this post was submitted on 30 Jul 2024
79 points (100.0% liked)

Main

15774 readers
50 users here now

THE MAIN RULE: ALL TEXT POSTS MUST CONTAIN "MAIN" OR BE ENTIRELY IMAGES (INLINE OR EMOJI)

(Temporary moratorium on main rule to encourage more posting on main. We reserve the right to arbitrarily enforce it whenever we wish and the right to strike this line and enforce mainposting with zero notification to the users because its funny)

A hexbear.net commainity. Main sure to subscribe to other communities as well. Your feed will become the Lion's Main!

Good comrades mainly sort posts by hot and comments by new!

gun-unity State-by-state guide on maintaining firearm ownership

guaido Domain guide on mutual aid and foodbank resources

smoker-on-the-balcony Tips for looking at financials of non-profits (How to donate amainly)

frothingfash Community-sourced megapost on the main media sources to radicalize libs and chuds with

just-a-theory An Amainzing Organizing Story

feminism Main Source for Feminism for Babies

data-revolutionary Maintaining OpSec / Data Spring Cleaning guide

ussr-cry Remain up to date on what time is it in Moscow

founded 4 years ago
MODERATORS
liberal@hexbear.net
EcoSoco@hexbear.net
DashEightMate@hexbear.net
AlephNull@hexbear.net
marxisthayaca@hexbear.net
MiraculousMM@hexbear.net
Koolio@hexbear.net
itsPina@hexbear.net
WhyEssEff@hexbear.net
quartz242@hexbear.net
LENINSGHOSTFACEKILLA@hexbear.net
chamomile@hexbear.net
Alaskaball@hexbear.net
InsidiousTrackers@hexbear.net
79
When I was a small child I believed that Hitler was renamed posthumously after his sadistic cruelty (hexbear.net)
submitted 3 months ago by Erika3sis@hexbear.net to c/main@hexbear.net
21 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

This is because 'to hit' can of course mean "to punch someone" in English, and then 'ler' is the present tense of the Norwegian word for "to laugh". Put these words together and it made some amount of sense to me to imagine old "hit-laughs" as someone who hits people and then laughs at their pain, in other words a bully, a sadist, or otherwise a cruel villain.

top 21 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 25 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Is this the thread where we post our dumb kid etymologies? Because oh boy, I've got one.

CW: SAAs a kid, I played a lot of Ogre Battle 64. One of the weapons in the game is called a rapier. I'd never heard of them before and wasn't familiar with the word, but one day I happened to overhear some true crime thing my mom was watching on TV that involved rape. I also did not recognize this word, but I gleaned from context that it was a violent sex thing.

Aha! The light went off in my dumb kid brain. To rape someone meant to stab them in the junk, and a rapier was a sword designed specifically for doing so.

[–] Erika3sis@hexbear.net 17 points 3 months ago (2 children)

CW SAAaagh you just reminded me of my first time playing Scrabble. This was with my mom and I was a kid, and I played the word "rape". I didn't know what the word meant, but I had seen it somewhere or other, and I figured it was probably an appropriate word to play... Yeah, it went a bit awkwardly. I don't know if I got to change my word after I was explained what it meant.

[–] context@hexbear.net 12 points 3 months ago

it's also a perfectly common variety of cabbage grown for its oil rich seeds

[–] DJDarren@thelemmy.club 9 points 3 months ago

I was playing Scrabble at my in-laws one weekend. Triumphantly played the word ‘glans’, which would have secured me the win.

Everyone told me it wasn’t a word and wouldn’t let me have it.

I’m still bitter about that.

[–] Zoift@hexbear.net 22 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Lol, thats cute and understandable in a kid-logic way.

In a similar vein, I thought Lou Bega was a communist revolutionary who later somehow pivoted to being a musician, like some sort of sellout Che, because he was included a pre-built playable dictator in Tropico 1.

Turns out he's there because he wanted a game cameo in return for using "Mambo #5" in the credits screen.

[–] Diuretic_Materialism@hexbear.net 13 points 3 months ago

I thought Espresso was called Expresso because it has lots of caffeine and so makes you go fast, like you're in the express train.

I also thought the black market was like, a physical location you could buy illegal stuff.

[–] EstraDoll@hexbear.net 11 points 3 months ago

one

two

three four five

the spirit of the revolution will never die

[–] Erika3sis@hexbear.net 17 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

※When I say "posthumously" I'm not sure if I actually believed that the guy was renamed to Hitler specifically after he died, but I am pretty sure that I did believe at the very least that "Hitler" was a name given to him by others when or after he started doing Nazi shit.

[–] keepcarrot@hexbear.net 11 points 3 months ago

Who was the previous Hitler? Who will be the next one?

(apparently it was pretty inconsistent before Hitler, the stand-in for "great evil man". Napoleon and Judas were pretty popular English ones, but nothing reached Hiterian levels of reputation)

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 14 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Did anyone else hear the rumor growing up that Hitler and Eva Braun would Cleveland Steamer one another? I remember being totally grossed out by it as a kid much more at that though then like him murdering over a million Jews. This was in the 90's in the USA.

[–] Zoift@hexbear.net 9 points 3 months ago

Heard it was his cousin and a glass table, but yeah, Hitler being Shitler was up there with Manson getting ribs removed in terms of prevalence.

[–] keepcarrot@hexbear.net 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I think I've actually seen 3 different Hitler sexuality documentaries on the history channel, each one suggesting a very different sexuality (that each nonetheless was outside the norm).

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

What did they say? I'm morbidly curious.

[–] keepcarrot@hexbear.net 15 points 3 months ago

One said that he was an extreme sexual sadist and was filled with lurid tales of his activities (and hinted at more), the sort of thing that pooping on Eva Braun would have been one of the more mentionable ones.

One said that he was completely asexual, and was in love with Germany, and only hung out with Eva (and eventually got married) to legitimise his appearance of being a German statesman.

One said he was extremely gay and had a lover that he maintained into The Great War.

In the light of current moral panics, I'm surprised there wasn't one claiming he was secretly trans or something

[–] CliffordBigRedDog@hexbear.net 2 points 3 months ago

Hitler and Eva Braun would Cleveland Steamer one another

i mean they are German

[–] SteamedHamberder@hexbear.net 12 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Wasn’t there an urban legend his real name was Shickelgruber?

[–] Erika3sis@hexbear.net 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

His dad was born a Schicklgruber but changed his surname at age 39, apparently.

[–] Judge_Juche@hexbear.net 10 points 3 months ago

Also the only reason it's spelled like that is becuase of inconsistent 19th century German spelling, it probably should have been 'Hiedler' or even 'Huttler'

[–] Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net 7 points 3 months ago

His father's last name, but I think he should be named that...

[–] wtypstanaccount04@hexbear.net 9 points 3 months ago

When I was a kid I liked the band Gas Pump and their groovy electronic music, especially songs like "One More Time" and "Harder Better Faster Stronger". I wondered why they had chosen such an unusual name.