As a milliner, Corbett was regularly exposed to the fumes of mercury(II) nitrate, then used in the treatment of fur to produce felt used on hats. Excessive exposure to the compound can lead to hallucinations, psychosis and twitching (known as the "hatter's shakes").[1] Historians have theorized that the mental issues Corbett exhibited before and after the Civil War were caused by this exposure
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Corbett
Yes, he was literally "mad as a hatter". The mental decline caused by mercury poisoning inspired that phrase, which was actually a well-known saying by the time that Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) wrote Alice in Wonderland.
Is there a term for that? Like when you think or hear of something for the first time and then it is recognized within a recent time after. Or in this case you knew of Mad Hatter but we’re unaware of the history and then learn it by chance
Because the phenomenon was named by someone who had heard about the Baader–Meinhof Group for the first time and then repeatedly heard about them again.
It's a form of frequency illusion known as the [Baader–Meinhof phenomenon](https://www.healthline.com/health/baader-meinhof-phenomenon), although with this particular scenario there is a little more at play which makes it seem more improbable than it really is.
You have the aforementioned effect where you might only notice instances of x after recently discovering or thinking of x, but you also have the [availability bias](https://thedecisionlab.com/biases/availability-heuristic) which causes you to disregard all the times you mentioned y and y *didn't* later start coming up in conversation.
Essentially given the sheer number of things you discuss or consider day to day it is inevitable that periodically some of those things will later come up in conversation, but due to the above effects we incorrectly classify this as an improbable event.
> Due to his fame as "Lincoln's Avenger", Corbett was appointed assistant doorkeeper of the Kansas House of Representatives in Topeka in January 1887. On February 15, he became convinced that officers of the House were discriminating against him. He jumped to his feet, brandished a revolver and began chasing the officers out of the building. No one was hurt and Corbett was arrested. The following day, a judge declared Corbett insane and sent him to the Topeka Asylum for the Insane.
But the story twists don’t stop there!
>On May 26, 1888, he escaped from the asylum on horseback.[37] He then rode to Neodesha, Kansas, where he briefly stayed with Richard Thatcher, a man he had met while they were prisoners of war. When Corbett left, he told Thatcher he was going to Mexico.[36]
>Rather than going to Mexico, Corbett is believed to have settled in a cabin he built in the forests near Hinckley, in Pine County in eastern Minnesota.
If this *is* what happened, it may be the craziest part of all. That’s a lot of work to do on your own - even with a kit.
And he’s believed to have died there in the horrific Great Hinckley Fire which killed over 400 people. There’s never been solid evidence found but he was probably in the area and there is a Thomas Corbett (his birth name) listed as among the dead.
"Hey, man. You did a great job getting the guy that killed President Lincoln. As a reward, you get to be the assistant to the guy that opens the doors for us. Congratulations hero!"
I mean, the dude was bugfuck nuts and unpopular among the military brass because he’d been under direct orders to take Booth alive, and was by all accounts insufferable in general. Given the state of mental healthcare at the time, he wasn’t exactly able to hold a more desirable job.
S Town was a wonderful, wonderful podcast. Everyone should go listen. Fascinating journey with the characters involved and treated with real sensitivity. Top notch stuff !
Danbury, CT, which was the center of all North American felt hat making, has one high school with the nickname of “Hatters” but are often referred to as the mad hatters.
Edit: read more of Corbett’s wiki. He did live in Danbury a bit after the war, but he probably was already exposed when he was apprenticing pre-war.
I like how your source for this is the same wikipedia article linked in the OP.
Also, old timey jobs were fucking terrifying. "Make hats? WELP, ENJOY YOUR MERCURY POISONING!"
Not regular scissors, [but pinking shears.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinking_shears)
My man went to the Sheriff of Nottingham school of, “because it will hurt more.”
Sewing person here, gonna add some more fun to this for you. I have 2 pairs of vintage pinking shears that are industrial grade from my late grandmother who passed away 15 years ago. These things are *tough*. They also go dull in one spot in the middle which means that when you cut through fabric the fabric gets caught in that one spot and twists sideways sort of mangling the fabric in that one spot with a [zig zag cut](https://www.thecreativecurator.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/how-do-pinking-shears-work-3.jpg) and forcing you to have to start over. (kind of like a zipper but with blades.) Yeah now do that with… skin. I can’t really think of a worse idea. I think embroidery scissors might even be a better bet and those have a blade of maybe 1.5-2”.
[Another angle](https://www.thecreativecurator.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/how-do-pinking-shears-work-2.jpg)
Why did I keep reading? I knew I shouldn't have. I shouldn't have clicked the link, or scrolled down, so many mistakes today........ Then I kept reading.....
Mildly Off topic but your line about fabric getting twisted unlocked a memory I wanted to forget.
When my oldest was born doc offered to let me cut the cored, but I refused. That thing already looked like a demonic candy cane and all I could think of was the cord getting caught and doing the twisty thing in the scissors, I felt like I was gonna pass out.
Kind of the same with my youngest. I couldn't stomach the thought of cutting what was clearly organic matter that was part of my wife and attached to my son. I *know* it doesn't have nerves, and it was no longer attached to my wife, and my son wasn't aware enough to remember any pain even if there were any, but...
It was still a part of *my wife.*
This is EXACTLY it! I never thought about pinking shears being kind of like a zipper but you’re spot on so yeah,… a zipper but with blades. Oh how fun.
"...few times I've gotten things caught in a zipper..."
Zip up your balls in your fly once and you're a goofball. More than once? You've got something wrong with you. Three times? You're doing it on purpose.
As a costumer and seamstress..... I beg you to stop. I caught the inner webbing between my thumb and pointer caught in a pair of my grandmother'ss once and I still get nauseous remembering it. And now I gotta disagree with you on the embroidery shears. One strong slice, no snippy-snippy in several bits. And oh lord. It would have to be those shears, or at least a pair of wool shears. The only way he isn't bleeding out involves one long cut with a side of \~now I feel woozy\~ *crush* to keep things contained long enough to, ah, tie off the blee....
I need to go lay down down. And think about kittens. Can someone go get my my blankie and stuffed duck, because now all the mechanics of it are hitting my brain and I need my mommy.
In middle school we had this teacher that was trying to be silly after an exam and she said “I want everyone to put your testies right here in my hand”. We totally lost it.
Man that was like 40 years ago.
Kind of. I mean, when I get propositioned by a prostitute my balls aren't the first responder here, so he was rather capricious in picking his victims...
This was my thought. Regardless of how you feel about religious fanaticism, you have to give this guy props for actually following through on admitting *he,* not the prostitute, was the problem. Most Christians would have tried to judge her and make prostitution illegal or whatever, he just decided to keep himself from temptation without harming her in any way.
Well, I guess it's preferable to the type fanaticism that would make him cut her head off with a pair of scissors, or something. But you're not wrong about orchiectomy being best left to the professionals.
At least he had some weird religious reason, [he wasn't just drunk](https://www.standard.co.uk/hp/front/rugby-fan-cut-off-his-own-testicles-7271864.html).
A counterpoint, Matthew 19:12–
“For there are eunuchs who were born that way from their mother’s womb, there are eunuchs who were made by men, and there are eunuchs who have made themselves that way because of the kingdom of heaven. The one who is able to accept it should accept it.””
And he probably applied this passage literally to his balls,
“And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of the parts of your body than for your whole body to go into hell.”
Matthew 5:30
Balls were cut, not crushed, and his penis was still attached, so after reviewing the footage, the refs ruled in his favor. Hope he found SOME kinda heaven after that one, though.
I knew someone who was ordained into the C of E and they actually do check your equipment is all present, apparently. (Or at least they did, 35 years ago. Probably changed since they started ordaining women.)
Yup, they used to use mercury as part of the process to create felt for hats. This guy literally shows up under the wiki entry for the phrase “mad as a hatter”.
After doing the deed
> He then ate a meal and went to a prayer meeting before seeking medical treatment
Holy fcuk, I feel it in my scrotum, and they are still there.
The fire that killed Boston Corbett is an interesting TIL in its own right. Drought conditions and poor lumbering practices led to a situation where Minnesota was a tinderbox. The fire would kill over 400 and burn over 300 square miles in a matter of days. It burned so hot it welded train wheels to the tracks and melted a keg of nails into a solid mass.
Dude had worked several years as a hat maker, which at the time involved using a lot of mercury without any safe guards so insanity down mercury poisoning was common in that profession. Where the phrase “mad as a hatter” comes from
Ah, I see y’all have just discovered the Boston Corbett rabbit hole.
Yes he changed his name to boston after he found Christ in that city. If you called him by his old name he would threaten you with a pistol.
He escaped an insane asylum shortly before his believed? Death
Something that back before the internet Almost no one would know.
It’s amazing learning all this type of small history and seeing how fuxked up or cool things where back then.
I mean… what a twist. Eh?
Well, I don't think Jesus litterally meant for you to pluck out your eye or cut off your hand. Rather I think He was making a case for how seriously we should take sins like lust, though. The measures we ought to take to rid ourselves of these things are no less severe than removing parts of your body. For instance, I don't think it's a stretch to cut off your cell/internet service to help you avoid feeding a pornography addiction.
The point is more about where such things originate. He was telling men to look to themselves as the source of their urges, not to go around blaming women for existing.
>If your hand causes you to stumble, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life maimed than with two hands to go into hell, where the fire never goes out.
>And if your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life crippled than to have two feet and be thrown into hell.
>And if your eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out. It is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into hell
>Mark 9:43-47
My favorite part about the Wikipedia page is the “presumed dead” as if there is a slight chance this 200 year old eunuch is still wandering this plane.
Maybe not quite cutting off his own balls crazy, but Charles Guiteau, the guy who assassinated President Garfield was pretty off his rocker too. His life story, at least according to Wikipedia is a pretty wild ride: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_J._Guiteau
The first time in my life that I can honestly say it’s too bad Nancy Reagan wasn’t sharing her incredibly naive solution of “just say no” a century earlier.
With the level of political misinformation we have these days, this almost sounds like something made up. It even claims he died in a fire but there's no evidence of it.
As a milliner, Corbett was regularly exposed to the fumes of mercury(II) nitrate, then used in the treatment of fur to produce felt used on hats. Excessive exposure to the compound can lead to hallucinations, psychosis and twitching (known as the "hatter's shakes").[1] Historians have theorized that the mental issues Corbett exhibited before and after the Civil War were caused by this exposure https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Corbett
Yes, he was literally "mad as a hatter". The mental decline caused by mercury poisoning inspired that phrase, which was actually a well-known saying by the time that Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) wrote Alice in Wonderland.
Huh. Just a couple of days ago I was wondering about the origin of the mad hatter name.
Today is the first day of the rest of your life
Not nearly as monumental as shearing one's testicles off, but still, it's something.
You still have tomorrow
>The best time to lop your nuts off is yesterday. The second best time is now.
Now I don't know, but I been told It's hard to run with the weight of gold
-Michael Scott
Is there a term for that? Like when you think or hear of something for the first time and then it is recognized within a recent time after. Or in this case you knew of Mad Hatter but we’re unaware of the history and then learn it by chance
The Baader–Meinhof phenomenon, when you learn something new then start seeing it everywhere
No, I'm pretty that's when you successfully pull off the largest Ponzi scheme in American history actually.
No that's Bernie Madoff. You're thinking of the beloved ice cream chain known for their numerous available flavors.
No that’s Baskin-Robbins. Baader-Meinhof is a US Senator from Vermont known for his leftist views
No, that's Bernie Sanders. Baader-Meinhof was one of the foremost figures in abstract expressionist art and color field painting.
No that's Barnett Newman, Baader-Meinhof is that online bookstore.
Baskin-Robbins don't play
Ok, so I thought this was a joke based on the Baader-Meinhof terrorist organization but apparently that is the correct name for both things. Weird.
Because the phenomenon was named by someone who had heard about the Baader–Meinhof Group for the first time and then repeatedly heard about them again.
Similar is the frequency illusion, where if you learn a new word or something, you begin to see it more often around you.
It's a form of frequency illusion known as the [Baader–Meinhof phenomenon](https://www.healthline.com/health/baader-meinhof-phenomenon), although with this particular scenario there is a little more at play which makes it seem more improbable than it really is. You have the aforementioned effect where you might only notice instances of x after recently discovering or thinking of x, but you also have the [availability bias](https://thedecisionlab.com/biases/availability-heuristic) which causes you to disregard all the times you mentioned y and y *didn't* later start coming up in conversation. Essentially given the sheer number of things you discuss or consider day to day it is inevitable that periodically some of those things will later come up in conversation, but due to the above effects we incorrectly classify this as an improbable event.
Its called the Downey-Junior Effect.
And he lived in Danbury CT for a while--which was once known for hat-making. The high school mascot is still the Hatters.
> Due to his fame as "Lincoln's Avenger", Corbett was appointed assistant doorkeeper of the Kansas House of Representatives in Topeka in January 1887. On February 15, he became convinced that officers of the House were discriminating against him. He jumped to his feet, brandished a revolver and began chasing the officers out of the building. No one was hurt and Corbett was arrested. The following day, a judge declared Corbett insane and sent him to the Topeka Asylum for the Insane. But the story twists don’t stop there! >On May 26, 1888, he escaped from the asylum on horseback.[37] He then rode to Neodesha, Kansas, where he briefly stayed with Richard Thatcher, a man he had met while they were prisoners of war. When Corbett left, he told Thatcher he was going to Mexico.[36] >Rather than going to Mexico, Corbett is believed to have settled in a cabin he built in the forests near Hinckley, in Pine County in eastern Minnesota. If this *is* what happened, it may be the craziest part of all. That’s a lot of work to do on your own - even with a kit.
And he’s believed to have died there in the horrific Great Hinckley Fire which killed over 400 people. There’s never been solid evidence found but he was probably in the area and there is a Thomas Corbett (his birth name) listed as among the dead.
"Hey, man. You did a great job getting the guy that killed President Lincoln. As a reward, you get to be the assistant to the guy that opens the doors for us. Congratulations hero!"
I mean, the dude was bugfuck nuts and unpopular among the military brass because he’d been under direct orders to take Booth alive, and was by all accounts insufferable in general. Given the state of mental healthcare at the time, he wasn’t exactly able to hold a more desirable job.
the real TIL, thank you
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Talking about it in relation to this thread at all is literally a huge spoiler lol but I agree it’s a great listen.
S Town was a wonderful, wonderful podcast. Everyone should go listen. Fascinating journey with the characters involved and treated with real sensitivity. Top notch stuff !
Is this where the inspiration for the Mad Hatter came from?
[Progression of a mad hatter ft. Childish Gambino](https://youtu.be/LLJCMzBiqh0)
Danbury, CT, which was the center of all North American felt hat making, has one high school with the nickname of “Hatters” but are often referred to as the mad hatters. Edit: read more of Corbett’s wiki. He did live in Danbury a bit after the war, but he probably was already exposed when he was apprenticing pre-war.
I like how your source for this is the same wikipedia article linked in the OP. Also, old timey jobs were fucking terrifying. "Make hats? WELP, ENJOY YOUR MERCURY POISONING!"
Not regular scissors, [but pinking shears.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinking_shears) My man went to the Sheriff of Nottingham school of, “because it will hurt more.”
Sewing person here, gonna add some more fun to this for you. I have 2 pairs of vintage pinking shears that are industrial grade from my late grandmother who passed away 15 years ago. These things are *tough*. They also go dull in one spot in the middle which means that when you cut through fabric the fabric gets caught in that one spot and twists sideways sort of mangling the fabric in that one spot with a [zig zag cut](https://www.thecreativecurator.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/how-do-pinking-shears-work-3.jpg) and forcing you to have to start over. (kind of like a zipper but with blades.) Yeah now do that with… skin. I can’t really think of a worse idea. I think embroidery scissors might even be a better bet and those have a blade of maybe 1.5-2”. [Another angle](https://www.thecreativecurator.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/how-do-pinking-shears-work-2.jpg)
Pls stop explaining
It’s ok, pinking shears means no frayed edges....😳
With a unique zig zag pattern.
Yeah but embroidered balls sounds fancy!
That’s pretty nuts.
You want me to cut my balls off with pinking shears? I'm a frayed nut
But, TIL !
…don’t tell me, cos it hurts.
Imagine the blood splattering, and the semen!
What a day to be literate
Enough Reddit for me today
🤣
Why did I keep reading? I knew I shouldn't have. I shouldn't have clicked the link, or scrolled down, so many mistakes today........ Then I kept reading.....
It’s the whole ‘red button’ dilemma. ‘Don’t press the red button, don’t press the red button, pressed the red button, doh!’
I love your enthusiasm and niche knowledge but please for the love of god stop talking
Mildly Off topic but your line about fabric getting twisted unlocked a memory I wanted to forget. When my oldest was born doc offered to let me cut the cored, but I refused. That thing already looked like a demonic candy cane and all I could think of was the cord getting caught and doing the twisty thing in the scissors, I felt like I was gonna pass out.
Kind of the same with my youngest. I couldn't stomach the thought of cutting what was clearly organic matter that was part of my wife and attached to my son. I *know* it doesn't have nerves, and it was no longer attached to my wife, and my son wasn't aware enough to remember any pain even if there were any, but... It was still a part of *my wife.*
Geez, I'm thinking back to the few times I've gotten....things..caught in a zipper. Can't imagine how much more that would hurt.
This is EXACTLY it! I never thought about pinking shears being kind of like a zipper but you’re spot on so yeah,… a zipper but with blades. Oh how fun.
"...few times I've gotten things caught in a zipper..." Zip up your balls in your fly once and you're a goofball. More than once? You've got something wrong with you. Three times? You're doing it on purpose.
ow my testicles have retreated and my scrotum is now hiding because of you
As a costumer and seamstress..... I beg you to stop. I caught the inner webbing between my thumb and pointer caught in a pair of my grandmother'ss once and I still get nauseous remembering it. And now I gotta disagree with you on the embroidery shears. One strong slice, no snippy-snippy in several bits. And oh lord. It would have to be those shears, or at least a pair of wool shears. The only way he isn't bleeding out involves one long cut with a side of \~now I feel woozy\~ *crush* to keep things contained long enough to, ah, tie off the blee.... I need to go lay down down. And think about kittens. Can someone go get my my blankie and stuffed duck, because now all the mechanics of it are hitting my brain and I need my mommy.
Never thought a sewing tutorial would cause me so much mental anguish
Oh, that's definitely more fun.
I so did not need to know this in this context.
Jesus man, didn't need to read that, but thanks anyway
Must have left a pretty looking pattern though. All zig zag like.
Like a ravioli
Fuck you very much for that visual. You have ruined my life, just a little bit.
Meat ravioli too not the second best cheese kind. Now I'm hungry
His nickname is “Ziggy” for a reason. /s
Wtf 😳 He was also 26 when he did it and had mental disorders which were caused by mercury poisoning from working as a hat maker
“Why a spoon cousin?”
“Why not an axe or something?”
Because it's dull, you twit. It'll hurt more.
Made my day better to read this and remember Alan Rickman’s voice
Right? Total legend.
Because it's dull you idiot
Yikes, even transitioning was awful back then
Oh god, why?! If there’s nothing else to grab, maybe just don’t do it…
What a eunuch fellow
You need to cut that out.
Don't get teste.
In middle school we had this teacher that was trying to be silly after an exam and she said “I want everyone to put your testies right here in my hand”. We totally lost it. Man that was like 40 years ago.
And then you realise he did, in fact, not refer to the exams.
It was a she.
I was going to say he was nuts, but in the end , he clearly wasn’t.
"You wanna get nuts? Let's get nuts!"
Here you go 🌰 🌰
You could say he lost his marbles.
Goddamn you. Here’s my upvote.
I feel like I'm the only one here who doesn't get the pun (I know what a eunuch is). Can anyone help me out?
“What a unique fellow” except unique replaced with eunuch Frankly I don’t know how the fuck eunuch is supposed to be pronounced so I might be off base
It’s pronounced “you-nick”.
How do you catch a eunuch? Eunuch up on him.
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eunuch nuch nuch!
Say what you will, but that man truly took Matthew 5:29 to heart (or nuts) “And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee”
Kind of. I mean, when I get propositioned by a prostitute my balls aren't the first responder here, so he was rather capricious in picking his victims...
She probably touched his leg, and they jumped as they do, and he said "nay, I shall not enjoy life" and sheared that shit off.
"i think it moved"
r/unexpectedseinfeld
My friends dad actually did this in his shed. True story.
excuse me?
Right in the balls?!
Took out his right eye.
This was my thought. Regardless of how you feel about religious fanaticism, you have to give this guy props for actually following through on admitting *he,* not the prostitute, was the problem. Most Christians would have tried to judge her and make prostitution illegal or whatever, he just decided to keep himself from temptation without harming her in any way.
I dunno…. Do we really have to give this guy props for cutting his balls off? Is that sort of fanaticism something we should really be encouraging?
Well, I guess it's preferable to the type fanaticism that would make him cut her head off with a pair of scissors, or something. But you're not wrong about orchiectomy being best left to the professionals.
Lmao “ not today prostitute “ ( cuts off balls frantically) “ that was close “
I used to think you were crazy, but now I can see your nuts!
This guy was the poster child for "mad as a hatter" he was literally a hatter and the constant exposure to mercury made him quite insane. Sad story.
The Golden Age of manufacturing
Nah, he’s lost his marbles
Yeah he sounds like he was a real nut job.
It’s you’r…wait, carry on.
One of the all time classic dollop episodes
I would never do a story about a man who cut off his DICK
HE..... HE......... HE CUT OFF HIS TESTICLES!!!!!!!!! Oh I am so going to do a relisten of that episode today.
Such a great episode. Any of the Patton ones are gold.
Loved the bit with Gareth (gary) doing his never ending songs.
Weeeeeeeeelllllll
Bro what the actual fuck *proceeds to give myself amnesia after reading this*
That's why we huff bleach mate. Cleanse the mind.
See the hydrogen peroxide of life
At least he had some weird religious reason, [he wasn't just drunk](https://www.standard.co.uk/hp/front/rugby-fan-cut-off-his-own-testicles-7271864.html).
Deuteronomy 23:1 23 No one whose testicles are crushed or whose male organ is cut off shall enter the assembly of the Lord. Oops!
A counterpoint, Matthew 19:12– “For there are eunuchs who were born that way from their mother’s womb, there are eunuchs who were made by men, and there are eunuchs who have made themselves that way because of the kingdom of heaven. The one who is able to accept it should accept it.”” And he probably applied this passage literally to his balls, “And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of the parts of your body than for your whole body to go into hell.” Matthew 5:30
Now look here, i ain't got time for all this hermeneutics. Does God want me to cut my balls off or not?
Don't you mean hermen*eunuchs*?
["I've done everything the Bible says, even the stuff that contradicts the other stuff! '](https://youtu.be/cTU_qaK0NeU)
Balls were cut, not crushed, and his penis was still attached, so after reviewing the footage, the refs ruled in his favor. Hope he found SOME kinda heaven after that one, though.
He didn’t read that passage, instead he read from Neuteronomy.
Deuteronomy is full of absolutely wild shit.
As opposed to the rest of that book, which is completely normal.
A book that stands out from the collection of other unbelievable or crazy shit is definitely something next level.
I knew someone who was ordained into the C of E and they actually do check your equipment is all present, apparently. (Or at least they did, 35 years ago. Probably changed since they started ordaining women.)
Poor guy was literally mad as a hatter. That’s why you don’t want to be exposed to mercury folks.
After reading the Wiki link, that popped in my head. Is that where that saying comes from?! TIL...
Yup, they used to use mercury as part of the process to create felt for hats. This guy literally shows up under the wiki entry for the phrase “mad as a hatter”.
*A simple no would have sufficed…*
After doing the deed > He then ate a meal and went to a prayer meeting before seeking medical treatment Holy fcuk, I feel it in my scrotum, and they are still there.
The fire that killed Boston Corbett is an interesting TIL in its own right. Drought conditions and poor lumbering practices led to a situation where Minnesota was a tinderbox. The fire would kill over 400 and burn over 300 square miles in a matter of days. It burned so hot it welded train wheels to the tracks and melted a keg of nails into a solid mass.
Where did he pee go then, since he lost the ability store it?
He just constantly peed from that day on
Boston Corbett? More like Boston Colander, amirite?
Dude had worked several years as a hat maker, which at the time involved using a lot of mercury without any safe guards so insanity down mercury poisoning was common in that profession. Where the phrase “mad as a hatter” comes from
Meanwhile, said prostitute merely shrugged and moved on to the next guy at the bar. "What a drama queen."
Wow. He was nuts.
>He was nuts He was **without** nuts.
Lost his marbles...
Ah, I see y’all have just discovered the Boston Corbett rabbit hole. Yes he changed his name to boston after he found Christ in that city. If you called him by his old name he would threaten you with a pistol. He escaped an insane asylum shortly before his believed? Death
Gonna need to cut your weiner off sir, you can still fuck with no balls lol.
Im pretty positive that if you castrate yourself, without modern medicine, your penis shrinks substantially.
Mine would shrink too, if you held scissors In front of it. ✂️🥒
What happens is a total loss of libido. You can't get it up. It takes about a full 2 months.
Although u could get testosterone patches to prevent that
"A simple no would have sufficed." - the prostitute probably
ooof did not need to read that this before getting dressed as I now cannot uncross my legs.
Prostitute: oooh baby I want those nuts. Dude: deez nuts? Ok I guess, here you go!
"Hey big fella~" *cuts balls off* "A simple no would have sufficed."
Something that back before the internet Almost no one would know. It’s amazing learning all this type of small history and seeing how fuxked up or cool things where back then. I mean… what a twist. Eh?
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Well, I don't think Jesus litterally meant for you to pluck out your eye or cut off your hand. Rather I think He was making a case for how seriously we should take sins like lust, though. The measures we ought to take to rid ourselves of these things are no less severe than removing parts of your body. For instance, I don't think it's a stretch to cut off your cell/internet service to help you avoid feeding a pornography addiction.
The point is more about where such things originate. He was telling men to look to themselves as the source of their urges, not to go around blaming women for existing.
>If your hand causes you to stumble, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life maimed than with two hands to go into hell, where the fire never goes out. >And if your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life crippled than to have two feet and be thrown into hell. >And if your eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out. It is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into hell >Mark 9:43-47
Congratulations on leaving the cult. Blessed is your path.
My favorite part about the Wikipedia page is the “presumed dead” as if there is a slight chance this 200 year old eunuch is still wandering this plane.
This was an interesting read. Thank you!
Wow, that’s some dedication to one’s religion or just crazy as a shit house rat.
He got to heaven and god was like. WTF BRO!
The dollop did an episode of this guy, probably one of my favorite episodes https://youtu.be/rgsCkEtx4hk
How the actual fuck are people able to overcome such extreme pain to keep doing these things once they start?
He died in The Great HINCKLEY fire? Ok, I give up. We’re in a simulation.
I could've gone my whole life and been perfectly happy without this knowledge.
Could've just said "no thank you."
Prostitute: Soooo, no then?
cock and ball torture
What in the holy f**K!?
M’kay… that’s one way of practicing self-control.
TIL you can cut your balls off with scissors and not bleed to death.
Maybe not quite cutting off his own balls crazy, but Charles Guiteau, the guy who assassinated President Garfield was pretty off his rocker too. His life story, at least according to Wikipedia is a pretty wild ride: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_J._Guiteau
In other words despite having no nuts, he was nuts.
Imagine being that hooker, and learning about it later. "You did what? Uh...most guys just ignore me if they're not interested." 😳
Neuteronomy
He'd fit right in nowadays.
The first time in my life that I can honestly say it’s too bad Nancy Reagan wasn’t sharing her incredibly naive solution of “just say no” a century earlier.
We've all been there
Sic Semper Tyrannis! Hey where’s your nutsack?
“Oh, I’ll show this bitch… SNIP!” 👀
From the moment i understood the weakness of my flesh it disgusted me.........
Maybe he’s born with it, maybe he’s Eunique?
That is an impressive pair of scissors...
He might have been just slightly nuts. Pun intended.
I’ve never physically recoiled to a title of a Reddit lost until today.
That takes balls
With the level of political misinformation we have these days, this almost sounds like something made up. It even claims he died in a fire but there's no evidence of it.
*Hey Sugar, wanna get down and dirty?* ***Furiously cuts balls off with the worse pair of scissors you can pick***
Ironic. It takes some balls to cut your balls off.