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Came here to say the same thing. Unless you're one of today's "lucky 10,000"[0] who haven't ever encountered goatse before, there's no need to verify this :D [
by smcl 3y ago
Came here to say the same thing. Unless you're one of today's "lucky 10,000"[0] who haven't ever encountered goatse before, there's no need to verify this :D
[0] - https://xkcd.com/1053/ https://xkcd.com/1053/
edit: folks the xkcd lucky 10k reference was a joke, settle down
- TeMPOraL 3y agoThis is a different twist on that xkcd - if you haven't seen goatse before, consider yourself truly lucky, and enjoy not experiencing this particular cognitohazard.
- permo-w 3y agoI'm opening myself up to criticism by saying this, but this is unusually cringeworthy even for XKCD
- n40487171 3y agoDid you read the xkcd? It's not about goatse
- feoren 3y agoCringeworthy? This is one of the more oft-linked XKCDs, I think because it makes a valid observation: everyone has a few things that "everyone knows" that they've randomly missed, and it's more fun to enjoy the discovery than to ridicule them for something that happens to all of us randomly.
- permo-w 3y agothe observation is sound, it's the presentation that irks me
- civilitty 3y agoYou’re not the only one. It’s an XKCD comic made for LinkedIn and it annoys me every time it’s referenced.
- floren 3y agoSame but every XKCD
- PhasmaFelis 3y agoI guess you're one of those people who thinks that any sincere emotional expression is cringe? I've never understood that attitude.
- permo-w 3y agoyou guessed wrongly
- PhasmaFelis 3y agoThat's what you're doing, though.
- permo-w 3y agoit's the "any" that makes it wrong. I reserve the right to pick and choose what expressions I find cringeworthy
- PhasmaFelis 3y agoSo you only sometimes find things cringey just because they're sincere? That's not a large improvement.
- mcv 3y agoI've managed to never see goatse so far. Not because I'm new or innocent, but because I've learned my lessons. I don't think the 10,000 really applies to this situation. It's certainly not something that everybody needs to see at some point in their lives (or so I've been lead to believe).
- unixhero 3y agoI didn't want to see it But it was kind of a rickroll situation... yeah it sucks
- wincy 3y agoIn college my friend came over for a LAN party and when he went to the bathroom I quietly set his background to Goatse… I got quite the chuckle at 3am when he went to shut down his computer after a long night of gaming. Ah to be young again.
- hyperbovine 3y agoAnyone who was a freshmen in college circa y2k saw it about 4000 times. It was one of the first images to which I became desensitized.
- js2 3y agoWelp perhaps you'd enjoy an album of other people seeing goatse for the first time: https://www.flickr.com/photos/mrneutron/albums/1568481/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/mrneutron/albums/1568481/
- jodrellblank 3y agoIf you change the domain to goatkcd it shows you the comic but replaces the last panel with goatse. e.g. NSFW https://goatkcd.com/1053/ https://goatkcd.com/1053/
- hoistbypetard 3y agoYour joke really flips the meaning of the lucky 10000. Nicely done.
- Vicinity9635 3y agoThis is the "Lucky Pierre" type of lucky. If you don't know what that is, you might not want to search it.
- resolutebat 3y agoNone of these seem particularly horrifying? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucky_Pierre https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucky_Pierre
- tremon 3y agoI'm guessing the poster is referring to the last item on that disambiguation page.