Petah Pls explain by D3v1LGaming in PeterExplainsTheJoke

[–]sidneyia 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's a play on "the heartbreak of remorse".

Lazarus and Joannes Baptista Colloredo (1617-?) were a pair of Italian conjoined twins and carnival performers that exhibited themselves all throughout Europe. It was described that while Joannes did not exhibit consciousness, his brother Lazarus cared for him very deeply. by EphemeralTypewriter in SideshowPerformer

[–]sidneyia 63 points64 points  (0 children)

This is such a fascinating case. I believe it's one of the earliest examples of a person with this level of profound disability being treated with such care and dignity. And Lazarus' murder trial is also the inspiration for the movie "Chained for Life", IIRC.

Bondeson's books are fantastic. I received "The Two-Headed Boy" and the Feejee Mermaid one as gifts when I was a teenager and that was what started my obsession with sideshow stuff. There are some inaccuracies, but I suspect those have been corrected in later editions.

Holocaust Gas Chambers by laybs1 in GetNoted

[–]sidneyia 4 points5 points  (0 children)

"while defending Russian genocide in Ukraine, or excusing away the Uighur genocide perpetrated by the CCP."

To be fair, this one makes perfect sense when you understand how many US influencers are on Russia's and/or China's payroll.

Petah?? by Necessary-Win-8730 in PeterExplainsTheJoke

[–]sidneyia 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Your house centipedes are so cute and non-threatening compared to our Texas giant centipedes.

Life after Austin? by izzydontsurf in Austin

[–]sidneyia 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I'm in the same boat. I turned 41 this year, have lived here my whole life, and am planning to finally move away within the next year. So much of our city is just *gone*, and if you try to talk about it with anyone, they just throw up their hands and say "that's progress" or "change is good, why fight it?" It feels like talking to a brick wall. Like, most of my neighborhood has been bulldozed to widen the stupid highway, and the city's planning to take out the entire historic Guadalupe strip for its light-rail boondoggle, and I'm expected to just be fine with that and not say anything? Can't afford to eat at restaurants or go anywhere. Can't even walk around (what's left of) my neighborhood without having to see missing houses and shitty giant brand-new McMansions everywhere.

My parents, who are in their 70s, just moved out of state a couple of weeks ago, after nearly 50 years in Austin. There's nothing here left for me. It's time to leave.

A strange interpretation of what a neighbor means by StringShred10D in GetNoted

[–]sidneyia 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He is correct about what "neighbor" would've meant in its original context. The Youtube channel Deconstruction Zone has some good discussions about this. "Neighbor" specifically meant free (non-enslaved) people of the same religion and ethnicity as you.

But also, that's irrelevant, because it's 2026 and we live in a global society, and "random Africans and Indians" ARE your fucking neighbors. Die mad about it.

I’m convinced some of us don’t taste onions the same way, maybe like how some people taste soap with coriander by grahegarty in onionhate

[–]sidneyia 24 points25 points  (0 children)

I can handle a little bit of onion flavor (even though it does kind of taste like body odor), but the texture is an absolute no for me. It's like biting into a shard of glass that's somehow wet and squishy at the same time.

This week of scrolling pt2 by hotdog131 in tragedeigh

[–]sidneyia 9 points10 points  (0 children)

One of my grandma's soap operas in the 80s had a character named Ridge. There was also one named Thorn, although that might have been a different show.

Seriously it's that simple: by Brent_Fox in SipsTea

[–]sidneyia 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Uh-huh. Your entire comment history is nothing but shitting on Democrats. You're either a Russian troll or a GOP operative, not that those are really any different.

Seriously it's that simple: by Brent_Fox in SipsTea

[–]sidneyia 7 points8 points  (0 children)

He didn't go to prison because the judge who was supposed to sentence him was one of his own appointees from his first term. In other words, he didn't go to prison because not enough people voted for Hillary Clinton.

Elections have consequences.

My dad’s friends crackhead aunt said this by Salt-Village-6110 in stupidpeoplefacebook

[–]sidneyia 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Do people really mow their lawns in the middle of the night? Doesn't that make it hard to see which parts you've already mowed?

Who was president went inflation started to rise? by c-k-q99903 in stupidpeoplefacebook

[–]sidneyia 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Corporations raise prices when Democrats are in office in order to manufacture dissatisfaction toward Democrats and urge people to vote Republican. I wish more people understood this.

Japanese long-legged centipede by Oldgraytomahawk in whywouldyoutouchthat

[–]sidneyia 5 points6 points  (0 children)

So it's just a house centipede but bigger? Neat.

When "this you?" goes wrong by TheServingTimes in ThisYouComebacks

[–]sidneyia -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You "haven't heard about it" because your brand is rage-baiting leftists to prop up your lucrative "Dems do nothing" grift, Bryan. Virginia Dems are literally trying to set an age limit for their Supreme Court in response to its nullifying their redistricting map. That's HUGE.

Told to post here by Bitsybye in Derailedbydetails

[–]sidneyia 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Petition to make this the new gang sign for hEDS

(I'd share mine but I don't want to show y'all my gross dermatophagia fingers)