Like I can see what's supposed to be the old woman but its never been much of a trick unless you think old people look like Yubaba from spirited away.
I don't think it works well here because the art styles don't match and the way the bar keeper is drawn looks nothing like the old woman.
If you look at the barkeep the other way he looks like an angry mole crawling out of the wall :3
Yeah it certainly doesn't help but even with the original I've always thought this.
The barkeep/comic setting is a later addition.
I had to read your comment to understand what I was supposed to be looking at
I really like this
I don't get it :(
The bar patron is a classic optical illusion.
In my late teens I had a similar poster in my room with double meaning.
Warning, a bit NSFW
That's pretty cool! I love pictures like that. My grandfather, who was a really good artist, liked to draw faces for me that would change into a different face if you turned it upside-down. Sadly, I only have one left and it's only a xerox.
I like that. Accurate in my teens and well beyond.
This one is better than the op
Older people tend to like getting ID'ed. Just go for it either way.
It's very subjective. My wife kinda hates it. She's a good looking woman, but she certainly doesn't look like she's 20. She often doesn't carry a wallet - so if she's ID'd it can actually be annoying.
I teach an underwater photography class at a university. We were going to have a night dive one evening and a thunderstorm rolled in and we had to cancel, so we decided to go to a local pub that has great food.
There's a bouncer at the door, and he's checking all my student's IDs super close. He's bending them, shining a light through them, etc making absolutely sure nobody underage gets through.
I walk up behind my students with my ID out and he just nods and says "you're good man."
I never felt so old.
My ID picture is still the same one I took in my early 20s (almost 40 now), and even when I do get carded, 75% of the time they make a comment about how my "picture is really old," "I look really young," etc, etc which is always a punch to the gut.
I'm always relieved since I carry my wallet less and less. I've learned to keep it on me right after a haircut though.
The first time I've ever been ID'ed was for a beer on a festival when I was 19, we're allowed to buy beer at 16, I was pleasantly surprised. I've also been smoking since I was 14, which was back then allowed from 16 (now 18), and I've never been ID'ed for buying tobacco or rolling papers.
As a kid I could see both instantly but today it took me several minutes
The proportion of the bartender and the woman makes it as the young woman is the main one.
That's a really good point, in fact now that you said this I can easily see the old woman face lol
I can't see it in the comic posted by op but I can see it in other comments posting the original optical illusion image
I had to originally squint at the original optical illusion image to get my mind to register it
I only see a young woman looking away, none of these comments help...
The chin/jaw line of the young woman is the nose of the old woman, the ear is the eye, there is a horizontal line of the young woman's neck that is the mouth of the old woman.
At first I only saw the young woman too.
Is it one of those pictures where you flip it to see young girl turn into an elderly woman?
Not flip but kind of. Other comments have already explained it if you haven't seen them yet
I couldnt recognize anything except for a human like blob wearing a fur coat.
I think it does not matter if the woman in the picture is young or old. Maybe the artist is trying to tell, that early young adult women are not easy to detect ? like ages 18+ ?
My question is different: what kinda psycho abbreviates "id" as I.D.? And then followup, who collapses the period into it to make "I.D?"
Id is identification, that's one word. This isn't an acronym. So arguably if anything if would be abbreviated with an apostrophe or maaaybe a single period at the end. Anyway English is weird
Isn't ID "identification document"?
It's actually "Idaho."
Cambridge dictionary for "id":
abbreviation for identification: any official card or document with your name and photograph or other information on it that you use to prove who you are:
Do you have any ID? A driver's license or check card will do.
ID is short of "identity document". The Chicago Manual of Style agrees with your second point though, keeping both punctuations.
You pronounce the abbreviated form as "Eye Dee" so you abbreviate it as ID. No, it is not consistent with other instances of abbreviation in English, but half of English isn't consistent with the other half anyway.
Also, id is an actual word, so that could cause confusion. The earliest uses of the term 'ID' or 'I.D.' are also from the US military, which absolutely loves abbreviating things and making acronyms for the sake of brevity, even if the shortening doesn't follow the usual rules.
I abbreviate id as I.D. for the same reason I abbreviate ego as E.G.O.
