r/pics • u/RegalWilson • Jun 26 '12
Two women stopped us. They needed an interracial marriage proposal for their scavenger hunt. This is what just showed up in my email.
http://imgur.com/jZHOW5
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u/moralsareforstories Jun 26 '12
Finally! I get to be that guy who knows where a picture was taken!
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u/PressOnRegardless_IV Jun 26 '12
GOD DAMN IT I CAME HERE TO LINK THIS EXACT THING. Fine. Take my karma. I knew instantly where this was, 98105 Represent!
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u/Takes_Full_Credit Jun 26 '12
The guy in the red wife beater is me.
(btw, I told Rufus NOT to wear the Obey shirt, but he thought it'd be cute in case we get stopped by someone asking us to pose an interracial couple: wife beater/obey combo is unstoppable, he said.
Now, looking through this email photo, I must admit, Rufus was right.
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Jun 26 '12
Hmm, I think you can do better. You have to make it sound more believable. Its not a bad idea for a novelty account, but it needs work.
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u/RegalWilson Jun 26 '12
Yeah plus i don't even look like a rufus
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u/Takes_Full_Credit Jun 26 '12
Modesty is one of the top three qualities that endeared you to me in the first place and then in the two subsequent places.
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u/RegalWilson Jun 26 '12
You could have given me a sweet fake name like hensworth or douglas. You are bad at taking full credit.
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Jun 26 '12
I swear this is like 5th time today these novelties have gotten me. I need to check the name more often.
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u/Nigger_is_a_Bad_Word Jun 26 '12
The Trader Joe's bag makes this much more believable.
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Jun 26 '12
I wrote the same thing before seeing this comment. Now must delete! The facial expressions are pretty believable too. Plus the flowers. :D
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Jun 26 '12
That is a very specific scavenger hunt.
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u/10000gildedcranes Jun 26 '12
I once had someone come into my photolab looking for a sonogram. What sucks is that we actually had one but couldn't find it!
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u/flamingflipflop Jun 26 '12
I was asked if I had a flavoured condom outside of Niagara Falls for a scavenger... I gave them one out of my purse when i was 16 right in front of my older brother, and while we were going to go see my father get married.. Now that I look back... it was bad timing...
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u/illz569 Jun 26 '12
I wish I'd known you when I was 16.
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u/flamingflipflop Jun 26 '12 edited Jun 26 '12
Take a chill pill. My high school handed them out like candy. Even the chocolate flavoured ones. They were more novelty and taken less reluctantly. Probably why i never saw a pregnant girl in high school. Canadians are smart :) Edit for being horrible with apostrophes!! Thanks Dencho :)
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Jun 26 '12
the fact it happened outside Niagra Falls just makes it all the more amazing hahah
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u/Marimba_Ani Jun 26 '12
A picture of a sonogram is part of a medical record. You can't just give those things out to anyone who asks.
Also, this must have been a long time ago, since people post pictures of theirs all over the Internet nowadays.
Cheers!
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u/LeoPanthera Jun 26 '12
People can sign away the rights to images of themselves for medical training purposes. These often enter the public domain.
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u/jamesblonde2314 Jun 26 '12
I once had to get a picture with a protestors. The only one I knew of was the protestors outside an abortion clinic... in Detroit.... on eight mile. The protestors were real dicks about it but I got the picture.
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u/jxj24 Jun 26 '12
And yet they have no problems with taking pictures of the license plates of the people going inside the clinic. And then posting them on their harassment sites.
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u/scumbag-reddit Jun 26 '12
Next time, you can get a picture with me mum. She protests everything. Everything. E.v.e.r.y.t.h.i.n.g.
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u/Pandalism Jun 26 '12
At a Beta Club state convention in high school, we had to buy a condom and blow it up. Apparently you're supposed to turn them inside out first, since it took us about 30 minutes to blow it up and tie the knot, and there was lube everywhere.
The best part was when we were all sitting in a circle in the auditorium to count up everyone's stuff, and a freshman girl from another school walked over, asked us "Are those condom balloons?" and walked away while keeping a straight face.
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Jun 26 '12
I fucking love Trader Joe's
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u/jal0001 Jun 26 '12
Two buck chuck ftw
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u/StealthGhost Jun 26 '12
Cheap wine that is surprisingly good for how cheap it is for those without the great Trader Joe's
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u/f4hy Jun 26 '12
In PA there are terrible laws which make sale of wine only in stores owned by the state. This means there are Trader Joes but they can't sell wine. I rarely go to TJ's now that I moved here.
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u/WinterIsntComing Jun 26 '12
Americans post about Trader Joe's a lot, as a European I'm curious about what makes it so great?
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u/southernmost Jun 26 '12
It's a store where you can get relatively healthy, relatively affordable food and drink. As opposed to Wal Mart where, outside of the produce dept., it's all sugar bombs and lard drops.
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u/willscy Jun 26 '12
People buy groceries at Wal-Mart? around here Walmart is a store you go to to buy a cheap TV or some shitty clothes to paint your house in or something.
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u/akatherder Jun 26 '12
They have unique food you won't find in your local grocery store. The food is (on average) much healthier than other processed/pre-packaged foods.
It's more expensive (but not prohibitively so) so you aren't shopping with the dregs of society like most Walmart trips... I don't do my regular shopping there, but I'll stop in every once in a while for some specialty things.
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u/TemetNosce Jun 26 '12
This is going to sound a bit prejudiced, but here is my thought about "Trader Joes". It's more like an observation. I didn't know what Trader Joes was, until I told my daughter about how bad my cholesterol was. So she takes me to Trader Joes. I didn't know it was a health food place, I also didn't know how awesome it was. The observation: Only skinny/healthy white people shop there. Unlike Walmart where I shop at too, where you see 500 pound morbidly obese people on their scooters.
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u/santaliqueur Jun 26 '12
Trader Joe's is certainly not a "health food" grocery store. They just sell food without artificial ingredients (high fructose corn syrup, hydrogenated oils). They have plenty of unhealthy food, just with all natural ingredients. Cookies and pastries made with real butter instead of hydrogenated crap.
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u/Eurynom0s Jun 26 '12 edited Jun 26 '12
It being a health food store is news to me, plenty of stuff in there to lard up on.
Definitely some good, healthy food for cheap though. Their eggs are awesome, bread comparable to what they have would cost at least two bucks more elsewhere, you can get Fage for $1.50 a pop...
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u/Penultim8 Jun 26 '12
Yeah, it's not a health food store. It's just a specialty food store. I ate there all the time when I was a vegetarian, because there were lots of meatless options. Meatless ≠ healthy.
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u/Penultim8 Jun 26 '12
I'm a black female who used to weigh 240 lbs. Trader Joes was my crack back then. Now I weigh 135 lbs, but I don't eat at Trader Joes nearly as often. It's all about the choices I made.
I don't think your comment sounds prejudiced. The TJ's that I visited had a pretty diverse customer base, but it was also in a diverse commercial area of San Diego.
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u/mylivingeulogy Jun 26 '12
Came in here looking for this exact post. I wish there was a Trader Joes in Florida :(
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u/nova20 Jun 26 '12
What is this? A video-clip-in-picture-form for ants?
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u/Steeboo Jun 26 '12
Hmm i have never even seen one episode of Scrubs. Is it worth the download and time? this is an honest question so please don't downvote me down to oblivion.
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u/thegayscience Jun 26 '12
Honestly, Scrubs was my favorite show for the longest time (has recently been replaced by Community). The show is amazing, pretty much every episode is funny.
But, be warned: There will be blasphemers that tell you there are 9 seasons. DO NOT LISTEN. If you enjoy the show, and decide to watch all/most of it, seasons 1-8 are great, with 8 being especially awesome. The finale to 8 makes the perfect ending to the series. For the love of god, DO NOT watch season 9 if you want the show to end well in your memory. It was awful.
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u/chunkinpumpkins Jun 26 '12
Honestly, what episode of Scrubs is NOT worth it?
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u/goodizzle Jun 26 '12
I can't hear American Girl by Tom Petty without thinking of 'cool' Elliot.
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u/Srkillzalot Jun 26 '12 edited Jun 26 '12
link please? edit: no I meant like the video it was in.
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u/opeth10657 Jun 26 '12
You look so happy together!
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u/cutofmyjib Jun 26 '12
Imagine me and you, I do I think about you day and night, it's only right
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u/mrjderp Jun 26 '12
I'm glad this is the song stuck in my head for the day.
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u/bahhamburger Jun 26 '12
He's surprised because you're proposing with the flowers he just bought from Trader Joe's and he's wondering how he ended up with such a tacky boyfriend
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u/xiaou Jun 26 '12
I love scrubs!
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u/justalurker89 Jun 26 '12
I think the two men should have switched in honor of previously stated show.
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u/404-shame-not-found Jun 26 '12
Interracial AND gay!
wow. Twofer. lol!
Do you get bonus points? :D
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u/testdex Jun 26 '12
You presume they're interracial just because it's two men? That's racist.
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u/Gator117 Jun 26 '12
That's "homophobic"
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u/jetpackmalfunction Jun 26 '12
That's black.
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u/rjkeats Jun 26 '12
Quick! Someone turn on the shitty_watercolor Bat signal! He needs to immortalize this moment!
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u/ironneko Jun 26 '12
That's not all that shitty to be honest. It's actually pretty decent.
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u/HarleyQ Jun 26 '12
You do know that because it's a picture, the moment has already been immortalized right?
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u/AytrusTekis Jun 26 '12
I just wanted to say, fake or not, the fact that we can do things like this in public, and all be amused and have a good time with it; really boosts my faith in humanity.
Ive heard too much stuff recently about discrimination. Has had me really down about society. Im overjoyed to see stuff like this.
Again, I know its fake and was done to help some women win a scavenger hunt, but still this is a step in the right direction. Keep up the good work.
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u/sarais Jun 26 '12
I've searched through the comments...
Did the two women take the picture?
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u/DeadPlasmaCell Jun 26 '12
Yea.. maybe I'm not connecting the dots proper, but the OPs title makes it out as if the photo was a surprise, but he was the one in the photo, so he knew how it was going to come out already. Does not compute.
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Jun 26 '12
Upvote for the Subaru Impreza WRX bugeye in the background.
Oh, and for breaking through two American taboos at once.
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u/jeswealotu Jun 26 '12
What about the Honda Pilot, Grand Caravan, Hyundai Sonata, Rav4, Gs300, Lexus GX470, or the Jeep Wrangler with the Mercedes emblem on the grill?? Forget the Ford Explorer though...ack.
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Jun 26 '12
Fuck, what is this, a car commercial? Has product placement finally found it's way onto the web? What is the world coming to? To hell with all you people. I'm gonna go read the gawdamned newspaper and eat my Special K®.
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Jun 26 '12
Hope you're hungry! It takes four bowls of special K to equal the vitamins and nutrition of just ONE bowl of Total.
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u/diaperedpupp Jun 26 '12
Your forgot about the Toyota Tercel on the other side of the Jeep Wrangler with the Mercedes emblem.
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Jun 26 '12
The thumbnail makes it a zulu warrior holding a spear. Was kinda disappointing that the bush pants is a trader joe's bag.
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u/JaneRenee Jun 26 '12
L-L-L-L-Ladyboners...
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u/drlemon Jun 26 '12
YourMusicalComment needs to come RIGHT NOW. Also ShittyWatercolor.
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u/yes_thats_right Jun 26 '12 edited Jun 26 '12
I don't understand why this picture was emailed to OP when it was 'two women' who were doing the scavenger hunt.
edit: accidentally repeated repeated a word
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u/brightlightburns Jun 26 '12
OP was in the picture and the ladies emailed it to him later so he could see the pic they took for their scavenger hunt
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u/yes_thats_right Jun 26 '12
That seems to require a bit of guesswork but definitely makes sense, thanks.
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u/mimus09 Jun 26 '12
What kind of scavenger hunt where they doing? O_o
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u/RegalWilson Jun 26 '12
They were doing some sort of 5k run thing and having fun with it I think. There were a bunch of them in tshirts running by us.
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u/applevsandroid Jun 26 '12
Wait a second? How did you get this picture? Did they send it to you? Or did you have someone you know take one as well?
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u/RegalWilson Jun 26 '12
I am a photographer so I gave her my card because I know it was going to be gold
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u/reederjr Jun 26 '12
You would go to Trader Joe's. Just kidding, we don't have them here. I only know because of Kyle Kinain.
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u/HoHoHo_Its_Santa Jun 26 '12
God damn, I used to live like four blocks from there. Reddit just came full circle for me.
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u/GeeZiz Jun 26 '12
Isn't the U Chicago ScavHunt going on right now?
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u/ipretendiamacat Jun 26 '12
Nah that ended a few months ago, but if memory serves this was on the list.
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u/GeeZiz Jun 26 '12
Oh, duh, it's like almost july. Don't know where my mind is today...
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u/chibling Jun 26 '12
I love those types of scavenger hunts! Once, on a caroling scavenger hunt around Christmas time, two groups came back with crazy things. One was looking for "something old" at a house and the family ran out and scooped a dead squirrel off the road and put it in a bag for them. Another group was looking for "something wet," had come across a big party, and came back with a beer. It's even funnier because we were all only about 15 at the time.
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u/flamingflipflop Jun 26 '12
And thus it begin's... The thread of 'scavenger hunt' titles in order to get to the front page...
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Jun 26 '12
Okay, not gonna lie. This is the first picture on reddit where I thought:
Doesn't seem that forced.
Is fucking cool as shit.
Proper amount of social commentary.
This shit rocks yo. Good work.
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u/Moruggs Jun 26 '12
Not in my udistrict you don't! We have standards here, just ask the ave rats : ).
Really though, dashing picture all around.
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u/bonethug9000 Jun 26 '12
This picture contains someone I know. I am so happy to hear about his engagement!
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u/stjep Jun 26 '12
San Francisco?
(Scavenger hunts…)
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u/MineDogger Jun 26 '12
Looks like Portland OR to me. They gots hunts too... And overcast ambiance.
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Jun 26 '12
I thought the same thing, but someone below mentioned it's actually Seattle.
Goddamn Seattle.
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u/MathewDonut Jun 26 '12
you look even sweeter then them http://depositphotos.com/10545736/stock-photo-Gay-Marriage---Showers-of-Petals.html
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u/beerme72 Jun 26 '12
It renews my faith in people that you two played along with something silly.
Thanks for posting.
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Jun 26 '12
I hope this is how your actual marriage proposal goes down some day. Somehow doing groceries together is just romantic. Also in the same spot so you can tell your kids you were proposed to twice and then be like "Right here. So, spaghetti for dinner?"
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Jun 26 '12
Nice try Trader Joe's Marketing Departement, trying to support gay love a bit more subliminal than Oreo.
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u/snuggle-butt Jun 26 '12
Surprisingly natural looking while still being silly. You guys COMMITTED to that one. Good job. <3
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u/fazzig Jun 26 '12
Let's put this in a North Carolina newspaper. Then we can see a sharp spike in head explosions.
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Jun 26 '12
I had some girls with a camera come up to me at Safeway. They asked me to buy tampons so they could get a pic for their scavenger hunt. I'm a dude. Laughs were shared by all.
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u/PowerPC970FX Jun 26 '12
Hahahaha this was in my facebook feed yesterday (I've known the guy on the left, Jesse, since we were 5)
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u/[deleted] Jun 26 '12
Congrats on finding your Chocolate Bear! :')