-have-a-money-problem) spends more on students than both the national average and *way* more than the majority-white suburbs that surround the city of Atlanta. ",
"Because it's not the coutry's responsibility to make sure parents do their jobs. ",
"/u/asdf1617, thank you for your submission. Unfortunately, it has been removed for violating the following rule(s):\n\n* Rule I - No screenshots. This includes pictures of screens and photos where the interest is the contents of a screen.\n\n\n\nFor information regarding this and similar issues please see the [rules](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/about/rules/) and [title guidelines](/r/pics/w/titles). If you have any questions, please feel free to [message the moderators.](https://www.reddit.com/message/compose?to=/r/pics&subject=Question regarding the removal of this submission by /u/asdf1617&message=I have a question regarding the removal of this [submission.](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/7x9df4/cause_i_aint_got_a_pencil_written_by_a_student_of/?context=10\\))",
"I've always wished kids could get at least a somewhat even start to life. Of course it's never possible to make it truly even, but to try to make it closer. Posts like this remind me how hard that will ever be though :( I'm not saying that people from humble beginnings can't rise up and overcome it, but it's to expect the same results. One family has both parents, good income, lots of resources, and a stable/calm environment. The other has a single parent, not home as often to help, far fewer resources, and a chaotic environment.\n\nI'm not trying to place blame, just wishes for a better future. ",
"There absolutely is. Grammar isn't universal, and unlike French there is no official academy that determines what is and is not proper English. African American English is a unique dialect with rules of its own, it is not just \"bad grammar.\"",
"I love how accurately the title of this submission conveys information.",
"shit maybe my education is bad O_o",
"This is not the time to use that!",
"\"My class is full of Batmans.\" - Scarecrow probably",
"Thank you",
"> African American English is a unique dialect with rules of its own\n\nWhat are some of those rules?",
"Well, the invariant \"be\" is an important one. i.e. \"He be going to the store.\"\n\nAnother one is copula/auxiliary absence. i.e. \"She angry at him.\" \n\nThere are literally dozens more you can find with a quick google scholar search. \n\nThese aren't grammatical errors, they're just properties of a unique dialect of English. ",
"It is a multi part problem. I did not go to ATL public schools, but I did go to one of the major county schools near it. \n\n- Student to teacher ratio is far too high. 25-40 students per one teacher. (Most were around 31-33 students) How is one teacher supposed to manage that many students, much less make sure no one is falling behind? \n\n- Too high of a student population in general. My school housed 3300 students when I was there. As a result some smaller classes were crammed into the same class rooms as larger classes, or even in trailers. \n\n- Pressure to get higher standardized test scores to get more federal funding. This leads to shotgun style teaching where a teacher barely goes over a topic and then moves on to the next one. This leaves behind the quiet and slower students who just may not get that topic the way it was first taught, but since the class has already moved on it is too late. \n\n- Out dated text books, computers, ect. I was 3 years older than my text books and I was 17 at the time. The computer screens were so fuzzy you could barely read anything.\n\n- An over abundance of busy work. This leads to completion grades, instead of a teacher being able to identify a struggling student. It also bores the students who do understand a topic, but are expected to complete 5 worksheets for it, not to mention the other classes they have. \n\n\n",
"Damn. I can't magine having so little self awareness that I thought my dialect was proper English. At least here in Boston we recognize that we use poor grammar.",
"But that's the thing, it's not proper or improper. There's Standard American English, which is what we think of as \"proper\" English, but the rules are relative to context and there is no real right or wrong. ",
"I have definitely heard black and/or urban people who improperly use \"be\" also use the word \"is\". For the ignorant, what is the \"rule\" in which is is appropriate to use the one rather than the other? At what point (from an \"African American English\" perspective) is it improper to use \"is\" rather than \"be\"?",
"Ain’t got a pencil, but Ah knows where to put that appastrofe! You condescending fuck."
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"Typing \"dicks.com\" just takes me to \"dickssportinggoods.com\" but what if I actually wanna go to dicks.com? ",
"They bought out dicks.com\n\n\nAlthough it hasn't always been that way from personal experience....",
"Oh really? I didn't know that. I definitely remember going to Dicks.com back when it was still porn though "
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"Maybe they just have different sorts of specialists there? ",
"They sound a little less gentle over there.",
"Or the translator was just being a little *gynecologist*",
"So, who needs their cunt examined?",
"Sir, based on the test results and several interviews of your friends, we’ve concluded that you are, in fact, a cunt. ",
"That’s the room where Rosie O’Donnell takes college exams."
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"SOURCE:\n\n[David Nadlinger's photo of strontium, captured in Oxford University laboratory, handed first place in Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council competition](https://www.epsrc.ac.uk/newsevents/news/single-trapped-atom-captures-science-photography-competitions-top-prize/)",
"just don't start slicing that atom",
"must feelin so lonely"
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"Does the pair on the left look usually out of shape? What sport is this?",
"The sport is curling. The pair on the left are Swiss. They look like traditional curlers from 10 years ago. The sport has gotten much more athletic in recent times.",
"At least they're still celebrating with the traditional invisible pull-up bar",
"In Canada, we all levitate up here",
"how do I learn this power?",
"Solid gold medals would prevent this.",
"It's part of our equality package when you gain citizenship.",
"Oooooh what a feeling\n\nWhat a rush",
"As is tradition ",
"Thats just the way it's done in the north",
"Everyone is in T-shirts except the Canadians? That's odd, eh?",
"Only because I see it for myself I believe it.",
"most likely sponsorship requirements from ~~Roots~~ The Bay. probably have to wear the whole kit on the podium. They've even got their toques and mitts on. ",
"Hudson's Bay Company, they've been the supplier of Olympic apparel since 2006.",
"Swiss Curler sounds like a delicious snack cake. ",
"Wow! Hudson's Bay^© has been providing this superior equipment to Olympic athletes since 2006? I always knew that Hudson's Bay's^© snowwear had tri-mesh wind breaking tech that was top of the line, and that their 650 fill down insulation kept the warm in and the cold out, but who knew it would be the same quality as Olympic athletes!",
"Hahaha, awesome plug",
"Kaitlyn Lawes is actually being elevated by a household fan bought on Boxing Day from Shoppers Drug Mart and powered by a single generator from Canadian Tire.",
"Only to match the height of the tallest person within 5 meters. It’s an important distinction. Having people floating to unregulated heights makes it difficult to play hockey correctly.",
"Spoiler alert Canada wins... I overslept for the mixed curling. No way I was waking up at 5am to watch it live. ",
"Those Swiss Curlers look like delicious snack cakes.",
"Dude on the left is wondering where the FUCK his protein beers are.",
"The Russian girl curler on the right though has like the prettiest face ever...",
"As is tradition...",
"Do Canadian curlers have a [tradition](https://i.imgur.com/FehZb5S.jpg) of [jumping](https://i.imgur.com/iZWm5In.jpg) on the podium?",
"Not from a Jedi.",
"As someone who only hears about curling every 4 years... how has the sport gotten more athletic?",
"She truly is beautiful! And her teammate is actually her husband. That’s why I found it hilarious when they were yelling at each other during the games. ",
"To put it simply: having a more traditional athletes body allows you to more consistently make the shots you want to because you’re able to better control the speed/touch of the stone.\n\nThink of it like baseball. Sure Bartolo Colon is still a good pitcher when he’s out of shape, but he obviously has a better handle on his pitches when he’s in better shape.",
"I’m not sure if you can call yourself a mixed curling fan if you’re not setting an alarm for 5am. ",
"Yes. ",
"In addition to the body control mentioned, sweeping is a reasonably physically exerting activity and being stronger and more fit allows players more endurance and strength",
"She has amazing eyes (and serious resting bitch face sometimes!). ",
"Having done club curling with many husbands/wives playing on the same team, there is a lot of bickering. In fact, moreso than regular teammates it seems.",
"Is she Ovo-lacto-vegetarian?",
"There has never been better kit since the '98 Nagano Roots Outfits",
"This a victory for shorties everywhere!",
"The Canadian chick is definitely on par with her though.",
"Yea, apparently I don't have to watch tonight now :(",
"As is tradition...",
"In their defence, John Morris (the male Canadian) is a firefighter when he isn’t curling. So he stays pretty fit ",
"It's something we evolved from having less gravity.",
"Just wait until you see Eve Muirhead's squad.\n",
"All peoplekind are treated equally in Canada",
"I thought the game was at 6:00 PST, so we were all ready to watch it at 7:00 in Alberta. Sadly, we woke up to the news of a (yay!) gold medal.\n",
"Don't make them run! They're full of chocolate!",
"[You mean home run legend Bartolo Colon?](http://mediadownloads.mlb.com/mlbam/mp4/2016/05/08/669453283/1462670462797/asset_2500K.mp4)",
"Please be a simpsons reference",
"When they added the rollerblades, alligators and randomly exploding curling rocks, it definitely got more athletic. And much more dangerous. I'm not sure if these were good changes.",
"Don't forget [this one](https://imgur.com/grYf7Pv) from the other day!",
"It's a wonderful day for Canada; and therefore the world.",
"The Swiss curler is rocking the same dad bod I have. He is keeping my Olympic dreams alive!",
"Just a beer gut. Curling requires equal parts athleticism and beer consumption.",
"It’s easy for them because it snows a lot in Canada and the fluffiness when walking naturally teaches them to levitate around others.",
"[This is the us team](https://imgur.com/gallery/HWhp0) ",
"One factor is that knowledge of sweeping techniques has evolved significantly, and sweepers need to be able to pivot around the rock effectiently while they sweep if they want it to curl more or less. \n \nAlso, in Mixed Doubles curling the curlers will frequently chase their own rocks down the ice so they can sweep for themselves while their partner shouts guidelines from the bottom of the ice. ",
"What the hell guys! Levitation was supposed to be a national secret!?!?\n\nThis is why we can't keep anything nice to ourselves, someone always has to show off.",
"She's obviously a [vegan](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRd13bMWhsU).",
"As someone who curled years ago, sweeping is a great aerobic activity. ",
"It is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xk7IFeBaajo",
"they go to great lengths for equality",
"or she's just jumping dummy.",
"I mean dudes still finished 2nd.",
"Sweeping importance ",
"Damn, what a burn.",
"With this kind of commitment to perfection it's no wonder they won a medal.",
"I'd imagine having a more fit body allows you to control the stone easier while sweeping. If you can apply more pressure and scrape away more ice with a fit physique it would certainly give you an edge over those who can't.",
"Curling originated in Scotland. Being in good shape is therefore definitely not a requirement.",
"Don't forget that the fan purchase was eligible for 20x Optimum points on that day! Wow!",
"Donut curls",
"I f-ing love that video lol. Bartolo is one of my favourite baseball players for all the wrong reasons and I love it.",
"As is the custom here eh.",
"Sorry",
"Sounds like you're getting your facts from the NBC announcers",
"Curling?",
">exploding curling rocks\n\nyou mean pop rocks?",
"I'd been wondering how to spell toques. ",
"\"Teammate\" is already gender-neutral. Amazingly, gender-neutral words existed before 2016.",
"Thought the same and thought this must be curling. ",
"I believe that makes me one half of an Olympic curler.",
"Top 10 play call easily.",
"See there's your problem right there. You gotta stay up til the game aha!\n\nI watched the women's hockey game, ate breakfast, and then curling was on. Then proceeded to pass out after.",
"> sweeping is a great aerobic activity.\n\nthen those Swiss curlers need to start playing more!",
"Athleticism doesn't have much to do with curling. It's a skill game.",
"Because it’s 2015 ",
"Hit home runs and you don't have to run as fast?",
"Ahh yes, this is a fairly common phenomena known as \"Maple Magic.\" ",
"Fixed: https://imgur.com/a/b3LC3",
"In the frozen north, Canada levitates you! ",
"Maple syrup. LOTS of maple syrup ",
"I want the jacket and pants set the snowboarders wear so very very badly. They are by far the best looking. ",
"Now that's equality.",
"They also look suuuuuuper salty.",
"Levitation is an important form of transportation in Canada",
"It's actually tuque ",
"Well, goddammit.",
"[Maybe you can stick around after everybody leaves and we can sweep together](https://d12qk6n9ersps4.cloudfront.net/3017642/medium-clean.jpg)",
"Yes, they are out of shape. How else did you think Canada could win an event?",
"You get it when you become a citizen ",
"Straight outta nascar?",
"Wouldn't they wear t-shirts with the same sponsors too?",
"Bartolo looks T H I C C",
"You have to be 15 to get your licence, though",
"Not even remotely true.",
"I feel like the Natural Law party let the cat out of the bag ages ago.. ",
"I can't belive [social issue] [exists / does not exist] in [current year]",
"Why would you have to run fast? You automatically get to score the run, what's the rush?",
"I'm tired of these obvious badly photo-shopped pictures. You can see exactly where they removed the giant metal bar that the taller guy is using to lift up his shorter team mate. Get a clue, people!",
"Wunderbar!",
"I think he was making fun of \"peoplekind\".",
"- \"I think peoplekind was making fun of peoplekind\"\n",
"All people are equal in Canada but some people are more equal. ",
"I was wondering why he was so ripped! It was a good win. The Swiss should have tried the last end just for grins. ",
"Jonny Mo! Such a Beauty",
"I kinda figured it would be a blowout again since they gave up in the 6th end on Friday!",
"so like, what is actually going on here?",
"Lawes of gravity",
"It’s just the Canadian thing to do. ",
"Exactly, you don't. So it makes sense that a superb pro ball player is going to be built more like a pro-weightlifter than a pro-sprinter.",
"Looks like someone didn't qualify for peoplekind certification",
"Well yeah, cold is snow, and everyone knows that heat rises. That's like basic physics, right? ",
"This broke James Shields for good.",
"you obviously aren't following the Olympics ",
"I think it was what Trudeau said. \"It's not mankind, it's peoplekind.\"",
"A certain penchant for alcohol on the other hand...",
"Not one they would tell you about ",
"It's not really that the game has changed, more that people have realized how being in great shape is actually a big advantage, mostly when it comes to sweeping. For example, here's [John Morris](https://imgur.com/g36zdGz), the guy from OP's pic, and the [2014 Olympic champions](https://imgur.com/a/qXvcr).",
"Whoa! I'm sending in my paperwork this week, does the package come with thoughtful packaging, too?!? I've struck gold, myself, haven't I?",
"Those Swiss Curlers look like they enjoy delicious snack cakes.\n",
"I'm confused... why are they wearing jackets when I see others in t shirts. What is this **BLASPHAMY!?!?**",
"She's 14.",
"Yea I suppose. That was his first ever home run at the age of 43, so maybe him gaining all the weight had something to do with it",
"You'll float too",
"That doesn't explain why it's gotten more athletic. That sounds like it should've been just as athletic before.",
"Every 8 years Canada likes to act like it's a significant player in the world cuz we's good at cold sports.",
"I always wondered if that was why curling was kinda taking its time to add mixed pair to the offerings. ",
"> Spoiler alert Canada wins... \n\nYou could say that for Men's and Women's events... and still be fairly safe even now.",
"No, she isn't. ",
"I think those are made by Burton. I don't know if they are going to be sold. They're sweet though. ",
"I think she just jumped on to the podium. ",
"It is. Trudeau was making a joke but somehow people got offended. ",
"I rushed out to buy that backwards newsboy cap!! And Ross Rebaglaiti was our first gold that year. In snowboarding. The stars were aligned. \n\nThough those Vancouver 2010 mitts were just as iconic too. ",
"jesus christ those nerds are ripped",
"I don't think you do it long enough for it to be aerobic. ",
"I prefer the skiers myself, but to each their own.",
"*Toque* and *tuque* are actually used pretty interchangeably. I've even seen *touque*.",
"Lol. Tubbo on the left *definitely* indicates curling. ",
"Full contact Curling is quite a workout",
"I would hardly say being physically fit is crucial for curling success",
"I'm afraid you're wrong on many levels. Inuktitut is not a Cree language, and it's not the origin of Canada. Canada comes from kanata, meaning a village or settlement in Iroquoian, which is also not a Cree language.",
"Okay, I almost want to start a thread for it, imagine with me if you will, If their were a Jedi teachings run by an Ottawan Council, how would each provinces Jedi differ.",
"Thank you. I looked at the original comment and just shook my head.",
"Brother / Sister from WI",
"The gold medal match was extremely lopsided. The Swiss team ended up forfeiting in the sixth end. It's part of the etiquette of curling to forfeit when your opponent has an insurmountable lead, but it does explain why they look upset.",
"He was making a joke about being PC, but some people thought he was serious... So they didn’t get offended, the exact opposite happened I guess",
"You mean every 4 years?",
"I'd lick them.",
"There were still some upsetti spaghetti people who thought he wasn’t kidding. Take my very Albertian family for example. Lovely people. \n\nEdit: Albertan woops",
"Oh Canada",
"Whelp, literally watching this as we speak. Guess Canada wins.",
"As is tradition. ",
"Big village. ",
"CA-NA-DADA \n\n*Canadian Heritage Moment* ",
"As an Albertan I am offended at their offense.",
"And the ability to fly . ..ah shit i wasn't suppose to talk about th..\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n*Canadian sniper from 2 miles away* sorry!",
"Tuque and touque are interchangeable. A toque is a brimless hat.\n\njust google it if you don't believe me",
"physical fitness is as crucial for curlers as it is for pitchers. moreso, in recent years. there are many noticeable advantages to being fit in a competitive curling environment.",
"I enjoy the accidental \"i\" with Albert**i**an. Makes us sound like martians.",
"There's lots of successful fat/out of shape pitchers",
"As a canadian expat in the states, this makes me home sick. Well done eh",
"I’m okay with that. I’d certainly be okay with being sent to space right about now. ",
"It's always been athletic, it's just now that there is more money behind the sport in Canada, so it is worth the athletes time to actually better themselves in the sport. Thus getting in better shape is a way to improve. It's similar to what has happened to golf in the last decade with Tiger Woods and a more athletic build of golfers",
"that's right. though improved fitness has many advantages, which is why pitchers in the mlb are more fit now than 10 years ago.\n\nthe same goes for curling. there are out of shape curlers, though improved competition is starting to make it necessary for top curlers to be in better shape. to quote the comment you originally replied to: \"The sport has gotten much more athletic in recent times.\"\n\nwhich is 100% correct, and for good reason.",
"What sport is this for cause that guy on the left dose not look like an athlete, let alone an Olympic athlete.",
"Correct, for example some people don't get jokes.",
"google.com or google.ca?",
"Oh congrats you used one of the 4 jokes about Canadians.\n\nOriginal!",
"Yeah technically speaking that's what a toque is, but the knit caps we're talking about still fit that criteria. People also say \"winter toque\" for example. Also, a google image search for both 'toque' and 'tuque' bring up really similar results",
"*3.5 Kilometers. WTF is a mile. ",
"When will they learn.",
"I had to edit for our Southern neighbours.",
"Can't they do math?",
"Fun fact, but did you know Canada has produced some of the worlds most accomplished snipers? Some experts even claim that they are the best in the world! Recently a Canadian sniper recorded the longest killshot on record at 3540 meters. ",
"Of course, but they never heard of a kilometer.",
"Off topic and random question, would you be possible to tell me what the tax rate is for a person making 40k, 70k in Canada? I know you have social health insurance. I’m just trying to find out what the difference would be like here in the US. Thanks ",
"Sure we have. It is a thousand meters of cocaine, right?",
"You mean equity package.",
"I do remember reading that of the top 10 snipers in the world 5 where Canadian.",
"..yes...yes it is.",
"I always thought it was a KILLA-GRAM. IE. the amount of cocaine it would take to kill you.",
"Wait Canada already won? Fucking TV in this coffee shop is replaying the matches then.... \nI was rooting for Canada anyway but now I feel lied to ",
"Ah, cool. Thanks",
"Do you think it occurred to him that the word humankind was available?",
"A KILLA-GRAM is a candy-gram preformed by a gangster rapper.",
"I commented on this during the semi finals. My husband curls, and works out to be fit for it. He was displeased that this was what an Olympic athlete looked like.\n\nThe other medal teams were much fitter looking",
"You know for sure he was making a joke and he didn't just say that as damage control?",
"That term is offensive to people who are biologically humanoid but self-identify as eggplants. You must have missed the daily sensitivity briefing. I'll send you the link.",
"Marginal tax calculations are on page 2 of each of these:\n\nFederal Worksheet: https://www.canada.ca/content/dam/cra-arc/migration/cra-arc/E/pbg/tf/5000-s1/5000-s1-17e.pdf\n\nOntario Worksheet: https://www.canada.ca/content/dam/cra-arc/migration/cra-arc/E/pbg/tf/5006-c/5006-c-17e.pdf\n\nFor 40k it's 20.05% (lowest bracket)\n\nFor 70k it's a marginal calculation (second tax bracket), I'm too lazy to do it myself",
"The lower you can hold a lunge, and the more steady you are in it improves your control. This is a function of leg, hip and core strength. More high level athletes in the sport are honing in on specific exercises that target those area and improve their physical performance. ",
"Canada historically reaps in medals in the winter Olympics ",
"I need that link too. Today I accidentally referred to my biological brother as a him, but I know he prefers heteroshuriken.",
"It's just a hologram. Koreans knows this tech",
"Oh and yes he’s pulling off her arm now, the teammate is screaming with pain, and yes! Yes the arm is off, and he’s placing it in the ceremonial pudding, as is tradition. What a great day for Canada, and therefore the world.",
"It's because in Canada our knees bend the other way, so everyone makes fun of us when we crouch",
"Well, \"people\" comes from the latin populus, which comes from the proto-italic poplos, meaning army, and the word army refers specifically to those with arms, so that is offensive to those without arms. How could you?",
"It did, but it was a joke he made making fun of someone he was talking to. But no one reads past a headline.",
"Yes, someone posts this on Reddit literally every week.",
"No. That would be Base 10 math.\n\nWe use Base 6 math in Canada.",
"Thanks very much for this info. I really appreciate it and taking the time. I know it’s always the same debate which is better. Personally I’d go with your system where people don’t go bankrupt bc of medical bills. ",
"[If you actually listened to the question he was responding to](https://youtu.be/JDAYH0GSDWs?t=3990) you can tell his \"peoplekind\" comment was a complete joke. I hate outrage culture these days.\n\nPlease read past the headlines people.",
"To be honest, I had mixed feelings about watching",
"The dude on the left is Martin Rios. He's a well known person in Swiss curling. Those who know him can tell you that his chubby appearance is misleading. That dude is a sport machine.",
"As long as your not a native? ",
"I thought just the tops of their heads levitated.",
"It's mixed Curling, first time an olympic event (normal Curling has been part of the olympics since 1998). \nThe team on the left is the Swiss team. The dude is Martin Rios, well known among Swiss curlers. Those who know him can tell you that his chubby looks are misleading. He's fit as fuck and an overall sport machine.",
"Ok I watched the clip and now I'm more confused than ever. It's clear to see that he's trying to get the question-giver to wrap it up because she's going on for like 3 minutes but I'm not sure how \"actually we like to say peoplekind\" is a joke in this context. \n\nAm I just stupid cuz I really don't get it; it seems like he's earnestly encouraging the usage of \"peoplekind\" despite his exhaustion with her elongated question. ",
"Crop the girls hair out and she might look like a slightly smaller version of the dude",
"Even as far as jokes go, it was a bit of a dud, though.",
"Especially those from Persontoba.",
"Yeah it was a bad joke, he even admitted that.",
"The Swiss dude blew a bunch of shots in the gold medal game and Canada pounced. \n\nHe screwed up and he knows it. ",
"Yes, he commented that it was a joke.\n\nIt was a perfectly appropriate joke. You have a person who was ranting for five minutes about pronouns, who (perhaps accidentally) says the word \"mankind\" and he interjects with \"peoplekind\" to both signal that he's listening, and that what she's actually saying is so out there and such a tall order that even she gets tripped up with it.",
"Preposterous! Gold (or “*Aurum*” as it is known in latin) Has been shown to increase levitating ability in Canadians. If it were solid gold, they both would be levitating. ",
"Not just the humankind, but the huwomenkind and the huchildrenkind too.",
"They also look like very salty silver medal winners.....",
"Also the Russians and the Canadians are just some pretty attractive people. ",
"I only have one arm. So I'm just slightly offended.",
"I think the intent is to lighten the mood of the crowd after the question person talking on and on. It was a lame joke - picking 'peoplekind' over the obvious choice 'humankind' - most likely to poke fun at his party's focus on gender politics. He didn't pick the ungendered word; he picked the *most* ungendered thing that could ostensibly pass for a word.",
"Even the Soviet Union has more gold medals than Canada and they don't even exist anymore. How does that feel, Canada?",
"The Canadian floating curler is a hottie",
"I don’t really buy the joke line. I mean sure maybe he was joking but the person he was talking to agreed and thanked him whiles the audience went apeshit. \n\nI do believe that the Canadian PM doesn’t honestly think we should be using the word people kind but if it wins him progressive points I think he would say anything. ",
"Half-offended*\nIf you had nubs it’d be slightly offensive",
"The least offensive thing about thalidomide ",
"this, it even played well in the room people laughed!",
"funny, I just assumed they were american.",
"We've been doing better than you (American I assume) since 2010 and very close for a long time before that. And we have 10 times less people than you. If the us had a athlete per capita similar to Canada's, there would be more than 2000 us athletes in the Olympics. Also, [the American team didn't look very fit either.](https://imgur.com/gallery/HWhp0) ",
"\"This is part of the canadian lifestyle for the last decades, and levitation classes are amongst the most popular in the country, surpassing engineering and medicine courses\" -NBC Commentator. ",
"That’s hupeoplekind if you’re as pc as he is. ",
"Skills > appearances. Welcome to sports. ",
"...or it went over so poorly in the press that days later he claimed it was a joke. Can't be sure either way. Watching it myself, it didn't seem to be a joke... but that would be true of any unfunny person trying to make a joke.",
"I think this event (mixed doubles) is a bit different since they are constantly dashing to the rock to sweep it, either from the far end or from the hack after throwing said rock. So while it's not really on the same level as other Olympic sports, like speed skating for example, this is probably the most taxing curling format and something that would leave a non-athlete or even a non-curler very tired and sore. ",
"You're correct... sorry",
"I have to have a very high iq to be Canadian ",
"it was a troll",
"check their budget.",
"Kaitlyn lowkey hot 10/10 would smash",
"oh they are, the dude totally choked, they conceded before the match was over.",
"They were wearing T's during the match.",
"the 2 person game involves a lot more sweeping.",
"No, I'm from Norway. You have 7 times more people than us and we're still dominating you.\n\nAlso, there would not be 2000 us athletes. There is a cap on how many athletes a country can have. If I recall correctly, the number max number this year would be somewhere around 306 with another 102 standbys. (Don't quote me on that)",
"Super super agree",
"Damnit, spoiled the gold medal curling match. Was gonna watch that tonight!",
"Found Ochako's sister",
"speaking of spoilers Fuck you CBC for using Canada wins gold in curling as the title for a YouTube video.",
"Well then, I'm super excited that it's impossible to read every reply from every member each week on this wonderful site known as Reddit! Hopefully someone who finds it impossibly difficult to peruse the entirety of Reddit each week will read it and enjoy the information. \n\nThanks for your input Citizen! ",
"Unless you're Indigenous.",
"r/TIL",
"I know some Indian guys who do that for cricket. Except they leave work early, take a nap then wake up around midnight to watch a match which will hopefully only last a few hours. ",
"[Like when Niklas Edin throws](http://blog.markblinch.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/curling70254.jpg) \n\nThat takes a fair bit of fitness to be able to get to that position and be steady there... ",
"How so? Any justification for your statement?",
"I can't tell if you're being serious so just in case...\n\nKorea is 14 hrs ahead of est so prime time is always a replay for these Olympics. You gotta wake up early if you want to watch it live. ",
"Ok... in my defense, I totally forgot about the time difference....... \nthanks for making me realize how stupid I was. I’m gonna go stick my head in a hole now",
"Is that Babe Ruth?",
"I am having trouble finding any google results for sports other than curling that would corroborate your claim of athleticism.",
"I'm so sorry bud! No need to stick your head in a hole. Nobody know who you really are Mike. ",
"Im sure they ate some Swiss Chalet chicken after the match to solidify the victory over the Swiss.",
"Don't forget the ceremonial vanilla pudding, and gallon of maple syrup.",
"I’ve always wanted a nickname! From now on, call me Mike hahaha ",
"I imagined they did. Literally the math isn’t possible. ",
"Not surprised. Did they even start the 8th end? ",
"Not surprised. Did they even start the 8th end? \n",
"Okie dokie Mickey",
"ya its called jumping",
"That’s Marvin to you good sir",
"Nice! I've always wanted to be a man!",
"Oh shit hahaha well here’s to breaking down personal barriers! Cheers!",
"Was worth it though. Two great games. Way I see it, I can reset my sleep cycle after my patriotism levels have returned to more moderate levels lol",
"Bruh Norway only has 1 more medal than Canada...\n\n&nbsp;\n\nAlso, you know you're being extremely obnoxious and jingoist when a Canadian straight up just assumes you're American. ",
"Oh boy the Natives would beg to differ haha",
"Jesus Christ, that woman was such a misandrist, and so incredibly obnoxious to listen to.",
"Sorry aboot that eh.",
"So just because he said it was a joke makes it true? There's no chance it was just damage control at all?",
"It was a joke, in the moment, and less important he said so after the fact.\n\nIf you didn't get it, that's fine.",
"EXCUSE ME SIR! That kind of language is damaging an unacceptable to use in current you cis white male scum. The thought police will now escort you to reeducation. ^^^^^/s",
"What about the Canadian attack on the pronouns?",
"Bonspiel!\n\nDone properly no one can remember the score.",
"3rd place curlers look like they’re plotting their sweet sweet revenge. ",
"It's just more polite that way.",
"That's like golf too. You used to be able to be John Daly fat, and still be considered a top athlete. Now, the o be in the PGA you need five personal trainers... although, they are starting to let the players choose a bit more",
"Don't other countries have this ability?",
"Conceded after the 6th end I believe. Go Canada! 🇨🇦 ",
"Don't you mean \"Hupeoplekind\"?",
"Judging by how fat those \"Athletes\" are to the left, this must be curling.",
"Take a seat young icewalker.",
"didn't start 7th",
"It's really just gravity acknowledging the Canadians and returning some kindness.",
"Do you need to talk?",
"Nothing about what she said was misandry. I dont think she's quite all there, but also not being a misandrist. ",
"The future is going to think we all levitate in 2018. ",
"Are you really Norwegian though? Because in your post history you have a comment saying\n> I can answer that. I like low taxes, minimal government interference in my life and the rule of law actually being implemented. I also like that Trump doesn't pander to our enemies like the way Europe does. I hear liberals all the time talk about how we should be more like Europe(usually citing whatever free shit Europeans get) when they don't understand that Europeans left Europe because they didn't want to be like Europe.\n\nNot sure if you're a troll but yea...\nEdit: a word",
"As is tradition",
"I think we are currently running a terrible deficit. #Trudeau",
"It's that bad ass health Care system",
"Is that guy a fireman by day or did they just put him in some ridiculous getup ",
"Canadians are too polite to use this power in summer for long jump, high jump, etc.",
"I think he's just referring to Canada's generally appalling treatment of our native population. It's getting better, but there's still lots to be desired.",
"Taxes are different per province though, would be no different than per state in the US",
"I kinda like outraging the kind of person who would be upset about the term \"peoplekind.\" I think keeping them in a state of outrage will have a long-term net benefit for the electorate, given the health risks associated with negative emotions.",
"Now you all get what we're referring to when we say \"the true north, strong and free\"? ",
"Could you give any examples beyond this statement? What evidence are you referring to?",
"Do people from other countries not jump on the podium?",
"So if I’m reading the forms right taxes comes out to this at 40k:\n\nFederal at 15% which is 6k\n\nOntario province at 5% which is 2k\n\nThat’s 8k total\n\nThen the Ontario Health premium is $450 a month which would be $5,400 a year.\n\nGrand total in taxes is $13,400\n\nSo your take home pay is roughly $26,600 plus/minus city/county taxes",
"Possibly, I haven’t read it as I live in Alberta and we have different taxes here, you’re also missing things like EI, CPP and the sales taxes on goods and services\n\nAlso in Alberta healthcare is free and taken out of our taxes compared to what you posted about Ontario",
"Thanks for the insight. What’s ei and cpp? Never heard of it before ",
"You mean a McSwiss Curler",
"EI - employment insurance, eg you get laid off from work then you can claim money up to a certain amount while you look for a new job\nCPP - Canada pension plan, eg a retirement savings account setup by the government that everyone pays into unless you’re self employed",
"The peoplekin are good peoplekins!",
"Thanks again very helpful. Wowzers all of these taxes are adding up quick and take home pay is decreasing by a lot but guess it’s worth it in the end. That’s weird they make citizens pay for EI. Here in the states companies pay for EI. ",
"Do you accept American immigrants? Asking for a friend.",
"Well there’s an employee contribution and a employer contribution to EI and CPP, I would rather pay the taxes we have here and not have to worry about going bankrupt or paying the rest of my life from a hospital bill in the US though ",
"Ironically the one I want to buy is the sweater like burton. Unfortunately they are not available to the public..",
"Haha, he's a firefighter.",
"Well, that’s unsettling.",
"I levitate in my dreams. I literally fly around houses and trees and power lines and clouds with G-forces and everything. Totally fucking cool and totally weird as fuck. As a totally normal person, no 'mutant' narrative or anything. It's just normal I guess?",
"Good to know ...",
"Daaaaamn. ",
"7 trillion over 10 years?",
"You're not including the 11k basic deduction. Which amounts to an additional 1.65k off your taxes. So you're under 5k in federal tax. Same with Ontario, you get to claim 10k so that's an additional 500 back to you, at 1500.\n\nAlso 450 is the health premium for the tax year, not monthly. Grand total then is closer to 6-7k. You'll take home well over 30k with no other deductions. ",
"Still, they were up against heavy favourites ",
"I want them too! I keep looking everywhere to see if they’re being sold anywhere.",
"Shit! Betrayed by my post history! Dag nabbit!",
"I have to assume that they are just for the athletes. A real “shut up and take my money” sitch. ",
"\"Ewoks: A Provincial or Federal Responsibility?\"",
"Ah yes the levitating canadian\n",
"Oh wow thanks for correcting me. That is a big difference and you’re right puts it up to like 32-33k. That premium threw me for a loop. When I think premium I think monthly cost not a flat fee of 450 so yeah that’s makes a big change. It’s these situations that make me wish I was born in Canada lol I’d gladly trade our expensive healthcare, bloated defensive budget and everyone in the world hating us for your guys healthcare with a side of maple of syrup and poutine. :) thanks again for explaining it better for me. We in the states are really getting screwed over with high cost and declaring bankruptcy. Best wishes fellow north neighbor:) ",
"It's Person**i**toba... sheesh...",
"Go back to the 80s or earlier and curling was a joke. Corn brooms and bad ice, rocks picking was very common. With bars at every rink and from stories I've heard, even drinking on the ice, you don't end up with real athletes in a game that was basically enlarged shuffleboard. \n\nIt wasn't until the 90s after the corn broom was banned and the game became televised that it started to get regarded as a real sport. And thank goodness for that.",
"It could be argued that you could have an out of shape skip in traditional curling and the rest of the team that does the real sweeping be fit (ie Randy Ferbey) but there are no completely out of shape competitive teams. Between the Scotties and Brier combined, you can't pick out very many people that aren't near peak fitness. \n\nIn regards to mixed doubles, both team members will be doing sweeping, so Randy Ferbey wouldn't be able to hack it.",
"Curling Rocks!",
"What event was this from? That's a big squad the looks coed",
"It's the team figure skating event, where Canada was so far ahead of the other countries that Tessa and Scott (the final pair to skate) could have walked out on the ice, waved to the judges, walked off, and they still would have been guaranteed gold. They really do love to jump! https://imgur.com/30uznRj\n",
"How do you know without a doubt that it was a joke though?",
"Is this a philosophical question? I don't care about the politics side of it. It was a joke because I can identify jokes.",
"No, it's as simple a question as I can make. And since you can identify jokes, mind telling me what makes you 100% certain it was a joke?"
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"Depends...if these \"healthy\" bars are eaten as snack and not to accompany proper exercise then they are just as shit for you as a chocolate bar",
"Brown millky way?",
"I don't know, people that leave shit wherever they decide that they no longer want it, piss you off, if you have ever worked in retail. ",
"Don't even start on marathon bars, wtf is a snicker?",
"Tried one of the “healthy bars” \n\nTerribly sweet."
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"A vertical trolley?",
"Funicular railway (:",
"Sweet"
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"Wearing a Confederate flag doesn't necessarily mean you're a racist. You could just be a moron. ",
"In some Southern cultures the Rebel flag stands for pride in \"southern living\" and represents Rebellion against the man... NOT racism. But because certain affiliates have taken on that same flag as their symbol of their cause (which do have racist overtones), then people who are not from the South and are not familiar with the ever presence of this flag automatically associate it with \"racism\".\n\nIt would be like if a terrorist group started using the American flag as their symbol for hatred against certain American ideals. We wouldn't just throw away all of our American flags and say \"Oh well, that symbolism belongs to them now\"... No, we as proud Americans would continue to wear our American flags proudly on our sleeves, and from our trucks and from our flag-poles. \n\nWhat I'm saying is that just because YOU may see this as a representations of \"racism\", a lot of people see it as a symbol of pride in their region and rebellion against government oppression.",
"Exactly. ",
"> the Rebel flag stands for pride in \"southern living\" and represents Rebellion against the man... NOT racism. \n\nFucking lol",
"I see you removed your reply to me, so I shall add it here. \"Oh I've cracked many a book. Slavery was not the only reason the southern states tried to secede.\n\nAnd besides. I'm not talking about what that flag meant 150 years ago, I'm talking about what it means to some people nowadays.\n\nAnd quite frankly, your \"go fuck yourself\" attitude is more harmful than any point I'm trying to make. That's black vs white thinking when in reality there are many different shades of grey and blues.\"\n\nYou mind gracing us with your knowledge of what the other reasons the civil war occurred? You obviously have selective reading when it comes to history, or you only read books from O'Reilly \"Killing\" someone, or Newt Gingrich's book on \"Exceptional Americans.\" Slavery was important and vital to the South's economy, they seceded in order to protect that. So once again, your argument is not valid. \n\nPlease tell me why the KKK and Neo Nazis include the stars and bars in their uniforms? It's because their heritage of hate. \n\nLastly, me telling you to go fuck yourself is far more therapeutic and safer than say, driving your car through a crowd of counter protestors in Charlottesville. I also have NEVER met a person who flies the Confederate flag and also possesses an open mind or tolerance. \n\nOne more thing. Showing the symbol of insurrection and rebellion against the United States, as far as I'm concerned, is no different that flying the Nazi blood flag in Germany. The civil war and slavery are a stain on this nations history. It should be remembered but no celebrated. Go white splain elsewhere douche bag, Trump supporters need your help. \n",
"I like how you left out the part of the quote that says \"In some Southern cultures\"",
"> Go white splain elsewhere douche bag, Trump supporters need your help.\n\nAhhh the ole' fighting racism with racisim. You're a smart one.",
"First of all... I didn't remove anything. Secondly, if you want to learn more about the civil war or any subject for that matter, I'd suggest you go to a library, instead of just getting basic opinionated info off some random internet site. \n\nAnd again, I'm not saying that the Confederate battle flag isn't used by some evil organizations... I'm just saying that to some Southern cultures, it represents something different. If you're too thick to understand the differences, them I'm sorry about your lack of comprehensive abilities.",
"The racist ones?",
"\"So I took the Confederate flag and made it my flag. It’s my flag now. Now what are you going to do?” - Kanye, who sold confederate flag stuff on his Yeezus tour.\n\n\"I love Kanye no shots but my people continue to suffer psychologically from hardships that happened under that banner\" - Q Tip",
"Yes you did. I was in Gettysburg this summertime and doing quite a bit of research. I still would like to hear what other reasons the South wanted to secede. Answer that question instead of repeating the same statement with no support of proof. Only Trump is allowed to do that. ",
"I think flying/wearing the confederate flag is retarded, but wearing it doesn't automatically make you racist.",
"Trump is president now. Political correctness and decency has had it's day. Deal with it bitch. I have no problem with going lower. ",
"So you admit that it doesn't have anything to do with racism necessarily. But in the same breath claim it makes you retarded for displaying it for its positive attributes like pride and tradition. That's retarded.",
"Zero fashion sense doesn't equal hateful bigot. ",
"I think it's retarded because you're literally flying a flag of a US enemy. The confederates were the enemy of the USA. So I hate when people say it's \"patriotic\" because it's actually the opposite of that. So I do think that anyone who flies it proudly is dumb, but not necessarily racist. How do you explain the black people that fly the flag?",
"Are there other places where statues of the losers are revered and people still wave the losing flag?",
"The confederates weren't an enemy of the US. They were US soldiers and sailors. This is why you'll see confederate soldiers receiving the samed benefits as union soldiers after the war was over. It's because they were American veterans.",
"Well the rainbow is a sign for all the world to remember to be good amd dont do evil or perverse things or God will come and fuck this world up again but never again by water. However gays wear the rainbow as an F.U to God. So to each his own.\nSame goes for the Swastika. It means two different things one is for the Hindu religion and the other Nazis. ",
"This is why",
"Yep, proud of being racist!! everything you have said is nonsense-- when white southerners were fighting to keep Blacks as their property this flag was used .......",
"> It would be like if a terrorist group started using the American flag\n\nNo, it would be like if Southerners started flying the Nazi or ISIS flag and claimed they were just about pride and rebellion. ",
"Find me the part of the declaration of succession that says states rights.\n\n\n\nYou can't because it's not there. They only talk about slavery.\n\n\nThe whole states rights argument was literally made up by the daughters of the confederacy.\n\n\n\"We hold as undeniable truths that the governments of the various States, and of the confederacy itself, were established exclusively by the white race, for themselves and their posterity; that the African race had no agency in their establishment; that they were rightfully held and regarded as an inferior and dependent race, and in that condition only could their existence in this country be rendered beneficial or tolerable.\"",
"yet yanks constantly get uppity about the swastika or someone speaking arabic",
"If the south was the racist part, why did black people stay there en masse? Why did they also adopt the customs, food and music of the south? If the south was fucking horrible and hated black people, blacks should have noped the fuck out of there. But what is logic and reason right? Better do what the tv says and hate people for whatever reason they tell you huh. ",
"Your last Trump comment weakens your entire tirade. It shows who you are and where you are coming from: a small minded, racist, presumptuous, biased child who has never had an original thought, who perpetuates the deliberately orchestrated narrative as dictated by your owners. \n\nTrump and his supporters are not racists. A large part of Obama voters voted for Trump, and many are black. The media is lying to you. \n\nA recent study has shown that leftists and democrats have more racial bias than Trump supporters. The same study also demonstrated that democrats have more bias toward gays.",
"> But in the same breath claim it makes you retarded for displaying it for its positive attributes like pride and tradition. \n\nIt doesn't have any positive attributes. Flying it because you think it does is what makes one retarded.",
">The confederates weren't an enemy of the US.\n\nThey took up arms against the US. That makes them an enemy of the US.\n\n>They were US soldiers and sailors. This is why you'll see confederate soldiers receiving the samed benefits as union soldiers after the war was over.\n\nConfederate soldiers were never given US veteran status. In 1868, President Andrew Johnson issued pardons for confederate soldiers. The fact that they needed pardons should make it clear they weren't considered US veterans, and those pardons didn't change their status. Likewise, the 1957 act of congress, pushed by a pro segregation congressman, which granted some limited benefits to widows of confederate soldiers, also did not grant them the full legal status of US veterans.\n",
"Pretty sure that's exactly what it is. I lived in Virginia when I was in the Navy and most people said it just meant they were proud to be from the south. Many of them also said that the civil war was not really about slavery, and that was just a minor sidenote lol. I have seen an article that discussed that based on the state you live in in they teach the civil war differently. It went on to say that this is what led a decent amount of people to believe that it was not about slavery. ",
"I mean that flag was used to support slavery and keep it legal. How is that okay? Why not choose a different symbol, not one that was created to keep slavery legal.",
"Lol hundreds of years of slavery and they should just get out and leave. They knew nothing or nowhere else. Both sides we're racist. We barely got rid of segregation in the fifties. It was just that one side knew it was wrong and greed wasn't controlling them.You sound like you only listen to the t.v and really do not think deeper.",
"The south fought to end slavery. The north wanted to keep it. Unless you get your info from tv. Then you believe the opposite. \n\n> Lol hundreds of years of slavery and they should just get out and leave.\n\nYeah, if the south was truly horrible, like the tv wants you to believe, they would have left. Eventually. Not only did they not leave, they adopted the customs and life style. \n\n> You sound like you only listen to the t.v and really do not think deeper.\n\nReally? My points of view go directly against the brainwashing that is distributed by media like tv. ",
"There were a lot of people on the side of the North that wanted to keep slavery legal as well. ",
"Ya that's why the south was called \"the slavery party\" instead of \"the confederates\" wherein words no longer mean anything because your education told you so....",
"Dude, I'm a veteran. We learn in boot camp that civil war soldiers from both sides were given vet status",
"I think you mean the democratic party, look it up",
"just throwing in a thought here, I am in Canada and was taught in high school that the civil war was about slavery and about state rights at the same time, that it is a lot to do with taxation. Now I am probably wrong on that but that is what I was taught here.\nThat being said I have to say that slavery ended what 200 years ago? There is not a single person alive in the US that was a slave. Yes there are plenty that lived through racist laws and segregation, but not as slaves, there is a difference. As well this always confuses me why American black people act like they were the only ones that were slaves. in that time period it was common for black people in Africa to own slaves, it was common for Brown people in the mid. east to own slaves, it was common for Asians to own slaves. Not all slaves have been black either! Jews were taken slaves, whites were taken slaves, blacks were taken as slaves, browns, Asians, hell every race has been enslaved at one point or another! I'm Scottish and Irish and the Britts were trying to wipe us out long before they were any other! Slavery was not just in the US, however in the US millions of white people did die to stop it! just a couple of thoughts",
"Like christians taking the symbol of death and saying it's a symbol of resurrection!",
"Apparently education is something you need more of. Please google \"the slavery party\" and study the results.\n",
"Well then, you were lied to.",
"Well shit. It appears I was.",
"Wow. You truly are a product of right wing blogs and Fox news aren't you buddy? You're obviously not worth my time since there is no way to deprogram your conservative indoctrination. ",
"The slavery party is the democratic party. The confederation however was interested in a \"co federation of states\" which favored a weak federal government whereas the democratic party (the party of slavery) favors a totalitarian government - which also explains how it was busy ceding sovereignty to world government aka the UN. Which is necessary due to all the debt which facilitates \"state capture\" - because the present debt based monetary system is based on oil and narcotics. Whereas this is problematic because there cannot be any shortage of energy (if you are conscious enough and educated enough to understand why) and narcotics is an entire topic of illegality caused/brought about by the same people who hope to enslave you and always have. How is my knowing any of this possible? Because everyday I wake up thinking \"education is something I need more of\" and as such I've spent all my money and 30+ years of my adult life expanding my education. Do you think education is something that happens \"at college\" becoming capable of regurgitating what they \"tell you\" - or is it possible that critical thinking skills and the ability to cross reference and contextualize information might have value?",
"You didn't even address the point made. They knew nothing else, or no where else. 100% the main reason for the civil war was slavery. It's fact. You literally must be getting your sources from a skewed source.",
"Who does the tv say fought to abolish slavery?\n",
"\"The slavery party WAS the democratic party.\"\nI fixed it for you. Decades ago the majority who could have been supportive of that history part swapped the sides and has been part of the republican party for a quite a while now."
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"I don't read anything about this post as implying that it's bad ass or anything, it's just sharing a cool moment (using the word loosely) that he had. I say not appropriate for r/madlads. ",
"I agree, it is a cool moment. Just making a joke."
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"Awesome!",
"/u/cscarle91, thank you for your submission. Unfortunately, it has been removed for violating the following rule(s):\n\n* Rule I - No pictures with added/superimposed digital elements.\n\n\n\nFor information regarding this and similar issues please see the [rules](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/about/rules/) and [title guidelines](/r/pics/w/titles). If you have any questions, please feel free to [message the moderators.](https://www.reddit.com/message/compose?to=/r/pics&subject=Question regarding the removal of this submission by /u/cscarle91&message=I have a question regarding the removal of this [submission.](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/7x9qu0/4_years_clean_today/?context=10\\))",
"Super impressive! Keep fighting the good fight every day my BFAM"
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4 years clean today:)
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