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[–] [email protected] 65 points 1 month ago (2 children)

That image is genuinely making my brain feel like it's twisting around in my skull to make it make sense, and it's not working.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

The peas were cut and pasted from another picture, but flipped during the paste onto the new picture

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago

Oh, I know. The trouble is my brain keeps trying to flip to match the peas, then back for the rest of the image. It's just subtly wrong enough that it isn't absurd until you focus on it.

[–] gigachad 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Well in the original image the peas were on the left side. Mirroring was not an option, so the peas had to be rotated

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Flip horizontally then rotate.

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

Mirroring is mirroring. It doesn't matter the direction if you will rotate later.

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

If you only mirror the original image form left to right the peas will not be on the plate

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

If you rotate them you'll get the exact same result as mirroring from top to bottom.

(Ignoring floating point errors.)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Yes, and it's horrifying for a whole range of reasons!

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Up peas / Down peas
Strange peas / Charmed peas
Truth peas / Beauty peas

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

pretty sure the t and b are for top and bottom ?

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

That's in the US. Over at CERN they call 'em Truth and Beauty, and I really want that to stick.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

any particular reason why you/they prefer those names?

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

Scalar Peas

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago

this is some Esher-level fuckery

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

I remember when this was first posted decades ago, I spent a couple of hours photoshopping the peas to make them look right.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

It looks like the peas were added on to the picture later, but whoever took the peas image put them on the wrong side of a plate. And then somebody decided to just flip them in photoshop instead of trying for another peas picture and thought nobody would notice.

Because it looks like the shadows on the other stuff are correct, but the peas have different lighting, and if you look at them actually upside-down, they do look normal again.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

But you can't actually order them. Unlike None Pizza with Left Beef

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

A bad photoshop is definitely grounds for top quality

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Gosh darnit CERN not again! You messed up the peas! The peeasss!!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Apart from the picture fuckery, who eats peas with french fries?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

Angry British noises.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Swiss here, we do. But usually with a schnitzel. Why is there a bisquit there? Or is that a terrine?

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

A pie. Like a bread pocket with meat and sauce inside.

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

With sauce inside? What sauce? Like a pastete?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Like thick gravy.

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

It had to be photoshopped because who the fuck eats peas with pie and chips?

Mushy peas, maybe.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

do the taste la peaness tho?