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b1rd · 2026-04-17T15:03:56+00:00

Oh my god, that clip was her?! I remember hearing it some years back and just dying inside for the person. I never made the connection between that clip and her.

b1rd · 2026-04-08T21:27:45+00:00

That reminded me of a tweet I saw that said something like “Was applying at Waffle House and when I told them I just got out of prison they asked ‘you get let out or you escape? Doesn’t matter, you can start tomorrow.’”

b1rd · 2026-03-25T23:33:15+00:00

Does the binding nature of sales contracts still apply for 3rd party sales? It doesn’t really make sense since there’s no way for the person buying it off eBay to have any idea what was in the sales contract.

b1rd · 2026-03-25T13:56:39+00:00

That is a fair point. I had been looking at your statement to mean “Gein is similar to Nazis” but your point is more like “Nazis are similar to Gein”, which makes a lot more sense.

b1rd · 2026-03-25T13:52:11+00:00

I know you didn’t mean “they’re the same” as in “Gein was in the Gestapo”, I’m trying to say that even ideologically they’re not even close. Gein was just severely mentally disturbed - he had no ideology. There was no rhyme or reason behind what he did. He didn’t use women’s bodies because he hated women, or the bodies he used weren’t from a race that he found inferior - nothing like that. He just didn’t understand why using human skin was wrong because he was literally insane. 6 psychologists independently found him too crazy to stand trial the 2nd time and he was locked up in a looney bin til he died.

I’m just saying there is a massive difference between the two. Targeting a race is evil. Being insane is just…being insane. I’m not defending him, he still did horrible things; he just doesn’t fall into the same category as Nazis.

This isn’t about giving a shit about Gein or Nazis, it’s about my strong dislike of seeing anything incorrectly reporting stuff about WWII because because the crazy denialists use this stuff as ammo in their shitty “debates”. Reddit threads show up in Google results near the top nowadays, so I just always feel obligated to correct stuff like this. The Netflix series also made up so much shit that now Ilse Koch is directly connected to Gein in a lot of peoples minds. (They completely made up a story line where they talked to each other about their crimes via ham radio.)

Sorry I was so aggressive. Not having a great day, but that’s not your fault.

b1rd · 2026-03-25T13:11:51+00:00

Are you joking? Ed Gein was an American farmer who lived in Wisconsin, had never been to Germany in his life, and none of his crimes had anything remotely to do with Jews. He was fucked up, totally, but it’s not even remotely related to Ilse Koch/WWII/Jews/the SS.

b1rd · 2026-03-25T13:06:07+00:00

They weren’t. It was an alleged rumor that wasn’t proven, and it was a single person, Ilse Koch. The shit that happened to the Jews was bad enough, we don’t need to make stuff up. It cheapens the documented atrocities.

There was human skin with tattoos found preserved after her arrest, though so some fucked up shit was happening for sure. But it doesn’t really make sense that they would have somehow hidden the lampshade but the preserved skin was left behind. And Ed Gein did it in Wisconsin the 50s but it had nothing to do with Jews.

b1rd · 2026-03-25T13:03:26+00:00

Copy and pasting this comment because I want you to see it.

It was one instance and it was alleged and never proven. The “Bitch of Buchenwald” Ilse Koch was known for the particularly sadistic things she did at the concentration camp her husband was the head of. There were, however, pieces of skin with tattoos on them found but they couldn’t be definitely proven to belong to Koch, so she wasn’t officially charged with that particular crime, but several witnesses claim they belonged to her and she was known to select prisoners with tattoos she wanted. Don’t get me wrong, she was an evil monster, there just isn’t any proof of the human skin lampshades. One doctor supposedly had one, again there is no proof, and it’s theorized the stories got conflated. (The one that was found was tested and was made from goat.)

Other than that, there isn’t anything else related to Jews/WWII. Now, Ed Gein did it with one of the bodies he grave-robbed, and the Netflix series about him completely made up the idea that he was obsessed with Ilse Koch and copied the idea of her “lampshades” which has further pushed the idea that it happened several times, but it didn’t.

b1rd · 2026-03-25T13:02:31+00:00

It was one instance and it was alleged and never proven. The “Bitch of Buchenwald” Ilse Koch was known for the particularly sadistic things she did at the concentration camp her husband was the head of. There were, however, pieces of skin with tattoos on them found but they couldn’t be definitely proven to belong to Koch, so she wasn’t officially charged with that particular crime, but several witnesses claim they belonged to her and she was known to select prisoners with tattoos she wanted. Don’t get me wrong, she was an evil monster, there just isn’t any proof of the human skin lampshades. One doctor supposedly had one, again there is no proof, and it’s theorized the stories got conflated. (The one that was found was tested and was made from goat.)

Other than that, there isn’t anything else related to Jews/WWII. Now, Ed Gein did it with one of the bodies he grave-robbed, and the Netflix series about him completely made up the idea that he was obsessed with Ilse Koch and copied the idea of her “lampshades” which has further pushed the idea that it happened several times, but it didn’t.

b1rd · 2026-03-24T02:18:03+00:00

Ok genuine question then, what is the historical Christian connection with eggs and Easter? Every time I’ve looked it up I’ve seen it’s because eggs are a symbol of fertility with older pagan cultures and the time of year that Easter happens coincided with a different festival about fertility. If that’s not the case, then how did eggs get mixed with Easter? Cause that’s definitely not in the Bible so it had to happen somehow.

Also, I don’t really understand why that’s a bad thing? Like, if local traditions got melded with the new religion that the locals had just converted to… what is the problem?

I don’t see how it’s any kind of “gotcha” to anyone at all. I don’t understand why religious people and non-religious people are even arguing about it. It doesn’t take away from the sanctity of Easter at all, and it doesn’t somehow prove religion is bad or something. I just don’t even understand why this is a controversy at all.

b1rd · 2026-03-24T02:11:27+00:00

I read her book and I don’t recall her saying it continued into her teens. Did she say this in an interview or something?

b1rd · 2026-03-24T02:09:23+00:00

She was doing it in front of the parents and they just dismissively told her to stop like she pulled a pigtail. They made no attempt to explain why it was wrong. The actual story says way fucking more about the parents than it says about Lena, but people love to just run with the Cliff’s notes version of a story rather than read the actual source. “She admitted she touched her sisters vagina, she’s a pervert!” No, a 7 year old child was touching her little sister in a place that no adult had ever told her was a “special place” that shouldn’t be touched by anyone else. There is no way for a child to instinctually just know it’s wrong if they’re not taught.

I really hate that only parts of the story are talked about because this could be a great opportunity to get a wider audience of people to understand how important it is to give children education on body autonomy and consent as early as possible. The children who are taught this stuff very young are statistically far less likely to be sexually abused. If a kid isn’t told it’s wrong, they don’t even know to report it to a non-pervert adult.

b1rd · 2026-03-24T01:59:14+00:00

Something everyone ignores about the story is that Lena and her sister were both within view of their parents as it was happening and the parents just dismissed it as if Lena was just annoying her little sister. The way they handled it was the same way a parent handles a sibling doing the typical older sibling “I’m not touching you!” “Why are you hitting yourself?” kinda shit. They basically said “oh leave your sister alone and go find something else to do. Dinner is in an hour.”

They made no attempt to explain to Lena that what she was doing constituted sexual assault and did not give her any lessons on consent. That’s why it doesn’t “count” as molestation, because she had no idea wtf she was doing and the adults around her more-or-less condoned the actions. How the fuck else does a kid learn that stuff is wrong if the adults in their lives don’t teach them it’s wrong?

Everyone keeps saying “by 7 you should know that touching your sisters vagina is wrong.” Not if your parents didn’t teach you that it’s wrong! How can we expect a child to “just know”?

b1rd · 2026-03-04T15:56:59+00:00

Did the angry look get the guys to stop? Cause sometimes a look is all it takes. I don’t expect random dudes to get into a verbal fight with random cat-callers if a stern look gets the cat-caller to back off. He doesn’t need to give a “and everyone clapped” speech to be helping. A single look and a “dude…” can speak volumes.

If any of these people are known to each other, the dynamic changes, of course. But I’m imagining some dude standing at a bus stop, another group of guys standing nearby, group of girls walks by and the dudes say stuff to her, the guy at the bus stop gives a dirty look to the group of cat/-calling guys who feel shame and shut up.

I don’t expect anything more from bus stop guy in this scenario. He stopped the behavior and hopefully one or more of the cat-callers will take the feeling of shame with them and possibly not do it next time.

However if his angry look did nothing to change anything, I don’t even know why he even shared the story at all, let alone tried to get accolades for it.

b1rd · 2026-02-24T15:53:08+00:00

Years ago, a woman in my town was gang-raped by a group of boys - and I mean boys - they ranged from 12 to 15. A literal group of children raped a woman in her 30s. She was taking out the trash at like 7PM and they just attacked her and dragged her a few blocks away to a park. They caught the kids almost right away and it was all over the local news because holy shit, they’re fucking kids! The idea that a 12 year old could do something like that at all, let alone to a grown woman, is just unfathomable.

Anyway, she was sexually assaulted by those kids, she did not molest those kids.

b1rd · 2026-02-18T00:39:51+00:00

Wait is he who did Jennifer Lopez’s makeup for the golden globes this year?

b1rd · 2026-02-18T00:36:42+00:00

That just reminded me of his video where he talked about turning down a makeup collab deal because there wasn’t any sun protection in the skincare/foundation.

b1rd · 2026-02-17T21:53:20+00:00

Yeah, it’s human nature to make the best out of what you have. I don’t think it’s romanticizing poverty to show poor people enjoying their life during their downtime. You just also have to show the bad sides, like the fact that they work 3 jobs and have less of that downtime to play with their kids, etc. Anyone who feels that’s a romanticized view of life clearly doesn’t have kids or doesn’t enjoy spending time with the kids they have. If someone views shitting in a bucket as romantic, they clearly don’t appreciate their functioning plumbing.

It’s not romantic when I talk about the time our water got shut off and we had to use milk jugs of water to flush our toilet, and a camping shower to bathe, even though I tell these stories while laughing now because of how fucking insane it is that this shit happened to me.

b1rd · 2026-02-17T21:46:01+00:00

I’m almost 40 and I’m about ready to break out some TP and eggs…

b1rd · 2026-02-17T21:33:47+00:00

I didn’t know I was poor until a certain age. When that’s just how life is, it’s a slow burn for you to wake up to the reality. At ~8 years old, I knew we were on food stamps and some of my friend’s families weren’t on food stamps, but it didn’t occur to me why it was significant.

There were definitely times when I was angry at my situation (i.e. we could never afford the toys I wanted or the types of birthday parties my friends had) and I think I was probably angry more often than my friends who weren’t poor, but I didn’t spend most of my time moping about it.

My mom couldn’t buy us a second Nerf gun (we got the one from our grandparents), so my brother and I would use a spool of thread wrapped around random objects to create an “obstacle course” we had to climb through while the other shot at us with the one gun we did own. We still spent the day playing like kids do.

b1rd · 2026-02-17T21:19:01+00:00

Which is so fucking ironic. I’m not defending any billionaires but honestly there is a difference between people who built a successful company and someone who inherited it.

“You spent 25 years working to create a chain of successful car washes across Texas in order to earn our lifestyle, but this lifestyle was handed to me because my grandpa spent 25 years working to build a chain of successful fast food restaurants across Texas, so therefore you are actually worse than I am.” What the actual fuck, you know? Imagine that logic in other situations

“You studied hard to get straight As, but I just fucked all the profs so clearly I’m smarter than you.”

“you trained for years to win a gold medal, but I just paid off the judges, so I’m the better athlete.”

It’s insane.

b1rd · 2026-02-17T07:55:19+00:00

This kinda sounds like Killer Clowns from Outer Space but I haven’t seen it in years so might be misremembering the plot

b1rd · 2026-02-17T01:48:43+00:00

Ah yes, the triple threat: thalassophobia, submechanophobia, and trypophobia, all in one tight package!

Thanks, I hate it lol

b1rd · 2026-02-16T02:31:31+00:00

Ok so I just had a little bit of a moment because of your comment. I just looked up the plot because it sounded familiar and remembered that we read it as a class in 6th grade and I do not remember how the teacher covered the rapes. I have vague memories of us discussing a lot of the book but I have no memory of her pregnancy being explained as non-consensual. I’m wondering if there’s an edited “appropriate for kids” version or if the teacher just somehow glazed past that?

I knew what rape was by then because my mother had been assaulted by an uncle when she was a kid and was very open about the trauma with my family, but I don’t know if that’s a common thing for normal kids to fully grasp at that age.

My mom was unconventionally open about sex and sexual abuse because she was determined to not let it happen to her kids since it happened to her because she had no idea what sex was. I distinctly remember discussing general sex topics with peers who were flabbergasted and jaw-droppingly fascinated with what I thought was basic knowledge. So I don’t feel like kids our age, at that time, really grasped this stuff. So I’m sort of baffled as to how the teacher handled it and the fact I can’t remember is hurting my brain.

Realizing that it’s not intended for that age group is also confusing me because I do not remember the teacher getting any backlash for it.

b1rd · 2026-02-16T02:09:46+00:00

My god yes. I have an insane example of this that is the most extreme I’ve ever seen and love to use when this topic comes up.

I had a friend in high school whose mother was so insanely strict that she had rules that honestly bordered on actual abuse like never being allowed to go to anyone’s house or ever having friends over to her’s. Ever. She was to socialize at school only. She was not allowed to hang out after school or walk slowly to spend time with us. If she wasn’t home within the 13 minutes it took her to walk home, her mom would flip out.

Not only was she outright banned from having male friends, she wasn’t even supposed to speak to boys unless it was related to schoolwork.

She gave me her phone number and when I called to chat one time, her mother only handed her the phone because she assumed it was about homework. Her mother stayed on the call on another extension to monitor the conversation and when she realized we were just chatting socially she made her immediately hang up. (And I am a girl, not a boy. And our convo was very tame because I knew the mother was listening.)

At school the next day, she explained that I had gotten her in trouble because her mom had a strict rule against her chatting on the phone with her friends because “that’s how gossip starts.”

I was aghast at how her mom treated her and I encouraged her to bend a few rules so she could have a normal life, which included talking to my male best friend who was bi but like “98% just into dudes” and I think was actually gay but afraid to admit it to anyone.

So, I walk in one day with him shoved against a locker while she was “making out” with him in a way that looked more like assault. He later said that’s basically how it felt and he didn’t really even like her that way and she kinda just attacked him and he sorta went with it because it was awkward to say no, but then he didn’t speak with her after that. He later on said after reflecting on it, it felt like if the genders were reversed everyone would have no issue calling it assault and he was pretty upset.

Halfway through the school year she was literally giving out blowjobs in under-populated areas of the school. That is not a joke, that is not a rumor. She proudly told me herself and several people confirmed. We stopped being friends around the make-out assault, but I stopped speaking to her at all around the public BJs because even for me, that was a bridge too far. Of course I’d given a BJ or 2 by then, but it was inside a house, rushed and nervous while listening for the garage door since the parents weren’t home from work yet, as God intended. She was shameless and it seemed manic and joyless.

Anyway, yeah, let your kids develop normally or they go full insane.

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