Indifferent Strokes
February 4th, 2011
A friend thought some plants would liven up the place.
(submitted by Jack)
Tags: props
Indifferent Strokes
A friend thought some plants would liven up the place.
(submitted by Jack)
Tags: props
The boy in yellow sort of looks like one of the Weasly twins, if his hair were a darker shade of red.
I haven’t seen so much misery in a long time, and I’m a mortician!
OK. Time to tell the truth. No swedish people out there i presume? Otherwise someone would have guessed it was some kind of christmas picture. The red flowers are compulsury in any home in december in Sweden. It was a greeting card divided in two. Under this the text was. “Dont be depressed”. Under number two “its soon christmas” and everybody was smiling and looking extremely happy. The truth is always more boring than the wild guesses…
And – its up to you to believe it or not….
god jul!
After destroying the front porch, the consolation prize for not being on “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” is less than satisfactory.
This is Marnies family, and the woman on the left was instructed to bring tulips to thanksgiving in a regulation flower pot. They got it all wrong, with gigantic gladiolis (or whatever they are!) in striped pots. That was on the second page of her letter if you recall. They have just been chastised by Marnie…that explains the forlorn looks.
I don’t think this photo is neccessarily staged. In fact, I think I’ve probably been in a photo like this before. An extended family member, who is blissfully unaware of the tension building between the family members requests that they pose for a picture. Their irritability is hightened either by the fact that this is the 1,946th photo Uncle Larry has asked them to pose for or by the fact that Uncle Larry is having a technical problem with the camera. The photo is then snapped when the family members are not aware it’s being taken and, therefore, are not wearing fake smiles, but rather letting their true feelings shine through.
Someone definitely needs to write an Onion article for this photo…
InconCEIVable!
Photographer: “Okay, which button? This one? Oh, wait, no, that was the power button…”
Dad: “Mom–”
Photographer: “I can do it, don’t–oooh it beeped–okay, okay, which button?”
Dad: “The huge red one on the right. It’s the only red button.”
Photographer: “Well you don’t have to say it like that. Okay. Wait. What did I do? The screen is black.”
Dad: “Let me just set the timer.”
Photographer: “No, I think I’ve–”
CLICK!
If you look very closely at the back windows there appears to be snow. I think these people have been stuck in the house one day too long.
Aww…. the “Happy Family”
The little kid in the middle looks like he’s about to cry.
Notice the snow on the window sill? Perhaps this was part of a diary…
IE:
Day 14 of being trapped in the house.
No food left, going to cook plants.
Wife is getting strangely close to daughters boyfriend who is trapped with us.
Youngest son appears to be channeling Justin Bieber
Daughter catatonic…
All hope lost….
Soon they will draw lots to find out who gets eaten first.
That’s easy– the cameraman will be eaten first!
Debbie Downer’s extended family poses for their annual Christmas picture.
Wohh wohh WOHHH.
The lady on thr end looks genuinely angry. Idk if id wanna piss her off…ever
Maybe the flowers have the same effect the field of poppies did in “The Wizard of Oz.”
This is what a family looks like when their technological devices are taken away and replaced with house plants.
LOL! I pretty sure this is what my family would look like if someone took our gadgets away and forced us to make actual conversation and/or eye contact during our family togetherness time.
These people must be members of Marney’s family, and this is the “after excruciatingly planned dinner” picture. Those flowerpots are most likely not regulation sized.
Staged. It’s the new photoshopped.
Well, they DO say there is a genetic factor in depression.
Alright, class, now, pick out the artifical still life in the picture.
This pic looks like the one right before or right after then pic where everyone was smiling. This is hilarious!
The Brewers, were caught yet again, shoplifting at the nursery. Delivering swift justice, the judge ordered them to spend the night in jail, sitting hip-to-hip on this bench, followed by 20 hours community service cheering up the folks at Shady Rest Assisted Living Center.
Why….so….SERIOUS?
Kinda looks like the flowers are trying to escape…
I feel like this picture is staged, doesn’t feel genuine.
Is it POSSIBLE that they were NOT doing this on purpose?
Thank you. I have a photo of my mom and grandmother and you can slice that tension with a knife.
Isn’t this what everyone looks like when they leave Marney’s house after Thanksgiving?
can’t be that, these folks are way too happy.
Clearly the Mike Byron family. Methinks someone forgot the Peppermint Bark Haagen Dazs.
We just found out our flight to Hawaii was canceled.
holy moly…are they in a hospital waiting room or something?
Looks like they posed this one to get on the website.
Now THAT’S awkward! Those folks were not in the mood for a Kodak moment.
This one had to be deliberate because if it was genuine, not one of them would be there or make anyone else be there!
Please try to contain your excitement.
The Great Depression………:~(
It kinda looks staged…
You mean they didn’t all just sit on the same sofa and hold those plants spontaneously? My family does that all the time!
kinda agree
why get your pic taken in the first place?
They look more like they’re being held prisoner!
I love the kid in red. I’m the baby of the family too & we get smushed into some pretty rough places because parents think we’ll fit. :/
It looks as if the person taking the picture just ran over the family dog. such contempt they all have.
Their rich Aunt Suzy sent us these flowers for Christmas…and they sent her a thank you picture.
Like that one.
So perfectly awkward. This one will have me chuckling all day!
If your happy and you know it clap your hands.
Hehe!
You made me LOL! I can’t explain why this particular comment got me, but it did! Thanks!
This is amazingly uncomfortable. Could these people be any more unhappy with the situation and each other???? I’m hoping that this picture is not a microcosm of their life – it’s really depressing…..
Are they the flowers that were brought home from the funeral?
haha, right?
That is awesome. haha
That friend simply bought the wrong plants, the family specifically said Yelllow flowers. Stupid friend. Get it right next time.
I think the FTD man was crying when he handed the flowers to them.
disappointingly and obviously fake. so goes the internet. we can’t have anything nice.
proof?
well for one thing, those flowers must be photoshopped, there is no way something that cheerful could be near this group without instantaneously withering away
Oh good grief. They could have just gotten home from a long, exhausting car trip. Maybe someone died and they’re holding the funeral flowers. They could be Eastern European. We have no way of knowing and until proven otherwise, there’s no reason to believe it’s fake.
Exactly.
I love the options you have posed: they’re either exhausted, mourning or Eastern European.
Haha, I know. My husband’s Eastern European and honestly, I don’t think I’ve ever seen a photo of anyone in his family smiling. It’s not just his family, either. I don’t know if it’s a residual effect of communism or a cultural thing, but they always look incredibly serious in pictures.
Then again, someone else noticed snow on the window, so maybe they’re incredibly cold. Cold, exhausted Eastern Europeans in mourning.
A Prozac family moment
FTW!
OK, this is the funniest picture ever! Meet Mr. and Mrs. Depressed along with their so very unhappy children! I never cease to be amazed and befuddled at the photos on this site.
How did this picturre get taken and what was the circumstances. I’d love to find out!
I’m smiling & laughing but they sure aren’t.
I agree about finding out more. I’ve mentioned this to AFP several times. Thought it would be fun to post the back story a few days after posting the photo. People would come back to the site just to read that.
Sometimes the person who submitted the photo comes back to fill us in. Others just laugh at our responses and keeps us guessing.
It could just be a posed picture. You take a happy picture, then a sad picture, then a ridiculous picture…
don’t bring me down! jeeees!