# Is this a picture of \[a\] or \[b\]

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [October 4, 2010, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-a-picture-of-a-or-b/556006 "2010-10-04T15:36:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![Suil\_Dubh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85f322/32.png) [@Suil\_Dubh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suil_Dubh)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2010, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-a-picture-of-a-or-b/556006/21 "2010-10-04T22:21:22Z")

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Boulder

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**Author:** ![Tethered\_Kite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a5b964/32.png) [@Tethered\_Kite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tethered_Kite)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2010, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-a-picture-of-a-or-b/556006/22 "2010-10-04T22:25:38Z")

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At first glance I thought it was someone with long hair embracing a young woman.

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**Author:** ![Miss\_Woodhouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/838e76/32.png) [@Miss\_Woodhouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Woodhouse)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2010, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-a-picture-of-a-or-b/556006/23 "2010-10-04T22:46:53Z")

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Shoulder, clearly.

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**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2010, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-a-picture-of-a-or-b/556006/24 "2010-10-04T23:02:01Z")

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WARNING… although this pic is actually perfectly innocent, some people will see something shockingly rude. Not recommended for work viewing!

[Ambiguous image](http://i.imgur.com/P7Qw7.jpg).

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**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2010, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-a-picture-of-a-or-b/556006/25 "2010-10-05T01:17:39Z")

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I don’t see how all you guys are seeing all these details unless you are blowing the image up. It’s tiny.

The only thing that lets me know it isn’t a boob is that most women don’t shrink that rapidly from their bust. But you can easily imagine some sort of cloth obscuring the rest of the body.

That said, when I saw it, I saw a generic blob with a hand on it, then an armpit. I didn’t see boob or shoulder until I was told to do so. And I was only sure it was a shoulder after zooming in.

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