An official image released by No10 of Boris Johnson’s phone call with Joe Biden has left people baffled after a different image seemed to appear in the mirror’s reflection.
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Have a look for yourself and see what you think:
Laying cable: the excretion of lengths.
Lying cable: when the phone cord in the mirror is from a different picture after your £100,000 tax-payer funded photographer has finished photoshopping your spontaneous chat with Joe Biden. pic.twitter.com/zBeJunmZoQ
— Michael Govern Ready (@mikegove12) January 24, 2021
Well that’s weird. Why isn’t the phone cable visible in the mirror? Is it some kind of optical illusion to do with the angle the photo was taken? Has the image been Photoshopped for some bizarre reason?
People all over the internet were dumbfounded and coming up with wild theories that made no sense:
This is flipping weird. The phone cable should be visible in the mirror descending from @BorisJohnson’s watch, in this official Downing St picture. It’s not. What is going on? https://t.co/aRsrMSc0DT
— Robert Peston (@Peston) January 24, 2021
Simple. The cord was added for visual impact. The phone isn’t that visible so some bright spark obviously said “can we add a cable so it’s more obvious that he’s on the phone? “. Then they forgot to add it in the mirror. It’s a non-story really though. Real story =100,000 dead!
— Kevin Evans (@twittypolitty) January 24, 2021
To be honest, I think this was all deliberate to take the piss out of us. Well, I rather they did that to us then shit on hungry kids and homeless people again.
— Tony Lavelle (@TonyLavelle11) January 24, 2021
Ah yes, the cord was added for “visual impact”, and/or the government is trying to troll us! Some real Sherlock Holmes-level investigative work right there.
Journalist Robert Person later shut down the Photoshop theory by saying he had been assured by Downing St that they would never, ever doctor or photoshop a picture:
And just for the avoidance of doubt, Downing St tells me they would never doctor or photoshop a picture, and – as I assumed – it is the angle that makes it look strange. But it is certainly strange
— Robert Peston (@Peston) January 24, 2021
They wouldn’t lie to him, would they? Well, all jesting aside, it’s pretty obvious this image hasn’t been Photoshopped, mainly because there’s just no reason why anyone would waste time and money Photoshopping Boris Johnson… holding a phone. What would be the purpose of that?
Not to worry though – it looks like some people may have finally solved the mystery:
Do you honestly not know how mirrors work? pic.twitter.com/sZEDnpT1rs
— HappyToast ★ (@IamHappyToast) January 24, 2021
Here you go. You can take that tin foil off your head now. pic.twitter.com/U8Nj9Wzqch
— Polemic Paine (@PolemicTMM) January 24, 2021
I’m going to put this reply here as well, since there are still people only looking at the first of your three posts. I recreated this with my children a few hours ago. pic.twitter.com/VotYjtTZMt
— Nick Harrison (@njharrison) January 24, 2021
Aha! It all makes sense now. The cord is reflected in the mirror, but appears as a straight line due to the angle. So much easier to understand when you see the same thing demonstrated in Lego form! Thank you, Nick Harrison!
Welp, looks like we can all take our tin foil hats off now. Cheers for reading.
For the time Kim Jong-un blew up his own office after someone Photoshopped nude photos of his wife, click HERE.
