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Our brains just love symmetry! So much so that when we see a fine example of things just falling nicely into place just as they should, it satisfies us deep within our souls.

Of course, when we encounter the opposite - the wonky, the askew, the lop-sided - it triggers a vague feeling of discomfort. This reaction is stronger in some than in others, but even those of us who would consider themselves chill about imperfections can get fixated on certain mistakes.

Can't understand what I mean? Well, as a follow up to previous efforts here and hereBored Panda has collected another list of things that aren't quite right and are sure to set the alarm bells ringing. Scroll down below to check them out for yourself, and let us know how they made you feel in the comments!

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What The Actual Mother ******* **** Is This *******

What The Actual Mother ******* **** Is This *******

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So what lies behind this fascination with all things symmetrical? Well, according to an article in HowStuffWorks, it comes from the fact that most objects in the real world are symmetrical. "This is particularly true of nature: the radial symmetry of starfish or flower petals, the symmetrical efficiency of a hexagonal honeycomb, or the uniquely symmetrical crystal patterns of a snowflake," they write. "In fact asymmetry is often a sign of illness or danger in the natural world."

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People Whose Desktops Look Like This

People Whose Desktops Look Like This

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Just Carmen
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

How do they find anything when it's like this?! (and this is my Mom, but she's 84 so she gets a pass)

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nanashi
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I know a person like this and her monitor is in direct view from my seat in office, and I had to see that horrendous thing every freaking day!!

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Ben Steinberg
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They don't own bookshelves, they just let everything pile up on the floor...

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Blue Cicada
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I know teachers who do this, and I really don't get why! Every file they create, they save to the desktop! I keep a folder on my desktop, with all the files pertaining to my current classes. Once I'm finished with this semester or the project, and move those folders off the desktop!

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UndyingBisexual
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I have a very uncluttered desktop but whenever I open google I end up having 20 tabs open and just get so satisfied being able to close them all

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Steve Pettit
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I just love it, well if you think about this for a moment this desktop is no different than your iPad or iPhone ; we tolerate icons on them so why make an issue out of the desktop? 😂

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danielw
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yeah... you *really* should not be saving files to the desktop. and you ***really*** should not be saving multiple projects to the desktop, without sorting them into folders.

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The FLASH
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

IT IS NOT THAT HARD TO MAKE A FEW FOLDERS TO ORGANIZE AHHHHHH

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Frozengeckolover
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My boss's desktop looks like this, but with 20 programs running in tray and 53 tabs open in chrome. And she wonders why her computer freezes.

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Erica Bea
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If I opened a friend's laptop and it looked like this, I would honestly sit there rearranging it myself for two hours.

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Serena DuBois
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And they would HATE you if you did it. They may know where everything is and like it that way. I keep current files on the left side of my desktop, frequently used folders on the right side, frequently accessed program shortcuts across the top, and a gorgeous Kermode sport bear galloping out of the background woods in the middle. When the files start to close in on the bear it's time to clean house and send old stuff away to trash or it's hard drive home.

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NQ L
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yes. I know someone with a desktop like this. It drove me crazy. Glad I don't work with her anymore.

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Elizabeth
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I work as tech support for a school and see this entirely toooooooo often. I KNOW this person cannot find anything they need! I have spent so much of my time trying to explain all the reasons why this is bad and they never fix! UGH, I want to grab that computer and throw it across the room at a brick wall!

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Sadie Shapiro
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

At least they're in straight rows. I had a friend who had about a gazillion files scattered across the screen.

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Carrie Leung
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is very close to my work desktop, too many open project and leads to follow so when I am done, they go into a folder and file away. It is my form of memo that other people uses, never lost a thing or forget a small detail.

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Maria Trujillo
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Oh my God!!! You have captured my daughters computer to a T....

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Rich Downey
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I AM TRIGGERED ... One place I worked at, this one guy had every square pixel of his screen. and then had 2 shortcut folders. the total icons on the Desktop folder, were 153

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RavenPuffPanda
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

if you look closely, then you can see that in the middle there is no app thingy. At first I didn't see it, and thought the annoying thing was that the whole entire page was covered with the app thingys.

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Callie Duncan
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

OMG! It drives me crazy if I get too many. I finally made a folder called. "C**p I wanna keep for no good reason"

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Serethine Daselle
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My boyfriend is a programmer/engineer. I bought him another screen, 'coz the whole desktop is not enough for him.

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Joannie Goulet
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That would be me. Look at all those Photoshop files! Totally me.

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Steve Cruz
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

On Apple computers, there's a simple pull-down menu at the desktop level called "View" with the option to "Clean up by…" or "Sort by…". Select everything on the desktop and choose "Alphabetical" or "Size." It will rearrange everything on the desktop and leave no evidence of what was done or who did it.

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Carmen Presley
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That is so true my laptop that im using right now is even worst than that

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Mary Jaye
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

How can I find anything I bet they have a real messy apartment.

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anotherboredpanda
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I did Anna xD My brain must've been momentary incapable of counting to seven, with the overload of thumbnails on a single desktop xD

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Ruth Fichter
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I HATE that. It would make me crazy. ONE column on the left! A few things on the bottom.

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Hanna
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If I opened my Mac to this I would be dead. From a heart attack. How.Could.Anyone???????

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Kay Maxey
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They don’t know how to file their documents. The first one went to “desktop” so all the rest defaulted there. I wonder what happens when that last space is filled? Also, how long did it take anyone to recognize the cat’s face on the right?

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Baali Venomax
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They just need a few dozen folders to put that lot in. I try to keep my folders and programs on the left hand side of my screen so the majority of the background pic is visible.

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Mya Lugar
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That would be such cool wallpaper for behind a desk....or a poster for an IT nerd.

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Kimberley Thom
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

my limit is 3 columns. This hurts my eyes and I feel sorry for the bird or whatever it is that's covered up.

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78thStitch
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Why so many icons? My eyes are burning, burning I tell you!

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Annie
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That looks like the screen of many of the people I work with. I tried showing them how to make files but their screens still look like the above pic. :(

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Annie
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That looks like the screens of many of the people I work with. I've showed them how to make files but none of them have changed their "methodology."

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Angeline Gresso
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Can I please come over and organize your desktop for you? So I can sleep at night

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Fotofonica Media
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Actually this is quite organized, at leat they are aligned... ive seen worst nightmares all screambled like scrabble game poured out from the box

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Phoenix Smith
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I thought that the kitty was a crack in the screen and I was like, "Wow! I would be mad if my desktop had a crack looking wallpaper in it!"

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Liesa Yopp
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This one gave ma a nervous tick just looking at it. I have no icons on my desktop, i could not tolerate this nightmare.

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Кирилл Чендев
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4 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Well my desktop is like this because I don't use it. I only navigate through the Start menu and open windows with hotkeys.At least I hid all the Desktop icons on my screen.

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Laura Doherty
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

'If this was a person, I would shoot it in the face!'- Roy The IT Crowd'

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Doc Thissen
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Eve Mas
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I just hide them all. It's equal to sweeping all the dust under the rug

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Tiny Dynamine
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I was going to say they are probably women's but this is too tidy! :D

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"And, of course, human beings are symmetrical, at least on the outside (some internal organs like the heart and liver are off-center). Decades of research into sexual attraction have proven that both men and women find symmetrical faces sexier than asymmetrical ones. The leading explanation is that physical symmetry is an outward sign of good health, although large-scale studies have shown no significant health differences in people with symmetrical or asymmetrical faces."

"The simple explanation for our attraction to symmetry is that it's familiar. Symmetrical objects and images play by the rules that our brains are programmed to recognize easily."

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#4

This Neighborhood I Saw On Google Maps Really Hits Me Hard

This Neighborhood I Saw On Google Maps Really Hits Me Hard

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Well You're Not Wrong

Well You're Not Wrong

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In an essay called The Symmetrical Universe, Alan Lightman, American physicist, writer, and author of The Accidental Universe: The World You Thought You Knew, writes:

"Symmetry leads to economy, and nature, like human beings, seem to prefer economy. If we think of nature as a vast ongoing experiment, constantly trying out different possibilities of design, then those designs that cost the least energy or that require the fewest different parts to come together at the right time will take precedence, just as the principle of natural selection says that organisms with the best ability to survive will dominate over time."

#7

It’s Like They Want Me To Have An Aneurysm

It’s Like They Want Me To Have An Aneurysm

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So try to relax whilst perusing this list - your sense of discomfort or even anger at the asymmetry of things is fully justified, and is an appropriate human reaction to these design outrages. Good symmetry is good organization and our brains are hardwired to appreciate that!

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#8

This Chandelier At A Restaurant I Ate At Bothers Me So Much

This Chandelier At A Restaurant I Ate At Bothers Me So Much

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#9

This Stove

This Stove

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#11

Someone Thought It Would Be Funny To Do This At The Corner Of Every Page Of This Notebook

Someone Thought It Would Be Funny To Do This At The Corner Of Every Page Of This Notebook

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#12

This Teacher Doesn’t Erase The Board Fully And Continues To Use It

This Teacher Doesn’t Erase The Board Fully And Continues To Use It

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Alex
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Always annoys me! Especially when there is that single mark and you are sitting so close but...

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#14

Just Re-Pave The Damn Road At This Point

Just Re-Pave The Damn Road At This Point

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#15

My Grandfather Doesn’t Peel The Plastic Off Of Anything And Won’t Let Me Peel It Off. I’m About To Have A Heart Attack

My Grandfather Doesn’t Peel The Plastic Off Of Anything And Won’t Let Me Peel It Off. I’m About To Have A Heart Attack

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BusLady
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Reminds me of those little old ladies who leave plastic covers on all the furniture.

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#17

Meanwhile In Supermarket

Meanwhile In Supermarket

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#18

The Way This Pizza Has Been Cut

The Way This Pizza Has Been Cut

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#20

My Friend's New Front Door

My Friend's New Front Door

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Shawn Murphy
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Even worse the new door and the sidewalk don't line up. You would step wrong every time use went through the door.

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#21

911 - I'd Like To Report A Crime

911 - I'd Like To Report A Crime

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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

that's a clue, in a find the treasure game. You can imagine that was more effort to insert that piece in that position than to place it perfectly

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#22

At My Closest Train Station. I Think I Need To Move

At My Closest Train Station. I Think I Need To Move

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#24

I Was High In The Road And Was Not Sure If It Was The Weed Or Not So I Took A Picture For Later

I Was High In The Road And Was Not Sure If It Was The Weed Or Not So I Took A Picture For Later

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#27

Looked Down During My Shower Today. Can’t Unsee It Now

Looked Down During My Shower Today. Can’t Unsee It Now

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#28

I'm Literally Screaming Inside

I'm Literally Screaming Inside

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#29

Finished Laying The Bricks, Boss

Finished Laying The Bricks, Boss

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#30

Not Only Is The First Light Different, The Last Light's Fixture Is Upside Down

Not Only Is The First Light Different, The Last Light's Fixture Is Upside Down

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#31

Why Write The ‘S’ Like That? The More I Read It, The More It Mildly Infuriates Me

Why Write The ‘S’ Like That? The More I Read It, The More It Mildly Infuriates Me

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#32

The Way My Mom Watches TV With Things Obscuring The Screen

The Way My Mom Watches TV With Things Obscuring The Screen

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#34

Askew Angles

Askew Angles

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Foxxy
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4 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This would bother me so much that I couldn’t live in that house.

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#36

I Am Forced To Look At This Every Time I Get Up

I Am Forced To Look At This Every Time I Get Up

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#37

I Put The Manhole Cover Back, Boss

I Put The Manhole Cover Back, Boss

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Daria B
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If you turn it around to match the pattern, it opens a secret chamber full of coins and useless rare equipment. ♥

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#39

Found This In Louisiana

Found This In Louisiana

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Just Carmen
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Doesn't suprise me. I lived in LA for a year and people there are not very bright.

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#40

Why Not "Intense Raspberry"?

Why Not "Intense Raspberry"?

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Nicolas Schirvel
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

YOu have to know your european chocolate history ^^ The brand "Intense Raspberry" is the property of "Côte d'Or" who is the belgian equivalent of "Lindt" who is Swiss :p Thanks for listening.

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This Apartment Building

This Apartment Building

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#42

If I Could Not See Them At The Same Time I Would Not Care

If I Could Not See Them At The Same Time I Would Not Care

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#45

This Stripe On My Friend's Car

This Stripe On My Friend's Car

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#47

Well Done

Well Done

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John Montgomery
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If this is a manhole cover like the other one, can't it just be pulled back up and put down correctly?

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#48

I'm Just Gonna Leave That Here

I'm Just Gonna Leave That Here

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#49

Do I Even Have To Say Anything

Do I Even Have To Say Anything

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Adam T S
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The trick is, have the green locker hop over the red locker into the white pillar, then the red locker over the next green one, and so forth until they alternate.

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#50

Horrible Cut-Out

Horrible Cut-Out

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