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I once worked on a site for a big underwear seller. It's not porn, but 90% of the media is extreme closeups of perfect ladies' bottoms and so on. The lead dev rapidly decided that the test product would be a very boring pair of men's boxer shorts.

Which was fine until he revealed that he'd chosen them because that's what he always wore.

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This story could have ended so many different ways in the thread context here that I chuckled a bit of relief at the end.

But now I gotta ask: you say it was fine until the reveal. Were they pictures of him in the boxers or just a brand he liked-or what did the reveal change for the team?

They weren't pictures of him, but every time i looked at the test site, for a fraction of a second, i thought about my colleague's crotch.

That’s a quote worthy of bash.org

I used to work at a porn company in early/mid 2000s, when IE was the dominant browser - the office breathed a sigh of relief when I coded a pixelation filter for IE using directshow effects or something, I forget it's been so long since I did anything for IE - but IE was fairly advanced for the time in what you could do with some CSS. The pixelation filter was for employee use only, of course. No longer did we have to actually watch clowns having sex to debug a problem with a specific movie depicting clown sex. Or any other porno, for that matter. It got kind of exhausting/distracting having to code when the data was porn.

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