# Does your mind throw up the same stock photos as mine? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 2, 2012, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-your-mind-throw-up-the-same-stock-photos-as-mine/620623 "2012-05-02T11:22:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2012, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-your-mind-throw-up-the-same-stock-photos-as-mine/620623/1 "2012-05-02T11:22:52Z")
I hate the establishment shot: we’re told we’re in London with an opening shot of Westminster Hall and Big Ben, then on to a story that has nothing to do with UK government. But I wonder if my mind still requires this, and if what I see when a topic is raised, is it the same as most everyone else? When I think about three cities during WWII, each starting with the letter L, is the image that comes to my mind the same as yours? Los Angeles in WWII: a serviceman beating up a Hispanic zoot-suiter London in WWII: a firefighter among collapsing brick buildings Lenningrad in WWII: a corpse being pulled on a child’s sled What stock photos does your mind keep on file? ---
**Author:** ![Pai325](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Pai325](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pai325)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2012, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-your-mind-throw-up-the-same-stock-photos-as-mine/620623/2 "2012-05-02T12:38:21Z")
I agree with London, but my stock photos for the others are different. For LA it’s just a landscape with heat, haze, and palm trees, although there probably wasn’t smog back then. For Leningrad, it’s a frozen soldier, eyes open and seemingly staring ahead.