Comments on: My god, it burns! It burns!

My god, it burns! It burns!

mathowie — Tue, 18 Jan 2005 15:23:29 -0800

THE HASSELHOFFIAN RECURSION is just about the best thing I've seen in a while. (warning: haunting image ahead)

By: fenriq

fenriq — Tue, 18 Jan 2005 15:28:36 -0800

Oh my god, that was NOT funny, until it really got going. Now I'm just mesmerized and have a slight desire to fluff my meager chest hair. Dig the tags too!

By: DeepFriedTwinkies

DeepFriedTwinkies — Tue, 18 Jan 2005 15:29:22 -0800

Dude, I know you're the owner and everything, but damn. Decaf triple grande non-fats in your immediate future are called for. I am now suffering from Hasselhoff envy.

By: crunchywelch

crunchywelch — Tue, 18 Jan 2005 15:29:28 -0800

Thanks. I'm on a conference call with some clients and just screamed and dropped my phone :/.

By: fenriq

fenriq — Tue, 18 Jan 2005 15:30:14 -0800

Yeah, an NSFW might have been a good idea. My boss now things I'm gay.

By: seanyboy

seanyboy — Tue, 18 Jan 2005 15:31:06 -0800

QUALTY. LOL!!!!! METAFILTER ROX!!!!!

By: gesamtkunstwerk

gesamtkunstwerk — Tue, 18 Jan 2005 15:31:58 -0800

My god, that is probably the most disturbing thing. I feel like I've seen him naked.

By: odinsdream

odinsdream — Tue, 18 Jan 2005 15:32:48 -0800

Hey, when did metafilter get tags? Oh...and gouge my eyes out, etc.

By: gorgor_balabala

gorgor_balabala — Tue, 18 Jan 2005 15:33:07 -0800

finally someone gets the political analysis right. this elegantly sums up how i feel about the world. i hope to die in complete abandonment to that terrible and sublime artwork, its less than 24 frames electrostatically inscribed in a final, ecstatic farewell from my brain to this largely nonhasselhofian, and thus tragically flawed, world.

By: jokeefe

jokeefe — Tue, 18 Jan 2005 15:33:21 -0800

I have now seen the real face of evil, and this from someone who has run afoul of goatse more than once. Thanks a lot, Matt.

By: horsewithnoname

horsewithnoname — Tue, 18 Jan 2005 15:35:07 -0800

I'd add 'Hasselhoff' to the tag list.

By: matteo

matteo — Tue, 18 Jan 2005 15:36:55 -0800

it's Escher meets Schoenbrunn's Hall of Mirrors

By: PinkStainlessTail

PinkStainlessTail — Tue, 18 Jan 2005 15:37:02 -0800

I kinda looks like his weiner is hanging out when the image is at it's smallest. I imagine that's intentional. More later. gotta go die inside for a bit.

By: PinkStainlessTail

PinkStainlessTail — Tue, 18 Jan 2005 15:37:59 -0800

Gah: "its smallest". I blame soul death.

By: Sheppagus

Sheppagus — Tue, 18 Jan 2005 15:38:50 -0800

Wow. Just, wow. I'm off to scrub my eyes with bleach.

By: jeffmshaw

jeffmshaw — Tue, 18 Jan 2005 15:39:01 -0800

It's like tubgirl with hair plugs.

By: mote

mote — Tue, 18 Jan 2005 15:39:36 -0800

I, uh, er. Wow.

By: jsavimbi

jsavimbi — Tue, 18 Jan 2005 15:40:07 -0800

Wow. That was on Fark two days ago.

By: c13

c13 — Tue, 18 Jan 2005 15:41:46 -0800

Now I need a new eyeglass prescription. Thanks.

By: rajbot

rajbot — Tue, 18 Jan 2005 15:41:49 -0800

This post needs a HASSELHOFF tag.

By: felix betachat

felix betachat — Tue, 18 Jan 2005 15:42:20 -0800

*hooked on a feeling*

By: contessa

contessa — Tue, 18 Jan 2005 15:43:05 -0800

Scariest part? MiniHasselhof kinda does look like a penis. He's like, Fractalman.

By: jacquilynne

jacquilynne — Tue, 18 Jan 2005 15:43:41 -0800

That photo got put on discussion board I read regularly awhile ago and was pretty damned freaky. Just the photo. This whole animated thing is so far beyond freaky that I'm actually a bit freaked.

By: Specklet

Specklet — Tue, 18 Jan 2005 15:45:23 -0800

Oh... god!

By: towerbrave

towerbrave — Tue, 18 Jan 2005 15:46:30 -0800

I have now seen the real face of evil Personally, I was finding it rather hard to keep my eyes on his face.

By: mcwetboy

mcwetboy — Tue, 18 Jan 2005 15:48:08 -0800

You're a dead man, Haughey.

By: eyeballkid

eyeballkid — Tue, 18 Jan 2005 15:48:18 -0800

What's "Fark?"

By: miss lynnster

miss lynnster — Tue, 18 Jan 2005 15:51:12 -0800

Wow. I so wish I'd posted that. Just. Wow. I saw Tom Jones perform at the House of Blues once, and wouldn't you know David Hasselhoff was there, standing next to me on the stairs, singing along. Well... suddenly Tom Jones looked up and recognized David singing along offstage. He took the mike off of the stand and walked towards him... and meanwhile, David saw Tom and began singing louder and dancing in that groovy way only David Hasselhoff could think is cool... and then they pointed at eachother, both dancing and singing the refrain of "It's Not Unusual." RIGHT. NEXT. TO. ME. Swear. True story. I was not a foot away from gyrating Hasselhoff. I blame all of my bad posts on the severe mental and emotional damage this experience did to me. It damaged me, I tell you. I was SCARRED for LIFE.

By: Joey Michaels

Joey Michaels — Tue, 18 Jan 2005 15:51:24 -0800

We... have become... ONE. /Dr. Weird

By: fenriq

fenriq — Tue, 18 Jan 2005 15:52:29 -0800

Matt, thanks for making my 2000th comment memorable.

By: coelecanth

coelecanth — Tue, 18 Jan 2005 15:55:47 -0800

That's what I get for looking at his hasselhoff.

By: MrBobaFett

MrBobaFett — Tue, 18 Jan 2005 15:58:42 -0800

Dear god, of course now I have to share this mental scaring with everyone on my buddy list. I'm not a good person. :p

By: alumshubby

alumshubby — Tue, 18 Jan 2005 16:01:14 -0800

Mathowie killed my thread and then inflicted this crap on me. Sigh.

By: elpapacito

elpapacito — Tue, 18 Jan 2005 16:03:58 -0800

Oh that's ghey

By: miss lynnster

miss lynnster — Tue, 18 Jan 2005 16:05:55 -0800

Hasssselllllhoooofffffffff!!!!!

By: pookzilla

pookzilla — Tue, 18 Jan 2005 16:07:01 -0800

Holy crap am I ever glad I'm a lesbian. That'll haunt my dreams tonight in a very bad way.

By: exlotuseater

exlotuseater — Tue, 18 Jan 2005 16:07:02 -0800

I don't feel right. Dizzy. Make it stop. Please.
*tears out eyes and wanders the countryside*
Maybe mathowie's account got hijacked? Could happen. :)

By: rushmc

rushmc — Tue, 18 Jan 2005 16:12:53 -0800

Doesn't work in Firefox.

By: contessa

contessa — Tue, 18 Jan 2005 16:18:50 -0800

Doesn't work in Firefox. Totally worked for me in Firefox. unfortunately.

By: casarkos

casarkos — Tue, 18 Jan 2005 16:19:25 -0800

Firefox worked here.....aaaaaaugh.

By: DeepFriedTwinkies

DeepFriedTwinkies — Tue, 18 Jan 2005 16:19:32 -0800

I think your posts are wonderful Miss Lynnster. Thank the Hasselhoff and his fluffy hairs for all. Plus that Tom Jones is a hottie! Woot!! If I was gay, he'd be the one, I swear.

By: m0nm0n

m0nm0n — Tue, 18 Jan 2005 16:19:58 -0800

Firefox works for me on that page, and worked for me on the page where I saw it last week...

By: cosmonik

cosmonik — Tue, 18 Jan 2005 16:21:27 -0800

I lament that I cannot unsee that which has been seen; nor unknow that which has been learn't.

By: eyeballkid

eyeballkid — Tue, 18 Jan 2005 16:26:38 -0800

.gif files don't work in FireFox?

By: Eideteker

Eideteker — Tue, 18 Jan 2005 16:27:47 -0800

Is this what Nietzsche meant by The Eternal Recurrence?

By: Wolfdog

Wolfdog — Tue, 18 Jan 2005 16:29:18 -0800

Nietzsche himself called the idea "horrifying and paralyzing" Yes, I'd say that's about right.

By: Doohickie

Doohickie — Tue, 18 Jan 2005 16:30:28 -0800

Oh. The. Humanity.

By: gimonca

gimonca — Tue, 18 Jan 2005 16:31:02 -0800

My god...it's full of stars.

By: meowchow

meowchow — Tue, 18 Jan 2005 16:34:32 -0800

this has been circulating for close to a month now. where have you guys been.

By: substrate

substrate — Tue, 18 Jan 2005 16:42:29 -0800

At least it's not recursive goatse.cx

By: syzygy

syzygy — Tue, 18 Jan 2005 16:44:24 -0800

One of my Austrian coworkers made a poster of the image in this animation and hung it up on the whiteboard behind my desk after I gave him and a few others a hard time about German-speakers' unnatural fascination with David Hasselhof. Slightly related, the dirtiest apartment my brother has ever visited in Vienna has a full-on shrine to David Hassehof, complete with posters, burning candles, and numerous unidentifiable trinkets.

By: rafter

rafter — Tue, 18 Jan 2005 16:47:01 -0800

Holy crap, I can't believe you even posted this. Thanks for the all-caps on the front page, all for a link to a shitty weblog post. Since when does one animated GIF deserve a FPP. The recursion isn't even done well, it's just zooming in on the same image. Did you even read the posting guidelines? "Best of the web," anyone? Seriously, I've had it up to here with crap posts by all you newb— Oh, wait, this was posted by mathowie! In that case, it's the funniest thing I've seen in ages! Milk is literally spewing out of my nose right now. I'm going to send this to BoingBoing.

By: arse_hat

arse_hat — Tue, 18 Jan 2005 16:51:11 -0800

So Drew what's with the blue background? Some kind of Metafilter parody?

By: cortex

cortex — Tue, 18 Jan 2005 16:52:30 -0800

metafilter.de

By: socratic

socratic — Tue, 18 Jan 2005 17:15:42 -0800

Huh... tags... AND SCARS ON TEH BRAINSES!@!! I laughed.

By: 327.ca

327.ca — Tue, 18 Jan 2005 17:43:26 -0800

Doesn't work in Firefox. Totally worked for me in Firefox. unfortunately. Y'know, if someone submitted this fact to the Mozilla team, perhaps it could be arranged not to work in future versions.

By: mr_crash_davis

mr_crash_davis — Tue, 18 Jan 2005 17:52:39 -0800

Some of us don't want to be exposed to Hasselhoffianpenis.

By: The God Complex

The God Complex — Tue, 18 Jan 2005 17:53:01 -0800

By: 1016

1016 — Tue, 18 Jan 2005 17:53:53 -0800

Just sent to middle-aged women I love...I think....incredibly funny...

By: goodnewsfortheinsane

goodnewsfortheinsane — Tue, 18 Jan 2005 17:55:37 -0800

I don't see how this qualifies as an FPP. I'd say that whoever's in charge here raise the banhammer; but only as a threatening gesture, as this particular n00b did a particularly good job on the tags. If you watch the animation for a hunred cycles, you'll see a pony galloping in the background. Seriously.

By: mmahaffie

mmahaffie — Tue, 18 Jan 2005 17:55:39 -0800

I'm just glad I didn't see that last week. I had one whole week without that in my psyche. The rest of my life, however....

By: Zebulun

Zebulun — Tue, 18 Jan 2005 18:05:32 -0800

That just turned me gay. Thanks.

By: humannature

humannature — Tue, 18 Jan 2005 18:38:00 -0800

What would SpongeBob say?

By: snsranch

snsranch — Tue, 18 Jan 2005 18:45:08 -0800

Ouch. Thanks. Which is worse? This post or goatse? My nightmares tonight will let me know.

By: arse_hat

arse_hat — Tue, 18 Jan 2005 18:52:46 -0800

At least goatse doesn't move. *shudder*

By: davejay

davejay — Tue, 18 Jan 2005 19:10:49 -0800

What would SpongeBob say? "I'm not ready."

By: pyramid termite

pyramid termite — Tue, 18 Jan 2005 19:23:39 -0800

matt, you owe me a new keyboard ... i just barfed all over it

By: namespan

namespan — Tue, 18 Jan 2005 19:31:38 -0800

Ah, yes, the Hasselhoffian Recursion, part of the generalized branch of self-containing recursions known as "crotch recursions." Generally not mentioned in polite company.

By: rushmc

rushmc — Tue, 18 Jan 2005 19:36:08 -0800

Totally worked for me in Firefox. unfortunately. Hmm...odd. I had to c&p the URL into IE before the animation worked. In Firefox all I see is a static pic.

By: deborah

deborah — Tue, 18 Jan 2005 19:36:11 -0800

Excuse me, does anyone have an extra spork?

By: John Kenneth Fisher

John Kenneth Fisher — Tue, 18 Jan 2005 19:53:21 -0800

Damn .001K'ers, screwing up the place.

By: steef

steef — Tue, 18 Jan 2005 20:07:12 -0800

If only it had the hypnotoad noise, then it would be perfectly, exquisitely intolerable.

By: breath

breath — Wed, 19 Jan 2005 01:21:10 -0800

WHAT. THE. FUCK. MATT?

By: Tenuki

Tenuki — Wed, 19 Jan 2005 01:25:37 -0800

When this loaded I was listening to 'Ping Island/Lighting Strike Rescue Op' from the Life Aquatic soundtrack and it works perfect with the animation.

By: The Salaryman

The Salaryman — Wed, 19 Jan 2005 03:25:48 -0800

I was put into a catatonic trance for some time. The Hoff is extra dangerous because he is not ironically challenged. According to PopBitch he really, really likes to eat Elk. Now that is macho.

By: dougunderscorenelso

dougunderscorenelso — Wed, 19 Jan 2005 07:18:51 -0800

Steef: Excellent call. And the winner is: THE HYPNOTOAD

By: orange swan

orange swan — Wed, 19 Jan 2005 07:59:16 -0800

Simple, yet chillingly effective at whatever ends it was designed for.

By: stonerose

stonerose — Wed, 19 Jan 2005 08:14:28 -0800

That just turned me gay. Thanks. Huh. It just turned me straight.

By: Miss Bitchy Pants

Miss Bitchy Pants — Wed, 19 Jan 2005 08:17:13 -0800

If I look at it once, close the window, and then go back to look at it again... does that mean there's something wrong with me?

By: Pericles

Pericles — Wed, 19 Jan 2005 08:58:45 -0800

Like Hot Shot City, this is particularly good.

By: Zed_Lopez

Zed_Lopez — Wed, 19 Jan 2005 12:38:01 -0800

People complaining of Firefox troubles -- Have you set image.animation_mode to none in about:config? I had, and it didn't work for me... until I restored it to normal and reloaded the page. My eyes! My eyes!

By: davehat

davehat — Wed, 19 Jan 2005 14:07:16 -0800

Have you set image.animation_mode to none in about:config? No, but I set image.child_frighten in avoid:hasslehoff to 100 and the image still loaded.

By: BrodieShadeTree

BrodieShadeTree — Wed, 19 Jan 2005 15:45:52 -0800

I *heart* this post.

By: bachelor#3

bachelor#3 — Mon, 24 Jan 2005 13:00:48 -0800

That just turned me gay. Thanks That just turned me stomach.