that one really weird thing on your mind that is making you laugh your ass off

I keep giggling over this. The phrasing makes it sound like there's one hiding under my couch right now or something.

 

chances of encountering a great white shark are low.... but Never zero

 

Asdfghjjkl

 

The mental image of

Spoiler: nsfw

someone putting a tiny skirt on their cock

 

a tutu

 

tfw you(r roommate) tries to come out to a friend and he assumes it's about a baby instead

 

Comment from a mildly annoyed black man on a Hentai Foundry piece: "and trust me, winning a dick measuring contest before the pants drop is fun precisely once." I mean, not to undermine his point or anything, but I'm going to be giggling at the phrasing forever.

 

I found this again!

 

i’ve peaked

 

i'm pretty sure the rat poison was on purpose-- people used to use strychnine as a stimulant, and it was used as a performance enhancing drug at the time. (this is, as you might imagine, a terrible idea.) anyway jon bois has a great video about that whole shitshow!

 

The Constant also did an episode and got into the bizarre racist sideshow that Taunyane and Mashiani were there for and how much of a general circus the entire 1904 Olympics were in more detail. e.g., getting to St. Louis in 1904 was such a pain that only like 10% of the Olympic athletes were from outside North America, the judges listed several non-American gold medalists as Americans, and it took years for anything to get Taunyane's name right because they wrote it down as "Len Tau."

 

There was also the Russian delegation, who, despite the Russo-Japanese war currently underway, managed to make it all the way to America, but didn't show up on the right day because Russia still used the Julian calendar.

 

You know, I’d seen that post before and had always kinda assumed it couldn’t get worse than detailed there. I’m beginning to think this assumption was horribly wrong.

 

It left out the part where one guy gave up halfway through the race, hitched a ride in his support staff's car for most of the rest of the route, and then the car broke down so he ran the last few miles to the stadium and they almost gave him the gold medal because he didn't tell them because he thought it was funny, until the guy dying of strychnine stumbled in half-carried over the finish line and his staff pitched a fit. So yes, it was. :::PPP

Also, there was one water station. It was tainted and made everyone who drank from it sick.

 

and this was ALSO on purpose, because the guy in charge wanted to prove his theory that dehydration improves athletic performance.

spoiler alert: it doesn't, and that marathon has the slowest winning time of any olympic marathon by a lot.

 

Apologies for the double post but this sent me

 

If the man taking rat poison had been given one more dose he wouldn’t have survived. The Olympics no longer allows strychnine doping.

The dust was being kicked up in no small part by the vehicles of the Olympics staff in charge of monitoring the race, I believe. More than one person collapsed due to injuries caused by excessive dust inhalation.

I think Taunyane was the one chased way, way off course by dogs, really fucking him over.

edit: In addition to having an unusually slow fastest time, this dehydration marathon also had a remarkably low percentage of participants who made it to the end of the race at all.