Comments on: Photos of strangers who look like each other

By: Antonis Pappas

Antonis Pappas — Sun, 06 Jan 2013 13:52:00 +0000

As a gay Greek, don’t you dare hold hands with another man at night in urban centers, unless you want to get beaten by the Golden Dawn.

By: millie fink

millie fink — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 14:10:00 +0000

Thanks for pointing that out. The immediate suspicion of homosexuality at the mere sight of nearly any same-gendered contact is indeed a very Western thing. A sad thing as well.

By: TheMudshark

TheMudshark — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 09:30:00 +0000

What´s the big deal? White people all look alike.

By: Chris Hogan

Chris Hogan — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 09:06:00 +0000

“You fool Brunelle! Thanks to your meddling these doppelgangers, who might have lived peaceful and productive lives, will now fight to the death to assert their own uniqueness. What fresh hell have you wrought?!”

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 04:56:00 +0000

I probably shouldn’t admit this, but my mother’s first cousin and my father looked like identical twins.

By: MandoZink

MandoZink — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 04:09:00 +0000

I was hoping for better matches. Years ago I spotted an old friend of mine several times from across the street during my lunch hour. I was surprised to see him there, but did not catch him to reminisce. Then one day he came walking right down the street. “Marty” I said. “Great to see you!”. He grinned as I began to talk. He continued to grin as I began to realize something was not right. Then he told me.
He wasn’t Marty, but he knew who Marty was. He had met Marty about a year earlier when he was startled to see himself approaching on the street. The two of them had stopped, talked and discovered they had both been meeting confused strangers for years. They were both stunned because there was no physical difference – none at all. I realized he wasn’t Marty, but he was absolutely identical. This guy was still in awe of having met his exact double and got a chuckle out of meeting Marty’s friends every now and then.

By: oasisob1

oasisob1 — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 22:52:00 +0000

They’re all human. Totally alike.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 22:27:00 +0000

The homo-erotic posing of the subjects is a bit, odd.

That’s a very Northern European view of things. In India, Nepal, Egypt, etc, I’ve had (straight) men whom I hadn’t known for more than an hour or two sitting in my lap. Literally.

By: Chrs

Chrs — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 21:47:00 +0000

It’s fascinating how closely they resemble each other in a lot ways but manage to be easily distinguishable. I’d bet facial recognition software doesn’t have much of a problem with them. It’s very different from what you see with similar-looking related people.

By: peterblue11

peterblue11 — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 20:51:00 +0000

my thoughts exactly.

By: Paul Renault

Paul Renault — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 20:36:00 +0000

Maybe for most of ‘em the resemblance is more striking in person, but for the fifteen samples at the link, I’d only qualify two of ‘em as look-alikes/twins.

Shapes of eyebrows, noses, facial musculature – so their smiles, wrinkes, and creases are different. For most, to me there are clear and obvious differences. I’m a twin (and more importantly, I’m NOT Oliver Sacks), so I do look for and notice the differences.

It was a little surprising to see actor Rémi Girard, of the truly outstanding and surreal TV show La Petite Vie, in the samples.

By: DeWynken

DeWynken — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 20:03:00 +0000

There can be only one!

By: mindysan33

mindysan33 — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 19:30:00 +0000

Oh, good. It’s not just me that thought that some of these pics look like they are about to start making out…

By: SomeGuyNamedMark

SomeGuyNamedMark — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 19:30:00 +0000

The cradling of the other guy’s head seems a little suspicious.

By: Megan Wills

Megan Wills — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 19:23:00 +0000

i think they look way more similar when they aren’t smiling, the smiles make them unique….

By: Andreas Ergenzinger

Andreas Ergenzinger — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 19:22:00 +0000

Looks like someone has prosopagnosia and it isn’t me.

By: macegr

macegr — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 19:18:00 +0000

Photos of strangers wearing the same shirt.

By: BestSF (Mark W.)

BestSF (Mark W.) — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 19:15:00 +0000

Scary? A few years back I was unpacking a kodak zi8 camera and found a guy on the other side of the atlantic had done the same. This photo is me (on the left) and random dude with my face (and zi8) on the right. Or vice versa. Link : http://bestsf.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/dudeyouvegotmyface.jpg

By: Tim Warris

Tim Warris — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 19:10:00 +0000

The resemblances are staggering. Could easily pass for identical twins in most cases. The homo-erotic posing of the subjects is a bit, odd.

By: Joe Gilbert

Joe Gilbert — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 18:00:00 +0000

I wonder what a DNA comparison would yield?