[Comment : "Aiyah!" isn't about silly pictures, or even scary pictures. "Aiyah!" is about pictures that are creepy, maybe not at first (in fact, if the picture's TOO creepy it no longer qualifies as "Aiyah!" any more) but after a second glance, little things start to sink in. "Aiyah!" isn't about vomiting at first sight, or horribly high-pitched screams of fright, there's a thread for that with plenty that will induce both. Well, more of the vomit than the screaming, but still quite a good thread. "Aiyah!" is all about the little details, and sometimes it's about the very big details, and sometimes it's not about the details at all. You'll know it when you see it, you will. There's a fair bit of blurring between the lines as far as qualification for "Aiyah!" status is concerned, and I just like saying "Aiyah!", don't I?]Edited by: The Ray at: 9/4/02 8:43:15 pm
Nah. Just some random x-ray vision albino maniac freak.
Since this already proved that there is no god, I must assume that the above picture is evidence to the existence of the Devil.
Re: Nah. Just some random x-ray vision albino maniac freak.
Proof it couldn't be me: she doesn't have my fabulous taste in hats.
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[When monkeys are full grown, they're funny. But this little fetus thing is far from funny, it's got litte squinty-things for eyelids and a tail that almost but not quite touches the cuticle of that finger. And it's fingers remind me of that squishy rubber-thing that can stick to walls and stuff. Plus, when you consider that the hand on which it rests is making the thumbs up sign, well...
[This, I can't quite nail down. Maybe it's the babies' hair, or the way they're both looking straight into the camera. Or the picnic table piled with food and drink but no guests. Ghosts? Yes, definetly ghosts.]Edited by: The Ray at: 9/4/02 8:50:27 pm
[There's something very "Aiyah!" about gymnastics, especially frozen shots like these taken in the middle of a routine. You can't help but feel someone's about to get their neck broken when the shutter closes.]Edited by: The Ray at: 9/4/02 8:52:06 pm
[Yeah, you see the baby first, but the ladies' sunken eyeballs and bunched-up cheeks are the kicker that rockets this satellite into "Aiyah!" orbit.]Edited by: The Ray at: 9/4/02 8:54:08 pm
[Cute picture? Sure, at first glance. But the kid is pointing at us but not looking at us and there's a mole in the middle of the forehead and strange dimples under the eyes. And nothing says "Aiyah!" like a watch that's turned the wrong way.]Edited by: The Ray at: 9/4/02 8:57:01 pm
[Oh, too many to count. Take a good long look and draw your own conclusions, but this is really the pinnacle of "Aiyah!" so far. Really. Someday, I might come back to this one and annotate every instance of "Aiyah!" in it. Someday.]Edited by: The Ray at: 9/4/02 8:59:40 pm
[I blame Lady Palpatine for this one. Hell, I blame her for everything. There's something very off about incarnating comic book characters, albeit poncey Tori Amos lookalike ones, in real life modelling shoots and expecting the results to be anything but "Aiyah!".]Edited by: The Ray at: 9/4/02 9:01:30 pm
[Oh, god. Slice of chest hair. Lady on the left holding chicken bone behind a glass. Wristwatch conspiciously facing the RIGHT way. Hoop earrings. And that face.
That horrible, horrible face.]Edited by: The Ray at: 9/4/02 9:04:32 pm
[Uh oh. One's obviously got a thought bubble going in her head, the other's either stoned or a complete bore, and that one might be constipated. And they're ALL slowly getting DRUNK!
Aiyah aiyah aiyah aiyah.]Edited by: The Ray at: 9/4/02 9:08:15 pm
[How in the hell does a picture of a friggin' newborn end up being blurry with speed lines? The subject can barely gurgle, let alone crawl. Did the photographer jiggle the camera or something?
In any case, the primary points of "Aiyah!" are obvious to even a layman, but there are subtleties at work here. The i.d tag on both arm and foot, and that strange yellow plug/corkscrew thing on the bellybutton. And is that a blue-gloved hand reaching down to steady Speed-Baby?]Edited by: The Ray at: 9/4/02 9:13:47 pm
[Okay, it's time to accept the fact that I just find little kids plain creepy. But what's with the toilet paper next to the toychest? Does Asian-Girl associate play time with poo time?Edited by: The Ray at: 9/4/02 9:15:38 pm
[Oh, where do I start? The pointing hands in the lower left corner or the way Right Girl obviously sees something wicked this way comes? There's so much "Aiyah!" here that it's difficult to just choose a single point of interest. I mean, christ, everyone in the picture has a really punchable face with the possible exception of Sunkist Lass. Yes, you know what I want to do to Sunkist Lass. Don't tell me you don't, coward.]Edited by: The Ray at: 9/4/02 9:21:48 pm
[I'm convinced that if you squeezed that girl's nose it would pop like a zit, splattering chink-goop all over your hand and most of your sleeve. And notice how it's the foreigner who's dead on the floor, with the Yellow Menace enacting heathen rituals and strange face-squints in celebration. Slap a dirty jap, slap a dirty jap!]Edited by: The Ray at: 9/4/02 9:24:30 pm
[Think of the sounds that fish would make slapping into that guy's face. Just think of it, and hold that thought forever. That's the "Aiyah!" essence, it is.]Edited by: The Ray at: 9/4/02 9:26:26 pm
[If those chests were living entities of their own, the one on the left would be the small-boobed chick and the one on the right would be a sickly heroin addict with some sort of ripple effect on their skin. And note the red face of exertion. So very "Aiyah!", fellahs, so very very "Aiyah!".]Edited by: The Ray at: 9/4/02 9:32:04 pm
Aiyah!
it's a bird! it's a plane!
Nah. Just some random x-ray vision albino maniac freak.
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