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[–]cmspi 775 points776 points ago

He doesn't see black. He just doesn't see anything. He sees what you see out of your elbow.

I'll give you a minute to wrap your brain around that.

[–]hansolo669 362 points363 points ago

Now that ... Is an interesting concept.

[–]wolfvision 294 points295 points ago

how about this one, how do you know that your yellow is my yellow? Maybe my yellow is your red, green is blue and that's all we're used to so who's to say it looks wrong?

[–]pewpitar 389 points390 points ago

Thank fuck that I'm not the only one who has seriously debated this with myself. Is there a way to prove it or disprove it?

[–]Jozoz 177 points178 points ago

You're not. You're definitely not.

[–]IgnosticZealot 120 points121 points ago

I thought of this independently, when I found out it was a popular Internet quote I was proud of myself.

[–]Anus_Blender 57 points58 points ago

A lot of people are like this, including me.

[–]dudeperson33 112 points113 points ago

Glad to know there are a lot of people like Anus_Blender out there.

[–]hero2bash 32 points33 points ago

I thought I was the only one who tried to blend it

[–]boomHeadSh0t 17 points18 points ago

Can you imagine removing the glass frame from around a blender and gently sitting your anus right on top of the blades, then hitting it on to full power.

[–]Jozoz 29 points30 points ago

It's a quote? TIL

[–]okmkz 17 points18 points ago

--the internet

[–]4W350M3 8 points9 points ago

Oh, oh, me too, me too! I'm speshul!

[–]Heyblinken 2 points3 points ago

Is there a scale to show how popular something is in real life when it's popular on the Internet? Better get my chalkboard out

[–]Michaelis_Menten 27 points28 points ago

DAE think life is just an abstraction and reality is just a figment of our own consciousness?

[–]SugahBoogah 33 points34 points ago

we are both the dream and the dreamer

[–]CatTrivia 32 points33 points ago

Kittens go up in flames when you masturbate.

[–]SugahBoogah 19 points20 points ago

they starve to death slowly if i don't, so clearly i'm doing the right thing

[–]clickforme 13 points14 points ago

solipsism.

[–]kptkrunch 6 points7 points ago

I thought I came up with this when I was little. I found myself caught in a paradox after reassuring myself that the idea was a logically sound argument because even if someone was able to irrefutably disprove that the universe isn't simply a product of your imagination - logic itself may simply be a product if your imagination making his proof invalid... unfortunately it would make my logic invalid as well

tldr: had a lot of spare time as a kid, thinking is pointless, drink beer instead

[–]ProbablyOnTheToilet 3 points4 points ago

Is it solipsistic in here or is it just me?

Badum tsss!!!

[–]Person_On_The_Web 6 points7 points ago

Yes, I was just thinking today that we're all essentially nothing at all except the result of some basic form of information that is entirely random.

[–]IntensePretense 25 points26 points ago

No, there's no way to disprove it. It's one of the fundamental problems in the field of psychology. You'll never be able to find out how another mind experiences the color yellow because you'll never be given the chance to totally experience yellow through the other mind's respective consciousness.

[–]turchx 14 points15 points ago

Actually, if we ever manage to do an in-depth analysis of the optic cable and parts of the brain where we register sight, during a vivisection, then we will be able to determine what the brain is displaying

[–]IntensePretense 32 points33 points ago

Correct me if I'm wrong, but this would only let us see what information the eye is sending to the brain, right? For the sake of this argument, everything outside the brain is constant, or reality. So no two brains can see something different? They're only perceived differently by the owner's consciousness (which relies on other factors such as experience, biases, etc) that can't be known truly through a machine.

[–]Tezerel 28 points29 points ago

The brain isn't some magical device, it is replicable and decipherable its just hard. Eventually we will be able to see exactly what another person does, it will just be a long time.

[–]1000hipsterpoints 9 points10 points ago

And thus, philosophy was made a lot less fun.

[–]b_karamazov 1 point2 points ago

Actually, you can't really assume that we will "eventually" be able to see exactly what another person does. There is no empirical proof that everything is discoverable (that would be impossible), nor is their empirical proof that we will discover everything that is discoverable (that is also impossible, since it would take an infinite amount of time, since we would never know whether we have discovered everything either).

[–]KarlPilkingtonsBrain 20 points21 points ago

I've thought about this. The conclusion I came to was that people can generally form a consensus on whether certain colours are "loud" or "dull", etc. That's all I have.

[–]hercaptamerica 5 points6 points ago

What if I see an entirely different spectrum of colors that you can't even fathom?

For example my yellow is still a bright color, but what if my yellow isn't even a color on your spectrum? Maybe we see entirely different sets of colors, as opposed to say, "my orange is what you call blue."

[–]saltlets 5 points6 points ago

Parsimony speaks against the idea of an arbitrary number of different color sensations assigned to the same wavelength.

Our retinas are basically the same. Our brains are basically the same. Why or how would the sense perception differ?

[–]wolfvision 38 points39 points ago

Me and a friend had this conversation for ages, it took her a while to even grasp the concept. She kept saying, but you'd know it's not such and such of a colour because I'd say it's yellow and you'd say no it's red... it's not easy to physically explain it. I don't know the difference between the red or yellow, so I just know it as what I see. and who knows if there's a way to disprove it. I'd rather not know ;-)

[–]evitagen-armak 64 points65 points ago

Perhaps everyone got the same favorite color?

[–]wolfvision 40 points41 points ago

That's a fucking awesome way to look at it

[–]Josef__Mengele 4 points5 points ago

Dibs on rainbow.

[–]pewpitar 14 points15 points ago

Yeah you can only explain it to people who already think about it. At least explain it easily.

[–]dannywarbucks11 18 points19 points ago

Exactly. That's why I refuse to debate morals with some person. Everything is subjective. For all we know, the mass murderer recently arrested doesn't think killing is wrong: for all we know, it's morally right to him. It's all about how the brain perceives things. While I don't think that "somebodies yellow is my red", I don't believe that we all perceive the same color differently.

Of course, I could also see the other side of the story, how for we all we know, what we were taught was "green" would actually be "blue" to another person, and "red" to a third, and we only call it green because that's the color our brains associate with it. So, yeah. Philosophy/psychology ftw.

[–]Elanthius 12 points13 points ago

Interestingly, people who believe in moral relativity like you do are generally unhappier than those who believe there is a stricter definition of right and wrong.

[–]dannywarbucks11 5 points6 points ago

I believe that morals are different for every person. I also believe that you should do what you think is right. The key word is "you think".

[–]vyleside 11 points12 points ago

Ignorance truly is bliss it seems.

[–]mr_roo 3 points4 points ago

[–]Cheeky_Hustler 17 points18 points ago

As far as I know it doesn't matter. Whatever color you denote as "yellow" has a specific wavelength of light attributed to it, so when you point at a banana and say "yellow" you're really just saying "that sure is a wavelength of 580 nm." Even is someone somehow sees in a photo negatives they'd recognize whatever bananas look like to them to be yellow.

Still it's most probable we all see the same thing, because we all have the same amount of cone receptors that register light.

[–]Anus_Blender 16 points17 points ago

I don't know if there's any way to prove or disprove it. But I would bet a lot of money that we all see mostly the same colors. Maybe your yellow is 0.04% lighter than mine, but still. Humans are more alike than different physiologically, and I see no reason why color perception would be an exception.

[–]pewpitar 13 points14 points ago

Shut up with your logic magic.

[–]Eal12333 4 points5 points ago

There was a study similar to this, they tested what colors different peoples could see, and found that the colours you see is related to your first language, but i dont remember it well.

Sadly, i dont have a link.

[–]Mahem106 1 point2 points ago

I also read this study, quite interesting. I'm gonna see if I can find it...

[–]voo055 2 points3 points ago

I was like 5 when I heard that colorblind people couldn't be in the air force(prob not true) and what I thought colour blindness was just people that saw things in different colours, so I was like "well how would they know since (this)"

[–]SugahBoogah 0 points1 point ago

i don't think you can. color is just how are brain represents how much light or heat a texture can absorb or reflect with few exceptions to the rule (as far as i'm aware of)

[–]jarco45 1 point2 points ago

I know that my parents brought me to a doctor to check if i was able to recognize colors. Not sure if its routine, however it got kind of serious because i was too tardy to remember purple & pink and always got them mixed up. Damn girly colors.

[–]WhipIash 8 points9 points ago

That's not what we're talking about at all.

[–]wolfvision 7 points8 points ago

There goes my afternoon

[–]Dr_Pattursnatch 4 points5 points ago

Is it weird that I wondered about this on my own at about 10 years old before I even knew this concept?

[–]WhipIash 2 points3 points ago

A lot of us did. But then again, a lot of people didn't as well. Those are usually the people who'd be more concerned with their appearance and who spent their nights drinking and partying.

Needless to say I prefer my life.

[–]ladoyenne 3 points4 points ago

What a silly thing to say. Ten year olds who spent their nights drinking and partying? Regardless, I hardly think that the manner in which someone chooses to spend their time (and what they find enjoyable) reflects their intellectual curiosity.

[–]k4kuz0 10 points11 points ago

I've wondered before whether or not everyone has the same favourite colour but the reason why we consider it to be different is because everyone actually see's colours differently...

[–]AshesEleven 7 points8 points ago

I think everyone has thought this at least once in their lives.

[–]ThatGhost 10 points11 points ago

Well we can measure light and color by wavelength. So if someone was shown a poster with red, blue, yellow, green etc. or even different shades in between and was asked to point out yellow and if it matches the same wavelength as what everyone else points out as yellow then you can be sure you all see yellow.

Edit: I guess you could ask, well what if the brain interprets the yellow wavelength differently and it just shows up in your brain a different color and have always called it yellow but in actuality your brain sees [what everyone else would call] red. I think we would have heard about this happening if it had happened by now though, I mean not all colors are evenly spaced (there could be more shades of one color than another), and with how wavelengths are I just don't see it happening. Some colors are more intense than others like green. So you could set up an experiment say on a bright day and tell people to see if they can spot a certain color at a certain distance. Green would be visible while red might not be etc. All sorts of ways you can test it if you really wanted to.

[–]thepitchaxistheory 4 points5 points ago

This is why people should study science. There are so many comments about people thinking about this, and so few actually asking how science can explain it.

[–]skasse_ 6 points7 points ago

Colors are a spectrum of light. Its numbers. This question is analogous to asking, "Are the high pitched noises you hear actually low pitched to me?"

There's a lot more to it, much of which you can find with a simple good search, but thats kind of how you can think of it :)

[–]cluster_1 6 points7 points ago

Recognizing frequency itself is essentially a straightforward process, whether sound or light. The difference here is that the color palette you use for sight is rendered in your mind. It's an additional in-brain post-process, and therefore is "subjective," so to speak. Low and high audio pitches are read as received and so wouldn't rely on the brain to recreate. As I understand it, at least.

[–]GrandTheftWalrus 3 points4 points ago

Well maybe we know it's all the same because that top totally clashes with that blouse.

[–]WhipIash 1 point2 points ago

That's all subjective, though.

[–]buzzkill_aldrin 2 points3 points ago

As long as what I label yellow is what you always label yellow, what we each actually perceive is irrelevant. Even if your brain perceives the color to be what I would call red, as long as we consistently agree to call it the same thing, everything works out. Words by themselves have no intrinsic meaning.

[–]warhorseGR_QC 2 points3 points ago

Well it depends on how you define color. If you define color strictly as a wavelength of light, then the answer is yes we see the same yellow. The wavelength I call yellow is the same one you call yellow. However our minds interpretation of that wavelength and what most would call the color may be different.

[–]trouttfish 3 points4 points ago

Cones in our eyes see the colors the same way. Blue for me is blue for you.

[–]SkateboardG 20 points21 points ago

I'll have you know that my elbow has damn near perfect vision.

[–]mostafagalal 1 point2 points ago

As an elbow, I can confirm this.

[–]AllUltima 6 points7 points ago

Pretty much the entire rear of the brain is dedicated to image processing. No matter how underdeveloped it is, isn't black the color we see when the eyes aren't providing any signal?

I think blind people lack a term for black, or for any color because there is no way to learn what other people mean. But unless that entire section of the brain is entirely repurposed, they would be seeing black, whether or not they realize that part of the brain is reporting a signal called 'vision' or not.

[–]lee_jihoon 18 points19 points ago

Interesting point, but isn't "black" the closest thing we equate with "nothingness"? "Black" is used as a benchmark for people whose minds have experienced something, and therefore cannot imagine nothingness anymore. Due to the fact that it's nothing less than a perception without any physical qualities that I can associate it with, I link it to the only concept that comes to mind when I think of "nothing": black.

My train of thought decided to go somewhere else, but can you kinda get what I'm saying?

[–]cmspi 29 points30 points ago

I understand what you are saying, and it makes sense to link the concepts. But think of it this way:

Try as hard as you can to see out of your elbow. You can't do it, right? This is true nothingness. No matter how hard you might try to see, you can't see anything, not even blackness. That's what it's like being blind. It's pretty impossible for any of us to truly conceptualize it!

[–]Herndadernda 23 points24 points ago

What if you're born with sight then lose it later in life? I'm sure they "see" black.

[–]Accidental_Ouroboros 18 points19 points ago

The distinction is a bit like the Mary's Room thought experiment.

In case one (never having had any sight), the person has no way of "knowing" what black is. What they see is nothingness.

However, a person who knows what black is (that is, having seen it before), and who therafter loses sight, might describe the nothingness as "black," as either pure white or pure black is the general "color" that we associate with nothing.

A large part of this distinction comes from the fact that the visual cortex of any given person who has never had sight would be underdeveloped due to lack of reinforcing signals coming from the optic nerve - the "use it or lose it" function of brain mapping, especially from an early age. Note that this is in addition to never having actually experienced what "blackness" is. The person who loses sight later in life would still have much of the visual processing neurons intact (unless damage to the occipital lobe was the cause of the vision loss) - and would retain all the knowledge of color (or lack thereof) that a sighted person would.

Another way of looking at the distinction: In the absence of light, we experience blackness. Imagine if you had the ability to, say, sense electric fields. You would probably have a level of sensation that would correspond to "no field present." If you never had this ability, you would not be sensing "no field," you would simply sense nothing at all. However, if you had the ability and then lost it at a sensory level, your bran (which must have set up some relays in order to process the signal in the first place) would interpret that lack of sensory data as "no field" rather than nothingness.

[–]cmspi 15 points16 points ago

Yeah, that's different. They probably do.

[–]emu420 11 points12 points ago

I'd bet they don't. I'm blind in one eye (I used to see out of it - cancer for those wondering) and I definitely don't see blackness out of it. When I lost it I felt like I was seeing white or some vague light color out of it, but that went away after a while, and now I see as much out of my blind eye as my elbow. The brain is weird like that I guess.

[–]Herndadernda 7 points8 points ago

I don't see (pun not intended) how they're different. Both have no vision. One has just experienced it before.

[–]cmspi 18 points19 points ago

Because, like I_am_the_owl said below, people who lose sight later in life already have those concepts and so they "see" black, because that's what they expect to see when they see nothing. If that makes any sense. Someone blind from birth doesn't have that concept.

[–]ianguy 5 points6 points ago

Well, Stevie Wonder was born with functional eyes and lost his sight very early due to Retinopathy of Prematurity. I would be very interested to hear how different people who lose their sight at different stages of their life describe what they "see"

[–]BobbyMcPrescott 3 points4 points ago

I think the point with the elbow thing is that because they have never seen, there is 0 context, and thus everything is everything. Whatever they see" is completely beyond their brains ability to categorize and therefore it is not anything as far as they are concerned. The brain of one who loses sight is almost certainly going to be affected by the context of a life with sight, and the person will be able to contrast between what they see now and what they saw, and that may be that they consider it blackness. Natural born blindness though would have no such comparison and so the attempt to describe what they see is physically impossible, because in their brain sight literally is not a concept.

[–]jrandom 2 points3 points ago

I think it depends on the type of blindness. If the eye or optic nerve is damaged, you get blackness. If the visual cortex itself is damaged, that could result it not even having a concept of sight anymore (like how damage to another part of the brain can remove the entire concept of "the left side of things").

[–]WhipIash 4 points5 points ago

Even better, try seeing what's behind you. Or the edge of your vision. Where does it stop going form seeing to 'black' or 'nothing'?

[–]Sqwv 3 points4 points ago

This really is the best way of describing it. I have perfectly functioning eyes, but about a year ago I had a really bad migraine and I lost part of my vision for an hour or so, and it definitely is more like seeing nothing than seeing black. I couldn't see at the center of whatever I was looking at and a little bit further left into my peripheral vision. It was a round area like a circle where I just couldn't see.

The strangest thing about it was that I didn't even notice it right away, the area in my eye faded from "definitely seeing" to "no matter how hard I try I can't see anything." I would describe it as trying to see something outside of your field of view, only I couldn't see at the center of my vision in one eye.

[–]xmod2 4 points5 points ago

Are you blind?

[–]cmspi 6 points7 points ago

Nope! It's just a concept that interests me.

[–]I_I_I_I_am_the_owl 4 points5 points ago

Black (or darkness, actually) is the absence of light, so we assume since blind people can't see, they see black because our concept of not being able to see is darkness/blackness. A blind person wouldn't have any true concept of light or absence of light outside of an explanation in their brain because they haven't experienced being able to see. That is, if they were blind their whole life.

[–]DirtGotWet 6 points7 points ago

I'll give you a minute to admit you don't actually know.

[–]griingolink 5 points6 points ago

I saw this reference, in an askreddit submission about what blind people see...

[–]jingks 4 points5 points ago

How do people who could once see, but then went blind, describe the situation?

[–]Potater757 5 points6 points ago

I closed my eyes and tried really hard, and what I saw out of my elbow was black.

[–]drum_playing_twig 1 point2 points ago

Well you don't see black either, in the same sense you see other colors. Black is simply the abscence of other colors so claiming Stevie sees black is not incorrect. Seeing black actually means seing no colors/light.

[–]miked00d 2 points3 points ago

Aren't most blind people like 99% blind, but they still see blurs?

[–]evitagen-armak 2 points3 points ago

He wasn't born blind. However he lost his sight when he was just a baby so you are probably right.

[–]327bran 2 points3 points ago

its hadd to grasp the concept of nothing. the elbow thing brings it way more in perspective though. but I'm still really dizzy

[–]OrbraY 1 point2 points ago

black is the absence of light, hence, what blindness is.

TL;DR if his rods and cones can't pick up light then he will see black.

[–]TAIOCRUZ_BESTRAPPER 2 points3 points ago

My head hurts just trying to wrap my brain around this HRNNGGGGGGG

[–]MissE0813 4 points5 points ago

FINALLY. Someone else who has had this same thought. Every time I try to bring it up, everyone looks at me like I'm kind of crazy. I even posted a question to AskScience, with no results.

[–]Nirgilis 1 point2 points ago

Do you have any source to back that up?

Not all blindness is the same. People got blind at different stages in life. Some can be born with it, but the causes can vary.

Someone who got blindness at a later stage in life certainly does have a sense of seeing something, because his retina was stimulated in the past and so made patterns in the brain region associated with vision.

Stevie wonder got blind several hours after birth. This means that from 4 weeks in pregnancy on(perhaps earlier) till those several hours after birth, his retina and thus brain was stimulated. The suggestion that this is equal to the vision you have in your elbow is ridiculous, because it does not equate to the actual abscence of a sense, but the defect of a present sense. Of course, because he was so young it is different from someone getting blind later in life.

[–]jandalofdoom 117 points118 points ago

How did Stevie Wonder meet his wife?

Blind date.

[–]jandalofdoom 143 points144 points ago

At a celebrity party, Stevie Wonder meets golf champ Tiger Woods and mentions that he, too, is an excellent golfer.

Tiger is a bit skeptical that the blind musician can play golf well, but he's too polite to say anything. "When I tee off, " the singer explains, "I have a guy call to me from the green. My sharp sense of hearing lets me aim."

Tiger is impressed, and Stevie suggests that they play a round. When Tiger agrees, Stevie asks, "How about if we play for $10,000 a hole?"

Tiger insists he couldn't possibly play him for money because of his sight handicap. But Stevie argues and badgers Tiger until Tiger finally relents.

Stevie says, "You pick the place and I'll pick the time?"

Tiger says, "Fine. Pebble Beach"

Stevie replies, "Midnight!"

[–]Chaotropic 22 points23 points ago

Off to /r/Jokes with you.

[–]CaptainMudwhistle 17 points18 points ago

Someone once handed Stevie Wonder a cheese grater. He said it's the most violent book he's ever read.

[–]MoldySalsa 140 points141 points ago

I guess you might say... sunglasses

He didn't see this joke coming.

[–]TheAtomicPlayboy 127 points128 points ago

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[–]Fistocuffs 22 points23 points ago

so we meet again... I remember reading a post where you explained your user name because it was relevant at the time.., but now I can't remember... DO YOU?

[–]TheAtomicPlayboy 22 points23 points ago

[–]Kon-chezz 5 points6 points ago

YEEEEEEAAAAAHHHHHH!!

[–]streeter5000 30 points31 points ago

What do you call a blind rabbit sitting on your face? An unsightly facial hare.

[–]rrnate 22 points23 points ago

wait did you take a picture of your screen with a camera?

[–]balkonkind 3 points4 points ago

Pretty sure, considering that it was posted with instagram.

[–]PineappleSmoothie 18 points19 points ago

Why don't blind people go skydiving? It scares their dogs.

[–]Farisr9k 49 points50 points ago

Why can't Stevie Wonder drive?

Because he's black.

[–]Cptn_Sisko 90 points91 points ago

Is it even a stereotype that black people can't drive?

[–]Farisr9k 112 points113 points ago

It is now.

[–]VTJP 11 points12 points ago

Thats why i like the Helen Keller one better.

[–]KingofDerby 5 points6 points ago

Helen Keller's black?

[–]Carendil 2 points3 points ago

I thought it was why can't Stevie Wonder read?

[–]UnholyDemigod 4 points5 points ago

What's black and screams?

Stevie Wonder answering the iron

[–]daskoon 7 points8 points ago

[–]Spurzofthemoment 3 points4 points ago

Guys y'all hate on this dude but have u ever seen this guys wife........? Neither has he.

[–]xDividedByZer0 5 points6 points ago

Needs more JPEG

[–]LiquidAlb 5 points6 points ago

"Must not laugh"

Posts it on Reddit for thousands of others to laugh instead.

[–]l3viz 4 points5 points ago

So this made frontpage hu? So it is true that reddit is getting taken over by 12 year olds.

[–]Salzberger 6 points7 points ago

So I guess memes need to be instagrammed now?

[–]Atlanticlantern 6 points7 points ago

It looks like he took a picture of the screen and tried to straighten it out.

[–]Guano_Loco 3 points4 points ago

At least he was singing in to the right end of the mic this time.

[–]StalkingFeet 4 points5 points ago

"I spy, with my little eye..............NUTHIN"

[–]TurtlePilot 3 points4 points ago

everything titled "this is so funny" or "try not to laugh" it makes it unfunny for me, partly because i suspect something to be funny and the timing is all out of whack.

[–]damosk 1 point2 points ago

"Funny" poems using these lines are never funny and just plain fucking stupid and overused just to appear funny.

[–]drzamich 4 points5 points ago

I logged in just to downvote this shit. Go to 9gag.

[–]coredumperror 3 points4 points ago

This need to be x-posted to /r/ImGoingToHellForthis

[–]Golemfrost 0 points1 point ago

btw interesting fact of the day. Stevie Wonder met his wife during a blind date,.. /bows

[–]RancidPonyMilk -1 points0 points ago

its actually a mixture of black, blue, and red static. at least thats all i see.

[–]srsmustache -1 points0 points ago

ITS FUNNY BECAUSE EVERYBODY IS DEPRESSED

[–]thepitchaxistheory -1 points0 points ago

Stevie sings about seeing things and perceiving colors in a lot of his songs. So much so that I actually can't listen to him without thinking about that.

[–]OptimumWaste -1 points0 points ago

This place sucks - Stevie Wonder at an art gallery

Sorry

[–]busfullofjews -1 points0 points ago

[–]EllKayBee -1 points0 points ago

Have you seen Stevie Wonder's new car?

Neither has he.

[–]SpeakingPegasus -1 points0 points ago

Laughing all the way to hell.

At least it's a fun ride.

[–]guthpasta 0 points1 point ago

If I wasn't already going to hell...

[–]lostmyth 0 points1 point ago

I couldn't do it.

[–]grimmstarfish 0 points1 point ago

While I was reading that in my head I was singing in his voice

[–]jaguarpaws7 0 points1 point ago

Suppressing my laugh is as difficult as observing No Fap September.

[–]DJ_Twitchy -1 points0 points ago

Quite funny but very mean!

[–]ChiefYookeroo 0 points1 point ago

was he watching Palladia this evening?

[–]AbsintheKid 1 point2 points ago

Didn't laugh.

[–]ZiggyBOP155 -1 points0 points ago

[–]spillitshootit 1 point2 points ago

Just gave my first up vote ever also this is the first thing I ever wrote. Right sick of being a Lurker

[–]zhongbo 0 points1 point ago

I don't laugh at once,but i laugh after i second

[–]soysauceforyou -1 points0 points ago

Not to be that guy... but blind folks actually see "white". I met an individual who was born with perfect sight but became blind over time. He described being blind as being in a cloud of white.

[–]DoniDarkos 1 point2 points ago

black humour right there....and i dont even try any joke saying that

[–]efendrich 0 points1 point ago

Yep...I'm going to hell.

[–]MIGHT_BE_TROLLIN -1 points0 points ago

He is also black!!!

[–]Ingwerbonbon 1 point2 points ago

Wonder how he's trippin... If he doesn't know colours.

Also, this cracked the whole surgical department up at the hospital where I work. No ethics!

[–]greatblack 0 points1 point ago

How i know i'm drunk, this made me laugh histerically. (God damn it i know thats wrong but the correction they keep giving me is historically and i'm drunk so i cay fuck it this won't see life any way)(look run on sentence followed by more shit fuck you reddit)

[–]andai -1 points0 points ago

Wasn't this posted years ago?

[–]lolitsdamian 0 points1 point ago

I didnt even break a chuckle.

[–]FridayNigh 0 points1 point ago

his music is not black. it all kinds of colorful

[–]waqasbhutta 0 points1 point ago

dark humor example

[–]dkong1026 0 points1 point ago

Your brother? Hmmm.

[–]nikey2k27 0 points1 point ago

lol

[–]trzcina2 0 points1 point ago

Did you saw his new keyboard? He neither...

Ok. I'm feeling bad right now...

[–]rikashiku 0 points1 point ago

I think I lost, because I snickered a little.

[–]TChuff 0 points1 point ago

I don't know why we can't laugh, it's not like Stevie Wonder is watching.

[–]Stenin 0 points1 point ago

Not really that funny.

[–]I_am_computer_blue 0 points1 point ago

Reminds me of the fake stevie wonder ama. I laughed so hard.

[–]GPSMcAwesomeville 0 points1 point ago

I just read 'Roses are red, violets are blue'.

I'm so brainwashed.

[–]combustiblemushroom 0 points1 point ago

Just woke my roommate up I was laughing so hard XP

[–]deebosbike -1 points0 points ago

OP and brother are immature assholes.

[–]SiFTW 0 points1 point ago

Relevant hard dance tune. "all 61 keys on my piano are black"

[–]stephanie81110 0 points1 point ago

I laughed...I hate myself ಥ_ಥ but I hate you more

[–]madmacskillz 0 points1 point ago

This is sad. It's not that the joke is supposedly tasteless... It's that the joke is just plain not funny. But 500 nerds couldn't wait to either debate some inane detail or share their own 8th grade humor. Huh huh want to hear a BLIND joke? No. Go back to fapping.

[–]PowerKiegal 0 points1 point ago

I shat my pants.

[–]mytravelfromhere 0 points1 point ago

It was so wrong

[–]ugmold 0 points1 point ago

Stevie could see when he was a child, he lost his vision slowly.

[–]blues141541 0 points1 point ago

dude come on... what if he sees thi-- never mind. continue.

[–]WErideAtMarket 0 points1 point ago

X post it to /r/goingtohellforthis

[–]js2195 0 points1 point ago

fuck it im going to hell anyways.

[–]NO3SCAPE 0 points1 point ago

damnit too late! Laughed -.-

[–]TheAvoh 0 points1 point ago

[–]aesamattki 0 points1 point ago

Why the fuck cares about Facebook? Why does every submission have to say "found this on Facebook haha"

Fuck Facebook.

[–]angasal 0 points1 point ago

I don't see the joke.

[–]charliepotts 0 points1 point ago

...and your brother is 12 years old.

[–]sammyman95 0 points1 point ago

r/imgoingtohellforthis

[–]Nepenthenes 0 points1 point ago

I'm going to hell for this.

[–]neon_unicorns 0 points1 point ago

im a horrible person

[–]javadragon 1 point2 points ago

Must. Not. Upvote.

[–]BlackVeiledBatman 0 points1 point ago

Should I feel bad for laughing?

[–]Robcargib 0 points1 point ago

That's turrible

[–]Todomanna 0 points1 point ago

I have succeeded in not laughing, what now?

[–]Inception-Button 0 points1 point ago

Sad to say that this has been my first all-natural, organic Reddit chuckle.

[–]oneslyfox 0 points1 point ago

Roses are green, violets are yellow, by the way I'm colourblind.

[–]jamesyfbaby 0 points1 point ago

I gave Stevie wonder a cheese grater, he said it was the best book he ever read

[–]jaygibby22 0 points1 point ago

fine, i wont laugh because it wasnt funny