# What the Fuck, Cisco \[Systems, Inc.\]. Are you run by pedophiles? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 2, 2010, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-fuck-cisco-systems-inc-are-you-run-by-pedophiles/541601 "2010-06-02T03:45:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Capt.Ridley\_s\_Shooting\_Party](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/cc9497/32.png) [@Capt.Ridley\_s\_Shooting\_Party](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capt.Ridley_s_Shooting_Party)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2010, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-fuck-cisco-systems-inc-are-you-run-by-pedophiles/541601/21 "2010-06-02T14:03:55Z")
Yeah, I have no idea what’s going on there, either. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2010, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-fuck-cisco-systems-inc-are-you-run-by-pedophiles/541601/22 "2010-06-02T14:35:39Z")
I’m all for saying sometimes a “connected” sign is just a “connected” sign. But I am really having trouble understanding how the agency might have failed to notice it was a closeup of the girl’s crotchal area that was around the “Connected” sign. Especially since it wasn’t a brief part of a moving image, but essentially a freeze frame. You have to assume either utter cluelessness or some strange desire to use underage girls’ crotches as a marketing tool. Neither makes any sense. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2010, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-fuck-cisco-systems-inc-are-you-run-by-pedophiles/541601/23 "2010-06-02T14:55:02Z")
Why the fuck is he letting ride the bike in the house on the hardwood floors? ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Poster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Happy\_Poster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Poster)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2010, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-fuck-cisco-systems-inc-are-you-run-by-pedophiles/541601/24 "2010-06-02T14:59:25Z")
To be honest I think one would have to be a bit of a sexual deviant to see anything sexual in that ad at all ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2010, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-fuck-cisco-systems-inc-are-you-run-by-pedophiles/541601/25 "2010-06-02T15:09:15Z")
> [@Happy\_Poster](#): > > To be honest I think one would have to be a bit of a sexual deviant to see anything sexual in that ad at all I’ve got to say I’m in this camp, too. We’re all getting just a tad hypersensitive these days. ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2010, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-fuck-cisco-systems-inc-are-you-run-by-pedophiles/541601/26 "2010-06-02T15:36:38Z")
> [@Happy\_Poster](#): > > To be honest I think one would have to be a bit of a sexual deviant to see anything sexual in that ad at all I didn’t either, but then again I didn’t seee anything in that ad. What wa it trying to tell us? ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2010, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-fuck-cisco-systems-inc-are-you-run-by-pedophiles/541601/27 "2010-06-02T15:39:48Z")
> [@Happy\_Poster](#): > > To be honest I think one would have to be a bit of a sexual deviant to see anything sexual in that ad at all Oh, come on! Closeup of a girl’s crotchal area! On a bicycle seat, a well known fetish! The word “connected” denoting one thing being plugged into another thing! One has to be OBLIVIOUS not to see it. ---
**Author:** ![ivan\_astikov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@ivan\_astikov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivan_astikov)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2010, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-fuck-cisco-systems-inc-are-you-run-by-pedophiles/541601/28 "2010-06-02T15:41:21Z")
The chick on the unicycle is 12??? She looks at least 18 in the close up! outb4 **Dio’s** wrath descends. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2010, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-fuck-cisco-systems-inc-are-you-run-by-pedophiles/541601/29 "2010-06-02T15:42:16Z")
Jeez, haven’t you people heard of bucycle seat fetishes? I mean, aside from the close up crtotch shot of a young child. ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2010, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-fuck-cisco-systems-inc-are-you-run-by-pedophiles/541601/30 "2010-06-02T15:44:07Z")
How do we know its his daughter? Andmaybe I am missing something, but isn’;t the sign hanging off the back of the seat of the unicycle? ---
**Author:** ![Martiju](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e8c25b/32.png) [@Martiju](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martiju)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2010, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-fuck-cisco-systems-inc-are-you-run-by-pedophiles/541601/31 "2010-06-02T16:00:37Z")
Yes, apart from there’s no crotch shot, no bare thighs and no ‘upskirt’, I completely see the reason for outrage…! Come on guys, paedophilic…? Really?! ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2010, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-fuck-cisco-systems-inc-are-you-run-by-pedophiles/541601/32 "2010-06-02T16:03:30Z")
You must be gay. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2010, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-fuck-cisco-systems-inc-are-you-run-by-pedophiles/541601/33 "2010-06-02T19:40:57Z")
> [@Evil\_Captor](#): > > Oh, come on! Closeup of a girl’s crotchal area! On a bicycle seat, a well known fetish! The word “connected” denoting one thing being plugged into another thing! One has to be OBLIVIOUS not to see it. A lot of people don’t go around reading about fetishes that other people have. And it isn’t on the screen for very long. I didn’t even notice the impropriety until I freeze framed it. (I paused it and scooted the little circle until I found a frame with the offending image in it.) My eye focused on the object they actually zoomed in on: the connected sign. I also think they noticed the problem and tried to correct it. I noticed earlier in the clip that the kid is wearing leggings. They probably thought they could both have the girl in a little dress (to fit the stereotype) but cover any improper bits. But you’re right that it doesn’t look right. A preteen could just as easily wear shorts and pull off that look. But the implications you gave would never have crossed my mind. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2010, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-fuck-cisco-systems-inc-are-you-run-by-pedophiles/541601/34 "2010-06-02T21:01:09Z")
Not pedophilic exactly but definitely creepy, and yet people got paid a lot of money to make it and many people worked on it without any of them going “ewww”. Kind of like the [Nimbus 2000 ads](http://www.methodshop.com/gadgets/reviews/potters-stick/big.jpg)of years ago. It makes you wonder how nobody notices these things. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2010, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-fuck-cisco-systems-inc-are-you-run-by-pedophiles/541601/35 "2010-06-02T21:25:09Z")
Am I the only person who misread “Cisco” as “Crisco?” Please, somebody else admit it. ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2010, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-fuck-cisco-systems-inc-are-you-run-by-pedophiles/541601/36 "2010-06-02T23:47:39Z")
Bicycle seat fetish? I had to look up “loli” too. Thanks. Y’all are a bunch of preverts. ---
**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2010, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-fuck-cisco-systems-inc-are-you-run-by-pedophiles/541601/37 "2010-06-02T23:56:44Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Am I the only person who misread “Cisco” as “Crisco?” > > Please, somebody else admit it. Sorry, you’re on your own 😃 ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2010, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-fuck-cisco-systems-inc-are-you-run-by-pedophiles/541601/38 "2010-06-03T00:19:19Z")
I just didn’t get the ad. Not that I spent a great deal of time on it, but it made no sense to me that a young girl would be riding her unicycle in the house with a plate that said “connected”. I almost never pay attention to the narration of any ad (I tend to mute all commercials), so the speed of the connection point eluded me. I did find it creepy that the camera zoomed in on her ass. ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2010, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-fuck-cisco-systems-inc-are-you-run-by-pedophiles/541601/39 "2010-06-03T00:43:49Z")
That’s disgusting. And the very next frame is “Dad’s sharing pictures.” Appalling. I would never buy stock in a company whose management is this stupid. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2010, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-fuck-cisco-systems-inc-are-you-run-by-pedophiles/541601/40 "2010-06-03T05:38:02Z")
> [@Happy\_Poster](#): > > To be honest I think one would have to be a bit of a sexual deviant to see anything sexual in that ad at all Oh, I gotcha. Knowing stuff is pervy. Ignorance is evidence of non-perviness. A very, um, revealing assertion, he said knowingly. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-fuck-cisco-systems-inc-are-you-run-by-pedophiles/541601.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-fuck-cisco-systems-inc-are-you-run-by-pedophiles/541601.md?page=3)