Ok he’s wrong about how mirrors work, but look at the iphone- the camera appears to be on the top right corner, but on iphones the cam is on the top LEFT corner. Therefore the image is flipped and his LEFT hand holds both a ring and a phone.
the camera is actually on the top left… if you stood in front of the mirror and put it in your left hand you’d have the same result. Brittney is correct.
agreed.. I find it silly that people think it is on his right hand when it is obviously on his left.. if you get off your ass and stand by your computer facing away from the computer you will be standing in the same position he is then lift your left hand and voila! you will be in the same position! It may be science or whatever but its just something you should know..
babyblues, you’re making the same mistake Brittney made. She is NOT correct, and neither are you. That is definitely his right hand. It is “science or whatever” and yes it is something you know…
Uh, baby blues, you should get off your own ass and do an experiment. Go stand in front of a mirror with a camera in your right hand, take the pic, and see what happens…. yeah, exactly.
Just FYI: you said the cam’s on the top left corner. If you look at the pic, the camera is on the same side of the phone as his raised arm is on his body. Therefore, by your logic, it’d be his left hand that is raised, and that’s why you mixed this up the first time–because “right” and “left” depend on which way you’re holding it. In this case, it’s facing away from him, and, therefore, on the top right corner. And it is his right hand.
Mirrors aren’t like someone is standing face-to-face with you, nor like a photograph where you can imagine simply turning your body to face the other way and match things up. It’s a direct reflection: anything that appears in the right half of the mirror is to the right in real life. If you were looking at yourself in a mirror and someone were to come up behind you and put their head on your left shoulder, it would reflect back to you on the left side of the mirror (based on your perspective) as well.
That said, some people do have cameras set up to flip images, because what they see when they take a pic is the reverse of what they’re used to seeing in the mirror; they think they look different. If there were text in the image we could see whether or not this guy had done that. As it’s a camera phone, odds are pretty good that it’s a standard reflection, in which case, it’s his right hand.
No… pretend that’s a mirror… this works… now, hold the hand up that you would have to hold up to look like you would look ‘in the mirror’ if that were indeed a mirror… is it your right hand or left? If it’s your left hand, you’re a moron.
The picture your seeing is the reflection. If you take a picture of yourself and you look at it its like looking in a mirror everything is the opposite. If you take a picture of yourself in a mirror the mirror switches everything and then the picture that you look at is switched again, in other words your left hand is really your right hand when look at a reflection that has been photographed.
Which is all very nice, but has nothing to do with what bob was confused about. I’m not sure why he was confused, though; Sam clearly says it’s not a wedding ring. By the way, I know a couple people who wear their wedding ring on their right hand for practical reasons.
Oh yeah, also *you’re.
And, photographs do not switch left and right. You would see the same thing if you were standing there looking in the mirror at Sam.
Just try it. Go up to a mirror and hold up your right hand. Take the picture. It will be like this one, except the person in it will magically have less than a 2nd grade education. The power of mirrors…
She’d be right if someone else had taken the picture, but he took it of himself in a mirror. Go walk up to a mirror and raise your right hand, it’ll look about exactly like this dude’s picture.
Wow. You look so dumb right now. It’s his left hand in the picture, but the picture is the picture of a reflection, not of him – therefore, it’s his right hand.
It’s science Serina – science has shown that the competent think everybody else is at least as good as them (before the contrary evidence is presented, that is), and the incompetent think they are better than everyone else. In this case the competency is english spelling and grammar. Yes I spelled yer name wrong on purpose – see original post. Yes I spelled yer wrong on purpose – your following all this right?
Make that three of us. My father is a scientist and he’ll be the first to admit “It’s science” does not explain everything – and that science, being the creation of humans – is often wrong.
Religion, too, is a creation of humans, so it’s often wrong, but they pretend it isn’t by saying it’s all God’s work, which is part of religion, which is a creations of humans, who pretend it isn’t by saying it’s all God’s work….
Science is nothing more than a method used to gain an understanding of the universe. The method works, when applied properly. But as the saying goes, garbage in, garbage out.
To say science can be wrong is like saying subtraction doesn’t work because you failed a basic arithmetic test.
If your father, the scientist, claims that science is often wrong… I suspect he’s not very good at his job.
Science, as you say, is a method. It can lead to incorrect results even when used properly, because it is dealing with incomplete data. Subtraction cannot. I agree with the previous poster’s father.
if you’re looking at someone else, then their left in to the right of their body, but if you’re looking at someone else through a mirror, their right is to the right of their body
You’re the biggest moron in the world, go up to a mirror and hold up your right hand, and you will see the exact same thing this pic is showing, honestly, how stupid are you?
He is definitely holding the phone with, and has his ring on his left hand. If you cannot figure this out, please let me know so I can come to your house and bludgeon you with a ball-peen hammer, and sterilize your parents so that they will never make another one of you. That is all.
Go to a mirror, take a picture of yourself holding your phone in your right hand. Label it ‘Right’. Repeat holding phone in left hand. Label it ‘left’ Compare each picture to the one you see here. Then put on a dunce cap, take a picture of yourself, label it ‘Bollockhead’ and post it on /b/.
Go to your mirror with a camera. Take a picture of yourself with your right hand. Look at how the picture comes out. Then, bludgeon yourself with that ball-peen hammer and get to work on sterilizing your parents.
Even easier, pretend the computer monitor is a mirror. Hold up your right hand, is it on the same side of the monitor that the picture’s hand is on? It is — just like in a mirror.
Ok kids, gather ’round. Here’s how it works. Stand in front of a mirror. Wave at yourself with your RIGHT hand. Now… look closely. If you take Britt’s logic, you just waved with your LEFT hand. But wait! No! You just waved with your right hand, correct? Aaaaaaand…. light bulb. This has been a lesson on reflections. Now back to your regularly scheduled program.
No, no. Whenever you put a picture on the computer it’s a mirror image. So this, since it’s a mirror image, is a mirror image of a mirror image. Then it ended up on SitOnMyFaceBook and became a mirror image of a mirror image of a mirror image… and then got here and is a mirror image of a mirror image of a mirror image of a mirror image.
LOL! Good Lord, I wasn’t even *trying* to troll. I think “domerdaver,” who is cleary British (bollix), and considering the hour in England relative to the Seattle (Cheezburger home) post time of 5:56 pm, was three sheets to the wind.
Oh god, this is so not what I meant to happen. I was just teasing that guy for not knowing that you like to joke around, Jib. You two, uh… have fun now. I’ll just, um, be going…
No. Shirt buttons can be on either side, but if they’re on the left it would be considered a girl’s shirt. He could be wearing one without knowing that fact, but in this case he isn’t.
Just to be sure, I just went into the men’s room and took a picture of myself in the mirror, holding the phone in my right hand. Looks just like the fellow’s photo. He’s correct.
Shes right. Looking at the photo the ring showing is on the right. B/c its a mirror its reverse of that so its his left. Its true you could horizontal reverse and make it right or left but assuming thats not the case its his left hand showing a ring. duh Science.
I definately had to look at the picture about 5 times before I realized that it is his right hand. I keep thinking of the fact that it’s like a picture was being taken of him, then yes, it’d be his left hand. But if he’s holding up the phone and taking a picture in the mirror, as he is, then it’s his right hand. But I can see where she’s confused.
Right hand. Plain and simple. Look at yourself in a mirror, now back at this image, now back to yourself, now back to this image. The cellphone is now diamonds!
Don’t think, try it out yourself. As many people have suggested you will get a definitive answer. While you don’t have to take a picture, doing so will make it only that much more obvious.
Look at it this way, Queenie: Self-recognition in mirror WIN. You are now at the level of a dolphin, monkey, or two year old. jk – for reals glad you flipped your initial take on this
Has most of the world gone utterly insane?? Unless you use a horizontal flip function left is always left and right is always right, regardless of mirrors or other jiggery pokery! heres how to make it simple. Hold your phone in your left hand, and turn round, which hand is it in????
Go stand in front of your mirror and hold up your right hand. Bet it looks like that guy. Want more? Take a picture of yourself doing so and look at the picture. No photoshop required.
better yet:
1. Put ring on right hand.
2. Take picture with right hand.
3. repeatedly smash self in head with camera because you are apparently dumber than a 5th-grader
So who failed? I think it’s failblog, cause that is clearly his right hand. So why is he stupid? I think it’s the girl and failblog that are… why would he argue that, he clearly knew which hand he was taking the picture on.
Also, it’s clearly not a wedding ring… so if he was arguing for the sake of an affair or something, he could have used some other excuse than defying science.
Well… do you believe it’s his left or right hand? I need to know what side you’re on. Because maybe it’s us that shouldn’t have to share a planet with you.
Well, there are some people who still think it’s his left, so idk. He probably did this to see how we reacted and then go, “Oh, yeah, that’s totally what I meant.”
If you’ve ever looked in a mirror before, it’s not that hard to figure it out. I didn’t even have to get out of my chair. My input is not even necessary because no matter what I “think”, fact will still be fact. True story kids.
Whatever. Notice how you never actually said which one you “think” it is, just all this garbage about facts and truth and blah, blah, blah. Why even say anything in the first place if it’s not important? Nevermind, you don’t have to answer. It’ll just be more of the same.
I didn’t trust the answers that said it was in fact his right hand so I tried it myself. I held a red pen in my right hand and took a picture with Photo Booth (auto flip turned off) and it came out exactly like the above. It is in fact his right hand!
When you see a real person in fron of you, you know that your right its his left so yuo have to invert what you see, but in the mirror this is inverted so if he is facing the mirror your right is his right
/thread
And I’m just saying no. Buttons don’t lie. Look at the buttons on his shirt. Now go and look at the buttons on your shirt (assuming you wear men’s clothes.)
You think he would forget what hand he was holding the camera in when he took the pic? No.
Also, it’s simple. It’s like you’re facing someone, you raise your right hand and they raise their left hand, your arms are both raised on the same side.
If you are having problems figuring this out, look at his jacket. A man’s jacket buttons in the other direction. This is a reflection and that is his right hand.
Yeah, okay, photons rebound from a plane, photons rebound back. Never a miscommunication. But why do we have that and Mars doesn’t? You can’t explain that.
It is, which makes the total and complete spackers here who think it’s his left hand utter morons who quite frankly should just off themselves, or at least be castrated to not pollute the gene pool.
Of course Brittney was right! The cardinal sin of misspelling someone’s name is obviously worse than not knowing the principles of mirror images! Shame on you, Sam!1!one!1!1! *exits sarcasm mode*
I think everyone is missing the real point here, even if it is his right hand it changes nothing. If it is his left he’s a liar and he’s married, if it’s his right he’s a liar and he’s homosexual. Straight men don’t wear jewelery except wedding rings. Problem?
This is just plain amazing. Aggressively wrong people are the absolute most ridiculous. How many more people will say: it’s obviously his left, followed by insulting the intelligence of those who CORRECTLY see, ring & phone = right hand? Awesome and SAD. Also to all those BRITS who got it wrong, many of you were corrected by a stupid American. Who’s takin the p155 now teabag?
231 comments and counting…the level of stupidity in here is amazing…I had to hold on to my chair while reading the comments here so I wouldn’t fall from laughing…Awesome…
Wait wouldn’t it go from 132 to 232? so it’s increasing at incredible speed and THEN decreasing a big chunk and increasing again in an overall slightly increasing trend
… *smashes desk and keyboard* ORK ORK ORK ORK!
People are clearly being trolling pieces of crap now, because there’s no way this many people can read “do this in a mirror” and still be that Goddamn stupid.
The biggest fail in the original post is not Brittney (even though that is pretty bad) it is that the guy is wearing a ring on his right hand for fun. What’s the point in that?
I believe that all the people who say it is his left are all either trolling, just very very stupid, or have live under a rock for their entire life so they have never seen their own reflection.
We should place all the people who said “Left” on an island with infestering zombies and once they get infected, we should mow them down for target practice.
Just saying. It would help humanity….
Oddly, the only thing that comes to mind are fat people in spandex because if they owned a mirror, they wouldn’t be wearing that. (And thus People Of Walmart was born.) So, still feeding them to zombies would be helpful in some way…
Well, maybe not for spandex companies…
And the law of averages says some of you people saying ‘it’s his left hand!!’ have offspring. I fear for the future if dumbarses like you are breeding..
I must admit this debate got me thinking initially i agreed with brittney until i thought about it logically so i did what everyone else should have done i looked at myself through a camera and guess what? he is right it is his right hand, just look in the mirror through a camera or phone and stop posting when you are wrong
Yes i because at 3 years old I wasn’t really thinking about the logistics of mirrors reversing an image, and yes this was something that was taught in probably grade 2. So yes at 7 years old I was smarter then Brittani. The concept of mirrors reversing an image was taught in school, clearly it should still be taught in school or else people wouldn’t be saying it’s his left hand you douche.
You’re right, but the intention of my question was that I wondered if you didn’t know the basic function of mirror before you learned the “scientific” explanation in school. Sorry, if I misunderstood your post.
I agree that it should be taught in school (more), if the commenters here are serious it’s like they are cats in front of a mirror who think their image is another cat…
Sam is correct, it is his right hand. Forget all the business about reflections and cameras because, apparently, that’s doing nothing but confusing a lot of people. Look at his hand, now pay attention to which side his thumb is on. His palm is facing him and his thumb is on the right side of his palm. This means it is his right hand. It really didn’t have to be this hard…
Definitive is also a noun. There is nothing wrong with the way I have used it – before you try to be smart, make sure you are not utterly incorrect and in need of some basic grammar revision. I’ll not bother explaining why this is the case – you can look it up, but I’ll give you a hint – the clue is in the word “comments”. enjoy
What, so you don’t know which is right and which is left? Ok. Even simpler: Pretend he’s standing in front of you, which is what the image appears to be. Hold out the hand you shake with (your right). Which hand would would he use to shake with? That’s HIS right. *sigh*
This image only appears to be him standing in front of you. He in fact took it in a mirror. The image is therefore reversed. What looks to be his right is really his left. *That* is what you and Brittney don’t seem to get.
Okay, you’re all idiots. You’re only taking the mirror into account when, in fact, the phone camera reversed it again, making him right about which hand he was using.
And a couple more things:
-Read the caption. The joke is that Brittney’s wrong.
-Don’t tell me I’m wrong. I replicated the image perfectly using my phone, the mirror, and my right hand. Scientific method, snitches.
Tazman if the mirror AND camera both reverse the image then the image would be exact and Britteny would be right. I dont know what kind of magic camera you use but mine and everyone elses does not reverse the image.
Why has no one commented on the possibility of that being an Iphone 4 and that he is the stupid one for not using the front camera? It looks like an Iphone 4 to me. I dunno…just guessing here….What do you think?
Freaks.
Ok he’s wrong about how mirrors work, but look at the iphone- the camera appears to be on the top right corner, but on iphones the cam is on the top LEFT corner. Therefore the image is flipped and his LEFT hand holds both a ring and a phone.
RIGHT hand rather, sorry I messed up, but still the man isn’t lying
And he’s correct on how mirrors work, you ignoramus.
Drongo types a regular sentence? *rubs eyes*
‘Cause he’s not Drongo. Pfft.
it’s not a snow globe, you ignoramus.
Christ, you’re dumber than Paris Hilton.
Imposter!
I didnt know all phones with cameras had to be IPhones?
They don’t, but that one is.
the camera is actually on the top left… if you stood in front of the mirror and put it in your left hand you’d have the same result. Brittney is correct.
agreed.. I find it silly that people think it is on his right hand when it is obviously on his left.. if you get off your ass and stand by your computer facing away from the computer you will be standing in the same position he is then lift your left hand and voila! you will be in the same position! It may be science or whatever but its just something you should know..
babyblues, you’re making the same mistake Brittney made. She is NOT correct, and neither are you. That is definitely his right hand. It is “science or whatever” and yes it is something you know…
Uh, baby blues, you should get off your own ass and do an experiment. Go stand in front of a mirror with a camera in your right hand, take the pic, and see what happens…. yeah, exactly.
Just FYI: you said the cam’s on the top left corner. If you look at the pic, the camera is on the same side of the phone as his raised arm is on his body. Therefore, by your logic, it’d be his left hand that is raised, and that’s why you mixed this up the first time–because “right” and “left” depend on which way you’re holding it. In this case, it’s facing away from him, and, therefore, on the top right corner. And it is his right hand.
Mirrors aren’t like someone is standing face-to-face with you, nor like a photograph where you can imagine simply turning your body to face the other way and match things up. It’s a direct reflection: anything that appears in the right half of the mirror is to the right in real life. If you were looking at yourself in a mirror and someone were to come up behind you and put their head on your left shoulder, it would reflect back to you on the left side of the mirror (based on your perspective) as well.
That said, some people do have cameras set up to flip images, because what they see when they take a pic is the reverse of what they’re used to seeing in the mirror; they think they look different. If there were text in the image we could see whether or not this guy had done that. As it’s a camera phone, odds are pretty good that it’s a standard reflection, in which case, it’s his right hand.
By Gosh, your right
It is in his right hand :O Dont I just feel silly now
^^ The SCIENCE of reflections!
but… holding a camera upside down isn’t reflection
CANNON-BAAAAAAALLLL!!!!!!
sarcastic troll was sarcastic…thanks for feeeeding meeeeeeeeee
meeeeeeeeeehh*
im confused is he married?
No… pretend that’s a mirror… this works… now, hold the hand up that you would have to hold up to look like you would look ‘in the mirror’ if that were indeed a mirror… is it your right hand or left? If it’s your left hand, you’re a moron.
u didnt help at all
Then you didn’t follow the simple directions.
Answer was unrelated.
WHOH iight!
The picture your seeing is the reflection. If you take a picture of yourself and you look at it its like looking in a mirror everything is the opposite. If you take a picture of yourself in a mirror the mirror switches everything and then the picture that you look at is switched again, in other words your left hand is really your right hand when look at a reflection that has been photographed.
Which is all very nice, but has nothing to do with what bob was confused about. I’m not sure why he was confused, though; Sam clearly says it’s not a wedding ring. By the way, I know a couple people who wear their wedding ring on their right hand for practical reasons.
Yeah, but look at this toaster, it cooks eggs too!
*holds up toaster*
Awesome, but my sister doesn’t wear boots.
That’s cool, cause i just got the pothole outside fixed.
Amazing, but look at my horse, give it a lick it tastes just like raisins.
Your conversational partner has disconnected.
FTW
Baahahhahahahahaa epic.
Oh yeah, also *you’re.
And, photographs do not switch left and right. You would see the same thing if you were standing there looking in the mirror at Sam.
Just try it. Go up to a mirror and hold up your right hand. Take the picture. I will be just like this one.
God, some people are either really lazy or really stupid.
Just try it. Go up to a mirror and hold up your right hand. Take the picture. It will not be like this one.
Fixed
Since pictures don’t re-swap the image it WILL look like this one. Try thinking every now and then k?
P.S. Trololololol
Just try it. Go up to a mirror and hold up your right hand. Take the picture. It will be like this one, except the person in it will magically have less than a 2nd grade education. The power of mirrors…
Put a ring on your finger and take a picture in the mirror. Examine the effects.
Congratulations, you are now a Kindergarten level scientist.
Read the post again.
Sam: “Yea not a wedding ring!!!!”
Could be. After all, we can’t see his left hand.
Besides, not everyone who’s married wears a ring.
Oh try any reflective surface if you’re not by a mirror. Like your cell phone screen. Or a window.
it’s science…
f&@%in’ magnets.
I’m not so sure… better check with a Mormon first.
What would Jesus do? Probably look in a mirror, I guess.
Silly, Jesus doesn’t have a reflection. That’s how he can walk on water.
Also, vampire.
No, no. Jesus is a zombie, get it right.
Your are both right he is a vampire and a zombie, remember he told the apostles to drink from his blood… and it wasnt for no reason
In Soviet Russia, Vampires feed YOU blood…
the fight finishes YOU!
fight club doesn’t talk about you!
Nah. Jesus would just light you on fire and send you to hell.
Wicked Clown, b!tches!
Wut? The chick is right.
Umm… do you know what mirrors are?
of course she is…
No… fail
I believe you fail… the chick IS right
yep i just failed…. ignore comment above
It’s OK, it was obvious.
At least you figured it out quicker than some people here
I noticed immediately…
Thanks, Captain Obvious
She’d be right if someone else had taken the picture, but he took it of himself in a mirror. Go walk up to a mirror and raise your right hand, it’ll look about exactly like this dude’s picture.
IT’S HIS LEFT HAND. NOT HIS RIGHT. LOOK AT THE PIC.
No, his left hand is in his pocket… Why don’t you go up to a mirror and raise your right hand. Mirrors flip images…
Like I said in an above comment, Some people are really lazy or really stupid. Just look in a mirror, idiot
it doesnt tho his right hand is raised in photo therefore he used his left hand in the mirror just flip it round and u shall see its left
Wow. You look so dumb right now. It’s his left hand in the picture, but the picture is the picture of a reflection, not of him – therefore, it’s his right hand.
Oh my God, don’t people use mirrors everyday? How can so many people think that’s his left hand??
look at a mirror and raise your right hand…the reflection is raising his left right?
OMG He has two rights! …Does that make a wrong?
No, but three do!
No… three rights make a left, not a wrong.
Wow.. just.. wow.
I’m with ya here, JellyBean. Not much else to say, huh. IdiotBombs everywhere; watchout.
Now you’re thinking with portals.
It’s your, not you’re
so from what you just said… your probably failing you’re English class
… ouch, typing that just hurt my brain…
I never knew people had such trouble with English till I found the internet.
* ’till
* Internet
If you’re using the ‘ then it’s ’til. He was right.
Touché.
It’s science Serina – science has shown that the competent think everybody else is at least as good as them (before the contrary evidence is presented, that is), and the incompetent think they are better than everyone else. In this case the competency is english spelling and grammar. Yes I spelled yer name wrong on purpose – see original post. Yes I spelled yer wrong on purpose – your following all this right?
Haha you switched your “your” and “you’re”.
…Ouch, your hurting my brain too…
the grammer nazis must have kicked you out
You are my hero.
You have low expectations for your heroes.
Indeed. I’m disappointed less often that way.
Agreed.
If only I could see the label on that product… then I would see who’s stupid…
its an iphone, i had to check mine to know who was failing here
Not just that – look at his buttons. Blokes buttons are on the right on a shirt…
Could be a girl’s shirt and he doesn’t know…
It looks like Aussie hairspray to me.
.ti esu ot desu I .si tI
I love the explanation “It’s science!” like everyone is just supposed to say, “Ooooooohhhh” and nod sagely.
Lmao I agree with you. I will never understand how saying, “Its science!” is a complete, logical argument. Especially in this case. : P
Perhaps simply an Anchorman quote…
Make that three of us. My father is a scientist and he’ll be the first to admit “It’s science” does not explain everything – and that science, being the creation of humans – is often wrong.
Your father, being the creation of humans, is often wrong.
Religion, too, is a creation of humans, so it’s often wrong, but they pretend it isn’t by saying it’s all God’s work, which is part of religion, which is a creations of humans, who pretend it isn’t by saying it’s all God’s work….
Uh oh, I started a fire and divided by zero.
you are forgetting the best about religion, THEY MAKE BILLIONS OUT OF IT ITS A PROFITABLE BUSINESS!!!!!
Yes. They make so much more than those multinationals.
Science is never wrong.
However, those who use science can be.
Science is nothing more than a method used to gain an understanding of the universe. The method works, when applied properly. But as the saying goes, garbage in, garbage out.
To say science can be wrong is like saying subtraction doesn’t work because you failed a basic arithmetic test.
If your father, the scientist, claims that science is often wrong… I suspect he’s not very good at his job.
Science, as you say, is a method. It can lead to incorrect results even when used properly, because it is dealing with incomplete data. Subtraction cannot. I agree with the previous poster’s father.
Oooooh.
*nods sagely*
Lol! I was thinking the same thing.
“Ooooohhhhh. Science? Very impressive.” *golf claps*
Isn’t that what homeopathists have been doing for years?
It probably is when you’re talking to an utter twit with little comprehension of anything.
Yea… but did you see the guy with the golden voice?!?!?
Who Cares?
Well well… it’s been awhile.
Who cares… ?
WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN TONY?
No, but I did hear him.
And apparently some people on here are as stupid as Brittney. Or just don’t know right from left.
in b4 anyone can reply:
Don’t feed the trolls!
That’s not a troll, just the truth. Either that, or every single person here who thinks that’s his left hand is trolling.
hahaha, go stand in front of a mirror and raise your right hand and then realise how dumb you are.
did you try this?
I really, REALLY hope they’re trolling…
in b4 anyone gets offended:
Don’t feed the trolls!
D-D-D-D-DOUBLE COMMENT! (almost.)
the phones IS in his left hand tho
no… just no…
if you’re looking at someone else, then their left in to the right of their body, but if you’re looking at someone else through a mirror, their right is to the right of their body
I know. It’s OK though, because mirrorology sciences are hard.
Next up: Things in mirror may be stupider than they appear.
But she isn’t in the mirror…
Makin’ chubbies.
Actually she is right so we are people calling her stupid?
How is she right? learn 2 mirror
you’re the stupid one. how do you not see that it’s on his left hand?
You’re the biggest moron in the world, go up to a mirror and hold up your right hand, and you will see the exact same thing this pic is showing, honestly, how stupid are you?
you idiot. look in a mirror.
Yeah, how the heck is she right? She’s obviously left.
He is definitely holding the phone with, and has his ring on his left hand. If you cannot figure this out, please let me know so I can come to your house and bludgeon you with a ball-peen hammer, and sterilize your parents so that they will never make another one of you. That is all.
Seriously – go look in a mirror and see how your argument holds up. That is all.
I like the cut of your jib!
a ball-peen hammer? sounds kinky
also… learn to mirror, right hand to the right of the body when seen through a mirror
It is my expert opinion that you should proceed to bludgeon yourself now… although you better start with the parent sterilizing part.
Oh *facepalm* Not only are you full of stupid, but you’re the kind of self-righteous stupid that thinks everyone else is wrong.
“…that thinks everyone else is *left*.”
Go to a mirror, take a picture of yourself holding your phone in your right hand. Label it ‘Right’. Repeat holding phone in left hand. Label it ‘left’ Compare each picture to the one you see here. Then put on a dunce cap, take a picture of yourself, label it ‘Bollockhead’ and post it on /b/.
Go to your mirror with a camera. Take a picture of yourself with your right hand. Look at how the picture comes out. Then, bludgeon yourself with that ball-peen hammer and get to work on sterilizing your parents.
+2
this is the only comment so far that hasnt made me headdesk. +100000 for you
I had no idea someone could be so zealous about a failing argument…
you dummy. Just try taking a photo with your left hand in this pose. Report back. That is all
this actually stumped me for a sec, she’s totally wrong.. herp derp
Gotta agree XD at first I was like “dude… that’s not your right O_o”… but then I thought about it and put myself in his place and it IS XD
That’s my reaction pretty much exactly.
^THAT
no she’s not.
Uh, yes she is lol. Go to a mirror and hold up your right hand. You’ll be oriented exactly how the guy is in the picture.
Haha, stupid is a hard addiction to break, isn’t it, Sidney?
Not as bad as Charlie Sheen
My husband has a white rectangle for a face, I’m so proud. Don’t be jealous.
You’re failing at failbook
She’s right :S
No.
Hold your phone in your right hand in front of a mirror and take a picture. That is what it would look like.
Even easier, pretend the computer monitor is a mirror. Hold up your right hand, is it on the same side of the monitor that the picture’s hand is on? It is — just like in a mirror.
Ok kids, gather ’round. Here’s how it works. Stand in front of a mirror. Wave at yourself with your RIGHT hand. Now… look closely. If you take Britt’s logic, you just waved with your LEFT hand. But wait! No! You just waved with your right hand, correct? Aaaaaaand…. light bulb. This has been a lesson on reflections. Now back to your regularly scheduled program.
*head blows up*
Yay, science is fun!
The photo might be rotated on the computer?
So wait… are you suggesting he’s actually standing on the wall or the ceiling?
No, no. Whenever you put a picture on the computer it’s a mirror image. So this, since it’s a mirror image, is a mirror image of a mirror image. Then it ended up on SitOnMyFaceBook and became a mirror image of a mirror image of a mirror image… and then got here and is a mirror image of a mirror image of a mirror image of a mirror image.
Ohhhhh…. It’s science, right?
*nods sagely*
That’s exactly what I was thinking…I think?!
It’s like Mirrorception!
Haha
“Whenever you put a picture on the computer it’s a mirror image.”
Utter bllusiht. Absolute bollix.
I’ll take that as “I haven’t been here very long, and don’t know Jibble.”
LOL! Good Lord, I wasn’t even *trying* to troll. I think “domerdaver,” who is cleary British (bollix), and considering the hour in England relative to the Seattle (Cheezburger home) post time of 5:56 pm, was three sheets to the wind.
No, he/she is just pointing out your utter fail
So… you thought I was being serious, too. Nice hat. You truly wear your @ss well.
Like anyone could read that post and think you were serious instead of just lame. Your fails are multiple now, keep going.
Can’t we just cuddle instead?
Oh god, this is so not what I meant to happen. I was just teasing that guy for not knowing that you like to joke around, Jib. You two, uh… have fun now. I’ll just, um, be going…
and i’ll, um, be coming
Ah, shucks. Come back! I was just about to start pulling out Leo Buscaglia quotes.
Cool story, bro.
so you WERE trolling…although you previously said you weren’t?
Make up your mind, Jibble!
No. Shirts buttons are usually on the right side. So whatever happened to the picture, the ring is really on his right hand.
No. Shirt buttons can be on either side, but if they’re on the left it would be considered a girl’s shirt. He could be wearing one without knowing that fact, but in this case he isn’t.
Just to be sure, I just went into the men’s room and took a picture of myself in the mirror, holding the phone in my right hand. Looks just like the fellow’s photo. He’s correct.
You actually needed to do that? Mirrors are a new technology to you, I take it.
At least he did that instead of telling everyone that it’s *definitely* his left hand guys!
there are neither enough faces, nor enough palms, in the whole of the world, to express my utter bafflement at these proceedings
hahaha exactly.
FAIL !!!
(ಠ_ృ)
Monocle win!
Beware Bigboob and his family!
Admittedly, this would be a much better fail if it WAS on his left hand and was trying to convince her it wasn’t because it was in a mirror…meh.
Shes right. Looking at the photo the ring showing is on the right. B/c its a mirror its reverse of that so its his left. Its true you could horizontal reverse and make it right or left but assuming thats not the case its his left hand showing a ring. duh Science.
… No. In the picture, it’s his left hand, but the picture is the picture of a reflection, so it’s actually his right hand.
“on THE right”… which is HIS left
reverse that = his right
Everybody’s missing the main issue here. He’s trying to explain science to her, when he should be demanding his sammich.
Goddamn right!
Congratulations, you just won teh Internetz!
Because I said science Im correct. ; )
What if the guy is holding up his camera/phone/both while someone takes a picture of him?
Your mind just exploded.
I’d laugh.
What, and the photographer is sitting in the sink? You can see the edge of the counter in the photo.
You are no fun.
Remove mirror and break wall > stand in wall hole > take picture > TROLOLOLOL
And behind the counter is the photographer, who is in the living room or something.
These stupid people tend to make me angry. Specially when they don’t know they’re stupid and start arguments, thinking they’re right.
Wait, which one is my “left finger” again?
The one in the middle. It’s different for everyone. That’s science.
Hahaha
the one stuck in your arse
it tastes just like raisins!
I definately had to look at the picture about 5 times before I realized that it is his right hand. I keep thinking of the fact that it’s like a picture was being taken of him, then yes, it’d be his left hand. But if he’s holding up the phone and taking a picture in the mirror, as he is, then it’s his right hand. But I can see where she’s confused.
Seriously, I guess too many people already pretended to be as dumb as him…
Same, f-in mirror and it’s science…
yeh but she calls him an idiot. so it’s hard to forgive her
he must at least have a girlfriend, I see that bottle of Aussie product on the bottom of the pic!
Nice observation, chief!
I didn’t know what that was, just noticed a purple spray can.
Of course, it might be his.
It’s definitely on his left hand
No, it’s not, retard.
You little $#!%, don’t assume you’re right. Come back when you complete your second grade science class.
leave Brittany alone!
^this
Spell her name right, stupid!
I blew Earl Grey out of my nose. Not the tea–the dead dude.
nvm
It’s funny because the ring is on his right hand.
is that aussie hairspray?
Right hand. Plain and simple. Look at yourself in a mirror, now back at this image, now back to yourself, now back to this image. The cellphone is now diamonds!
Anything is possible on Facebook!
I’m on a horse.
*whistling*
Lol. I honestly thought he was gonna be completely serious, but then you two made it fun.
Think of it like this.
If you are looking at a mirror picture, everything is flipped. So, if you were to be standing beside him, it would be his left.
Why is everyone saying she’s wrong? And yes, I know I’m going to get some stupid answers.
Stand in front of a mirror right now with your right hand up in the same position as his. What you see…it would look exactly like this image.
Are you now going to say that your mirror is lying to you and that it’s in fact your left hand you are holding up?
aaack.
I have failed. I feel shamed.
At least you admitted your fail and responded, most people won’t respond when they’re proven wrong.
I wanted the suspense.
Thank you for admitting it.
+2 courage
Don’t think, try it out yourself. As many people have suggested you will get a definitive answer. While you don’t have to take a picture, doing so will make it only that much more obvious.
Ah,wait.
Fail.
*facepalm*
I have shamed myself.
QueenOfTrulz lol
Look at it this way, Queenie: Self-recognition in mirror WIN. You are now at the level of a dolphin, monkey, or two year old. jk – for reals glad you flipped your initial take on this
Hahaha I’m glad too. I realized it was his right hand and I said ” Oh… duhh. *facepalm”
bahaha.
Has most of the world gone utterly insane?? Unless you use a horizontal flip function left is always left and right is always right, regardless of mirrors or other jiggery pokery! heres how to make it simple. Hold your phone in your left hand, and turn round, which hand is it in????
Go stand in front of your mirror and hold up your right hand. Bet it looks like that guy. Want more? Take a picture of yourself doing so and look at the picture. No photoshop required.
get a science degree. Then we’ll talk.
omfg you guys are stupid.. its on his left hand
Holy crap, I can’t take this level of stupidity. Please tell me everyone who says “it’s his left hand” is trolling.
I think MOST of them are, but from the sheer number of them here, there have to be a few that are serious.
This is getting fun. We need a mirror meme
“it’s on his left hand.”
winning
Challenge accepted
Actually a mirror switches back and front, not left and right. So obviously, he holds the phone with his right hand.
I can’t tell if you’re a troll or a retard.
oops. sorry, commented on the wrong person. My laptop sucks.
People, Instead of arguing about it, just do a simple test.
1. Put ring on right hand.
2. Take picture with right hand.
3. Compare picture on your phone/camera to the picture here.
It is his right hand.
You missed the part about standing in front of a mirror :p
better yet:
1. Put ring on right hand.
2. Take picture with right hand.
3. repeatedly smash self in head with camera because you are apparently dumber than a 5th-grader
Mirrors are like magnets. I could never understand how they work.
…Mirrors just reflect whatever’s in front of them. As long as there’s light to bend.
You just get a flipped image…
So who failed? I think it’s failblog, cause that is clearly his right hand. So why is he stupid? I think it’s the girl and failblog that are… why would he argue that, he clearly knew which hand he was taking the picture on.
Also, it’s clearly not a wedding ring… so if he was arguing for the sake of an affair or something, he could have used some other excuse than defying science.
Did you really just ask who failed? Clearly its her.
Also, It could have been a wedding band. It is on his ring finger and I’ve seen less traditional rings than that used as wedding bands.
No, I didn’t ask who failed… I thought failblog said he failed, not realizing it was sarcasm, I was offering evidence supporting guy as not failed…
Oh I see, “sarcasm” no failbook fail here….
somebody doesn’t know the meaning of sarcasm
SCIENCE!
Omg, I’m an idiot! I had to take a effin picture in my mirror to see who the eff is right. I fail at life.
I encourage people to go and experiment, which is the way to settle all scientific arguments, not debate.
Agreed. I guess some people can’t be bothered to get out of their chair?
I can haz mirror on computer?
Was even MORE surprised when I read all the comments here. OMG, people. I can’t believe I share the same Earth with you guys.
Well… do you believe it’s his left or right hand? I need to know what side you’re on. Because maybe it’s us that shouldn’t have to share a planet with you.
Well, there are some people who still think it’s his left, so idk. He probably did this to see how we reacted and then go, “Oh, yeah, that’s totally what I meant.”
If you’ve ever looked in a mirror before, it’s not that hard to figure it out. I didn’t even have to get out of my chair. My input is not even necessary because no matter what I “think”, fact will still be fact. True story kids.
Whatever. Notice how you never actually said which one you “think” it is, just all this garbage about facts and truth and blah, blah, blah. Why even say anything in the first place if it’s not important? Nevermind, you don’t have to answer. It’ll just be more of the same.
Stop stealing from Reddit.
Bwahahahahahahahahahaha…
Who hasn’t have an argument like this?
I didn’t trust the answers that said it was in fact his right hand so I tried it myself. I held a red pen in my right hand and took a picture with Photo Booth (auto flip turned off) and it came out exactly like the above. It is in fact his right hand!
Good job you just learned science!
When you see a real person in fron of you, you know that your right its his left so yuo have to invert what you see, but in the mirror this is inverted so if he is facing the mirror your right is his right
/thread
Her stupidity made me confused and I almost had to go check in a mirror… wow.
wtf is wrong with you retards, this debate has gone on for way too long! Look in a mirror you self righteous people! Accept you are wrong! lol
This is stupid and pointless. Meh.
The stupidity is a point. Scary.
Either one could be right, it depends on if the camera flips the image as well, I’m just saying
And I’m just saying no. Buttons don’t lie. Look at the buttons on his shirt. Now go and look at the buttons on your shirt (assuming you wear men’s clothes.)
You think he would forget what hand he was holding the camera in when he took the pic? No.
Also, it’s simple. It’s like you’re facing someone, you raise your right hand and they raise their left hand, your arms are both raised on the same side.
You think he would forget ABOUT BEING MARRIED?
Name one brand of camera that automatically flips images. I dare you.
I can’t believe how many retards have weighed in on this. Moronic idiots.
Which one is my right hand? which one is my left hand? Gotta make my mind which one is my hand???
^ Win.
bahahaha
um…anybody notice how it looks like his pants are torn on the right side?
And this, ladies and gentlemen, is coming straight from the country that believes it should be the World Police.
Prove it.
If you are having problems figuring this out, look at his jacket. A man’s jacket buttons in the other direction. This is a reflection and that is his right hand.
Good point, but you’re assuming the buttons thing is common knowledge…
Glass on the wall shows you a reflection of you. You can’t explain that.
Challenge accepted.
Reflection is when photons, or any EM wave, rebounds from a plane, the angle of reflection being equivalent to the initial angle.
But why? You can’t explain that!
Eh, it was worth a shot.
joke recognition fail.
Cameras make a flashy light. You can’t explain that.
Meme recognition fail.
Yes, I noticed the O’Reilly reference.
Yeah, okay, photons rebound from a plane, photons rebound back. Never a miscommunication. But why do we have that and Mars doesn’t? You can’t explain that.
What is up with these motherf-cking photons on this motherf-ucking plane!?!?
Better than religious flame wars!
Left finger huh. Never knew there was such a thing.
Um isn’t this primary school science?
It is, which makes the total and complete spackers here who think it’s his left hand utter morons who quite frankly should just off themselves, or at least be castrated to not pollute the gene pool.
Sir, I salute you
Where’s Drongo when you need him?
I can’t tell if you’re all taking the piss, of if you’re actually that stupid. Left hand up. This should not be difficult to figure out.
Now go find a mirror, raise your right hand, see that it looks like this picture and then use it to slap the hell out of yourself.
^+1 Interweb
LMAO I sure hope he did!!
Stop polluting the gene pool. NOW.
Of course Brittney was right! The cardinal sin of misspelling someone’s name is obviously worse than not knowing the principles of mirror images! Shame on you, Sam!1!one!1!1! *exits sarcasm mode*
brittney has bigger problems. if he’s wearing the ring on his right hand, he’s married, but to another guy.
Since when?
I think everyone is missing the real point here, even if it is his right hand it changes nothing. If it is his left he’s a liar and he’s married, if it’s his right he’s a liar and he’s homosexual. Straight men don’t wear jewelery except wedding rings. Problem?
I’ve seen plenty of straight men wearing jewelry.
ex : pimps
Omg… He is using his left hand. Learn your anatomy…
Learn your mirrors…
This is just plain amazing. Aggressively wrong people are the absolute most ridiculous. How many more people will say: it’s obviously his left, followed by insulting the intelligence of those who CORRECTLY see, ring & phone = right hand? Awesome and SAD. Also to all those BRITS who got it wrong, many of you were corrected by a stupid American. Who’s takin the p155 now teabag?
231 comments and counting…the level of stupidity in here is amazing…I had to hold on to my chair while reading the comments here so I wouldn’t fall from laughing…Awesome…
but, it’s on your monitor, which flips images, so really it’s 132 comments and decreasing ORK ORK ORK ORK!
OH NOES!! *smashes his monitor to pieces with his fist* ORK ORK ORK ORK ORK!
Wait wouldn’t it go from 132 to 232? so it’s increasing at incredible speed and THEN decreasing a big chunk and increasing again in an overall slightly increasing trend
… *smashes desk and keyboard* ORK ORK ORK ORK!
hahahaha I know- it’s a fail within a fail.
Uh… Imagine you’re him, in a mirror. Totally left.
People are clearly being trolling pieces of crap now, because there’s no way this many people can read “do this in a mirror” and still be that Goddamn stupid.
You’re totally left…left behind…
The biggest fail in the original post is not Brittney (even though that is pretty bad) it is that the guy is wearing a ring on his right hand for fun. What’s the point in that?
Maybe it’s an engagement ring…
On the other hand what’s wrong with wearing a ring “for fun” or for decorational purposes like jewelry?
*Sees what you did there*
What did you see there?
On the other hand win.
I know it’s not a high school ring, but guys usually wear them on the right hand, so it’s not really all that odd.
But it’s his left hand…*giggles*
FUUUUUUUU!
I believe that all the people who say it is his left are all either trolling, just very very stupid, or have live under a rock for their entire life so they have never seen their own reflection.
It’s his left hand! He’s holding the phone on the left side of his body. He’s facing the mirror! duh!
…Which is why it’s his right hand! Duh!
anyone else notice the huge hole in his pants?
^douchey ring call-out win
oops reply fail
We should place all the people who said “Left” on an island with infestering zombies and once they get infected, we should mow them down for target practice.
Just saying. It would help humanity….
I think that the people that think Brittney is right are the people that never look in the mirror.
Oddly, the only thing that comes to mind are fat people in spandex because if they owned a mirror, they wouldn’t be wearing that. (And thus People Of Walmart was born.) So, still feeding them to zombies would be helpful in some way…
Well, maybe not for spandex companies…
BOOMER!
Does no one else notice that thing behind the hairspray can? What is that?
It’s something behind him. Can’t quite make out what, but it’s up against the wall there.
Once you see it…..
It’s the pink Care Bear (don’t recall his/her/its name) who is sniffing the Sam’s butt.
And the law of averages says some of you people saying ‘it’s his left hand!!’ have offspring. I fear for the future if dumbarses like you are breeding..
he is using his left… it just that the mirror is using windows vista thats why it looks like the right hand, its science!
Yeah but the iPhone isn’t windows compatible so it uses its own mirror program and makes it look upside down! that’s actually his foot…
I must admit this debate got me thinking initially i agreed with brittney until i thought about it logically so i did what everyone else should have done i looked at myself through a camera and guess what? he is right it is his right hand, just look in the mirror through a camera or phone and stop posting when you are wrong
If only everyone had as many brain cells as you do, then this debate wouldn’t have happened… >.>
Is it a debate when the entire “Left” camp is ‘tarded?
I say the same thing when someone claims that there is a debate about evolution.
They’d like to think so.
I didn’t have to do it due to the fact I learnt in primary school that mirrors reverse an image. Gee didn’t anyone learn basic science?
You had to learn this in school?
Yes i because at 3 years old I wasn’t really thinking about the logistics of mirrors reversing an image, and yes this was something that was taught in probably grade 2. So yes at 7 years old I was smarter then Brittani. The concept of mirrors reversing an image was taught in school, clearly it should still be taught in school or else people wouldn’t be saying it’s his left hand you douche.
You’re right, but the intention of my question was that I wondered if you didn’t know the basic function of mirror before you learned the “scientific” explanation in school. Sorry, if I misunderstood your post.
I agree that it should be taught in school (more), if the commenters here are serious it’s like they are cats in front of a mirror who think their image is another cat…
It scares me that there is still debate as to whether it’s his left or right hand.
Sam is correct, it is his right hand. Forget all the business about reflections and cameras because, apparently, that’s doing nothing but confusing a lot of people. Look at his hand, now pay attention to which side his thumb is on. His palm is facing him and his thumb is on the right side of his palm. This means it is his right hand. It really didn’t have to be this hard…
Please tell me you’re joking.
Or at least that you’re not a science teacher.
Because If you insist on ignoring the question of how many reversals there are, all you know is that the thumb is on the OUTSIDE, not the right side.
why is he wearing a watch on his right hand?
Is it me, or does it looks like he’s not wearing pants?
What I find rather disturbing, is the fact that the britteny is trying to tell sam what hand HE held the iphone in….
Best way to troll the internet: use a mirror.
Definitive is an adjective. Unless you were trying to say “my entire post is the word ‘the’ “.
Definitive is also a noun. There is nothing wrong with the way I have used it – before you try to be smart, make sure you are not utterly incorrect and in need of some basic grammar revision. I’ll not bother explaining why this is the case – you can look it up, but I’ll give you a hint – the clue is in the word “comments”. enjoy
Brittaneh is wrong, tee hee!
Really???
Did NO ONE notice he doesn’t actually wear his pants? He just holds them in front of his legs.
(BTW, it’s his right hand)
How do you figure that? If you mean that pink thing on the right there, it looks to me like something on the floor behind him, against that wall.
What, so you don’t know which is right and which is left? Ok. Even simpler: Pretend he’s standing in front of you, which is what the image appears to be. Hold out the hand you shake with (your right). Which hand would would he use to shake with? That’s HIS right. *sigh*
This image only appears to be him standing in front of you. He in fact took it in a mirror. The image is therefore reversed. What looks to be his right is really his left. *That* is what you and Brittney don’t seem to get.
Sigh all you like; it won’t make you right.
(cant believe anybody said it but…)
LEAVE BRITTNEY ALONE!!!!
sorry, good sir, but you fail at reading previous posts
it’s been done.
Okay, you’re all idiots. You’re only taking the mirror into account when, in fact, the phone camera reversed it again, making him right about which hand he was using.
And a couple more things:
-Read the caption. The joke is that Brittney’s wrong.
-Don’t tell me I’m wrong. I replicated the image perfectly using my phone, the mirror, and my right hand. Scientific method, snitches.
Tazman if the mirror AND camera both reverse the image then the image would be exact and Britteny would be right. I dont know what kind of magic camera you use but mine and everyone elses does not reverse the image.
Why would the phone camera reverse it (well unless you told it to)?
Because Tazman is an idiot who either can’t tell his right from his left, or doesn’t know how to use his camera.
Wait, scratch that. He right, but he got the reason why wrong.
Wow, this is why Americans get those “Don’t try this at home” warnings…
apparently even iphones are dangerous now…
Why has no one commented on the possibility of that being an Iphone 4 and that he is the stupid one for not using the front camera? It looks like an Iphone 4 to me. I dunno…just guessing here….What do you think?
eh, it’s all relative. She’s still stupider than him anyway.
and Luke Wilson is officially the smartest person on the planet…
It’s in his right hand, people.
Wow, you (and she) must work for the New York Times. Always thinking up B$…
If u look at the way his shirt buttons up u can tell it’s his right hand that has the ring and phone
The only thing i’m confused about is how people are still debating whether or not it’s his right or left hand!
its in his right left foot
I’m more disturbed why no one seems to notice he is missing part of his pant leg.
“Yeah, Brittney, HE’S the stupid one…”
I don’t get this comment it is blatently in his left hand!!!!!
Wait, mirrors are science now!? Only when they find out about gravity!
Rednecks are forever.
I do see why she got confused…I had to go try it myself. But yeah, definitely right hand.