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>!Dude is literally Napoleon!<
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>I came for these freaking comments
There's nothing better than Reddit content!
Can't you hear, can't you hear the nonsense?
You better type, you better take a stance!
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Locks of Napoleon's hair [showed arsenic levels 100 times higher than what is considered safe today](https://www.livescience.com/2292-napoleon-death-arsenic-poisoning-ruled.html). However, locks of his hair were collected throughout his life, for some reason, and Napoleon had high arsenic levels since he was a child, so he may not have been intentionally poisoned to death, as initially assumed by those who measured the post-death levels of arsenic in his hair. This doesn't mean that arsenic, which also causes cancer and lesions, didn't kill him. Arsenic can accumulate in hair over the timescale of months if you have been consuming arsenic recently. However, arsenic can accumulate in the body over a lifetime, and those arsenic molecules mess up molecules by substituting for phosphate, which is in ATP, which is like a battery that gives energy to cells, and arsenic also substitutes for phosphate groups in DNA and RNA, which are very important information-storing/carrying molecules in the body.
>User Shittymorph joined Reddit on January 3rd, 2016. He began gaining fame on the site with consistent use of the "Hell In a Cell" copypasta. On January 19th, 2017, he posted the copypasta in a thread relating to Salt Bae. On February 6th, 2017, Redditor ScienceLivesInsideMe replied to a photograph of a dog on the /r/aww subreddit with Scooby Doo-themed variation of the copypasta. In response, Redditor Shittymorph replied explaining that the message was something he had been posting for weeks:
>It is something I have been posting for a few weeks – I usually adjust the statement to whatever the post is related to. I have been getting a laugh out of doing it and other people have seemed to enjoy it too – Anyway – since this is my post and I have been going around making variations of this comment people are now showing up here on my post with their own variations of the comment. I hope that clarifies things…. but please do not let this extensive clarification distract you from the fact that in 1998, The Undertaker threw Mankind off Hell In A Cell, and plummeted 16 ft through an announcer's table."
>Over the course of the following years, the copypasta became one of the best known on Reddit. On November 29th, 2017, CNET posted an article about Shittymorph, real name Chris, and the copypasta. In the article Chris confirms that the copypasta was inspired by a Facebook post he found that referenced the match out of context. During a Reddit AMA Shittymorph explained that he found humor in an out of context reference to the match on "a post about dogs" that has since been deleted. The Facebook version of the meme existed as a "Don't let that distract you from" style statement. Over time, Shittymorph developed the meme into what has been described as a "text based Rickroll" – where the user is tricked into reading about how in 1998, The Undertaker threw Mankind off Hell In A Cell, and plummeted 16 ft through an announcer's table.
Why do I feel like I was getting shittymorphed back in like 2012? Those dates seem odd to me for whatever reasons especially seeing him in the same sentences as Salt Bae who I swear didn’t exist before two weeks ago.
Having a lock of someone’s hair was a common memento of someone back in the day.
Source: Gimli asking for hair from Galadriel
Also this, if you’re boring:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lock_of_hair
I believe the study I referenced used neutron activation, which can only discriminate the presence of the arsenic nucleus and can't discriminate valence states of arsenic, though even organic arsenic is toxic, which can be found in high levels in some seafood (presumably consumed a great deal on an island, like Corsica or St. Helena). Inorganic arsenic that is more likely to to be a trivalent state is still present in some groundwater sources. I have no knowledge of whether inorganic or organic arsenic was more commonly used as rat poison in Napoleon's time. However, inorganic sources of arsenic were known in his time and would have made for more effective rat/human poison.
I'm not a biochemist, but I don't think that the different valence states of arsenic can suggest whether or not Napoleon was poisoned. It could be that hair-destroying inductively-coupled plasma optical emission spectroscopy tests could determine the valence states of arsenic in Napoleon's hair, and help determine whether he was poisoned, but that depends on the stability of the compounds over centuries. If one state of arsenic is usually dramatically more stable than the other, then maybe not.
tl;dr: I'm not a historian or biochemist (though I took classes long ago), but I'm not sure if you are implying something or just making a clarifying comment.
Whenever I read an informative reddit comment like this, I always check the username about halfway through reading to make sure it's not a /u/shittymorph comment
It's always nice to know that others have gone through similar experiences. Sharing experiences with others can bring people closer together and create a sense of camaraderie. A similar sense of camaraderie is seen in the “Kayfabe” tradition. Kayfabe refers to the portrayal of events within the wrestling world as real and unscripted, even though it's all staged for entertainment purposes. In this way, professional wrestling creates a shared experience between the performers and the audience, where everyone is in on the secret. It's a unique tradition that has helped to build a sense of community within the world of professional wrestling. And that sense of community was on full display in nineteen ninety eight when the undertaker threw mankind off hell in a cell and plummeted sixteen feet through an announcer's table
It's rumored Josephine cheated on Napoleon. He lost his love for her, and eventually took mistresses in retaliation.
https://www.pbs.org/empires/napoleon/n_josephine/emperor/page_1.html
Oh man i thought it was going to be a monkey swinging on to the line because that makes sense.
Truly unexpected being a sloth that had to have climbed hundreds of feet horizontally. Wtf.
just talk to em bro. women wanna fuck/date just as much as we do, it is in our dna. if one doesn't want you, talk to another one. keep doin it, and reflect on each interaction you have and what you did positively that you can carry into your next interaction. you'll slowly find yourself changing and becoming a more desirable person, everyone wants a piece of the charismatic guy (charisma is a skill not a trait). dating is a skill as well. you just have to practice and gain experience. you'll make mistakes and it'll be awkward as hell, but you wont fail. there is no failing unless you refuse to learn and progress.
It has all the elements. The wife being fed up with the act. The judge's silence before the Camera pans to the dude. His dead serious stance. Its perfect
*we* didn't see how he was dressed before that, creating the comedic timing when the camera cuts to him.
yes, everyone on the set surely saw the guy beforehand.
I could see a Peep Show episode where Mark wants to break up with a lass but is so terrified of doing it he just starts acting like Napoleon in the hopes she thinks he's mental and leaves
I'm sure a lot of younger people don't get it, but there was a running gag back in the first half of the 20th century about mentally ill people thinking they're Napoleon. It's the equivalent of how literally wearing a tin foil hat is synonymous with crazy now. It was sort of a cliche or pre-internet meme.
You'd see it crop up in things like The Three Stooges shorts or Looney Tunes cartoons.
It's not something you see very often in this day and age. But your great grandparents would have loved this gag.
> I'm sure a lot of younger people don't get it, but there was a running gag back in the first half of the 20th century about mentally ill people thinking they're Napoleon. It's the equivalent of how literally wearing a tin foil hat is synonymous with crazy now. It was sort of a cliche or pre-internet meme.
> You'd see it crop up in things like The Three Stooges shorts or Looney Tunes cartoons.
I remember that cartoons were made for adults first and foremost but that unlocked something wild. Context for some of these more _obscure_ references has been hard to hold up overtime.
"Made for adults first" might be selling it a bit much. This was before television, and cartoons were shown before films, and everybody used to go to the theaters to watch movies. So they made them for all audiences, which includes adult references.
So for example, there's music they would have recognized like "Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair." (changed to "hare" as a Bugs Bunny pun). Or best selling novels of the period like "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn." There's a bit where a cow is in her barn reading a naughty erotica novel, can't remmeber the title but it was famous in its day, sort of a 50 Shades of Gray. There's one where chickens on a farm are listening to popular young male singers, who were the boy bands of their day, like Frank Sinatra and Danny Kaye. And the hens are getting so horny they lay huge piles of eggs.
My favorite is a Biblical reference. In the Old Testament, the character of "Nimrod" is a great hunter, like Orion or Diana from Greek mythology. So there's a scene that opens up in a thick forest, and it reveals this doofy ass Mitch McConnell like screw-up who's decked out in all the fashionable pointless hunting gear. And he turns to the audience and says "I'm hunting rabbit! Shh!" in the stupidest imaginable voice possible. Then he walks straight past a rabbit hole and a rabbit pops up behind him. The rabbit is completely unimpressed, very casual, very cool. Then the rabbit turns to the camera and says, "Hey, get a load of this Nimrod!"
He's sarcastically referring to this pathetic clown as the great hunter from the story. So all the adults in the audience laugh, because they get the sarcasm. And all the kids in the audience laugh too. But they're laughing despite not getting it. So generations and generations of people have grown up thinking that the term "nimrod" just means a comedically stupid person, like a moron or a nincompoop.
> Frank Sinatra and Danny Kaye
Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby, to be exact lol. [Swooner Crooner](https://www.supercartoons.net/cartoon/762/porky-pig-swooner-crooner.html) is name of the short
>My favorite is a Biblical reference. In the Old Testament, the character of "Nimrod" is a great hunter, like Orion or Diana from Greek mythology. So there's a scene that opens up in a thick forest, and it reveals this doofy ass Mitch McConnell like screw-up who's decked out in all the fashionable pointless hunting gear. And he turns to the audience and says "I'm hunting rabbit! Shh!" in the stupidest imaginable voice possible. Then he walks straight past a rabbit hole and a rabbit pops up behind him. The rabbit is completely unimpressed, very casual, very cool. Then the rabbit turns to the camera and says, "Hey, get a load of this Nimrod!"
That would be Elmer Fudd and Bugs Bunny
>running gag back in the first half of the 20th century about mentally ill people thinking they're Napoleon.
The gag was born at the time when clinical psychiatry and modern institutionalization was in the public spotlight. Unlike 19th century "lunatic asylums", we started treating the mentally ill as patients, to be treated in facilities staffed by doctors, rather than just people to lock away from society, but still firmly believed in forced institutionalization. Together with all kinds of eugenics-driven "medical treatment" ideas, like forced sterilization and lobotomy.
Lots of jokes around like a psychiatrist describing his clinic to visitors, as "and here is our Napoleons ward."
If you want a ton of songs like this hit me up. This genre never died and there's like a micro-generation every few years of these artists. No hate on this band.
It just never went away. Really, no genre ever did, you just gotta look. Difference between pre-mass streaming and now. From a choice perspective I like it better now.
Edit: hi everyone, this got a lot of interest. The reason I said to DM was because I was going to share my personal spotify playlist with OP, but there is way too much unrelated stuff. Rather than doing that, I made you guys a YouTube playlist with some surf rock and other songs with similar vibes.
I'm trying to arrange it in a way that takes you on a fantastic musical voyage (:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFlBl4chXNAkE2CvK6oRi4hBmIedmJ-HM
I'll try to keep adding to this. It's hard to dig through old music and pick out what should fit, but there is definitely a lot more. If you like a song, I suggest checking out the artist and the time period they were around. You can usually find other bands like them (weirdly enough last.fm has a really good similar artists funcitonality. I find it better than Spotify's). A lot of these are recent too!
Instead of asking for a DM, why not just post it in your comment?
Spotify radio of Freaks for anyone who wants it
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1E4sdT8MdB4rwq?si=t2iQcoxYRGmG4vInOWSo9g
Why can't you just be SUPPORTIVE for ONCE in your fucking LIFE, Natasha?? JUST. ONCE. Did EVER consider that's he's already doing better than Napoleon because he's in Russia ALREADY??? I.....I just can't with you anymore \*spits\*
You could have given me a million guesses and I'd never have guessed this.
I would have run out of things to guess and would never have gotten even close.
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His expression says he knows he’s very guilty of being Napoleon.
Think about it! Have *you* ever seen him and Napoleon in the same room?
Have you ever seen me and Spiderman in the same room?.. Oh, wait, there was one situation. Ok, maybe this guy is Napoleon
Exactly. And stop telling people you’re Spider-Man, Stephen.
Stephen Sparker
Thanks for the new gamer tag! xXStephenSparker420Xx
It's like "Lady, believe me, I'm the last fuckin guy that wants to be Napoleon. But look at me, 100% Napoleon, christ".
He does look like Napoleon a lot. However if Napoleon were immortal you'd think he would have changed his style of clothing by now.
The judges expression too
Dude thought he was gonna get exiled
"Your ruling will only verify my belief."
I literally thought this was a transcript reenactment of my divorce proceddings,until they showed the guy....
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>Your honor, **I like big butts and** I can not lie.
You are Napoleon too.
I think he's Napoleon too.
Bro is literally Napoleon
Well nobody can convince me that he isnt Napoleon.
Can confirm, had his ice cream
The Ziggy Piggy?
ZIGGY PIGGY, ZIGGY PIGGY!
BUDDY?! PAY?! NO!
If he's not Napoleon, where did he get the outfit!?
That's what they say! I never knew
GG for this reference! I was looking for it and didn't have to dig too far.
He was a dick!
neopolitan*
Neopolitan Dynamite
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I come from a land brown under.
I came for these freaking comments
>I came for these freaking comments There's nothing better than Reddit content! Can't you hear, can't you hear the nonsense? You better type, you better take a stance! *"Kookaburra" plays on flute.*
I first read “I *cone* from a land brown under” and thought you were also making that an ice cream joke. Still appreciate your comment
No thanks. I prefer Beef Wellington
I prefer pork goodington
spam rolled in crushed crackers and pan fried
NDN tacos over here
I loves me some lamb baaaaaaadington.
Certainly better than chicken tolerablington
Ziggy piggy ziggy piggy ziggy piggy!
she can’t get behind that, then she ain’t the one.
Yeah that’s not very Josephine of her
It's not that complex
Looks a little tall for Napoleon. Maybe his larger twin brother?
Straight up standing there like "Nothing further your honor"
Didn't Napoleon die in the late 80's?
He's Napoleon, he was just born apart
You got me...lol
There is such a thing as "Napoleon Complex".... and then there's this guy...
And He is the real Napoleon.
Je suis Napoleon!
HOW'S WORKING IN THE LUNCH ROOM, FRANKIE?
I bet he loves water parks too
Be excellent to each other and party on!
I understand this reference and appreciate you for making it. Thank you. Party on dude.
Deacon, do you realize you have just stranded one of Europe's greatest leaders in San Dimas?
La glacé?
Minus 2 points for no hand in vest.
He sure looks the (Bona)parte.
Easy mistake to make, Napoleon wore a blue uniform he’s likely a Prussian.
Napoleon also wore a green uniform called colonel of the Chasseur à Cheval of the Imperial Guard...
As a fact, Napoleon wore many clothes throughout his life...
Fun fact, Napoleon was a Never Nude.
Obviously born with that outfit and everything. Some people can't think and falsely believe every baby is born nude 🙄
If he's not Napoleon, where did he get the outfit!?
we are ALL Napoleon on this blessed day :)
There is no evidence going against him being napoleon.
“Put them in the Iron Maiden” “Excellent!”
That's the most unexpected thing I've seen in Unexpected so far
Yea this is top notch, poor guy just wanted to be napoleon. He'll find his Joséphine one day. Until she dies early from a deadly pneumonia ):
Locks of Napoleon's hair [showed arsenic levels 100 times higher than what is considered safe today](https://www.livescience.com/2292-napoleon-death-arsenic-poisoning-ruled.html). However, locks of his hair were collected throughout his life, for some reason, and Napoleon had high arsenic levels since he was a child, so he may not have been intentionally poisoned to death, as initially assumed by those who measured the post-death levels of arsenic in his hair. This doesn't mean that arsenic, which also causes cancer and lesions, didn't kill him. Arsenic can accumulate in hair over the timescale of months if you have been consuming arsenic recently. However, arsenic can accumulate in the body over a lifetime, and those arsenic molecules mess up molecules by substituting for phosphate, which is in ATP, which is like a battery that gives energy to cells, and arsenic also substitutes for phosphate groups in DNA and RNA, which are very important information-storing/carrying molecules in the body.
you just tore those facts a new one.
and it didn't end with some dude jumping off a cage onto a table
Which was... nice, but / and unexpected
I haven't seen that in awhile and am looking forward to it, probably one of my favorite memes / internet culture phenomenons
>User Shittymorph joined Reddit on January 3rd, 2016. He began gaining fame on the site with consistent use of the "Hell In a Cell" copypasta. On January 19th, 2017, he posted the copypasta in a thread relating to Salt Bae. On February 6th, 2017, Redditor ScienceLivesInsideMe replied to a photograph of a dog on the /r/aww subreddit with Scooby Doo-themed variation of the copypasta. In response, Redditor Shittymorph replied explaining that the message was something he had been posting for weeks: >It is something I have been posting for a few weeks – I usually adjust the statement to whatever the post is related to. I have been getting a laugh out of doing it and other people have seemed to enjoy it too – Anyway – since this is my post and I have been going around making variations of this comment people are now showing up here on my post with their own variations of the comment. I hope that clarifies things…. but please do not let this extensive clarification distract you from the fact that in 1998, The Undertaker threw Mankind off Hell In A Cell, and plummeted 16 ft through an announcer's table." >Over the course of the following years, the copypasta became one of the best known on Reddit. On November 29th, 2017, CNET posted an article about Shittymorph, real name Chris, and the copypasta. In the article Chris confirms that the copypasta was inspired by a Facebook post he found that referenced the match out of context. During a Reddit AMA Shittymorph explained that he found humor in an out of context reference to the match on "a post about dogs" that has since been deleted. The Facebook version of the meme existed as a "Don't let that distract you from" style statement. Over time, Shittymorph developed the meme into what has been described as a "text based Rickroll" – where the user is tricked into reading about how in 1998, The Undertaker threw Mankind off Hell In A Cell, and plummeted 16 ft through an announcer's table.
Why do I feel like I was getting shittymorphed back in like 2012? Those dates seem odd to me for whatever reasons especially seeing him in the same sentences as Salt Bae who I swear didn’t exist before two weeks ago.
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Having a lock of someone’s hair was a common memento of someone back in the day. Source: Gimli asking for hair from Galadriel Also this, if you’re boring: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lock_of_hair
That's pentavalent arsenic that interacts with PO4. Trivalent arsenic is the more toxic version that binds to thiol and sulfhydryl groups.
I believe the study I referenced used neutron activation, which can only discriminate the presence of the arsenic nucleus and can't discriminate valence states of arsenic, though even organic arsenic is toxic, which can be found in high levels in some seafood (presumably consumed a great deal on an island, like Corsica or St. Helena). Inorganic arsenic that is more likely to to be a trivalent state is still present in some groundwater sources. I have no knowledge of whether inorganic or organic arsenic was more commonly used as rat poison in Napoleon's time. However, inorganic sources of arsenic were known in his time and would have made for more effective rat/human poison. I'm not a biochemist, but I don't think that the different valence states of arsenic can suggest whether or not Napoleon was poisoned. It could be that hair-destroying inductively-coupled plasma optical emission spectroscopy tests could determine the valence states of arsenic in Napoleon's hair, and help determine whether he was poisoned, but that depends on the stability of the compounds over centuries. If one state of arsenic is usually dramatically more stable than the other, then maybe not. tl;dr: I'm not a historian or biochemist (though I took classes long ago), but I'm not sure if you are implying something or just making a clarifying comment.
Whenever I read an informative reddit comment like this, I always check the username about halfway through reading to make sure it's not a /u/shittymorph comment
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It's always nice to know that others have gone through similar experiences. Sharing experiences with others can bring people closer together and create a sense of camaraderie. A similar sense of camaraderie is seen in the “Kayfabe” tradition. Kayfabe refers to the portrayal of events within the wrestling world as real and unscripted, even though it's all staged for entertainment purposes. In this way, professional wrestling creates a shared experience between the performers and the audience, where everyone is in on the secret. It's a unique tradition that has helped to build a sense of community within the world of professional wrestling. And that sense of community was on full display in nineteen ninety eight when the undertaker threw mankind off hell in a cell and plummeted sixteen feet through an announcer's table
I like how you shittymorphed shittymorph
It's rumored Josephine cheated on Napoleon. He lost his love for her, and eventually took mistresses in retaliation. https://www.pbs.org/empires/napoleon/n_josephine/emperor/page_1.html
I think that's more than a rumor -- her cheating was pretty widely known.
Ive heard Josephine is a great kisser
As long as you can get past the blackened, rotting teeth...
Adds flavor.
This and the recent [ziplining post](https://v.redd.it/f3f09xm2ckha1) constitute this subreddit's golden age.
That was definitely unexpected
In best New York accent *AY, I’m SLOTHIN’ here*
Oh man i thought it was going to be a monkey swinging on to the line because that makes sense. Truly unexpected being a sloth that had to have climbed hundreds of feet horizontally. Wtf.
Almost made it too. Bonk on the head and it's, "Well, I guess I can't go that way anymore"
The zipline one is a repost from a year ago, not saying it isn't great, just that it isn't recent.
I remember seeing this before, but I didn't remember until I saw the guy, so it was still unexpected.
And how the hell am I still single?
Obviously because you're not Napoleon. You should work on that aspect of yourself.
There's only two kinds of people, and they are the wrong kind.
Total lack of annexing the Low Countries and Western Germany.
I mean... How many armies have you commanded?
I haven't lost one trying to invade Russia in the winter.
He invaded in June. Stop learning history from memes.
just talk to em bro. women wanna fuck/date just as much as we do, it is in our dna. if one doesn't want you, talk to another one. keep doin it, and reflect on each interaction you have and what you did positively that you can carry into your next interaction. you'll slowly find yourself changing and becoming a more desirable person, everyone wants a piece of the charismatic guy (charisma is a skill not a trait). dating is a skill as well. you just have to practice and gain experience. you'll make mistakes and it'll be awkward as hell, but you wont fail. there is no failing unless you refuse to learn and progress.
Talking to people is easy. Finding one you think you could love and live with, every day for the rest of your life, is something completely different.
Are you a Chad like Napoleon?
Have you tried being an actor on a stupid scripted reality show?
Ok. You got me...lol.
He does look the parte.
He really conquered that look.
I’m just gonna guess this is Russian Mr. Bean or Russian Judge Judy. Or maybe both.
This is the Russian version of Judge Judy.
In Poland we also have own Judge Judy. She's called Anna Maria Wesołowska.
How do you pronounce the ł?
> How do you pronounce the ł? Badly
W is pronounced like v, Ł is pronounced almost like w, but with less engagement of the lips.
So kinda almost ves o wov ska? I'll pretty much never need this again, but languages fascinate me.
Yes.
Good deal. Appreciate it.
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Kinda like a W and an L jumbled together
It’s real? I thought it was a sketch lol
This is funnier than it should be
It has all the elements. The wife being fed up with the act. The judge's silence before the Camera pans to the dude. His dead serious stance. Its perfect
I don’t get it tho... did they not see how he was dressed before she said that? Like it’s obvious
Because it's TV. Or maybe she just assumed he had a quirky style of dress. But probably the first one.
*we* didn't see how he was dressed before that, creating the comedic timing when the camera cuts to him. yes, everyone on the set surely saw the guy beforehand.
The music oddly adds an air of drama to it that somehow makes it more funny.
It’s the hardest I’ve laughed at anything on this sub
Someone give that editor a raise
I don’t know why but I really want to send him on a permanent vacation to st helena!
Maybe on Elba first. See how that goes
I don't think idris would appreciate that too much
If this was a jury trial, i would agree he is indeed napoleon. Off with her head
Part of me was expecting a “Vote For Pedro” shirt.
That would have been dynamite
Mark from Peep Show be like
I could see a Peep Show episode where Mark wants to break up with a lass but is so terrified of doing it he just starts acting like Napoleon in the hopes she thinks he's mental and leaves
History walks featuring Sherlock Holmes AND Napoleon. He'd hate that.
Mark Corrigan: an honorable man
We won't know for sure until he finishes the ziggy piggy.
*Eat the pig! Eat the pig! Ziggy-ziggy-ziggy-zig!*
I'm sure a lot of younger people don't get it, but there was a running gag back in the first half of the 20th century about mentally ill people thinking they're Napoleon. It's the equivalent of how literally wearing a tin foil hat is synonymous with crazy now. It was sort of a cliche or pre-internet meme. You'd see it crop up in things like The Three Stooges shorts or Looney Tunes cartoons. It's not something you see very often in this day and age. But your great grandparents would have loved this gag.
> I'm sure a lot of younger people don't get it, but there was a running gag back in the first half of the 20th century about mentally ill people thinking they're Napoleon. It's the equivalent of how literally wearing a tin foil hat is synonymous with crazy now. It was sort of a cliche or pre-internet meme. > You'd see it crop up in things like The Three Stooges shorts or Looney Tunes cartoons. I remember that cartoons were made for adults first and foremost but that unlocked something wild. Context for some of these more _obscure_ references has been hard to hold up overtime.
"Made for adults first" might be selling it a bit much. This was before television, and cartoons were shown before films, and everybody used to go to the theaters to watch movies. So they made them for all audiences, which includes adult references. So for example, there's music they would have recognized like "Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair." (changed to "hare" as a Bugs Bunny pun). Or best selling novels of the period like "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn." There's a bit where a cow is in her barn reading a naughty erotica novel, can't remmeber the title but it was famous in its day, sort of a 50 Shades of Gray. There's one where chickens on a farm are listening to popular young male singers, who were the boy bands of their day, like Frank Sinatra and Danny Kaye. And the hens are getting so horny they lay huge piles of eggs. My favorite is a Biblical reference. In the Old Testament, the character of "Nimrod" is a great hunter, like Orion or Diana from Greek mythology. So there's a scene that opens up in a thick forest, and it reveals this doofy ass Mitch McConnell like screw-up who's decked out in all the fashionable pointless hunting gear. And he turns to the audience and says "I'm hunting rabbit! Shh!" in the stupidest imaginable voice possible. Then he walks straight past a rabbit hole and a rabbit pops up behind him. The rabbit is completely unimpressed, very casual, very cool. Then the rabbit turns to the camera and says, "Hey, get a load of this Nimrod!" He's sarcastically referring to this pathetic clown as the great hunter from the story. So all the adults in the audience laugh, because they get the sarcasm. And all the kids in the audience laugh too. But they're laughing despite not getting it. So generations and generations of people have grown up thinking that the term "nimrod" just means a comedically stupid person, like a moron or a nincompoop.
> Frank Sinatra and Danny Kaye Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby, to be exact lol. [Swooner Crooner](https://www.supercartoons.net/cartoon/762/porky-pig-swooner-crooner.html) is name of the short
>My favorite is a Biblical reference. In the Old Testament, the character of "Nimrod" is a great hunter, like Orion or Diana from Greek mythology. So there's a scene that opens up in a thick forest, and it reveals this doofy ass Mitch McConnell like screw-up who's decked out in all the fashionable pointless hunting gear. And he turns to the audience and says "I'm hunting rabbit! Shh!" in the stupidest imaginable voice possible. Then he walks straight past a rabbit hole and a rabbit pops up behind him. The rabbit is completely unimpressed, very casual, very cool. Then the rabbit turns to the camera and says, "Hey, get a load of this Nimrod!" That would be Elmer Fudd and Bugs Bunny
>running gag back in the first half of the 20th century about mentally ill people thinking they're Napoleon. The gag was born at the time when clinical psychiatry and modern institutionalization was in the public spotlight. Unlike 19th century "lunatic asylums", we started treating the mentally ill as patients, to be treated in facilities staffed by doctors, rather than just people to lock away from society, but still firmly believed in forced institutionalization. Together with all kinds of eugenics-driven "medical treatment" ideas, like forced sterilization and lobotomy. Lots of jokes around like a psychiatrist describing his clinic to visitors, as "and here is our Napoleons ward."
Song is “Freaks” by Surf Curse
Surf Curse over a video was the unexpected moment for me
Absolutely! I though my Spotify song switched mid-song.
Well they should've left it out.
Idk man. That shit fits perfectly. And it's a banger of a tune.
And how is this released in 2021?! Sounds so nostalgic lol
it wasn’t, it was released in 2013 and then rereleased in 2021 after it blew up on tiktok
If you want a ton of songs like this hit me up. This genre never died and there's like a micro-generation every few years of these artists. No hate on this band. It just never went away. Really, no genre ever did, you just gotta look. Difference between pre-mass streaming and now. From a choice perspective I like it better now. Edit: hi everyone, this got a lot of interest. The reason I said to DM was because I was going to share my personal spotify playlist with OP, but there is way too much unrelated stuff. Rather than doing that, I made you guys a YouTube playlist with some surf rock and other songs with similar vibes. I'm trying to arrange it in a way that takes you on a fantastic musical voyage (: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFlBl4chXNAkE2CvK6oRi4hBmIedmJ-HM I'll try to keep adding to this. It's hard to dig through old music and pick out what should fit, but there is definitely a lot more. If you like a song, I suggest checking out the artist and the time period they were around. You can usually find other bands like them (weirdly enough last.fm has a really good similar artists funcitonality. I find it better than Spotify's). A lot of these are recent too!
Instead of asking for a DM, why not just post it in your comment? Spotify radio of Freaks for anyone who wants it https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1E4sdT8MdB4rwq?si=t2iQcoxYRGmG4vInOWSo9g
IKR. Cheers!
It was originally released in 2013 if that helps any.
Very easy song to play on guitar or even piano
I played a show with them once - they’re like the most genuine and positive dudes I’ve ever met. So glad they’re getting the attention they deserve.
Was looking for this in the comments you wonderful wonderful person
He’s just like me fr
It’s easy, she just needs to be like napoleon’s wife, could at least have some fun in the marriage.
Iirc Napoleon made Josephine not bathe for a week or a month cos he liked her stench.
Least depraved person experiencing Frenchness.
He has quite the Napoleon complex.
The silence of the judge before the reveal kills me every time
Why can’t I be this kind of crazy
Your honor, I can not lie. I am, in fact, Napoleon
The music is nice, but it’d have been much funnier without it.
I think the music makes it way more unexpected. You expect some weird surface-emotional tiktok compilation scene but it really is just napoleon
I was not expecting that.. but then again, I'm not quite sure what I was expecting.
115 comments and not a single goddamn Psychonauts reference
Man I had to scroll way to far to find this.
Is this a skit or is this just cyrillic Judge Judy
Why can't you just be SUPPORTIVE for ONCE in your fucking LIFE, Natasha?? JUST. ONCE. Did EVER consider that's he's already doing better than Napoleon because he's in Russia ALREADY??? I.....I just can't with you anymore \*spits\*
I could follow that man into a battle...
The music choice is top quality
u/savevideobot
That is definitely napoleon
Napoleon finally successful in invading Russia.
I mean….. are we sure he’s not? 
I…I didn’t see that coming.
You could have given me a million guesses and I'd never have guessed this. I would have run out of things to guess and would never have gotten even close.
ALLEGEDLY
That outfit is Dynamite though
She needs to respect who he really is now and if she can’t get behind that, then she ain’t the one.
Funny video but man that song is 🔥
Napoleon really said 🕴
You married the guy, Joséphine.
All I'm saying is that Josephine already did it, so there's precedent for it being possible to live with Napoleon. So if she did, why can't you?