Goatse on the cover of Time magazine?

[Mr. Coffee Nerves]

Take a look at this cover (http://www.time.com/time/magazine/archive/covers/0,16641,1101040920,00.html) of the last issue of Time magazine... that is totally Goatse! (you have to rotate the picture.) How did this ever get past their editors? :eek:

[Mr. Coffee Nerves]

I would post a side-by-side comparison of the two, but I somehow think that would be frowned upon here. :D

[Larry Borgia]

What is goatse?

[Already in Use]

Half of me says, "No way, it's just coincidence. After all, how many ways are there to show two hands ripping the stripes of an American flag apart?"

But the other half thinks that there are some sick mofos working at the TIME graphic design department. Heh.

[Mr. Coffee Nerves]

What is goatse?
Do a quick google search and you'll find out...

[Ogre]

Look at the Time magazine cover. Now imagine that those two hands are grasping and holding open a human anus. Their own anus. That's goatse.

[Sublight]

I thought it was going to be this picture.
http://www.snopes.com/photos/natural/godhands.asp

(note: safe for work, non-gross)

Hands of God indeed.

[Loopydude]

Awright, now, before I go googling this Goatse thing, what the hell is it? Something tells me it's not good, whatever that word means.

So...you feel this cover is inappropriate somehow? I can assume it looks sexual somehow to you? No matter how I orient the image, I'd have to use a fair amount of imagination to get anyting worth being censored out of this.

[Loopydude]

Cripes, I got quintuple-bumped or something.

And I do not see somebody prying their bunghole open when I look at that image. I guess I just lack a fertile enough imagination.

[Already in Use]

What is goatse?Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page) has an informative article on the Goatse phenomenon, but I don't think I can link to the actual article, because then you would be one click away from non-work-safe material. But search that site for "goatse," and you'll find a fascinating all-text article, with links if you dare.

[Already in Use]

Cripes, I got quintuple-bumped or something.

And I do not see somebody prying their bunghole open when I look at that image. I guess I just lack a fertile enough imagination.Well, it's not something anyone in their right mind really would think of, unless they've been previously exposed to Goatse, in which case the image is permanently burned into their retinas.

[BlackKnight]

The hands are very different. For one, the hands on the Time cover are much more "clean cut", so to speak, than those on the Goatse guy. Also, the thumbs on the Time cover are closer to the hand than in Goatse.

Or did you mean that they're just oriented similarly? Even that's not quite the case - the Time cover is more symmetrical. One of the Goatse guy's arms is at a slight angle.

I suspect that if you're going to show two hands tearing something apart from opposite sides, no matter what it is, it'll look superficially similar to any other picture showing two hands tearing something apart from opposite sides.

[AngelicGemma]

What is goatse?

You're better off not knowing.

[Anaamika]

What is goatse?

Don't ask. Don't Google it. Just walk away.

You'll be better off, trust me.

Unless you happen to have lots of brain bleach around.

[Wesley Clark]

I like the text too

"its outrageously easy to sneak in"

There is no way goatse wasn't a factor in that drawing.

[slortar]

Awright, now, before I go googling this Goatse thing, what the hell is it? Something tells me it's not good, whatever that word means.

So...you feel this cover is inappropriate somehow? I can assume it looks sexual somehow to you? No matter how I orient the image, I'd have to use a fair amount of imagination to get anyting worth being censored out of this.

Remember the end of Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark? When Indy tells Marian not to look? Same thing here.

[Annie-Xmas]

I think the letters column for that issue is going to be very interesting.

I've never Googled goatse. And I never will.

[Ferret Herder]

I've never Googled goatse. And I never will.
Reading the Wikipedia article on that (and Tubgirl, etc.) isn't traumatizing. Just don't click their links. (The content of the article might trip a few work filters, though.)

[Happy Lendervedder]

Reading the Wikipedia article on that (and Tubgirl, etc.) isn't traumatizing. Just don't click their links. (The content of the article might trip a few work filters, though.)


Why is it that whenever Goatse makes his way into the forums here, his ugly sister Tubgirl always has to pop her filthy head in?



:D


Happy

[Lute Skywatcher]

I thought it was going to be this picture.
http://www.snopes.com/photos/natural/godhands.asp
Nah. We've already covered that (http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=273141&highlight=goatse).

[Loopydude]

I've never Googled goatse. And I never will.

Seems like very good plan.

[winces]Er...tubgirl?[\winces]

[Earthworm Jim]

[winces]Er...tubgirl?[\winces]
Another word you're better off NOT googling. Really.

[AngelicGemma]

I've never Googled goatse. And I never will.

If only I had been as sensible. :(

[Ferret Herder]

[winces]Er...tubgirl?[\winces]
It's in the same Wikipedia article as goatse. Don't Google it - if you want to know, check out the article instead. Really.

[Loopydude]

Muther effing cripes, just reading the damn article was disturbing. "Harlequin fetus"??? The explanation of tubgirl itself was enough to make me queasy. WTF is wrong with people, anyway?

[lieu]

Here is your orifice. Here is your orifice on crack.

[Hal Briston]

The explanation of tubgirl itself was enough to make me queasy.
And that only tells half the story. While Wikipedia describes her "...projecting a fountain of liquid...", it doesn't mention where that liquid is landing.

Pardon me...I feel a quick vomit coming on.

[Greywolf73]

If you haven't yet stumbled across Goatse, please, please just forget you ever heard the word. Don't google. Don't click. I'd like to think there are at least 2 or 3 people out there who's Internet innocence hasn't yet been shattered.

I saw it a couple of years ago and I'm still in need of some of that brain bleach that Elenia28 suggested.

Just say no.

[Jenaroph]

The Wikipedia goatse article Already in Use referenced now has listed two sites parodying the Time cover, which, as it reads, "look[s] similar to goatse even before the parodies were made."

Totally incidentally, the two hands on the cover are the same hand, one just a mirror image. I'd think it'd be easier just to take a picture of someone ripping a hole in a flag, but oh well.

[Guinastasia]

The hands are very different. For one, the hands on the Time cover are much more "clean cut", so to speak, than those on the Goatse guy. Also, the thumbs on the Time cover are closer to the hand than in Goatse.

Or did you mean that they're just oriented similarly? Even that's not quite the case - the Time cover is more symmetrical. One of the Goatse guy's arms is at a slight angle.

I suspect that if you're going to show two hands tearing something apart from opposite sides, no matter what it is, it'll look superficially similar to any other picture showing two hands tearing something apart from opposite sides.

Dude...how much time did you spend studying it?

:eek:

Is anyone else pretty much immune to goatse? I've seen it so many times on SAAN when we'd have troll invasions that I can't do much more than giggle a bit when I see it.

[levdrakon]

The Wikipedia goatse article Already in Use referenced now has listed two sites parodying the Time cover, which, as it reads, "look[s] similar to goatse even before the parodies were made."

I noticed that. Wonder what the odds are someone in this thread is responsible for the update?

Personally I don't get the goatse similarity. Someone apparently hasn't sufficiently brain-bleached the goatse image from their mind.

[Miller]

Dude...how much time did you spend studying it?

:eek:

Is anyone else pretty much immune to goatse? I've seen it so many times on SAAN when we'd have troll invasions that I can't do much more than giggle a bit when I see it.

I am. It's just a guy with a big anus. Get over it already, ya pansies.

[AwSnappity]

I'd like to think there are at least 2 or 3 people out there who's Internet innocence hasn't yet been shattered.
My name is AwSnappity, and I've never seen goatse.

(Hi, AwSnappity!)

I know I'm part of a dying breed. I know what goatse is, certainly. I know enough to describe it to people, and not to go looking for it myself. But I've never seen it. And I thank my lucky stars every day.

[Loopydude]

Just a guy with a big anus.

Just a guy with a big anus.

"Hey there. I'm Bob, the Goatse "hello.jpg" man. I don't want to be thought of as a 'celebrity'. I know I'm famous, but at the end of the day, shucks, I'm just a guy with a big anus."

[Anaamika]

Is anyone else pretty much immune to goatse? I've seen it so many times on SAAN when we'd have troll invasions that I can't do much more than giggle a bit when I see it.

I am. It's just a guy with a big anus. Get over it already, ya pansies.

You're both way, way stronger than I am.

[Jenaroph]

Is anyone else pretty much immune to goatse? I've seen it so many times on SAAN when we'd have troll invasions that I can't do much more than giggle a bit when I see it.
I am. It's just a guy with a big anus. Get over it already, ya pansies.
I agree completely. I don't get all the "AAAAH I need BRAIN BLEACH! AAAAAH GET THE IMAGE OUT OF MY HEAD!" reactions. As if it was the most horrible thing imaginable.

Go read the stories in this thread (http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=276835), and compare 'em to goatse, which is a picture of a reasonably healthy looking naked guy with a stretchy sphincter. No contest. There are far, far uglier sights in this world, which you're more likely to run across in person. You'll have lived a charmed life if goatse is the worst thing you ever see.

[The Mermaid]

There is much debate over which is worse goatse or tubgirl.

Here's a forum where you can discuss and vote on it. (http://www.underculture.co.za/shorts_taste.htm) (with links, not actual pics)

My reaction when I see those is to go in to "mother" mode.

For goatse------See, this is why we can't have anything nice around here. You are so rough with everything.

For tubgirl-------All right young lady, I want you to march right back up there and clean the tub right this time. Just spraying some stuff around doesn't mean it is clean

Kids! You try to raise em right.

[SuperNelson]

For what it's worth, my first thought when looking at the rotated Time cover was "looks like Clark Kent changing into Superman." Never googled goatse, and don't plan to, so maybe I can be the token innocent.

[Trunk]

I was honestly shocked by Tubgirl a few years ago, but I thought to myself it was fake.

I really don't want to go looking for it again to reevaluate my earlier stance.

I thought at the time it looked like it was made out of wax or something.

Am I wrong?

[Anaamika]

I agree completely. I don't get all the "AAAAH I need BRAIN BLEACH! AAAAAH GET THE IMAGE OUT OF MY HEAD!" reactions. As if it was the most horrible thing imaginable.

Go read the stories in this thread (http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=276835), and compare 'em to goatse, which is a picture of a reasonably healthy looking naked guy with a stretchy sphincter. No contest. There are far, far uglier sights in this world, which you're more likely to run across in person. You'll have lived a charmed life if goatse is the worst thing you ever see.

Pictures and stories are two entirely different things. Most humans (not all, granted) are more viscerally shocked by a visual image.

And really, I HOPE HOPE HOPE that I continue to live a very charmed life in which goatse is the worst thing I ever see.

I used to be a pre-med student and I can tell you that many times more disturbing than anything is the human body looking like it's not meant to be. This is why dissecting a cat is entirely a different feeling than dissecting a human being.

If it doesn't bother you, more power to you.

[Roland Orzabal]

I'd seen goatse before. It didn't bother me too much the first time, and by now, I'm utterly immune to it. I've seen all manner of disgusting videos on the internet, and it generally takes a lot to bother me.

So, having never heard of Tubgirl, I decided to Google away.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!

Why? Why, Og, why? Can we please just not speak of this ever again? Ever? Sweet holy mother of...

[PussyCow]

A Google on goatse has a hit for the Time cover. Google (http://www.google.com/search?q=goatse&sourceid=mozilla&start=0&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8)

[Loopydude]

Google bomb?

As a funny aside, "batshit crazy" somehow brought up Zell Miller...

[scr4]

I don't know what this says about me, but I thought the photoshopped composite of a lotus pod and human breast was more disturbing than goatse or tubgirl. (If you haven't seen it and really want to, go to snopes and search for "Breast Rash".)

[Brilharma]

(If you haven't seen it and really want to, go to snopes and search for "Breast Rash".)

Oh, dear. I hate you. Why do I always think, "It can't be that bad, they're a bunch of pansies." and then it is that bad.

[levdrakon]

The Breast Rash was amusing. Didn't fall for it for a second. The Maggots picture referenced on the same page however, was awful.

[Fern Forest]

The Breast Rash was amusing. Didn't fall for it for a second. The Maggots picture referenced on the same page however, was awful.
There's an awesomely disturbing documentary series called "Human Wildlife" with Dr. Robert Buckman which played on the Discovery channel. The worms episode and the episode after that were particularly good for this kind of stuff.

[Cervaise]

Is anyone else pretty much immune to goatse?I'm with Jenaroph et al. Didn't bother me much the first time, doesn't bother me now.

The fake boob image mentioned by scr4, though, freaked me right now. I am not a huge fan of parasites. (Compared to my wife's intense phobia about them, though, I might as well be a cheerful volunteer for mass infection of various chompy red-eyed wrigglies.)

[Revtim]

The Maggots picture referenced on the same page however, was awful.Wow, that was indeed incredibly vile. And unlike the tittie pic, 100 percent real.

Thanks for heads up!

[Airman Doors, USAF]

That breast thing, while I know it's a fake, is still freaking me out. The maggot thing was vile also.

There are some sick, sick people out there if they get off on this stuff.

[Padeye]

I saw an image of the Time cover and thought it was a Goatse parody. This isn't the kind of thing people get fired over. This is the thing they get shot over.

[Telperien]

I can't look at that kind of stuff. If it means that I am a pansy, I wear the title proudly.

[Hal Briston]

I don't know what this says about me, but I thought the photoshopped composite of a lotus pod and human breast was more disturbing than goatse or tubgirl. (If you haven't seen it and really want to, go to snopes and search for "Breast Rash".)
:: shudder ::

That pic had me very, very nauseous for over a week straight. Something about there being a hole where no hole should be willies me out badly.

Ahhh, crap. I had gotten that damn pic outta my head, and now I'm feeling all queezy again just thinking about it (and this is from a guy who held a woman's shattered skull together with his bare hands until paramedics arrived...that, I had no problem with...go figger).

[Guinastasia]

I had seen the "breast rash" earlier, and while it's gross, I think when I saw it, it was made clear to be a photoshop.

The brain and maggots are the worst, though.

The worst images I ever saw so far were harlequin fetus and pictures of smallpox victims. The worst thing about them-they're real, and the suffering must have been tremendous!

[danceswithcats]

What I'd like to know is why we've been singing a rude song for years and years:

Marese doats, and goatse doats, and little lambse divey :eek:

Now that I'm aware of one term's definition, do I want to learn the remainder? Who was the perv who thought this up for little kids? :smack:

[Lute Skywatcher]

Marese doats, and goatse doats, and little lambse diveyThose words sound queer and funny to my ear. You know, a little bit jumbled and jivey.

[Carol the Impaler]

What I'd like to know is why we've been singing a rude song for years and years:

Marese doats, and goatse doats, and little lambse divey :eek:

Now that I'm aware of one term's definition, do I want to learn the remainder? Who was the perv who thought this up for little kids? :smack:


gggggggggggggggaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwwwwwdarnit, danceswithcats! I just got that song out of my head a minute ago!!! :smack: