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I legit can't even figure out what it was supposed to say

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[–] owenfromcanada@lemmy.world 86 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This is beyond don't-dead-open-inside, this is full on aneurism posting.

beyond don’t-dead-open-inside

Perfect for !yelldowlgyel@sopuli.xyz, in that case.

[–] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 39 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I read this as, "who comes, who decides, country, who comes this to."

I think it's supposed to be read as, "Who Comes: who decides who comes to this country." Like, the title is supposed to be "Who Comes" with the subtitle, "who decides who comes to this country" but they've decided to throw out all rules on how English is read and instead of going left-to-right, top-to-bottom (or top-bottom, left-right); they've decided to have the text follow some strange, meandering order that involves going right-to-left, top-to-bottom, then left-to-right, then bottom-to-top.

What the fuck?

Why are you trying to make me play "guess the order" with your political pamphlets?

At least it's super obvious that I can just ignore it because whoever handed those out is probably a bigot.

[–] SzethFriendOfNimi@lemmy.world 20 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I looked up the URL in the wayback machine.

It was a graduate program in migration law

[–] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Jesus Christ what a terrible way to advertise your program.

Edit: that's also why I said, "probably" a bigot. I figured there was a chance it was supposed to be legitimately educational but poorly designed; but I also figured that, in the current political climate, there was a significantly higher chance of it being bigoted.

[–] Takumidesh@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

I'm almost positive it's meant to get you to stare at it and try to figure it out, versus you blindly throwing it out with the rest of your junk mail.

[–] SzethFriendOfNimi@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

What’s weird is it’s probably from 2010-2011. Only later did they redirect to a different root folder.

So this seems to be an older photo (or old piece of mail)

[–] justlookingfordragon@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

whoever handed those out is probably a bigot

That explains so much. Their usual mental gymnastics have a similar "order" to them ....

[–] i_dont_want_to@lemmy.blahaj.zone 27 points 2 months ago

When you are doing voice to text and your owl is trying to get your attention.

[–] AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com 17 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

These are the best ones. When you genuinely can't figure out which order the words go in.

[–] Ioughttamow@fedia.io 17 points 2 months ago

Has Anyone Really Been Far Even as Decided to Use Even Go Want to do Look More Like?

[–] thenextguy@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] Oka@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Now that's the first thing you said right.

[–] thenextguy@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

I don't even know what I'm talking about.

[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What's the name of the guy on first base?!

[–] generic_computers@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] thenextguy@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

When you pay the first baseman at the end of the month, who gets the money?

[–] generic_computers@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 months ago

Every dollar of it.

[–] AlexCory21@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

OK so, this is a really weird way to read it and doesn't make any sense. But i think i got it. IMO makes the most sense. Start from the bottom kinda.

"Who comes to this country decides who comes."

And the "Who" that is sideways is probably a logo. For whatever they're trying to push or advertise. And not actually apart of the phrase.

[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 months ago

The World Health Organization is behind the movement for immigrants to decide who cums?

[–] onnekas@sopuli.xyz 10 points 2 months ago
[–] BreadOven@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Did someone have a stroke? (I hope not, it seems like a terrible thing in some [a lot?] Of cases).

[–] Poik@pawb.social 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Strokes, by definition, involve the death of neurons in the brain. So no, not particularly good. Seizures can be very similar without actual tissue death.

[–] BreadOven@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Ah, good point. I couldn't remember the exact definition of a stroke. Thanks.

[–] sweetgemberry@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Who decides who comes to this country? This seems to make sense given there appears to be an immigration stamp printed onto the card

[–] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Why is "who comes" listed twice then?

[–] sweetgemberry@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I think that's just poor design choice

[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

the entire piece is a poor design. hard to select a single element.

[–] SlothMama@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

"Who decides who comes into this country? Who?"

The extra who is for emphasis.

[–] bignate31@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

you're missing the second "comes"

[–] CM400@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

Whence comes the third who?

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

Did they have a stroke while they made this image?

[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

In case anyone else thinks "what does the website on the card say" like I did:

A. you'll have to put it in the wayback machine, and

B. nothing to answer what the intended reading of the text would be

[–] Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

It's a pro-masturbation flyer from what I can tell.

[–] MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

🧐

Does it give any more information on the back?

[–] justlookingfordragon@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

I have no idea, sorry. I just found that picture in an imgur dump.

[–] cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Who comes decides who country who this comes to.

Obviously.

[–] nick@midwest.social 3 points 2 months ago

Who thought this was a good idea? Good Christ

[–] Kowowow@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago

The colouring in this picture really reminds me of graphics but the card looks good