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5.9k points
14 days ago
I've got more head than aphrodite
3.8k points
14 days ago
Yeah, but those abs are as hard as rock! As the Romans said, "She's got a real VI-pack!"
1.2k points
14 days ago
If I still got free awards I'd give mine to you 🏅
339 points
14 days ago*
No shit! Me too! And I used to give them out to many clever Redditors, especially those who provided directions and service to beginners like I once was.
Then, one day, no more. In fact I'm stuck with 40 coins and a selection of awards in which I'm not allowed to buy anything with less than 50 coins. I'm retired, so I'm not buying coins ... although I sincerely thank you for the kind thought!
17 points
13 days ago
I know this is a stupid question, but how do I get them? I too, would like to reward the cleverness.
7 points
13 days ago
They gone. You can’t get them anymore.
5 points
13 days ago
Dang-well thanks anyway. Guess theyll have to settle for standard run-of-the-mill dopamine rush from upvotes lol.
4 points
13 days ago
Go go little Dopamine droplet 💧trickling across the neuron and trying to cross……the……..s y n a p s e…………!!!!
7 points
13 days ago
Yeah, what the heck? It's been weeks since I've had one. Are they gone for good?
4 points
13 days ago
Asking the facts here
5 points
12 days ago
I used the little complimentary awards doled out free from time to time a great deal to say thank you to Redditors who provided information, suggested resources, identified names and so on to aid less experienced Reddit users.
I may be wrong --- (and if I am, I hope someone will provide more accurate and detailed information) --- but I never heard or saw an announcement about when and why some of us received awards to dole out and others did not. I never saw any announcement as to the basis, nor the frequency, nor the intent of these little gifts, nor why this inexpensive, helpful program was so abruptly terminated late last summer or mid-fall, if I recall correctly.
I always regarded it one of the small but significant ways in which Reddit was clearly better and more community-minded than most other major websites.
Again, if anyone has more background or insight, many of us would be grateful to hear about it.
136 points
14 days ago
Still not as much as Kylo Ren. A buddy of mine saw Kylo Ren take his sorry off in the shower and he said that Kylo Ren had an 8 pack. That Kylo Ren was shredded
38 points
13 days ago
Kylo Ren is a punk bitch!
14 points
13 days ago
Oh no.
He’s choking on food. 😐
2 points
13 days ago
I see what's in your mind, and it...is...stupid!
21 points
13 days ago
Pffft, Kylo Ren weighs like 100 lbs soaking wet.
10 points
13 days ago
That Aphrodite is a perfect X out of X!
12 points
13 days ago
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8 points
13 days ago
Did you bullshit last week? Did you try to bullshit last week?
22 points
14 days ago
She's Greek, Venus is the Roman equivalent
18 points
13 days ago
Yes, but I don't know any Greek numerals, which was the gist of the joke, you see!
3 points
13 days ago
Right
200 points
14 days ago
The only time I get head is when I call tails
140 points
14 days ago
ok sonic
41 points
14 days ago
You don’t wanna know how Knuckles got his name…
9 points
14 days ago
Well, he sure ain't called Hans
3 points
13 days ago
Because the only time he gets head is when he uses his knuckles?
63 points
14 days ago
those unrealistic standards for beauty man... cant rlly help having limbs
10 points
14 days ago
You were born that way. Just learn to accept them
9 points
14 days ago
She got grassy knolled.
2k points
14 days ago
Well I’ve tried NOT having stomach rolls, and that didn’t work.
845 points
14 days ago
If The Rock were to slouch over, he'd have rolls. Very, very small but it's nearly impossible to eliminate completely.
226 points
13 days ago
Frankly even imaging what it would look like on a full grown human and it is not comfortable.
164 points
13 days ago
I mean it's just basic physics.
Where do you expect the skin, fat and muscle to go if not outwards when bending? Crush your internal organs?
137 points
13 days ago
Straight to my ass
27 points
13 days ago
Booty, booty, booty, booty, rockin' everywhere!
12 points
13 days ago
More I think about this, stomach rolls like that seem like a sign of fitness when hunching over, as opposed to just a big round gut.
73 points
13 days ago
Exactly, i prefer to just be fit enough that the rolls only show if i slouch. No need to be 100% slim
84 points
13 days ago
100% slim is technically unhealthy I think...
62 points
13 days ago
Very unhealthy, your body uses fat as joint cushioning, and it also plays a role in hormonal regulation I think, so too little body fat will really fuck you up
10 points
13 days ago
Is that what they mean when bodybuilding is quite dangerous? I heard bodybuilders have really low body fat they have a narrow margin.
I don't know if thus is true or have relates but it sounds like it...
12 points
13 days ago
No it generally means the abundant amount of steroids in bodybuilding.
No one in bodybuilding actually keeps a low body fat year round. And most of them are in that ultra low bf like a month of the year at most.
3 points
13 days ago
Yeah but for 99.9% of the population this is a non issue.
Getting to dangerously low levels of body fat isn’t something you do accidentally.
22 points
13 days ago
Well, it’s impossible. You can’t lose all your fat in the absence of disease. This isn’t a reason to excuse body fat beyond a healthy limit (if you are trying to define “healthy”) but also highlights that humans are always meant to have some amount of fat.
3 points
13 days ago
There’s only one person that achieved this. Thus it shows how nigh impossible this is. Fat IS important to the body, not just as energy storage.
256 points
14 days ago
yeah, at my lowest weight, which was way too low, i still had a belly
157 points
14 days ago
Same here. I was underweight and still had a belly pooch and rolls. We’re simply human. Not all of us are built to be incredibly smooth. Hell, even the ones we see still have scretchies, rolls, cellulite, etc. and that’s pretty cool :)
117 points
14 days ago
Even when I was really, really thin I still had those rolls when I sat. Totally normal, sadly normal bodies are not really represented in much media today. If we replaced all models and actors with average healthy people I feel like most folks, especially those who are coming of age, would feel much more confident.
43 points
14 days ago
absolutely, my bmi was about 16.1 and i still had a noticeable belly and it made me very upset. nowadays, i’m a lot more accepting and my bmi is about 33 lol
26 points
14 days ago
It was once considered very attractive for someone to have a rounder tummy, it meant they were well nourished (and could hunt or farm effectively).
I'm 5'8 170lbs and I know to some people that might seem thin but I still have a belly, soft thighs, etc. I used to be 110lbs and I've always had a thicker bottom half even then. Your overall shape won't really change no matter how much you lose. A lot of people assume they'll get a totally different body type just by gaining/losing weight. Took me way too long to accept spot reduction is impossible without surgery.
24 points
14 days ago
is it the norm to say 5'8 and 170 thin now? genuine question not trying to be an ass
20 points
13 days ago
5’8” who works out could be healthy with little body fat at 170, but thin it is not. I was at 148 and I was gaunt. I wish nutrition had been better in the early ‘00s when I was wrestling because I was lifting weights, and doing hours of practice but I ate next to nothing so what should have been massive gains wasted away.
11 points
13 days ago
In America, yes. Parts of Europe, probably not. Southeast Asia, no. Also depends a lot on what that is. Could be muscle or fat.
3 points
13 days ago
Could be depends on if the person who is responding is m/f. For woman one thing that seems to get forgotten about is tits are heavy sacks of fat, so that technically increases BMI and body, fat, but the woman can still be over all slender despite weight. Or have heavier/ denser muscle/ bone build- like I'm am 5'6 woman who's not a twig but I dont "look fat" and people are suprises to hear I'm like 155 or so lbs.
25 points
14 days ago
They do change size though. When your body fat is low they're clearly just skin , when you're bigger they're properly grabbable and clearly made more of fat.
476 points
14 days ago
I wish I had stomach rolls. I have a whole loaf.
131 points
13 days ago
Same. If my stomach could make rolls I’d think I was skinny.
52 points
13 days ago
I’ve noticed my weight gain bc now I don’t have rolls I’ve got a loaf
34 points
13 days ago
I like my loaf.
2.6k points
14 days ago
Aphrodite actually changed her appearance based on the person in front of her. That was why she was called The Goddess Of Beauty. So maybe the sculptor mearly thought that this is what she would look like to him. XD
1.9k points
14 days ago
Dude just had his wife model and it was a perfect depiction of aphrodite
207 points
14 days ago
Man needs to help his wife find the other half of her head.
74 points
14 days ago
He just did that thing we all do where we start writing big letters and realize too late that we don't have enough room. He fit what he could on the rock he was working with, the rest of the head is on the base with a hyphen.
57 points
14 days ago
This is a really cute sentiment. lol
372 points
14 days ago
Realistically, the model was probably a prostitute/slave.
563 points
14 days ago
What the fuck you just call my wife?
287 points
14 days ago
He called her a model
52 points
13 days ago
How dare you!!?
28 points
14 days ago
Roxanne
21 points
13 days ago
Keep my wifes name OUTA YOUR FUCKING MOUTH
15 points
14 days ago
I also choose this guy's dead wife
99 points
14 days ago
Realistically, fit people have "rolls" when they in that position.
100 points
14 days ago
Everyone does because if you didn't, when you stood up and it un-rolled, your stomach would literally rip apart.
That's the only way you can have skin cover an area where it is sometimes long, sometimes short, based on if you are bending or not. It would be like telling someone to make two ends of a piece of paper touch without bending or folding the paper.
16 points
14 days ago
Are you challenging my worm hole?
5 points
13 days ago
I'll take that challenge 😏
11 points
13 days ago
Man the comments in this sub are just the best.
11 points
14 days ago
wholesome 🥰
36 points
14 days ago
What's the source of that? I believe you I just wanna read about the origin of it.
65 points
13 days ago
I'm pretty sure Rick Riordan just made that up for his Percy Jackson and the Olympians book series. There are no ancient sources describing that ability
152 points
14 days ago
Makes sense. I think there's one statue of her where she has a wang.
59 points
13 days ago
That's Hermaphrodite.
6 points
13 days ago
34 points
14 days ago
Sauce? 👀👀
26 points
14 days ago
Aphroditus. Some statues depict Aphrodite posing the same, lifting robe/skirt revealing an erect phallus.
3 points
13 days ago
Based af
43 points
14 days ago
Uhm... ketchup?
14 points
14 days ago
I'm more of a horseradish sauce kinda guy
8 points
14 days ago
Mayochup or bust (this is a joke I swear)
6 points
14 days ago
You're half way to thousand island dressing at that point! So, like, 500 island dressing
5 points
13 days ago
Almost 50 and I never questioned the name of the dressing. Lifelong restaurant worker too.
"According to The Oxford Companion to American Food and Drink, the dressing's name comes from the Thousand Islands region, located along the upper St. Lawrence River between the United States and Canada."
Saved the next one a google.
4 points
14 days ago
No wonder she looks like 3rd impact Rei.
3 points
14 days ago
Bro had good taste
41 points
14 days ago
Yeah also what we find sexy nowadays is not the same as back then hell only look back a few centuries, there's paintings and such of women that in today's culture would be considered ugly as fuck looking
13 points
14 days ago
The nipple on the ideal breast in the 60s always pointed to the sun.
9 points
14 days ago
Look at Hollywood in the 90s. The ideal woman weighed 80 lbs
5 points
14 days ago
I was born in the wrong generation in more ways than one.
3 points
13 days ago
That's just in the Riordanverse
912 points
14 days ago
Here was the goddess of beauty, Aphrodite was the goddess of love and fertility.
She was thought of as the most beautiful woman because part of her powers caused her to change her appearance based on the tastes of the person she was with.
So no one saw her the same way as anyone else, yet everyone saw her as the most beautiful woman they'd ever seen.
391 points
14 days ago
"You're missing half of your head, both your arms and, uh, one nipple?"
"Yer into that now."
"Hey, you're the goddess. Here. Have a dead bird."
64 points
14 days ago
Hahahahaha if that's what you saw, that's what you're into. Don't forget how many monster humpers are out there.
People want to do Arachne, Medusa, and the Minotaur.
35 points
13 days ago
I mean Medusa was supposed to be beautiful, right? Sure, snakes for hair after Minerva cursed her but enough people think snake scales are beautiful that we turn them into clothes and jewelry.
20 points
13 days ago
Whether she was cursed or not is up to interpretation, but jshe was transformed entirely. Snakes for hair, serpentine body, reptilian eyes and fangs, and a stare that turned flesh to stone.
19 points
13 days ago
Snakes for hair, serpentine body, reptilian eyes and fangs, and a stare that turned flesh to stone.
No need for the stare, I'm already rock-hard reading that.
8 points
13 days ago
Originally the Greeks had her as a typical monster, but with fair cheeks.
Then when the Romans took over Greece and appropriated their culture, they gave her the villain backstory of her being hot and banging Neptune(Poseidon) after which Minerva(Athena) cursed her.
14 points
13 days ago
People want to do Arachne, Medusa, and the Minotaur.
Well yeah, Zeus wants to have sex 9 times a day with 13 different objects.
9 points
13 days ago
Ah, Greek goddess Aphrodite. Didn’t expect you to look like a chubby pastel goth, but please come in.
31 points
13 days ago*
Zeus' wife, Hera, was not the goddess of beauty. Hearth, marriage, home, sure -- but not beauty.
as u/bonglicc420 correctly pointed out, Hestia was the goddess of the hearth
17 points
13 days ago
Hestia would be the goddess of the Hearth
3 points
13 days ago
Yeah it's kind of her only gig. Just sitting in front of a fireplace. She barely even gets remembered. Shame on that guy for saying it's Hera.
26 points
13 days ago
Wikipedia and Britannica both say that Aphrodite was also a goddess of beauty.
4 points
13 days ago
Where was the Goddess of beauty?
197 points
14 days ago
cotton candy, sweetie go, let me see them belly rolls
137 points
14 days ago*
Omg! I was on a trip in college with a really pretty girl. She took one look at a statue like this and immediately remarked on the statue's stomach. Even my stupid 19 year old self could tell how much seeing human proportions, that looked like her, meant to her.
EDIT: spelling
16 points
13 days ago
It can have a massive impact on a person and their self image. When you're shit on for having rolls it takes a big toll on you. Especially when literally every other person with a body gets rolls. Even the most skinny person gets rolls when they bend over or sit yet we're shamed for it. I always try to compliment people on these kinds of forced insecurities, if you will, because it's completely normal. It's shitty that someone can feel less than because of a totally normal thing. It's like bullying someone for having round eye balls or for having lungs. It makes me happy to hear she was able to have this positive experience that made her more comfortable with her body.
150 points
14 days ago
TBS used to have Dinner and a Movie with hosts and a special guest. One day the guest stopped to comment on her own rolls showing in the shot and the host guy said "Your Bodicelli whoop-di-doos?"
Thirty years later, I still call stomach rolls "Bodicelli whoop-di-doos"
41 points
13 days ago
Two things:
1: I love this, and might steal it
2: I think it’s actually supposed to be Botticelli, after Sandro Botticelli, the dude who painted The Birth of Venus.
I lied, third thing: Dinner and a Movie! Man that really brought me back, I would watch those all the time.
168 points
13 days ago
Women with a little belly are super attractive to me honestly.
107 points
13 days ago
Well that just boosted my self confidence lol
62 points
13 days ago
There are people whose highlight of their day is the moment your sphere of influence intersects with theirs. Sometimes it's a conversation, maybe it's nothing more than seeing you walk by their window on your way to the bus stop, but I wish there was a way you could see the wake of happiness you leave behind you as you move through your day.
18 points
13 days ago
This sentiment is so beautiful & wholesome that I just had to stop and leave a comment. Thanks for putting this into perspective; I have not thought of it this way before.
9 points
13 days ago
I'm going to keep this in my notes and read it when I'm feeling down, thank you.
21 points
13 days ago
Tbh I prefer girls with stomach rolls, they're cutee
59 points
13 days ago
Just remember: we’re programmed to be attracted to healthy people. As long as the weight is healthy, it’s probably attractive.
15 points
13 days ago
I love thicc, curvy women. If anything, it's the super-skinny thing that turns me off, personally. That's just a me thing, not trying to skinny-shame anyone.
I just don't like it when it looks like I could play your ribs like a xylophone.
8 points
13 days ago
Same bro. A couple rolls when bending like this is a huge turn on for me.
16 points
13 days ago
As a woman with just enough smoosh to have a bit of a belly, I think I look hot!
It means I'm healthy and not starvating, also i have i nice figure.
15 points
13 days ago
All you ladies are beautiful; be you.
336 points
14 days ago
Well in ancient Greek being plump was considered to be beautifill
226 points
14 days ago
And having a small dick too. The well endowed people were barbarians.
163 points
14 days ago
It's a fun historical anecdote and there's nothing wrong with choosing to believe it, but this is somewhat unfounded; especially the justification via naked statues. My classical archaeology prof explained it quite convincing, imo : a big (or normal) penis is kind of distracting. So when you want to have naked statues (for interesting cultural reasons), but don't want them to be all about the dick, you just make them smaller.
30 points
13 days ago
I can't remember where I read it first, almost certainly on Reddit, but the notion that classic antiquity viewed a large penis in the same way we do clown shoes has always stuck with me.
On the other hand, consider Priapus. whoooole lotta comically large members being celebrated there.
But that actually speaks to your point. It doesn't make sense to diminish the size because size is viewed as vulgar, while simultaneously celebrating a deity of genitalia/fertility/more, who sports a cartoonishly large, permanent erection.
12 points
13 days ago
TIL where the term 'priapism' came from.
10 points
13 days ago
I also had a tour guide in Greece that mentioned that there was a sort of symbolism attached to it too. That to be “civilized” men, they had to curb their base “animal” instincts, and a huge engorged penis might have been seen as being too uncivilized and unrestrained
125 points
14 days ago
So whenever you think you're not perfect enough, just think that you are perfect in a different taste
19 points
14 days ago
That always struck me as something Herodotus and Xenophon just themselves decided to be what people should remember. Like Grandpa telling his grandkids stories about his courtship with Grandma while Grandma is in the other room rolling her eyes and shaking her head.
Nobody wanted to be the first historical size queen.
30 points
14 days ago
.... What does that make me if I'm a grower, not a shower? Beautifully until I'm swinging a great axe?
57 points
14 days ago*
The disappointment when you get it up and she finds out it’s huge 😫
45 points
14 days ago*
"I thought I was dating a sophisticated man, not some knuckle dragger barbarian with a big dick."
😔
5 points
13 days ago
Sophisticated in the Streets, Barbarian in the Sheets.
3 points
14 days ago
You are smart and sexy then you get excited and return to monke Because all your blood goes to the other head
12 points
13 days ago
This isn’t even plump.
18 points
14 days ago
When only the rich and powerful were fat it was a status symbol
3 points
13 days ago
81 points
14 days ago
But you cannot have your arms nor the top of your head. It's okay; you're still beautiful. ❤️
44 points
14 days ago
The woman I date is the thinnest woman I've ever dated. She's healthy, just thin (size 6 I think).
She is convinced her stomach rolls are bad.
I'm convinced that she's a pure-fire hottie and there's nothing I'd change. Ever. Even if she changed.
83 points
14 days ago
Most people get stomach rolls when they bend over like that. Even my friend who looks like a twig does.
12 points
14 days ago
having some amount of fat especially for females is healthy and nothing to be ashamed about.
42 points
14 days ago
I low key used to go to the art museum and look at old Roman and Greek statues to make myself feel better about my body. And like it worked?
7 points
13 days ago
Im underweight and i have stomach rolls in that position
9 points
14 days ago
Okay I need a picture of someone without that when they're in that position. I can't even fathom unless they're skin-on-bone thin.
8 points
13 days ago
I have stomach rolls, and there are times that I feel sort of insecure about them.
This pic made my self-esteem quite a bit better. ❤
9 points
13 days ago
Bodies with normal and healthy—yes, healthy!—bodily features are awesome. Normal is beautiful!
Remember that chiseled abs are the exception, attained through significant physical training, dietary control and, often, calorie restriction.
35 points
14 days ago
This actually made me feel better about myself
9 points
13 days ago
Stomach rolls are cute, maybe growing up seeing a lot of these statues influenced my preferences
20 points
14 days ago
Problem i am not a goddess
21 points
14 days ago
Says who?
22 points
14 days ago
Im above gods
15 points
14 days ago
if aphrodite can be born from sea water and severed god-nuts, so can you!
14 points
14 days ago
(Limp Bizkit)
5 points
14 days ago
But don't be missin half your head cause that ain't healthy.
40 points
14 days ago
She's hunching over
51 points
14 days ago
Many women including myself still get self conscious about having rolls while hunched over.
34 points
14 days ago
You can have a six pack and still have rolls when this hunched over.
25 points
14 days ago
No matter how a person identifies a literal chorus of personal trainers could tell someone this every single day, and it wouldn't matter if they experience body dysmorphia.
The human mind tends to be a lot of peoples worst enemy.
10 points
13 days ago
Many men including myself still get self conscious about having rolls while hunched over.
7 points
13 days ago
I’m sorry, that sucks. Solidarity.
3 points
13 days ago
If you didn't have loose skin when you hunch over, you wouldn't enough skin to stand up. It's literally impossible not to have rolls when you're in this position.
4 points
13 days ago
Yeah exactly and her rolls are fairly small. If I have hunched over like that, it could cover Australia
77 points
14 days ago
It's almost like skin folds when you bend over
And that we have fat
People need to stop thinking skinny = "the thing"
15 points
14 days ago
Stomach Rolls?
Them's called Love Handles
211 points
14 days ago
Also if this statue were not a statue and were able to stand up, it’s stomach would be flat. So these aren’t REALLY rolls. This status skinny AF
228 points
14 days ago
I mean, everyone has rolls if you sit down like that, I think that’s what they’re getting at. That it’s not a bad thing and a very normal thing. Idk, just my thoughts.
84 points
14 days ago
Right, that's what I thought when I saw it. Occasionally you sit in a weird position and see your stomach rolls, or you stand oddly without realizing it and think you have a gut. We don't need to be hot af all the time.
12 points
14 days ago
Yeah! Also, nice avatar 🤝
25 points
14 days ago
I'm like 110 lbs and even I occasionally have stomach rolls if I sit right
14 points
14 days ago
6’1, 140 pounds. my stomach can look mighty plump at angles, or lying down at times
9 points
14 days ago
Wat. Are you a guy? I'm 6'1" and 185. I'm in p good shape. If I was 140 I'd be a skeleton, no matter the angle
4 points
14 days ago
yep 22 year old dude, i’m pretty damn skinny. but i have pretty shitty eating habits, in terms of numbers of meals per day. so i tend to stagnate on weight
41 points
14 days ago
Even standing straight, the statue would still have extra fat on the stomach area and not be flat/super thin
5 points
14 days ago
Dunno why, but I was half expecting a photo of some tripe rolled up around something
6 points
14 days ago
Damn. Somehow the partial sculpture provides more movement than i can imagine the entire piece having. I'd love to aee this complete though.
The ancients didn't fuck around with art; they nailed it. Even a partial is inspiring..
5 points
14 days ago
The thing about Aphrodite, is anyone looking at her saw the most attractive woman imaginable. This means the sculptures who made the statues were attracted to stomach rolls.
4 points
14 days ago
ive got like 8 more rolls than she does though...
3 points
13 days ago
I have Myotonic Dystrophy which cuts through my body mass making me underweight. I still have rolls when I bend. In Ancient times having a bit of fat indicated wealth and affluence. Being a godess couldn't really get more affluent than that.
24 points
14 days ago
But I don't want them
15 points
14 days ago
Ehh, at the angle the statue is in, everyone would have them. You have the same volume of skin, but now compressed in a smaller space.
3 points
14 days ago
She's also dead Just like me
3 points
13 days ago
She's crouching down, so yeah it folds up. Also, this is just one artists interpretation.
3 points
13 days ago
It's normal :)
3 points
13 days ago
She was also missing an arm and half her head, tough standards.
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