Uh... did they just show a goatse image on CNN?

[Larry Mudd]

I wasn't paying attention.

Was that really this image (http://beefcake.nl/?imagepopup=1/20031019-Gclouds.jpg&width=512&height=359&imagetext=The+big+goatse+in+the+sky) they referred to during the weather?

For the love of god, why? Did they get the reference? What the.. Were they totally oblivious? Do they repeat the weather or was that a one-off?

What the blue hell?

[Scarlett67]

Uh, that's not an actual link to Goatse Man, is it? I'm afraid to click it and find out.

[Larry Mudd]

:smack: Sorry, no!

It's a cloudy sky photoshopped (crudely) to obliquely resemble that iconic image, with the sun shining out of where the sun ordinarily does not shine.

Vague enough that could see how some innocent might not register it as a rude image at all. But still, out of context, what makes the image humorous? I don't get it.

[lieu]

"That's no hill!"

It looks like one of those "Weathershot Of The Day" provided by a viewer. I'm with you though... how do you miss that? I've never seen goatse but now I'm afraid I've got a pretty good idea of what's been freaking people out.

[Eats_Crayons]

For the love of god, why? Did they get the reference? What the.. Were they totally oblivious? Do they repeat the weather or was that a one-off?

In what context did they refer to that particularly image? (Good for a chuckle if you've ever had the traumatic misfortune of seeing the real goatse).

Even if they thought it was an amusing photoshop job of something more innocent, I can't think of any reason why anyone would use it on the news.

[Eats_Crayons]

It looks like one of those "Weathershot Of The Day" provided by a viewer. I'm with you though... how do you miss that? I've never seen goatse but now I'm afraid I've got a pretty good idea of what's been freaking people out.
It's worse than you think... really... *shudder*

[Chimpy]

As long as we don't get a tubgirl in the sky, I mean goatse is bad enough but tubgirl...::vomiting smiley::

[Earthworm Jim]

::vomiting smiley::
No, silly - that's at the other end.

[Feit C Taj]

"That's no hill!"

It looks like one of those "Weathershot Of The Day" provided by a viewer. I'm with you though... how do you miss that? I've never seen goatse but now I'm afraid I've got a pretty good idea of what's been freaking people out.

If you really, must know, feel free to Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shock_site) thyself. (I'll be goddamned if I'm gonna link to any of those mirrors myslef.)

[lieu]

No way, man. What people do with poop and chutes freaks me out.

[Jenaroph]

No way, man. What people do with poop and chutes freaks me out.
If it was anyone but you lieu I might take that sentence seriously. Just google it and get it over with. It's yucky but it's not THAAAAT horrible. What you're imagining is probably worse than the reality. There isn't even any poop in the picture.





Just the chute.

[Eats_Crayons]

Don't do it!

[Diceman]

I hope that isn't an omen.

Whatever event it might be foreshadowing, it can't possibly be good :eek:

(And yes, I was unfortunate enough to have seen Goatse.)

[GorillaMan]

Until today, I thought Femi Oke was attractive. Now, I can't look her straight in the eye...

[Larry Mudd]

Hooray, I didn't imagine it. (http://groups.google.ca/groups?selm=clund-38F869.19570026082004%40amstwist00.chello.com&output=gplain)

[Larry Mudd]

What the..?

The usenet article mentioning it just vanished. :confused:

[Eats_Crayons]

Vanished? Must be a Google glitch. I saw the post in your link, but then when I went to go back to it a second time it vanished for me too.

WTF? :confused:

I'm gonna go see if there's anything at Snopes (wonder if it was a prank or a hoax or something...)

[Eats_Crayons]

Weird. I quit my browser. Started up a brand new session and got to the usenet post again (this time I took a screenshot in case it vanishes again.

Off to Snopes...

[lieu]

"We're expecting strong downburst winds today..."

[Sunspace]

Eurrgghh. Even reading the Wikipedia article started to make me feel ill. And the description of "tubgirl" was worse than the one I thought they were referring to, on Rotten.com.

I didn't finish the Wikipedia article.

:: quease ::

[asterion]

I hope that isn't an omen.

Whatever event it might be foreshadowing, it can't possibly be good :eek:

(And yes, I was unfortunate enough to have seen Goatse.)

*Gets the "The End Of The World Is Nigh" sign out*

It's a sign! A sign from God! All you sinners repent and love Jesus here in the last of days!

Okay, so I make a bad crazy religious guy

[Jeep's Phoenix]

And the description of "tubgirl" was worse than the one I thought they were referring to, on Rotten.com.
There's more than one tubgirl?

:eek:

[1010011010]

There's the filth fountain tubgirl... which is the iconic tubgirl.

And then there's all the pictures of so-and-so who died while taking a hot bath, wasn't found, and is now soup...

[Sunspace]

Dear Og. Neither of those is the one I saw as the fist picture, the first (and pretty much only time) I visited rotten.com. The one I saw was of a dead girl in a bathtub, whose abdomen had been opened and the viscera removed.

:: shudder ::

[Trigonal Planar]

Well, that's deffinitely A tubgirl, but it's not THE tubgirl.

[Larry Mudd]

I initially thought the name "tubgirl" was meant to evoke tubcat (http://www.tubcat.com/), and referred to an altogether different picture. Imagine my horror.