• dying from laughing at your own joke is an absolutely king move.

    i hope that’s how i go. like in front of other people and nobody else is even laughing, im just losing it laughing and farting at my own “what if Frank Stallone was Chinese Batman?” type of joke.

  • purpleworm [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    18 hours ago

    If we’re just doing every ridiculous story from Ancient Greece, then surely we should include Zeno of Elea by various tellings pretending he wanted to tell a secret to his captor and biting his ear off, then biting his own tongue off to spit it at the captor, and then being ground to death in a giant mortar and pestle.

    Also I know it wouldn’t work as well for the joke, but I still think it’s kind of weird to exclude Socrates from the list when, by the most influential telling, his was maybe the most famous suicide in world history in general, in competition with Hitler.

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        16 hours ago

        I think if you sucked in your cheeks, then forcefully exhaled out a deep lungfull, you could impart momentum to your tongue. Probably also swing your head forward

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        I agree with Wheaties that you could approximate it the way she describes, and also you could maybe bite the end off and push with the stub? But when I called the stories “ridiculous” I meant in the sense that they probably aren’t true, and I don’t believe the Zeno story is true.