They’re giving these glasses away at the Rotterdam Zoo after a woman was attacked by a gorilla she made eye contact with. These could also be marketed towards the perpetually shy, or those with crazy-eye envy.
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No Eye-Contact Glasses
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Fantastic! Need to get a pair of these, my pupils are unusually large and bouncers at clubs always think that I’m on drugs!
lol! We need eye contact to make “connections.” Although I think people with jealous eye envy should be punched in the face. My sister is a beautiful model with fantastic fashion taste, she gets the evil eye envy from so many other woman.
My advice for the victim of crazy eye envy: Look at the envious perpetrator, give them a big smile and blow them a kiss, regardless of gender.
why is my comment awaiting moderation? I didn’t swear, say anything rude….I admit I can be slightly nuts at times….but usually I’m pretty well behaved…….so whats with the moderation?
Or if you just want to screw with NLPers.
How can this work, they’re looking to the top left anyhow which aught to be visual remembered images, not eye contact! Are all these people remembering other gorrillas they’ve met?
Still, If they designed ones that looked straight ahead I could wear them to my job interviews… I have eye contact issues and I just end up looking shifty!
hahaa…somehow i think it´s save for everyone who will meet Derren, to wear glasses like these too!
Hi Diana,
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Flapjack: The idea is that you’re not supposed to make eye contact. After the Bokito incident happened a few years ago, zoo staff thought the gorilla had felt threatened by the woman staring him in the eyes (every day; she was a big fan of the ape), though experts later wrote he might’ve interpreted her behavior as flirting, and gotten angry when she ran away after his heroic jump over the moat. Well, over HALF of the moat, actually — he didn’t quite make it in one jump (so he was probably already embarrassed).
Anyway, I need to go visit that zoo. Those glasses look awesome.
well, shees….my remark about the glasses and meeting Derren, obviously were meant ´´to be save from his hypnotic powers´´….not what you said BA…lol, ah just so anyone knows and got offended tss…
Berber Anna – Thanks for the explanation, i think I misread the article. Mind you, in NLP terms aren’t the gorillas freaked out by all these people remembering visual things? If I was a gorilla I’d find that a bit wierd, all those visitors being reminded of other things around my enclosure… that alone would make me a bit paranoid!
ReligiousMarie – maybe we should order a joblot of these for the Enigma tour and pass them round the entire audience! Just once I’d like to see what Derren looks like when he’s totally freaked out!
Ooohh yeah!, good idea @Flap …
I must admitt i´d love to see that too…teeheee
These are amazing. I hate eye contact, I totally want everyone around me to wear these (I’m not a gorilla).
I’m intrigued by this…
We recently had a gorilla escape from its enclosure at our Zoo here in Melbourne. Perhaps everyone was ‘avoiding eye contact’ and he decided to slink out over the moat because of it.
They ended up coaxing him down from the Butterfly enclosure with a bunch of bananas (which seemed terribled cliched).
LOL. Woah, I need some of these.
They all look like this:
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That’s seriously one of the best things I’ve seen in a long time. (:
A couple of friends of mine have masks just like that, Sarah.
These glasses would come in handy if you lived in London. You look at someone – they glass you in the face. These would be ideal to avoid run-ins with those unfriendly Londoners… “WTF you looking at” would be a thing of the past!
Reading what Berber Anna had posted suggest that the zoo find that one gorllia a mate or dig a deeper moat.
Joyce: He had some females (three, iirc) and a few offspring when the incident happened. He wasn’t fully mature yet, still an adolescent, and it’s been suggested that giving him his own troop to lead at that age made him more tense/aggressive. Think fifteen year old boy with a wife and kids… it does sound like a poor idea.
Anyway, they improved the enclosure after the incident to prevent another escape, so there’s no actual danger now. The glasses are just a bit of fun, I guess.
@Abeo. Thanks for clearing that up. I thought I was being discriminated against or something. lol
@Berber Anna! ………LMAO @”he might’ve interpreted her behavior as flirting, and gotten angry when she ran away after his heroic jump over the moat. Well, over HALF of the moat, actually” …..
Berber Anna you’ve made my day! I will have that funny scene in my head all day. X
Someone needs to photoshop a pair of those suckers onto the picture of Derren at the top of the page ;o)
“after a woman was attacked by a gorilla she made eye contact with\”…how did the woman get near the gorilla? Surely a gorilla in a zoo will thump anyone it gets near to lol