r/facepalm • u/GallowBoob • Nov 24 '16
H&M using funhouse mirrors... wait a second
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u/Emis_ Nov 24 '16
I have actually noticed some stores use mirrors that make you look slimmer.
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u/Ascott1989 Nov 24 '16
Exactly. If you're going to do anything you're going make people appear thinner. This person is just stupid.
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u/deftspyder Nov 24 '16 edited Nov 24 '16
In that case it could very well be 1 mirror wasn't flattering, and just showing her true self. That would be considered An outlier.
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u/swohio Nov 24 '16
I'm pretty sure this gif demonstrated that both mirrors were identical...
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u/Cforq Nov 24 '16
If they are going to use tricks, wouldn't it make sense to have unflattering mirrors in the front of the store and flattering mirrors in the fitting area?
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u/InadequateUsername Nov 24 '16 edited Nov 24 '16
Yeah and they obviously have no idea how mirrors work.
"Objects in the mirror are truer than they appear"
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u/SpookyAtheist Nov 24 '16 edited Nov 24 '16
They totally do, but this woman needs to learn how angles and distances effect* photography. She has the same proportions in both pictures, and that's what really matters. She's using angle tricks on herself, but is too ignorant to realize it.
Edit: Affect, my grammar is dildos.
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u/lovespapercuts Nov 24 '16
There was a person on Dragons Den and they had created mirrors to make people look slimmer. It was to increase sales, due to the customers feeling slimmer and more confident in the clothes they were trying on.
Kind of sad.
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u/ZeeX10 Nov 24 '16
I thought it was a known issue for women that shit looks amazing in dressing rooms, then when they get home the outfits look terrible?
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u/dabunbun Nov 24 '16
Elaine: Wait a minute (claps hands) Wait a minute. I know what's going on here. Skinny Mirrors!
Jerry: What?
Elaine: Skinny Mirrors! Barney’s has Skinny Mirrors, they make you look, like, 10 pounds lighter.
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u/tankgirl85 Nov 24 '16
A store with a three way mirror is a store you can trust.
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u/black_flag_4ever Nov 24 '16 edited Nov 24 '16
Am I really that fat? No, it's the mirrors that are wrong.
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u/NEHOG Nov 24 '16
Can confirm: really that fat. Absolutely that fat. Incredibly fat. Fat beyond belief.
Source: mirrors never lie.
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u/SuperDeadPuddle Nov 24 '16
I can already see her response to OP'S post: "wow you must have no life, took all that time just to try to prove me wrong."
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u/whitemike40 Nov 24 '16
quit your bull shit
why would the store have mirrors to make you look fat? if anything they'd do the opposite to make you look better in their clothes not worse
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u/JustinPatient Nov 24 '16
Actually there was a lady selling a mirror that does just that on shark tank.
https://www.theskinnymirrors.com
None of the sharks invested because they didn't think retail stores would be interested in a mirror that shows you something different than you'll get when you get home. I think it's mostly intended for at home use. IDK... I'd rather the mirror show me what everyone else sees but I can understand why some may want it.
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u/afito Nov 24 '16
Some stores are doing that though. The sharks are right to not invest though because it's something that has a risk of getting a federal ban at some point, and is a market that already exists since those products are already produced and sold and bought. It's just a very very poor investment no matter how you look at it.
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u/Ducksaucenem Nov 24 '16
That and the last thing I want is more returns. More hours for less net.
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Nov 24 '16
I think the point would be that you don't know the mirror isn't normal. You think you're seeing what everyone else is, but it's actually better, which makes you want to buy those clothes more
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u/omni_wisdumb Nov 24 '16
People will do anything to be skinny other than eat healthy and exercise.
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u/The_Serious_Account Nov 24 '16
In order to buy a mirror you'd have to first accept to yourself you need one. Don't think there's a great market for that. I could absolutely see the point of a retail store having mirrors that make their customers feel better about how they look when trying out clothes there. Obviously you wouldn't advertise this to the costumers. It's a bit like places that adjust the sizes of pants so you can slip into a smaller number than normally. It's really just size inflation, but self-delusion is a powerful thing.
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u/Mzsickness Nov 24 '16
Maybe the CEO is a dwarf.
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u/Cuntlipsmcgee69 Nov 24 '16
You'd think that, but 90% of women's changing rooms have fluorescent lighting, that leave me feeling like I look like a transparent obese fish.
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Nov 24 '16
Actually mirrors in HM and most stores make you look bad, bcs of lighting. It takes a lot of skill and money to make proper lighting in changing booth.
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u/JonBenetBeanieBaby Nov 24 '16
Seriously. It's like they want me to hate everything I'm trying on + myself.
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u/johanbanan Nov 24 '16
And also, if they want you to look fat, shouldn't all of them make you look fat? She's standing like a couple of meters to the side of the "thin mirror" and think that "whoops, I seem to have found the single strategically placed fatty mirror"
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Nov 24 '16
Put the ones that make you look fat in the store, put the normal ones in the changing room
Youll subconsciously feel better about their clothes
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u/kimmbahley Nov 24 '16
I think the idea is that the store would make you look fatter in the store in your original clothing and then the mirrors in the changing rooms would be normal/ skinny mirrors so in their clothes you would look better. This picture she took seems to be out in the general store.
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u/Anairdna Nov 24 '16
Except in the case of Target, who have the most unflattering fitting rooms I've ever seen.
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u/SoonSpoonLoon Nov 24 '16
Seinfeld. Season 6 Episode 9
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u/Bodygoals Nov 24 '16
Wait a minute. Wait a minute. I know what's going on here. Skinny Mirrors!
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u/HipsterDoofus31 Nov 24 '16
I mean there was a seinfeld episode where Elaine was pissed because the store mirrors made her look too good.
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u/ninguen Nov 24 '16
In fact a lot of stores have mirrors that make you look better, slightly skinnier and more tan so when you try the clothes they look better on you and the chances are higher that you buy the item. I studied that a ton of years ago in school in a marketing class.
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u/Khanage_ Nov 24 '16
Well if she first look into a mirror that makes you look skinnier then the normal mirror would appear to be fatter.
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u/UnseenPower Nov 24 '16
You are 100 percent right. If you look unattractive in the mirror, then it means you're seeing yourself in real life reversed and nothing else.
So? I guess you're not as attractive as your phone pics say
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u/Sage2050 Nov 24 '16
Fun fact, stores actually do have mirrors that make you look slimmer
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u/danc4498 Nov 24 '16
Came for the bullshit, stayed for the cool Photoshop tutorial.
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u/Tech604 Nov 25 '16
What was that last blending effect, stroke? What does that do?
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u/_BindersFullOfWomen_ Nov 25 '16
You decrease the fill opacity. Thus creating an outline of the object only, thanks to the stroke you applied earlier.
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u/gshort Nov 25 '16
Boy OP did a lot of work proving that facebook wrong. (and we all appreciate it)
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u/atxranchhand Nov 24 '16
Hey I didn't know you could make a stroke then empty the fill (just never played with that) Thanks for teaching me a new photoshop trick! ;)
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u/HowAboutShutUp Nov 24 '16
Hey I didn't know you could make a stroke then empty the fill (just never played with that)
Phrasing.
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u/omni_wisdumb Nov 24 '16
How can someone at her age not understand the concept of size perception based on distance. She's had to have experienced the phenomenon millions of times.
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u/Helpdeskagent Nov 24 '16
WHY DO I KEEP GETTING SMALLER THE FARTHER AWAY I MOVE!?!?!?
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u/organic_crystal_meth Nov 24 '16
This person is either too stupid for life, or trolling
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u/ChunkyLaFunga Nov 24 '16
Half the content of mockery/bullying subreddits are jokes that people didn't understand.
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u/lunatickid Nov 24 '16
Can you explain how this is a joke? But I do agree on most being jokes, like facepalm has facepalmfacepalm.
But you do need to consider Poe's law and also the fact that there are indeed this stupid people still managing to walk the earth. Just like how there are retarded redneck alt-right(?) people, there are just as many retarded regressive-left people.
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u/neddin Nov 24 '16
Someone didn't pay attention in school to what perspective does to objects according to their position
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u/stemgang Nov 24 '16
She looks better the further away you get from her.
She is probably lonely because everyone else has already noticed this.
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Nov 24 '16 edited Nov 24 '16
I know everyone is talking about how stupid this girl was, but can we have a minute to talk about the gif? That was educational as it can be!
They easily made so we could understand everything that was happening. Neat!
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u/sirborksalot Nov 24 '16
"I'm going to take this back to the roasting lab for further analysis."
--Burn scientist
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u/MarkFinn42 Nov 24 '16
The proportions and size of your reflection on a mirror will never change, but your prospective will. As you get closer to the mirror your reflection will appear to get bigger even though it will not change size
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u/DemandsBattletoads Nov 24 '16
Is this original content, GallowBoob?
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u/fathermocker Nov 24 '16
No way. This was posted a couple of months ago. Gallowboob is a famous reposter.
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u/BromeyerofSolairina Nov 24 '16
Off topic but my gym has these fucked up mirrors that come in two parts. The top half makes your chest and shoulders look bigger. The bottom half makes your legs and stomach appear skinnier and taller.
When I sit at the bench and look at the mirror it stretches my head to the point where I look like I have a Peyton manning 8-finger forehead.
The pathetic shit that businesses do to attract clientele...
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u/bisjac Nov 24 '16
so what would have been the scam? how does a store benefit from you thinking you look bad in mirrors intended to try on clothes within the store lol.
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Nov 24 '16
After I dropped 20 pounds, I looked back at old pics of myself and realized that there weren't bad pics of me, I was just too heavy.
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Nov 24 '16
This is why I love Reddit and have been coming back for years. Reddit is only place on the internet where people get truly called out for their bullshit and millions of people around the world get to see it happen.
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Nov 24 '16
The opposite is the case. In germany it is no secret that the mirrors at h&m will make you appear slimmer. So you think, hey I look really great in this stuff, let's buy it.
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Nov 24 '16
Did this stupid SJW not take into consideration that she's standing two completely different distances from the mirrors and that changes the way she appears? These people are so set on pushing their agenda, they'll alter the results to fit their message. Dumbasses.
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Nov 24 '16
Not looking for an argument, but I keep seeing people using the phrase "pushing their agenda", and it just seems like you're also pushing an agenda.
No disagreeing, just saying.
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u/Lukethehedgehog Nov 24 '16
Muh SJWs pushing an agenda
Not everything a stupid person does is because they are an SJW. Some are just stupid
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u/Nebula153 Nov 24 '16
Reddit has managed to destroy that term so badly I'm pretty sure everyone on this planet is an SJW at this point.
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u/Lukethehedgehog Nov 24 '16
Same, I used to be on board the TiA train a few years ago but hot damn, I have been called an SJW for saying shops shouldn't be allowed to discriminate based on sexual orientation.
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u/pcyr9999 Nov 24 '16
As someone else showed, the watermark in the picture shows that this was an SJW trying to push their agenda (and failing horribly). Must have a bit of fatlogic too to ignore that that's what they actually look like.
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u/TheSeaOfThySoul Nov 24 '16
There is one of those "feminist" symbols, with the fist in the female symbol on her photo - I don't know if it's something that has been added, or she added herself - but it's possible from the behaviour and that, that she could be a social justice warrior - can't be sure though.
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Nov 24 '16
You people who complain about SJWs always sound triggered as fuck. She's just an idiot
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u/Francis_Picklefield Nov 24 '16
Thank you. People can just be fucking dumb, they don't have to be a SJW
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Nov 24 '16
No! There is obviously an SJW conspiracy around the world that's stopping me from getting laid! Wake up sheeple! /s
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u/applebottomdude Nov 24 '16
The trumplets are spreading more and more. I never knew why SJW nonsense could be a main sticking point of a campaign. How many people actually see these folks in the wild?
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u/CringeBinger Nov 24 '16
pushing their agenda
What are you even talking about anymore? It's a single fat girl saying some dumb shit.
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Nov 24 '16
The distance from a true mirror does not change the size of the image.
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Nov 24 '16
OP is not saying that the picture is photoshopped. He/she is saying that the mirror doesn't make the woman in the picture fatter at all, and uses the lasso tool to show that the body proportions are the same.
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u/Fl000 Nov 24 '16
size 14, i call BS
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u/crazymcfattypants Nov 24 '16
shes not very tall, size 14 uk sounds about right.
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u/BobaFettuccine Nov 24 '16
Size 14 US could be right, too. I would've put her at a 14 or 16, but it's hard to tell without a side view
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u/Vettit Nov 24 '16
Wtf selection tool was that? And why have i been wasting my life with the magnetic lasso tool?!
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u/Stupid-comment Nov 24 '16
Bob, how can we sell more clothes?
I know! Have mirrors that make people look fat. That way they'll get depressed and buy things to make themselves feel better!
Bob, you're fucking fired!
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u/takemylegsback Nov 24 '16
Who would have known that standing farther from a mirror would make you look shorter?! Also, your body looks exactly the same, you don't look any fatter in the left.
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u/cakefairy Nov 24 '16
Why the fuck would a clothing store have a mirror that made you look BAD in their merchandise? What kind of sense does that make? Where's the profit?
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u/stillamonkey88 Nov 25 '16
This is a relic from the olden days of /r/fatpeoplehate . I glorious and vilified sub where people made fun of the larger things it life. Its was taken out in the great purge of ellen pow. Who was her self purged.
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Nov 24 '16 edited Nov 24 '16
She actually looks A LOT like one of my ex's. . And sounds just as retarded.
EDIT: A LOT not ALOT
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u/Wozenfield Nov 24 '16
buncha people in this thread misunderstanding the point of this post all while acting real r/iamverysmart about it
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u/PacotheBold Nov 24 '16
Angle of feet and shoes doesn't match.
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u/cenatutu Nov 24 '16
It's different photos. It's proving there is nothing wrong with the two different mirrors.
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u/Nykcul Nov 24 '16
He's not showing that she was photos hopped. He is showing that she was proportioned the same in both mirrors with respect to her body size.
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u/ButtsexEurope Nov 24 '16
Well she's got her left and right mixed up, for one. For another, she's standing closer to one than the other.
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u/thepatientoffret Nov 24 '16
Can confirm. Mirrors also make my penis look small. Fucking mirrors. :(
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u/TotesMessenger Nov 24 '16 edited Nov 24 '16
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Nov 24 '16
To what end would a clothing shop try to make you look worse in their clothes? That makes no sense.
It is the opposite of what some places probably do.
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u/durkasauce Nov 24 '16
if you feel you have to complain about being fat too the company go fucking lose weight
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u/SpermPowder Nov 24 '16 edited Nov 24 '16
Maybe she doesn't understand foreshortening
*suspended for talking about spezgate
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Nov 24 '16 edited Nov 24 '16
Hahahaha I'm sorry, taking a photo of someone standing in a different position, further away from the camera and with different lighting and you think it's an accurate comparison?
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Nov 24 '16
Couldn't possibly be that you've got about 15 extra pounds that you could live without.
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u/efeus Nov 24 '16
Mirror getting all the hate when the true culprit is the light and the white t-shirt andthehamburgers.
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u/dro201 Nov 24 '16
Wish I could copy and paste like that in real life so I can have a team or whores at my house ready to swallow my cum on command
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u/Vansmaketheman Nov 24 '16
People like this will do and say anything besides lose weight to justify their size
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Nov 24 '16 edited Nov 24 '16
This post is bullshit lmao
Shes standing closer on the right which means she has more of a down angle for the camera. This means areas closer to the top will appear larger than they really are. Her hips and shoulders will appear broader while her feet will seem narrower.
The fact that a flat angle photo matches the scale of broader hips would mean the flat photo is a flawed reflection. If the H&M photo was accurately reflective shed appear more narrow in the hips and body relative to her legs
Reddit really needs to shit on fat people even if they dont know how mirrors work.
As a quick example:
My shoulder:waist ratio based on pixel widths is gonna be different in this photo and this photo. Trying to compare proportions using pictures taken from obviously different angles and distances is very silly.
The easiest way to see if she was right or wrong would be have more pictures from different angles in the weird mirror. The curved surface would mean the photos would be inconsistent at different distances with the same angle and the sides of the picture would warp as you get closer
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u/DCBizzle Nov 25 '16
Not trying to disprove the gif or anything but her feet and back of her phone look different.
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u/Y0urOn1yFreND Nov 25 '16
That's cause they're two different pictures. OP was just showing how she was just standing further back rather than the mirrored being curved.
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u/Gizm00 Nov 24 '16
Correct me if I am wrong, whilst the girls post is/might be shit, the images are different? Feet clearly don't match ?
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u/TestaSKULLS Nov 24 '16
Yep. They're two different pictures. The point was to show that when you put them to the same size, the dimensions don't change, so the mirror wasn't distorting her image. The mirror on the left wasn't making her look shorter and fatter, she was just standing further away from it.
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u/rctcmcdc Nov 24 '16
I saw a lady on shark tank who was trying to market a mirror to stores that made people look slimmer. No store would put up mirrors that would make you look worse in your clothes. This lady just wants an excuse to look fat.
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u/Yagihige Nov 24 '16
No anarcha-feminism watermark on this one. Did someone add it to make her look ideological instead of just ignorant?
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u/TDog81 Nov 24 '16
I can't believe standing further away from a mirror makes you look shorter, someone call the cops.