15 એપ્રિલ, 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 ટિપ્પણીઓ:

અજ્ઞાત કહ્યું...

I notice it's a jumbo jet.

Paco Wové કહ્યું...

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 કહ્યું...

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

Ann Althouse કહ્યું...

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 કહ્યું...

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

gratefulgee કહ્યું...

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 કહ્યું...

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

rhhardin કહ્યું...

777s have battery problems.

David કહ્યું...

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

rhhardin કહ્યું...

They also muffed a landing at LGA recently.

Mark કહ્યું...

Not that special, really.

MadisonMan કહ્યું...

You think the twitter manager is in hot water?

Tank કહ્યું...

Where would you get a picture like that?

Does everyone have one?

I guess they do ... now.

Mark કહ્યું...

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

campy કહ્યું...

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

rhhardin કહ્યું...

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

RMc કહ્યું...

Somebody gettin' fired.

rhhardin કહ્યું...

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

CNN ought to be covering it.

Big Mike કહ્યું...

"Pornography is a question of geography."

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

Patrick કહ્યું...

Landing strip?

અજ્ઞાત કહ્યું...

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 કહ્યું...

Oh no! That jet gash landed!

Sofa King કહ્યું...

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.

Strelnikov કહ્યું...

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

Strelnikov કહ્યું...

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

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

અજ્ઞાત કહ્યું...

Someone has just lost his job.

Wince કહ્યું...

It looks like a Brazilian Airlines jet.

Renee કહ્યું...

Thanks for the warning....

Curious George કહ્યું...

"You're gonna need a bigger plane"

Sam L. કહ્યું...

Yup, porn it is.

Ann Althouse કહ્યું...

"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 કહ્યું...

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 કહ્યું...

Cockpit. That is all...

Strelnikov કહ્યું...

I've seen specialer places.

Strelnikov કહ્યું...

"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 કહ્યું...

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

Meade કહ્યું...

Breechcraft.

Joe કહ્યું...

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 કહ્યું...

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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