...for players and plastic surgeons

July 10, 2008 6:34 AM

[SO VERY NSFW] Fake or Not? The site will show you ten pictures of boobies, a pair at a time. You must determine whether or not they are augmented. Wes Cherry, creator of Solitaire for Windows, aptly cites it as one of his three favorite websites. [via memepool]
posted by not_on_display (104 comments total)

Doesn't work at all. I studied 20 tits but the game claims I only viewed 10.
posted by rokusan at 6:44 AM on July 10, 2008 [2 favorites]

"apt" because, you know, solitaire. I forgot to say, "good luck racking up a high score!"

***dodging thrown rotting fruit***
posted by not_on_display at 6:44 AM on July 10, 2008

The real boobs are the people that go to this site more than once.
posted by Slack-a-gogo at 6:45 AM on July 10, 2008 [8 favorites]

If I want to see a pair of boobs I'll watch Abbott and Costello.
posted by Mister_A at 6:46 AM on July 10, 2008

This is so 1998, but apparently has staying power, the power of the boob.
posted by stbalbach at 6:47 AM on July 10, 2008

I can only win about 1 out of 4 games. Am I crap?

Wes Cherry responds:

I suggest redefining "winning" to mean "slacking at work".

Then we're all winners.
posted by three blind mice at 6:48 AM on July 10, 2008

Great Tits.
Real Boobies.
posted by Floydd at 6:50 AM on July 10, 2008 [2 favorites]

I clicked the back button and got an "error no boobs found..." message. I am not very good at this "game." Off to go look in the mirror some more.
posted by jessamyn at 6:51 AM on July 10, 2008 [5 favorites]

10 for 10.

I am the titty king!
posted by Mikey-San at 6:56 AM on July 10, 2008 [1 favorite]

I really hope someone comes in here and complains about 'boyzone' and it gets deleted. You know, for the sake of consistency.
posted by spicynuts at 7:00 AM on July 10, 2008

memepool... it was there I found metafilter. I didn't know it was still around, even if only just.
posted by the christopher hundreds at 7:02 AM on July 10, 2008 [3 favorites]

memepool... it was there I found metafilter.

Wow, you and me both! I wonder if there are many more of us around here?
posted by Pollomacho at 7:05 AM on July 10, 2008

memepool... it was there I found metafilter.

I found MeFi independently and much, much later than memepool. But my first thought when recognizing MeFi for the first time was like, "Oh, it's like a memepool that actually has regular new posts!"
posted by not_on_display at 7:10 AM on July 10, 2008 [4 favorites]

7 out of 10. Bah.
posted by ThePinkSuperhero at 7:10 AM on July 10, 2008 [1 favorite]

I like boobs.
posted by kbanas at 7:12 AM on July 10, 2008

9 out of 10.
posted by jpburns at 7:13 AM on July 10, 2008

Holy crap . . . memepool. I'm fairly sure that's where I discovered MeFi as well.
posted by The Bellman at 7:16 AM on July 10, 2008

This site struck me as kind of racist. Almost all of the pictures were of Caucasians.
posted by Mr. President Dr. Steve Elvis America at 7:17 AM on July 10, 2008

<offtopic>
Yup MeFi via MemePool; back then I liked MetaFilter more because memepool had this habit of posting big long winded posts with lots of random links in them.. MeFi was more succinct and to the point.. I mean catscan - genius. Sigh...

(Now I've turned to reddit for all my simple linky goodness)
</offtopic>
posted by zeoslap at 7:17 AM on July 10, 2008

Wow, you and me both! I wonder if there are many more of us around here?

Me, I think, it was a long ass time ago.
posted by Divine_Wino at 7:18 AM on July 10, 2008

When is this thread going to turn into a huge discussion of western body identity, body modification, women's rights and medical disasters? Soon I hope.
posted by fuq at 7:20 AM on July 10, 2008 [1 favorite]

Who actually confirmed these ratings? How do we know that the reports are correct? I demand independent conformation. Preferably by my own bad self.
posted by cccorlew at 7:21 AM on July 10, 2008

Everyone has the right to modify their disastrous body identity, medically. In the west.
posted by everichon at 7:31 AM on July 10, 2008

When is this thread going to turn into a huge discussion...

Now that you've set the expectation it won't occur naturally, but rather through artificial emotional augmentation. We'll all know it's fake but we'll revel in it anyways.
posted by CynicalKnight at 7:32 AM on July 10, 2008 [3 favorites]

We'll all know it's fake

You wound me, CynicalKnight.
posted by everichon at 7:34 AM on July 10, 2008

another memepool convert here...
posted by anthill at 7:45 AM on July 10, 2008

And another...
posted by 445supermag at 7:57 AM on July 10, 2008

"I clicked the back button and got an "error no boobs found..." message."

Of course. Who would have boobs on her back?
posted by mr_crash_davis at 8:02 AM on July 10, 2008 [2 favorites]

memepool 2000! (i think)
posted by gorgor_balabala at 8:05 AM on July 10, 2008

4 of 10...apparently I don't know tit. Visually that is.

My youngest brother, the playa of the family, says the "bolt ons" are cold and hard.
posted by aiq at 8:10 AM on July 10, 2008

Another memepool convert. That place was my first daily-visit link blog, back in college.

I still have the t-shirt I won for my entry in this thing. (I was "chests", and also the conceptual artist and photographer behind "palm", which featured my friend Roj. Bifecta!) It's a good t-shirt. They didn't cheap out.

It's sad that those image links have rotted away.
posted by cortex at 8:10 AM on July 10, 2008

Wes Cherry responds: I suggest redefining "winning" to mean "slacking at work". Then we're all winners.

Wes Cherry is Wally?
posted by rokusan at 8:15 AM on July 10, 2008

Too bad it didn't say '404 boobs not found' ... not that I'd count them all.
posted by lukemeister at 8:18 AM on July 10, 2008

What does 'NSFW' mean? I'll check back in a little while; my boss just said she wanted to talk about something.
posted by Kronos_to_Earth at 8:31 AM on July 10, 2008 [5 favorites]

Remember when Memepool used to be relevant? Its current demise is sad. I wonder what happened?
posted by caddis at 8:31 AM on July 10, 2008

I think Memepool signed on the Long Now concept. Instead of multiple posts a day, they're going to post once a year for a thousand years.
posted by tommasz at 8:38 AM on July 10, 2008 [2 favorites]

No one ever questions if a kitten is real.
posted by Artw at 8:41 AM on July 10, 2008 [1 favorite]

memepool... it was there I found metafilter.

Yeah ... that's how I first ended up here, too. Sometime in like '01 or something. And I've been hooked on the MeFi ever since!
posted by The Great Big Mulp at 8:42 AM on July 10, 2008

MeFi via memepool for me.

Memepool, brunching.com and oldmanmurray were my home pages back in the day...
posted by subaruwrx at 8:50 AM on July 10, 2008 [1 favorite]

Yep, memepool.
posted by gurple at 9:11 AM on July 10, 2008

OK. Never mind my question. It must stand for 'Now Surfing For Work'....
posted by Kronos_to_Earth at 9:16 AM on July 10, 2008

If you want to improve your score, How to Identify Great Tits.

Also, Great Tits Cope Well With Warming
posted by cogneuro at 9:16 AM on July 10, 2008

I also came here from memepool.
posted by oneirodynia at 9:19 AM on July 10, 2008

That could have been less sexy if it tried. Maybe I got unlucky... but it just wasn't very, em, titillating.
posted by chuckdarwin at 9:38 AM on July 10, 2008

*not have been...
posted by chuckdarwin at 9:38 AM on July 10, 2008

Also - popurls is the new memepool
posted by chuckdarwin at 9:39 AM on July 10, 2008

Wow, look at the tits!
There must be ... 57 tits up there!
posted by oncogenesis at 9:39 AM on July 10, 2008 [1 favorite]

Aw yeah, 10 for 10, I'm the best of the breast!
posted by jamstigator at 9:42 AM on July 10, 2008

*disappointed memepool is still not-updating regularly anymore*
posted by YoBananaBoy at 9:49 AM on July 10, 2008

10/10
posted by Alvy Ampersand at 9:55 AM on July 10, 2008

Too easy...
posted by sunshinesky at 9:59 AM on July 10, 2008

Trivial. I went 19/20 after I decided it was too easy and started clicking "yes" or "no" instantly upon a new picture without taking any time for, er, deliberation.

So either I have a great eye or I look at too many digital boobies.
posted by Justinian at 10:02 AM on July 10, 2008

100% accuracy. Of course, it helps to know something about breast augmentation.
posted by progressor at 10:03 AM on July 10, 2008

That was ridiculously easy. I played three times and didn't miss any of them.

It was annoying that each one opened in a new window, though. Maybe it's just in Safari?
posted by Nattie at 10:06 AM on July 10, 2008

memepool 4life
posted by contraption at 10:06 AM on July 10, 2008

Somewhere, Tuli Kupferberg is laughing like a lunatic.

Stupid "furry" animation, but the great Fugs version of the tune.
posted by Guy_Inamonkeysuit at 10:11 AM on July 10, 2008

Also found this place via memepool...
posted by idest at 10:13 AM on July 10, 2008

To find out how to become a regular contributor, contact [e-mail]

jus' sayin'
posted by Skwirl at 10:19 AM on July 10, 2008

Does anybody remember the memepool groupies mailing list? I still have about 10,000 (not an exaggeration) emails from 2001-2002ish that read like MeFi comments threads. I eventually had to leave the list because I realized I could never keep up with the traffic.
posted by strangecargo at 10:24 AM on July 10, 2008

This is from Memepool - really? Seems more like Fark's speed. Count me as another who once loved Memepool, their posts always seemed to have high standards. Maybe posting junk like this has contributed to their demise. Just a thought.
posted by madamjujujive at 10:32 AM on July 10, 2008

Not sure how the scoring works. I got 10 out of 10 pairs right on one go, but was nowhere near a highscore. Perhaps you score higher for correctly judging a borderline case.
posted by w0mbat at 10:46 AM on July 10, 2008

Don't get upset, ladies. This one's for you.
posted by aftermarketradio at 10:57 AM on July 10, 2008

Yeah, memepool. Me too - either I found mefi via memepool or memepool via mefi; it was a synchronous kinda thing.

That didn't at that exact moment in time feature pics of tits and it was good.
posted by mygothlaundry at 11:05 AM on July 10, 2008

I think I had the metafilter/memepool synchronous discovery too... but damned if I could ever hit the right time when registration was open (I did, eventually, only 6 short years later...).

Memepool. Wow. It updates around once every 6 months these days, almost skipping a year at one point. Joshua Schacter, the guy behind it, gave us GeoURLs and del.icio.us. He's one of the good guys.
posted by davemee at 11:24 AM on July 10, 2008

Somewhere, Tuli Kupferberg is laughing like a lunatic.

Ah yes the genius behind Teach Yourself Fucking.

I didn't learn anything from it
By SpookyChick
Please don't mistake this for an instructional guide, as I did.

posted by jessamyn at 11:30 AM on July 10, 2008

I'm getting my tits in a vise over some of these that I just can't believe are fake. I've played it like 15 times now and I only got 10/10 once.

Also, what's with putting the tits in a vise? Smashing them together like that definitely brings out the fake.

Also, me memepool, me metafilter.
posted by Ambrosia Voyeur at 11:42 AM on July 10, 2008

Like a moth to a lightbulb... I love 'em.
posted by clearly at 12:03 PM on July 10, 2008

So Metafilter is a place where we post websites that reduce women to naked body parts for you to judge? As part of a game? Hookay. Thanks for that.
posted by onlyconnect at 12:17 PM on July 10, 2008 [3 favorites]

You're not "judging" anything. You're trying to figure out if they're fake or not. If you would like to be officially offended, I will gladly rate them for you.
posted by Zambrano at 12:33 PM on July 10, 2008

I can't believe we're not bored of tits yet. Or bacon.
posted by ArmyOfKittens at 1:15 PM on July 10, 2008

I found MeFi independently and much, much later than memepool. But my first thought when recognizing MeFi for the first time was like, "Oh, it's like a memepool that actually has regular new posts!"

That was my response, as well! In fact, you can see the progression on my computer; my homepage in Explorer is memepool, and my homepage in Firefox is metafilter.
posted by Greg Nog at 1:44 PM on July 10, 2008

Hm. I used to know someone who posted on memepool... I'll see if I can get him to pipe up over here.
posted by Pronoiac at 2:42 PM on July 10, 2008

Another from memepool, and that's why I thought this was a double at first, because I actually go back to memepool every three months or so.
posted by BrotherCaine at 4:06 PM on July 10, 2008

One reason I posted this in the first place was that I was very surprised that it wasn't a double, especially it having been the only thing on memepool in the past few months.
posted by not_on_display at 4:27 PM on July 10, 2008

Yet another one from memepool. (and shout out to subaruwrx -- OldManMurray was one of the other sites I used to check regularly. Even got in a forum fight on 9/11, of all places)
posted by cobra_high_tigers at 4:45 PM on July 10, 2008

I thought it was a para-double, actually; I was confident someone had linked the b3ta interview with Wes here a month or two back. But I can't find it, so apparently I am completely nuts.

God I miss OldManMurray.
posted by cortex at 4:53 PM on July 10, 2008

No one ever questions if a kitten is real.

Ahem.
posted by whir at 5:01 PM on July 10, 2008 [1 favorite]

am I the only one who found memepool via metafilter?
posted by dabitch at 5:13 PM on July 10, 2008

via memepool.
posted by rxrfrx at 5:51 PM on July 10, 2008

I still haven't found memepool.
posted by ZachsMind at 6:53 PM on July 10, 2008

No one ever questions if a kitten is real.

Ahem.

Also breathing cat and bonsai kitten.
posted by BrotherCaine at 7:01 PM on July 10, 2008 [1 favorite]

Breathing cat gives me the horrors.
posted by Artw at 7:47 PM on July 10, 2008

Memepool! That's how I got here too. Damn, 2001 was a long time ago.
posted by selfmedicating at 8:10 PM on July 10, 2008

Yahoo Site of the Day.

*preens*
posted by yhbc at 8:16 PM on July 10, 2008

NOT A REAL KITTEN: Dutch cat adopts baby red panda - May contain cuteness, recommended viewing for those involved in harsh metatalk threads.
posted by Artw at 8:17 PM on July 10, 2008 [3 favorites]

I also found metafilter via memepool and my reaction was the same as others -- Hey, this is kinda like memepool, but it updates regularly..

Also, I failed at this quiz miserably.
posted by empath at 11:36 PM on July 10, 2008

Haha, I do believe I first stumbled upon mefi via memepool too. That place rocked back on '00. Without it, we never would've had del.icio.us.
posted by mullingitover at 1:41 AM on July 11, 2008

Holy shit, another memepool convert here. Bizarre.
posted by jmhodges at 2:03 AM on July 11, 2008

And, yeah, I, too, had totally forgotten that was how I had found MeFi.
posted by jmhodges at 2:04 AM on July 11, 2008

Didn't get linked here from memepool, but I was a daily reader of it well before I'd ever heard of metafilter. I still check it weekly. I don't know why I think it'll suddenly start updating again, but if it did, I'd know.

(More recently started doing this with permanent monday as well. It's a little bit morbid, like visiting a loved one's grave every week -- but doing it because you're not quite convinced they're actually dead.)
posted by churl at 2:39 AM on July 11, 2008

Can't remember, must have been memepool. Back in the days when slashdot was also part of my daily routine.
posted by Deathalicious at 4:12 AM on July 11, 2008

Slashdot... thank god for alterslash.org
posted by BrotherCaine at 4:36 AM on July 11, 2008

either memepool or wood s lot here; i can't remember for sure.

i like to say it was wood s lot. that makes me feel more intellectual.
posted by UbuRoivas at 7:23 AM on July 11, 2008 [1 favorite]

^ churl: It's a little bit morbid, like visiting a loved one's grave every week -- but doing it because you're not quite convinced they're actually dead.

I do that with Leisure Town.
posted by not_on_display at 7:59 AM on July 11, 2008 [1 favorite]

Leisure Town!

the. best. of. the. web.
posted by UbuRoivas at 8:13 AM on July 11, 2008 [1 favorite]

via memepool, ~2001...I hadn't realized how many of us there were!
posted by advil at 10:02 AM on July 11, 2008

Are these real? (Either - your choice)
posted by kcds at 12:15 PM on July 11, 2008

Leisure Town! That site helped get me through some very unhappy times. I heart Leisure Town.
posted by oneirodynia at 1:27 PM on July 11, 2008

I thought you guys were talking about Lazy Town for a while there and I was really confused.
posted by cortex at 1:52 PM on July 11, 2008

Wow. I just watched some Lazy Town on youtube. You were right to be confused.
posted by oneirodynia at 5:15 PM on July 11, 2008

Yeah, I just watched a bit of Lazy Town, and now I'm confused.
posted by not_on_display at 9:41 PM on July 13, 2008

Helpful hint: it's a piece of cake to bake a pretty cake.
posted by cortex at 5:06 PM on July 20, 2008

Travel tip: if you love to sail the sea, you are a pirate.
posted by not_on_display at 12:52 PM on July 21, 2008

I found memepool mere days before i found metafilter...but i guess i show up late for anything actually good.

i scored 10 for 10...
posted by schyler523 at 10:05 PM on August 4, 2008