Friday, October 28, 2005

Red Eye Bats

You know, one of the biggest and the traditional way of humiliating people is to call them inside a dark room and take a picture of them with a flash. Why? 'cause this results in "red eyes". I mean, have you seen those pictures, where all your friends suddenly seem like bats coming out of a cave? They all could be vampires for all we know, and they choose to display the animal side only in a dark room, and particularly when you are taking a picture of them with a flash :) They all have red eyes! Even dogs and cats have red eyes. The only person in that room who doesn't have a red eye is the one taking the picture. He or she has no idea of what kind of an insult they are bringing forth on the victims. Or worse yet, he/she doesn't know how many new vampires he is exposing.

Some people go as far as framing such pictures or posting them on the internet:

"Look, this is my boyfriend, he seems like a vampire in this but in reality he is unemployed and lives with his parents"

"look that's my dog Susie, only Susie decides to take on another animal form when you take pictures of her - she doesn't like it obviously. She conveys this everytime, but only I don't fully get it".

"This is your prospective bridegroom - don't worry he is not always like this - he turns into a bat only when you take him to a dark room and take a picture of him with a flash; so make sure you don't do that ever in your life" :)

"These are all my friends, it was taken during my birthday party - wow, how many bat friends you have"!

People, for Pete's sake, please take pictures with a camera that has red-eye reduction feature or remove the red eye using photoshop. It is not that hard, even if you remotely like the people you're taking pictures of. The only time you are allowed to take such pictures is during Halloween, and you don't have any special costume. You can just go about making everyone look like bats. Even bats might be frightened looking at such pictures.

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