Take a look at this cover 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:
I would post a side-by-side comparison of the two, but I somehow think that would be frowned upon here. 
What is goatse?
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.
Do a quick google search and you’ll find out…
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.
I thought it was going to be this picture.
(note: safe for work, non-gross)
Hands of God indeed.
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.
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.
Wikipedia 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.
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.
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.
You’re better off not knowing.
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.
I like the text too
“its outrageously easy to sneak in”
There is no way goatse wasn’t a factor in that drawing.
Remember the end of Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark? When Indy tells Marian not to look? Same thing here.
I think the letters column for that issue is going to be very interesting.
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.)
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?
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