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01 Oct 2011, 12:08 pm

Sorry about this, I'm sure Kirsten is lovely but would it be possible to change the photo so she isn't staring right at you everytime you visit the forum index?

It really freaks me out.

Am I the only person this bothers or do other people try and avoid eye contact with pictures?

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01 Oct 2011, 12:26 pm

I think it's a lovely picture.

I'm not trying to be offensive but are you seriously bothered by eye contact with pictures? I find that a little hard to believe.

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01 Oct 2011, 12:58 pm

i find it adds a pleasant touch of erotica about the place

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01 Oct 2011, 3:08 pm

She looks very pretty in the photo. I have adblocked her though, as I have a problem with visual clutter, so adblocking is something I really need, I think I would be extremely stressed without it.

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01 Oct 2011, 3:33 pm

OneStepBeyond wrote:

i find it adds a pleasant touch of erotica about the place

What do you think I'm here for?

I find it a bit full on. It's a rather 'in your face' photograph.

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01 Oct 2011, 3:37 pm

*in her face

you'll have to link me to the moog erotica

it will be gone soon anyway DC3, dont worry

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01 Oct 2011, 4:26 pm

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*in her face

The Camera's in her face, which makes it feel like my face is in hers. Does that make any sense?

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you'll have to link me to the moog erotica

I'd better unpack me nipple tassles

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01 Oct 2011, 4:28 pm

Apologies, but to me she looks like a mix of Megan Fox and Spazzergasm.

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01 Oct 2011, 4:38 pm

Moog wrote:

OneStepBeyond wrote:

*in her face

The Camera's in her face, which makes it feel like my face is in hers.

why is this bad

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01 Oct 2011, 5:09 pm

anna-banana wrote:

I think it's a lovely picture.

I'm not trying to be offensive but are you seriously bothered by eye contact with pictures? I find that a little hard to believe.

Real people.

Photos.

TV presenters.

Myself in the mirror.

It's a bit like asking if you are bothered by being hit in the face with a frying pan...

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01 Oct 2011, 6:09 pm

DC wrote:

anna-banana wrote:

I think it's a lovely picture.

I'm not trying to be offensive but are you seriously bothered by eye contact with pictures? I find that a little hard to believe.

Real people.

Photos.

TV presenters.

Myself in the mirror.

It's a bit like asking if you are bothered by being hit in the face with a frying pan...

I would be bothered by being hit in the face with a frying pan. I'm unbothered by pixels though.

have you tried installing AdBlock or NoScript?

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01 Oct 2011, 6:16 pm

Moog wrote:

OneStepBeyond wrote:

i find it adds a pleasant touch of erotica about the place

What do you think I'm here for?

I find it a bit full on. It's a rather 'in your face' photograph.

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speaking of 'in your face' or rather around your face your avie sorta creeps me out, too, Moog. Here you have a non creepy guy, and non creepy kitties but together the whole thing makes my tummy kinda queasy. Which is probably why it appeals to someone to have such a thing below one's name. . .

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01 Oct 2011, 7:56 pm

anna-banana wrote:

I would be bothered by being hit in the face with a frying pan. I'm unbothered by pixels though.

have you tried installing AdBlock or NoScript?

AdBlock is installed ofc and I suspect noscript would break the forum...

Do you normally avoid eye contact with fleshy human types?

For me the reaction is exactly the same, I assume what ever mutant neurons I have that get triggered by normal eye contact also get triggered by when looking at an image of a face.

Not the sensation of physical pain but the extreme level of distraction, panic, confusion and brain shutdown that an event like being hit in the face by a frying pan or a smoke alarm going off next to you has. I literally can't hold eye contact and think enough to form a sentence at the same time.

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01 Oct 2011, 8:02 pm

I rather like her picture.

<Quickly looks over shoulder to locate wife.>

Yup ... fine-looking picture!

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01 Oct 2011, 8:20 pm

Fnord wrote:

I rather like her picture.

<Quickly looks over shoulder to locate wife.>

Yup ... fine-looking picture!

Don't get me wrong, she looks great in the picture (except for the barrel distortion, sorry photographer!) It's just the staring.

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01 Oct 2011, 10:54 pm

She's on the front page alot. Looking at the four pictures of her on the page with the cover stories (wrongplanet.net) link, she has the chameleon quality that some people with Asperger's have. She looks almost like a different person in every picture.

Her expression in the picture reminded me of the expression on Mona Lisa's face; an uncanny ambiguity in expression of emotion:

http://leonardo-da-vinci.paintings.name/

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Returning to the Mona Lisa, some people wonder why it is that her facial expression seems to change depending on the direction from which you look at her.
Given the fact that Da Vinci manages to capture so many different emotions and character-traits in one painting, it seems natural that every time one looks at the Mona Lisa, one sees something different, irrespective from which direction the painting is looked at. In that light her "mysterious smile" seems nothing out of the ordinary. Because it's difficult to view all the portrayed emotions and aspects of Mona Lisa's personality in one glance, one is left with a sense of mystery. Now you see this, and then you see something else, leaving the observer confused.

Is she smiling, smirking, irritated, calm, happy, or sad; each time I look at the picture I get a different read, it's kind of uncanny; maybe it is part of the reason people tell us we are hard to figure out.

Another thought came to my mind; Da Vinci was speculated to be on the spectrum, and the Mona Lisa was suspected as a possible self portrait. Did he capture the spectrum in the Mona Lisa, several hundred years ago?

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