Abril 15, 2014

Responding to a customer complaint, the official US Airways Twitter feed sends out a picture of a naked woman holding a toy plane.

"The tweet was deleted after approximately an hour but not before it had been retweeted hundreds of times."

I'm linking to BBC.com, where the story is ranked as #1 on the sidebar "Most Popular" list under the teaser "US Airways apologises for porn tweet."

Come on, the tweet was incredibly foolish — and a good reminder of the inherent danger of relying on some lower-down writer-drudge to man the Twitter feed — but it was not porn. A photograph of a naked person isn't porn.

Wait! I was relying on the BBC description of the photograph: "a naked woman and a toy plane." Then, I went looking for the photograph. I must say that it is porn. (NSFW: here.) The woman is holding the plane in a very special place.

ADDED: And by NSFW, I mean not safe for anybody.

39 (na) komento:

Bill R ayon kay ...

I notice it's a jumbo jet.

Paco Wové ayon kay ...

Well, that's an early morning eye-opener.

Usually when I think of a person holding things, it's with their hands. Very provincial and flyoverish of me, I know.

Illuninati ayon kay ...

As they say, "a picture is worth a thousand words."

Ann Althouse ayon kay ...

I introduced the word "holding," making an assumption from "a naked woman and a toy plane" that the woman was holding the plane. Based on that mental image, I wanted to say, don't call that porn….

DrSquid ayon kay ...

"USAir to tower, we have the runway in sight."

gratefulgee ayon kay ...

Moments earlier she thought, "Well all right..." http://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-media/product-gallery/B000001FDI/ref=cm_ciu_pdp_images_0?ie=UTF8&index=0

Curious George ayon kay ...

Unfortunately the mystery around the whereabouts of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 is solved.

rhhardin ayon kay ...

777s have battery problems.

David ayon kay ...

Nice going Althouse. You know it when you see it.

rhhardin ayon kay ...

They also muffed a landing at LGA recently.

Mark ayon kay ...

Not that special, really.

MadisonMan ayon kay ...

You think the twitter manager is in hot water?

Tank ayon kay ...

Where would you get a picture like that?

Does everyone have one?

I guess they do ... now.

Mark ayon kay ...

They lost radar contact with the plane, but found it using ultrasound.

campy ayon kay ...

"If we find my car we can drive out!"

rhhardin ayon kay ...

It's not properly porn, just NSFW. The airplane joke is the point of it.

RMc ayon kay ...

Somebody gettin' fired.

rhhardin ayon kay ...

Sources (Bernard McGuirk) say it was a "They found the plane" joke, referring to MH370.

CNN ought to be covering it.

Big Mike ayon kay ...

"Pornography is a question of geography."

--- from the play "Teahouse of the August Moon"

Patrick ayon kay ...

Landing strip?

Hindi-nagpakilala ayon kay ...

Ew. Way too early in am to see that.

That wasn't "a mistake". That was just someone's way of calling the woman a bitch.

Oso Negro ayon kay ...

Oh no! That jet gash landed!

Sofa King ayon kay ...

100 bucks says this is a copy/paste error. Twitter grunt gets DM'ed a tweet with a NSFW photo. Twitter grunt copies and pastes the link into something else, a new private tweet or something, and goes back to work. Twitter grunt attempts to copy a link to the feedback page and fails without realizing it. Doesn't notice he is pasting the previous link in the tweet.

Hindi-nagpakilala ayon kay ...

The original description of the photo brought to mind the cover of Blind Faith's self titled album. Wrong.

Hindi-nagpakilala ayon kay ...

"If we find my car we can drive out!"

Version I've always heard it was a semi-truck.

Hindi-nagpakilala ayon kay ...

Someone has just lost his job.

Wince ayon kay ...

It looks like a Brazilian Airlines jet.

Renee ayon kay ...

Thanks for the warning....

Curious George ayon kay ...

"You're gonna need a bigger plane"

Sam L. ayon kay ...

Yup, porn it is.

Ann Althouse ayon kay ...

"The original description of the photo brought to mind the cover of Blind Faith's self titled album. Wrong."

Yeah! Me too.

It's what gratefulgee is pointing to as well.

rhhardin ayon kay ...

I deduced as a kid that nude females without shown labia and all nude males are art, from a quick survey of galleries.

Labia may be creeping into art now that I'm no longer checking galleries.

Maybe prudes got rid of all the classical labia art so there isn't any surviving.

Pictures of nude females would presumably follow the same rules.

Tom ayon kay ...

Cockpit. That is all...

Hindi-nagpakilala ayon kay ...

I've seen specialer places.

Hindi-nagpakilala ayon kay ...

"Moments earlier she thought, "Well all right..." http://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-media/product-gallery/B000001FDI/ref=cm_ciu_pdp_images_0?ie=UTF8&index=0"

Unfortunately, this plane has found it's way home.

n.n ayon kay ...

It's not only pornographic, but hardcore. There is an unmistakeable emphasis of parts over attributes.

Meade ayon kay ...

Breechcraft.

Joe ayon kay ...

A friend's BYU art teacher once observed that the difference between art and porn is that if it's out of focus, it's art.

Joe ayon kay ...

I'd fire the person for having such horrible taste in women. Especially since I was looking forward to a retro photograph of an attractive nude stewardess holding an airplane.

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