Irony

[ebonyknight]

We are prohibited from espousing harm to customers and/or idiots, yet the very symbol of CS.com is a retail worker choking the living shit out of a customer.

Splain that Raps! :p

[Pedersen]

Stress: The condition created when the brain overrides the body's basic desire to choke the everloving shit out of some asshole who desperately needs it.

CS is a site dedicated to allowing stress relief for people who deal with high tension, high pressure jobs. That tension is, more often than not, created by people who have neither idea nor care that they are inflicting psychological harm on an innocent human being because of a few bucks (at most).

CS allows you to virtually choke the shit out of some asshole. And no harm gets done, nor even advocated.

Can you think of a better icon for a site dedicated to such a purpose?

[Depot Denizen]

Very true. I remember the old CS logo - and found it!

http://img292.imageshack.us/img292/9313/csbiglf6.jpg

There ya go, courtesy of the Internet Wayback Machine :D

[Lace Neil Singer]

Is that a clue-by-four she's holding, bychance? XD

[DesignFox]

I think that old logo is pretty hilarious, too! :D

[Plaidman]

Wasn't it Mr. Slugger's girlfriend that made that design?

[Rapscallion]

I think she was the model for the person with the bat, and the inspiration after a hard day at work.

Rapscallion

[crazylegs]

We are prohibited from espousing harm to customers and/or idiots, yet the very symbol of CS.com is a retail worker choking the living shit out of a customer.

It's very clearly a fantasy image, I know of no person who could feasibly lift such a weighty chap (he has quite the pot belly) by the neck while at the same time bending their back into a highly stressful position (leaning over the counter) and having the Victim still wag their finger making their point.

It's a silly cartoon, in the same aspect that when Tom wallops Jerry with an iron skillet all that happens is there is a Jerry shaped dent (complete with poking out tongue), it wouldn't happen in real life but it is a stress relief to look at it and laugh, which is the main point of CS, a lot of posts are written in a way to make people laugh (I'm not saying they are false but vitriol and sarcasm are abound) which lets people vent in a safe and controlled manner.