A Brief History of Goatse

[Qingdai]

Thankfully, due to my aging mind, I think I've might have seen some of the images, but can't actually recall them. It's almost like my memory is protecting me from them or something.

I'd say it's a response to trauma, but I do that with people's names. So either I'm particularly forgetful or everyone has traumatically bad names.

[MonCapitan2002]

Originally Posted by lisarea

Happy Goatse Day, Clutch Munny!

You Are Very Special Person... Free For Everyone eCards, Greetings from 123greetings.com

I am p. sure that ecard never ends, but you'd better watch it for a couple of hours just in case.

With the subject of this thread being what it is, I am far too terrified to even contemplate clicking on that link for fear of the possible horrors that may be found within.

[lisarea]

It's actually a violation of my personal policies to goatse people or even do the mean kind of rickrolls and stuff.

It really is just a bad ecard, Cap. It'll still offend your sensibilities, but it's not going to make you have to sit funny or close your browser or anything.

[Ari]

I've personally never found goatse that offensive.
Not enjoyable either, but not offensive.

[MonCapitan2002]

It's not so much offensive as it is deeply unpleasant to see.

[Kashmir]

I saw it the first--and to this point only--time somewhere around '03-'04. Whenever Google image search started.

At the time it got an, "Egad!" from me, but now I don't think it would give me a reaction, unless I was in a public place.

"Thanks" to the internet, I've since seen stuff that makes tentacle-rape hentai seem not that disturbing in comparison.

[MonCapitan2002]

No should become that desensitized.

[lisarea]

You. guys.

Goatse Mail

I have used my unique invite URL there instead of the generic one. I'm assuming this will help me accumulate goatse points or something.

BTW, there's no goatse at that link, at least not at this time. It's just a signup form where you can get your very own goatse.cx email address.

[MonCapitan2002]

[Demimonde]

Oh. My. God.

I was at Neimans today and was asked for my email address. I gave them my generic junk address but OH MY GOD A GOATSE ADDRESS WOULD BE AWESOME FOR THAT.

Okay, maybe not for Neimans because classy but STILL.

[Gonzo]

I just took a look at it for the first time since middle school. Like Kashmir, I am dead inside.

[MonCapitan2002]

That makes me No one should be inside due to the internet.

[erimir]

I'm not dead inside.

I think goatse is kinda like early internet kitsch now.

Check out this Apple MacBook decal! Spoilered for the faint of heart (it's a line drawing):

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[MonCapitan2002]

Is that a real item for sale? I can just imagine someone toting it around and the comments such a decal would generate.

[Gonzo]

I would soooo go to Starbucks and sit nearby the pretentious public writers.

[koan]

I clicked on this link before going to work in the morning and had to listen to Taylor Swift three times in a row to get something more annoying in my head before I left.

Thanks.

[ceptimus]

[lisarea]

Goatse Mail - YouTube

I just got the invite, and am a little disgruntled that they want $50 to reserve an address, so I'm probably not going to do it after all.

But I figured I should update.

[curses]

Don't hate me, I'm just bumping this because I'm tired of the "favorite porn sites" thrad showing up.

Fine, fine. Goatse'd.

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[MonCapitan2002]

I couldn't stop myself from clicking the spoiler box. I used to watch that show as a kid.

[Ensign Steve]

Originally Posted by curses

Don't hate me, I'm just bumping this because I'm tired of the "favorite porn sites" thrad showing up.

Fine, fine. Goatse'd.

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The tongue is a nice touch.

[curses]

Originally Posted by Ensign Steve

The tongue is a nice touch.

I thought so as well. It sealed the deal.

[MonCapitan2002]

You definitely lived up to your name with that post.

[livius drusus]

Someone hacked Goatse onto an electronic billboard on Peachtree and East Paces Ferry in Atlanta's toney Buckhead neighborhood. A redditor has taken the credit, but then again, who wouldn't?

[erimir]