In the last few weeks we have had all manner of visitors to chez McIver to see the newly-hatched Northern Orb. My parents and brother turned up last week a little bit late after somehow getting sidetracked at Scotch Corner services for 45 minutes (don’t ask).
They were kind enough to bring all manner of presents, including a few essentials for the Orb. My brother handed me a packet of nappies and said, “look at the kid on the front of that.”
Oh, I said, umm what’s going on with his hair? That doesn’t seem natural.
Apparently my nieces had been laughing at this image for a while because of the hairpiece. It clearly doesn’t look right and, like that old picture of George Jones from the office days, the more you look at it the funnier it gets. This then raises the question as to why it looks so wrong? Is it:
- The baby didn’t have the “right” hair so they put a wig on them?
- Someone in IT added fake hair to the existing picture of the baby to make it look more “appealing”?
- The baby isn’t real and AI generated the whole thing, bringing a level of unreal hair not seen since the days of old men on Saturday night TV in the 1970s?
- The hair is real but it looks SO real it makes it look unreal?
I’m torn between 1 and 4. I want to believe someone exists with such exquisite hair that it can’t exist and people won’t accept it exists because of that level of perfection.
What do YOU think?
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I think its 4, real hair, but so badly/lazily croppped that it looks fake.
I’m not sure why they photographed the baby mid-shout of “oi oi!” though. Perhaps it’s the child of an FHM era essex builder and a particularly attractive woman walked past as the pic was taken.
I’m pretty sure that’s Ian’s hair circa 2006. What’s it doing on a baby?
They cloned me and my hair. That’s the only explanation I can think of.
So, just for the avoidance of doubt, what happened here is that your brother brought you a pack of nappies that had been personalised so that the baby on the front is a clone of you?
Presumably that clone is still out there somewhere, slowly maturing into a whole new Ian.
Oh no! Not another one. With Reuben turning 21 in January and the orb starting his Ian journey at the dizzying age of 9 weeks, knowing there’s yet another one out there means I can’t relax. What if he steals my face?
Surely he has his own face. Do babies not come with faces these days? I assumed they did but maybe government cutbacks have changed things.
You can have more than one face. There’s no telling what this clone of me will get up to. Maybe he’ll do something crazy like start posting under my name but only write annoying things like Pointless Purchase of the Month. Do you remember that? Kev hated that.
It wasn’t alone in that club.