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A screengrab from the end of Transformers – Revenge of the Fallen.
The Unspecified Thing That Looks Like Ireland: broadsheet@broadsheet.ie
(Thanks Alan O’Sullivan)
Diarmiuid Brophy sez:
Taken some years ago in Culebra, off the Caribbean Island of Puerto Rico. Might this be the first pothole in the shape of Ireland received?
Yes.
The Unspecified Thing That Looks Like Ireland: broadsheet@broadsheet.ie
We posted this (completely innocent) pic a while back.
Now, someone’s gone to the trouble of collecting a few more (probably NSFW despite how much you argue to the contrary) examples of ‘rude’ pareidolia.
Rude Illusion Parade (Forgetmori) (like we said, probably NSFW)
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That idiot on the right is drinking on the dancefloor in clear breach of Health and Safety regs.
What?
It’s not the first time we’ve seen this kind of thing.
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A close-up image of a blood vessel in the brain has amazed scientists with its likeness to Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.
Researchers at Newcastle University were studying the inner workings of neurons in the hippocampal region of the brain and when they looked at the image they were stunned by the find.
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A patch of missing fur on the back of Vladimir Putin the rabbit in the shape of a…
…nothing. It’s all in your mind.
Pareidolia: what is it, and show me another, absolutely stunning example of it, this instant.
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Pareidolia is the psychological phenomenon whereby the mind perceives significance in random stimulus (hearing hidden messages in records played backwards, seeing faces in clouds, etc.)
This amazing, (un-retouched) photo of condesation patterns on the windows of her Texas office block was taken by Esther Radican.
It’s nothing. Just your mind playing tricks.
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