Comments on: TinyURL'd goatse in the title field of an otherwise excellent thread.

TinyURL'd goatse in the title field of an otherwise excellent thread.

brownpau — Sat, 25 Dec 2004 01:56:49 -0800

TinyURL'd goatse in the title field of an otherwise excellent thread. Please edit, thanks. And Merry Christmas.

By: mek

mek — Sat, 25 Dec 2004 02:18:29 -0800

Clearly Keyser has been brainwashed by Steve_at_Linwood.

By: Keyser Soze

Keyser Soze — Sat, 25 Dec 2004 02:44:59 -0800

How did that get there? Will it bar discussion of the Cassini-Huygens mission for good? What will happen to productive thought and communication?

Please do not let this image of a dilated anus prevent critical discussion of a very interesting topic.

By: mek

mek — Sat, 25 Dec 2004 02:58:50 -0800

point and match.

By: trondant

trondant — Sat, 25 Dec 2004 05:01:17 -0800

brainwashed, photographed, whatever.

By: grouse

grouse — Sat, 25 Dec 2004 05:17:17 -0800

WTF?

By: Ethereal Bligh

Ethereal Bligh — Sat, 25 Dec 2004 05:25:32 -0800

So, did this Keyser Soze fellow expose us (potentially) to anus intentionally? Because I'd like to choose whether or not I'm exposed to anus.

...not that I'm sayin' I wouldn't chose to be exposed to anus. But still.

By: crunchburger

crunchburger — Sat, 25 Dec 2004 05:41:39 -0800

This confirms my theory that the Germans love David Hasselhof. Oh, and that Keyser Soze sucks at the internet.

By: Smart Dalek

Smart Dalek — Sat, 25 Dec 2004 06:15:42 -0800

"There I was, minding my own business...when all of a sudden, this hyperlink falls out of a truck..."

By: grouse

grouse — Sat, 25 Dec 2004 10:06:33 -0800

I like the new title.

By: rushmc

rushmc — Sat, 25 Dec 2004 11:39:41 -0800

:::crosses his fingers and prays that konolia clicks on the link before it's fixed:::

By: stet

stet — Sat, 25 Dec 2004 11:43:22 -0800

Damnit! I didn't get there before the link was removed and now I don't have the opportunity to be exposed to anus. Man, there goes Christmas.

By: Bugbread

Bugbread — Sat, 25 Dec 2004 11:54:57 -0800

Stet: A mirror and some neck craning can do wonders. There's hope for Christmas yet!!

By: stet

stet — Sat, 25 Dec 2004 12:16:46 -0800

*Checks stocking and gets disconcerting grin*

By: dirtynumbangelboy

dirtynumbangelboy — Sat, 25 Dec 2004 13:13:01 -0800

:::loves on rushmc:::

By: Keyser Soze

Keyser Soze — Sat, 25 Dec 2004 15:09:57 -0800

Ok, now I am really confused.

By: stavrogin

stavrogin — Sat, 25 Dec 2004 15:31:20 -0800

I... whuh?

By: squeak

squeak — Sat, 25 Dec 2004 16:25:47 -0800

I (heart) matt's solution.

By: neckro23

neckro23 — Sat, 25 Dec 2004 17:36:14 -0800

I was having a wonderful Christmas until I was traumatized by exposure to anus.

By: baphomet

baphomet — Sat, 25 Dec 2004 17:56:01 -0800

I was having a completely shitty Christmas until I was saved by exposure to anus.

By: mr_crash_davis

mr_crash_davis — Sat, 25 Dec 2004 18:04:05 -0800

In Soviet Russia, anus is exposed to you!

By: konolia

konolia — Sat, 25 Dec 2004 18:08:48 -0800

:::crosses his fingers and prays that konolia clicks on the link before it's fixed:::

You're an atheist, silly.

By: konolia

konolia — Sat, 25 Dec 2004 18:09:37 -0800

Or am I confusing you with the other fellow again?

By: trondant

trondant — Sat, 25 Dec 2004 18:13:05 -0800

Metafilter: Please do not let this image of a dilated anus prevent critical discussion of a very interesting topic.

By: Keyser Soze

Keyser Soze — Sat, 25 Dec 2004 18:18:56 -0800

Merry Christmas everybody.

By: elpapacito

elpapacito — Sat, 25 Dec 2004 18:26:38 -0800

What's wrong with the goatse in the title ?
[obligatory why some people want it removed ?]

By: kamylyon

kamylyon — Sat, 25 Dec 2004 19:04:44 -0800

:::loves on rushmc:::

heh

By: kavasa

kavasa — Sat, 25 Dec 2004 20:39:03 -0800

Can still pray, konolia. Just because you don't think anything will come of it doesn't mean you can't hedge your bets. The other side of pascal's wager, sort of.

By: marsha56

marsha56 — Sat, 25 Dec 2004 21:04:21 -0800

::: :::crosses his fingers and prays that konolia clicks on the link before it's fixed::: :::

::: You're an atheist, silly. :::

::: posted by konolia at 6:08 PM PST on December 25 :::

Can I nominate konolia for 'Good Sport of the Week Award '??

Thanks konny for passing over the snark-bait with a grin, and raising the Meta discourse level by several degrees.

Wish this happened more often.

By: You Should See the Other Guy

You Should See the Other Guy — Sat, 25 Dec 2004 21:37:56 -0800

How much is that goatse in the title? I do hope that goatse's for sale.

By: stavrosthewonderchicken

stavrosthewonderchicken — Sat, 25 Dec 2004 22:39:30 -0800

So, if I understand correctly, Keyser Soze deliberately put a goatse link in his post, obscured with a tinyurl, half-heartedly pretended he didn't know how it got there, and well, that's just OK, 'cause he's the Mildly Retarded Younger Brother of Metafilter?

What the heck is up with that?

By: Keyser Soze

Keyser Soze — Sat, 25 Dec 2004 23:04:45 -0800

I guess the truth comes out.

By: Steve_at_Linnwood

Steve_at_Linnwood — Sun, 26 Dec 2004 00:32:24 -0800

Clearly Keyser has been brainwashed by Steve_at_Linwood.
posted by mek at 2:18 AM PST on December 25

What the hell do I have to do with this?

By: taz

taz — Sun, 26 Dec 2004 00:53:56 -0800

Wow, is this some tired shtick, or what? I can't fathom the mind that still thinks this is clever or edgy.

Oh wait, I can... The trick is to use a measuring device with units in millimeters.

By: JohnR

JohnR — Sun, 26 Dec 2004 03:42:48 -0800

Keyser Soze lives in a studio apt. with cats? How many? He is meta's butt hole surfer.

By: Keyser Soze

Keyser Soze — Sun, 26 Dec 2004 03:57:17 -0800

After JohnR called me a butthole surfer I searched Wikipedia and Google but the only information I could find was on a 90s band. What exactly is a butthole surfer?

By: dash_slot-

dash_slot- — Sun, 26 Dec 2004 05:08:31 -0800

Stavros:
As far as I can see, KS put the TinyUrl in the title of the post, so it wasn't clickable. Matt changed that to 'What the fuck, Keyser?'

KS is denying any knowledge of how it occurred (!), but to keep perspective, only someone who viewed page source, then copied & pasted the url into a browser would have gone to... whatever (I didn't bother).

The misdemeanour here is to hide a target in a TinyUrl - and to be honest, those are dodgy enough for me to avoid most of the time these days.

BTW, Keyser Soze is a girl, right?

By: Keyser Soze

Keyser Soze — Sun, 26 Dec 2004 05:34:45 -0800

Dash Slot is correct, so what I don't understand is why I get called a butthole surfer. And mildly retarded. And a slew of other insults.

This metatalk thread has been for the most part one big jump on keyser festival of lights and sounds. What I don't understand is the snarkiness and mood of this entire thread. It went from humorless prodding to direct insults.

Why, exactly, should I (or deserve) be called "mildly retarded"? Do you see me calling you "mildly retarded"? Certainly not. Did I force goatse.cx on anybody? No. Was I trying to be humorous? Gee, I wonder. So why am I being treated like I just insulted your mother and threw a laminated goatse.cx in your face?

By: Secret Life of Gravy

Secret Life of Gravy — Sun, 26 Dec 2004 06:34:05 -0800

So why am I being treated like I just insulted your mother and threw a laminated goatse.cx in your face?

~lightbulb pops up over my head~
Wow! I think I just figured out my Christmas gifts for next year!

By: brownpau

brownpau — Sun, 26 Dec 2004 06:45:55 -0800

Well trolled.

By: konolia

konolia — Sun, 26 Dec 2004 06:51:08 -0800

Keyser Soze is a girl???!!!!

By: y2karl

y2karl — Sun, 26 Dec 2004 07:29:26 -0800

Gender aside, the smarmy 'who me?' schtick and ensuing attempts to one up every comment thread moderation here certainly reinforces the attention needy teenager extremely lacking in social skills theory.

By: languagehat

languagehat — Sun, 26 Dec 2004 08:13:02 -0800

Keyser Soze is a girl???!!!!

My reaction exactly.
*tries to implant phrase "MeFi's Kid Sister" in brain*

So... Keyser did do this deliberately? How many banhammers does Matt have to wield before people grasp that it ain't funny to anyone but fuckwits?

By: Bugbread

Bugbread — Sun, 26 Dec 2004 08:57:16 -0800

Who is Keyser Soze?

She's supposed to be Turkish. Some say her father was German.

One story the guys told me, the story I believe, was from her days in Turkey. There was a gang of Hungarians that wanted their own mob. They come to her home in the afternoon, looking for her business. She comes home to find her husband raped and children screaming.

She goes after the mob. She kills their kids. She kills their wives. She kills their parents and their parents' friends. She burns down the houses they live in, the stores they work in. She kills people that owe them money. She sneaks in links to goatse.cx. And like that, she's gone. Underground. Nobody's ever seen her since. She becomes a myth, a spook story that criminals tell their kids at night. "Rat on your pop and Keyser Soze will get you." But no one ever really believes.

By: rushmc

rushmc — Sun, 26 Dec 2004 09:15:32 -0800

You're an atheist, silly.

Ah, good, you caught that one.

(Agnostic, but close enough.)

By: Ethereal Bligh

Ethereal Bligh — Sun, 26 Dec 2004 09:35:21 -0800

Sometimes I love bugbread. This is one of those times. BTW, switching through the channels looking for news on the tsunami, I came across the Actor's Studio with Spacey. Spacey almost, but not quite, violates my rule-of-thumb about actors talking about their work. The thing that's most annoying about actors is that they never stop performing. Everyone is either amused by their cleverness or moved by their gravitas. Oh, also, I hate TV. There was like 20 minutes, total, on all the news channels (and only the news channels) on the tsunami.

But, anyway, the way I hear it, Soze is some kind of butcher. A pitiless, psycho, fucked-up butcher.

By: wendell

wendell — Sun, 26 Dec 2004 11:58:47 -0800

Keyser is the kind of kid who tapes a "Kick Me" sign on his/her own back, and then is surprised to get a reaction other than sympathy.

By: Keyser Soze

Keyser Soze — Sun, 26 Dec 2004 12:31:14 -0800

You all need to c hill out.

By: Keyser Soze

Keyser Soze — Sun, 26 Dec 2004 12:33:23 -0800

(Use some common sense)

By: angry modem

angry modem — Sun, 26 Dec 2004 12:51:31 -0800

How is anyone supposed to click on that?

By: Bugbread

Bugbread — Sun, 26 Dec 2004 13:18:48 -0800

Ok, Keyser, that one was actually kinda funny. Probably massively against Meta rules, but kinda funny.

By: ODiV

ODiV — Sun, 26 Dec 2004 13:52:49 -0800

Has Keyser given his account to some goon as a Christmas present?

By: Sidhedevil

Sidhedevil — Sun, 26 Dec 2004 14:12:45 -0800

konolia and rushmc get big cheers for doing jocular teasing right on this thread.

MeFi is, officially, a goatse-free zone, right? Maybe we need to have that in the wiki. NO GOATSE!

By: y2karl

y2karl — Sun, 26 Dec 2004 14:41:55 -0800

(Use some common sense)

This whole thread's existence is testimony to the fact that common sense is not your strong suit.

By: stavrosthewonderchicken

stavrosthewonderchicken — Sun, 26 Dec 2004 15:10:28 -0800

Why, exactly, should I (or deserve) be called "mildly retarded"? Do you see me calling you "mildly retarded"? Certainly not.

OK, then. Severely retarded.

(I won't even bother searching for the Goon Justice thread, either here or at SA, that got you banned over there.)

By: stavrosthewonderchicken

stavrosthewonderchicken — Sun, 26 Dec 2004 15:17:55 -0800

But seriously, as the rabbi said to the fireman, I didn't realize that the tinyurl was embedded in the title tag, and thus unclickable. Although I agree with taz that Our Pal Goatse hasn't been anything but tedious and lame as a gotcha for at least a couple of years, the idea that someone would have to go through all that effort to eventually get goatse'd is kinda amusing...

By: dash_slot-

dash_slot- — Sun, 26 Dec 2004 16:14:55 -0800

Lotta, lotta peeps jumped in here without all the facts to hand.

1 peep needs to think about what exactly she's adding to the community.

IMHO.

By: stet

stet — Sun, 26 Dec 2004 16:30:54 -0800

Perhaps we need to re-evaluate our criteria and leave ourselves open to the possibility that, when all is said and done, goatse really is the very best that the Web has to offer.

By: brownpau

brownpau — Sun, 26 Dec 2004 17:35:42 -0800

Keyser Soze is a girl???!!!!

As I was walking home this evening, a little girl was riding her bike in the middle of the street. She still had the training wheels on as she wobbled and struggled to peddle. It reminded me of when I was little and how badly I wanted a bicycle but couldn't get one.

By: Dreamghost

Dreamghost — Sun, 26 Dec 2004 18:56:23 -0800

FREE QUONSAR

By: Kwantsar

Kwantsar — Sun, 26 Dec 2004 20:14:53 -0800

For the record, I want it to be stated in the firmest terms: No one will ever, ever convince me that Keyser Soze is a girl.