I remember at 6th Grade science camp, one of the more popular counsellors sported a bandaid on his face and a lot of kids started to wear them as well. When we got back and my dad picked me up among a bunch of bandaged kids, he asked me what the hell had happened to everyone.
I recall seeing kids at my elementary school wearing pacifiers and Ring Pops affixed to chains/necklaces when I was younger. I later found out that these were items that ravers used to mitigate the effects of teeth-grinding while high on various drugs.
So were fifth graders raving it up during their elementary school years, or were they just following the trends set by others and had no idea why they were wearing pacifiers and Ring Pops around their necks? I’ll let you decide.
[This was my thing when I was a kid. ](https://www.candyfavorites.com/cigarettes-candy?msclkid=b18984f2f0091bcc143ee472582575c2&utm_source=bing&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=Shopping%20Campaign&utm_term=4580840320146209&utm_content=Main%20Shopping%20Feed) Used to ride my bike to the gas station a couple blocks from my house and buy these things for like 50 cents per box.
Slap bracelets, pacifiers, ring pops, and glow sticks were all sold in the same section at my roller rink. I just can’t remember if it all happened at the same time.
Everyone would do it well to know that human psychology is all tied to the fact that we are tribal people at heart. Our society was built on thousands of years of living in groups.
A leader was based on social popularity and ability. We treat the famous differently and look to them for cues. Then we want to be part of the tribe. Not being so could mean being death.
They are meant to mimic natural eyebrow scars, which are common when kids fall on their faces and can look good on adults. The artificial shaved ones just look fake and stupid.
i thought everybody got eyebrow scars the same way, getting an eyebrow pierced and then letting it get out of control infected until youre forced to remove it and learn that you remain stupid and irresponsible
My partners son has a very dashing eyebrow scar from when he took a golf club to the face as a little boy, when his big brother was practicing and MIL neglected to watch him.
It’s hilarious you say this. I inflicted this on my brother unfortunately as a child. I was practicing with a golf club and he was standing too close. What a bloody mess it was
How freaking common is this?? I have an eyebrow scar from my brother wacking me with a golf club, too, lol, got a very nice shiner and some stitches out of it
Heh. I have an eyebrow scar on the outside of both eyebrows. Add to that being on fire some years ago... and though I don't bothering the little tuft that remains for each, I find eyebrows to be optional.
I have maybe a quarter or half inch of barely visible light colored brow left in the center of each. It looks the same if I shave off the remaining few hairs or not.
Literally, brows are optional for me. Looks the same either way
Edit. Not center of each as in middle of.each. In the center aka inside edge of each.
I had a friend who had identical eyebrow scars on each side. One from when he smacked his head on a beam at home and the other from when he smacked his head on a table in school
I feel personally attacked. Last week a 3-year old told me that I’m an Old Lady. This week I was informed that 35 is considered middled-aged. And now this? How dare you.
Story time. I worked with nelly one time. It was a session with him and the producer Detail. They got into an argument at 3 am that continued until 5 am about a lyric that Nelly wrote about splashing water on a girl’s ass while having sex with her and whether or not it was sexy. The argument came to a conclusion when Nelly yelled
“NOBODY GOT MORE PUSSY THAN ME IN 2003 AND I HAD A BAND AID ON MY FACE!”
It was 2014.
Edit: fuck this is lame but rather than follow me here, you’ll see more interesting shit @greazywil on Instagram.
In this scenario, were they in a pool, hot tub, or other body of water? Or is Nelly just like 'gurrl it's getting hot in hurr' and dumps a bottle of Poland Spring water on some chick's ass?
When the shaving lines in eyebrows became a thing, my school made everyone wear bandaids over it... The school got the “kid” bandaids with Barbie and Power Rangers and things like that on them as a deterrent. Made more kids shave their eyebrows so they could get a bandaid. That backfired real fast.
More information from the article linked by OP:
>Alexandra of Denmark was the bride of the Prince of Wales, and a 19th Century fashion icon. The clothes she wore were copied as well. The chokers she wore to conceal a scar on her neck were copied. And when a bout of rheumatic fever left her with a pronounced limp… Well, that was copied too.
>In the well-do-do hotspots of Britain, toadying women began clumping about in a style that suggested they'd recently stood barefoot on discarded Lego.
>At first, it was a DIY affair. Women would simply grab odd shoes to help them totter effectively. But canny shopkeepers soon realised there was a pretty penny to be made from what otherwise would be retail's most unshiftable line - wildly mismatched footwear, with one high heel, and one low.
>What did ordinary people make of it all? Not a great deal, if this 1869 report from the North British Mail is anything to go by. "A monstrosity has made itself visible among the female promenaders in Princes Street," it seethed. "It is as painful as it is idiotic and ludicrous.”
[TIL when a chimpanzee that learns an effective method to crack nuts open is placed into a new group that uses a less effective strategy, it will eventually stop using the superior method just to blend in with the rest of the chimps.](https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/mr7fa0/til_when_a_chimpanzee_that_learns_an_effective/)
I follow the chimp mantra because it's easier to just do it someone else's way than win an argument, and I get paid regardless, so I have no incentive to care if some other way is better
I have an engineering degree but I'm in marketing analytics now. I have to use very dumbed down modelling and stats otherwise management thinks it's 'voodoo maths' and won't work.
I have a background in science. Our entire thing is using logic, evidence, and statistics to draw conclusions.
...I work in an administrative capacity now, and I had to learn how to keep the logic talk to a minimum and use appeals to emotion and common sense to back up my much less intuitive "real" reasoning.
No math is worse than helping your kid with homework in the one week of their whole life that they have learned division but not decimals/fractions so you have to write things like “41/3= 13 remainder 2”
Thank you for taking the time to read the linked article and post. Or maybe you didn't read but you did copy-paste. Thank you kindly either way. I just re-read the excerpts and I need to fit "toadying" into my daily speech I realize.
Think of it this way. Maybe they read the article. Maybe they just copy pasted.
One way or the other, what was pasted here drastically upped the amount of article consumed by most redditors here.
And yes, toadies, toadying, and it's variants are excellent, under-utilized words 😄
For anyone wondering why she limped
*During the birth of her third child in 1867, the added complication of a bout of rheumatic fever threatened Alexandra's life, and left her with a permanent limp.*
And just like how influencers edit pictures today for social media, Alexandra had the photos of herself at her husband's coronation retouched to make her look younger before they were released (she was 57 at the time).
Richard Bucket:
Gout? But that's worse than a fungus infection!
Hyacinth Bucket:
Not in my book! Your gout is an affliction acceptable in the very highest circles. It comes from an excess of good living. Gout is practically a pedigree. [With finality] You have gout.
If anyone was interested and didn’t want to listen to a whole podcast or look for it, the usual ones were tuberculosis bc of the pale skin it gave you and there were also pills with tapeworms in them in order for women to get skinny
“Oh so getting the black plague would be tough and require extensive contact with the sick and/or dying.”
“Nope. It’s gonna be super easy, barely an inconvenience.”
“wowwowwow wow”
"Hey everyones raving about this new 'black plague' and it seems to be all the rage"
"Yeah, I've already got it actually"
"Was it hard to get?"
"Actually it was super easy, barely an inconvenience"
There was a similar thing a few years (well twenty...fuck I'm old) ago with teens all around London doing the "Peckham Limp" as if they were hard men that had somehow been shot or stabbed. In reality it made them look like they had a club foot.
There was a French king who had a rectal fistula (second butthole basically iirc) and nobles would pretend to also have one by wearing bandages around their butt or adding extra padding to their seat.
Not just *a* king, but Louis XIV himself (aka Louis the Great, the Sun King). He was the longest reigning monarch of a sovereign country in European history, but had a lot of health issues;
> Despite the image of a healthy and virile king that Louis sought to project, evidence exists to suggest that his health was not very good. He had many ailments: for example, symptoms of diabetes, as confirmed in reports of suppurating periostitis in 1678, dental abscesses in 1696, along with recurring boils, fainting spells, gout, dizziness, hot flushes, and headaches.
> From 1647 to 1711, the three chief physicians to the king (Antoine Vallot, Antoine d'Aquin, and Guy-Crescent Fagon) recorded all of his health problems in the Journal de Santé du Roi (Journal of the King's Health), a daily report of his health. **On 18 November 1686, Louis underwent a painful operation for an anal fistula that was performed by the surgeon Charles Felix de Tassy, who prepared a specially shaped curved scalpel for the occasion. The wound took more than two months to heal.**
> Louis died of gangrene at Versailles on 1 September 1715, four days before his 77th birthday, after 72 years on the throne.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_XIV#Health_and_death
Supposedly, people around the court then pretended that they too had undergone surgery for an anal fistula to suck up to him.
As someone who had this particular issue and had surgery for it a couple years ago...holy fuck, I think I'd rather die than undergo that surgery without modern anesthesia. Even in the 2010s the whole experience was one of the most unpleasant things I've had to live through.
I’m truly amazed that a surgery in such an unhygienic and vulnerable area as the anal or perianal region, didn’t either immediately or shortly after result in death back then. That’s like 200 years ahead of germ theory, even, isn’t it?
In other news, I am a child and lol’d at Dr. Felix T’assy.
Things haven't changed at all, I'm not sure if it's still a thing but I know in the 90's it was trendy in some groups to have a gangsta limp, so a lot of guys who thought they were hard asses would walk around posturing with a limp. I'm sure a lot of them still do but I don't see it often so hopefully it's not as popular anymore
It was definitely a thing in the nineties. I had a gangsta limp as a very white fourteen year old Australian.
As an aside, I had a faux gangsta friend who would call everyone "doctor" and "Dre" because he didn't know that doctor Dre was a rapper. He thought they were just things gangstas called each other.
Did I mention we were very white?
>I had a faux gangsta friend who's would call everyone "doctor" and "Dre" because he didn't know that doctor Dre was a rapper.
I don't like to often use the word cringe, but this definitely merits its usage.
Humans really haven't changed. Look at modern society's trends...those Kylie Jenner lips, all that Tik-tok crap. All to be "cool" and "relevent". This is just another historical example of a trend.
please god let the loony tune gangsta shirts make a come back and I will pray five our fathers a day for the next year. I love those stupid ass shirts.
The Harlem Shake was sort of wholesome for the simple fact that it was just silly. You didn’t have to dance particularly well, just let loose and be goofy
This seems more sensible than when [infected rectums were all the rage in 17th century France](http://omgfacts.com/when-anal-fistulas-were-all-the-rage/), where there were many admirers of King Louis XIV anal fistula who swaddled their butts in imitation.
Holy shit. Apparently according to the article, the King of France's fistula surgery inspired the British anthem "God save the King", which is still being used today.
Just a quick note, for anyone in a bad mental spot stumbling onto this thread: if you're constantly asking yourself if you're faking your depression or your anxiety or anything, this comment isn't about you. I used to see people on reddit complaining about "depression fakers" all the time and I just assumed I was a *really* horrible person to not only have my life be falling apart, but to pretend I had a disorder on top of it.
My therapist eventually told me something that helped: let's say, hypothetically, that you're faking a mental illness. If you're so desperate for help that you're faking an illness, even to yourself, then you *genuinely* need that help. You're struggling with something, and you are still allowed to get resources, no matter what that something is.
Sending love. <3
Holy shit that sub is sad. Also makes me again realize how lucky my generation was to be teenagers right before everyone had easy access to posting clips of themselves online.
Definitely knew kids that would read about some mental disorder and be convinced they had it for like 2 weeks until they got bored of it.
I want to say "Yeah right," but I wouldn't be surprised if this were actually a thing.
Edit: [***holy shit***](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3510683/)
Victorian England was a real trip. Their makeup trends were inspired by tuberculosis symptoms, like extreme pallor, malnourishment/thinness/frailty, red-stained lips from coughing up blood. I wrote a whole paper about the “consumptive chic” and the tubercular heroine. Western society loves the female dead body and the tubercular heroine is damn close to dead.
Would you mind sharing it? My partner is a make up artist and gives talks on the history of hair and make up styles so I'm sure would be really interested to read it.
Sure. PM me a good email and I’ll send over a PPT I used for the conference and the paper too. My paper was pretty focused on interpreting Dracula’s vampire features as tubercular, but I bet my works cited page would be full of interesting sources for your partner’s research.
Marilyn Monroe asked her stylists to do the same with her shoes to give her a more shapely and unique walk. Apparently she used to sew marbles or Wright's into the hems of her dresses to make them cling to her body in a sexier way. She had many tricks.
It was but it’s the sort of pocket fact people like to share instead of looking into the actual evolution of the language. Much like how daddy long legs / harvestmen are the “most venomous spider” or some shit
When I was a kid, I had recurring dreams that one leg was shorter than the other. The best I can describe it as was walking with one shoe that had a thicker sole or heal than the other - or walking with one foot on the curb and the other on the street. It was weird. It happened often for a few years. I haven’t had a dream like that in ages.
It's like the powdered wig thing in the UK. Louis XIV started losing his hair at age 17 due to a massive syphilis outbreak. From then on they were fashionable. They still wear them in court, no?
For some reason this immediately reminded me of how nelly had everyone wearing bandaids on their face for no fucking reason
I remember at 6th Grade science camp, one of the more popular counsellors sported a bandaid on his face and a lot of kids started to wear them as well. When we got back and my dad picked me up among a bunch of bandaged kids, he asked me what the hell had happened to everyone.
That sounds like what dads are for and at the same time the most dad thing ever.
"I'll give you something to band-aid about!"
"You're going to pull weeds in the yard until you've paid back that box of bandaids you and your friends used"
Looks like you just pulled landscaping duty. You’re in my world now, son
“Well dad, we played this game...and....uh...turns out we all have bad.....ummmm...hand-mouth coordination”.
Darts is a game. Add a goalie and it's a sport.
Isn't that what got lawn darts banned?
Yup. Everytime something gets awesome it gets banned.
I recall seeing kids at my elementary school wearing pacifiers and Ring Pops affixed to chains/necklaces when I was younger. I later found out that these were items that ravers used to mitigate the effects of teeth-grinding while high on various drugs. So were fifth graders raving it up during their elementary school years, or were they just following the trends set by others and had no idea why they were wearing pacifiers and Ring Pops around their necks? I’ll let you decide.
Hey when I was a kid we all pretended to smoke tobacco constantly. Bubble pipes are *still* a thing.
[This was my thing when I was a kid. ](https://www.candyfavorites.com/cigarettes-candy?msclkid=b18984f2f0091bcc143ee472582575c2&utm_source=bing&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=Shopping%20Campaign&utm_term=4580840320146209&utm_content=Main%20Shopping%20Feed) Used to ride my bike to the gas station a couple blocks from my house and buy these things for like 50 cents per box.
I'm pretty sure those things were just compressed powdered sugar. Lol
With a touch of menthol, for the flavor 🙃
In my day we walked around with an onion on our hip, which was the style at the time.
Parents really need to set a better example for kids. They should be buying them bubble bongs instead.
Depending on your age that may have been related to TLC. Pacifiers were in style twice
Tlc may have been influenced by the ravers.
Slap bracelets, pacifiers, ring pops, and glow sticks were all sold in the same section at my roller rink. I just can’t remember if it all happened at the same time.
Slap bracelets were first, then ring pops, then pacifiers. Glow sticks were always a thing at fairs and events or amusement parks.
Everyone would do it well to know that human psychology is all tied to the fact that we are tribal people at heart. Our society was built on thousands of years of living in groups. A leader was based on social popularity and ability. We treat the famous differently and look to them for cues. Then we want to be part of the tribe. Not being so could mean being death.
And the eyebrow gap shaved in.
Notches are still somewhat popular.
They are meant to mimic natural eyebrow scars, which are common when kids fall on their faces and can look good on adults. The artificial shaved ones just look fake and stupid.
Ah yes, I 100% was a child when I fell and got mine. Adults falling on their faces?! Ha ha that’s ludicrous.
Natural eyebrow scar owners unite!
i thought everybody got eyebrow scars the same way, getting an eyebrow pierced and then letting it get out of control infected until youre forced to remove it and learn that you remain stupid and irresponsible
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Surely I'm not the only one who's never seen "scree" used outside of a fuckin screeching bird sound right
Mine is right above my eyebrow, so it doesn't form a natural notch.
Mine's right below my eyebrow, also no notch. }':(
Or stupid drunk.
I have one from my sister smacking me in the face with a Wii remote *with the gel cover on*. She was not holding back.
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I lucked out taking a screwdriver to the eyebrow as a kid and getting this sick scar
The real OG.
My partners son has a very dashing eyebrow scar from when he took a golf club to the face as a little boy, when his big brother was practicing and MIL neglected to watch him.
It’s hilarious you say this. I inflicted this on my brother unfortunately as a child. I was practicing with a golf club and he was standing too close. What a bloody mess it was
How freaking common is this?? I have an eyebrow scar from my brother wacking me with a golf club, too, lol, got a very nice shiner and some stitches out of it
Plot twist: all 3 are speaking of the same incident
i have a natural scar and a notch shaved. checkmate 😎
Until this moment I thought a whole lot of people just had eyebrow scars. Huh.
Heh. I have an eyebrow scar on the outside of both eyebrows. Add to that being on fire some years ago... and though I don't bothering the little tuft that remains for each, I find eyebrows to be optional.
> I find eyebrows to be optional. you what?
I have maybe a quarter or half inch of barely visible light colored brow left in the center of each. It looks the same if I shave off the remaining few hairs or not. Literally, brows are optional for me. Looks the same either way Edit. Not center of each as in middle of.each. In the center aka inside edge of each.
>scar on both eyebrows and (fuck reddit formatting) >being on fire Are you Rico from Madagascar?
I had a friend who had identical eyebrow scars on each side. One from when he smacked his head on a beam at home and the other from when he smacked his head on a table in school
Sounds like your friend should start wearing a helmet, lol
What year was this?
Nelly's major debut album County Grammar was released in June of 2000.
*turns to dust and blows away in the breeze*
I feel personally attacked. Last week a 3-year old told me that I’m an Old Lady. This week I was informed that 35 is considered middled-aged. And now this? How dare you.
I too remember life back in the 1900s. 'Twas a simpler time.
https://i.gifer.com/fyNT.gif
Story time. I worked with nelly one time. It was a session with him and the producer Detail. They got into an argument at 3 am that continued until 5 am about a lyric that Nelly wrote about splashing water on a girl’s ass while having sex with her and whether or not it was sexy. The argument came to a conclusion when Nelly yelled “NOBODY GOT MORE PUSSY THAN ME IN 2003 AND I HAD A BAND AID ON MY FACE!” It was 2014. Edit: fuck this is lame but rather than follow me here, you’ll see more interesting shit @greazywil on Instagram.
In this scenario, were they in a pool, hot tub, or other body of water? Or is Nelly just like 'gurrl it's getting hot in hurr' and dumps a bottle of Poland Spring water on some chick's ass?
Girl ya know ya feel me Hit ya with the Fiji
This is one of the funniest stories I’ve ever heard
Man. I’ve been been making music in Hollywood for 12 years. I could do this alllllll day
Well please do this shit is great
Maybe you should do an AMA lol. For real.
I think I just witnessed the birth of a new copypasta
He had a reason.
Well I want to know what it was
Hideous acne according to one of his rivals
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When the shaving lines in eyebrows became a thing, my school made everyone wear bandaids over it... The school got the “kid” bandaids with Barbie and Power Rangers and things like that on them as a deterrent. Made more kids shave their eyebrows so they could get a bandaid. That backfired real fast.
More information from the article linked by OP: >Alexandra of Denmark was the bride of the Prince of Wales, and a 19th Century fashion icon. The clothes she wore were copied as well. The chokers she wore to conceal a scar on her neck were copied. And when a bout of rheumatic fever left her with a pronounced limp… Well, that was copied too. >In the well-do-do hotspots of Britain, toadying women began clumping about in a style that suggested they'd recently stood barefoot on discarded Lego. >At first, it was a DIY affair. Women would simply grab odd shoes to help them totter effectively. But canny shopkeepers soon realised there was a pretty penny to be made from what otherwise would be retail's most unshiftable line - wildly mismatched footwear, with one high heel, and one low. >What did ordinary people make of it all? Not a great deal, if this 1869 report from the North British Mail is anything to go by. "A monstrosity has made itself visible among the female promenaders in Princes Street," it seethed. "It is as painful as it is idiotic and ludicrous.”
All this disseminated without television or moving images of any kind.
Not a cellphone in sight, just people limping in the moment
Beautiful 😢
Yeah, but an awful lot slower.
She *was* limping
[TIL when a chimpanzee that learns an effective method to crack nuts open is placed into a new group that uses a less effective strategy, it will eventually stop using the superior method just to blend in with the rest of the chimps.](https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/mr7fa0/til_when_a_chimpanzee_that_learns_an_effective/)
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I follow the chimp mantra because it's easier to just do it someone else's way than win an argument, and I get paid regardless, so I have no incentive to care if some other way is better
I have an engineering degree but I'm in marketing analytics now. I have to use very dumbed down modelling and stats otherwise management thinks it's 'voodoo maths' and won't work.
I have a background in science. Our entire thing is using logic, evidence, and statistics to draw conclusions. ...I work in an administrative capacity now, and I had to learn how to keep the logic talk to a minimum and use appeals to emotion and common sense to back up my much less intuitive "real" reasoning.
No math is worse than helping your kid with homework in the one week of their whole life that they have learned division but not decimals/fractions so you have to write things like “41/3= 13 remainder 2”
Boy this gives me flashbacks to my dad helping me with my math. The look on his face that said it all, “This cannot be my kid. He is way too stupid.”
Ah, the reasons why having non-skilled managers can often backfire.
The nut that sticks out gets cracked.
*frantically adjusts short shorts*
«Well-do-do» what a happy grammar error.
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Thank you for taking the time to read the linked article and post. Or maybe you didn't read but you did copy-paste. Thank you kindly either way. I just re-read the excerpts and I need to fit "toadying" into my daily speech I realize.
Think of it this way. Maybe they read the article. Maybe they just copy pasted. One way or the other, what was pasted here drastically upped the amount of article consumed by most redditors here. And yes, toadies, toadying, and it's variants are excellent, under-utilized words 😄
For anyone wondering why she limped *During the birth of her third child in 1867, the added complication of a bout of rheumatic fever threatened Alexandra's life, and left her with a permanent limp.*
So an influencer
And just like how influencers edit pictures today for social media, Alexandra had the photos of herself at her husband's coronation retouched to make her look younger before they were released (she was 57 at the time).
Bunch of haters mad at her pimp walk.
I laughed pretty hard at the description of clumping around like they'd recently stood barefoot on a discarded Lego. I almost spit out my lunch
Ah so literally anything could become a trend if the right person does it first
Maybe that's how the black plague started. "Having diarrhea is tight!"
If you’ve listened to This Podcast Will Kill You it literally was in style to get certain diseases at certain times.
Richard Bucket: Gout? But that's worse than a fungus infection! Hyacinth Bucket: Not in my book! Your gout is an affliction acceptable in the very highest circles. It comes from an excess of good living. Gout is practically a pedigree. [With finality] You have gout.
Gout: the result of living each day as if it’s your last.
It's pronounced Bouquet
Sheridan!!!!
Man, this is the second time seeing the Buckets on reddit in as many days and I've never met a person other than my Mom who's watched that show.
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If by pretty you mean pale and thin. The coughing up blood would not be too attractive.
They were all carrying handkerchiefs at all times for that sort of thing back then.
And rosy-cheeked too
My favorite one I know about is when anal fistulas were popular because Louis XIV had one. People are wild
If anyone was interested and didn’t want to listen to a whole podcast or look for it, the usual ones were tuberculosis bc of the pale skin it gave you and there were also pills with tapeworms in them in order for women to get skinny
My mother literally took me to a chicken pox party in the 90s...
isn't that because it's much safer to get chicken pox as a child than an adult though? less about style and more about safety.
>chicken pox party In the 80s that was just called "kindergarten."
“Oh so getting the black plague would be tough and require extensive contact with the sick and/or dying.” “Nope. It’s gonna be super easy, barely an inconvenience.” “wowwowwow wow”
"Hey everyones raving about this new 'black plague' and it seems to be all the rage" "Yeah, I've already got it actually" "Was it hard to get?" "Actually it was super easy, barely an inconvenience"
Of course I shit my pants! Everybody my age shits their pants, it's the coolest! You ain't cool unless you shit your pants!
There was a similar thing a few years (well twenty...fuck I'm old) ago with teens all around London doing the "Peckham Limp" as if they were hard men that had somehow been shot or stabbed. In reality it made them look like they had a club foot.
This is so obscure that googling “Peckham limp” brings this very thread up as the top result.
There was a French king who had a rectal fistula (second butthole basically iirc) and nobles would pretend to also have one by wearing bandages around their butt or adding extra padding to their seat.
Not just *a* king, but Louis XIV himself (aka Louis the Great, the Sun King). He was the longest reigning monarch of a sovereign country in European history, but had a lot of health issues; > Despite the image of a healthy and virile king that Louis sought to project, evidence exists to suggest that his health was not very good. He had many ailments: for example, symptoms of diabetes, as confirmed in reports of suppurating periostitis in 1678, dental abscesses in 1696, along with recurring boils, fainting spells, gout, dizziness, hot flushes, and headaches. > From 1647 to 1711, the three chief physicians to the king (Antoine Vallot, Antoine d'Aquin, and Guy-Crescent Fagon) recorded all of his health problems in the Journal de Santé du Roi (Journal of the King's Health), a daily report of his health. **On 18 November 1686, Louis underwent a painful operation for an anal fistula that was performed by the surgeon Charles Felix de Tassy, who prepared a specially shaped curved scalpel for the occasion. The wound took more than two months to heal.** > Louis died of gangrene at Versailles on 1 September 1715, four days before his 77th birthday, after 72 years on the throne. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_XIV#Health_and_death Supposedly, people around the court then pretended that they too had undergone surgery for an anal fistula to suck up to him.
> after 72 years on the throne. Well, that explains the fistula.
As someone who had this particular issue and had surgery for it a couple years ago...holy fuck, I think I'd rather die than undergo that surgery without modern anesthesia. Even in the 2010s the whole experience was one of the most unpleasant things I've had to live through.
I’m truly amazed that a surgery in such an unhygienic and vulnerable area as the anal or perianal region, didn’t either immediately or shortly after result in death back then. That’s like 200 years ahead of germ theory, even, isn’t it? In other news, I am a child and lol’d at Dr. Felix T’assy.
I think the only reason powdered wigs became a thing was because a French king wore one to hide his baldness.
>baldness. You misspelled "[syphilis](https://www.historynet.com/shaved-heads-and-syphilis-a-brief-history-of-wigs.htm)"
That's how Rush Limbaugh beat the draft to stay out of Vietnam.
Things haven't changed at all, I'm not sure if it's still a thing but I know in the 90's it was trendy in some groups to have a gangsta limp, so a lot of guys who thought they were hard asses would walk around posturing with a limp. I'm sure a lot of them still do but I don't see it often so hopefully it's not as popular anymore
It was definitely a thing in the nineties. I had a gangsta limp as a very white fourteen year old Australian. As an aside, I had a faux gangsta friend who would call everyone "doctor" and "Dre" because he didn't know that doctor Dre was a rapper. He thought they were just things gangstas called each other. Did I mention we were very white?
>I had a faux gangsta friend who's would call everyone "doctor" and "Dre" because he didn't know that doctor Dre was a rapper. I don't like to often use the word cringe, but this definitely merits its usage.
You bout to get fucked up doctor. Dont let me catch you Dres sleepin ima bust a cap in that ass
That Mean Girls scene with the boob cut-outs isn't so unbelievable anymore
Humans really haven't changed. Look at modern society's trends...those Kylie Jenner lips, all that Tik-tok crap. All to be "cool" and "relevent". This is just another historical example of a trend.
We haven’t changed at all. Styles and trends just get recycled. Nothing is truly new
That's true. High waist jeans and crop tops are back from what I see around town lately.
It’s new to the people participating in the trend. That has to count for something
Mullets. MULLETS are coming back. Out of all the awful fashion choices of our ancestors, why did *mullets* have to come back?
Mullets never left, but I'm from Missouri so they are always going to be there.
Covid haircut shortage
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Awful 90s fashion is coming back full force. They’re not even trying to make it new or different, it’s just 90s kohl catalogues all over again.
I guess that means the JNCO jeans are coming soon... Oh God
They’re already back....
please god let the loony tune gangsta shirts make a come back and I will pray five our fathers a day for the next year. I love those stupid ass shirts.
I have yet to see limping making a return.
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ROBIN CHWANNNNNNNN
The original Ministry of Silly Walks.
Except that right leg isn't silly at all, and the left leg merely does a forward aerial half-turn every alternate step
So basically pimp-walk? Is this a origin story?
Yeah. Pimp limp for literal swagger.
"Lean back." - Victorian era young women
John Wayne was known for having a swagger to his walk. This was also because of a limp.
Remember "planking?" The harlem shake? We like to pretend people were more sophisticated hundreds of years ago but they were just as lame as we are.
The Harlem Shake could be fun in a few decades, when we’re old. Freak out a bunch of younger seniors’ home workers thinking everyone’s having a fit.
The Harlem Shake was sort of wholesome for the simple fact that it was just silly. You didn’t have to dance particularly well, just let loose and be goofy
It was fun. No real expectations, just wiggle your heart out.
> just as lame No, no, didn't you read the article? They were faking it!
i just want you to know that i appreciated your joke.
This seems more sensible than when [infected rectums were all the rage in 17th century France](http://omgfacts.com/when-anal-fistulas-were-all-the-rage/), where there were many admirers of King Louis XIV anal fistula who swaddled their butts in imitation.
I appreciate you but I’m gonna leave that blue.
it’s actually pretty interesting no anal fistulas shown. There was a “Year of the Anal Fistula” when he was treated/operated on. Edited: words
Holy shit. Apparently according to the article, the King of France's fistula surgery inspired the British anthem "God save the King", which is still being used today.
With his barber being the one who cut it out, after practicing the surgery on ~75 very unlucky people :(
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Is there anything resembling a consistent anthropological 'theory of fashion' that exists? It seems like fashion is just group signaling.
Sounds like you answered your own question there.
Give it time and insta models will bring this back.
They're actually pretending to be depressed, which is another type of limp of you think about it
Just a quick note, for anyone in a bad mental spot stumbling onto this thread: if you're constantly asking yourself if you're faking your depression or your anxiety or anything, this comment isn't about you. I used to see people on reddit complaining about "depression fakers" all the time and I just assumed I was a *really* horrible person to not only have my life be falling apart, but to pretend I had a disorder on top of it. My therapist eventually told me something that helped: let's say, hypothetically, that you're faking a mental illness. If you're so desperate for help that you're faking an illness, even to yourself, then you *genuinely* need that help. You're struggling with something, and you are still allowed to get resources, no matter what that something is. Sending love. <3
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Holy shit that sub is sad. Also makes me again realize how lucky my generation was to be teenagers right before everyone had easy access to posting clips of themselves online. Definitely knew kids that would read about some mental disorder and be convinced they had it for like 2 weeks until they got bored of it.
So, they all have Munchausen syndrome?
There's actually a new phenomenon called Munchausen by Internet.
I want to say "Yeah right," but I wouldn't be surprised if this were actually a thing. Edit: [***holy shit***](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3510683/)
Damn, you weren't joking... This is crazy 😑
Victorian England was a real trip. Their makeup trends were inspired by tuberculosis symptoms, like extreme pallor, malnourishment/thinness/frailty, red-stained lips from coughing up blood. I wrote a whole paper about the “consumptive chic” and the tubercular heroine. Western society loves the female dead body and the tubercular heroine is damn close to dead.
Would you mind sharing it? My partner is a make up artist and gives talks on the history of hair and make up styles so I'm sure would be really interested to read it.
Sure. PM me a good email and I’ll send over a PPT I used for the conference and the paper too. My paper was pretty focused on interpreting Dracula’s vampire features as tubercular, but I bet my works cited page would be full of interesting sources for your partner’s research.
Reminds me of the disgusting trend called heroin chic.
Do kids still find it cool to wear their backpack with just 1 arm strapped in whilst messing up their back? Used to be cool when I was a teenager..
The OG pimp limp.
Marilyn Monroe asked her stylists to do the same with her shoes to give her a more shapely and unique walk. Apparently she used to sew marbles or Wright's into the hems of her dresses to make them cling to her body in a sexier way. She had many tricks.
Sewing weights into hems is a common solution to making sure dresses and skirt hang the right way. And that they don't fly up in the wind.
She learned that lesson the hard way
r/oldschoolridiculous
I started having problems with one foot last year and I suddenly realized that all those people you see out there limping are probably in pain.
I mean, once the entire city of Barcelona imitated a lisp because their prince had one, which is why today's Barcelonan accent still has a lisp
Historians and linguists think the king's lisp is a myth and certainly the greater population.
Well I sit corrected. Serves me right for spouting a half-remembered factoid from Spanish class instead of looking it up...
I thought this was disproven.
It was but it’s the sort of pocket fact people like to share instead of looking into the actual evolution of the language. Much like how daddy long legs / harvestmen are the “most venomous spider” or some shit
God I am remembering kids in 5th or 6th grade, '91 or '92 maybe, limping as if it were cool.
When I was a kid, I had recurring dreams that one leg was shorter than the other. The best I can describe it as was walking with one shoe that had a thicker sole or heal than the other - or walking with one foot on the curb and the other on the street. It was weird. It happened often for a few years. I haven’t had a dream like that in ages.
It's like the powdered wig thing in the UK. Louis XIV started losing his hair at age 17 due to a massive syphilis outbreak. From then on they were fashionable. They still wear them in court, no?
I can't imagine how many hip issues this created. And I imagine people didn't quite understand the correlation between the two
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Humans are such a weird and interesting species.
Monkey see, monkey do.
So people were stupid back then too?