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By: Hijinx
Date: 4/2/98 4:18:07 PM
# Replies: 34
OK, so, I'm talking to this friend of a friend and he tells me of a place called "Rotten.Com." He told me it had all kinda weird, nasty and funny stuff on it...I mean the guy with a Parrot on his Johnson was funny, but then there's other stuff I was too scared to even look at.
I know we all have our morals and ideals and we all are more than able to think for ourselves, but is there a point of going too far?
I would love to hear what everyone thinks about this, cause if I hear about something like this, I automatically get very curious. And I'm sure you are just as curious, but I don't recommend checking out the site.
I'm sure, though, since I put the link up everybody will be checking it out, huh? Let me know what you think.
Response #1
By: Zanda
Date: 4/2/98 10:11:31 PM
Well,hedgehog funny....parrot kinda fross,but funny...dead Australian bikers I think that is a little bit to much for me. But, I guess there is someone out there that wants to see it. I think ht eDonald Duck thing is probably highly illeagal.
Response #2
By: rorschach
Date: 4/3/98 12:48:32 PM
crude, but hey, if it gets your rocks off... hey who am I to judge? (quiet sooz!)
Response #3
By: Mycroft
Date: 4/3/98 4:13:33 PM
I wish that there were mroe sites like that. I want the internet to be as painful for average joe-user to access as possible until it is fast enough to handle their insipid badwidth needs. I think EVERY browser should like to rotten.com right off in place of ANY other homepage. I don't care for dead bikers either, but I can probably stand them a lot better than most of the folks who call me at work. (Seen on not enough tee-shirts)
The Internet is full, GO AWAY!
Response #4
By: rorschach
Date: 4/4/98 10:08:32 AM
Who pissed in YOUR cherrios this morning?
Response #5
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 4/4/98 5:46:38 PM
You know.. an interesting idea for a prank comes to mind...
Of course, the question is: How do we infiltrate Netscape's ftp server and replace navigator with our re-defaulted one?
:-)
Response #6
By: Ralf
Date: 4/4/98 6:11:13 PM
It's just a registry entry for MS IE40. Build yourself the appropriate .reg file and encourage the world to click on it.
Response #7
By: Ralf
Date: 4/4/98 6:17:28 PM
Oh, and I think Rotten.com is an interesting, thought-provoking place. Nobody should feel guilt over looking at images, for crissake.
Response #8
By: Cleotis
Date: 4/5/98 9:45:46 PM
Guilt, no.
But I still wonder what kind of person would sit a bird on his winkie.
I also wonder how I would hold up in such a scenario, should I ever be forced at gun point to do so.
It could be worse. It's not like it was a ferret or anything.
Response #9
By: Da Sissop
Date: 4/6/98 12:28:26 AM
Stuff like rotten.com forces you to confront where you draw the line bewteen "art" and "offensive."
Setting aside whatever the subject matter, they're showing pictures with the intent of shocking you. And they make that pretty clear on their intro page.
It's like with slasher movies, or "When Cops Attack", or the Jerry Springer show. Seems like there's some part of us that *wants* that confrontation. How much can *I*, John Q. Public, take?
While I can appreciate the "art" in a picture of a bird perched on some guy's, uh, bird, I personally find the pictures of the decapitated and burned folks really disgusting.
Response #10
By: Ralf
Date: 4/7/98 7:36:35 PM
Why?
Why do you find death and grisly dismemberment disgusting? What's hardwired into us to cause that reflex?
Or is it a learned response?
Sympathetic "it coulda been me" vibes?
(Did your scrotal sac shrivel when you saw the parrot/penis pic?)
Response #11
By: Loki
Date: 4/8/98 1:08:42 AM
I thought the Bert and Ernie thing was cute.
I just had a bad, bad thought.
I'm going to follow my usual procedure for dealing with these bad, bad thoughts.
Stop, drop, and bleed.
Response #12
By: Mycroft
Date: 4/9/98 12:25:01 PM
What is ther bad thought?
Response #13
By: Ralf
Date: 4/10/98 5:44:48 PM
Is a "bad thought" a thought you shouldn't have, or one that's broken?
Response #14
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 4/13/98 9:27:31 PM
Transcript of recent discussion on TinyTIM:
Zarabeth pages: Did you know that Philip K. Dick was convinced at one time that his twin sister, Jane, who died at an early age, was a lesbian, and was living in him.
You paged Zarabeth: ok, I just found an interesting question:
You paged Zarabeth: 'is a 'bad thought' one that you shouldn't have, or is it one that is broken?
Zarabeth pages: well. to me "bad thought" means "not-well-formed." :)
You paged Zarabeth: unformed or malformed?
Zarabeth pages: could be either. I was thinking of it from the point of view of syntax. thoughts that don't parse. something like that.
You paged Zarabeth: kind of like having your lesbian sister inside you?
Zarabeth pages: oh no. that's a description of an ongoing psychological condition, expressed in metaphorical or mystic terms. That's a valid use of the allegorical mode. :)
Zarabeth pages: sorry, just got aristolean.
Zarabeth pages: I don't know. "bad thought" is a syntax error. define "bad". define "thought." what is the relationship you mean between the terms ? Like that :)
You paged Zarabeth: oh, so we can just file any 'bad' thought under 'metaphorical' and we're ok?
You paged Zarabeth: I mean, filing ill-formed thoughts under 'mystical' has gotten us into the deep doo-doo we're in today.
Zarabeth pages: I'm saying that I don't know what that means. And I can't imagine myself saying it, other than to say something was badly-formed, was not artistically-pleasing, was sloppy or not worked out enough or things like that. So I would have know what you mean by "bad thoughts" to answer the question.
Zarabeth senses that Homer grins.
Zarabeth pages: for me, good and bad with thought would imply cognitive-artistic-logical wellness. not spiritual/moral/metaphysic wellness. maybe emotional wellness -- a "good thought" being the same as a "happy thought."
You paged Zarabeth: so crazy people can have good thoughts.
Zarabeth pages: sure. we are all crazy people to some degree. :)
Zarabeth senses that Homer nods. I was about to add... there sure are a lot of good thoughts floating around.....
Response #15
By: sooz
Date: 4/14/98 4:28:06 PM
This explains why I stay here, at Nuns. No one thinks too deeply about things that just don't matter. And mostly, we talk about farts.
Response #16
By: Ralf
Date: 4/15/98 7:10:56 PM
If God farts, does it smell incredibly good, or incredibly bad?
(Keeping in mind that He preseumably is the very best at whatever He endeavors...)
Bonus Round: If Satan farts...?
Response #17
By: Cleotis
Date: 4/16/98 1:41:07 PM
If Satan farts, it'd probably just ignite with all that heat.
Response #18
By: Zanda
Date: 4/19/98 9:09:44 PM
I think that if God farted it would smell bad...but would you have the balls to tell the omniptant one that his shit stinks?
Response #19
By: Gowan McGland
Date: 4/19/98 10:34:19 PM
Sounded like people trying to sound smart to me.
Response #20
By: Ralf
Date: 4/20/98 8:29:52 AM
After spending a few days contemplating (alone, in a stall) I think I may tentatively offer an answer to my own question...
If God Farts, it smells exactly however He believes you need it to smell.
Some people expect it to be incredibly sweet and wonderful, and for them it is. Others expect it to rival the Trumps of Doom and for them, it does. All driven by faith, you see.
If Satan farts, it's a kazoo with a whiff of sulfur.
Response #21
By: Shadow Sprite
Date: 5/3/98 4:45:43 PM
My god farts better than your god.
And Satan is on the lowest level of Gehenna, which, as we all should know from our senior high-school english classes reading Dante, is frozen. And frozen farts just sink right into the snow... :)
Response #22
By: Loki
Date: 5/3/98 9:36:30 PM
Does God light his farts? Is that where the term "blazing blue heavens" comes from?
Response #23
By: Da Sissop
Date: 5/3/98 11:48:51 PM
Perhaps this ties in somehow with the "Big Bang" theory.
Response #24
By: rorschach
Date: 5/10/98 8:57:17 PM
speaking of "big bangs".... a thought has occurred to me, and i can think of no logical flaw with my hypothesis but that does not mean anything...consider this, some cosmologists have recently theorized that einstein may have been correct with his hypothesis of a "cosmological constant" that was essentially the equivalent of anti-gravity. now, consider that it may be possible that instead of a single "big bang" that created our universe there may have been billions of them, at various times. each creating a universe of its own. each "universe" would exert a gravitational attraction on all the others. if the dispersion were relatively even. then that gravitational attraction would appear to be working "against" gravity simply because outside of the expanding bubble that we call the universe, all the cosmologists assume a total vacuum of space/time. but if there were other space/times our there, say, a few billion parsecs over, wouldn't it have a gravitational effect on ours?
Response #25
By: Mycroft
Date: 5/11/98 9:15:08 PM
By einstein's own theories, it won't being to effect us until we can "see" it. gravity propogates at the speed of light, if can effect far, but not any faster than anything else.
Response #26
By: Ralf
Date: 5/11/98 11:22:48 PM
For gravity to have a measurable speed, wouldn't it need to be either a wave or particle -- something that propogates? I thought it behaves more like a field.
Is there really a "speed of gravity"?
If so, does it change according to the density of the medium, like light?
How does one measure the speed of gravity?
I've always been taught that EVERYTHING exerts a gravitational pull on everything else, no matter how far away. But it becomes too weak to measure after a very short distance... not true?
Response #27
By: rorschach
Date: 5/14/98 12:32:01 PM
it was *MY* understanding that gravity waves propagate instantaeneously and that they are the only viable means of communication over cosmic distances... (now if we can just figure out a way of moving a quantum singularity around...) or to move faster than the speed of light... (must be able to curve space in a controlled manner so that the object is always falling down a gravity well...)
too weak to measure? well... i guess that depends on the instrument.. robert l. forward has devised an extremely sensitive balance gravitometer that was used by the navy for gravitometry of the sea floor and could be used as a reciever for a gravity wave communications system.
it is felt that gravity shares the dual particle/wave duality that photons and other particles exibit, and the particle is a graviton... whether it has been shown in the lab or not I do not know.
Response #28
By: Ralf
Date: 5/17/98 10:12:28 PM
Gravitons don't exist. Not yet, anyway. Just a theory.
However, when a sufficient number of scientists look for them, they will be brought into existance to satisfy the will of the observer.
Think I'm kidding? Heisenberg laughed until he found himself locked in a box with a cat...
Response #29
By: Jay
Date: 5/18/98 10:11:50 AM
I thought Heisenberg blew up in New Jersey after George C Scott couldn't defuse the bomb in time....
Response #30
By: Ralf
Date: 5/18/98 6:43:23 PM
No no, you're thinking of the Titelist, the ship that hit the iceberg and sank in the Pacfic with Leonard DeForest Kelly onboard.
Response #31
By: sooz
Date: 5/18/98 6:54:30 PM
That's Leonardo DeCappucino, and he's opening a coffeehouse.
Response #32
By: Jay
Date: 5/19/98 9:31:48 AM
No wait didn't he make the "wooden boy" that...ahem..."became a man"?
Response #33
By: Ralf
Date: 5/20/98 12:07:06 AM
I believe you're thinking of Sean Pennochio, who was briefly married to Madonna Guiccioni, the paralyzed publisher of PennHouse magazine.
Response #34
By: Da Sissop
Date: 5/22/98 9:36:54 AM
You're thinking of Frank Seanatra, the legendary crooner, who started the brat pack with fellow entertainers Ed Begley Jr., Dean Jones, Joey Chitwood and Anthony Michael Hall.
Whatever became of him?