No context pics
November 6, 2018 7:58 PM Subscribe
If you can't handle the stress right now, veg out by watching odd photos without any context. "The pics must succeed or fail on their own merit. No sob stories. No stories of any kind."
Frog train
Polizei
See through fish
A sea horse carrying a Qtip
Wall cleaner
$3.20
Lamborghini Ankonian
Country road
From photographer Zacharie Gaudrillot-Roy
Moraga St. stairs, San Francisco
How to ride a bike
A fallen tree
Rescued cat
National Ethnology Museum (MINPAKU) in Osaka
Neon noodles
Chopping wood
Drawning
Cat jumping
A tired lion
Cormorant's lunch
Snow ploughs
Yoga class
Apples
Graffiti
Dog eats dog
Selfies
Mattress domino world record
Drawing in pandas
Dog holder
Watching a wild fire
These are all from the r/nocontextpics subreddit. Here are the top picks
Frog train
Polizei
See through fish
A sea horse carrying a Qtip
Wall cleaner
$3.20
Lamborghini Ankonian
Country road
From photographer Zacharie Gaudrillot-Roy
Moraga St. stairs, San Francisco
How to ride a bike
A fallen tree
Rescued cat
National Ethnology Museum (MINPAKU) in Osaka
Neon noodles
Chopping wood
Drawning
Cat jumping
A tired lion
Cormorant's lunch
Snow ploughs
Yoga class
Apples
Graffiti
Dog eats dog
Selfies
Mattress domino world record
Drawing in pandas
Dog holder
Watching a wild fire
These are all from the r/nocontextpics subreddit
Dillionaire it’s tree fiddy. Except that I think those are Canadian quarters. But it’s possible that that’s Loch Ness.
posted by snowmentality at 8:33 PM on November 6, 2018 [14 favorites]
posted by snowmentality at 8:33 PM on November 6, 2018 [14 favorites]
The "Frog train" image reminds me of the schoolteacher from Finding Nemo.
"Oooooooooh, let's name the zones, the zones, the zones.
Let's name the zones of the wide wetlaaands:
the quagmire, the swampland, the peat bog, the marshland.
All the rest are too muddy to seeeeeeee!"
posted by Greg_Ace at 8:46 PM on November 6, 2018 [4 favorites]
"Oooooooooh, let's name the zones, the zones, the zones.
Let's name the zones of the wide wetlaaands:
the quagmire, the swampland, the peat bog, the marshland.
All the rest are too muddy to seeeeeeee!"
posted by Greg_Ace at 8:46 PM on November 6, 2018 [4 favorites]
A sea horse carrying a Qtip
Is that to clean out his belly button after the kids have been in it?
posted by Greg_Ace at 8:46 PM on November 6, 2018 [5 favorites]
Is that to clean out his belly button after the kids have been in it?
posted by Greg_Ace at 8:46 PM on November 6, 2018 [5 favorites]
Yoga class
Maybe that guy has pulled off to the side to wait for a tow truck to come sort out the pile-up that's just visible in the right foreground.
posted by Greg_Ace at 8:54 PM on November 6, 2018 [5 favorites]
Maybe that guy has pulled off to the side to wait for a tow truck to come sort out the pile-up that's just visible in the right foreground.
posted by Greg_Ace at 8:54 PM on November 6, 2018 [5 favorites]
Was disappointed that what I consider to be the definitive "no context" image, Sewing Machine Tuxedo Guy at the Site of the UPS Truck Crash (previously on MeFi), isn't anywhere in their top submissions list. I can only presume it ran afoul of their "No purely random/WTF" rule.
posted by radwolf76 at 8:58 PM on November 6, 2018 [8 favorites]
posted by radwolf76 at 8:58 PM on November 6, 2018 [8 favorites]
Country road
"One day, when I came home from work, I accidently put my car key in the door of my apartment building. I turned it...and the whole building started up. So I drove it around.... A policeman stopped me for going to fast; he said, 'Where do you live?' I said, 'Right here'. Then I drove my building onto the middle of a highway, and I ran outside, and told all of the cars to get the hell out of my driveway." -- Steven Wright
posted by Greg_Ace at 9:04 PM on November 6, 2018 [6 favorites]
"One day, when I came home from work, I accidently put my car key in the door of my apartment building. I turned it...and the whole building started up. So I drove it around.... A policeman stopped me for going to fast; he said, 'Where do you live?' I said, 'Right here'. Then I drove my building onto the middle of a highway, and I ran outside, and told all of the cars to get the hell out of my driveway." -- Steven Wright
posted by Greg_Ace at 9:04 PM on November 6, 2018 [6 favorites]
Clearly, this cat has a side quest for me.
posted by Greg_Ace at 9:07 PM on November 6, 2018 [11 favorites]
posted by Greg_Ace at 9:07 PM on November 6, 2018 [11 favorites]
All silliness aside, there are some really striking images especially in the "top picks" link. Cool post!
posted by Greg_Ace at 9:09 PM on November 6, 2018 [2 favorites]
posted by Greg_Ace at 9:09 PM on November 6, 2018 [2 favorites]
Clearly, this cat has a side quest for me.
Khajiit has wares- if you have coin...
posted by Homo neanderthalensis at 9:14 PM on November 6, 2018 [8 favorites]
Khajiit has wares- if you have coin...
posted by Homo neanderthalensis at 9:14 PM on November 6, 2018 [8 favorites]
"I think I found the problem, Larry. Hand me that crescent wrench, wouldya?"
posted by Greg_Ace at 9:18 PM on November 6, 2018 [1 favorite]
posted by Greg_Ace at 9:18 PM on November 6, 2018 [1 favorite]
(Between 2003 and 2010 I had a blog called growabrain, which also had a collection of random ‘pics and gifs’ that were similarly “strange“. I haven’t visited it for ages, and it’s odd to see now how occupied I was with Dick Cheney.)
posted by growabrain at 9:25 PM on November 6, 2018 [4 favorites]
posted by growabrain at 9:25 PM on November 6, 2018 [4 favorites]
A sea horse carrying a Qtip
That one gets me every time -- it is just so damn cute. "My q-tip. I found it. I keep it. It's mine."
posted by davidmsc at 10:14 PM on November 6, 2018 [2 favorites]
That one gets me every time -- it is just so damn cute. "My q-tip. I found it. I keep it. It's mine."
posted by davidmsc at 10:14 PM on November 6, 2018 [2 favorites]
A fetching collection of images, but a quibble... A sea horse carrying a Qtip? There must surely be a story behind that.
posted by sjswitzer at 10:32 PM on November 6, 2018
posted by sjswitzer at 10:32 PM on November 6, 2018
As I recall, the original photo was documenting ocean pollution. :-(
posted by Greg_Ace at 10:57 PM on November 6, 2018 [7 favorites]
posted by Greg_Ace at 10:57 PM on November 6, 2018 [7 favorites]
Every picture tells a story, and may be worth a thousand words:
posted by cenoxo at 12:38 AM on November 7, 2018 [7 favorites]
• Frog train - The Scorpion and the FrogThere's always more than meets the eye.
• Polizei - Ten Things Not To Do If Arrested
• See through fish - How Fish Make Themselves Invisible
• A sea horse carrying a Qtip - What Greg_Ace said
• Wall cleaner - Why You Can Never Finish Anything
• $3.20 - Budgeting for Vacation Never Works
• Lamborghini Ankonian - Report says auto industry in for a rocky road
• Country road - Things you’ll only get if your parents move house while you’re at uni
• From photographer Zacharie Gaudrillot-Roy - Trump's Net Worth Is Far Less Than He Claims
• Moraga St. stairs, San Francisco - (obviously)
• How to ride a bike - How NOT to ride a motorcycle
• A fallen tree - How to Spot the Top Problems Home Sellers Try to Hide
• Rescued cat - GOOD NEWS EVERYONE! Ali Mese and his cat have a new home
• National Ethnology Museum (MINPAKU) in Osaka - House of Stairs, M.C. Escher
• Neon noodles - Why You Shouldn't Believe Everything You Read On The Internet
• Chopping wood - Lumberjacks Felling Giants
•DrawningDrowning - How to Make Your Own Holy Water
• Cat jumping - Navy SEAL commander explains why the best defense is to run away
• A tired lion - Discretion is the better part of valor: Lions vs. Hyenas
• Cormorant's lunch - Blue Planet II's bird-eating fish horrifies viewers
• Snow ploughs - Mountain Rescue Dog Has Fun Sliding on Snow
• Yoga class - I am shocked, shocked!
• Apples - Steve Jobs’s Leadership
• Graffiti - The Death of a Once Great City
• Dog eats dog - Canineablism
• Selfies - Top 10 tips for dogs and cats living together
• Mattress domino world record - Going to the matresses
• Drawing in pandas - Pander Bear
• Dog holder - Love me, love my Lennu
• Watching a wild fire - Wildfires and Climate Change
posted by cenoxo at 12:38 AM on November 7, 2018 [7 favorites]
Dillionaire it’s tree fiddy. Except that I think those are Canadian quarters. But it’s possible that that’s Loch Ness.
Yeah, I thought it looked like a Scottish loch, so that would make sense. Looks as if an American tourist with $3 in his wallet substituted a couple of British 10p coins for quarters to make the gag work.
posted by rory at 2:47 AM on November 7, 2018 [2 favorites]
Yeah, I thought it looked like a Scottish loch, so that would make sense. Looks as if an American tourist with $3 in his wallet substituted a couple of British 10p coins for quarters to make the gag work.
posted by rory at 2:47 AM on November 7, 2018 [2 favorites]
> (Between 2003 and 2010 I had a blog called growabrain, which also had a collection of random ‘pics and gifs’ that were similarly “strange“. I haven’t visited it for ages, and it’s odd to see now how occupied I was with Dick Cheney.)
Looks like even back in 2009 you could see the direction internet lulz culture was going (cw: hate symbol). 2009-era me was embarrassed to get into so many fights with online nazis. 2018-era me is embarrassed he didn't take those fights more seriously.
posted by Reclusive Novelist Thomas Pynchon at 5:18 AM on November 7, 2018 [1 favorite]
Looks like even back in 2009 you could see the direction internet lulz culture was going (cw: hate symbol). 2009-era me was embarrassed to get into so many fights with online nazis. 2018-era me is embarrassed he didn't take those fights more seriously.
posted by Reclusive Novelist Thomas Pynchon at 5:18 AM on November 7, 2018 [1 favorite]
It’s gotta be $3.30 or $3.15.
Two coins of the same size and not recognizable as U.S. currency. I zoomed -and- measured.
posted by achrise at 5:19 AM on November 7, 2018 [1 favorite]
Two coins of the same size and not recognizable as U.S. currency. I zoomed -and- measured.
posted by achrise at 5:19 AM on November 7, 2018 [1 favorite]
Two coins of the same size and not recognizable as U.S. currency. I zoomed -and- measured.
Google Images provides the source (another Reddit thread) with a higher-res image. They're British 10p coins.
posted by rory at 6:49 AM on November 7, 2018 [1 favorite]
Google Images provides the source (another Reddit thread) with a higher-res image. They're British 10p coins.
posted by rory at 6:49 AM on November 7, 2018 [1 favorite]
Canadian quarters (totally different take on the Queen's head) versus British 10p. 10p coins are only 1% larger in diameter than US quarters, so they serve fine as visual approximations.
posted by rory at 8:21 AM on November 7, 2018 [1 favorite]
posted by rory at 8:21 AM on November 7, 2018 [1 favorite]
Looks as if an American tourist with $3 in his wallet substituted a couple of British 10p coins for quarters to make the gag work.For the benefit of the slow. . . what gag? Is there some numerology involving 3.20, or 3.50, that makes this something more than a random photo of some money held in the air for no reason at all?
posted by eotvos at 11:01 AM on November 8, 2018
This gag in reference to this South Park bit.
In an attempt to move on from $3.50: how about that photoshopped image by Zacharie Gaudrillot-Roy, eh? Part of a series called Facades. Good stuff.
posted by rory at 12:04 PM on November 8, 2018 [2 favorites]
In an attempt to move on from $3.50: how about that photoshopped image by Zacharie Gaudrillot-Roy, eh? Part of a series called Facades. Good stuff.
posted by rory at 12:04 PM on November 8, 2018 [2 favorites]
this reminded me of sneaking on the computer late at night as a 13-year-old and using stumbleupon's pictures-only option, staying up till 4 in the morning looking at whatever random images it threw my way
thanks
posted by LeviQayin at 1:35 PM on November 8, 2018 [3 favorites]
thanks
posted by LeviQayin at 1:35 PM on November 8, 2018 [3 favorites]
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