Don't worry - this is not a test.

[honestrosewater]

This pair of images caught my eye as I was flipping through my psychology book. I just had to share them with you guys to find out whether I am the only one who, well, you'll see.
The images are used in language experiments with toddlers. The toddler sits on their mother's lap in front of the two images, like TV screens, one depicting Cookie Monster tickling Big Bird, the other Big Bird ticklng Cookie Monster. A message is then played saying either, "Oh look! Big Bird is tickling Cookie Monster," or "Oh look! Cookie Monster is tickling Big Bird." Hidden observers record which image the child turns its attention to. The point is to see whether the kids look at the image corresponding to the sentence they just heard (and by inference, whether they understood the sentence). What I want to know: What exactly do they mean by 'tickling'? :confused:

[JamesU]

I see them tickling each other. but I can see why other people are reluctant to vote :surprised

[Evo]

What I want to know: What exactly do they mean by 'tickling'?I'll go with door #2: to touch (as a body part) lightly so as to excite the surface nerves and cause uneasiness, laughter, or spasmodic movements

http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=tickling&x=11&y=18

[Moonbear]

:rofl: Okay, if I put myself in the frame of mind of a toddler, yes, it's just tickling, but when my adult, gutter-oriented brain looks at the photos, they look like they're groping each other! :rofl: And, well, it looks like Big Bird is doing more than just that to Cookie Monster in the left picture. :bugeye:

[Evo]

Dirty minds. :grumpy:

In the first picture, if I didn't know it was "tickling", I'd say that Big Bird is about to pick Cookie Monster up. The second picture, obviously Big Bird has his legs crossed because he's trying not to pee. No clue why Cookie Monster is holding him. I might have guessed that they were dancing.

Now do you see just how boring I am?

[Pengwuino]

They look like there shaking eachother

You perverts...

[honestrosewater]

:rofl: :rofl: Well, I saw the images first - without the explanation - and being in a psychology book, I thought 'uh oh, this is one of those tests to see how perverted I am...' :uhh:
But it doesn't even really look like tickling to me. I think Cookie Monster's expressions are hilarious.

[Evo]

:rofl: :rofl: Well, I saw the images first - without the explanation - and being in a psychology book, I thought 'uh oh, this is one of those tests to see how perverted I am...' :uhh:It probably is. :biggrin:

[honestrosewater]

It probably is. :biggrin:Ha, I bet - they never tell you the real purpose of the test. :devil:

[mattmns]

Is it just me or does Big Bird look drunk in the second one? I think that is why his legs are crossed, because he is about to fall over. Big Bird's eyes too, ohh those images are funny!

[Moonbear]

:rofl: :rofl: Well, I saw the images first - without the explanation - and being in a psychology book, I thought 'uh oh, this is one of those tests to see how perverted I am...' :uhh:
But it doesn't even really look like tickling to me. I think Cookie Monster's expressions are hilarious.
And of course by the way you asked, that's what jumped first to my mind too. Though, before I read the text and opened the full-sized images, just looking at the thumbnails, the first one looks like Big Bird is using the Heimlich maneuver on Cookie Monster...maybe he choked on a cookie. And I agree with Evo that the crossed legs in the second one looks really funny, like Big Bird has to pee. I wasn't sure what the crossed legs were about at all. I don't cross my legs when I get tickled, I curl up into a ball!

[darkar]

I put other because I feel like the Big Yellow Bird is like almost fall down and the blue bird help him.

[honestrosewater]

I would have gone with a picture of them tickling each other's feet. The toddlers still focused primarily on the images matching the sentences they heard, so I guess it worked for them.

[TheStatutoryApe]

Ok, I have a dirty mind I don't need a test to tell me that thank you.

[cronxeh]

ok that yellow chick is definately violating the blue guy is definately violating the yellow chick

and if you think the bigger chick with such hand positions and torso positions at strategic positions is actually tickling the blue mofo, you are seriously not normal

[Entropy]

It isn't what you think it is. It is blindly obvious that they lack any genitals and therefore both Big Bird and The Cookie Monster reproduce asexually.

[Archon]

Argh! It burns my eyes! Get it away! Get it away!

It does look a bit suspect...

[outsider]

:rofl: it's all about the expressions!!!! LMAO

[arildno]

It seems they are having fun, at any rate.

[honestrosewater]

It seems they are having fun, at any rate.That's putting it mildy - Cookie Monster is cross-eyed and Big Bird's knees are buckling, for goodness' sake! I was looking forward to your reaction most of all. :frown: Surely, you have something exceptionally funny to say that sounds even funnier coming from you... like 'I guess what they say about puppets is true...' Oh, nevermind, I don't want to put you on the spot. :smile:

I'm getting worse - the name Dennis Prager showed up in my search results for something, and for a second, I thought it said Penis Dragger. I am far gone, far gone. :devil:

[arildno]

That's putting it mildy - Cookie Monster is cross-eyed and Big Bird's knees are buckling, for goodness' sake! I was looking forward to your reaction most of all. :frown: Surely, you have something exceptionally funny to say that sounds even funnier coming from you... like 'I guess what they say about puppets is true...' Oh, nevermind, I don't want to put you on the spot. :smile:
I got tongue-tied by such exiplicitness... :blushing:

I'm getting worse - the name Dennis Prager showed up in my search results for something, and for a second, I thought it said Penis Dragger. I am far gone, far gone. :devil:
Penis dragging??
Oh, I see, that's the female version of the ritual where men carry their wives over the doorstep, right?

[wolram]

Milk and Cookie Monsters Yummy, i like to see how much they can absorb
before they melt. And i love sucking the jelly middle from jammie dogers
befor i eat them all up. :biggrin:

[honestrosewater]

Penis dragging??
Oh, I see, that's the female version of the ritual where men carry their wives over the doorstep, right?That's better. :approve: Yes, or someone I'd really like to meet. I feel sorry for his cousin, Mick Dangler, who surprisingly is a woman.

[honestrosewater]

Milk and Cookie Monsters Yummy, i like to see how much they can absorb
before they melt. And i love sucking the jelly middle from jammie dogers
befor i eat them all up. :biggrin: :surprised Who is Jammie Dogers?

[Smurf]

I can't answer the poll. There's no option for "****ing"

[hitssquad]

Rose,

What do you see in this picture?

apple.com/trailers/paramount/aeon_flux/large.html (http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramount/aeon_flux/large.html)

[arildno]

Rose,

What do you see in this picture?

apple.com/trailers/paramount/aeon_flux/large.html (http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramount/aeon_flux/large.html)
Hmm.. did she say "you may wanna duck", or did I mishear something? :confused:

[hitssquad]

She said, "You may want a duck."

http://iamsparticus.com/images/yellow-duck.gif

[honestrosewater]

Rose,

What do you see in this picture?

apple.com/trailers/paramount/aeon_flux/large.html (http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramount/aeon_flux/large.html)If I ever cut my hair short again, I'll cut it similar to hers there. I didn't notice anything else. What does that mean?!

[Pengwuino]

I want a rubber duckie :(

[honestrosewater]

That reminds me - what does this image (http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Documents/S4B/Images/silkcut.gif) suggest to you? Scroll to the bottom of this page (http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Documents/S4B/sem07.html) for some commentary.

[Pengwuino]

That reminds me - what does this image (http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Documents/S4B/Images/silkcut.gif) suggest to you? Scroll to the bottom of this page (http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Documents/S4B/sem07.html) for some commentary.

What a weirdo :yuck:

[arildno]

Hmm..piece of the image on a pack of cigarettes of the Silk cut brand?

Or, is it perhaps a reference to the cut sleeve? :confused:

[honestrosewater]

Hmm..piece of the image on a pack of cigarettes of the Silk cut brand?

Or, is it perhaps a reference to the cut sleeve? :confused:Yes, it's an ad for Silk Cut cigarettes. It's from a semiotics book (the study of signs, as in things used to repsent other things). Does the image not make you think of anything else?

[arildno]

the cut sleeve, perhaps?

[hitssquad]

That reminds me - what does this image (http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Documents/S4B/Images/silkcut.gif) suggest to you? Scroll to the bottom of this page (http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Documents/S4B/sem07.html) for some commentary.Cultural deconstructionism = PPD.

toad.net/~arcturus/dd/paranoid.htm (http://www.toad.net/~arcturus/dd/paranoid.htm)

toad.net/~arcturus/dd/ppdtable.htm (http://www.toad.net/~arcturus/dd/ppdtable.htm)

[wolram]

That reminds me - what does this image (http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Documents/S4B/Images/silkcut.gif) suggest to you? Scroll to the bottom of this page (http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Documents/S4B/sem07.html) for some commentary.

I have a pure mind so that does not remind me of what i think.

And the nut crackers :yuck: Have you ever been traped.

[honestrosewater]

I have a pure mind so that does not remind me of what i think. :rofl: :rofl: Well, it reminds me of what you think.

[arildno]

It reminds ME of the cut sleeve, whether that's pure or not.

[wolram]

:rofl: :rofl: Well, it reminds me of what you think.

Oh Heck, my leg has gone stiff, bye bye for now, i must exercise it.

[honestrosewater]

the cut sleeve, perhaps?What is the cut sleeve? I found a book Passions of the Cut Sleeve: The Male Homosexual Tradition in China (this was the first result), but no mention of what 'the cut sleeve' refers to.
Cultural deconstructionism = PPD.Don't shoot the messenger. I didn't see it at first, but of course, now that I've heard her interpretation, I see it.

[arildno]

What is the cut sleeve? I found a book Passions of the Cut Sleeve: The Male Homosexual Tradition in China (this was the first result), but no mention of what 'the cut sleeve' refers to.

It refers to one of the canonical gay love stories from ancient China:
An emperor is dozing with his male lover lying asleep, his head lying on the broad sleeve of the emperor's typical Chinese garment (VERY costly, presumably, since he was the emperor..).

A servant comes in, there is urgent business for the emperor to take care of, but because he doesn't want to disturb his lover's blissful sleep, he cuts of the sleeve of his garment, and leaves the room quietly.

So, the story became in time one those "how sweet! how tender!"-stories about love..

[honestrosewater]

It refers to one of the canonical gay love stories from ancient China:
An emperor is dozing with his male lover lying asleep, his head lying on the broad sleeve of the emperor's typical Chinese garment (VERY costly, presumably, since he was the emperor..).

A servant comes in, there is urgent business for the emperor to take care of, but because he doesn't want to disturb his lover's blissful sleep, he cuts of the sleeve of his garment, and leaves the room quietly.

So, the story became in time one those "how sweet! how tender!"-stories about love..:smile: :smile:

[Evo]

Oh Heck, my leg has gone stiff, bye bye for now, i must exercise it.Is that a British expression for buffing the turtle?

[hitssquad]

Don't shoot the messenger.I promise not to if you promise not to project your ideas of reference.
google.com/search?q=%22ideas+of+reference%22+paranoid (http://www.google.com/search?q=%22ideas+of+reference%22+paranoid)