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NoSafetySmokingFirst

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Welcome to NoSafetySmokingFirst!

For images where the text reads correctly left to right, but visual cues (like colouration, vertical proximity, or horizontal separation) lead you to try to read it top to bottom.

This is similar to, but distinct from, the more widely known “DontDeadOpenInside” format. In that case, the text reads correctly top to bottom, but visual cues (like colouration, horizontal proximity, or vertical separation) lead you to try to read it left to right.

The post that started it all:

NO | SMOKING
SAFETY | FIRST

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Please Mixer Open Inside (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by threelonmusketeers to c/nosafetysmokingfirst
 

Despite containing the phrase "open inside", this is indeed a NoSafetySmokingFirst, as it reads correctly left-to-right, but one's first instinct is to read it top to bottom.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Could also include the magnet as an emoji, so "please ♥ mixer". Poor mixer is lonely.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] threelonmusketeers 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I believe the root of the word is Japanese, not Greek, so there would be no distinction between singular and plural forms. One emoji, two emoji.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Nope, the Japanese borrowed it from the ancient Greeks, who were inspired by Egyptian hieroglyphs.

[–] threelonmusketeers 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/emoji

No mention of Greek or Egyptian. Every entry starts with "borrowed from Japanese".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

So you actually read what I wrote and thought to yourself "yup, that guy is totally serious?"

I suppose I can't really blame you, given the evidence of a recent election.

[–] threelonmusketeers 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

My apologies. Both jokes went straight over my head.

They are amusing, now that I read them in a humorous context.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

There's an emojus for that