Pay attention now: You’re about to learn how cuteness can help you concentrate oh look a butterfly I really like my hair this way and I said pay attention! According to research cited in Forbes and The Wall Street Journal, looking at pictures of baby animals may improve concentration and focus.
Let’s do our own research: Concentrate on this picture, then scroll down.
Photo via Reddit.
Oh wait! I take back my vote! Is that 2 more itty bitty ones right in front???
Yes it is! And Elvis, too! (Okay, maybe not Elvis.)
Dang it, I missed the two bebehs also! I want a re-vote!
I thought it was a trick question… I thought I saw three llamas! And before you judge, llamas are camelids!
That’s exactly what I saw: 4 llamas.
Omg, I just read the articles in teh links, and it’s true! Now I have an excuse for my frequent CO breaks during work!
CO does not load properly on my work computer for some reason
Who cares what the job market is! Change jobs,
ferhevvinssake! That is simply unacceptable.
Also call OSHA.
I know, right? I have the CO calendar right next to my monitor, though. It gets me through the day.
itteh bittehs!
Camel Lites
they’re in a Camel Tow truck
tracylee invites us into the Snickering Lounge with a good one!
I don’t get it. ??
camel toe…
Um…OK. I still don’t get it, but I must just be dense.
skippymom: camel toe has a couple of meanings, the literal one and one that has a more salacious meaning (think when a lady wears pants too tight and you’re looking at her from the front and her lady parts are evident), hence the snickering.
also toe truck = tow truck …
trixandsam: um, thanks for asplaining. EWWW. I’d not heard that one before.
Happy birthday!
This is up there with trying to explain non-glass blowing glory holes to my mother.
erp???
heh… awkward conversations for the win
Once I was watching Revenge of the Nerds with my mom, and she asked me what “hair pie” was. I might end up in the mod lounge for this… Here goes… *holds breath, clicks post comment button…*
To your MOTHER? (Singsong voice) Awkwaaard!
My question for the “experts”, how can CUTE NOT help in job performance????????
I cannot make it through a day at work without CO…it helps me tremendously!! Staying focused of course on the important things in life….like more cute animals and great story lines!!
A Japanese study proved looking at cute animals increases work productivity.
As i just noticed was mentioned in the header.Please continue.
Maru will now reach unprecedented heights
of popularity.
Yep
Obviously the theory is not true, since almost half of us didn’t notice the babies the first time through.
I remember seeing a similar truck from the train window as we headed south from Cairo to Aswan on my Egypt trip. My guide came into my train cabin to find out why I was laughing so hysterically. All you could see was camel heads over the side of the truck. And bebbeh camels!!!!!11!!!!!! I lof them.
Hey, I totally posted about this (the article, not the camels) in one of the comments sections last week! Yay me!
Also, OMG TINY CAMELS!!!1!!11!!!!!!!1!!
I CONCUR RE Tiny Camels!!!!11!!!!111!!!
CO is TOTALLY necessary for getting through the day at work. Guilt-free stress reliever and endorphin releaser. It has been saving my (work) life for years!
CO has been a life-saver to my co-workers on many occasions!! I believe NTMTOM is responsible for saving the life of the sexist tool at my current office over a dozen times! Thanks, Mike!
Whuh? I’m sorry, I wasn’t concentrating — you were saying something about a sex tool?
*snerk*
Mike “wasn’t concentrating”??? I see what you did there….
Told ya we need a kawaii tag:
Such is the “Power of Kawaii”, as a paper documenting the research is appropriately titled. The Japanese word “kawaii” means cute.
Hilarious-potamus
CO is essential to well-being, like water and air. At least to me.
Having said that, I think the handsome (pretty?) white camelid to the right, behind the adorable behbehs, is a dromedary, not a camel. Only one hump, dontcha know…
Yes, you are correct that they are dromedary camels, as opposed to bactrian camels (2-hump), but they’re all camels. Llamas and their South American cousins are all in the camel family, too. Saying dromedaries are not camels is like saying a collie is “not a dog, it’s a collie”.
C.O. is better than Iburophen to relive my work related stress headache!
It seems like this study pretty much confirms the theory that cuteness is a matter of triggering the “it’s a baby” response by demonstrating the triggering of the associated “-so I must be careful” instinct. This seems like kind of a big deal as far as evolutionary psychology goes.
THERE! ARE! FOUR CAMELS!
I knew someone would post this eventually.
And imagine!!! Captain Picard came by to do that!
Lor we’re nerds.
*snicker*
Ha, peeple, you have all been tricked by NTMTOM and his tricky trick question and quiz. I shall elucidate. Ahem. In his preamble to the consticuteshun, he says “… looking at pictures of BABYanimals…”. But there are only 2 bebbehs and the smallest number you can vote for is 4 camels. When the correct answer should be two (babies). Thank you.
Pedant!
Why thank you for the lovely compliment.
Hitching a ride on a tow truck? Did the camel family’s SUV breakdown?
or, alternatively, why couldn’t some of the camels ride on the other camels??
That doesn’t look like a tow truck. I may be wrong, but camels are notoriously suspicious and strenuously object to anything that makes them nervous – like steep or narrow ramps. The easiest and safest way to get them into and out of a truck when there’s no nice stable loading dock is to hoist them in a sling.
Why in the truck? Where are they going??
That’s what I’d like to know. I’m sure they’re not pets but maybe people drive camels around like dogs.
They could be going to camel races, or to a camel show, or to a new owner. Light color adds to a camel’s value, so that’s some very valuable cargo there.
Mebbe to a camel market. They would fetch many dirham,
my friend.
I see three pushmepullyous…
damn.. How cud i miss the lil ones in the frontttt