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Originally Posted by Ashikabi
It's so cute when people feel they have to slip an insult into every one if their replies. Shows how childish they are
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Not as childish as continuing to pretend there's a mustache on a car when there clearly isn't.
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Originally Posted by Dadhawk
Correct, the "fancy" term for it is Pareidolia. It is the human brain associating faces to anything closely resembling a face as part of a survival technique from when we were all naked and afraid....like after the last FT86Club drinking binge.
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I remember reading an article a while back about the Pontiac Aztec that said that in fact cars ARE designed to resemble faces in order to appeal to our affinity to animals used in former times as beasts of burden, so that we would become emotionally attached to our vehicles. That's the reason early steam vehicles gave way to a design that more closely follows a natural, four-legged animal design and why people were creeped out by design experiments like the "three-eyed" Tucker. The Aztec was a failure in large part because it didn't conform to that aesthetic, and as a result it looked "alien" or "mechanical." People looked at it and didn't recognize it. So they didn't buy it.
Furthermore, you can't tell me that those ridiculous Mazda front ends are not made to resemble a smiling face. That kind of foolishness doesn't happen by accident.