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submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by brbposting@sh.itjust.works to c/196

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Post: 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.

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

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goatse

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

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[-] proper@lemmy.world 85 points 5 months ago

try finger but hole

[-] Fester@lemm.ee 19 points 5 months ago

Be wary of two-handing

[-] Fridgeratr@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 5 months ago

If only I had a giant,

But hole...

[-] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago

But what hole?

[-] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago

all

[-] WeLoveCastingSpellz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 5 months ago

but hole

[-] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 77 points 5 months ago

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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[-] jaybone@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago

Wha?

[-] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago

https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/2152443-what-if-we-kissed-in

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/what-if-we-kissed-in

[-] asteriskeverything@lemmy.world 46 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

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

[-] flamingos@feddit.uk 42 points 5 months ago

Goated design.

[-] modifier@lemmy.ca 36 points 5 months ago

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

[-] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 11 points 5 months ago

Seems this is as far as it should go :)

[-] modifier@lemmy.ca 11 points 5 months ago

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.