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More priceless entertainment courtesy of Facebook's all-knowing AI:

https://nationalpost.com/news/overtly-sexualized-st-johns-companys-onions-yes-onions-flagged-by-facebooks-nudity-algorithm

Canada’s most sexually provocative onions were pulled down from Facebook after the social media giant told the produce company that its images went against advertising guidelines, the CBC reports.

The offending advertisement — for Gaze Seed Company’s Walla Walla onion seeds — shows an image of a handful of onions in a wicker basket. According to Facebook, the onions were positioned in a “sexually suggestive manner.”

 
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I have to confess, I have never looked at onions with sexual intent. Clearly I haven't led a weird enough life!!

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I'd have more sympathy with Facebook if they were Egytian Walking onions - at least they're vaguely like a phallic symbol!

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I am honestly trying and not finding any innuendo in this onion image.  And believe it, for me that is saying something.

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Oh, dear! How embarrassing. The onions aren't a phallic symbol, they're a yonic symbol. Clearly those lovely round onions with the little darker pokey bit at the top are totally representative of a woman's bosom. Geeze, I can't believe I've got a dirtier mind than you three - even though it was on the slow side...  

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Oh dear I didn't see it before Jay said it either. I wonder how you sell cucumber seeds or cherries..




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Jay Angler wrote:Oh, dear! How embarrassing. The onions aren't a phallic symbol, they're a yonic symbol. Clearly those lovely round onions with the little darker pokey bit at the top are totally representative of a woman's bosom. Geeze, I can't believe I've got a dirtier mind than you three - even though it was on the slow side...  



See, thats what I mean.  My first thought was "gotta be boobs" but all I can see are onions.  Anyway thanks for the laugh!

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Jay Angler wrote:Oh, dear! How embarrassing. The onions aren't a phallic symbol, they're a yonic symbol. Clearly those lovely round onions with the little darker pokey bit at the top are totally representative of a woman's bosom. Geeze, I can't believe I've got a dirtier mind than you three - even though it was on the slow side...  


I dunno, I just looked down my shirt, and see no resemblance
Kinda more like the bread dough I have rising!

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I've seen breasts before. That pic looks nothing like them.

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Things like this are why, when people come to me all in a lather about how computers are going to take my job away, I don't pay much mind. I figure we still have a waaaaaaays to go.
 
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Oh Lord, deliver us  from the well-intention, Clueless pundits... for they are a menace to normal folks.  A basket of onions...Really?
 
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Not pundits this time, though many are indeed clueless. The automated "porno bot" that scans everything posted on FB is the resident clueless in this case.

Footnote: the seed company thought it was hilarious, and milked it for all it was worth (haha). The ad is now back up, after a good run of FB being the laughingstock of an entire country.
 
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Unlike Pearl, I have to confess that late one night I checked into the Sheraton in Atlanta.  I went out looking for some place to eat. As I walked past an alley, I was approached by a Vidalia....it really wasn't my fault...it was the moment....

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Just the one? They usually work in pairs.
 
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Pairs?!!  Do you have any idea how expensive Vidalias are when they are out of season?

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Mike,

I gave you another apple because those two apples at the top of your post were beginning to bother me.  I've got to run to the kitchen to see if we have any apples .....or onions.

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maybe I'm blind but all I see in that picture is onions
 
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to be fair, they’re pretty sexy onions.
 
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greg mosser wrote:to be fair, they’re pretty sexy onions.


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Folks this is a family site, please keep allium pix off here.

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Tj Jefferson wrote:Folks this is a family site, please keep allium pix off here.


What about.....

Brassicas!



Cover the children's eyes! It's a brassica!!
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Pearl Sutton wrote:

Tj Jefferson wrote:Folks this is a family site, please keep allium pix off here.


What about.....

Brassicas!



Cover the children's eyes! It's a brassica!!
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OH, MY!!! Isn't THAT where... BABIES happen???

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I am very seriously thinking of posting pix of my eggplant. So many different shapes there something for all you veggie pervs out there.

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Should put a bikini on those onions...

I grew some veggie porn myself... here he is with his lady-love:




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