My number one shocker was the Chinese lady that killed kittens.  When I saw that for the first time I was enraged for a week and felt numb.  I kept fantasizing about finding her and torturing her to death which is about as far from my normal personality as anything.  My second one is the televised Budd Dwyer suicide, the whole thing beginning to end is surreal.  Other than those two I can't think of too much other stuff that's shocked me to the point of changing my perception of the world.  The internet really has jaded us hasn't it?

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The stories about Uncle Milty.

"Milton Berle took a liking to me and gravitated to me," Saturday Night Live writer Alan Zweibel once recalled, "I think because in the early seventies, I had written all these jokes for Catskill comics. And I wrote jokes for a lot of the Friars Club roasts, where Uncle Miltie was usually the roastmaster... I learned early on that he was the guy with the big dick, one of the biggest in show business. So I started writing big dick jokes about him for these Friars roasts.

"Now fast-forward a few years and I'm in Milton Berle's dressing room at Saturday Night Live. He's sitting on a couch behind a coffee table and he's wearing a very short kind of bathrobe, the kind that comes down to about mid-thigh. And somehow I just say to him, 'You know, it's so weird that I'm here talking to you, because for years I was writing jokes about your dick.' I said, 'I wrote all these jokes about your cock and now I'm talking to you - I feel like there's some violation or something here.'

He says to me: 'You mean you never saw it?' I said, 'Uh, no, I don't believe I did.' Then he said, 'Well, would you like to?' And before I had a chance to say, 'Not really' or 'Can I think about it?' or whatever, he parts his bathrobe and he just takes out this - this anaconda. He lays it on the table and I'm looking into this thing, right? I'm looking into the head of Milton Berle's dick. It was enormous. It was like a pepperoni. And he goes, 'What do you think of the boy?' And I'm looking right at it and I go, 'Oh, it's really, really nice.'

"At which point Gilda (SNL cast member Gilda Radner) opens the door to the dressing room. It's like an 'I Love Lucy' sketch, but this honestly happened! She opens the door to his dressing room just in time to see me looking into his dick saying, 'Yeah, it's really, really nice.'

"I tell Milton, 'I'll talk to you later,' closed the door, and left..."   -- Alan Zweibel

"I was still young enough to be impressed by the woman I had been in bed with. Somehow, to my kid's mind, the fact that shew as a world-famous sex symbol every man was supposed to want, and she wanted me, which made me think of myself as one hell of a guy. Special! Later on, I found out that she was always on the prowl for young men who were well-endowed, and to her I was just the lay of the week. There's really no polite way of getting this story into the book, but the punch line is too good to leave out. About fifteen years ago, I was in the locker room at the Luxor Baths in New York with two other guys. One guy was a friend, the other was his friend. The one was a stranger said to me, 'Hey, Berle. I hear you got a big one.' It caught me by surprise. 'Whaaaa? Go 'way.' But he didn't. 'You heard me. Well, I'm willing to bet cash money that mine is bigger than yours.' 'Will you knock it off? You drunk or something?' But he wouldn't stop. 'I hear you're a gambler, so I'm making you a bet. A hundred bucks says mine is bigger than yours.' 'I don't want to bet,' I told him. 'Let's drop the subject.' 'I'm serious. A hundred buck says mine is bigger than yours.' I was starting to get annoyed, when my friend said, 'Go ahead, Milton, just take out enough to win.'" -- M. Berle, 1974

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P.S.  By the time the video of Mr. Hands and the horsie started making the rounds, I was so jaded I didn't even raise an eyebrow.

Since W wasn't impeached, I'd have to say no.

Like many of you, I was shocked a bit the first time I saw people doing various and sundry things with their excretions or the mucous membranes of their bodies, but after a while I just billed it as performance art and left it at that.

Then I was shocked by the heartless cruelty that was caught on tape, even more so by the ones made for profit. Kitten stomping, beheadings, throwing dogs off of cliffs, and the like enraged me. But then I realized that was what I was supposed to feel, that my very emotions were being manipulated.

Next up with the hyper-ironic. Retro videos, new-vintage porn, fake stunts pulled off with photoshop instead of daring, porno bloopers, etc.

Now I mostly surf looking for good conversations and tips on how to be a better welder and painter. And boobies.

I see my list is in line with Wikipedias:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shock_site

I'm glad GO brought up my holy grail of interwebz vidz.  I still need a copy of it.

And R_T, what is Meat Spin?

phoQ's bottle-breaker gif makes my stomach flip.  Other than giving me an anti-stiffy, Lemon Party and Meatspin don't do that.  I don't think I've seen the Girl and Horse.  Fortunately, Mr. Hands actually shows very little; it's more the muffled audio exclamation that is affecting.

Two Girls, Tubgirl and Goatse ruin my appetite.  I just can't make myself watch the deformed baby stuff.

Dead and deformed babies don't affect me at all.  I used to have my stomach turn from seeing people turned inside out from war or terrible accidents, but that doesn't seem to get me anymore either.  I just can't handle animal cruelty, another one I thought of is that video of someone cutting off a living pig's head with a knife.  That one bothered me way more than watching Daniel Pearl get his head cut off.

Grandma blowjobs.  Egads!  I'm talking Traditional, 75 year-old, waaaaAAAAaaay past menopause wrinkled, dried up, snaggle-toothed cock-gobbler grandma blowjobs.  What the elderly have been reduced to thanks to the likes of Madoff...Oh, and fucking cutie kitty cats sleeping in rainbows.  Blech!

There sure as hell is plenty that's shocking in the world.  Basically, I avoid anything that has to do with cruelty inflicted upon either children or animals.  I don't want to know about it because I know there is nothing I can do about it.  There have been too many things I've seen over the years which I wish I'd never seen.

http://meatspin.com/ - for Scotty.

You're a regular Rodgers and Hammerschtank, RT.

Fled wrote:

You're a regular Rodgers and Hammerschtank, RT.

Sometimes, I feel poetic.

1. Skinned alive
2. Glass ass
3. Daniel Pearl
4. Goatse
5. Mr. Hands

Other:

A VHS that a substitute teacher showed my science class when I was in high school: Animal activists recording animal testing & conditions for the animals.

This was on TV somewhat recently and really turned my stomach: A big animal stuck in water, get eaten alive by hyenas, starting at the ass.

I can, it's because after they explain the problem of disposing of a stinking rotten beached whale, they mention the word explosives. I nearly peed my pants the first time I saw it! I had to play the video five or six times just to be able to hear all the words, I was laughing so hard.

George Orr wrote:

Oh gorry, Explodey the Whale.  I cannot explain my love for this video.

Blasting a whale to kingdom come, the reporter confides in the viewer, is perfect idiocy. "Let's watch these tards spray paint themselves in rancid detritus, shall we?"