Help me understand this picture
It’s time for another episode of “what the fuck is this picture supposed to be?” This small image is the accompanying illustration to a story in NY1 about the ban on trans fats in New York restaurants.
What is it?
My guess: a Max Ernst-style landscape of giant glazed doughnuts under a lowering gray sky.
Any other ideas?
11 Responses to “Help me understand this picture”
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jeremy says:
those are krispy kreme donuts…
July 1st, 2007 at 5:54 pm EST -
Violet says:
Okay, but what’s the gray stuff? The picture doesn’t look like doughnuts in a box or even in a tray. It looks like a giant landscape of doughnuts, a giant shiny landscape with gray clouds.
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manxome says:
Perhaps it’s a lovering glaze sky?
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manxome says:
er, “lowering”, ffs!
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Violet says:
Hey, Manxome! You’re a visual kinda person; do you not agree that the gray cloudy part is problematic? And that the ultra-closeup Vaseline filter on the doughnuts makes it even more confusing?
These are surreal doughnuts. They are a dream of doughnuts, a dream where the doughnuts are a hundred feet tall and you have to rappel up the shiny glazed sides.
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kristi says:
Those are Krispy Kreme donuts, on the conveyer belt that carries the finished donuts through a “waterfall” of glaze. The gray background is the sheet of glaze they travel through on their path to our arteries.
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gordo says:
Actually, I wanted to comment on the Men’s Rights thread. I always wondered what goes through those guys’ minds. Why do they feel compelled to harass every woman who disagrees with them, and why do they keep coming back after you tell them to leave?
I have it easy, because I’m a guy. I’ve had a couple of those idiots follow me back from feminist sites, but a simple “fuck you” drives them away for good. Honestly, I don’t see how women put up with all the crap without going crazy.
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Violet says:
Kristi: Thank you very much for that information! Do you work in a Krispy Kreme bakery? Or is this just general knowledge that non-reclusive people have?
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Violet says:
Actually, I wanted to comment on the Men’s Rights thread. I always wondered what goes through those guys’ minds. Why do they feel compelled to harass every woman who disagrees with them, and why do they keep coming back after you tell them to leave?
Gordo –
Even shutting down the comments isn’t enough. Some of them are emailing me now with even further demonstrations of their sparkling personalities.
I will say this: there cannot possibly be a less self-aware group of people on the planet than MRAs. To a man they are controlling, abusive assholes; even the briefest online encounter and you understand why they didn’t get custody of the kids, why their wives had to get restraining orders, etc. And yet in their minds they’re wonderful guys and the family courts are run by a secret cabal of radical feminists who are out to destroy them.
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Toonces says:
The donuts look like cervixes. They really do not look very appetizing.
I theorize that all MRA’s have microscopic penises, or at the very least, not very functioning ones, hence their anger. Every. Single. One. Of. Them. I believe they experience collective frusteration about the tiny and flaccid hand(snicker!) the god of Wang dealt them. Teh Wimmenz are just a handy target for their shrillness, as per SOP. This is why I have always referred to the MRA’s and their ilk as “dinkless wonders.” Cue neanderthal rape threats and rape jokes. Asshats.
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kristi says:
No, Violet, I don’t work in a Krispy Kreme, but there’s one in town that has its conveyer belt in a glass enclosure so you can watch the little donuts rise, get fried, and then get glazed. It’s pretty mesmerizing.
