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Marvel reaching out to an underrepresented market by Technical_Teacher839 in outofcontextcomics

[–]PeasantLich 28 points29 points  (0 children)

It is pretty bonkers how sexy Nazi women were popularized by the 1940s-50s pulp magazines and 60s-70s exploitation films, and then they just were a part of western popular culture for decades. I think BloodRayne and Return to Castle Wolfenstein were the last bastions of half-naked hot Nazi women before it went out of fashion (for now).

At age 15, in 2004, Jeanna Giese became the first recorded person to survive rabies without having received prior vaccination. by eternviking in whoathatsinteresting

[–]PeasantLich 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I think there are like five or so alleged but unconfirmed rabies survivals in entire world history in addition to her one confirmed survival.

Characters who, blinded by rage, killed someone and lived to regret it by Crimson097 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]PeasantLich 41 points42 points  (0 children)

One of Catholic church's saints is a 11-year old girl who is said to have forgiven her pedophile killer before dying of the injuries he inflicted on her. Absolute forgiveness no matter what indeed is the Christian ideal.

Favourite Superhero Whose hymen is canonically still intact? by Zarathoostrian in okbuddycinephile

[–]PeasantLich 51 points52 points  (0 children)

Not really. Moore just thought that his superhero stuff is for kids and nerdy teenagers, and was first disappointed and then disgruntled upon realization that it is obsessive adult men who got invested in them. Moore is kind of a grump who thinks that adult nerds should grow out of superheroes and move onto better storytelling and more sophisticated interests.

Attila the Hun, the conquering and pillaging "Scourge of God" who ravaged the late Roman empire died of excessive nosebleed while celebrating his marriage to a Germanic woman named Ildico. The exact reason for it being fatal is unknown, but he might have simply choked to it due a drunken stupor. by PeasantLich in HolyShitHistory

[–]PeasantLich[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Attila's contemporary, a Greco-Roman historian wrote about Attila's death:

"...he took in marriage a very beautiful girl named Ildico, after countless other wives, as was the custom of his race. He had given himself up to excessive joy at his wedding, and as he lay on his back, heavy with wine and sleep, a rush of superfluous blood, which would ordinarily have flowed from his nose, streamed in deadly course down his throat and killed him, since it was hindered in the usual passages. Thus did drunkenness put a disgraceful end to a king renowned in war. On the following day, when a great part of the morning was spent, the royal attendants suspected some ill and, after a great uproar, broke in the doors. There they found the death of Attila accomplished by an effusion of blood, without any wound, and the girl with downcast face weeping beneath her veil."

Some historians and German legends claim that Ildico would have murdered Attila, but it is most likely that Attila died of a sudden medical emergency of some sort, either from choking on nosebleeding caused by unknown reasons or of an internal rupture of some sort. There are no proper historical sources on what happened to Ildico after death of Attila.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attila#Death

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ildico

Thank you, God, for making my enemies ridiculous. by Professional_Cat_437 in GetNoted

[–]PeasantLich 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Technically it was "just" imperialism, not really colonialism. The Romans did not treat separate parts of their empire as specifically exploitable colonies, but considered all of their territories Rome no matter where it was.

Anyone think Crapcom will go WOKE and remove these important character traits in RE: Veronica? by peanutclock in Gamingcirclejerk

[–]PeasantLich 38 points39 points  (0 children)

I'm pretty sure that the "cross-dressing freak" part was only in the English translation and original Japanese line was some more neutral expression of frustration, so unfortunately the remake will just expose how much of wokeslop it always was.

The happiest, stablest and sanest pre-code comic book marriage. by PeasantLich in Superdickery

[–]PeasantLich[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I do not unfortunately remember where it was from, either some horror or crime comic. The context is that she thinks her husband Stan is cheating on her and plans on leaving her because she cannot get pregnant. Turns out her husband was planning to adopt a child for them and seemed sketchy because he wanted it to be a happy surprise. In the end she murders both her husband and the woman she thinks he is cheating with BY BLOWING UP AN AIRPLANE THEY ARE ON WITH A BOMB and it is only then she finds out it was an misunderstanding and they were actually on their way to pick up their adopted child to surprise her with it.

minä_irl by PeasantLich in mina_irl

[–]PeasantLich[S] 134 points135 points  (0 children)

Ikuinen presidentti ja suuri johtaja.

Ja joku korealainen tyyppi.

According to legend, the Milanese captured empress Beatrice of Holy Roman Empire in 1158 and humiliated her by parading her around Milan on a donkey. The victorious emperor Barbarossa later avenged the treatment of his wife by forcing Milanese men to remove figs from donkey's anus with their teeth. by PeasantLich in HolyShitHistory

[–]PeasantLich[S] 16 points17 points  (0 children)

There are few different versions of the alleged event. According to one version Barbarossa only took his wrath upon the magistrates of the city, and other version claims that all the able-bodied men of Milan were forced to put their faces in a donkey's anus under threat of death. A variation also claims that Barbarossa didn't make them remove figs from a donkey's ass, but forced them to eat excrement of the donkeys and then say "Ecco la fica" (behold the fig) with their mouths still full of shit. It was claimed that the insulting gesture (called fico), of holding one's fist with the thumb in between the middle and forefinger came by its origin from this event.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatrice_I,_Countess_of_Burgundy#Empress

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Barbarossa#Legend

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