Pictures are lies. People pretend to be happy and put on a forced smile for those 5 seconds they are posing. People don't take pictures when they are having a hard time in life, unless they're professional photographers. amirite?

or they're you, lil miss mugshot

by Anonymous 12 years ago

actually, my mugshots dont tell lies lol

by Anonymous 12 years ago

that's what i'm saying bro. your pictures don't lie cuz you don't even pretend to be happy in them

by Anonymous 12 years ago

We should take pictures like they did in the old days when nobody smiled in them.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Yeah, we Canadians already got that covered. Driver's licences and passports= no smiling allowed. That's why we all look pissed off.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

"Let me see your ID.. Why are you flipping off the camera?"

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Ha, I wish. When I went for my passport photo, the lady had to re-adjust the flash 3 times because it made my forehead and hair too shiny and "that's not permitted." I don't know the rules but I'm pretty sure that if you flipped off the camera, they'd bring out security to interrogate you.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Really? They told me I could smile on my license...

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Oh that's weird. As far as I know, the only photo ID you're allowed to smile for is your health card. Maybe it depends on where you are.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I dunno, I think I smiled for my passport picture too. But they didn't let me smile for my student ID...

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I know for sure no smiles are allowed for passports. Student ID, really?! Sheesh. The passport thing: my cousin was like 3 and he smiled for the passport picture and the lady said "don't smile" and he says "no smile? It's a picture..I have to!" so my aunt had to try to make him not smile and he ended up frowning and getting mad because he was so confused as to why he wasn't allowed to smile.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I smiled and they didn't say anything... It wasn't a toothy grin, but it was a smile.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

http://www.ppt.gc.ca/cdn/photos.aspx?lang=eng Look at the 5th point under Unacceptable Photos

by Anonymous 12 years ago

That lady looks like she's smiling a bit. Anyway, I don't care what the law says, I'm just saying what my experience was.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

For my passport, the lady MADE me smile and show teeth. She said it was required. I also had to put my hair behind my ears so my ears were clearly visible.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Ok, but we're talking about Canadian passport laws, your profile says you're from the US...

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Oh, I see. Didn't realize this stemmed from the first Canada mention.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

http://ctrlv.in/46698

by Anonymous 12 years ago

and a picture during happy times! http://ctrlv.in/46700

by Anonymous 12 years ago

But that'd also be a lie, in the case that you're happy and you're forcing a neutral face.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

If you always pose for pictures, then yeah those pictures are sometimes lies. But most of the time people take pictures to document the fun they are having, so pictures accurately represent that moment in time, and are not lies. This statement also only applies to posed photos. I have plenty of pictures of me crying or my brother unhappy. My parents liked to capture real moments. I dislike photo albums where every page features a posed family in front of a fireplace, outside the front door or in front of a big pine tree...

by Anonymous 12 years ago

That's because human nature means we want to remember the happy times and not be forced to dwell on the bad ones. Imagine showing your kids your photo album and having to say "yes, that's my boyfriend breaking up with me, oh and look there's the one of me lying in bed sobbing my eyes out." Or, "And here's a picture of grandpa in a drunken rage minutes before he took the belt to us." Plain depressing is all that'd be.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

the post isn't talking about taking pictures in bad times vs. good times. It's about how in most pictures, you're only smiling because you're supposed to. It's not a genuine smile.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Uh the post says "nobody takes pictures during hard times"

by Anonymous 12 years ago

oh i thought you were addressing the first part of the post. The post is kind of strange in that it makes two debatable statements instead of one.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

biyfriend = "buy-it-yourself" friend

by Anonymous 12 years ago

If people don't take pictures during bad times, then why are they just "pretending" to be happy?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

it says "bad times" because of all those artistic photos of sad things like impoverished kids in africa or like a house after being destroyed by a hurricane.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

last summer I went to NYC. It was interesting and I enjoyed it, but wherever we went, my mom stopped us to take pictures. It was really annoying. I was totally pissed off. And yet in every picture, I was smiling.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Two words: emo kids.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Nope.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Chuck Testa!

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Same pose every time: Barney Stinson

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I hear that guy is awesome. And legen-WAIT FOR IT-dary.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

You know it.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Derrek Zoolander has the same pose everytime. That was until he realized that there was more to life than being really really ridiculously good looking.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

http://ctrlv.in/46704 because unposed photos are the best

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Usually babys are the ones not looking at the cam but here it's one of the only ones actually paying attention.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Grandpa's like "lol wut" and the little girl in the bottom left corner is like "MMMMM BRAINS!"

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Pictures are never lies. If people choose to smile for a picture, then the people are the ones lying. The photograph will expose their attempted deceipt in the end. Cameras can only capture true emotion; otherwise, the resulting picture will appear fake.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Deciept? Is that like receipt and deceit combined? Like a receipt of all the times you've deceived someone?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

For the sake of not owning up to a spelling mistake, you are correct.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I wish I had a deceipt. I really don't know how many times I've deceived someone and who it was.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Does anybody else hate taking family portraits. With color coordinated outfits, and odd poses, like looking out in the distance. Tf are we lookin' at? Annoying photographers who keep telling you they're only going to take one more but end up taking 50. And then there is always someone who messes up the shot, thus making the photo shoot take longer than necessary.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Or in some cases, they make you look shittier than you actually do.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Yeah, because maybe, just maybe, people would rather look back on the good times then look back on bad times.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Reminds me of that 'How I Met Your Mother' Episode.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Which one?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brunch_(How_I_Met_Your_Mother)

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Hmm, that's odd. Copy and paste, don't just click.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

There's a Calvin and Hobbes sort of about this. http://ctrlv.in/46723

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Great Depression....

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I read this on Cracked

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Clearly you're not Facebook friends with any of the 234 emos I have on Facebook. Pretty sure their goal in life is to take the most depressing pictures of themselves attached with some Linken Park or Disturbed lyrics, but them up on Facebook, and then refuse to comment back when you ask them how they plan to kill themselves.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

The girls on my Facebook are the opposite; and none of them comment back when I ask them to have sex with me.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

or the fact that you take pictures of where you went on a trip to help you remember. honestly, if you take pictures of a trip to remember it, it was obviously the best trip ever (vegas or amsterdam only) or not a memorable one

by Anonymous 12 years ago

This comment reminded me of that movie Memento

by Anonymous 12 years ago

...what? This didn't really make sense to me...

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Well you see. What they're trying to say was, Pictures are lies. People pretend to be happy and put on a forced smile for those 5 seconds they are posing. People don't take pictures when they are having a hard time in life, unless they're professional photographers. Glad I could help.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Gee, thanks but even after your eloquent explanation, it still makes no sense.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Maybe you'd understand if I phrased it this way. Pictures are lies. People pretend to be happy and put on a forced smile for those 5 seconds they are posing. People don't take pictures when they are having a hard time in life, unless they're professional photographers.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Said the man who watched the movie One Hour Photo

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I don't see the point in taking a sad picture. People don't want to look back on a picture and be like, "That's me when I was almost too broke to even have a camera!" And people would be like "OMG, why did you frown?! what's wrong with you? You're such a depressed attention seeker!"

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Forget post of the day, this should be post of the amirite, and all other posts should be removed from the site so whenever anyone goes on amirite they see the glory that is this post and nothing else to ensure that the moment is in no way tainted. "Smiling when you don't want to is not a real smile." I've never been so thought-provoked in my life.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

THE CAKE IS A LIE!

by Anonymous 12 years ago