He just needed to listen to some Prince. Would have fixed him right up.
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Sometimes botched penis enlargements are the only kind of justice we can get. See Also: John Wayne Bobbit (not the original “procedure,” but his later… voluntary adjustment).
BTW the new Lorena documentary is fucking devastating.
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The second part was what I was referencing. That’s not how it works!
edit: Email marketers shed a tear that day.
Oh, so that’s the kind of guy they were targeting with that spam.
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I dunno know about that; the two at least go together. As the article says,
According to Laniado’s friends, the only time he forgot about his short height was when he asked his accountant to read out his bank statement, something which he did multiple times a day, it was reported.
A lot of other short guys are fine with it, despite social messaging that tells them they shouldn’t be, and don’t seek grotesque, never-satisfying ways to compensate. In this sense, he’s no different from other billionaires who got that way by seeking ever more compensatory grandiosity ( a la our current prez, who displays a similarly unquenchable insecurity).
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Rock Man Cock Plan Shock Op Flop.
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Well they do say money can’t buy happiness or love… but since so many rich people perpetuate the needless misery of poor people, I have no real problem with one of them being unhappy or dying off prematurely.
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Obviously it’s highly-likely he was insecure about his body, getting elective surgery. You’re also right that being a billionaire also requires a weird neediness.
But the fact they use the term “Napoleon Complex” instead of “bossy” or “insecure”, tells me everything I need to know about how they’re framing it. That’s like calling someone “shrill” instead of “pushy”. It’s what you call a short person who acts like they don’t know they’re supposed to act differently than taller people.
How tall was he? All this comes from unnamed “friends” who, in the wake of his death, run to a tabloid to spill that he only talked about his height, his life’s obsession.
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True, it’s a tabloidy piece, I think we’ve already established that.
This guy had a conflicting mix of characteristics, but I suppose any other overcompensating billionaire is also a complicated person. I do feel sorry for this guy at one level, but at another (given how thoroughly the billionaire class is screwing over the rest of us these days), um, not especially sympathetic.
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I’m sure the guy was a monster. Diamond-trade billionaire? Yuck.
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Hence my comment being a wild guess. I don’t actually know what his state of mind was nor, not to be callous, am I particularly interested it. I agree though that armchair diagnosis is a path we will not go down (or I will flag it). As for the Sun doing it, we’ve established that tabloid rag is yellow journalism.
I do feel sorry for someone who’s driven to this whatever the cause, even a monster. But on the other hand this person had all the resources in the world and there’s really no way to help a billionaire who doesn’t want help. Plus, I find the method of the passing of this unsympathetic man intrinsically funny. I wouldn’t crack jokes about it around anyone grieving for him, but here in an obscure internet forum where it’s extraordinarily unlikely people who knew him will read it, I shall alliterate my puns with a clean conscience. YMMV.
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Oh sure, no problem. I can totally see the humor.
It can be funny how insecure Trump gets about his small hands, but if that’s the only joke, yech. It can get weird.
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I do not feel especially sorry for him either. So what, your* John-Thomas is smaller than you’d like, you’ve got lips and a tongue and teeth, two hands and ten fingers, and if all that’s not enough, ten toes as well. Surely something can be done with all of that.
This gentleman’s biggest problem was his small imagination.
A generic “you” in this case, not you personally; I mean, how would I know?
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Clearly he never learned the lessons of Casanunda.
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Laniado’s company, Omega Diamonds, is notorious for facilitating human rights violations by selling “blood diamonds” from regions where slave labor and child labor are used to extract the resource from the ground. However, the company has managed to successfully fight lawsuits and formal charges in court. Omega was eventually forced to pay a $195 million settlement to keep their executives out of prison, which was the highest settlement of its kind in the country’s history.
Laniado was also a partner in Ascorp, the Angolan diamond monopoly controlled by Russian-Israeli billionaire Lev Leviev, who is a close friend of Vladimir Putin, according to Irish Times .
Not feeling too many tears.
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If he was insecure about his penis size before, karma says, “hold my beer”.
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So true. He wouldn’t even have had to read the books since there’s a creepy wikiHow that breaks it down.
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