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Nasty icons

141 points by aronvox 13y ago

ableal 13y ago
Eh, the "bête et méchante" school lives on ...
- riffraff 13y ago
  could you explain your reference to me, I'm completely lost about what you mean and/or refer to :)
  - Blahah 13y ago
    it means "stupid and nasty" edit: why did I get downvoted? That's a literal translation, not what I think of the icons.
  - ableal 13y ago
    It's the motto on the cover of some French humor/comics magazines. Sardonic, very iconoclastic, and definitely not safe-for-work in the USA ... One of the best artists was http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Marc_Reiser http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Marc_Reiser , and you can also search for the Hara-Kiri and Charlie Hebdo magazines images (NSFW, as cautioned above). P.S. Forgot to mention also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Wolinski http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Wolinski , who seems to be still active.
mokkol 13y ago
haha love it!
loceng 13y ago
Hilarious.
egeozcan 13y ago
Well that was not exactly the thing that comes to my mind when I see the menu item "cut", but yeah, why the hell not =) I wish I had a page where I could use these when AB testing. Think about it: Using nasty icons increased the click-through rates by 200%!
- rainmaking 13y ago
  Ew, don't get me started on "paste"
weavie 13y ago
Startup inspiration ... come up with an MVP that utilizes each of these icons at least once.
- rainmaking 13y ago
  Sadistic tamagochi?
  - k3oni 13y ago
    That made me laugh, thanks :).
zacinbusiness 13y ago
The middle one here: http://nastyicons.com/img/icons-09.svg http://nastyicons.com/img/icons-09.svg Great for a 404 icon :-)
benihana 13y ago
This was a cute break from the normal srs bsns of HN, thanks!
antidaily 13y ago
If LT IE10, smelly-garbage.svg.
jksmith 13y ago
I need some Vans with those icons printed all over them. That would be schweet!
Pxtl 13y ago
What's the one in between the tank and the guillotine?
- appledapple 13y ago
  Riot police. Shield, full facial helmet, baton.
ozh 13y ago
"Ahah neat, going to check & save this for later... Oh, tweet 3rd party paywall. Nevermind."
m4r71n 13y ago
I wish I could download these but I have no Twitter or Facebook account :( I don't see a public repo so I guess these are proprietary? What is the licensing besides the "Free For Commercial Use"?
SimeVidas 13y ago
Not providing on-site info about implementation details and not letting users download without sharing first on Twitter/Facebook is not a good combination. From what I can see on the site, it's SVG images but I'd like to know the implementation details.
rquantz 13y ago
I think it's interesting that in conceiving "nasty" icons, the images are almost entirely either violent or scatological, rather than sexual (the bare-breasted woman being the only exception I noticed). I imagine a few possible explanations: a) the creators considered sexuality too risqué for what they were doing, b) they considered it not nasty at all, or c) the emphasis was on a childish nastiness, rather than a grown up one. It may speak to the relative acceptance of violence vs sexuality in our culture?
- rainmaking 13y ago
  There is also the stripper and the vibrator
  - rquantz 13y ago
    Ah, so there are! I don't know how I missed those. Still, that's three out of 45.
    - rainmaking 13y ago
      We could do a kickstarter.
- Goopplesoft 13y ago
  This comment totally adds to nothing but the overanalysis in this place is pretty wicked. Its a damn icon set...
- fractalsea 13y ago
  Using the word "nasty" to describe nudity makes me very sad. I can imagine a very small niche of sexual practices that I would label in this way, but to regard sexuality in general as "nasty" seems ludicrous to me.
markovbling 13y ago
these would make great tshirts! should check out teespring.com ;)
wtracy 13y ago
I hate to be That Guy, but could we get an NSFW warning on the link? (I figured the icons were going to be "nasty" in terms of being very shoddy quality. It turns out that they depict "nasty" subject matter.)
- rainmaking 13y ago
  Getting fired for looking at these icons could actually be a great start towards working for the right people.
  - wtracy 13y ago
    On the tiny outside chance that you're not just trolling: I just spent a solid year looking for work while watching my bank account slowly dwindle. If I walked out of the job I just got, I don't think I would even have enough money to break the lease on my apartment.
    - timmaah 13y ago
      possible you shouldn't be browsing HN at all while working that new job?
    - rainmaking 13y ago
      Congratulations on landing the job & I wish you well! The people my comment applies to have plenty of alternatives but are afraid.
- pigDisgusting 13y ago
  I'd be curious to know how you think pictograms such as these might honestly impact someone's job. I've worked in some pretty uptight places, and anywhere that I might've encountered petty flak for something like this was a place where my maturity was so poorly regarded, that I and my fellow employees were not permitted internet access at all. In any other situation, getting "written up" for "inappropriate behavior" so that the proper paperwork could be fully digested by the HR apparatchik, would have required my signature, my manager's signature, would have been reviewed by my bosses boss, and become a permanent HR record, in anticipation of potential legal proceedings, and revisited during my annual review, when pay raises were considered. If I were actually fired over such a matter, again, my bosses would have to consult their boss and possibly further up the pecking order, possibly including senior HR staff, and we'd all sit in a room together (with HR), and they might show me print outs of the web page that triggered my getting fired, after which I might be escorted from the premises by security guard. Most of the bosses I've had would require something very serious to provoke such a process, and usually had reasonable higher-order bosses with children who behaved worse than this, to the point where the underling boss might be laughed at by the overlord boss, if they tried to fire me over something as silly as this. Especially, when paying recruiters to hire someone can cost the company thousands upon thousands of dollars. So really, is this honestly NSFW worthy?

Nasty icons

141 points by aronvox 13y ago

ableal 13y ago

Eh, the "bête et méchante" school lives on ...

riffraff 13y ago
could you explain your reference to me, I'm completely lost about what you mean and/or refer to :)
- Blahah 13y ago
  it means "stupid and nasty" edit: why did I get downvoted? That's a literal translation, not what I think of the icons.
- ableal 13y ago
  It's the motto on the cover of some French humor/comics magazines. Sardonic, very iconoclastic, and definitely not safe-for-work in the USA ... One of the best artists was http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Marc_Reiser http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Marc_Reiser , and you can also search for the Hara-Kiri and Charlie Hebdo magazines images (NSFW, as cautioned above). P.S. Forgot to mention also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Wolinski http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Wolinski , who seems to be still active.

mokkol 13y ago

haha love it!

loceng 13y ago

Hilarious.

egeozcan 13y ago

Well that was not exactly the thing that comes to my mind when I see the menu item "cut", but yeah, why the hell not =) I wish I had a page where I could use these when AB testing. Think about it: Using nasty icons increased the click-through rates by 200%!

rainmaking 13y ago
Ew, don't get me started on "paste"

weavie 13y ago

Startup inspiration ... come up with an MVP that utilizes each of these icons at least once.

rainmaking 13y ago
Sadistic tamagochi?
- k3oni 13y ago
  That made me laugh, thanks :).

zacinbusiness 13y ago

The middle one here: http://nastyicons.com/img/icons-09.svg http://nastyicons.com/img/icons-09.svg Great for a 404 icon :-)

benihana 13y ago

This was a cute break from the normal srs bsns of HN, thanks!

antidaily 13y ago

If LT IE10, smelly-garbage.svg.

jksmith 13y ago

I need some Vans with those icons printed all over them. That would be schweet!

Pxtl 13y ago

What's the one in between the tank and the guillotine?

appledapple 13y ago
Riot police. Shield, full facial helmet, baton.

ozh 13y ago

"Ahah neat, going to check & save this for later... Oh, tweet 3rd party paywall. Nevermind."

m4r71n 13y ago

I wish I could download these but I have no Twitter or Facebook account :( I don't see a public repo so I guess these are proprietary? What is the licensing besides the "Free For Commercial Use"?

SimeVidas 13y ago

Not providing on-site info about implementation details and not letting users download without sharing first on Twitter/Facebook is not a good combination. From what I can see on the site, it's SVG images but I'd like to know the implementation details.

rquantz 13y ago

I think it's interesting that in conceiving "nasty" icons, the images are almost entirely either violent or scatological, rather than sexual (the bare-breasted woman being the only exception I noticed). I imagine a few possible explanations: a) the creators considered sexuality too risqué for what they were doing, b) they considered it not nasty at all, or c) the emphasis was on a childish nastiness, rather than a grown up one. It may speak to the relative acceptance of violence vs sexuality in our culture?

rainmaking 13y ago
There is also the stripper and the vibrator
- rquantz 13y ago
  Ah, so there are! I don't know how I missed those. Still, that's three out of 45.
  - rainmaking 13y ago
    We could do a kickstarter.
Goopplesoft 13y ago
This comment totally adds to nothing but the overanalysis in this place is pretty wicked. Its a damn icon set...
fractalsea 13y ago
Using the word "nasty" to describe nudity makes me very sad. I can imagine a very small niche of sexual practices that I would label in this way, but to regard sexuality in general as "nasty" seems ludicrous to me.

markovbling 13y ago

these would make great tshirts! should check out teespring.com ;)

wtracy 13y ago

I hate to be That Guy, but could we get an NSFW warning on the link? (I figured the icons were going to be "nasty" in terms of being very shoddy quality. It turns out that they depict "nasty" subject matter.)

rainmaking 13y ago
Getting fired for looking at these icons could actually be a great start towards working for the right people.
- wtracy 13y ago
  On the tiny outside chance that you're not just trolling: I just spent a solid year looking for work while watching my bank account slowly dwindle. If I walked out of the job I just got, I don't think I would even have enough money to break the lease on my apartment.
  - timmaah 13y ago
    possible you shouldn't be browsing HN at all while working that new job?
  - rainmaking 13y ago
    Congratulations on landing the job & I wish you well! The people my comment applies to have plenty of alternatives but are afraid.
pigDisgusting 13y ago
I'd be curious to know how you think pictograms such as these might honestly impact someone's job. I've worked in some pretty uptight places, and anywhere that I might've encountered petty flak for something like this was a place where my maturity was so poorly regarded, that I and my fellow employees were not permitted internet access at all. In any other situation, getting "written up" for "inappropriate behavior" so that the proper paperwork could be fully digested by the HR apparatchik, would have required my signature, my manager's signature, would have been reviewed by my bosses boss, and become a permanent HR record, in anticipation of potential legal proceedings, and revisited during my annual review, when pay raises were considered. If I were actually fired over such a matter, again, my bosses would have to consult their boss and possibly further up the pecking order, possibly including senior HR staff, and we'd all sit in a room together (with HR), and they might show me print outs of the web page that triggered my getting fired, after which I might be escorted from the premises by security guard. Most of the bosses I've had would require something very serious to provoke such a process, and usually had reasonable higher-order bosses with children who behaved worse than this, to the point where the underling boss might be laughed at by the overlord boss, if they tried to fire me over something as silly as this. Especially, when paying recruiters to hire someone can cost the company thousands upon thousands of dollars. So really, is this honestly NSFW worthy?