At least it's a roomy place to work.
May 21, 2008 7:32 PM   Subscribe

Talk about a sexually uncomfortable working environment. Oh my.
posted by miss lynnster (89 comments total) 9 users marked this as a favorite
 
I had to read the caption and look at the photo over and over to finally understand what's going on there.
posted by krinklyfig at 7:36 PM on May 21, 2008


Uncomfortable? I'd assume it was pretty roomy.
posted by lekvar at 7:36 PM on May 21, 2008 [7 favorites]


E-office. V-office. What's the difference.
posted by Kid Charlemagne at 7:41 PM on May 21, 2008


I'd work there. Meow!
posted by sadiehawkinstein at 7:43 PM on May 21, 2008


Man, it must be a busy office, what with all the coming and going and....what's that? Okay...


I'll stop.
posted by stenseng at 7:50 PM on May 21, 2008


* points at the title, laughs at lekvar *
posted by yhbc at 7:51 PM on May 21, 2008 [6 favorites]


I used to work there until I got my pink slip.
posted by subgear at 7:51 PM on May 21, 2008 [3 favorites]


G...it was difficult to SPOT that.
posted by PHINC at 7:51 PM on May 21, 2008


Can he open the window and dangle out a giant baby strung on a thick, bouncy umbilical cord?
posted by self at 7:52 PM on May 21, 2008 [4 favorites]


Man, it would be tough to think outside the box there.
posted by dirtynumbangelboy at 7:54 PM on May 21, 2008 [18 favorites]


I would stay late with a strobe light and light that bitch up.
posted by Frank Grimes at 7:55 PM on May 21, 2008 [7 favorites]


Talk about a sexually uncomfortable working environment.

Yeah but what a view. Pardon me while I go downstairs to find a bottle of PGA to pour in my eyes.
posted by nola at 7:58 PM on May 21, 2008


I would totally make a pun about that.
posted by stavrogin at 7:59 PM on May 21, 2008 [11 favorites]


Leave it to Mad On'Er to turn your cube into a fun box.
posted by porn in the woods at 7:59 PM on May 21, 2008


Talk about a sexually uncomfortable working environment.

Well, I imagine there'd be a lot of visitors at odd hours.
posted by jonmc at 8:00 PM on May 21, 2008


I worked there for a while. Real bad moisture problem.
posted by cyclopticgaze at 8:04 PM on May 21, 2008


Vanilla Ice weighs in: "It's all kinds of awesome."
from madonna's 'Sex' book (not to be confused with a sex book)
posted by porn in the woods at 8:06 PM on May 21, 2008


What I find particularly interesting is how there's also a nice big reflection of the word "available" in the window, I suspect from another office building advertising to rent space.
posted by miss lynnster at 8:09 PM on May 21, 2008 [1 favorite]


I worked there for a while. Real bad moisture problem.

Plus you're right next door to an asshole.
posted by jonmc at 8:09 PM on May 21, 2008 [6 favorites]


The guy in that office is a huge dick.
posted by autodidact at 8:14 PM on May 21, 2008 [3 favorites]


Plus they have the painters in every month and have to close.
posted by jonmc at 8:16 PM on May 21, 2008 [2 favorites]


Making it more interesting, Ms. Mad left Warner Music more than 6 months ago. The usual practice at record labels is to take down all evidence of their FORMER artists.
posted by wendell at 8:17 PM on May 21, 2008


there's also a nice big reflection of the word "available" in the window, I suspect from another office building advertising to rent space.

Not unless they use the same font as the CD cover to advertise office space. I I think that's part of the ad for the album.
posted by puke & cry at 8:24 PM on May 21, 2008


Wanted. Room with a view.
posted by netbros at 8:28 PM on May 21, 2008


I was trying to think of something funny to say here, but a quick googling led me to something far stranger. American Window Cleaner Magazine.
posted by ColdChef at 8:33 PM on May 21, 2008 [1 favorite]


makes you wish they had taken some decent photographs of the office.
this took me waaaaaaay too long to figure out.
posted by krautland at 8:34 PM on May 21, 2008


Oh, and the joke I was going to make was something ill-conceived about Sandra Bernhard volunteering to lick the windows clean.
posted by ColdChef at 8:34 PM on May 21, 2008 [2 favorites]


Did you bring your lunch, or are you eating out today?
posted by netbros at 8:34 PM on May 21, 2008 [3 favorites]


Is it me or is it hot in here?
posted by wangarific at 8:37 PM on May 21, 2008


Always remember: Whenever God closes a door, he opens a window with a super-sized photo of an aging 80's pop star's vagina on it.
posted by ColdChef at 8:41 PM on May 21, 2008 [1 favorite]


Womb with a View.
posted by five fresh fish at 8:46 PM on May 21, 2008 [3 favorites]


"Hey, did your office always have this shag carpet?"
posted by ColdChef at 8:46 PM on May 21, 2008


BOY THEY SURE ARE INSIDE MADONNA'S VAGINA I WOULD EJACULATE IN THAT OFFICE EVERYWHERE AND IT WOULD BECOME PREGNANT WITH A LOURDES OR ADOPTED AFRICANS
posted by dgaicun at 8:56 PM on May 21, 2008 [6 favorites]


Well, this crap is way out of my geographic and economic league, but, on a parenthetical note, I wonder if anyone else noted the use of the world Wonderwall in the cornucopia of organically-correct corporate WonderTable buzzwords thrown out in this blizzard of happy happy talk talk logo logo shit shite.

Wonderwall was the title of a wonderful George Harrison produced LP that came and went with way too little attention in the very late Sixties.

Listening to it might help, especially after a cold shower.
posted by kozad at 9:07 PM on May 21, 2008


To paraphrase Rosie O'Donnell in A League Of Their Own: "You think there are men in this country who haven't worked inside your vagina?"
posted by mr_crash_davis at 9:11 PM on May 21, 2008


wendell writes "Making it more interesting, Ms. Mad left Warner Music more than 6 months ago. The usual practice at record labels is to take down all evidence of their FORMER artists."

That used to be true. The story you linked to may indicate something about why they aren't doing that this time. They probably own the rights to the recordings, so they're going to milk those recordings for all they're worth, because things aren't looking that great for the labels these days. The past catalogs are the big labels' biggest source of revenue these days, IIRC.
posted by krinklyfig at 9:22 PM on May 21, 2008


So, someone was just cunting around the office and they pussy that they were vagina, wet, fucking and sucking madonna? Well, that's just cock sheath, dildo dock! You would think that someone would vulva clitoris labia g-spot. If I worked in that office cum bucket sperm receptacle jism hole.

Are we done making reference to Madonnas genitals yet?
posted by fuq at 9:30 PM on May 21, 2008 [2 favorites]


This reminds me of Madonna's Pap Smear.
posted by Tube at 9:46 PM on May 21, 2008


I feel it, it's coming

[Chorus:]

Rain, feel it on my finger tips
Hear it on my window pane
Your love's coming down like
Rain, wash away my sorrow
Take away my pain
Your love's coming down like rain
posted by furtive at 9:51 PM on May 21, 2008


ColdChef said ""Hey, did your office always have this shag carpet?""

In the 70s it was a shag; these days it's a nice low-pile.
posted by loiseau at 9:56 PM on May 21, 2008 [1 favorite]


I like how this thread lets us make wisecracks about vaginas!

OMG CRACKS, LULZ
posted by turgid dahlia at 9:59 PM on May 21, 2008


Jeez you've got a big pussy, jeez you've got a big pussy.
posted by Sandor Clegane at 9:59 PM on May 21, 2008 [2 favorites]


So, are we all laughing because we think she's a big fat slut or because she had a baby? Or is it just that this is a good opportunity to unleash all the oh-so-creative roomy cunt jokes? If so, keep 'em comin', amirite?
posted by iamkimiam at 10:10 PM on May 21, 2008


iamkim, I'm pretty sure everyone's just taking the rare opportunity to make vadge jokes. I'm a feminist and I object to slut jokes but I really think this is about having giant labia right on your window rather than anything anti-woman.
posted by loiseau at 10:19 PM on May 21, 2008 [10 favorites]


The worst part?

Now he has to share his office with two ovaries.
posted by felix betachat at 10:28 PM on May 21, 2008


I'm with louiseau... it's just hilarious to have a giant crotch on your office window. If it was a childless celeb, or a non-promiscuous celeb, or a male celeb it wouldn't change anything; there would be jokes.
posted by Nattie at 10:47 PM on May 21, 2008


loiseau, I hear you. I don't think this is women-hating or anything. I guess this is just one of those times I should just flag not laugh* and move on. Then again, stavrogin's comment did make me sorta giggle.

*not because I find the comments offensive (I don't), but because I find the jokes to be old and unfunny. But its not like I came up with anything better, so yeah, moving on...
posted by iamkimiam at 10:58 PM on May 21, 2008


I didn't post it for anything other than what loiseau said. I have worked in those highrises and if I came into my office one morning and found my office had suddenly become Madonna's crotch, and that was my view ALL DAY LONG, I would probably be a smidgen disconcerted by that.

If it was ANYONE'S giant crotch it would be weird. Period.

That said, I've spent a lot of my life trying to ignore what Madonna's genitalia was up to, even though she spent an awful lot of energy over the years trying to force everyone on the planet to care. So yeah, that it's now someone's view whether they like it or not kinda cracks me up a little. Mainly because it's not my office.
posted by miss lynnster at 11:02 PM on May 21, 2008


typical bloody boyzone stuff. you should be ashamed of yourself, miss lynnst -

- oh, um, ignore that.

you know what would make the working environment less uncomfortable? some nice curtains.
posted by UbuRoivas at 11:02 PM on May 21, 2008


There is probably an office behind one of her boobs too. If you think about it, that is very funny as well.

Madonna lived during the 1980s. That is but one of the many exciting facts about Madonna.
posted by dgaicun at 11:02 PM on May 21, 2008 [3 favorites]


"Your watch? To hell with your watch! Buddy, if we can find my keys, we can drive out of here."
posted by loquacious at 11:09 PM on May 21, 2008 [2 favorites]


I happen to think vaginas and weiners are inherently funny. It doesn't take much joke for me to laugh at 'em because they're already so silly. Even just the words hairy protuberance make me giggle. Or calling labia lips.

I also occasionally enjoy a good poop joke.
posted by loiseau at 11:09 PM on May 21, 2008 [2 favorites]


She inserted her diaphragm and just clobbered the TPS reports.
posted by Cool Papa Bell at 11:14 PM on May 21, 2008


what's The Pink Superhero doing in there?!??
posted by UbuRoivas at 11:25 PM on May 21, 2008


That view makes me crotchety.
posted by maryh at 11:51 PM on May 21, 2008


you know what would make the working environment less uncomfortable? some nice curtains.

That place used to have a pair of really long, luxurious curtains -- but a few years ago, she paid a cosmetic surgeon to have them removed.
posted by PeterMcDermott at 12:17 AM on May 22, 2008


Wait, wait! Will no one think of the clock? What have we done here? NOoooo...
posted by ryanrs at 12:22 AM on May 22, 2008


oh, does Madonna have an exemption or something?
posted by ryanrs at 12:25 AM on May 22, 2008


Not bad, for some chick born in Bay City, Michigan.
posted by Goofyy at 2:00 AM on May 22, 2008


Oh goodie, a crotch shot! Original *snark* ! Given a chance I'd rather focus on how much polymorphic nad polystilystic that woman, a one-woman circus indeed, and how excellent is the staff helping her doing her thing.

And probably would focus my hormones on more realistically accessible and willing local crotches.
posted by elpapacito at 2:53 AM on May 22, 2008


Given a chance I'd rather focus on how much polymorphic nad polystilystic that woman, a one-woman circus indeed

Oh, how original! *snark*

I always find it funny how people drone on about how she keeps "reinventing" herself, and yet it's never anything but image - personal styling. Her music has always been the largely the same kind of poppy lame mainstream vaguely dance drivel throughout her career. If she switched from pop drivel to dub reggae to operettas to oldschool jazz to industrial to hiphop, i'd believe the "wow, reinvention" line, but as elpapacito points out, it's just a matter of calling in the hairdressers & dressmakers & stylists & presto! "How DOES She Do It?!??"
posted by UbuRoivas at 4:57 AM on May 22, 2008


Is there a Rear Window?
posted by Fuzzy Monster at 5:11 AM on May 22, 2008


No, that's where you'll find the tradesmens' entrance.
posted by UbuRoivas at 5:54 AM on May 22, 2008


Her music has always been the largely the same kind of poppy lame mainstream vaguely dance drivel throughout her career

Beg to differ. Listen to Ray of Light, for example. Musically and stylistically it was actually incredibly different from what had gone before. Yeah, it's all been within the sort of dancefloor sphere, but try listening to different albums side by side and you will notice the differences more.
posted by dirtynumbangelboy at 5:55 AM on May 22, 2008


ok, dnab, i was arguing from a position of relative ignorance.

i'll get right onto Ray of Light, just as soon as I've tired of CocoRosie.
posted by UbuRoivas at 6:06 AM on May 22, 2008


Oh, and especially the Dick Tracy album. Yes, she didn't write all of it, but if memory serves she had an enormous hand in most of the songs.

I mean yeah, sure, you can say she's the same from album to album in much the same way that you could say Tori Amos or Annie Lennox are. It's pretty superficial, though.
posted by dirtynumbangelboy at 6:12 AM on May 22, 2008


Yes, you're right again. Some of the very best artists don't change all that much, and nor would you want them to.

But...Tori Amos & Annie Lennox in the same breath?!?? Ouch!
posted by UbuRoivas at 6:29 AM on May 22, 2008


I find the jokes to be old and unfunny. But its not like I came up with anything better, so yeah, moving on...

I was going to put together a bit where I changed the Alexis Taylor "vagina power" stuff to be about this office. Something about a man ejaculating up in your copy room, or something. But I couldn't make it work.

See if you can do something with it, if you want.
posted by ROU_Xenophobe at 6:33 AM on May 22, 2008


But...Tori Amos & Annie Lennox in the same breath?!?? Ouch!

Why not? They're both brilliant, in different ways.
posted by dirtynumbangelboy at 6:45 AM on May 22, 2008


I wonder if the carpet matches the drapes.

Jebus, now I'm channeling Fark.
posted by Ber at 6:56 AM on May 22, 2008


I would hope that just above the office door there's a bald man in a boat.
posted by ob at 7:19 AM on May 22, 2008 [1 favorite]


Madonna is like polio, or maybe anthrax - something you thought they eliminated years ago but surprisingly is still plaguing mankind (albeit not as much as the "old days").
posted by tommasz at 7:26 AM on May 22, 2008


It might be interesting to work in an office with sugar walls. (Or was that another female singer?)
posted by Crabby Appleton at 7:30 AM on May 22, 2008


Hey, would it be considered bad form here to mention that I'd like to see a picture of the actual building in the left hand side of that image, rather than (apparently) a scan of the album cover? If so, please resume your regularly scheduled poon puns.
posted by Reverend John at 8:04 AM on May 22, 2008


How'd ya like to be the window cleaner who polishes that up? Just sayin'.
posted by grubi at 9:09 AM on May 22, 2008


So two birds were chirping outside the Warner Bros. building one afternoon, and they get to talking about the windowpanes. The first bird says, "Did you hit that?" The other bird says, "No, but it was a close shave."
posted by Blazecock Pileon at 10:09 AM on May 22, 2008 [4 favorites]


Didn't Darryl Hannah do this years ago?
posted by Dizzy at 11:25 AM on May 22, 2008


I like to think of Madonna as a poppier, female version of David Bowie. That may be a stretch, but one I've grown to be comfortable with.
posted by Blazecock Pileon at 1:44 PM on May 22, 2008


Huh. That makes a lot of sense actually.
posted by dirtynumbangelboy at 2:01 PM on May 22, 2008


The difference for me is, if you think about it (and oh, have I thought about it) I bet David Bowie's a steaming hot lay. Madonna's just too sinewy and taut and devout-Kabballah-adhering to be fun.
posted by loiseau at 3:24 PM on May 22, 2008 [1 favorite]


One crazzzy night back in '84 I spent the night with both of them.
Neither can hold a candle to The Supremes.
IfyouknowwhatImean.
posted by Dizzy at 6:53 PM on May 22, 2008


I like to think of Madonna as a poppier, female version of David Bowie.

Except, I get the sense that if he hadn't ever attracted huge crowds, Bowie would be doing a version of his act anyway. He'd be a local legend on the pub circuit as the guy with the weird make-up and songs.

And that if Madonna hadn't ever attracted huge crowds, she'd just be a record label PR chick that used to sing and dance a little herself.
posted by Cool Papa Bell at 8:01 PM on May 22, 2008


If she hadnt attracted huge crowds, she'd have found another way to make millions. She's savvy in the art of making money.
posted by five fresh fish at 9:41 PM on May 22, 2008


Reminded me of this.
posted by Siberian Mist at 3:27 AM on May 23, 2008


I dunno, I think having sex with David Bowie would be like having sex with a lawn chair. I shudder to imagine the rattling noises when he and Iman bump uglies.
posted by dirtynumbangelboy at 6:06 AM on May 23, 2008


If I had to sleep with an older dude, I'd definitely make David Bowie my first choice.
posted by Blazecock Pileon at 4:37 PM on May 28, 2008


I dunno, there's quite a few on my list before him. Chris Noth (mmmmmmmmmmmmmm) first, followed by Mark Harmon (meow) as a chaser. Patrick Stewart is up there too, if only for the pillow talk in that incredible voice.
posted by dirtynumbangelboy at 7:34 PM on May 28, 2008


Picard is dreamy -- aye aye captain! But for me, Bowie's got that special, postsexual je ne sais quois.
posted by Blazecock Pileon at 10:47 AM on May 29, 2008


Fair enough. I just.. well.. lawn chair, man.
posted by dirtynumbangelboy at 12:53 PM on May 29, 2008


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