# Goatse on the cover of Time magazine? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 21, 2004, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goatse-on-the-cover-of-time-magazine/265283 "2004-09-21T06:26:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Loopydude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e56c9b/32.png) [@Loopydude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopydude)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2004, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goatse-on-the-cover-of-time-magazine/265283/21 "2004-09-21T15:33:31Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > I’ve never Googled goatse. And I never will. Seems like very good plan. [winces]Er…tubgirl?[\winces] ---
**Author:** ![Earthworm\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f07891/32.png) [@Earthworm\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earthworm_Jim)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2004, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goatse-on-the-cover-of-time-magazine/265283/22 "2004-09-21T15:58:03Z")
> [@Loopydude](#): > > [winces]Er…tubgirl?[\winces] Another word you’re better off NOT googling. Really. ---
**Author:** ![AngelicGemma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/439d5e/32.png) [@AngelicGemma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AngelicGemma)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2004, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goatse-on-the-cover-of-time-magazine/265283/23 "2004-09-21T16:06:39Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > I’ve never Googled goatse. And I never will. If only _I_ had been as sensible. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2004, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goatse-on-the-cover-of-time-magazine/265283/24 "2004-09-21T16:09:13Z")
> [@Loopydude](#): > > [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. ---
**Author:** ![Loopydude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e56c9b/32.png) [@Loopydude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopydude)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2004, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goatse-on-the-cover-of-time-magazine/265283/25 "2004-09-21T17:17:05Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2004, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goatse-on-the-cover-of-time-magazine/265283/26 "2004-09-21T18:08:30Z")
_Here is your orifice. Here is your orifice on crack._ ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2004, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goatse-on-the-cover-of-time-magazine/265283/27 "2004-09-21T18:35:18Z")
> [@Loopydude](#): > > 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. ---
**Author:** ![Greywolf73](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d9b06d/32.png) [@Greywolf73](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greywolf73)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2004, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goatse-on-the-cover-of-time-magazine/265283/28 "2004-09-21T19:08:54Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Jenaroph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2004, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goatse-on-the-cover-of-time-magazine/265283/29 "2004-09-21T19:35:36Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2004, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goatse-on-the-cover-of-time-magazine/265283/30 "2004-09-21T21:03:27Z")
> [@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. 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. ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2004, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goatse-on-the-cover-of-time-magazine/265283/31 "2004-09-22T02:27:45Z")
> [@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.” 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. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2004, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goatse-on-the-cover-of-time-magazine/265283/32 "2004-09-22T02:46:10Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > 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. ---
**Author:** ![AwSnappity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a3d4f5/32.png) [@AwSnappity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AwSnappity)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2004, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goatse-on-the-cover-of-time-magazine/265283/33 "2004-09-22T03:52:26Z")
> [@Greywolf73](#): > > 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. ---
**Author:** ![Loopydude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e56c9b/32.png) [@Loopydude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopydude)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2004, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goatse-on-the-cover-of-time-magazine/265283/34 "2004-09-22T04:02:36Z")
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.” ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2004, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goatse-on-the-cover-of-time-magazine/265283/35 "2004-09-22T16:21:16Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > 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. > [@Miller](#): > > 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. ---
**Author:** ![Jenaroph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2004, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goatse-on-the-cover-of-time-magazine/265283/36 "2004-09-22T16:52:12Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > 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. > [@Miller](#): > > 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. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Mermaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a183cd/32.png) [@The\_Mermaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Mermaid)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2004, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goatse-on-the-cover-of-time-magazine/265283/37 "2004-09-22T17:11:21Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![SuperNelson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7feea3/32.png) [@SuperNelson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuperNelson)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2004, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goatse-on-the-cover-of-time-magazine/265283/38 "2004-09-22T17:37:07Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2004, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goatse-on-the-cover-of-time-magazine/265283/39 "2004-09-22T17:39:42Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2004, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goatse-on-the-cover-of-time-magazine/265283/40 "2004-09-22T20:30:17Z")
> [@Jenaroph](#): > > 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. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goatse-on-the-cover-of-time-magazine/265283.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/goatse-on-the-cover-of-time-magazine/265283.md?page=3)