Oh my... I laughed way too hard (no pun intended)

"And she lived miserably ever after, which wasn't very long"

Most fairy tales were seriously disturbing.

My daughter goes to a German school and we were quite surprised that the kids are read the real versions of the fairy tales at a rather young age! Incidentally, a great accompaniment to these fairy tales for kids aged 7+ is The Night I Fell Into A Fairytale by Ben Miller. Can only recommend it!

I had the original as a child. I don't know where it went. It was probably handed down to some other kid in our family without my knowledge or consent. I guess it wasn't mine to begin with but more like a family heirloom.

Struwelpeter! I still have my copy from my childhood. No wonder I have a sick and twisted sense of humor.

The cats were distressed and cried A LOT

I laughed at this and find it funny. However: As a German I feel obligated to pedantically point out that 1) This is not from a fairy tale and 2) most of the well known fairy tales in the English speaking world are already German ...

lolololololchehehehe

When I was a teen I acquired an unabridged version of Grimms Fairy tales and I'll tell ya...did not expect to be terrified! lol

The cats look shocked, but I'm sure they have something to do with it.

grim brothers, where mediocre is the new happy

I feel accomplished tho so that's a plus!

She looks pretty unimpressed.

Hahaha and the wife is still blissfully sleeping

You save tokens from cereal packets and send off for a baby I do believe.

The weird guy is John Bababuie.

plague inc. be like

Amen sister!!!

Bummer when they turn out to be extra long and you wake up an hour or two before bedtime.

And then you just sit on your bed contemplating life and reviewing all the plausible excuses you haven't used yet

I'm ashamed of myself for laughing.

Will cure mine though! Hold still

Shhhh. Don't reveal our secrets.

A posthumous (XVII century) illustration for Franz Helm's "Feuerwerkbuch" from the XIV century. Helm was a proposer of some unorthodox techniques for siege warfare, some of them involving strapping incendiary devices to animals. It is dubious if he reported those as mere curiosities, possibly riding the popularity of the story of Olga of Kiev using pigeons to burn a castle in revenge, or if someone actually experimented with the concept.

Thus is the kinda Grandma I wanna hang with!

Hellfest !

She looks like she wishes she had swiped left

Straight to the point i guess

It's called menopause, Red. It'll happen to you too one day!

When the transphobic bigot who stalks me makes a comment.

How dare you! I'm not special anymore!

That's supposed to be the Antichrist.

Saw a meme earlier that said “I would die for you” “then perish”

"Yeah.Saves time and effort."

John needs a snickers bar

They come only with a banana. For scale.

Wtf is John Bababuie's problem?

Okay, off topic but ... that dress is gorgeous

When you are now Place de la Concorde in Paris and just imagine these things really happens that's so weird

Think I'll reply with this tomorrow when a customer asks me how I'm doing

The child in the meme is John Bababuie.

No shortage of fertilizer ...

Homer Simpson did it better /j

"Such a cute little boy what is his name?" "Her name is Tiffany"

JC is definitely over it.

Lol

Ignoring the meme, this painting just reminds me of my childhood and the comfort I felt

Coincidentally, I just saw a documentary on the history of surgery and how limited the surgeries they could actually do before anaesthesia were. Abdominal surgeries couldn't be done because no amount of restraints could keep someone from writhing in pain. They probably would've died from infection anyway

"I'm blind!" *Jesus pokes blind person in the eye. "Now I am blind AND my eye hurts, thanks for nothing!"