Possibly NSFW?: Bread Eggs Breaded Eggs

The image isn't exactly overbearing in NSFW-ness, but I think it kinda straddles the line. Also, it was changed for no good reason, and it has the same "problem" that the last image had. So should we change this?

In my opinion, it's nowhere near the NSFW line.

And please explain what you mean by it "having the exact same problem the old one had"? The problem the old one had was that the trope is "a specific joke where a character in the work lists three things, with the third thing being a combination of the first two. It has to be in a list format or it doesn't count." The old picture was not a list, therefore it didn't fit the format, therefore it was not a good illustration of the trope.

edited 24th Jan '12 2:52:31 PM by Madrugada

I might have over-reacted there, honestly...

Though I do see the limitation that "It needs to be a list." as being a BIT too specific. It wasn't JAFAAC, it wasn't NSFW, it just didn't follow the trope TO THE LETTER. I think that was a bit hasty on the part of the OP of the LAST Image Pickin' thread on this trope...

But that's the definition og the trope. It's 1) a dialogue trope that 2) involves a person listing two items, then a third that combines elements of the other two.

We have tropes for physically combining objects. Other tropes.

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I don't see how the new one could possibly be NSFW. Also irrespective of the letter of the law, the old one didn't follow the spirit anyway; that's Mix-and-Match Weapon.

edited 24th Jan '12 3:08:14 PM by rodneyAnonymous

Just chalk that up to me being a total prude. Also, I'd imagine that if your boss saw you reading something with an image that mentioned "Touching myself with the rats", he wouldn't exactly laugh it off...

NSFW is about what things look like at a glance, not on close inspection (like reading). It's about images and videos not looking pornographic or gory.

I don't think a boss would laugh off wasting work time on a site about TV shows (etc), regardless of more specific content details. It could be about kittens and be bad.

edited 24th Jan '12 3:15:11 PM by rodneyAnonymous

Oh. Never mind then. You can just lock this up. Chalk this unnecessary thread up to a prude with too much time on his hands.

I actually agree with the OP. I don't know our policy on pulling, but it's a fairly crude comic for a page image (and this is from a die hard Penny Arcade fan). I know it's a perfect image in spirit, but I would just like it noted that I don't think the OP is crazy in any way.

At my job we have little evil robots inside the wires and the intertubes that filter anything that we shouldn't see, because they know that we're sensitive to certain things like nipples and video game news, even though we kill people for a living.. And even they never filter anything on this wiki.

edited 24th Jan '12 3:43:05 PM by Martello

A) I agree, the term NSFW is tossed around a lot, but to be fair, it really is more encompassing than literally Not Safe For Work. It often just means inappropriate content.

B) I am not calling for the trope to be pulled, but I think people pretty often jump on someone who thinks differently than them about what is appropriate. I think the OP had a point.

Wait, why did we throw out that Peachi thing? Text-based, yes, but so is the Penny Arcade one, and the Peachi thing seems to get it across in 3 words.

Because it wasn't in "A list format".

Because I'm sure that everyone who posts on the page follows the trope description TO THE LETTER.

Huh... now that you mention it, it does seem pretty nonsensical. I never thought about it.

The issue with the former image was that it wasn't quite this trope. That image illustrates "combining two objects to make a new object with attributes of the first two objects". This trope is "Three separate objects, the third of which is an amalgamation of the first two". In the "Knifegun" image, when the knife and gun are combined, they stop existing. If there had been a knife, a gun, and a knifegun, it would qualify.

Crass, maybe, but not NSFW by any means.

It is way more Mix-and-Match Weapon than Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs.

I don't think this would be NSFW in an average office.

One can make an argument that the example in the Peachi picture is the idea of those three different objects. Snake has a thought process which flows as follows:

1. Knife
2. Gun
3. Knifegun

This is safe for my work.

How exactly is this NWS?

Not Work Safe.

He asked how is this NWS, not what is NWS. The answer is, it isn't NWS, it's fine.

I always get the sneaking suspicion that the people who cry "NSFW" the most on this forum don't actually have jobs.

edited 25th Jan '12 5:13:03 AM by Martello

Oh, misread. This is perfectly work safe.

^^ NSFW doesn't only apply to people with jobs. It's kind of a catch-all for "wouldn't want to be seen reading it /looking at it in public".