Reply to: Goatse (SFW)

[hyperD]

There goes my breakfast.... uurghhh

[Diver]

I'd add

NSFW (or people)

if I was you

(I'm pretty sure there are unblurred versions available, if there's anybody warped enough to look...)

Glad I didn't click the link, Thanks for the warning NF

[NickFitz]

Are we allowed to post a link ?

I'd add

NSFW (or people)

if I was you

(I'm pretty sure there are unblurred versions available, if there's anybody warped enough to look...)

[OwlHoot]

Oh... that was bad

Are we allowed to post a link ?

The comical part is the way they bothered to blur her fanny, as if *that* makes it any better


edit: NickFitz is correct - definitely NSFW (which is probably true of any link in this thread)

[BrilloPad]

Those guys are pain in the arse...

[NickFitz]

Hairy Ape - Blue Monkey - Puce Goatse!

I must admit, I'm glad to find that there are - or rather, were - people who hadn't been traumatised by goatse before. I thought the whole world had been corrupted by now

I think it was one of the first goatse links ever on Slashdot that caught me... then the trolls seemed to take a break for a while, and a few months later I was suckered in again :where's-the-I-hit-the-back-button-faster-than-had-ever-previously-been-thought-possible-smiley

It originated at the domain goatse.cx - .cx is Christmas Island's Top Level Domain (TLD), and like so many tiny nations who were allocated a TLD in the mid-to-late 90s, they farmed out the management thereof to a US company who just took the money and passed some of it along to them (Tuvalu, with the ".tv" TLD, did the same, and I believe Channel Five's website is still at five.tv).

The original goatse.cx site was live for about a year before whoever governs Christmas Island realised what a bad name it was getting them, and had it shut down - IIRC it was mildly tricky because the US management company had to be convinced that the First Amendment to the US constitution didn't actually apply to the whole World Wide Web, just the bits of it that were US - the problem being that although the site was on the Christmas Island domain, all sites on .cx were actually hosted in the US

[Diver]

ape

Hairy Ape - Blue Monkey - Puce Goatse!

[NickFitz]

Great, now I'm stuck with That!!!! and an image of a blue monkey for the rest of the night

ape

[Diver]

Great, now I'm stuck with That!!!! and an image of a blue monkey for the rest of the night

[AtW]

Those guys are pain in the arse...

[NickFitz]

The funniest goatse-related story has to be the Slashdot one from a few years ago. Somebody submitted a summary to Slashdot, linking to an article about some obscure geek matter - hyperthreading in the Linux kernel, or some such. The Slashdot editors checked the link, and found a thoughtful and well-written piece on this subject, so they published the summary and link on their front page.

However the server where the article was hosted was under the control of the story submitter, who had set it up so that if you followed the link from Slashdot, it redirected you to goatse. Thus Slashdot, which has devoted enormous amounts of technical effort over the years trying to prevent commenters linking to goatse, inadvertently provided just such a link on their own front page

[BrilloPad]

He has got s**t for brains?

If you tell someone NOT to think of a blue monkey - the first thing they think of is a blue monkey!

Well that is true of 5-year olds. Which describes me (and most posters here).

[AtW]

Which part of the word "don't" did you not understand?

He has got s**t for brains?

[NickFitz]

Oh... that was bad

Which part of the word "don't" did you not understand?

[BrilloPad]

Of course. Otherwise it would have created the impression that I got double standards.

a brain