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Geek Culture / Amazing Optical Illusion

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Fallout
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Posted: 28th Jun 2010 23:23 Edited at: 28th Jun 2010 23:28
I thought this was current enough to deserve it's own thread. I got this in an email from my dad. Check out the amazing optical illusions.





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BiggAdd
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Posted: 29th Jun 2010 00:07
That is amazing. I can see the ball in the net, but I know it isn't, based on the decision by a professional referee.

Its a good job he saw through this baffling optical illusion.

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Posted: 29th Jun 2010 00:41
It's as baffling as that 'goal' that won England the world cup in 66

Or as baffling as it's significance in a 4-1 gubbing...

Sorry, I feel bad for all the fans who...

* Got their hopes up.
* Prayed for months that the illustrious Rooney wouldn't strain a metatarsle or get someones granny pregnant.
* Bought countless crates of beer with England flags on.
* Took a day off work to watch the first game of football they've watched in 4 years.
* Bought a brand new world-cup ready flat screen TV when they didn't really need one.
* Read a newspaper and forgot the last 10 or so world cups.
* Encouraged James Corden by not instinctively hating him.
* Bought 'Singing for England', again.

Hold on in there England, there's always Andy Murray to support


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Posted: 29th Jun 2010 01:15
So Mr Van B, I think you've just revealed your true location

I work with a wee lassie (condescending, patronising terminology intended) who is Scottish and lived in Germany for a few years as a child. I'm soooo glad she was on holiday today!

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Posted: 29th Jun 2010 02:43
If BatVink is to be correct on your location, i believe you're just bitter because you did not qualify.

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Posted: 29th Jun 2010 09:57
Hehe, our last world cup song was 'Don't come home too soon' by Del Amitri - seriously, it was the most misserible world cup song ever...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9Lf6P_zPO4

We don't even get our hopes up, even on the rare occasions that we do qualify. We always get rediculous circumstances to get beyond the first round, anyway. Scotland will never win the world cup, if we got bitter at that, then how the hell would we have time to get bitter at absolutely everything else?

At least the world cup focusses our bitterness, if nothing else .


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Posted: 29th Jun 2010 12:07
Quote: "Or as baffling as it's significance in a 4-1 gubbing...
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I was under no illusion that England would win, but that would have made the match 2-2 and then you never know what might have happened.

Quote: "It's as baffling as that 'goal' that won England the world cup in 66 "


More than one of the England goals were suspect in that match.

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Posted: 29th Jun 2010 19:01
...well after staring at the picture for 5 mins and then reading the posts, I finally got this thread...sigh, I'm American and don't watch too much soccer.

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Posted: 29th Jun 2010 19:17
If you were to see the Illusion in true 3d I bet there would be no Illusion!

I dont know how to spell
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Posted: 30th Jun 2010 02:23
Quote: "If you were to see the Illusion in true 3d I bet there would be no Illusion"


Indeed. From this 3D picture, we swap the illusion for the truth.



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Posted: 30th Jun 2010 06:09
No thats 2d, when you see something with both eyes, you have whats called true 3d and your brain doesn't interpret 3d from 2d.

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Posted: 30th Jun 2010 08:42 Edited at: 30th Jun 2010 08:43
Quote: "Hehe, our last world cup song was 'Don't come home too soon' by Del Amitri - seriously, it was the most misserible world cup song ever..."


As close as that song came to making me want to kill myself, this one seems to have pushed me off the edge, where are the razors when you need them...

Quote: "I was under no illusion that England would win, but that would have made the match 2-2 and then you never know what might have happened."


I know. As the second half rolled in with a tied score of 2-2, Rooney managed to give the ball away for the 6 gajillionth time resulting in another goal from the German squad. At 3-2 the english team pushed forward before another shot from Lampard , at 42 yards away, spooned above the crossbar. There was a moment of silence from the commentators just before they reminded us (yet again) that we once one the world cup sometime (it might have been before the war, but it was so long ago now, who really remembers? ). As the England defence were dancing around the Maypole and generally playing grab arse with their fellow team mates, the german attack had more than enough time for a quick pint of pilsner and a plate of Schnitzel before ultimately slipping a goal past James, the only working member of the English squad.
As the match closed the English fans held their heads in shame. They hid their elderly from Rooney as they made their way to the airport to burn all of the flags smothering their houses back home. All the time wondering why they saved up four years of wages to simply get drunk in a hot place.

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Posted: 30th Jun 2010 11:30
Quote: "All the time wondering why they saved up four years of wages to simply get drunk in a hot place."


To be fair, that pretty much describes every package holiday this side of Blackpool.

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Posted: 1st Jul 2010 18:39
The first ever official international match was between Scotland and England in 1872 in Glasgow ( 0 - 0 ). Apparently fans from both sides got on perfectly well until the 1970's when it all went sour.

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Quote: "All the time wondering why they saved up four years of wages to simply get drunk in a hot place"
It's the winter there. It's bloody cold and wet! Much like our summers...

I heard once that Scotland qualified for the world cup a couple of times but were second to England in qualifications. They promptly rejected entry to the competition (even though they had qualified) because of being second to England

I'm now safely back in my Welsh camp (family are all Welsh, I was born in Cambridge) for obvious reasons. Not even my back up team Italy (lived there for a few years as a kid) or Greece (lived in Cyprus for a couple of years) could help me out this time...

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Posted: 2nd Jul 2010 19:02
Quote: "There was a moment of silence from the commentators just before they reminded us (yet again) that we once one the world cup sometime (it might have been before the war, but it was so long ago now, who really remembers?"


I remember!

Sad, but true.
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Posted: 2nd Jul 2010 19:18
Quote: "Hold on in there England, there's always Andy Murray to support"


but he's from Scotland

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Posted: 2nd Jul 2010 19:27
And he has a mild distaste for the English! So WHY do we support him? Because we're so desperate to have someone to back. Pathetic! COME ON NADAL!!!

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Posted: 2nd Jul 2010 20:53
The Sun reffered to him as Surrey based Andy Murray. The commentators didn't mention the fact that he's Scottish once. He'll be Scottish again tomorrow though .


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Posted: 3rd Jul 2010 00:25
ehm... here in italy, as former world champion but didn't qualify with 1 loss (with slovakia...... ) and 2 x, what we have to say....

ciao faccie da sedere!

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