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NoSafetySmokingFirst

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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.

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NO | SMOKING
SAFETY | FIRST

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[–] [email protected] 71 points 2 months ago (1 children)

So whoever designed this started left to right, decided up to down was better part way through, then switched back to left to right... All without ever proofreading their work apparently

[–] starman2112 36 points 2 months ago (2 children)

'Cause if I was a man, I'd be the man

For anyone struggling

[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

That middle part is even worse than all the other hilarious rubble that's being posted here.

If you followed the order left to right and read it line by line it'd read: "Cause if I was a then man I'd be the man." The first "man" is not directly following the "a".

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 months ago

Yeah. This is a great one. It doesn't scan no matter how you start.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago

Even left to right isn't legible: Cause if i was a then man id be the man.

They want you to go "a man" and then back to left to right.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Dat som deep shit: if a man be man

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

A man, a plan, a canal. Panama!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Miserable pile of secrets.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago
[–] TriflingToad 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

cus if I was a man then I'd be the man

[–] threelonmusketeers 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

No problems with this whatsoever. Totally a logical reading order.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If a man be man, cause I was then. AMEN 🙏

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

....what's a Then Man?

[–] captain_aggravated 2 points 2 months ago

You don't even have to read this one wrong for it to be wrong.

[–] GhiLA 2 points 2 months ago

If I was the man then man I'd be the man, man.

man oh man