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alt-textPost: My attention has been drawn to this packaging design from HP, which presumably someone approved.
Image: In a brown cardboard box sits a shipment inside a protecting wrapper. The wrapper is illustrated with two hands with index fingers extended, indicating that you should put your fingers in the hole in the middle of the wrapper and tear it apart.

Source

Edit: if you’re too young (or innocent?) to immediately understand the reference, DO NOT web search

❌goatse

It’s graphic and you will never be able to unsee it

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[–] proper 80 points 1 week ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago

Be wary of two-handing

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

If only I had a giant,

But hole...

[–] disguy_ovahea 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] wreckedcarzz 6 points 1 week ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago
[–] Skullgrid 77 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It actually reminds me more of the

What if we were to kiss inside the box of the anti-customer printer

haha jk... unless?

 😳
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[–] asteriskeverything 43 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I would have trouble NOT approving this. Like an internet version of a cardinal sin

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 week ago

Goated design.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 week ago (1 children)

alt-text is the meta art form of Lemmy and posts like this are why.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I think the straightforward-ness of it is what I like about it. I'm deriving satisfaction from - and appreciating - the restraint and media-literacy necessary to write a concise yet factual description of some, frankly, bonkers shit.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Isn’t it great? Credit to the linked source!

[–] gibmiser 29 points 1 week ago

excited goatse noises

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Just a Tears of the Kingdom reference. πŸ€·πŸ»β€β™‚οΈ

😏

[–] not_a_dog 6 points 1 week ago

Seems to be a recurring theme in the Zelda universe...

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago

fitting, considering HP products are ass

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago
[–] DefiantBidet 13 points 1 week ago

need to put the wedding band on the hand to cast no doubt.... ahh goatse... a different time

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

It's a hard job but somebody's goatse-d to do it.

[–] GardenVarietyAnxiety 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] BeMoreCareful 5 points 1 week ago

What if we kissed under the hello.jpg?