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Marzupialis

(398 posts) Wed Jun 6, 2012, 09:58 AM Jun 2012

Which line is longer?

Please don't analyze things, or think about it. Please tell me what on first sight looks like the longer line of these two. (not the outside arrows but the horizontal line in the middle)

Answer later on.

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Which line is longer? (Original Post) Marzupialis Jun 2012 OP

The one I'm in. rug Jun 2012 #1

Beat me to it! hifiguy Jun 2012 #8

Neither. ohiosmith Jun 2012 #2

Same length, different sex. HopeHoops Jun 2012 #3

^ < > v Bucky Jun 2012 #11

The one outside the women's restroom? petronius Jun 2012 #4

Why are you using the women's restroom? ohiosmith Jun 2012 #5

Um, where do you go to meet women? petronius Jun 2012 #6

Touché! ohiosmith Jun 2012 #7

They're the same - it's an optical illusion LynneSin Jun 2012 #9

the horizontal line is longer in the bottom one, because the thickness of the arrows adds to it's jakeXT Jun 2012 #10

Same length GoneOffShore Jun 2012 #12

The center line on both... Wait Wut Jun 2012 #13

rug

(82,333 posts)

1. The one I'm in.

Reply to Marzupialis (Original post)

Wed Jun 6, 2012, 10:13 AM

Jun 2012

Always.

hifiguy

(33,688 posts)

8. Beat me to it!

Reply to rug (Reply #1)

Wed Jun 6, 2012, 11:44 AM

Jun 2012

ohiosmith

(24,262 posts)

2. Neither.

Reply to Marzupialis (Original post)

Wed Jun 6, 2012, 10:20 AM

Jun 2012

HopeHoops

(47,675 posts)

3. Same length, different sex.

Reply to Marzupialis (Original post)

Wed Jun 6, 2012, 10:26 AM

Jun 2012

Bucky

(54,027 posts)

11. ^ < > v

Reply to HopeHoops (Reply #3)

Wed Jun 6, 2012, 04:55 PM

Jun 2012

petronius

(26,602 posts)

4. The one outside the women's restroom?

Reply to Marzupialis (Original post)

Wed Jun 6, 2012, 10:38 AM

Jun 2012

I've seen this before, but the top one definitely appears longer...

ohiosmith

(24,262 posts)

5. Why are you using the women's restroom?

Reply to petronius (Reply #4)

Wed Jun 6, 2012, 10:39 AM

Jun 2012

petronius

(26,602 posts)

6. Um, where do you go to meet women?

Reply to ohiosmith (Reply #5)

Wed Jun 6, 2012, 10:44 AM

Jun 2012

ohiosmith

(24,262 posts)

7. Touché!

Reply to petronius (Reply #6)

Wed Jun 6, 2012, 10:46 AM

Jun 2012

LynneSin

(95,337 posts)

9. They're the same - it's an optical illusion

Reply to Marzupialis (Original post)

Wed Jun 6, 2012, 11:53 AM

Jun 2012

Sorry to spoil it for anyone who never saw this before

jakeXT

(10,575 posts)

10. the horizontal line is longer in the bottom one, because the thickness of the arrows adds to it's

Reply to Marzupialis (Original post)

Wed Jun 6, 2012, 04:04 PM

Jun 2012

length

GoneOffShore

(17,340 posts)

12. Same length

Reply to Marzupialis (Original post)

Wed Jun 6, 2012, 04:57 PM

Jun 2012

Old perceptual puzzle.

Wait Wut

(8,492 posts)

13. The center line on both...

Reply to Marzupialis (Original post)

Wed Jun 6, 2012, 05:17 PM

Jun 2012

...is longer than the end lines on either.

If I get a cookie I want chocolate chip. None of those stupid Chips Ahoy or whatever. Homemade. With nuts. Pecans not walnuts. And, I want it warm and not all hard and stupid. I like the chocolate to be melty. I hate that word, melty. I heard it on a commercial and now I can't get rid of it.

Oh, and about your little "not the arrows" disclaimer. Those aren't arrows. They're lines. So I win.

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