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[–] solrize@lemmy.world 87 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I looked him up and he is English. Weren't English sailors called Limeys because of the lime juice in their rations, specifically for scurvy prevention? He should have signed up with the Admiralty instead of the pirates.

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 85 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Funny enough...

  1. Yes.

  2. The lime juice was meant as a cheaper alternative to lemon juice. And it wasn't very effective, lmao. National militaries and sabotaging the health of their troops to save a buck - name a more iconic duo.

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[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 78 points 2 months ago (8 children)

Taking care of yourself is gay. "Real men" reduce their life expectancy by purposefully living an unhealthy lifestyle.

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 42 points 2 months ago

Damn, I never realized I was so masculine!

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[–] thehatfox@lemmy.world 45 points 2 months ago (1 children)

According to the internet, he did it at university, eating nothing but mince, chicken, and mayonnaise for about 2 months. He did so to annoy other students in his classes who were vegan or vegetarian.

I’ve actually heard a few stories of uni students getting scurvy, although they were because they either didn’t know how to cook or couldn’t afford food.

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[–] JohnOliver@feddit.dk 44 points 2 months ago (4 children)

It seems like many in here dont realise that you can be gay and masculine at the same time.

[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 16 points 2 months ago

In the same way that you can be straight and feminine at the same time.

[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 months ago

then why are my masc 4 masc posts never answered

[–] NotAnonymousAtAll@feddit.org 11 points 2 months ago

I would argue that people who feel the need to prove their masculinity tend to be the ones not realizing that, and people here are making fun of that.

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[–] carl_dungeon@lemmy.world 38 points 2 months ago

To be fair, he said he did this his first year in college- everyone did dumb shit in college.

[–] JigglySackles@lemmy.world 36 points 2 months ago

One sure sign that you're not masculine, is doing things to show others how masculine you are.

[–] riodoro1@lemmy.world 33 points 2 months ago (2 children)

So… is it ok to move your human to an all meat diet?

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago

Quite apparently no. Give your omnivorous human the vitamins it needs!

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[–] brown567@sh.itjust.works 32 points 2 months ago

"You wouldn't pirate an illness"

[–] drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world 27 points 2 months ago (5 children)

In medival times if you could afford to only eat meat it meant you were a rich soft fancy boy.

[–] ChanchoManco@lemm.ee 16 points 2 months ago

Pretty much the same as now then.

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[–] Sbauer@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

On one hand it's stupid to sabotage your health to appear more masculine. On the other hand casually bringing up that you have contracted a pirate illness in conversation does sound pretty damn masculine.

[–] addictedtochaos@lemm.ee 20 points 2 months ago (7 children)

haha, happened to me:

its copper deficency by zink overload.-

without copper, there is multiple things that go wrong. but it takes time to deplete copper stores. zink always wins against copper, and meat is full of zink.

vitamin c d, and iron wont work without copper.

I did that because I develeoped grain allergy, and was insuline resistant.

I eat grains again, but sparingly.

went down from 95 kilos to 65.

fun fact:

nobody talks about that. carnivore influencer dont, thats for sure.

https://www.jbc.org/article/S0021-9258(20)71083-5/fulltext https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/molecular-biosciences/articles/10.3389/fmolb.2021.711227/full

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[–] jac@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I bet his life is brilliant.

[–] hexabs@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago (4 children)
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[–] yemmly@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Maybe I’m slow or something, but I don’t get how eating meat is masculine.

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 51 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Not slow, just lucky to have not encountered such cretins. There is a very non-zero amount of men who believe that 'traditional' masculinity includes avoiding 'feminine' foods, including 'rabbit food' (ie anything green, leafy, or vaguely healthy). The meat-only diet is the natural extension of this line of thinking to the full caveman-stereotype conclusion.

[–] yemmly@lemmy.world 47 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Sounds like insecurity to me.

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 28 points 2 months ago

Very much so.

[–] trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months ago

The stupidest thing is that actual cave people probably couldn't catch meat daily and thus also ate a lot of gathered plants.

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[–] BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee 19 points 2 months ago (13 children)

It is pretty funny that eating meat is still seen as a masculine thing. Pff what? Tofu? No i buy my meat like a real man in this other isle, next to the tofu.

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[–] chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Should’ve eaten some sauerkraut and fried onions! The manliest of all vegetables! Has the bonus effect of repelling ladies up to 5 feet away!

[–] blx@lemmy.zip 15 points 2 months ago

Keeping femalehood at bay, now THAT's masculine af

[–] Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 2 months ago (11 children)

Wow, guess he just wasn't manly enough.

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[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

There are a lot of reasons to not like James Blunt, but there is one reason to like James Blunt, which is when he parodied his own hit song on Sesame Street. And that is the one reason I still like James Blunt. A little.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4cUQ1ItK-w

[–] ReCursing@lemmings.world 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

James Blunt is hilarious. Awful music but excellent at self-deprecating humour

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[–] chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 37 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

As a man without scurvy, I can personally attest that not all men have scurvy

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[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Broccoli and tomatoes are okay, but carrots are questionable, and zucchini is hella gay.

[–] scutiger@lemmy.world 20 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Zucchini is shaped like a penis. It doesn't get any more manly than that.

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[–] Etterra@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I guess nobody ever told this genius about multivitamins either.

[–] anarchrist@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Alas: also shaped like cocks

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[–] thearch@sh.itjust.works 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Fellas is it gay to be healthy

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[–] h3mlocke@lemm.ee 12 points 2 months ago

What kinda fragile masculinity can't handle a bit o' scurvy?

[–] kindenough@kbin.earth 12 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Lemons

Also: This guy "prevented" WW3, no shit.

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[–] ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Scurvy is one of the manliest diseases, though, so he kind of failed this one successfully

[–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 14 points 2 months ago (2 children)

No it isn't.

Testicular cancer is a lot more manly.

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[–] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 10 points 2 months ago

Bloody hell, this actually happened.

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

He looks like Benedict Cumberbatch if Benedict Cumberbatch got hit by a truck.

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