OK... that's just vulgar...

[Lonely Tylenol]

Jesus H Christ!

Guess what I get to go and ask to be fixed tomorrow?

Glad to see that baseless hysteria and imagined threats to public morality still have power over publishers. Go team!

 

[kiznit]

I saw it immediately, and my wife just laughed from across the room.

She said, "Woah, now that's Freudian!"

There's a cursed sword in your va-jay-jay.

 

[Eosin the Red]

Yeap, got me all twitchy.

 

[Blastin]

There's a cursed sword in your va-jay-jay.

Wow....I just sprained something laughing at that.....

 

[Mouseferatu]

Being a bonafide internet perv myself, I really ought to have no problem seeing the sailboat here. But it's just a boring old sword floating in a red glow that if I really try hard I can make look kind of sort of maybe a bit like a sailboat.

Perhaps the Women in Gaming thread has oversensitized some people's sensibilities.

For what it's worth, Doc, I just had my wife come take a look. She's a gamer, but she doesn't follow any Internet sites. I didn't tell her what people were seeing in the pic, just that some people felt it was controversial.

She saw it immediately.

So no, it's not just people being overly sensitive.

 

[kiznit]

Jesus H Christ!

No, no... They see that in the burnt toast down in Mexico.

This here is just your regular old cooter.

 

[Lonely Tylenol]

For what it's worth, Doc, I just had my wife come take a look. She's a gamer, but she doesn't follow any Internet sites. I didn't tell her what people were seeing in the pic, just that some people felt it was controversial.

She saw it immediately.

So no, it's not just people being overly sensitive.

Well, let's think about that for a second. You told her it was controversial. There's obviously no dead babies or commie slogans on it, so it must be something hidden in it, and so it's probably sexual, because sexual is easy to convey with little detail. Either it's something small and detailed or it's something suggested in the larger picture. The latter is easy to check for. Just shift your focus like so, and look for penises, boobs, etc. Eureka.

So basically, you told her to look for the thing you wanted her to see, and with your prompting, she saw it. And so did all the other people in this thread who came here, were directed to go look for something "vulgar" in the picture, and found it. People see religious figures in pancakes too. It's not because they're there. It's because they're looking for them.

 

[Mouseferatu]

So basically, you told her to look for the thing you wanted her to see, and with your prompting, she saw it.

You're putting motives on me that I don't have. I'm with you, on a personal level; I have to make myself see it (though I can if I try). I had no care at all if she saw it or not.

But my point is, that (obviously) doesn't mean that other people aren't seeing it. And in her case, it wasn't staring a few moments and then saying "Yeah, I suppose I can kinda see it." She got in front of the monitor and immediately cracked up.

 

[kiznit]

Well, let's think about that for a second. You told her it was controversial. There's obviously no dead babies or commie slogans on it, so it must be something hidden in it, and so it's probably sexual, because sexual is easy to convey with little detail. Either it's something small and detailed or it's something suggested in the larger picture. The latter is easy to check for. Just shift your focus like so, and look for penises, boobs, etc. Eureka.

So basically, you told her to look for the thing you wanted her to see, and with your prompting, she saw it. And so did all the other people in this thread who came here, were directed to go look for something "vulgar" in the picture, and found it. People see religious figures in pancakes too. It's not because they're there. It's because they're looking for them.

Try as I might, I don't see religious figures, dead babies (well, maybe) or communists in the picture, but man oh man do I see a great big blossoming hoo-hah exploding forth with the delicate colors of a million orgasmic suns, ready to give birth like a ripe peach.

L'Origine du Monde, my friend. Courbet would be proud.

 

[Lonely Tylenol]

He might, but the fact that so many people do makes it irrelevant whether he sees it or not.

Again, I think it's worth pointing out that the probable reason so many people are seeing it, and reporting it in this thread, is because they were directed to look for something "vulgar" in the picture, and were given progressively more detailed hints over the course of the thread concerning what they were supposed to be "finding" in it.

"Hey look at this cloud. It looks like a penis!"
"Well, it looks like a rod of some sort, maybe like a rocket or a finger..."
"No man, look! There's the shaft, there's the dangly bits..."
"...oh yeah. I see what you mean. God totally drew a picture of some dude's unit up there. We'd better get some planes up there to smudge it out before some kids see it."