Thanks! I wonder if part of the problem has been that I expect too much—a full color, detailed shark rather than the basic outline of one, for instance.
It’s a Schooner…
My problem is that it’s way easier for me to see them ‘inside out’ or as a hole instead of a 3-d pop-out. I think it has to do with your eyes focusing in front of the image rather than behind.
Yes, as the article points out, some people can see an image in a wall-eyed way. Some can see an image in a cross-eyed way. Some can do both. Some can do neither. Vision (and that included both what’s going on in the eyes and what’s going on in the brain) works differently in different people.
I wasn’t around in that era, but my current impression of the situation was that it maybe happened once or twice at most, but there were also big pro-war sectors of society that really wanted to portray anti-war people as barbaric, and repeated/invented/exaggerated those incidents to the point where they became folklore.
Nowadays the anti-Vietnam-war people have “won” the history books, but little tidbits like that are leftover from the pro-war people.
I’ve had that happen. If a kid has just been given a cookie at the mall or is eating french fries at a restaurant, he’s going to be pretty well-behaved (how he was behaving while waiting might have been a different story), and something about vivid red hair on a toddler really attracts comments.
My gf could probably stand some anger management counseling. I once found an odd piece of plastic on the basement floor. I figured out it was part of a clock radio, like the one my gf had, then when I went to confirm this the clock radio was gone.
When I asked where her clock radio was, she told me it broke so she threw it away. Further questioning led me to discover that “it broke” when she threw it as hard as she could to the basement floor. She was “springing forward”, kept having difficulties, so she took it downstairs.
It may not actually happen a lot, but I suspect there are a lot of people who can at least empathize with wanting to break something because it frustrates you.
I promise it happened post-Katrina, and at times other than Mardi Gras.
We also saw a drunk guy in a kilt sitting on the curb, then he passed out. A woman walked over and flipped his kilt up, getting cheers from revelers.
From this point forward, i shall claim that this happens all the time just
so that it does count! Nice one !
Women do routinely take their tops off, not during Mardi Gras, at the beach (there are also nude beaches, of course).
I can sometimes sort of de-focus, and if I’m reading M-E I perceive it as E-M. But maybe the E is at 10 o’clock and the M is at 4 o’clock. That doesn’t work either for perceiving these images however.
Ever see this?
I can’t find the one where he blended in with the stone column.
She must have had quadruplets. LOTS of formula. That is why I raised my eyebrow.
Not that it was anything I thought was fraud, just all those babies and of course she needed the energy drink.
Huh, that could be, but it wasn’t what I was thinking at the time. But yeah, baby formula is easy to sell without taking a huge discount. Maybe??
I can but it takes a while and sometimes I get a headache, so I don’t bother.
I know this is something that happens a lot. But I have only witnessed it a couple times in my life: illegal drug use. I remember being at a party in the 1980s where someone snorted a line of cocaine. Was also at a couple parties in the 80s where people were smoking pot.
And… that’s all I can recall. I must live in a bubble. 
Or you go to the wrong parties. 
You probably do live in a bubble. I rarely saw coke; but pot, acid, hash and shrooms were pretty common. Then I got older and stopped seeing any of it.
Now pot is back but it is also legal in more states than not.
At the animal shelter, I’ve never once seen someone try to come in to adopt a black cat in order to torture or sacrifice them around Halloween. I’ve also never seen one come in having been the victim of any halloween-related torture, never seen anything like a pattern of people’s inside/outside pet black cats going missing, never seen people bringing black cats in right after Halloween because they got them as decoration, or any other black cat/Halloween-related shenanigans. So no, we don’t restrict adoptions on black cats around Halloween because it’s really not necessary.
We do get lots of people acting like fools around Christmastime (pets make terrible gifts and REALLY terrible last-minute gifts) but we don’t really get a big surge of people wanting to give up their Christmas puppies/kittens in January. We do have people all year round who want to get rid of their 5-to-12-month-old pups for reasons that amount to “they got bigger and teenage puppies are a lot of work” but there’s not a surge that corresponds with Christmas. Ditto the whole “getting rid of the old dog to make room for the Christmas puppy” thing. We get those all year round, but not noticeably more at Christmas.
However, there IS a big surge of people calling us to try to give up rabbits (which we don’t take) about a month after Easter every year.
In unrelated-to-animals world, I’ve never, especially not when I was a kid, had a stranger come up to me in a public place and pressure me to do drugs.
I never saw it then, either.
I really hope that last line was supposed to be sarcastic.
Different bubble than mine, clearly!
Cocaine I’ve only seen a couple of times, years ago. Marijuana, I’ve seen quite a lot of, and also assorted acid/ psilocybin/etc, or at least things that were supposed to be; all of them more rarely since I got out of my 20’s. There’s also underage alcohol, though you may not have been thinking of that.
Me neither.
Actually I don’t think I’ve ever had anyone, stranger or not, pressure me to do drugs. Offer, yes. Pressure, no. (And the offering wasn’t by strangers in random public places; it was either friends, or people I didn’t know but in a situation in which lots of people were getting stoned – concerts or parties, that sort of thing.)
My brother delivered pizzas in his youth, and the closest he ever came to encountering anything like this was a woman who answered the door wearing nothing but a sweatshirt. She reached around the door to hand him the money and take the pizza, and there was a big mirror on the opposite wall, which was how he knew this.
It kind of makes me think that the cat had a good reason to bite him.
It’s legal in 18 states (and in the District of Columbia, the Northern Mariana Islands, and Guam) to use it recreationally, which isn’t quite a majority. You can look up the populations of all 21 and add them together to see if that adds up to a majority of the population. Also, there are other states, etc. where it’s legal to use it for medical uses: