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Can you read upside-down writing?

  • 25-06-2009 5:23pm
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,359 ✭✭✭


    I can read upside down writing as good as I can with right side up.

    Is this a special gift I have? Am I like those Ass-burger kids you see on BBC1 who can multipy hundred-digit numbers in their head? Should I give BBC a call?

    Or can any pleb do this.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,070 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    ɥqʇ ɹǝɥʇoq ʇ,uplnoʍ ı


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,195 ✭✭✭✭Michellenman


    I can do it too. I'm also adept at reading backwards writing. :cool:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,195 ✭✭✭✭Michellenman


    ɥqʇ ɹǝɥʇoq ʇ,usplnoʍ ı


    There's no 's' in wouldn't.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    WTF? everyone can do that


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,070 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    There's no 's' in wouldn't.

    I knows that, what are you talking about?

    *whistles nonchalantly


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,510 ✭✭✭Hazys


    I can do it too. The trick is to turn the page 180degrees and then read.

    Or if its on a computer screen, press Ctrl+Alt+Up and then read.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,342 ✭✭✭✭That_Guy


    Everyone can do it. You just need a bit of muscle to turn your computer monitor upside down. :)

    I don't have this problem because I own a laptop. Good old neck craning style.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,051 ✭✭✭Whosbetter?


    No prob when I've got my upsidedown glasses on.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,054 ✭✭✭Carsinian Thau


    I can do it too. Just takes a little longer than normal writing.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,750 ✭✭✭liah


    ¿ʞıɐɟɐ 'ʎɐʍʎuɐ ʇı op uɐɔ ǝןdoǝd ʇsoɯ ʞuıɥʇ ı ʇnq :pac: ˙uǝʇɟo os ʎɹɐɹqıן ǝɥʇ oʇ oƃ oʇ ǝʌɐɥ ʇ,upıp ǝʍ os ɹǝʍoןs ɯǝɥʇ ɥƃnoɹɥʇ oƃ oʇ uʍop ǝpısdn sʞooq pɐǝɹ oʇ ǝɯ ǝɔɹoɟ pןnoʍ ɹǝɥʇoɯ ʎɯ 'pןıɥɔ ɐ sɐ ʇsɐɟ ooʇ ƃuıpɐǝɹpǝǝds ɯoɹɟ sǝɯoɔ ˙uʍop ǝpısdn ƃuıpɐǝɹ ǝןqnoɹʇ ʎuɐ pɐɥ ɹǝʌǝu ǝʌ,ı

    Now if only the pac smiley worked upside down.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,814 ✭✭✭TPD


    I can.

    Phasers, is that some kind of code in your sig to subliminally tell us you're not a man?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    I can.

    Phasers, is that some kind of code in your sig to subliminally tell us you're not a man?
    Look it up, it's a well known acronym gawd


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,342 ✭✭✭✭That_Guy


    I can.

    Phasers, is that some kind of code in your sig to subliminally tell us you're not a man?

    Tis in the AH slang and abbreviations thread my good sir/wimmenz. Whatever you may be.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,359 ✭✭✭Overblood


    phasers wrote: »
    WTF? everyone can do that

    Have you talked to ever person in the whole wide world?

    No you haven't so HA! EPIC WIN!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    Overblood wrote: »
    Have you talked to ever person in the whole wide world?

    No you haven't so HA! EPIC WIN!
    There was a meeting recently about it. The entire world's population came and we agreed that everyone can do it.

    We also agreed that you're lame, that's why we didn't invite you


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22,058 ✭✭✭✭Abi


    I dont have a problem with it. Im also a freak with a word search, so it doesnt really matter how its written.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 47,539 CMod ✭✭✭✭Black Swan


    Overblood wrote: »
    Or can any pleb do this.
    I can, and I'm just a surfing serf.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,492 ✭✭✭upmeath


    Yes, I can. Anything else you'd like to know about me, OP?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,844 ✭✭✭Jimdagym


    phasers wrote: »
    There was a meeting recently about it. The entire world's population came and we agreed that everyone can do it.

    We also agreed that you're lame, that's why we didn't invite you

    Sir, I'm confused.
    Did you call this meeting and decide he was lame, then retrospectively never invited him to the aforementioned global gathering?(this involves time travel) Or was it on the agenda for the meeting and a unanimous vote took place, validating the reason not to invite in the first place???


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,195 ✭✭✭✭Michellenman


    Jimdagym wrote: »
    Sir, I'm confused.
    Did you call this meeting and decide he was lame, then retrospectively never invited him to the aforementioned global gathering?(this involves time travel) Or was it on the agenda for the meeting and a unanimous vote took place, validating the reason not to invite in the first place???

    Someone needs to brush up on their double negatives.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 693 ✭✭✭Crotchety


    A lot of people can do this. And read jumbled words, words written backwards etc...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,492 ✭✭✭upmeath


    wrote: »
    A lot of people can do this. And read jumbled words, words written backwards etc...

    Apparently we can distinguish words no matter what way the letters are arranged, once they're all there, and the first and last letters remain in place. There was a viral SMS I got years ago. It read a little bit like this:

    Sistncetis form Orofxd and Cbrgmaide hvae doecvsired taht haumn binges can raed jlmubed wrdos wtih esae pviderod all the ltrtees are icdluend and the fsrit and lsat leetrts are in palce. Anmzaig, huh?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 27,944 ✭✭✭✭4zn76tysfajdxp


    I can't, at all.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,978 ✭✭✭GhostInTheRuins


    Forget about reading upside down writing, I remember having a maths teacher that could write upside down almost as well as she could right way up, fast too.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,716 ✭✭✭✭Earthhorse


    I can't, at all.

    Nor I.

    But then, we're not plebs.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 65 ✭✭irisheddie


    yep learned it when i went 2 australia as its all upity downity down there:rolleyes:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 27,944 ✭✭✭✭4zn76tysfajdxp


    Earthhorse wrote: »
    But then, we're not plebs.

    I am.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,716 ✭✭✭✭Earthhorse


    I am.

    Me too.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,264 ✭✭✭✭jester77


    I can read upside down but the blood really go's to the head after about 5 minutes, the text then becomes very blurry and after about 8 minutes I faint and fall over.


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  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 47,539 CMod ✭✭✭✭Black Swan


    Can I stand on my head, or would that be cheating?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,736 ✭✭✭tech77


    There's no 's' in wouldn't.

    So... the guy can't spell.
    The guy can write upside down FFS.
    UPSIDE DOWN!!
    Jeez.. there's no pleasing some people.

    Give me him or a guy who can spell-I know who i'm hiring.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,736 ✭✭✭tech77


    upmeath wrote: »
    Apparently we can distinguish words no matter what way the letters are arranged, once they're all there, and the first and last letters remain in place. There was a viral SMS I got years ago. It read a little bit like this:

    Sistncetis form Orofxd and Cbrgmaide hvae doecvsired taht haumn binges can raed jlmubed wrdos wtih esae pviderod all the ltrtees are icdluend and the fsrit and lsat leetrts are in palce. Anmzaig, huh?

    Lrean to tpye FFS :rolleyes:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,986 ✭✭✭Red Hand


    53|
    ...^


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,736 ✭✭✭tech77


    liah wrote: »
    ¿ʞıɐɟɐ 'ʎɐʍʎuɐ ʇı op uɐɔ ǝןdoǝd ʇsoɯ ʞuıɥʇ ı ʇnq :pac: ˙uǝʇɟo os ʎɹɐɹqıן ǝɥʇ oʇ oƃ oʇ ǝʌɐɥ ʇ,upıp ǝʍ os ɹǝʍoןs ɯǝɥʇ ɥƃnoɹɥʇ oƃ oʇ uʍop ǝpısdn sʞooq pɐǝɹ oʇ ǝɯ ǝɔɹoɟ pןnoʍ ɹǝɥʇoɯ ʎɯ 'pןıɥɔ ɐ sɐ ʇsɐɟ ooʇ ƃuıpɐǝɹpǝǝds ɯoɹɟ sǝɯoɔ ˙uʍop ǝpısdn ƃuıpɐǝɹ ǝןqnoɹʇ ʎuɐ pɐɥ ɹǝʌǝu ǝʌ,ı

    That's sneaky abuse of all the AH mods, isn't it?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,750 ✭✭✭liah


    tech77 wrote: »
    That's sneaky abuse of all the AH mods, isn't it?

    Shh, don't draw their attention to it!


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  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 35,945 Mod ✭✭✭✭dr.bollocko


    liah wrote: »
    Shh, don't draw their attention to it!

    OK there was no personal abuse but I should ban you for making me turn my laptop upside down.
    Those calories are wasted and could have been used banning people.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,492 ✭✭✭upmeath


    Those calories are wasted and could have been used banning people.

    dr.bollocko's amazing (yet to be published) diet: turn all those calories into clicks!


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