back to article British Airways waves Bing dong: At least it's not a tech cockup

British Airways’ website is displaying a penis carved into a beautiful sandy beach – the same inappropriate erection that was standing over bing.com yesterday. The offending phallus went viral around the internet yesterday as giggling folk spotted the offending cock standing proudly on Bing, which we have heard is some kind of …

  1. TRT Silver badge

    Is their marketing slogan...

    Meatus on the beach?

    1. I ain't Spartacus Gold badge

      Re: Is their marketing slogan...

      No. They're an airline. Their marketing slogan is, "Bend over. Now brace yourself!"

      "Oh, and would sir like the optional baggage charge, the mandatory fuel surcharge, the optional inflight meal charge, the check-in fee, the airport taxes and the credit card use charge?"

      "Excellent. That'll be £1m please. Or your firstborn child. Though we have an additional handling fee for those customers who choose to pay by firstborn child."

      "OK. That'll be £1m or your second-born child. You are aware of our second-born child handling fee of course..."

      1. anothercynic Silver badge

        Re: Is their marketing slogan...

        Spartacus, you're confusing BA with Ryanair. But with Alex Cruz at the wheel it's rapidly heading in Ryanair's direction...

        1. Anonymous Coward
          Anonymous Coward

          Re: Is their marketing slogan...

          At least they displayed some sense of humour about it - unlike Microsoft.

  2. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    To paraphrase Major James (Jimmy) Anderson: "Sorry, bit of a cock-up on the beach front."

  3. Dan 55 Silver badge
    Coat

    I've, erm, enlarged it

    I still can't really make it out. Must be a bit embarrassing for you.

  4. Anonymous South African Coward Bronze badge
    Thumb Up

    Rising proudly to the occasion, eh? :Crylaugh:

  5. 0laf
    Childcatcher

    Even as a keen fan of schoolboy humour I find this a bit weak, you can hardly see it.

    But since BA are shit and have given me a miserable time every time I've ever had to use them, I'll turn a blind eye to let you keep putting the boot in.

    Yeah, BA, wang publishers!

    1. Trilkhai

      It's quite easy to see in the second/enlarged image in yesterday's article, if you missed it:

      https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/08/17/bing_there_dong_that/

  6. Aladdin Sane

    Not a hot dog.

    1. TRT Silver badge

      Hot-dog/legs? meme

      Hang on... why are there THREE hotdogs in the photo?

      1. Aladdin Sane

        Silicon Valley reference.

  7. Prst. V.Jeltz Silver badge
    Coat

    "we are trying to contact the photographer now."

    You cant miss him - he must be a giant!

    1. Korev Silver badge
      Joke

      I've heard he's a bit of a dick...

  8. wolfetone Silver badge
    Trollface

    Well, I don't know about you, but I quite like the idea of an airline proudly displaying an undercarrige.

    1. TheElder

      proudly displaying an undercarrige.

      That sort of carriage could produce a lot of drag said the Queen.

      1. TheElder

        Re: proudly displaying an undercarrige.

        If they take it down so quickly they could blow some parts of the undercarriage.

  9. Hollerithevo

    This has been a good week for El Reg

    I haven't seen so many double entendre articles coming one after the other (as it were) than in the past few days.

  10. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    I would have thought searching the internet for cocks is nsfw. I want a job at el reg.

    1. JudeKay (Written by Reg staff)

      Can confirm: all of our browser histories are NSFW

      1. Aladdin Sane

        Isn't that part of the job requirement?

      2. Anonymous Coward
        Anonymous Coward

        NSFW

        All depends on where one works, I guess.

  11. hatti

    Crack penis image analysis team

    I'd love to write some of the AI image cleaning code for that...

    if( true == looksLikeKnob ) {

    coverWithSand();

    } else {

    showDefaultSand();

    }

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: Crack penis image analysis team

      With brace positioning like that, I mean "} else {" - wtf, no space between the if and the opening bracket, the additional spacing around the if statement's expression and its pointless equality test, you're guaranteed not to get the job. Sorry.

    2. Robert Carnegie Silver badge

      Re: Crack penis image analysis team

      Also does the censor program have to be called "KnobGobbler"?

      1. Anonymous Coward
        Paris Hilton

        Also does the censor program...

        I suggest calling it Paris, because, well...

        1. Inventor of the Marmite Laser Silver badge

          Re: Also does the censor program...

          Penis

          Art

          Rit

          In

          Sand

  12. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    That's tiny, I can barely see it!

    Hmm, that sounds familiar.

  13. BongoJoe

    I am impressed

    at the sand scribbler who clearly knew where to put his work of art so that it would appear just there on the British Airways page.

    How did he do it?

    1. VinceH

      Re: I am impressed

      I'm wondering if someone with a drone drew a penis in the sand, then send the drone up to take a picture - and because the penis is so small in the resulting image, submitted it to a photo library, to see if anyone would notice/use the image.

      And so far (that we know of): Bing and BA.

      Incidentally, it also pops up on Condé Nast Traveller. Get the full image behind that page and it's even more obvious.

      From there, the source is easily found, but I imagine El Reg have either already been there, done that, or BA told them where they sourced the image.

      (Glancing through the photographer's other work, it all seems professional (and innocent) enough, so perhaps my theory about it being his prank is wrong.)

  14. TheElder

    The entire beach...

    Looks rather interesting... ( select in the middle bottom right between the balls)

    Bing Dong Beach

  15. TheElder
    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: In China

      I was not expecting that..

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