# Links you WILL NOT click **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 31, 2010, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/links-you-will-not-click/541349 "2010-05-31T03:29:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2010, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/links-you-will-not-click/541349/41 "2010-06-01T20:49:51Z")
Are you speaking of the cake that appeared to be made of used tampons? ---
**Author:** ![silk1976](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8edcca/32.png) [@silk1976](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silk1976)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2010, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/links-you-will-not-click/541349/42 "2010-06-01T21:09:33Z")
I got through a dozen posts of people describing what they wouldn’t see before I decided I didn’t want to continue _reading_ this thread - much less _see_ something disturbing (no offense to the OP - it’s an interesting thread topic). ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2010, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/links-you-will-not-click/541349/43 "2010-06-01T21:26:28Z")
> [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](#): > > (Also, there was a recent traumatizing link at cakewrecks- yes, the blog that shows badly made cakes- that I clicked on, but blinked my eyes and sorta didn’t really look and then I closed it again. Meanwhile, in the comments section, about one zillion people complained that they were going to have to sleep with the light on). Was that the baby cake? (After it had been half eaten.) ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2010, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/links-you-will-not-click/541349/44 "2010-06-01T21:32:45Z")
[Here is the link to the Cake Wrecks baby cake](http://www.cakewrecks.com/2010/05/baby-cake-gets-cut-down-to-size.html), just to save everyone else the trouble of going through the site trying to find it. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![tr0psn4j](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/958977/32.png) [@tr0psn4j](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tr0psn4j)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2010, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/links-you-will-not-click/541349/45 "2010-06-01T21:40:41Z")
> [@MsWhatsit](#): > > [Here is the link to the Cake Wrecks baby cake](http://www.cakewrecks.com/2010/05/baby-cake-gets-cut-down-to-size.html), just to save everyone else the trouble of going through the site trying to find it. 😉 A little late there! I just went through the CakeWrecks trying to figure it out and was just about to ask if it was the baby cake. 😃 Looks delicious btw. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2010, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/links-you-will-not-click/541349/46 "2010-06-01T21:40:44Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > FI looked at the breast pic, and to me it looked so fake that I wasn’t bothered by it, after an intial _ewwww._ I realised Lotus Boob was a composite from the very first glance at it (because I already knew exactly what lotus pods look like), but that didn’t stop it being a disturbing photo - because of what it _suggests_, no matter how realistically it portrays the suggestion. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2010, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/links-you-will-not-click/541349/47 "2010-06-01T21:43:05Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > Is that the one, or the series, in which all it shows are real deaths captured on film? If so, I happened to see it, or one of them, inadvertently. It was sometime in the late 1980s, I was down South for a meeting – the coastal town of Songkhla, it was – and the restaurant I was in … _was showing it on the big screen on the wall_! :eek: It was mid-afternoon, and we had the place to ourselves for a seminar, and the sound was off, but still! I’ve always wondered if they showed that during normal opening hours and hoped it was just some of the staff checking it out for themselves. NHK (national terrestrial TV network) showed it casually during a weekend afternoon, when I was living in Japan in 1992. It haunted me for ages. ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2010, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/links-you-will-not-click/541349/48 "2010-06-01T21:46:26Z")
I’ve never seen 2 Girls 1 Cup, nor will I. I’ve seen goatse and tubgirl, and wish I hadn’t. Ditto the weightlifter with the prolapsed rectum and the pic that’s supposedly the aftermath of a motorcycle accident but is in actuality a botched shotgun suicide attempt. I’ve never seen Bud Dwyer, and won’t. I have a hard time with anything moving that involves real people (video, I mean). Still photos don’t bother me that much. I used to spend a lot of time on [rotten.com](http://rotten.com) many years ago, but you couldn’t pay me to watch Faces of Death. Oh, and forget animal cruelty. No way, no how. Especially anything involving cats. Watching someone hurt a cat would put me right over the edge. Watching someone hurt most other types of animals (things like fish don’t bother me that much) would be close, but cats are the worst. I made the mistake of watching the vid of the two kids messing with the cat a few months back (the one that some big group–4chan maybe?–ended up tracking down the kids and getting them in a heap of trouble) and I still wish I could scrub the vision from my brain. And that cat ended up all right. Oh, and lotus boob? Doesn’t bother me a bit. I think it’s creepily fascinating. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2010, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/links-you-will-not-click/541349/49 "2010-06-01T21:48:27Z")
Not the cake I was thinking of. The OP to [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=554932) has a link to the used tampon cake. Except it’s not used tampons, it’s something else ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2010, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/links-you-will-not-click/541349/50 "2010-06-02T02:32:52Z")
I was referring to the baby cake. The dead shark one, to me, is more :dubious: than :eek:. ---
**Author:** ![rolandgunslinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/cdc98d/32.png) [@rolandgunslinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rolandgunslinger)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2010, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/links-you-will-not-click/541349/51 "2010-06-02T02:40:37Z")
No beheadings, No animal cruelty or tub girl, lemon party, goatsie, people falling from the towers. ---
**Author:** ![Cyningablod](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc29f/32.png) [@Cyningablod](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyningablod)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2010, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/links-you-will-not-click/541349/52 "2010-06-02T04:00:36Z")
Been on the web since 1995. Ran into goatse by accident (once and only once), and have thankfully never seen 2G1C or tubgirl. (The Wiki descriptions alone are quite enough, thank you.) Lotus boob didn’t bother me too much, as it was clearly fake. And the only reason I saw it is that I used to browse [Snopes.com](http://Snopes.com). I have to say, in reading this thread, I’m both encouraged and impressed by how many posters have described having what to me is admirable character and integrity about this sort of thing. (Granted, SDMB members are certainly a cut above on intellectual matters, so it’s not altogether surprising that y’all display good ethics, too.) I enjoy a lot of “dark” or “subversive” things, even some art forms that are considered provoking or transgressive. But I refuse to watch, look at, or listen to anything that… -heavily involves or celebrates actual suffering\*, whether human or animal -has content that degrades or impugns the dignity of humans or animals.\*\* \*By “suffering”, I mean gratuitous depictions of (or actual recordings of the real thing) severe, protracted torment of sentient beings, such as photos/scenes of rape or torture. Quick “Hollywood” murders onscreen obviously don’t fall into this category. Context is also important. The suffering in _Schindler’s List_ or _Saving Private Ryan_ has redeeming academic and social merit. _Pulp Fiction_ or _Inglourious Basterds_ [sic]? Nope. \*\*E.g., videos of terrorist beheadings, of victims of 9/11, of child abuse, “crush videos”, many types of porn, etc. ---
**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:** [June 2, 2010, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/links-you-will-not-click/541349/53 "2010-06-02T04:29:10Z")
May I add pictures of snakes to the list? If there’s an article that involves snakes and I want to read it, I have to go into the settings on Firefox and turn off images. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2010, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/links-you-will-not-click/541349/54 "2010-06-02T04:30:27Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > May I add pictures of snakes to the list? If there’s an article that involves snakes and I want to read it, I have to go into the settings on Firefox and turn off images. Ok, that’s officially strange. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2010, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/links-you-will-not-click/541349/55 "2010-06-03T04:52:32Z")
I just saw the video I was unwilling to watch a couple of days ago, because Stephen Colbert played it, twice, on his show tonight. I almost turned it off, but I dedcided that it couln’t be TOO gruesome if it played on popular TV. It was in fact pretty damn gruesome, but not as bad as I imagined it would be. The freeze frame image was even worse than the still accompanying the first article I saw about the goring. ---
**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:** [June 4, 2010, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/links-you-will-not-click/541349/56 "2010-06-04T02:37:46Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > Ok, that’s officially strange. How so? It’s _extreme_, I admit, but most phobias are. (Cute cartoon snakes don’t bother me – like Sir Hiss in the Disney version of _Robin Hood_) But I’ve always been terrified of snakes – I can’t watch movies with snakes, or look at pictures, anything. (When we were kids, my cousin LOVED to chase me with pictures of snakes!) ---
**Author:** ![Perciful](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b38774/32.png) [@Perciful](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Perciful)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2010, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/links-you-will-not-click/541349/57 "2010-06-05T23:24:51Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > I realised Lotus Boob was a composite from the very first glance at it (because I already knew exactly what lotus pods look like), but that didn’t stop it being a disturbing photo - because of what it _suggests_, no matter how realistically it portrays the suggestion. That one stayed with me to… Ill never look at a lotus pod the same way. ---
**Author:** ![Rushgeekgirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rushgeekgirl/32/3715_2.png) [@Rushgeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rushgeekgirl)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2010, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/links-you-will-not-click/541349/58 "2010-06-06T00:07:46Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > How so? It’s _extreme_, I admit, but most phobias are. (Cute cartoon snakes don’t bother me – like Sir Hiss in the Disney version of _Robin Hood_) > > But I’ve always been terrified of snakes – I can’t watch movies with snakes, or look at pictures, anything. (When we were kids, my cousin LOVED to chase me with pictures of snakes!) Makes sense to me to avoid those videos. I have this plane crash phobia so I don’t want to see them in videos. I don’t like seeing anything violent, no deaths, not even fake ones. Human or other animal. I think I may be a little phobic about that too. I made the rotten dot com mistake years ago and it messed with me. I’m okay as long as the person is still alive, as long as I know there’s going to be a happy ending. The matador video wasn’t too bad. When I saw that I know I groaned and my toes curled tight, but it won’t stick with me when I’m trying to sleep tonight. Those images I saw on that website will never leave my memory. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2010, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/links-you-will-not-click/541349/59 "2010-06-06T01:43:51Z")
I won’t click on a link if I suspect that it’s got human death occurring in it. Fortunately, I have a slow computer, so even if I’m getting snookered, I usually see the subject in the banner that shows up at the top of the screen. Then I’ll bail out and report it as a snuff film. ---
**Author:** ![Arglefraster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3bc359/32.png) [@Arglefraster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arglefraster)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2010, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/links-you-will-not-click/541349/60 "2010-06-07T19:36:33Z")
> [@tr0psn4j](#): > > That’s not Tub Girl. > > Description of Tub Girl in the spoilers. > > Tub Girl is a girl in a tub laying down on her back with her butt up and pooping in her own mouth. Really? Ages ago someone sent me a link called Tubgirl, and it linked to a video of Two hot asian girls sitting in a bathtub taking turns vomiting on each other and giggling. I always thought when people mentioned the infamous tubgirl that’s what they were talking about. Apparently whoever it was that pranked me sent me the wrong video. Still gross, but not as gross as the real tubgirl. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/links-you-will-not-click/541349.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/links-you-will-not-click/541349.md?page=4)