You see Brendon it's like, there are decades where nothing happens, and weeks where decades happen. Ever heard that before? Know who said that? Lenin. You know Lenin, Brendon? From oh I don't know, the BEATLES?

A grinch? *takes a long pull from a whiskey bottle* Yeah, I killed one. Found it in an alley, matted fur, bloodshot eyes, had a dead who in its jaws. Poor fucker had tried to touch it with a thirty-nine-and-a-half foot pole. Shoulda been forty. *takes another long drink, slams the bottle down* Held its throat shut till its limbs stopped thrashing. Saw the light fade from its eyes. Didn't even realize till it was over the damn thing took one of my fingers. After that, I swore to myself, I was done. Threw my who-hatchet in the lake...

this is just truthslop.you believe it because it happens to conform to reality

on being yourself

me: ah nooo i accidentally cut myself. come look at this cut

my haemophiliac friend: you know that's not what it means right?

just rewatched t2

Actually this time probably not. The writing was on the wall way before Reagan became president, and the steel mill closed in November 1981, barely ten months into his president.

He was governor of California during that "writing on the wall" period. He was the one writing. It was his wall.

Oh. Well don't I look stupid now.

Terrible news: you learned something today

in my minecraft server there's a 1/5000 chance of a skeleton running across your screen at any given moment, and sometimes it really scares me

sleeping on the floor is making a comeback after i was in the woods for 12 hours and fell asleep on my doormat after getting home.

maybe it shouldn't. I woke up convinced there was a portal opening to the rat dimension next to me but it was my headlamp

you need to go back to the rat dimension they need your help

last time i listen to you

A most beautiful interaction I had on Grindr tonight

video games be like "you can be fat!" and the option is just your character twice as wide

where is that palworld post

legitimately worldview altering realisation and i'm not even employed right now

petition to relabel "strong sense of justice" in autism and adhd to "strong personal convictions"

is this orange or yellow.

its yellow you are all wrong i have decided just now

hey op, what does this say?

nice try but i’m not colorblind it says 71

Am I tripping?

Is that not 71?

You’re slightly colorblind, that is 74 and the color of the car is orange.

world heritage post

It’s orange

it’s literally 71

Bestie it’s 74

Y’all it clearly fucking says 21

where are you getting that from?

Babes it’s 81 what r yall seeing

its 74 bestie you might be colorblind

That 81 person can see shrimp colors

I took exactly the same image, increased the saturation, and shifted it to a part of the spectrum most people can see better.

For all your no-YOU-have-the-weird-color-vision argument-solving needs.

Also, the car is orange.

Posting this in case anyone is color blind and doesn’t know it lmao

@cartoondog

So, I wanted to identify the car, and I was dead set on Subaru because those looked like a Subaru door handle and the Sunshine Orange Subaru painted the XV, known in the US as the XV Crosstrek because I don’t write the jokes about yankees needing shit spelled out, the world writes them and I just read them aloud.

So surely this is the car in picture, one would think, especially once assured by Google Lens that that’s what the picture depicts. But there’s one conclusion I kept coming back to:

Yes, people. Someone out there not only cares what car we think that is but is actively working to deceive us into thinking that is the last generation of the car I keep having to remind myself is not spelled Crosstek. But I will not fall for it, and with my help neither will you!

From such a closeup, in fact, one would surely, if not notice the upper feature line being a nick further out than the upper edge of the handle hole, at least notice the presence of a lower feature line below it, or at the VERY least the doorline curve to its right being concave and not convex.

So perhaps the previous generation had the simpler lines we’re looking for?

Yes, but also a handle recess that does not reach all the way to the back of the handle, so, having gotten back to square one, I resorted to a cunning strategy: waiting ‘til I got home and finding the picture source on my computer.

(Which I could still do on my phone too if Google wasn’t hellbent on pretending Lens could ever be a serviceable replacement for the OG reverse image search when you can’t even sort matches by fucking size and its idea of exact matches is as accurate as my idea of staying on topic speaking of which what were we talking about I swear this never happens.)

And I found it’s a 2009-2014 Subaru Liberty (name by which Aussies got the Legacy ‘till 2020).

But, oh the irony, the orange that clued me onto the Subaru brand altogether? It never adorned this generation. And this, as you can see in this more accurate lighting, is not even that orange. Because as it turns out…

Indeed, in the ultimate act of deceit, what you were looking at wasn’t yellow paint nor orange paint for, being a wrap, it wasn’t paint altogether!

This explains what would otherwise be a bafflingly uninteresting picture: in any normal car, that’s just a door handle. In a car basically coated with sticker, that is a flex.

And yes, fortunately, the filename can chime in in the debate.

Not saying that a color necessarily is anything someone making it is willing to say it is, but if you mean to insist that this is yellow…

…well, go tell 3M that. Or go get told that by 3M! They do offer samples.

Links in blue are posts of mine about the topic in question: if you liked this post, you might like those - or the blog’s Discord server, linked in the pinned post!

EDIT: This is, by some order of magnitude, this blog’s most popular post, and I’m happy to have entertained so many. If you’re one of them, like @uxbridgeenglishdictionary here…

…I have great news for you: there’s now a spinoff blog called @what-is-this-car, dedicated to identifying make, model, generation and year of vehicles seen around or sent its way, and explaining what gave them away! I work on it with the very appreciated help of many talented friends, and I’d love of you to check it out. (And, well, to check this blog out too, if you have the time.) Thanks! :)

Also, @furreteatingicecream posted a render of what the picture looks like to those suffering from protanomaly (or red-weak colorblindness), courtesy of color-blindness.com’s color blindness simulator.

If you think this doesn’t look any different, well, we may have worked out why you don’t think it’s orange.

this is what it looks like for people who were born with purplevision

@miata-detector

welithinkitsnotlikelybutjeeezlouisethispostislongsoicantconfirmonewayortheother…

Dear @bothsloth and @miata-detector, this is a 1989-1993 first generation (or NA) Mazda Miata.

See: lack of side markers denoting an American example as explained in this post by wrap discoverer @things-about-cars-in-posts (the car would have another name if sold elsewhere as explained in this other post from said blog), the Mariner Blue color offered between 1989 and 1993 (a color list is available in this other post again), the Mazda sticker on the bumper instead of the badge it was replaced by in 1993 as detailed in this other other other post.

The Mazda Miata has -as may have been realized- extensively been discussed by @things-about-cars-in-posts, including most infamously in a not-yet-given-up-on series of posts about the insane, unending list of modifications that would make for the author’s dream example. - @tumblehcendrum

well, theres just no way to know for sure