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Old Aug 18, 2017, 8:12 am
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British Airways Cock-Up

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Originally Posted by El Reg (TheRegister.co.uk)
British Airways’ website is displaying a penis carved into a beautiful sandy beach
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/0..._image_mishap/

Time to get the Photoshop out. To be fair to BA this was also seen on Bing.com until it was pointed out to them.

See here for a larger version of the offending image from El Reg https://regmedia.co.uk/2017/08/17/bi...=507&infer_y=1
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Old Aug 18, 2017, 8:16 am
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The BA bashing just gets sillier and sillier.

All I see is sand.
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Old Aug 18, 2017, 8:20 am
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Brilliant.

Originally Posted by Jimmie76
this was also seen on Bing.com
Paging BingDongBoy .....
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Old Aug 18, 2017, 8:29 am
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I would not have spotted that. I think some people have willies on the mind!
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Old Aug 18, 2017, 8:33 am
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Originally Posted by flyingmonkie
I would not have spotted that. I think some people have willies on the mind!
It's a stock image that many companies will have used. If someone spots it on one website all the others using it are likely to have the same thing exposed.
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Old Aug 18, 2017, 8:37 am
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Originally Posted by HIDDY
The BA bashing just gets sillier and sillier.

All I see is sand.
It doesn't seem like a very good shape. Looks bent the wrong way?
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Old Aug 18, 2017, 8:45 am
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Originally Posted by LTN Phobia
It doesn't seem like a very good shape. Looks bent the wrong way?


Think I need new glasses.
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Old Aug 18, 2017, 8:48 am
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Originally Posted by LTN Phobia
It doesn't seem like a very good shape. Looks bent the wrong way?
I wasn't aware you were an expert!
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Old Aug 18, 2017, 8:51 am
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Originally Posted by Jimmie76
I wasn't aware you were an expert!
I'm not! But I noticed the line on the unmarked photo linked in your opening post but I didn't even identify it as the particular bits of the male anatomy until I looked at the marked photo. I have my contact lens in so it must have been not-so-easily-identifiable shape

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I probably wouldn't have noticed (had it not just been pointed out).
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Old Aug 18, 2017, 9:20 am
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Originally Posted by LTN Phobia
I'm not! But I noticed the line on the unmarked photo but I didn't even identify it as the particular bits of the male anatomy! I have my contact lens in so it must have been not-so-easily-identifiable shape
I think there are larger versions of this picture on other sites. People have been able to spot the problem far more easily on those if that helps.

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This isn't the only BA photographic phallus i've seen. About 18 months ago I noticed in the Chicago lounge there was a beautiful photograph of a snowy Chicago landscape, with a large penis drawn in the snow at the bottom of the picture.

Haven't had the chance to get back recently, so not sure if it is still there.
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Old Aug 18, 2017, 9:53 am
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Looks a bit like the Tui logo!
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Old Aug 18, 2017, 10:29 am
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Originally Posted by LTN Phobia
I'm not! But I noticed the line on the unmarked photo linked in your opening post but I didn't even identify it as the particular bits of the male anatomy until I looked at the marked photo. I have my contact lens in so it must have been not-so-easily-identifiable shape
Going slightly OT......Have a look at this picture which is of a former SIGINT station in Germany and tell me that wasn't designed by a twelve year old school boy.
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Old Aug 18, 2017, 11:00 am
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Originally Posted by londonsmiler
This isn't the only BA photographic phallus i've seen. About 18 months ago I noticed in the Chicago lounge there was a beautiful photograph of a snowy Chicago landscape, with a large penis drawn in the snow at the bottom of the picture.

Haven't had the chance to get back recently, so not sure if it is still there.
Probably melted by now.
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