Saturday, April 19, 2008

Irish Independent: That Must Be Some Distinctive Nose


It's hard to describe the fractal-like layers of wrongness that make this post.

Original is here. Props to Elana.

27 comments:

Ben said...

The digital alteration they are talking about is they re-colored the baby's eyes and added the black hair.

The baby was actually born with a black bar across its nose.

Anonymous said...

You try getting a black bar across a squirming baby's eyes, those things never stop moving, and then pass judgment.

Anonymous said...

I agree with Ben. The black bar is just a natural mustache.

A/T said...

LOL @ Anon 11:39 AM's comment!

Anonymous said...

This is no laughing matter, people. Society needs to stop discriminating against children with black bar syndrome. Honestly, I'm ashamed with all of you.

Elana said...

Worse than that...the print edition has it too. /cringe

Anonymous said...

Yay! Pictures back in bloglines. Thanks!

Commodity said...

They were trying to protect the pig's identity, not the baby's!

John B said...

That's funny; I saw that today and thought of my new favourite blog, and here it is...

radek said...

It's not a mistake! He has nipples on his nose.

Anonymous said...

C'mon, I do that with my newborn son right now.

Anonymous said...

even if the drunken hobo who make the black bar putted that shit in the baby eyes, WTF? they gonna protect the baby identidy just hiding his eyes? i think that he is more protected with this shit in his nose that his eyes

Peter Marquardt said...

Clearly they had another photo in there at first, then changed it to this one without adjusting the bar in the publishing software. only slightly less stupid than putting it there in the first place, considering it went to print like that

Anonymous said...

Actually, it's covering the baby's mustache. It was entirely too unique in style and an immediate giveaway.

Vahn said...

I know someone is going to freak out at this, but honestly, without being politically correct, the first thing that popped into my mind was, "Jewish baby?"

Anonymous said...

Isn't it that the TSA is about to take nostrilprints of infant in order to compare them against the Terrorist black list? ;-)

Nox said...
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Nox said...

HA ! I can see what they did there : they kept the nose shadow layer over the nose layer.

Err...Wait a minute...

Anonymous said...

I always wondered why people even bothered to block out the eyes. I mean, blocking out the nose is much more effective...

Anonymous said...

The Boogers have been obscured to protect the dignity of the baby.

Jan Sandahl said...

A hilarious amount of wrongness! :)

Stephen Rider said...

Man, they do nose jobs _young_ these days!

Anonymous said...

mabey some kind of a weird hitler remake?

Emma the Sleepy said...

pictures of patients in medical textbooks usually have the black eye bar, but when the picture is illustrating an eye disease... well they revert to the slightly less effective, considerably more weird, black nose box.

Anonymous said...

would you kill baby hitler?

Ali said...

I only just discovered your blog today and I have been laughing ever since. Thank you thank you thank you.

Adrian said...

Baby CD, it's you! Oh, they've tried to hide it, but I'd know that nose anywhere. "You must love the little birdies to give them THIS to perch on."