Olympics logo looks like Lisa Simpson giving head??
Monday, November 30th, 2009 by Nestor
No… no I don’t see it
WAIT, yeah! There it is!
CANNOT UNSEE!!
“LONDON — A controversy is swirling in parts of the U.K. over the country’s 2012 Olympic logo, which some observers feel may fall under a new law that prohibits sexually explicit cartoon images featuring children.
While this observer feels that likening the logo to an image of popular American cartoon character “Lisa Simpson” performing fellatio is more than a creative stretch of the imagination, it appears that many Londoners see just that when viewing the new logo. There is even a Facebook group with more than 200,000 followers devoted to this claim.
Other critics see the logo as a broken Swastika, and lament the nearly $1 million dollars given to the “brand awareness” experts that created it.
But is the image illegal child pornography?
Under the new Coroners & Justice Act, when in a sexually explicit context, if “the impression conveyed by the image is that the person shown is a child,” then possession of that image is a criminal offense, regardless of the circumstances surrounding that possession.
The law was reportedly drafted to provide the widest possible interpretation of what would be considered an illegal image, to even include stick-figure sketches made by a “doodler” for his or her own amusement — and prohibits defenses based on claims that the images did not depict human children, due to the addition of “alien” features.
Given the apparent widespread belief in what London’s new Olympic logo depicts, some see it as only a matter of time before a formal complaint is made under the new law — and the elimination of any claims of ignorance over the depiction, based upon the extraordinary level of public outcry.
“Oh dear. I’m sorry. But, it does look like that,” wrote the Guardian’s Jonathan Glancey. “And who, even the cleanest minded among us, is going to think anything else now?”
According to a London 2012 spokesperson, however, “The London 2012 logo depicts the figure 2012 and nothing else.”"
Okay this is hilarious, but what the christing fuck is with that law, UK? Even stick figures? That’s insane!
December 6th, 2009 at 7:31 pm
That is insane. And it doesn’t matter if it’s stick figures or not, a drawing shouldn’t be illegal, only the public display of unsuitable drawings should be illegal. I could also see how drawings could be used for hate speech or conveying restricted information, but then the drawing would be evidence rather than illegal in and of itself. I really don’t see the point of such laws. It’s as if they’re trying to make it illegal to be a pedophile (punish the act, not the condition).
That’s like making it illegal to have HIV. Hey, maybe it should be illegal to have HIV? Just ship them off to the camps to protect the healthy part of the population. You know they want to have sex, because they clearly had some sex to get the virus (unless it was through blood transfusion), and now they probably want to spread it. Get them! Welcome to Fascism 2010+.
As for the logo, I could probably unsee it. Funny with the right colours, otherwise it looks like shit that’s certainly not worth whatever they paid for it. But aren’t there already funny images of Bart and Lisa having explicit sex? So those clearly humorous pictures would be illegal in UK? Perhaps in other places too? I say DEATH. Yes, only DEATH will purify this Earth.
December 7th, 2009 at 6:40 am
The shitty logo allegedly cost A MEEELLEEEON DOLLARS, the whole “looks like a kid giving a blowjob” is nonsense but the law is some scary 1984 mindcrime shit. All in all this news item is a perfect storm of idiocy
May 6th, 2010 at 3:32 am
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