This could be a General Question of the “what is it?” variety, but I’m posting it at Mundane Pointless because I’m not sure there’s a definitive answer, and I’m not sure I care if there is.
A friend sent me this image of a Christmas card. She said a co-worker named Larry bought it from Amazon, as part of a package of 24 assorted cards printed in China. It is unusual, not only for being singularly ugly, but for including some design elements that are puzzling.
A watermelon slice? Okay, must be an ornament. A big staring eyeball? Yeah, sure. But what’s that object serving as a tree trunk?
Seven out of ten people asked say it’s a butt plug. But it doesn’t look like any butt plug I’ve ever seen. My own best guess is it’s one of those lead wall anchors that you hammer into a plaster wall, which expands and grips the wall when you put a screw in it - useful for hanging pictures or something not too heavy. Which is a boring answer, and if you want to insist it’s a butt plug, or something else, go ahead. Like I said, it doesn’t matter much to me.
I don’t know what the designer of this card had in mind anyway, but I hope the other 23 cards in the box were better than this one.
Then there’s what looks like a Star of David near the top. And what are those things above the eyeball? Flames? And if that’s a butt plug, I don’t want to know where those people shop. <shudder>
That’s one weird card, but I must say, I’d rather get that than some of the soppy ones I did receive.
The eyeball means it’s propaganda for the New World Order. The Star of David references The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, of course. The … “plug” references the probes aliens are so keen on.
well, I would have said that thing looks more like an automotive fastener than a lag or wall anchor, but agree that it is a fastener/anchor of some sort. Yes that is a weird and ugly Christmas card.
People! People! It is clearly a Scharfenberg coupler, as used on subway trains worldwide! This card carries an encrypted message sent by the Transit Fan Underground to satellite systems everywhere (the “snowflake”), warning of surveillance (the eyeball), so that the freedom fighters of the Transit Underground can keep the forces of Big Railway at bay!
I had to buy a special tool to deal with the fasteners holding my gf’s car’s door panel in place. I didn’t realize the fasteners were teensy butt plugs.
I doubt that’s a butt plug. It’s got a sharp point and sharp angles on the ridges. Maybe you could find one like that in a specialist masochist store, but main stream plugs are all softly rounded to avoid ‘very unpleasant injuries’.
I think the butt plug is supposed to be some kind of tree stand.
I’ve seen those woven diamonds called “god’s eyes” used as decorations used all the time. If you told someone who knows nothing of Western culture that god’s eyes are tree decorations, that big eye is what you might end up with.
I’m glad I have never tried to send someone a Christmas card. I have some Jewish friends who have sent them to gentile friends, and I think, although I cannot prove, that some of them have been as awful as that one.
