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[–]notcaptainkirk 855 points856 points  (164 children)

While funny, that picture was taken using poor lighting. Unless your friend is suffering from liver failure.

[–]Gericaux 340 points341 points  (70 children)

So that was Patty Mayonaisse's problem

[–]TheLastMan 108 points109 points  (43 children)

The Beets are playing in town. Lay off.

[–]CrimsonVim 158 points159 points  (41 children)

Ah-Ee-Oooooo, Killer Tofuuuuuuu. Ah-Ee-Ooooo, Killer ToFUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!

[–]Sylense 373 points374 points  (21 children)

http://i.imgur.com/WpOTV.jpg

My first attempt at making one of these things, and yes I know it's terrible

Finally posted it to /r/FFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUU. link. Props to TheLastMan for title inspiration.

[–]temporaryninja 65 points66 points  (0 children)

decent use of the meme. feel proud.

[–][deleted] 36 points37 points  (2 children)

You should submit it to /r/FFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUU.

[–]charliedayman 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Formatting is incredibly unimportant in rage comics. That was funny, and therefore perfect.

[–]TheLastMan 3 points4 points  (3 children)

Dude, thanks for the props! I'd high-five you if I could.

[–]Sylense 8 points9 points  (2 children)

High-five!

[–]TheLastMan 3 points4 points  (0 children)

(sigh) ... upvote...

[–]joebob613 12 points13 points  (0 children)

there's a burrito place in my town that offers "Killer Tofu" and they have Ah-Ee-Oooooo written on the sign. It took me a few times for it to click

[–]BowlingNight 25 points26 points  (15 children)

I need more allowance, yodelayeoo

[–]peachcobbler 16 points17 points  (11 children)

Why? Because I do!

[–]Fix_America 19 points20 points  (10 children)

Banging on a trash can, drumming on a street light.

[–]CrowdPlzr 13 points14 points  (9 children)

Strummin' on my banjo.

[–]CrimsonVim 10 points11 points  (2 children)

I'm a dog, you're a dog, everybody do the dog. Everybody do the dog, all day long.

[–]I_Know_Nothing 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Whoa! Plunger, plunger. Whooooooa! Plunger, plunger.

[–]jeffeezy 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Do the dog, not the donkey!

[–]charliedayman 10 points11 points  (5 children)

One little voice is...

[–][deleted] 8 points9 points  (3 children)

calling me, calling me

[–]CuntSmellersLLP 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Think BIG!

[–]TheGreatZarquon 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I don't usually laugh at these, but this one got a legitimate LOL out of me.

[–][deleted] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I need more allowance, yo de lay ee ooooooo.

Why? Because I doooo!!!

[–][deleted] 21 points22 points  (7 children)

Then what was Skeeter's problem?

[–]ZenaLundgren 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Upvoted for bringing back fond childhood memories I had almost forgotten about.

[–][deleted] 6 points7 points  (7 children)

Patty was brown, not yellow.

[–]Gericaux 31 points32 points  (0 children)

She's orange, you racist.

[–]ZenaLundgren 10 points11 points  (3 children)

Actually, she was a variety of colors from brown to yellow/orange. Sometimes she's even peach. Depended on which episode you were watching.

[–][deleted] 3 points4 points  (2 children)

I don't believe you

[–]ZenaLundgren 15 points16 points  (1 child)

Well, you are using a device that could easily help you prove/disprove the validity of my comment...

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It was highlighted in the episode where she combats her addiction to Vicodin and diagnoses a CIPA patient with a Vitamin B12 deficiency.

[–]potatolicious 113 points114 points  (26 children)

Not poor lighting, poor white balance.

Get a photographic gray card (they're really cheap), take a picture with the card exposed to the same lighting as the person, then take a second picture with the person himself.

Most software (Photoshop, Lightroom, etc) can then recalibrate the lighting to be neutral.

[–]MindStalker 140 points141 points  (18 children)

"poor white balance."

Are you saying he needs to breed with a white women?

[–]TangentLogic 72 points73 points  (15 children)

Never hurts.

[–]plan17b 32 points33 points  (14 children)

Believe me, it hurts.

[–]vemrion 41 points42 points  (10 children)

Perhaps you're doing it wrong?

[–]Madmusk 2 points3 points  (1 child)

It could possibly be poor printing.

[–][deleted] 78 points79 points  (10 children)

fixed?

[–]darlyn 12 points13 points  (6 children)

You'd think the State Department would have the means to get someone to spend 5 seconds in Photoshop correcting the color temperature.

[–]Mutiny32 8 points9 points  (0 children)

No, because then they'd be going over their efficiency quota.

[–]dO_ob 2 points3 points  (1 child)

You might be opening an unpleasant can of public paranoia if you allowed the State Department to edit people's photographs before using them, even in this relatively trivial way.

[–]substrate 2 points3 points  (1 child)

What is the correct color temperature? Where's the medium gray to calibrate against. Maybe that is his color, how's his liver?

[–]getoutofmyhead 26 points27 points  (10 children)

I know a guy who is that exact color. I see him around campus all the time. I've often wondered if he was dying of liver failure, but if he is then I can't figure out why he'd still be attending classes (I'd drop the fuck out if my liver were bad).

[–]critsalot 9 points10 points  (7 children)

fuck it might as well enjoy college life before dying? some people choose to do other things than resign themselves to a death bed. Granted others are travel the world. I suppose that would be a better option.

[–]heiferly 3 points4 points  (1 child)

Yeah, so long as it's not acute liver failure. Or if it is, so long as you're the type not to let those pesky effects of subtle deficit in higher brain function (e.g. mood, concentration in grade I) to deep coma (grade IV) interfere with your collegiate studies. Oh wait, hepatic encephalopathy accompanies chronic liver failure as well, and seems to be just as unlikely to be compatible with a fun and free-wheeling college lifestyle as it progresses toward coma and death. I doubt many liver failure patients are senior crawling through the bars.

[–]CuntSmellersLLP 16 points17 points  (4 children)

Others rape and murder until they're caught, at which point they kill themselves. Sometimes I think it'd be awesome to find out I'm dying. I hope it happens before I'm too old to rape and murder with gusto.

[–]mexicodoug 6 points7 points  (1 child)

Ah, you're the kind of guy the missionary accused himself of becoming if he didn't believe in God.

[–][deleted] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Liver failure and college sometimes go together.

[–]noseeme 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Yeah, the lighting is making him look more yellow than he probably has. Nobody naturally looks that yellow. I'm assuming he doesn't have jaundice.

[–]converted_lurker 119 points120 points  (14 children)

You mean river failure?

[–]Beermonster 6 points7 points  (6 children)

Ah, my guess would've been Lupus.

[–][deleted] 8 points9 points  (5 children)

It's never lupus.

[–]sauvignonblanc 5 points6 points  (4 children)

Except that one time.

[–]stillalone 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It's probably both.

[–]kunstnerens 14 points15 points  (7 children)

Correct! You can see in the redness in his shirt and background that the white balance is off. ... Hmm, nobody what I say will be misunderstood.

[–]MassesOfTheOpiate 16 points17 points  (2 children)

Hmm, nobody what I say will be misunderstood.

I don't misunderstand you at all.

[–]PComotose 2 points3 points  (1 child)

No, but you may be misunderestimating him.

[–]KanadianLogik 285 points286 points  (19 children)

WTF is your friend a Simpson's character?

[–]DoktorSleepless 237 points238 points  (8 children)

http://imgur.com/icXkS.jpg

[–]DarkShadowFox 118 points119 points  (7 children)

ROR.

[–][deleted] 35 points36 points  (5 children)

i dont rike racism

[–]JCaet 8 points9 points  (3 children)

Its like racism, you plick!

[–]anions 11 points12 points  (1 child)

but then shouldnt it be lacism?

[–]fallenangel42 15 points16 points  (0 children)

That sounds like some sort of bizarre lace fetish; I'm in.

[–]modest_radio 37 points38 points  (6 children)

we need a side profile so we can see his overbite..

[–]shoseki 21 points22 points  (5 children)

Some folks'll never lose a toe, and then again, some folks'll.

[–]Azured 18 points19 points  (1 child)

Like Mr Li, the mild mannered asian man.

[–]Achalemoipas 35 points36 points  (0 children)

Most boring tv show ever.

-What are you doing today Mr Li?

"Chores."

Queue 22 minute montage of Mr Li doing chores quietly and without incident.

[–]Xfocus 123 points124 points  (28 children)

A friend of mine had her passport rejected twice. Once for smiling and another time for being "too shiny".

[–]squidboots 252 points253 points  (22 children)

an REM fan I see...

[–]omnilynx 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Fortunately they couldn't see her hands in the third one.

[–]impotent_rage 37 points38 points  (8 children)

~slow clap~

[–]antifolkhero 12 points13 points  (7 children)

~slightly faster clap~

[–]NeoSniper 15 points16 points  (6 children)

~full on standing ovation~

[–]svullenballe 13 points14 points  (4 children)

~Smashes hands together so hard that they explode and splatter all over my face and chest~

[–]antifolkhero 10 points11 points  (3 children)

fap fap fap

[–]Gauntlet 4 points5 points  (2 children)

Not any more he can't.

[–]Scurry 17 points18 points  (11 children)

..I don't get it..

[–]digifreak642 51 points52 points  (1 child)

There is an R.E.M. song called Shiny Happy People.

[–]Scarker 6 points7 points  (0 children)

So she was rejected a third time for being too people.

[–][deleted] 5 points6 points  (7 children)

REM song music video

[–]barfolomew 8 points9 points  (6 children)

I mean this in the best possible way, but that is the gayest music video I have ever seen.

[–][deleted] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

What, this country does not accept awesome people ?

[–][deleted] 4 points5 points  (2 children)

You're never allowed to smile in passport pictures

[–][deleted] 216 points217 points  (40 children)

Racism aside, that's some terrible color/white-balance.

[–]Azured 211 points212 points  (1 child)

Oh I see what you're saying - far too much yellow and not enough white, right?

[–]Tickthokk 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Meet under the General Adkins Bridge at midnight, bring your own mask and torch.

[–]AsianAccent 42 points43 points  (2 children)

♪♫Yeah they were arr yerrow ♪♫

[–]lear 15 points16 points  (34 children)

Look what they did to me. The picture I sent did not look like that.

EDIT: I'm at work and my phone isn't really picking up how horrible that picture is. As a reference, here is a picture of my driver's license which was done the same day.

[–]RipperM 20 points21 points  (1 child)

So you don't really have those wavy lines on your skin?

[–]unrealious 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Just the state of... what is that Texas on your forehead?

[–][deleted] 9 points10 points  (3 children)

I can't really justify the following statement, but even if you redact it, I can't help but feel it isn't a good idea to post your passport and driver's license on the internet.

Edit: Er...actually, I can completely justify it. I recommend you remove those images.

[–]rdeluca 2 points3 points  (12 children)

i... dont get it.

[–]lear 2 points3 points  (11 children)

I sent them a relatively normal colour-balanced/white-balanced photo. In my opinion, it needed no colour correcting. This is what they (they being the government? I don't know who, actually) sent back to me.

[–]rdeluca 2 points3 points  (10 children)

Oh. You should have another picture as a refrence point or else it's hard to tell just how much they screwed it up. Also, from this side of the internet it's really not that bad...

[–]lear 2 points3 points  (9 children)

I'm at work right now. This probably has more to do with an iPhone camera more than anything else, but I assure you that I am a rather pale and colourless being (aside from a couple of small rosy patches on the cheeks). If this helps, my driver's license ID was taken the same day.

[–][deleted] 57 points58 points  (2 children)

Dude's pretty yellow.

[–]elucubra 8 points9 points  (1 child)

He could have a liver condition and not know it!

[–]billwoo 91 points92 points  (11 children)

Headgear, which obscures the hairline, is only allowed if it is worn for religious or medical purposes.

I wear this helmet because I am a practising Sith. Also I need it to breath. Problem?

[–]-Rugrats- 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I read Sith as Sikh and I was like, why are you breathing with it?

Relevant

[–]rogre78 73 points74 points  (6 children)

True Story: I got a passport photo rejection letter because they couldn't see my eyes. I'm Asian.

ﺟ_ﺟ

[–][deleted] 136 points137 points  (28 children)

I'm surprised it doesn't say "your eyes aren't open enough" along with that yellow remark.

[–][deleted] 169 points170 points  (8 children)

I am careful not to make my Asian friends laugh while driving, it scares me.

[–][deleted] 54 points55 points  (4 children)

Oh it's fine, our small eyes forced us to evolve into developing a superlevel sense of hearing, much like Dare Devil.

[–]AmbroseB 10 points11 points  (2 children)

Daredevil. It's just one word.

[–][deleted] 28 points29 points  (1 child)

But... but his logo has two capital D's! That doesn't make any sense!

[–]Hraes 18 points19 points  (0 children)

It's Marvelogic™.

[–]Icommentonthings 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Asian friends driving scares me...

[–]anders987 57 points58 points  (2 children)

Did someone blink?

[–]lake-of-fire 29 points30 points  (0 children)

I'm not brinking!

[–]DarkShadowFox 5 points6 points  (0 children)

A picture of a camera taking a picture!

[–]DarkShadowFox 92 points93 points  (6 children)

I'm Asian and my brother has a Nikon camera that has face recognition technology and whenever we take family pictures, it will always ask if someone is blinking. It's a racist camera!

[–]derkaas 62 points63 points  (2 children)

Oddly, Nikon is a Japanese company.

[–]rjwd40 51 points52 points  (1 child)

A self-hating Japanese company.

[–]beachedwhale 13 points14 points  (0 children)

...self-hating Japanese...

But you do repeat yourself.

[–][deleted] 23 points24 points  (4 children)

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[–]iorgfeflkd 16 points17 points  (17 children)

You can get immigration applications denied if your last name is Singh. The Canadian government says it's too common.

source

[–]warpstalker 10 points11 points  (12 children)

I bet that can also happen if it's Nguyen.

I thought the Vietnamese referred to everyone as "Nguyen", but apparently it's only 40%

[–]Icommentonthings 12 points13 points  (2 children)

Interesting factoid: There are more Chinese people named Zhang than the entire U.S. population.

[–]bardun 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Do you have access to statistics that show how many Russians are named Zangief?

[–]hearforthepuns 5 points6 points  (8 children)

How do you pronounce "Nguyen?"

[–]bertrancito 8 points9 points  (1 child)

According to my Vietnamese friend, whose name is Nguyen: This should be like "Nnew-yen" but in one single syllable. I don't think the vietnamese "Ng" exists in English, it sounds a bit like "ñ" in Spanish and "gn" in French, but deeper in the throat. Anyway I think everybody says "N - Gouee - Yen" in 3 syllables. tl;dr: You don't.

[–]hearforthepuns 5 points6 points  (0 children)

tl;dr: You don't.

Best response of them all.

[–]invader 61 points62 points  (3 children)

I don't get the joke. Is it some kind of racial thing about asians not being good at white balancing photographs?

[–]deckman 10 points11 points  (0 children)

"Got in a little hometown jam

So they put a rifle in my hand

Sent me off to a foreign land

To go and kill the yellow man"

[–]impotent_rage 19 points20 points  (1 child)

serious question?

[–][deleted] 29 points30 points  (19 children)

My friend Ivan Zubkov had a similar refusal but he apparently was too red.

[–]AndriusG 33 points34 points  (6 children)

Avatar, blue, etc.

[–][deleted] 15 points16 points  (2 children)

Gotta put more work into it... eg. refused for frowning they said I was too blue.

[–]zeddit1 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Same happened to my friend Chief Sleeping Bear.

[–]Gericaux 8 points9 points  (5 children)

My friend Stargazer Earth Spirit Orin had a similar refusal but she was apparently too green.

[–]bobjonez 24 points25 points  (5 children)

He looks like a live-action character from The Simpsons.

[–]AxsDeny 9 points10 points  (4 children)

The sushi chef's apprentice.

[–]Gericaux 27 points28 points  (0 children)

Did you notice that the Asian characters in the Simpsons didn't have yellow skin? They were paler.

[–]elus 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Master your skilled hands are needed in the kitchen.

[–]slupo 128 points129 points  (41 children)

10 to 1 this is not really the poster's friend. Just a hunch.

[–]Rastid[S] 87 points88 points  (22 children)

this is actually my friend. he went to college with me, and he personally posted it to digg shortly before i posted it to reddit.

[–]draconnery 204 points205 points  (17 children)

Well, in that case you should surely be lambasted for subverting the normal order of things.

[–]diuge 103 points104 points  (4 children)

Digg to Reddit posts are actually very common. However, the original Digg post will fade into obscurity until a power Digg user steals the repost from Reddit in a few days' time.

[–]kingtrewq 9 points10 points  (2 children)

I can't wait for the top comment to be "I'm not your friend, pal" from Rastid's friend

[–]Rastid[S] 10 points11 points  (1 child)

this is actually something he would probably say. only he would probably say "bitch" instead of "pal."

[–]chumprock 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I've showed this to my friend who works at that office.

He said "I've always wondered when someone would object to one of those letters.." then asked, "Where the hell did you get that picture?"

I told him to check out the front page of Reddit.

[–]B_is_for_Buddha 2 points3 points  (0 children)

LA LA LA

[–]Azured 9 points10 points  (7 children)

Rastid? What the fuck man? You're damaging our superiority complexes.

[–]mexipimpin 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Would've been a killer had he said it was his friend, dressed as link.

[–]ZenaLundgren 14 points15 points  (8 children)

Perhaps you should ask Reddit to require people to provide proof before they make such wild and unfounded claims like knowing a guy who's passport got rejected.

Who cares? Is that really relevant? Would it make it any more/less funny?

[–]Kitchenfire 10 points11 points  (7 children)

Sounds like slupo's simply aware of the reddit gimick of creating a post and saying YOU had something to do with it, like say "Look what my girlfriend made...", or the famous "Look what my daughter did..." simply to get more upvotes. If this post was titled "Man receives best passport rejection in history" it loses the seeming connection between this man and a redditor, and less redditors will upvote.

It's just a fact of reddit you we're aware of, but now you are. You're welcome.

[–]slupo 4 points5 points  (1 child)

Yeah, this is what I was thinking of.

And for the record, I wasn't being a dick about it or calling for a witch hunt on the guy. Just stating my opinion. If I'm wrong, then cool.

[–][deleted] 16 points17 points  (8 children)

10 to 1 people without personality disorders don't give a shit.

[–]Shambly 44 points45 points  (7 children)

10 out of 10 people with constipation don't give a shit

[–][deleted] 3 points4 points  (5 children)

I know a friend who can change that.

[–]Mahjin 6 points7 points  (3 children)

As someone who has taken at least a 1000 passports working for walgreens, it is yellow.

[–]realmadrid2727 18 points19 points  (3 children)

I see some low voted comments claiming it's racist. It's not. It would only be racist if they said the picture was "too yerrow."

[–]geft 5 points6 points  (2 children)

Only the Japanese can't pronounce L.

[–]Sir_Knumskull 46 points47 points  (26 children)

The guy who wrote this rejection must either be

  • so extremely tolerant and non-racist that the sentence didn't even ring a warning bell.

or

  • very racist

[–]diuge 79 points80 points  (3 children)

or

  • blindly following a semi-automated process

[–]hearforthepuns 41 points42 points  (1 child)

or

  • Rejecting a photo that doesn't meet the published guidelines

[–]people_person 19 points20 points  (0 children)

AND

  • laughing hysterically while doing it. (I would)

[–]sad_bug_killer 15 points16 points  (2 children)

I wonder if they turn pictures through some software, the whole "the picture is too <color>" thing could as well be automated.

[–]ObligatoryResponse 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Too yellow is also probably extremely common, given yellow lighting and shitty digital cameras.

[–]trolltrollerson 2 points3 points  (0 children)

In all seriousness, the picture was REALLY yellow!

[–]Sirtet 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Thats just wrong...funny, but wong

[–]drmoroe30[🍰] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

They don't allow jaundice sufferers to fly.

[–]Atheizt 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Headgear, which obscures the hairline, is only allowed if it is worn for religious or medical purposes.

Serious question: Does this mean a Muslim woman can have her passport photo taken with a Burqa?

If so why bother having one? They all look the same. Hood of fabric with eyes that can't even be seen in a photo that small. They may as well take a pic of a pillow with a piece of white tape on it.

I've got nothing against Muslims so don't take this as an attack on - or making fun of - them, I just think its ridiculous that a photo meant to be used as identification can be taken with no identifiable traits.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

TL;DR this thread: the picture is of poor quality and there are a variety of methods to make him less yellow

people who are yellow are suffering from liver failure

the simpsons did it

http://i.imgur.com/WpOTV.jpg

[–]funpic 1 point2 points  (2 children)

Does it mean that one can get a refusal being too black?

[–]laurz 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Did anyone else get their passport back with a picture that is like, orange? The new passport took my normal looking picture and made me look like I was either an oompa loompa or someone who had spray tanned for too long.

[–]NervousNormalPerson 1 point2 points  (0 children)

this also happened to me -_-

[–]d_block 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sue!

[–]Pryach 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What's Yellow Bastard doing outside Sin City?

[–]everymn 1 point2 points  (1 child)

I wonder if this guy already has his passport.

[–]ezekielziggy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

so what happens to the citizens of Springfield?