“Candyland Invented During The Polio Epidemic”: 30 Wholesome Things That Are Actually Disturbing
You know how bears look fluffy and huggable but you know better than to actually try to hug one? (If not friend, why friend-shaped, right?) Similarly, some things or stories seem wholesome at first, but at their core, they are actually not that fluffy—scary, even.
Members of the ‘Ask Reddit’ community recently discussed such deceitful phenomena, sharing stories about things that are widely considered wholesome, yet to many people’s surprise, have rather disturbing backstories. The thread featured everything from the Drifters’ song “Save the Last Dance for Me” to the beloved mascot Chucky E. Cheese, whose origin story is apparently not all flowers and butterflies. So, if your curiosity has been awakened and you feel brave enough to shatter the wholesome exterior that some things bear, scroll down to find netizens’ stories in the list below and feel free to add more in the comments if you’re familiar with something that looks wholesome, but isn’t.
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Pugs and other similar dog breeds suffer all their lifes because of selective breeding, leading to the deformation of their faces, legs, bodies and skin, plus cardiac and respiratory issues.
I really hope they get extinct some day, I can't bear watching such an aberration of nature due to human vanity, no thing must suffer their entire life only to look "cute" or "adorable" or "luxury".
This is what they're supposed to look like. I say they were much cuter natural. Henry_Bern...297f98.jpg
I was shocked when I saw an old photo of what Persians were supposed to look like. They actually look like cats! The ones nowadays, it's like their face just folds in on itself. When I fostered one, her skull was so misshapen it took me MONTHS before I could give her headscritches without getting creeped out. But that was her favourite kind of scritches, so I *had* to get over it.
Load More Replies...I once made a comment about this in a random facebook post and WOW did people jump down my throat. "THAT'S WHAT THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO LOOK LIKE!" No it's not, Karen, that's what WE MADE them look like!
https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/onggtd/a_breeder_in_the_netherlands_has_been_working_to/?rdt=33583
Load More Replies...Very true this blame the kennel club ! They make the breed rules bad cruel rules at that
As I maybe have already said here, don't always blame the owner. I know a family who rescued a French bulldog, she was a breeder and wasn't needed anymore (because she took care poorly of her puppies). I wish those breeds could disappear.
My brother rescued a Boston terrier. Poor little beastie (the dog, not my brother)
Load More Replies...this is true but never treat a dog differently because you don´t like the breed, dogs deserve hugs and their owners deserve smacks (sometimes)
If people stopped buying these poor animals, this atrocity would stop pretty quickly. It's all about the money!
The creator of Monopoly actually intended it as a warning about the dangers of capitalism, not a celebration of it.
I always lose because I don't have that killer instinct and I don't like the hotels.
No family ends the game of monopoly happy, so I'm going to say the creator succeeded!
I believe the idea was stolen from the original creator to create monopoly, it was originally named landlords game or something and it was more focusing on how greeg and corporations suck àss
As a warning it works. Too well. Many a friendship has ended fight over a game of monopoly, just like in real life.
It just takes so long to play. I would lose on purpose just to be done.
Fun fact: whe nobody's buying anything everyone's getting richer😉....so a good lesson about greed
Amish people are supposedly these honest farmers eschewing modern ways. Amish run gigantic puppy mills for big profit. They stack cages floor to ceiling, treating the mom and dad dogs with abject cruelty, never a kind word or a touch - the dogs rescued from Amish pupoy mills are the most traumatized and a**sed dogs I have ever fostered ( we fostered over 220 dogs) One sad fearful dog would not let me touch him for 3 weeks (!) Another had to be euthanized because of chronic untreated ear infection for YEARS caused end stage ear growths, which plugged his ears snd made him deaf and in constant pain. F the Amish, cruel greedy animal a**sers.
They also still utilize severe corporal punishment, i.e. child abuse, and see women as property. So... yeah.
I was gonna say this. From across the pond, I never thought for a second the Amish were just farmers sticking to traditional ways. If you keep your kids and young adults from leaving the community, you're a cult in my eyes.
Load More Replies...They are awful with ALL their animals, but yes, just awful with dogs. Horses are routinely sent to auction showing signs of abuse. Horrible.
I feel so bad for the horses that pull the buggies. One time it was raining and the horse has no cover and was just outside the grocery store waiting to bring them back home. Sometimes it's so hot and they are outside with no water
Load More Replies...Let’s not paint all Amish the same. Every sect is different. I’m not doubting the story, but that’s not all Amish people.
The Amish are seen as being wonderful. But they have puppy mills, SA is a huge problem but because they believe that once you apologize all is well women won't go to the police or can't. I refuse to buy anything Amish. I'm a huge dog person and I loved the Amish as a kid but it's such a sick community.
Dear fkngod >.< I didn't know this. I knew about the child abuse, but not this. Fkn arseholes.
Well, not just Amish. Nearly every puppy mill does this. Adopt. don't shop
I live in N. Wisconsin. The Amish here are AWFUL. Unbelievable animal abuse and neglect. Disgusting excuses for human beings.
They also sweep crimes against children and women under the rug, preferring to let the church elders handle it.
In the animated film, "All Dogs go to Heaven", The little girl who plays Anne-Marie was m*rdered by her father prior to the film being released.
Burt Reynolds struggled hard to finish recording his scene where Charlie says goodbye to the little girl one last time before going to heaven.
It's a tear inducing scene without knowing the backstory, but you can absolutely hear the pain in Burt Reynolds' voice. It's generally considered a very loving and touching moment, but knowing what happened, makes it really hard to listen to that without getting emotional.
Her Father was a vi*lent and ab*sive alcoholic, who m*rdered both her, and her mom, and then committed s***ide. She was 10 years old.
Edit: Oh man, I just realized more people commented about this here. I also didn't realize she voiced Ducky from "The Land Before Time" too.
And that happens when men are taught that the women in their family are their possessions.
And are shown there are little consequences for abuse. The "freedom" to treat their family as they wish.
Load More Replies...Yep, yep, yep. The only thing available about this is a documentary on Youtube. I feel they buried the original Land Before Time under a barrage of horrible sequels. The themes of both of these movies are incredibly sad by themselves but when you watch them knowing this horrible story, it makes it so much worse. Judith Barsi also played "little Carol" on the first season of Growing Pains when they go back in time showing memories
I haven't been on here in roughly a year, what is going on with the insane censors? There's a premium now?
We think the censoring is to make more companies want to advertise here and appease the ones who do. Premium is because they apparently and ironically aren’t making enough money from ads (which are rampant) so they’re trying to get it from the people who frequent the site, while the amount of traffic is what creates ad revenue for them in the first place and if they make the site subscription only, the majority of us will leave. Madness.
Load More Replies...BP. Why censor this? Jesus Christ, this little girl lost her life and you don't even have the common decency to use unpleasant words to describe what happened to her!
Most fairy tales. Disney has scrubbed all the grim out of the brothers Grimm.
Hans Christian Andersen’s stuff was pretty damned depressing too. The Red Shoes, The Little Match Girl and The Little Mermaid are quite messed up.
Grimms didn’t really write anything themselves. The collected medieval and earlier Germanic folklore. Many of the tales were representative of true events and beliefs from those eras. The original tales were often brutal tales. The Grimms themselves sanitized them first, but even then they’re too harsh for modern folk, as we tend to prefer Hollywood endings
When I was a child I had a copy of Cinderella where the ugly sisters cut off bits of their feet so they would fit in the glass slipper.
Yep, that's the Grimm's version of the tale. Cinderella has some dove friends in this story, so they snitch on them and tell the prince as he goes riding off with what he thinks is his true love. Also, the sisters aren't ugly. They're described as being beautiful but with dark and cruel hearts. At the end of the story, the doves peck out their eyes at the wedding leaving them blind for the rest of their days.
Load More Replies...Fairy tales were cautionary tales, morality tales, or fables, for example. They were never supposed to be cute, aspirational stories.
This. They are "don't stray from the path," "be obedient," "listen to your 'betters'," "it's 'good' to be poor as long as you suffer 'bravely' and never question the status quo"...
Load More Replies...Slovenly Peter--a charming collection of stories who disobey their parents and suffer the consequences. Romping Polly went out to play and broke her leg. Off. Augustus would not eat his soup and grew so thin that he vanished. Well, you get the idea.
Isn't this the book that includes the tailor who cuts off the thumbs of children who suck them with a giant pair of scissors?
Load More Replies...You got the fairytale... h.c. Andersen descriped the time he was living in - the good and the bad with beautiful stories. He is NOT DISNEY and the happy end is not what you think. You have to learn to live a better life, do better for your next - that is what he is writing about. How love and kindness is not in how we look, but how we act and behave...
Load More Replies...Disney is like the local chop-shop. Re-work it, re-package it, re-release it, and then re-licence it, as their own.
That is a good thing all things concidered. Lots of fairy tales are gory and real creepy
I always prided myself on my ability to stay calm in an emergency and problem solve about the next, best action to take, especially because I’ve struggled with depression and anxiety my whole life. Like, this was an area I knew I could count on myself and other people could count on me too. Friends, family and colleagues have often commented on it.
Then a few years back when I found a really good therapist to help me deal with PTSD from growing up in an a**sive, alcoholic household, she explained that “being good in a crisis” is a type of trauma response. I’m always in hyperarousal, on the lookout for danger. I’ve dealt with scary, unpredictable, dangerous situations since I was a kid. Of course I know what to do.
I’m still proud of this ability, it just makes me sad to think how I came to have it.
"The frost killed the orchard, but applewood makes a sweet fire." It's all about perspective, learning to find the good in the bad things that happen.
So happy to have divorced a lying, cheating, bi-polar narcissic wife... After a few yrs of PTSDi have hyper anxiety, jumping at any sudden noise / fast sudden movement near me
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Sherman Kelly wrote the lyrics to Dancing in the Moonlight while recovering from a violent a*****t carried out on him and his girlfriend by a youth g**g. He envisioned an alternative reality where people just dance and be happy all the time. It was his way of dealing with the trauma.
Scottish folds. Those cute cats with the folded ears. They have those ears beacause of osteochondrodysplasia. It causes joint, cartilage, and skeletal deformities. There is no treatment only pain management. Those poor cats are in constant pain :(.
Some breeds can be redeemed through better breeding practices. This is not one of them.
There are a few that have a mutation where the ears don’t have the fold. A Scottish straight if you will.
Load More Replies...It depends a lot on how limited the breeding stock was; in other words, interbreeding is not good for anything much less Scotties. I had a couple of Scotties; one was a breeding cat but she lost her 1st litter and was then neutered before she came to me. The other was related, but the line had been interbred with American Shorthair and she had big ears. Both had shorter legs but fortunately did not have the troubles with hips and arthritis that many Scotties have. They were lovely ladies who lived to 15 and 16 years old. I miss them both! FYI: Scotties do not always breed true; in other words, in one litter, you may have 2 with folded ears and 3 with big ears. The ear gene is recessive and that is why some breeders try and play the odds by breeding related cats together. It is not a good thing.
I hate these breeding practices, just because there's a market for "cute looking" animals.
Why do people not like intact animals, always crippled ones.? If you like this,then c. ri. pp. le your own bodyparts. - Wait, ok, you are doing this already- my fault. I made these funny word because they censored it, are you crazy??? This is a normal word describing a condition. And i will never use any whitewashing glossy words instead. Breeding nonfunctional noses, oozing eyes, too short snouts to eat, needing caesarian section to give birth is producing c r i. pp. l. es.Sorry , these are the facts.
Dole (the company) overthrowing the queen of Hawaii.
Also UFC (with help from CIA) doing the same thing in Honduras. Long live Chiquita Banana.
The current administration in the US has shown that not all Presidents and Congress members are noble and honorable; America has done its fair share of causing other countries trouble for the sake of making money. If Trump invades Greenland, it will be for this same self-benefit that is a black mark on the history of the USA. It is immorality capitalist style.
A bride having her father "give her away" comes from property transfers.
Only men were full people. They owned their wives and children. Girls and women were property, and had little choice in the matter.
This was a transfer of ownership from the father to the husband.
I get a bit annoyed when the officiant announces, "I now pronounce you man and wife." It should be "husband and wife."
These days, it usually is. And all you have to do that is ask the officiant, because they only use language that the people getting married approve. So if they're fine with it, it's none of your business. And if you don't want that at your wedding, don't use it.
Load More Replies...Just the whole requiring her father's permission to marry her is icky. Imagine women having to ask their boyfriend's mothers to marry. So many men would be single. XD
This is exactly why I prefer the custom of the couple arriving and walking down the aisle together. Once I realised it, there was nothing cute to it anymore for me.
AND he had to pay for someone to take her away (dowery) b/c she was so worthless on her own
Specially in india , millions women were m******d and million baby girls were aborted so their fathers won't have to pay it , but I was not aware if it was same in the west ? Is it so?
Load More Replies...Thirty years ago in the US the documents for buying a house listed me as "superfluous, an unmarried woman". 30 years!
Almost all societies have had the custom of dowries, or some exchange of valued items in connection with a marriage. Even in matriarchal societies, women are given valued items if they accept a particular man in marriage. European law, which highly influenced US law, did keep women in the list of properties for a long time.
So many archaic traditions associated with marriage. Like proposals, the decision to marry should be a discussion, not one person (usually the woman) waiting for someone to decide its' time to marry.
The snake that’s k*lled in Friday the Thirteenth was a real snake. To make matters worse it wasn’t some wild snake they found in the woods. It was somebody’s pet snake that had to watch his snake get k*lled. He apparently had no idea and had to be held back from punching the director.
That is wrong on so many levels. Why didn't they just buy a snake? Or maybe use a fake one.
Movies without animal suffering have a "no animals were harmed during the filming" notification, but I think all the other movies should be forced to have a notification that explains the horrible things they did, like "animals were harmed during the filming, we k1lledd 1 snake" or "2 animals were harmed during the filming, we put nails through their feet to keep them in place for a close up" (and yes, I actually saw a movie where the making off showed that they did that! 😡)
Unfortunately the "no animals were harmed" notification is not a guarantee that no animals were harmed.
Load More Replies...Would've definitely have found a way to punch the director, among other things....
Candyland was invented during the polio epidemic by retired school teacher eleanor abbott who herself was recovering from polio. she invented the game to keep children entertained during their hospital stays who themselves were affected.
Before the vaccine people used to get sick from it but it wasn’t always lethal hence recovering from polio.
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I met a writer named Thomas Disch when I was in college. He wrote “The Brave Little Toaster.” He told us Disney hired him to write a movie about lions.
He wanted to do King Lear with lions bc the plot mirrored how lion prides operate: old lazy but powerful male, dangerous daughters. But Disney said they wanted a young hero. So he changed it to Hamlet with lions: uncle k*lls father, kid runs away, ghost of dad visits and calls for revenge, etc. but with a happy ending. (Timon & Pumbaa are Rosencrantz & Guildenstern).
Wrote [a treatment] turned it in. They said thanks but no thanks and fired him. Movie comes out: they took his idea and didn’t pay him. He said Disney was notorious for doing this to creators.
I read years later that he took his own life. Never think of the Lion King without thinking about him. They made so much money off his idea and he got nothing.
Edit: Apologies for using the word “script” in my original post. There’s a 9-page treatment online that I had never seen until it was linked here.
Disch’s story that he told our class was his perspective, and I tried to relay it the best I could remember. I’m not diving deep into big authorship questions, just passing on the story how I remember it as he told it to us (it was 25 years ago). All movies are collaborations. I don’t think this defined his life or that his s*****e was an outcome of Disney’s poor treatment of him. He told my creative writing class that story to teach us about the perils of writing creatively for corporate clients. He wasn’t super angry about it, just annoyed. He was a great writer and was still struggling financially.
The larger point is that he felt exploited, and it sucks when big corporations don’t share their profits with those who contribute.
The Lion King is very, very, very similar to the original Kimba: The White Lion animated series from the 60s.
Whoooaaa I did not know this and the Disney film "The Brave Little Toaster" was my favorite as a kid. Watching it as an adult I realized it was really dark and kinda creepy lol... Was always curious about reading the books. But dang, I didn't know anything about the author.
Disney didn't steal it from him. They stole it from Shakespeare.
When I was 10 or so, my sisters and I were doing a common counting rhyme to pick something (maybe who went first in a game):
Eeenie meenie miney moe
Catch a tiger by the toe
If he hollers, let him go
Eeenie meenie miney moe.
My dad walked by and quietly commented "when I was your age, that word wasn't 'tiger', but we didn't know better back then.".
It was considered a racial slur back then. White folk just didn’t care
Load More Replies...I used that word as a child in the rhyme . I had absolutely no idea what it meant circa 1963. My father overheard me chanting the rhyme, he immediately brought me inside and told me all the reasons it was bad. I was mortified i had earned his disapproval. I told my friends we had to use the alternate tiger. Theywere fine with it, they did not know what it meant either.
I hate this excuse. My grandma used it to justify naming her childhood black lab the N word. You can't tell me that decency, empathy and the fact that all living beings feel pain are modern inventions.
They aren't. But language changes over time. It's a living thing, and meanings change. There are a ton of words that people used to use that we don't use now, because they've become offensive. And some time in the future, people will say the same things about words we use now and don't think twice about. So it's not an excuse. It's just the way things are. If anything, this is a sign that people can, in fact, change for the better.
Load More Replies...Plenty of words people my age used as kids in the 80s are no longer acceptable (ie: r*t*rd, sp*st*c, etc) Times change.
sp*stic is a slur/curse? I didn't know that, actually. (I've never used it before, it's just in my vocabulary)
Load More Replies...As kids, we said, "catch a turkey by the toe." Yes, I knew about the original word.
My comment would be the same as dad. We didn't know better but now we do.
Ghyslain Raza (The Star Wars Kid) had his video posted onto KaZa without his permission by his schoolmates to prank him and as a result, he was bullied at school, people made fun of him online, gave him d**th threats, told him to k*ll himself all for pretending to be a Star Wars character which is totally normal things kids do. He also had to go to a mental hospital and his parents sued the kids who uploaded the video.
Luckily, he returned to school to finish his senior year, went to McGill University in Montreal, got a law degree and became president of his city’s heritage society.
I can not express enough how glad I am that this story did not end with an obituary.
i saw that video and loved it...that is the energy all kids should have...just delighting in the moment
Now tell me anyone: how did the other kids get the idea to humiliate someone to hurt them? Were they born that way? Did a switch flip the day they turned 10? Or did they learn from their parents and society that being "other", "awkward", "not as normal as we are" means it's okay to hurt that person?
Children are both very cruel and very kind. They need to be socialized properly to learn to control cruelty. So I think the parents have a lot of the blame.
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Canonically,Chuck E Cheese is an orphan who never knew when his birthday was so he celebrates other people’s birthdays to fill the terrible painful void of his abandonment.
He’s the mascot of a pizza place/arcade/fun place for kids celebrating their birthday parties.
Load More Replies...In junior h**h I was in school with a Jehova. I worked in the principal's office and he asked me to find out what his birth date was. I did so he could get his drivers permit.This youth, Joel, seemed to have no idea who he really was. This was in the US very early 1980s.
I used to go to chuck e cheese. I was terrified to go to the bathroom because the scary animatronics were there.
The kids book Love You Forever by Robert Munsch (as long as I’m living, my baby you’ll be) was written in the wake of the stillbirth of the author and his wife’s 2 babies.
I already cried when reading this book to my kids. I don’t know, it somehow makes me nostalgic in advance knowing time will pass by so fast and they grow up so quickly. Now this makes it even more sad 😔, but it is beautiful the author and his wife were able to convert their sadness into a sweet book.
I've never read/known about this, but will read it now. We also lost a child in still birth about 40 years ago. Still haunts us to this day.
Load More Replies...I've never been able to read this book without ugly crying. When my kids were small, I'm sure they thought I was crazy
I am 18 years old and just seeing that cover brought a tear to my eye. I’d nearly forgotten that book but it was a favorite of mine.
i cry every time i read this book...the illustrations are horrible, but the story is so sweet
The reason cats and dogs like squeaky toys is not because the noise is funny, it's because the sound is similar to the death screams of their prey.
All my previous dogs loved squeaky toys. At least until my Hutch. He was a rescue that had been very cruelly abused ( I’ve written about him before here) and the first time he squeaked a toy I bought for him, he dropped it and ran. He didn’t like “hurting” it. He went back, picked it up gently and laid down with it to protect it, I guess.
Yup. I fostered a greyhound who adored a squeaky toy, right up until it stopped squeaking. Cos it was obviously ded then, from his pov
The song “Save the Last Dance for Me” by the Drifters was written by a man who was crippled by polio and in a wheelchair watching his new wife dancing with other men at his wedding to her because he couldn’t.
ETA: Did not expect this to start such a discussion! As was mentioned below, in the song he’s saying that he’s the one taking her home, not them. I don’t think he’s angry, he’s just saying that no matter who she dances with, she’s his wife and will be taking her home at the end of the night.
My dad didn't like dancing, my mother loves to dance. He got his mum to teach him one easy dance so that he could have the last dance of the evening with my mother. It must have worked, they've been an item for 70 years
Youth and beauty don't last forever. Enjoy it while you got it. Allow those you love to do the same.
The Wizard of Oz could have its own behind the scenes movie with the amount of s**t that went down.
On the VHS I have, after the movie is done there's a documentary of what went down.
There's a terrible 80s movie called "Under the Rainbow" with this very plot
I have a book about it. Crazy stuff! I think there's a behind the scenes thing on my DVD too.
My 16 year old is a huge fan of the wizard of Oz. She told me all the stuff that went down in it recently she looked all of it up online.
Valentine’s Day. St. Valentine was k*lled for being the priest to marry people so men could get out of war. For this he was beheaded.
The data, which is used for calculating the chances of naval rescue missions, comes from human experiments in concentration camps. They threw inmates in water tanks of different temperature and measured how long it took until they froze to death or drowned.
While I think the ends do not justify the means, at least these people's lives have gone on to save others. That's little consolation obviously...
They also said tied the legs together of women in labor to see how long it took them to die.
Seems the least we can do for the victims is make use of the data they were sacrificed to obtain. Honor their deaths.
As far as I know, the horribly cruel "experiments" conducted in (German) concentration camps all had some "scientific" design to find out about what the human body can endure or how best to treat injuries. So abominable as it is, I imagine it would be hard to ignore these "findings" when you work at a related questions, although the "findings" were produced by t*****e and m****r of course.
"Resusci Annie" - the rubbery anatomical model we learned CPR on. The face is modeled after the death mask of an unidentified and unclaimed woman who drowned in the Seine River in the late 1800's. Toymaker Åsmund S. Lærdal chose to use the woman's face on the mannequin as he thought male trainees might be reluctant to kiss a man's face. The face was sculpted by the Norwegian-Danish sculptor Emma Mattheisen.
To add a little pop culture twist, in Michael JAckson's song Smooth Criminal there's a lyric which says something like "Anne are you ok? Are you ok? Are you OK, Anne?" The chorus refrain, "Annie, are you OK?", was inspired by Resusci Anne, a dummy used in cardiopulmonary resuscitation training. Trainees learn to say "Annie, are you OK?" while practicing resuscitation on the dummy.[10] The original mix of the song includes the sound of Jackson's fast-thumping heart and heavy breathing,
Did she actually inspire the song or it was something that happened later?
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Alfred Nobel, the creator of the Nobel Prize, was the inventor of dynamite, and amassed his wealth by developing, manufacturing and selling explosives — the “weapons of mass destruction” of his day. A French newspaper mistakenly published an obituary for his death when another arms manufacturer died, calling him “The Merchant of Death”. Seeing what his legacy was, and how he and his family name were going to be remembered, he changed his will to found the Nobel Prize.
False, only part of the story. He invented dynamite because at the time nitroglycerin was used and was so unstable that it k****d a shocking amount of people (including his younger brother) that were using it during mining operations. So he invented a stable explosive to reduce the amounts of accidents in mining and construction operations.
Nobody said he invented it to be a weapon
Load More Replies...He did create the Nobel Prize as a way of having something positive associated with his name.
Voice actor for classic Disney Peter Pan died alone of a d**g overd*se in an abandoned warehouse after years of being unable to get work in Hollywood later in life.
Bobby Driscoll. No one knew who he was and his remains where only identified much later by fingerprints when his mother was searching for him. His body was already buried in the potter's field on New York's Hart Island and was unable to be located because the records were lost.
Hello Kitty was made as part of a national movement to cute-ify Japan to distract from the abominable war crimes they committed in the second world war.
As opposed to the ones we committed, which were worse? This is your daily reminder that the US remains the only country to use nuclear weapons in wartime. Against civilian population centers. Twice.
As a German: no matter what America did: you don't distract from your horrible past. You face it, you take responsibility, you teach it afterwards to your children so that hopefully it won't be repeated. Japan will be dishonoured as long as it doesn't face its crimes.
Load More Replies...BS - Hello Kitty first appeared in 1975 on a vinyl coin purse in Japan. The character was created by Japanese illustrator Yuko Shimizu in 1974.
This is the biggest piece of bs on here. Why doesn’t the folks just make up c**p. And why doesn’t BP publish it. Plain bs
I guess you're refering to the fact that Hello Kitty was invented in 1975, which was 30 years after the end of WW II. Plus, victims of Japanese war crimes were mostly Korean and Chinese (like the women forced into p**********n as "comfort women" for Japanese soldiers e.g.).
Load More Replies...she's a little girl! dear daniel isn't a cat either, nor a boy, she's also a little girl!
Load More Replies...It worked. I love Hello Kitty and Japan. Russia could use their PR person.
Sort of like the British Royal Family. Or Russian Bear. Or Uncle Sam. Or any other empire.
I’d prefer a cat. Uncle Sam needs a makeover but right now’s a bad time.
Load More Replies...It's still shocking to think that Germany and Japan were (and still are) countries of ancient culture, learning, creativity, etc. yet descended into terrible cruelty and mass murder/ genocide in WW2.
Just wait until Trump gets going! He has only got started on his f*****t regime!
Load More Replies...funnily enough, in Poland a catholic priest declared HK satanic and evil influence on the poor souls of innocent children because he noticed the letters "h**l" in it
The little girl who played Matilda, in the movie Matilda, mom died before the movie was released of cancer. I believe the director showed her a rough cut before she passed but jeez that made me sad to learn as an adult
That first sentence might be the worst thing I've ever read. Sentence construction wise
I understand she stayed with Danny DeVito and Rhea Perlman while filming Matilda because her mother was dying of cancer.
Mara Wilson played Matilda. And it was Danny DeVito who showed her mom the movie before she passed. Also, he and his wife, Rhea Pearlman, took Mara under there wing after Mara's mom passed from cancer. They became her surrogate parents and did everything they could to help her during that difficult time, and they have remained close ever since.
Yeah, honestly those two sentences make no sense. Apologies though if it's not a native english speaker.
I just watched this movie recently and I was amazed how realistically she played emotions. I couldn't help thinking what a sad and miserable child she appeared to be, like she really came from the Wormwood family. I guess she didn't have to act too much. I like her a lot in Thomas and the Magic Railroad, which is actually REALLY good movie! I remember all the flak she got and the movie supposedly bombed because she wasn't a cute little girl anymore. People said horrible things about her. I always felt really bad for her but she got out of movies after that and got to have a normal life, as much as possible it seems.
Danny devito took mara Wilson under his wing during filming so she would feel comfortable saying when she needed a break or was struggling and helped her navigate her feelings. He was fatherly to all the kids on set too.
Best Friends Animal Society was founded by Scientology members who formed their own cult spin-off, The Process Church. They associated with Charles Manson and David Berkowitz, with the author of Helter Skelter postulating that Manson was heavily influenced by Process.
The rescue was originally a grift to keep their church going. They eventually moved to rescue full time after realizing how incredibly lucrative (and like their church, tax-free) it could be.
With $200,000,000 in assets, $314,000,000 in 2024 revenue, and 2 private jets, you can see just how well their grift has paid off.
Many yes but not all.... My tiny lil country church ain't got no money or no jets 😂
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Milo and Otis is a cute, wholesome film about a cat and a dog on a crazy adventure, Homeward Bound style. But many, many animals were k*lled in making the movie. There’s one scene where a cat falls down a waterfall in a box, and apparently that had to shoot that scene multiple times because the cats kept dying.
I’d like to see the source for this. Sounds salacious and made up. How perfect would a cat in a waterfall scene have to be. Nah, nah, you got the cat’s bad side. Shoot it again.
Load More Replies...never proven...carefully worded PETA propaganda https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/milo-and-otis-animal-abuse/
This is a rumor and has bever been verified. Most if it cane from people seeing the movie and assuming the animal could not do what it us doing so must have been forced. Example: they really broke a cats paw so it could be shown limping. Now we have seen those youtube videos where an animal fakes a limp.
But there are strict rules governing the treatment of animals in films. There's an organisation dedicated to it. Have to wonder where you got your info.
i used to watch this movie religiously as a child and now i feel so bad for enjoying it for so much of my life....
The part when the cat is in the rapids- you can tell it's a real cat almost drowning in a hot tub. I think that's the part where they might have k****d any animals. I highly doubt they put a real cat down the waterfall especially since the scene was zoomed out. Also, when Milo pops his head out of the chimney and is covered with soit- in his eyes, his mouth. That has bothered me since I was a kid.
According to Snopes, this is unproven - could have happened but there is no proof.
There's my childhood ruined. They shouldn't have used real cats on that scene.
For a while, neopets was owned and operated by Scientologists. They wanted to add religion to it while they had it.
I loved Neopets. My email (the one I've had since a kid) has the name of one of my neopets in it.
The song “Marry You” by Bruno Mars is NOT romantic. It’s about something fun to do while drunk.
“It’s a beautiful night, we’re looking for something dumb to do
Hey, baby, I think I wanna marry you
Is it the look in your eyes, or is it this dancing juice?
Who cares, baby? I think I wanna marry you
Well, I know this little chapel on the boulevard we can go
No one will know, oh, come on girl”
Who cares if we’re trashed? Got a pocket full of cash we can blow Shots of Patrón and it’s on, girl
If we wake up and you wanna break up, that’s cool
No, I won’t blame you, it was fun, girl”
I laugh every time people use this in proposals or as wedding songs.
Breaking news: "Take me to church" by Hozier is not promoting Christian faith.
THIS. So many of my christian friends listen to it thinking it's pro-church lol
Load More Replies...Henry Ford promoted square dancing in public schools, starting in the 1920s. Sound wholesome? He did it because he hated Jews and thought they invented jazz. He wanted to get America back to "traditional" (white and Christian) music and dancing.
It's insane to think white and christian is 'American traditional' lmao (referring to Ford, not the OP)
He even recorded! I have an Edison Diamond-Disk from 1925 of a dance performed by "Henry Ford's Old-Time Dance Orchestra". Yes - he plays violin and is the leader. (Ford was also a graceful dancer and had a fine tenor voice.)
Nintendo started as a card company in the late 1800s. It probably would have gone defunct, were it not for the Yakuza.
Canadas food guide was created by ab*sing and starving native children in residential schools.
Most people in Canada are doing their best to help indigenous peoples recover from this, aiding diversity as best they can, unlike our southern criminal-run neighbours
Not quite. Indigenous schools were known to have problems with malnutrition so were used in experiments to help set baselines for food requirements. Any abuse and starving that was there was already happening, it was not done as a part of said experiments.
There are documentaries you should watch that prove otherwise.
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Everyone thinks the ugly duckling is a story about how it's okay to be ugly. But it's actually a story of about how you can be pretty too one day.
I thought the takeaway was supposed to be about finding yourself, and that even if you don't fit in to the family you started with (and they don't understand you/try to get you to change who you are), you can find "your people" and be accepted and loved for who you are.
I've always believed that everyone has times in their lives when they're pretty, and other times where they're, let's say, leaning in the ugly direction. To be honest, I think my cute phase disappeared after I left grade school. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It's always been the story of "people only love you when you're pretty so you better be g0ddamn pretty, else it's your fault when you're bullied".
How's this a disturbing backstory? This is actually a pretty good moral.
Eh .... I think the actual moral should be somewhere in the middle - there's no actual 'ugly', because you're always beautiful to someone.
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Bananas. You thought c*caine was a blood-soaked cartel and war driven commodity? The banana trade makes c*caine look like a farmer's market.
Also chocolate, coffee, tea, spices and most tropical fruits. And meat. And seafood. Basically everything we eat, wear, and use.
Ok, so this went quickly from:Bananas are horror, to: everything we eat is coming from terrible abuse. 😩
Especially using child and adult slavery to produce these products. Very sad.
Went to a community event last night and, 32 years later, Macarena still fills the dance floor. A bunch of teens learned the dance for the very first time.
The lyrics are, of course, in Spanish... and about the titular Macarena having a thr**some with her boyfriend's friends while he's swearing off swearing his military oath.
Also interesting is that the band played traditional music primarily and this was their first pop release, in their 50s. They went back to traditional music after.
It's not what I imagined when I was 10 years old dancing the Macarena
Load More Replies...Mormonism’s got a closet of nearly all skeletons and no garments.
Now I'm picturing skeletons in the "magic underwear" lol
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Love languages were made by a man who wanted his wife to clean for him and him to have s*x with her, so he said his love language was physical affection but hers was acts of service.
The guy who started the black and blue/white and gold dress debate from 2015 was charged with trying to strangle his wife.
Suddenly the DV PSA ad that came out around that time is way more relevant. It had a bruised woman wearing a clearly white/gold version of the dress with the caption 'Why is it so hard to see black&blue?'
The song "My Sharona" by The Knack was about the lead singer perving over a teenage girl...... it's still a very catchy song on the surface, but it's still about wanting an underage girl.
There were hundreds of songs from the 1950s through to the 80s about adult-teenage relationships, real or desired. Look up the lyrics to "I saw her standing there" or "Sweet sixteen" for more examples. others were about waiting for a girls to turn 16, as it was the age at which a girl was considered to became a woman, the age of sexual consent, the age at which they could get married. It was not considered unusual or 'wrong' for a young adult to lust after a 16 year old.
The song "Don't stand so close to me" by the Police was about a student teacher love affair. The song "Every breath you take" is about a stalker. "Can't stand losing you" is about teen s*****e. There are lots of examples of songs that have controversial topics.
"Every Breath You Take" was reputedly the #1 song at weddings in the 80s. People are dumb.
Load More Replies... The guy that lost 300 lbs by eating subway didnt lose weight by eating subway.
He lost weight by walking daily to a particular subway that wasnt even the nearest one, just so he could see an underaged girl that worked at subway.
You don’t lose 300 pounds just by walking. If that were the case, I would have disappeared by now.
The song 'pumped up kicks' is catchy and was used in things like commercials and children's parties years ago. It's also pretty clearly about committing a school sh**ting.
Per the Wikipedia page on this song: "The lyrics to "Pumped Up Kicks" are written from the perspective of a troubled and delusional youth with homicidal thoughts." source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumped_Up_Kicks
But it is about a troubled kid and gun violence, so not too big a stretch to connect it. Even though the band has said it isn't specifically about school shootings, it kinda is
Load More Replies...This is often mentioned in threads like "what lively catchy song has dark lyrics?", but "Stayin' Alive" by the Bee Gees, the immortal disco anthem, is about how life in New York in the 1970s ***sucked*** and people often felt lost with no purpose ("life goin' nowhere, somebody help me"), and the only thing they had to fall back on was dancing at the club ("feel the city breakin' and everybody's shakin' and we're stayin' alive, stayin' alive...").
Suddenly I feel less bad that my go-to rhythm-keeping song to mentally hum if I ever have to do CPR is Another One Bites the Dust.
A.A. Milne based the stories on his son, Christopher Robin, but the real Christopher grew to resent the fame it brought him. Bullied and feeling exploited, he distanced himself from both his father and the beloved books. A tale of innocence, built on a child’s unhappiness.
Or an ungrateful child who chose to hate the very thing that entertained him as a child and paid to keep him fed and housed. There's more than one way to look at this, you know.
People who claim it's the child's duty to be 'grateful' tend to get very confused as to why they don't get visits.
Load More Replies..."Semi-Charmed Life" by Third Eye Blind, the chorus of which was used by commercials and movie trailers in the 90s, is actually about being a d**g addict.
“The sky was gold, it was rose I was takin' sips of it through my nose And I wish I could get back there, someplace back there Smilin' in the pictures you would take Doin' crystal m**h will lift you up until you break it won’t stop” It’s pretty clearly about m**h
I know Bob’s Burgers isn’t SUPER wholesome but it’s generally agreed that it’s pretty wholesome and tear-jerker-y for an adult cartoon, and it started out being pitched as a burger restaurant run by a cannibal family 😂.
Kellogg 100%.
Free school lunches in America started because the military complained that during world war II that many 18-year-old Men were too skinny to serve in the military. Free school lunches were added afterwards to make 18-year-old men strong enough to be drafted into the next war.
The free school lunch program started in the Great Depression, before WW2. It is true though that recruits during WW2 were rejected because of low weight and other nutritional issues. Something on the order of 30-40%. Today only 30% are fit enough to be accepted, most for overweight or intellectual issues.
Completely and totally untrue. Was started in the Great Depression, although many school districts started it before then. NYC had a program before WW1 even.
The free school lunch program was started by the Black Panther Party! Look it up. But of course .....we can say it was the concerned American Military!! lol
It was started in the Great Depression. Well before the Panthers, although their program was good.
Load More Replies...Yogi Tea is owned by a cult (allegedly).
I hadn't heard about Yogi Tea, but Celestial Seasoning was definitely owned by a cult -the Urantia Foundation
Both shoe brands Puma and Adidas are German. They were started by the brothers Rudolf and Adolf Dassler. They owned Dassler Brothers Shoe Factory (1924) and then separated to create two companies Puma and Adidas in ‘48.” The name Adidas comes from Adolf’s nickname “Adi”.
Side note, when the company Nike was trying to launch in 1964, Adolf Dassler did everything in his power to prevent Nike from becoming successful. Now there is a very long standing and very significant hatred of Adidas by Nike.
Where is the disturbing back story? That Germans exist? Or that companies try to keep rivals out of their market?
I believe both were infamous Naz i supporters so maybe that was the disturbing backstory?
Load More Replies...Adidas dates back to the 1920s. Rudolf left after a very bad argument between the two and set up Puma. They never spoke to each other for the rest of their lives.
Alexander Graham Bell was a eugenecist against disabled and Deaf people, which motivated his work for the telephone. He wrote an entire manifesto about preventing a “Deaf race”.
Both his beloved wife and mother were deaf, and he worked as a teacher of the deaf.
Nice reply. Trying to find ways to cut down on the number of deaf people was the motivation - some of the scientific world's ideas at the time about how to achieve this have since been seen in a, err, negative light.
Load More Replies...Yup. Him and her parents both advocated for making deaf people conform by learning to speak and lip read.
Load More Replies...Jimmy Saville. In front of the cameras, makings kids' dreams come true and raising money for charity. Behind the scenes, a sick serial abuser. Many of his victims spoke up but but weren't believed. It wasn't just a few victims, it was hundreds.
Half of these are bs. Some could have come from QAnon they’re so stupid
Which ones? I'd like to know which are fake so I don't repeat them as true.
Load More Replies...Oneida silverware spawned from a bizarre s*x cult that included Charles Guiteau, the man that a*s*ssinated President Garfield.
Aside from the assassination bit, many, many companies have been founded by perverts and deviants. Tesla, the US, Palantir, Oracle
Load More Replies...Jimmy Saville. In front of the cameras, makings kids' dreams come true and raising money for charity. Behind the scenes, a sick serial abuser. Many of his victims spoke up but but weren't believed. It wasn't just a few victims, it was hundreds.
Half of these are bs. Some could have come from QAnon they’re so stupid
Which ones? I'd like to know which are fake so I don't repeat them as true.
Load More Replies...Oneida silverware spawned from a bizarre s*x cult that included Charles Guiteau, the man that a*s*ssinated President Garfield.
Aside from the assassination bit, many, many companies have been founded by perverts and deviants. Tesla, the US, Palantir, Oracle
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