:o noooo not the melon!

[HollyPop]

Do you all remember the Gwontek Melon? The rudest item on the site.. not only dodgy in shape but with a description which verged on the suggestive too..

Well I've got one in my inventory, and I'm horrified to notice that it's been sanitised! Now it's a boring pear shape and the description is entirely clean. So, is that as near as we'll get to TNT admitting one of their items was dodgy?

Edit: Here's what it used to look like:



With this description:

The majority of this melon is bland tasting, but the part near the stalk is much sweeter and tastier!

And here's how it looks now:



With this description:

This strange looking fruit is found only on the highest branches of the Gwontek tree.

[zorg]

Ugh neopets is getting so boring! They need a rudest item....

[Qanda]

Whoa I never noticed this melon before, but I must agree that its original picture is much more *interesting*. Now the new picture is totally bland-looking, even the part near the stalk.

[Vertigo]

It's funny they changed that. It probably has less to do with whether they thought it was suggestive and more to do with people who used it on Neopets to get around the filters and still have nasty conversations.

[HollyPop]

Yeah, too true - a nice rude item that the older ones among us can have a good giggle at is essential!! I loved Gwontek Melons, I was going to make a gallery of them until I realised they're rare and unbuyable.. *sniff* now what's going to go in my rude gallery?

[Qanda]

Yeah, too true - a nice rude item that the older ones among us can have a good giggle at is essential!! I loved Gwontek Melons, I was going to make a gallery of them until I realised they're rare and unbuyable.. *sniff* now what's going to go in my rude gallery?

You have a rude gallery? Now, I'd be interested in seeing one... could you give me the username of the gallery?

[Stijn]

I didn't notice what it looked like until now.

[HollyPop]

Heh I don't have a rude gallery yet, I was going to make one.. but my friend made one at:

http://www.neopets.com/browseshop.phtml ... rmindlight

Although looking at that now, I can't see the rudeness in a lot of those things.. hmm..

Also, someone stole my post from here and posted it on neocolours!:
http://www.neocolours.co.uk/forum/viewt ... 369#179369

Grr :/

[Matt]

Holly, he's hotlinking the Gwontek of your server, I'd change it so that it reads something about not stealing others posts, or whatever if you really want to punish him.

I'm glad they changed the item, though you really needed a dirty mind to associate it it, I'm glad they changed it for the younger member of the site growing up with such dirty imagery, and suggesting posting of the naughty item.

[Crescendo]

Another funny thing left from Neopets. -sigh- WHY?

[HollyPop]

I'm not going to continue this discussion, please leave it alone.

Back on topic, do you reckon they had complaints about the shape of the melon?

[Matt]

Sorry, but that was turning into a flame war, can we please not go back to the topic ^.^

[Mystique]

it could be but i thought the change was uncalled for. as mentioned, you would need some imagination and a decent knowledge of the human anatomy to link them together. it is unlikely that young kids would possibly think of that just by looking at the fruit and the description.

[HollyPop]

it could be but i thought the change was uncalled for. as mentioned, you would need some imagination and a decent knowledge of the human anatomy to link them together. it is unlikely that young kids would possibly think of that just by looking at the fruit and the description.

Absolutely, you'd have to already have a dirty mind to understand it, and people with dirty minds aren't offended by stuff like that, right?!

[maruka]

*hugs HollyPop* Don't bother abt those.

Oh, sometimes neopets can be so careful, it wouldn't hurt to have something this interesting once in awhile. *coughscoughs*