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Weekly Whimsy

By tigtog on March 30, 2011

This week’s whimsy is brought to you by a selection of unusable stock photos courtesy of the Internet’s WTF Were They Thinking? department.

collage: a nun underwater in rainbow goggles smiling beatifically at a tropical fish, two young women in short dresses and high heels headbutt while wearing motorcycle helmets, a human body in lumberjack gear but with a dog's face leans on the back of a station wagon, a sardonic man in a tailored suit is wearing a red sash that says PRINCESS, a calmly-standing woman in surgical greens has a shadow behind her which is snapping a surgical glove, an urban hipster type young man is holding a flower over his pregnant belly
via BuzzFeed 60 Completely Unusable Stock Photos

a selection of weird stock images

Please share any bits and pieces you have come across recently that have surprised, delighted, intrigued or otherwise positively engaged you.

NB: the weekly whimsy thread is a stoush-free zone

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16 responses to “Weekly Whimsy”

  1. dj
    dj
    March 30, 2011 at 2:15 pm |

    I don’t know about them not being useful, I reckon at the very least they would make good fodder for a photo caption competition.

  2. tssk
    tssk
    March 30, 2011 at 2:27 pm |

    I so want someone to make an election campaing out of those images.

    The electic mix reminds me of the CollegeHumor version of the Windows 7 advert. “I want it to do my taxes. And have wings. And have a dead parrot upside down in half a glass of Pepsi!”

  3. joe2
    joe2
    March 30, 2011 at 2:27 pm |

    Just in case, for some inexplicable reason, you missed the house that looks like Hitler.

    http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3498071/Not-fuhrer-sale.html

  4. James Wakefield
    James Wakefield
    March 30, 2011 at 4:16 pm |

    And paradoxically here they are being used and commented on!

  5. Tyro Rex
    Tyro Rex
    March 30, 2011 at 5:45 pm |

    This video by Genki Sudo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-qhj3sJ5qs – a Japanese electro track – is very beautiful – excellent choreography – very Japanese sensibility.

  6. dexitroboper
    dexitroboper
    March 30, 2011 at 5:46 pm |

    Those stock photos may not be a recent idea

  7. Tyro Rex
    Tyro Rex
    March 30, 2011 at 5:56 pm |

    Also I just found out that the lyrics are about the Earthquake/Tsunami so it’s worth the effort to have a look at it.

  8. Terangeree
    Terangeree
    March 30, 2011 at 6:03 pm |

    dexitroboper @ 6:

    I seem to recall whimsying that link last week.

  9. Mercurius
    Mercurius
    March 30, 2011 at 7:07 pm |

    You know those “unusable” stock photos?

    Yeah, you just used ‘em.

    Not stoushin’ Just sayin’ :D

  10. tigtog
    tigtog
    March 30, 2011 at 9:57 pm |

    Yes, I acknowledge the irony.

    While I’m here, I’ll briefly point out to Miscreants Who Shall Not Be Named that posting stoush-bait to a designated stoush-free thread is a vexatious act, and the stoush-bait will not be published on this thread.

  11. Andrew Reynolds
    Andrew Reynolds
    March 30, 2011 at 10:10 pm |

    dexitroboper,
    That would be an incredible source for caption competitions.

  12. sg
    sg
    March 30, 2011 at 10:53 pm |

    Since we’re talking about elections, Japan and … um… style, here’s the Tokyo Governor’s election “get out the vote” campaign. It’s been playing on trains a lot.

  13. sg
    sg
    March 30, 2011 at 11:05 pm |

    Tyro Rex did you know that Genki Sudo was a kickboxing fighter (K1)? I didn’t now he was a musician! And, apparently, an essayist.

  14. CJ Morgan
    CJ Morgan
    March 31, 2011 at 8:16 am |

    Unusable? I’m thinking of using the pic of a dog about to attack a Volvo with an axe as my Facebook profile pic.

  15. Kevin Rennie
    Kevin Rennie
    March 31, 2011 at 9:53 am |

    We visited Mars Drum’s exhibition “Beyond the Burka” – Oils on canvas in Ballarat last Friday. Loved it.

    Unfortunately it’s closed now. If you get a chance to see her paintings of Burka Woman and Ned Kelly, it’s worth the effort.

  16. jumpnmcar
    jumpnmcar
    April 1, 2011 at 6:23 pm |

    My wife got all Whimsied up at this.
    Twin toddlers having a chat.