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2010-02-08 08:25:50 AM
I tried looking for a therapist on the internet once.

/www.therapist.com wasn't any help at all... in fact, it was rather disturbing.
 
2010-02-08 09:49:01 AM
Hate to burst your bubble.. but
 
2010-02-08 10:06:09 AM
OlafTheBent: I tried looking for a therapist on the internet once.

/www.therapist.com wasn't any help at all... in fact, it was rather disturbing.


True story bro time: I needed to look up some install information about "cadaver" which is an open-source DAV client (DAV being "Distributed Authoring and Versioning"). Well, plenty of open-source software projects put their website at "www.whatever.org" so without thinking about it I typed in that pattern for "cadaver" and turned away to do something else for a moment.

Turned back to my screen, all I can say is what has been seen cannot be unseen, the site was like rotten but without the polite "hey you maybe don't want to enter this site" splash screen AT ALL. It was death. A bad death, up close, and in color.

Thought I was gonna hurl. I could not close that window fast enough. That stuff is bad enough when you're PREPARED to view it, and I wasn't.

Not gonna go check what's there now, either.

Moral of the story: Unless you're SURE of the URL, just google the product first!
 
2010-02-08 10:07:36 AM
OlafTheBent: I tried looking for a therapist on the internet once.

/www.therapist.com wasn't any help at all... in fact, it was rather disturbing.


You should have looked for someone who was...oh, I don't know...maybe an analyst AND a therapist. I'm sure you'd get better results. Though they might be a little bit Funke.
 
2010-02-08 10:09:07 AM
That's it! I'm tired of this happening! I'm writing a letter...but to who? I guess I'll have to look it up. whitehouse.com, here I come!
 
2010-02-08 10:25:10 AM
itazurakko: Moral of the story: Unless you're SURE of the URL, just google the product first!

Reminds me of my wife telling me of an Oprah guest who wanted information about water skiing and input "watersports" into the search engine.

/Hilarity ensued
 
2010-02-08 10:32:38 AM
LOL at that balloon device.
 
2010-02-08 11:06:58 AM
As an MG enthusiast, let me just say that looking for a new tranny for my Midget was interesting.
 
2010-02-08 11:14:16 AM
i249.photobucket.com
 
2010-02-08 11:31:07 AM
This is an innocent mistake given how new the Internet is in today's society.
 
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2010-02-08 11:54:59 AM
What... what do they do with the balloons? :-S

/not sure I really wanna know
 
2010-02-08 11:58:27 AM
xanadian: I lol'd, then gave a polite bow before the Queen.
 
2010-02-08 11:59:24 AM
Would it surprise you that penisland.net is a totally legit site? Srsly.
 
2010-02-08 12:12:16 PM
About 10 years ago I was going to atheist.org and misspelled it as athiest.org for some reason this brought up a sight filled with pics of elderly nudists playing volleyball. At least I never misspell athiest.
 
2010-02-08 12:15:42 PM
itazurakko:

I went there just now. There was a picture of a head blown apart, but not much more than that...

//think I'm desensitized
 
2010-02-08 12:16:11 PM
So when do we see the gay fetish porn? Hot, sweaty men dressed in latex holding foot long dildos or twin lesbians wearing strap ons?
 
2010-02-08 12:16:53 PM
The-Brain: Would it surprise you that penisland.net is a totally legit site? Srsly.

Does it work?
 
2010-02-08 12:17:28 PM
OlafTheBent: itazurakko: Moral of the story: Unless you're SURE of the URL, just google the product first!

Reminds me of my wife telling me of an Oprah guest who wanted information about water skiing and input "watersports" into the search engine.

/Hilarity ensued


Reminds me of when I first heard of the "Teabaggers"... LOL
 
2010-02-08 12:27:06 PM
Eddie Adams from Torrance: As an MG enthusiast, let me just say that looking for a new tranny for my Midget was interesting.

i can't imagine what looking for parts for a bug eyed sprite may return
 
2010-02-08 12:29:45 PM
loonatic112358: Eddie Adams from Torrance: As an MG enthusiast, let me just say that looking for a new tranny for my Midget was interesting.

i can't imagine what looking for parts for a bug eyed sprite may return


All that BL/BMC stuff is interchangeable. The carbs are all SU, the electricals are all Lucas.
 
2010-02-08 12:34:31 PM
OlafTheBent: I tried looking for a therapist on the internet once.

/www.therapist.com wasn't any help at all... in fact, it was rather disturbing.


Should have tried http://www.therapistfinder.com/ then... why wait around alone in the dark when they find one for you?
 
Ant
2010-02-08 12:41:11 PM
OlafTheBent: I tried looking for a therapist on the internet once.

/www.therapist.com wasn't any help at all... in fact, it was rather disturbing.


On the other side of the issue, I needed a sex change operation and went to www.expertsexchange.com. No help at all!
 
Ant
2010-02-08 12:43:34 PM
Ant: OlafTheBent: I tried looking for a therapist on the internet once.

/www.therapist.com wasn't any help at all... in fact, it was rather disturbing.

On the other side of the issue, I needed a sex change operation and went to www.expertsexchange.com. No help at all!


Wow. they've taken it down. Experts-Exchange.com is such a boring name by comparison.
 
2010-02-08 12:46:57 PM
Ball of Confusion: All that BL/BMC stuff is interchangeable. The carbs are all SU, the electricals are all Lucas.

yes, i'm aware of that

especially the fact that the electronics are likely to be at fault
 
2010-02-08 12:49:23 PM
rebelscum.com (new window). Crap, it's about Star Wars.
 
2010-02-08 12:50:33 PM
Ant: OlafTheBent: I tried looking for a therapist on the internet once.

/www.therapist.com wasn't any help at all... in fact, it was rather disturbing.

On the other side of the issue, I needed a sex change operation and went to www.expertsexchange.com. No help at all!


Once I wanted an apple pie recipe so I went to www.clownpenis.fart. It was no help at all.
 
2010-02-08 12:52:19 PM
Wow. Gay balloon fetishists? What the hell? Small, pig-shaped chrome appliances I can understand, but balloons?

/Plook me you shiny SOB!
 
2010-02-08 12:52:48 PM
If you have a website ending in .gov, .org, .edu, .net or anything other than .com, most of the public will never see it. They thing every site ends in .com.
 
2010-02-08 01:00:20 PM
Real websites, right now:

WhoRepresents.com

GoTahoe.com (which points to GoTahoeNorth.com)

Not real now, but used to be:

PowergenItalia.com (now it's batterychargerpowergen.it)
 
2010-02-08 01:13:57 PM
If only there were a site that indexed this online information, somewhere that the people who came up with this brilliant branding could check to see if it had any negative connotations....

/The Googles, they do something.
 
2010-02-08 01:49:24 PM
loonatic112358: Ball of Confusion: All that BL/BMC stuff is interchangeable. The carbs are all SU, the electricals are all Lucas.

yes, i'm aware of that

especially the fact that the electronics are likely to be at fault


I held back on the Lucas jokes. Owning a British car is painful enough...
 
2010-02-08 01:58:23 PM
Ball of Confusion: I held back on the Lucas jokes. Owning a British car is painful enough...

you could be the envy of every italian car owner, in that you can afford to drive it when it does run
 
2010-02-08 02:02:36 PM
Who keeps up with this crap anyway?

// Remembers when Gay Paree meant something else entirely.
 
2010-02-08 02:28:48 PM
resources.bplondon.org

/"It wasn't the pronunciation I was worried about..."
 
2010-02-08 03:09:47 PM
meh, all kids' sites are gay fetish porn sites.
 
2010-02-08 04:37:21 PM
The-Brain: Would it surprise you that penisland.net is a totally legit site? Srsly.

Wow. Someone is really thick.
 
2010-02-08 05:02:41 PM
Why don't we just put a big Rule 34 disclaimer on every search engine home page.
That way they'll know that it doesn't matter WHAT they search for, porn is going to come up.
 
2010-02-08 05:13:24 PM
I'm in IT and one day I had a user call almost crying because she was worried she was going to be fired. It was her first week on the job and she wanted to look at Dicks Sporting goods website and typed dicks.com
 
2010-02-08 06:08:31 PM
Yeah, be careful with the typos as well.

Searching for half naked desserts yields some interesting results
 
2010-02-09 08:18:52 AM
Oil of Olay once came up with a site called "Daily Facials".

Seriously, though. 1st rule of any product/service name today is to check that you can get the big domains (.com, .org, .co.uk, .org.uk, .net) and that there isn't something heavily linked on Google. Takes about 10 minutes to work that out.
 
2010-02-09 08:21:09 AM
ms_lara_croft: So when do we see the gay fetish porn? Hot, sweaty men dressed in latex holding foot long dildos or twin lesbians wearing strap ons?

You'll have bald goateed men cuddling balloons and like it.
 
2010-02-09 08:37:16 AM
Jackpot777:
Not real now, but used to be:

PowergenItalia.com (now it's batterychargerpowergen.it)


Actually, someone seems to have bought the domain, though its empty right now. (new window)
 
2010-02-09 10:04:06 AM
Quote from Government spokesbeing from the farking article:
The naming of this webpage was clearly a mistake and we regret that the supplier's usual thorough checking procedures when creating web content seem to have failed. When this was brought to our attention we urgently took the site down, pending a rename, to avoid any further issues.

Is it just me, or might such a deceisive move not have some unitended consequences? What happens if some kid tries to open a bookmarked page from this 'Buster's World' and finds it gone? What steps might such a hypothtical kid take to regain access to the missing content and where could they lead this kid...
 
2010-02-09 11:16:54 AM
bradley547: Why don't we just put a big Rule 34 disclaimer on every search engine home page.
That way they'll know that it doesn't matter WHAT they search for, porn is going to come up.


"I typed in 'porn' and porn came up, I typed in 'breakfast' and porn came up! IT'S THE PERFECT SYSTEM!"
 
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