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Everything is relative. For example, Shaq might not look tall when he's on camera next to other basketball players and Simone Biles might not seem short when you see her competing against other gymnasts but put them near each other and you'll instantly get an idea of their size.
So to broaden your understanding of the world, we at Bored Panda put together a new list of interesting comparison pictures from all sorts of different areas, including nature, technology, and social issues. It's a series we've been working on for a while too; if you like scrolling through these images, fire up our earlier publications here, here, and here. Maybe you missed some!
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#1
A Year Ago I Was Depressed And Suicidal. Today Things Have Gotten Better
Legen ( wait for it ) dary 3 years ago
I'm very proud of you. That's all I can feel. A lot and a lot of proud.
#2
Before And After Cleft Lip Surgery
#3
Just Retired After 42 Years As An Obstetrical Nurse, At The Same Hospital. Here I Am At The Start (1979) And End Of My Career
#4
Fifteen Years Later, Still Best Friends
#5
One Year Since My Wife Brought A Flea Ridden, Tiny Baby Back To Life With A Blood Transfusion
#6
Saw The Left Picture On My Google Photos And Was Feeling Proud Of Myself. 1.5 Years Post Open-Heart Surgery
#7
How 2021 Started vs. How It's Going
#8
This Art Completes Me
#10
Inherited A Painting A Few Years Ago, Randomly Came Across The Building In The Painting While On A Trip
#11
This Is My Feral Friend Sad Boy, Showing Off How Good He Looks After A Few Months Of Love And Care
#12
My Brother's Dog, Ricky, Before And After Adoption
#13
Cubic Window During Different Times Of Day
#14
Real Estate Agent’s Response To Vandalism
#15
Turning Vitiligo Into An Art
Foxxy (The Original) 3 years ago
Looks cool. Good thing is that you don't have to worry about the white parts fading coz white tattoo ink doesn't last long.
#16
My Little Guy Turned 1 This Week
#17
This Is The Size Of A Tree They're Cutting Down In Canada Compared To A Human. This Is Why People Are Getting Upset
#18
One Is Not Like The Others. Can You Guess Which Is The Weird One?
#19
My Wife Said He Wouldn’t Get That Big, But He Got Big
#20
Effects Of Light Pollution: How The Stars Look On A Typical Night Versus A Widespread Power Outage
Foxxy (The Original) 3 years ago
Just one of the reasons why I love camping so much. The sky is just amazing.
#21
Today Is Lithuanian Statehood Day Aka Mindaugas Coronation Day, So Lithuanian Army Decided To Share This
#22
After Growing My Hair Out For Nearly 3 Years, I Finally Decided To Cut And Donate It This Month
Nope IWont 3 years ago (edited)
For anyone considering this, do a little research before you decide where to donate. Some of the "charities" actually charge really high prices for the people who need them. My family discovered this when my sister developed alopecia universalis that 9 years old.
#23
Inseparable
#24
One Of These Chess Pieces Is Different From The Others
#25
My 1977 Triumph Spitfire Next To A Couple Of Fords On 44’s
Devil's Advocate 3 years ago
Car designed for English people who enjoy driving down twisty country lanes vs trucks designed for Americans with big, straight roads and small ego's
#26
Men's Beach-Handball Teams Uniform vs. The Women's Uniform
Foxxy (The Original) 3 years ago (edited)
It's absolutely disgusting that the female handball team were fined for wearing similar to the men's instead of their usual bikini style clothes. The committee in charge of those rules should be ashamed of themselves.
#27
S21 Ultra In My Wife's Jeans vs. My 18-Month-Old Son's Joggers
#28
2019 vs. 2021
#29
The Many Colors Of Lake Superior
#30
Women's USA Basketball Team vs. El Salvador
#31
Wednesday Is Not Good At Pictures. More Photogenic Cat For Comparison
#32
Daughter’s Science Experiment. The Plants Hear Her Voice Recorded On A Loop. The One On The Far Left Hears Mean Comments, The One On The Far Right Hears Loving Comments
My goal this year is to speak life.
Andy Acceber 3 years ago
The plant on the right gets substantially more sunlight than the plant on the left with the shadow of the shed but sure. (That being said, research does show that the gentle vibrations of normal, calm voices can stimulate plant growth. Google it.)
#33
This Massive Bald Eagle Feather I Found
Lauren Caswell 3 years ago
Genuine question: seeing as they are a protected species and the feathers have cultural significance, would that person be allowed to keep that feather?
#34
Found Band-Aids For Different Skin Tones At Target
Rachknits 3 years ago
Why has it taken us so long to make these?! They should've been a thing for decades.
Jyri Hakola 3 years ago (edited)
For the sake of the resources and overstocking of fully compatible products all of these should be made just plain bright red, green or blue colour and solve the case with a neutral solution...
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Niall Mac Iomera 3 years ago
It never occured to me that Band-Aids were meant to be skin toned. I'm white, and band-aids have always been far darker than my skin. Just that generic brown. Or blue.
Sarah Tate 3 years ago
Another cool thing now is that Crayola makes a box of crayons and colored pencils that have all different skin tone colors. A girl that I tutored was thrilled with them because she is mixed race and loves to draw and color fashion pictures of girls, but she could never find a color that matched her own skin tone. Why did it take so long for this to be created?
Kimberly Banow 3 years ago
Crayola also makes skin-coloured markers, and I've noticed other companies have started selling their own crayons, coloured pencils, and markers in skin tones.
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T J R 3 years ago
Same! I have Elmo and Fairy band aids. They are so much better than the plain ones.
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Lady of the Mountains 3 years ago
....any colors lighter than the normal shade? I mean i don't have a problem with band aids that dont match my skin tone, i just figured that the lightest shade there still isn't light enough for me & my pale friends
Shiritoru 3 years ago
I have "ghost-white" skin color. :) Can't have band-aid to match it. Never. So I usually use the ones they sell for the kids, and happy. They come in color and with different pictures.
Rikke Visby Wickberg 3 years ago
Where is the band aid with flowers and birds and turtles and clouds? I want a small painting to hide the pain.
Jelena Putinja 3 years ago
I'm glad that it comes in different colors but isn't it easier to buy transparent waterproof ones ?
Nicole A 2 years ago
The gauze part in the middle is still white so it's not actually transparent. One could use a Tegaderm patch (which is completely clear) but would still run into problems if they needed gauze in there to absorb wound juices.
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Schuyler Kent 3 years ago
I gotta say, I don’t think “flesh” tone bandaids match ANYONE’S skin. And they all scream, “LOOK I’m wearing a badaid!” So I just buy kid bandaids. If I have to wear a bandaid, at least it can have a light saber on it.
Kathleen R. 2 years ago
Gross. I don't want to see what is under your BANDAID.
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Kim Lorton 2 years ago
Because corporate America is made up of mostly elderly, crappy, thinking and acting men.
Keisha Washington 2 years ago (edited)
If I've got a bleeding cut I really don't care what color the bandage is
Jacin Larkwell 3 years ago
I don't get what the big deal is. Even "regular" bandaids don't match a lot if lighter toned skins. It's just a bandaid, people are still going to see it
Patrick O'Harris 3 years ago
I always use the paper white one I know from the hospital, can even remember the last "flesh coloured" I saw.
Jo Johannsen 3 years ago
I prefer clear bandages. I think because I don't seem to pick at them as much.
Ryan Roberts 2 years ago
Band-aid is prbly getting a government subsidy to offset the lost revenue..lol at ourtone and it's in its. Own section separate from the White peoples bandaids.
CJ Slays🇺🇦 2 years ago
what's the point of having bandaids of any skintone in the first place?/gen i much prefer colorful ones than plain
Elizabeth Maloy 2 years ago
I haven't seen these bandages in my local dollar stores yet, I hope to see them sometime soon with how much I get hurt!😆
Abby Harrison 2 years ago
too expensive. just gimmi the store brand. who cares what it looks like, as long as it cheap
Shreeky 2 years ago (edited)
They are quite common to find now. Target has all of those, some Walmarts does also. Most hospitals has em. 2 yrs ago a guy that I was with came back to work from being sick and had the next to the darkest brown on his finger(that was my first time ever seeing them and he got it from the ER when they checked his blood), they ran out of the dark brown when he was there.
Ex Communicado 2 years ago
Why do we need stuffs like that, or black or white smiley. stupide world imo
Kahle Brelsford 2 years ago
Just make them purple or something. Stupid you have to make them skin colors to make everyone happy.
Mark Kelly 2 years ago
They should all be bright colors so you can tell if they fell into food.
Elizabeth Butler 3 years ago
There are also completely clear versions and they are top quality.
Jaybird3939 3 years ago
They just started making Ballet toe shoes in darker colors. 'Bout time.
Kimberly Banow 3 years ago
There are also sheer-coloured bandaids, so it wouldnt matter what colour your skin or the bandaid are.
preetha pillai 3 years ago
God crated all skin tones. When we look down on the skin color we are actually not accepting his creation.
That_One_Harry_Potter_Nerd 3 years ago
I’ve also noticed they are all the same price, which is a good thing. Equality is the best medicine
SocksNeverMatch 3 years ago
Cool, about time. Or make them clear and change the part that protects?
Loretta 3 years ago
Wait what? Why would I want them to be skin colored?? So that nobody knows I have a small injury?? What's the point? (Disclaimer: if that's an issue for some people, sure I'm happy they are made more inclusive, I just generally don't understand the point of skin-colored band-aids.)
Michael Isaacson 3 years ago
How important is this? I recently used the last bandage in a package I bought from WallyMart. I looked at the package to see what I had purchased so I knew what to get to resupply and only then realized that the box was for African-Americans...and I am hideously white. Never noticed the color of the bandages.
purple turtle 3 years ago
Nah... That's for fancy people... Sadly we still get that white things that stand out like a pustule
Melissa Boufford 3 years ago
Tru Colours Healing Diversity brand is the original (I believe) creator of various skin tone bandages. Target sells them or you an order them through the Tru Colours website. I prefer to support the original brand and not support the global brands who had decades to make this change and chose not to. But that’s me.
Begone Fool 3 years ago
Didn't have em when my kids were little; we all used to use the ones with designs on em.
Randolph Croft 3 years ago
Most of the bandaids I use for my hands (small but ouchie cuts from cooking) are transparent and colorless. Never realized why until now.
FrankStellar 3 years ago
Try a catering company, it's the only colour in UK commercial kitchens.
Load More Replies... Andy Acceber 3 years ago
Great! This shouldn't have taken so long to be stocked in all stores, but it is important to be inclusive. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/black-man-s-reaction-matching-skin-tone-bandage-strikes-chord-n998671
Lime flavored takis 2 years ago
This seems mildly unnecessary since I'm pretty sure clear bandaids exist. Plus "regular" bandaids don't match most light skin people
Phil Vaive 3 years ago
Genuinely asking here - do non-white people really appreciate this? Because I thought they were asking not to be murdered by cops any more. Once that issue is solved, then great! Solve the band-aids thing. But again, I'm a white dude, so it's not my position to say
Tonya Wallace 3 years ago
So why did you say anything? Yes there are much bigger issues, but I am pleased to have bandages that match my tone BETTER than the old original. It looks much better when wearing shorts or dresses.
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Shona 3 years ago
they are just bandaids... really? if you have a band aid oh well no need to get it to match your skin tone.
Shona 3 years ago
alright sorry people i did not mean to trigger any hate
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Lacie Ketelhut 2 years ago
These things are so stupid, just use a normal bandaid it doesn't matter what color they are 🙄
Samantha Lomb 3 years ago
Clearly you have never known the joy of a Spider-man band aid
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I Inherited My Grandma's Sewing Supplies And As I Was Putting Them Away Realized I Bought The Exact Same Buttons That She Did Over 35 Years Ago For Me
#36
This Tiny Banana I Harvested Today. Hand For Scale
#37
14 Years Later
#38
My Mom And My Sister 2000/2021
#39
Two Scientists Created The "Sea-Thru" Algorithm That Alters Underwater Photos To Show What The Colors "Really" Look Like
#40
11 Weeks And 11 Years And Both Very Cute
#41
An Ice Cream Shop I Visited
#42
Size Difference In Olympians Doesn't Matter, Depending On What Sport You Do? Volleyball Player vs. Gymnast
6'8" & 4'8"
#43
Women’s Clothing Sizes Are Nonsense. Both Size 32
Burs 3 years ago
It is ridiculous and it’s really harmful for your self stem. The other day I saw a L T-shirt that was 1Cm wider than a xxs. Two trousers of the same size, one fit perfectly and the other didn’t pass my tights. I bought in the same store a xxL and a L that were the same size (of a normal L). I felt horrible when I needed a xxL until I measured it with the other shirt I got. It’s horrible for the self steam.
#44
Sunlight Reflecting Through Different Lengths Of Aluminum
#45
This Giant Dandelion I Found On My Walk Today. Hand For Scale
Foxxy (The Original) 3 years ago (edited)
Sure it's a dandelion? I think it might actually be a salsify seed ball. They look like dandelion seed balls but bigger.
#46
What Sunscreen Looks Like Through A UV Camera
TheBlackPanda (JustABlackBear) 3 years ago
Interesting. Looks like melanin protecting her skin
#47
One Of These Is A Twig, The Other Is A Moth Larva
#48
I’m Being Overcharged By Insurance After My Daughter Was Born. This Is The Pile Of Mail I Have To Go Through To Prove They’re Ripping Me Off. Pear For Scale
Mihran Hovnanian 3 years ago
I will henceforth use the pear as a measuring standard. Brilliant... I have 2-pears worth of homework to get through today.
#49
The Cables I Need To Charge Three Devices Made By The Same Company
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What do you think ?
s. vitkovitsky 3 years ago
A lot of these have appeared on BP previously, despite the claim in the title.
Erin E 3 years ago
They recycle quite often. I guess Reddit was a bust this week
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Lovin' Life 3 years ago
Very much enjoyed this feed. Thanks for sharing. A lot of interesting things to see and learned a lot about things.
Eppe 3 years ago
The 'hand for scale' thing was funny with the tiny banana but soon became very much overdone.
Roger Lee 3 years ago
Your right. As soon as everyone got hands...it got out of hand
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Fred Bigox 2 years ago
When they say hand for scale, I have huge hands and my girlfriends hand next to mine (for scale lol) her fingers end at my first bend in fingers. She saysvi have shovels not hands
سهرما موسى 2 years ago
I visited Tanah Lot, Bali (Indonesia) after 20 years Tanah-Lot-...63c238.jpg 
s. vitkovitsky 3 years ago
A lot of these have appeared on BP previously, despite the claim in the title.
Erin E 3 years ago
They recycle quite often. I guess Reddit was a bust this week
Load More Replies... Lovin' Life 3 years ago
Very much enjoyed this feed. Thanks for sharing. A lot of interesting things to see and learned a lot about things.
Eppe 3 years ago
The 'hand for scale' thing was funny with the tiny banana but soon became very much overdone.
Roger Lee 3 years ago
Your right. As soon as everyone got hands...it got out of hand
Load More Replies... Fred Bigox 2 years ago
When they say hand for scale, I have huge hands and my girlfriends hand next to mine (for scale lol) her fingers end at my first bend in fingers. She saysvi have shovels not hands
سهرما موسى 2 years ago
I visited Tanah Lot, Bali (Indonesia) after 20 years Tanah-Lot-...63c238.jpg
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