[beseku]

I'm assuming you don't live or visit the UK often, as that poster is everywhere and is used in various forms by huge numbers of companies. There is absolutely no political subtext to its use anymore.

It's a meme, the equivalent to using a cat image.

[mherdeg]

I live and work in central London.

Having seen the poster everywhere for a while now, it has been hard to avoid learning a bit about the image's history, including the recent hilarity with the EU trademark ( http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/8785585/Battle-rages-over-Ke... ) and the image's organic growth in popularity from 2005 ( http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7869458.stm ).

I think it's funny to see people use things in apparent ignorance of their historical context; for example I was totally bummed that http://www.gophercon.com/ wasn't about the protocol.

[cbr]

    people use things in apparent ignorance of their
    historical context

The people behind the Go language are definitely aware of the gopher protocol.

[aetimmes]

A meme that Tumblr uses pretty frequently, at that.

[shardling]

It's actually pretty damn common in the US these days, too.