-Internet Flows: March 2014

We would go and sit on the balcony at Terminal 3 at Heathrow Airport, directly under one of the PA speakers where we put a tape machine in a bag with the microphone poking out of the top. Then we would look for a flight that had arrived in the last 40 minutes from somewhere where you would expect people with unpronounceable names e.g. Saudi Arabia.

We would then go to the Airport Help Desk with a prewritten note containing the names of fictitious passengers and ask them to read out the names over the PA system.

The passengers' names looked innocent enough on paper but they sounded like something else when read out loud.

Looks Like…	Sounds	Like…
Arheddis Varkenjaab and Aywellbe Fayed		I hate this fucking job, and I will be fired
Arjevbin Fayed and Bybeiev Rhibodie		I've just been fired, and bye-bye everybody
Aynayda Pizaqvick and Malexa Krost		I need a piss quick, and my legs are crossed
Awul Dasfilshabeda and Nowaynayda Zheet		Oo-ah, that ' s better and now I need a shit
Makollig Jezvahted and Levdaroum DeBahzted		My colleague just farted, and left the room, the bastard
Steelaygot Maowenbach and Tuka Piziniztee		Still, I got my own back and took a piss in his tea

How they actually sounded over the PA System:

We got caught doing the "My colleague just...". They threatened to arrest us because apparently they had received complaints over the previous weeks.

The last one (Still, I got my own back…) was recorded at Gatwick airport which does not have a good sound system, and is generally a much noisier place, so that's why it sounds like crap.

Men taking phone messages

How to tell the sex of a fly

A woman walked into the kitchen to find her
husband stalking around with a fly swatter.

"What are you doing?" she asked.

"Hunting Flies," he responded.

"Oh. Killing any?" she asked.

"Yep, 3 males, 2 Females," he replied.
Intrigued, she asked. "How can you tell?"

He responded, "3 were on a beer can,
2 were on the phone."

Optical Illusion

If your eyes follow the movement of the rotating pink dot, you will only see one color, pink.

However, if you stare at the black "+" in the center,
the moving dot turns green.
If you keep staring at the black "+" in the center of the picture,
all the pink dots will slowly disappear, and you will only see a green dot rotating.

It's amazing how our brain works. There really is no green dot, and the pink ones really don't disappear.

This should be proof enough that we don't always see what we think we see.