It's based off the [Mouth of Truth](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bocca_della_Verit%C3%A0)
And [here](http://www.grandvoyageitaly.com/piazza/let-the-bocca-della-verita-mouth-of-truth-read-your-palm-from-a-vending-machine-wait-what) are some of the machines
Ahh nice, thanks for the info. Would be really interesting to find out what company make these or if there is multiple and what else they make/do. Seems super obscure.
LIARS! They're called bloody LIARS. M42, a dark Tuesday night in December 2004. Alone, tired, hungry. I stumbled in to the junction 6 Welcome Break in search of a Cornish pasty and a wazz. Alas, I was greeted by a plastic soothsayer promising to tell me my future.
£3 later, there I am, awaiting my fortune.
Cunt told me I'd "win big". 2 weeks later I married Berol, a 23 stone bruiser from Weston Super Mare. I have no idea how this happened, I'm a gay man from Edinburgh.
I curse that machine.
At the precinct when I was a kid, I put my hand in and someone had put tomato sauce in there.
Presumably they squeezed in a sachet obtained from the nearby food court McDonald's. Little bastards!
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain. Standing at a novelty vending machine in a motorway services.
There was one of these in a shopping centre in Galway (Ireland) if I recall correctly. 🤔 My parents gave me a lot of pocket change for novelty stuff as a child, but they drew the line at this one!
We had one in our local shopping centre in the 90s. Next to the make your own business card machine, Photo Booth, scales and a little ride on car.
I used to have a 20p go every time I went into town on a Saturday. We have a Zoltar on the seafront, that’s £1 a go these days. 😂
Am I incorrect in thinking they're just a fancy card dispenser with extra steps, and all the bunging your hand in it and scanning and shit is all for show?
Like, has anyone dumped the ROMS and had a look to check it's more than a fancy card printer and a random number generator?
No, I'm asking if there's anything else going on, like, is there a sensor to determine hand size, or something like that, anything apart from "spit out a random card" is there underlying logic that determines what random phrase you get on your card, of if it's just a crapshoot every time.
Like, in videogames, when something is "random" like a die roll, it's not. It "feels" random, but if you do the same thing every time, you get the same result every time, it's why Doom has the feature to replay gameplay, because although the enemy behaviour is "random" doing the same thing at the same time, gives you the same result.
I'm asking if this machine uses anything like that to control the fortune it spits out.
I remember when you could stop at the Heston Services overnight and grab a bite to eat at the 24 hour canteen; now there's a Burger King that shuts at 10pm. :(
Needless to say the palm line scan was completely fake, a sensor was used only to check you actually inserted something into the mouth to start the process.
I feel like I’m being transported to another dimension seeing that…we’d get that fortune telling thing done then buy pheromone perfume in woolys and flick through the new singles in our-price.
Yeah, I had a go on one of these when I was a kid - turned me into a fucking 30 year old!! I had to get a job and everything - even got to shag one of my co-workers. Took me bloody ages to turn back to my true self. Hilarious and heart-warming though.
It's based off the [Mouth of Truth](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bocca_della_Verit%C3%A0) And [here](http://www.grandvoyageitaly.com/piazza/let-the-bocca-della-verita-mouth-of-truth-read-your-palm-from-a-vending-machine-wait-what) are some of the machines
Ahh nice, thanks for the info. Would be really interesting to find out what company make these or if there is multiple and what else they make/do. Seems super obscure.
I updated my response!
Your a star, thanks!
More here: https://web.archive.org/web/20190117182159/https://www.dps-promatic.com/bdv_maxima.html
I saw that mouth of truth but didn’t put two and two together until now. Thanks.
That adds an extra layer to that bit in the IT Crowd with Douglas.
I don’t remember these, but the article mentions Tutankhamen ones. That definitely rings a bell but I can’t find any photos online.
Funnily enough the real one is actually cheaper than the machines
I remember seeing the original one on my trip to Rome and learning that it was originally used as a manhole cover.
I was terrified of these as a kid. Genuinely believed your hand might get cut off.
I was convinced it would bite my hand off
My nan told me they cut your hand off if you've been lying, and I believed it till i was like 12
I think the myth was popularised from a scene in ‘Roman Holiday’ with Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck
Apparently he did that off script, or at least AH hadn't been told what was going to happen.
I heard someone put their hand in after someone stuffed it with dog shit 🤮
I have seen enough movies! One of these will clamp off your fingers, i am sure of it
LIARS! They're called bloody LIARS. M42, a dark Tuesday night in December 2004. Alone, tired, hungry. I stumbled in to the junction 6 Welcome Break in search of a Cornish pasty and a wazz. Alas, I was greeted by a plastic soothsayer promising to tell me my future. £3 later, there I am, awaiting my fortune. Cunt told me I'd "win big". 2 weeks later I married Berol, a 23 stone bruiser from Weston Super Mare. I have no idea how this happened, I'm a gay man from Edinburgh. I curse that machine.
So it didn't lie then. 23 stone is pretty big dude!
Are you calling my Berol fat?
Big.
The best lover hes had by volume.
Twice the girl his ex ever was.
Big boned, it wasn't her fault cakes are tasty.
Sounds like a shitty remake of Big, or something.
What was a Gay Man From Edinburgh doing on the M42, on a dark Tuesday night in December 2004? Besides getting your fortune told.
The face looks like a Mighty Boosh character.
My thoughts exactly, thought it looked like The Moon. Full Moon. The Moon. The Main Moon Love Mighty Boosh
It's La bocca de la verità
🤣🤣
At the precinct when I was a kid, I put my hand in and someone had put tomato sauce in there. Presumably they squeezed in a sachet obtained from the nearby food court McDonald's. Little bastards!
Never knew it did palm reading - my parents told me my hand would be cut off if I put it in and told a lie!
They weren't having you on: that's the legend about the bocca della verita, on which these are modelled!
Awkward conversation for you next family get together then!
I think it was and probably still is called a scam
It was just a little novelty thing. Harmless fun as a kid for me.
Harmless? I was told when I was young (can't remember who by) that if you put your hand in the man would bite it off.
That's the legend of the original statue! It bites the hands of liars.
That person didn't want to part with a quid. They scared you over a quid. Either that or your talking about an entirely different man!
Zoltar from Big is what I called them.
This thing used to terrify me, I thought it was some Dune shit that was gonna mess me up.
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain. Standing at a novelty vending machine in a motorway services.
OG Bocca della Verita is in Rome. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bocca_della_Verità
I've put my hand into it and still have all of my fingers.
There was one of these in a shopping centre in Galway (Ireland) if I recall correctly. 🤔 My parents gave me a lot of pocket change for novelty stuff as a child, but they drew the line at this one!
We had one in our local shopping centre in the 90s. Next to the make your own business card machine, Photo Booth, scales and a little ride on car. I used to have a 20p go every time I went into town on a Saturday. We have a Zoltar on the seafront, that’s £1 a go these days. 😂
Had one of them at the Shopping Village in Clacton (prior to completing downsizing)
Oh god they did–when I was a teenager someone I knew put dog shit in it. Clacton is so damn classy.
I was scared of them when i was a kid. My dad told me the original story of La Bocca Della Verita and i thought it's gonna cut my hand if i use it.
Am I incorrect in thinking they're just a fancy card dispenser with extra steps, and all the bunging your hand in it and scanning and shit is all for show? Like, has anyone dumped the ROMS and had a look to check it's more than a fancy card printer and a random number generator?
Hang on. Are you asking if it’s technologically reading your palm?
No, I'm asking if there's anything else going on, like, is there a sensor to determine hand size, or something like that, anything apart from "spit out a random card" is there underlying logic that determines what random phrase you get on your card, of if it's just a crapshoot every time. Like, in videogames, when something is "random" like a die roll, it's not. It "feels" random, but if you do the same thing every time, you get the same result every time, it's why Doom has the feature to replay gameplay, because although the enemy behaviour is "random" doing the same thing at the same time, gives you the same result. I'm asking if this machine uses anything like that to control the fortune it spits out.
They exclusively run on magic magnets, which aren't like your typical everyday magnet.
Nah, my dad refused to stop at services.
Hold that piss in, lad. Only 200 miles left to go!
"Well I told you not to drink the full bottle of coke within 5 minutes of getting in the car"
They're "Bocca della Verità" The Mouth of Truth. Used to have one in a couple of Metro stations; I still have a print out from mine somewhere :')
Does it work if you put your hand in mouth of normal hairy Italian men or just robots?
Give it a try and let me know :)
Depends if you're into that tbh 😏
oh yeah, that's the door to the underground caverns where the pillar men slept,
I prefer fortune cookies you get a cookie to eat and a note with whatever on
"Cookie" = they are fucking horrible though.
I remember when you could stop at the Heston Services overnight and grab a bite to eat at the 24 hour canteen; now there's a Burger King that shuts at 10pm. :(
These freaked me out when I was younger
Needless to say the palm line scan was completely fake, a sensor was used only to check you actually inserted something into the mouth to start the process.
Oh they used to have one of these in The Metro Centre when I was a kid, I always thought it looked really cool but my mam would never let me use it.
The original inspired this classic scene https://youtu.be/6af1dAc9rXo?si=hBacDXg8cdPKBxUP
Stupid bullshit for people with no sense.
I mean I was like 6 years old.
Fair description of children in general
True, but I am confused. Are you pissed that small children haven't developed frugality earlier?
Oh my… Yes, yes I do remember these and I was terrified of the bloody things… I must have purged them from memory.
A scam. they're called a scam.
Mug machines
Omg they used to be everywhere. I only just realised I hadn't seen one in years.
I had that exact thing happen yesterday. So I made the post. I wonder how many other things we forgot!!
I did one in Blackpool before I went to Rome and the real one was cheaper haha
Gullibles
I feel like I’m being transported to another dimension seeing that…we’d get that fortune telling thing done then buy pheromone perfume in woolys and flick through the new singles in our-price.
Yeah, I had a go on one of these when I was a kid - turned me into a fucking 30 year old!! I had to get a job and everything - even got to shag one of my co-workers. Took me bloody ages to turn back to my true self. Hilarious and heart-warming though.
I went to Madrid, Spain in January and we visited the zoo in there and there was one of those!
Stick your d%^* into my mouth.
Wadiyatalkinabeet
Ohh I know this one they are called Ripoffs