ISP Westnet was proud to release its new website look and logo. With the logo representing and I quote from Westnet's own staff: "...the caring nature of our staff..." , however geeks on the Whirlpool forums and most of the internet seem to see more of a relation to a certain internet shock site...
http://www.westnet.com.au/about/logo/
http://web.archive.org/web/20020929060831/http://www.goatse.cx/
http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?t=342602&p=11#r209
The new logo represents the enormous care that goes into servicing every member.
Those immoral bastards left out the wedding ring!
I can't shake the nagging feeling that they are doing that on purpose, though. It'd be a great way to get cheap publicity among the nerds.
Or maybe the graphic designer they hired was an asshole.
http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?t=342602&p=5
the first 3 posts commenting on the logo were all deleted as "inappropriate"
and the rest of the thread was heavily censored
Goatse is some sort of Jungian thing. First that kid art, now this.
It's the Internet's ☮.
Postpostpostmodern culture doesn't have any unifying symbol anymore but the gazing anus that represents the first major shock barrier which they had to cross to become part of the cynical, all-knowing and desensitized entity known as the internet.
I may rest my little nonsensical piece of sociology by linking to a spiritual essay on goatse, written by Miss Juliachrist:
http://www.blogwars.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2068
Australia fucking sucks, its a terrible country
I find your statement enlightening. Tell me more.
Theyre unintelligent sport crazed america hating convicts
example
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,15734656-421,00.html
Fuck australia and australians
I think that's overly sensational. Most people mistake me for an American due to my accent, yet I've never had any problems. Mind you, I live in Melbourne.
> Theyre unintelligent sport crazed america hating convicts
Or perhaps They're bible-thumping egomaniac cowboys hellbent on world imperialism.
I find the symmetry of this situation both amusing and disturbing.
I couldn't care less what you think, I hate Australians and they can all go fuck themselves.
Hey guys, let's talk more about goatse. It's a lot less virulent.
I like >>8. I find it amusing (but not disturbing!) that goatse could be the closest thing the Internet has to a God-symbol. I like how she puts it: *“Expand! Expand! You are Greater than you think! You are limitless! You are Infinite! You are Able!”* Goatse, tubgirl, and shock actions expand our minds, expand our conciousness, expand our knowledge, and perhaps most importantly, expand our tolerance for such imagery.
That a thing as utterly infinite as the Internet - so infinite a thing that it denies human comprehension and policing, despite humans being its creators (and people may argue with me on this one) - could give rise to a symbol of the infinite possibility of humans amazes me. It also saddens me to think that no one else will see goatse, look at its grotesqueness, and will not see the same thing I do. But that is the nature of this medium - the Internet limits with its expansiveness. One cannot see all of the Internet, one might experience only AOL, limited by themselves. Or one might expand their knowledge of the Internet, finding text-based pages, messageboards, imageboards, USENET, BBSes, all of these things - and yet they will not have experienced it all.
>But isn't all of humanity molded in God's image? Aren't we, as a society, a collective representation of God and creation (good or bad)?
Perhaps we are moulded in the image of goatse, but we just have to discover our 'perversions'. 4channers recognise their paedophilia. Gurochanners recognise their wants. Could they not be getting closer to the goatse pinnacle - the full exposure of oneself to the 'world'?
TL;DR...
> They're unintelligent
Unintelligent? Some really good inventions have come out of Australia. Let's take Hotmail for an example. That was an australian idea, and run by australians, until MS bought them. Like they do to small companies with good ideas. A lot.
> Sport crazed
About as crazy for sport as Americans are for football.
> America hating
Not all of us hate America. I really loved the time I spent there a few years ago, I met some really good people. I talk to americans all the time online, and have made a few good friends that are american. Now, if you had said "GWB hating" then yes, most of us don't like him. The people who are taking out their hate for GWB on all americans are just fuckwits.
> convicts
The brits stopped shipping bread stealers out here long ago. I think you'll find that most australians aren't actually from england.
>>13
Interesting fact for the day:
I'm Australian.
So are the two other technicians who maintain this server.
So is one of the moderators.
Interesting, eh?
Well shit, this is a surprise. I'm in as well.
Before I get on to flaming the Americans (^_^), I'll share a little tidbit someone gave me. I mentioned the new goatse^ Westnet logo to a guy I know that lives in Newcastle. He was most amused; one of his old mates started/works for Westnet. He's definitely someone with a sense of humour, maybe there's a story to this similarity...
So, back to America. I could take this opportunity to use more insults, but it's hardly going to help. I find these sentiments amusing, but I guess I hold some similar convictions about the US. It sounds like a pretty awful place to be to me at times.
I stamp passports at Sydney airport, and we have a lot of Americans come through. It's a fact of how things are. Most Americans are great, friendly people, but boy, there are some really dopey ones, too. I think we're even.
I'm an American, Australia rocks, the people are totally chill, I wanna go there on vacation sometime, the end.
>>18
Haha, funny that. All I hear on the bus on my way to uni every morning is all the Americans talking about going to New Zealand for holidays (umm... "vacation", right? ^_^).