Is this logo offensive?

[pokerfan]

"In April last year, London design outfit FHD proudly announced it would be rebranding the UK's Office of Government Commerce (OGC) - the HM Treasury tentacle "responsible for improving value for money by driving up standards and capability in procurement"

"According to an inside source, the graphic had allegedly already been inscribed onto mousemats and pens in anticipation of its imminent deployment, but it took OGC foot soldiers around 20 seconds to realise why this particular bit of joss-stick-driven madness was going to end in tears (of laughter):"

[KitchenWitch]

1. I don't get it.

I must be missing something.

[pokerfan]

2. Keep looking

[Adsos Letter]

3. Well, if you rotate the logo 90* clockwise....

there could be evidence of a lack of advertising vision...or sumpthin'... :spray:

[Mad_Dem_X]

21. LOL!

I think they should keep it! :rofl:

[JTG of the PRB]

4. Offensive? No.

Hilarious? Yes!

:rofl:

[pokerfan]

8. Yeah, it was just on Olbermann

I thought it was pretty funny...

[underpants]

18. I actually got this before I saw this post

too funny

[mikita]

5. finally...

I did.

It IS funny....

Thanks!

[madeline_con]

6. Are you serious?

I think that's a little immature.

[Adsos Letter]

7. After giving further consideration to the matter, um, at hand, as it were...

I think the DU thread on the prophylactic effects of masturbation on prostate cancer has found its logo...

:hide:

[pokerfan]

10. They're a bunch of jerk-offs who want to live forever

We could call them the Old Gits Club (OGC).

[petronius]

9. Took me a minute, but yeah - they may want to rethink that

However, it's not as bad as the Brazilian Institute for Eastern Studies:

http://www.davidairey.com.nyud.net:8090/images/logos/brazilian-institute-logo.gif

Lot's of other examples here: http://www.davidairey.com/is-your-logo-design-phallic/

[pokerfan]

12. LOL!

(I don't get it.) :rofl:

[DS1]

11. OMG! HAHAHAHAHAHAH

whack on! whack off!

[Fox Mulder]

13. That's going a little far now.

It's kind of sad how some people will try to find something sexual in anything.

[flvegan]

14. To some, yes. But only because they seek to be offended.

Oh, and they're douchebags with nothing better to do than seek out the *potentially* offensive things in life if they spin it right.

Elephants, as I understand it, will be under fire next. Fucking long, muscular trunks.

[Anarcho-Socialist]

15. Well elephants have it coming to them

Fuck you, elephants.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

16. At least it won't get prostate cancer...

nt

[KatyMan]

17. Only in Britain

where the Olympic logo looks like Lisa Simpson doing something...strange...

[ThomCat]

19. No. Not offensive. But it is amusing.

:)

[gmoney]

20. well, more embarassing than offensive

"The wankers ofer at OGC want more money!"

Funny, just typing OGC simulates the effect pretty well... new smiley!

[Zuiderelle]

22. No more offensive than this one...

[Deep13]

23. No, just a bit amusing.

[zanne]

24. I think you'd have to be reading into it. nt