Indeed, this picture is from the last year or so of his life when he was completely lost to mental illness. It looks goofy at first but is quite disturbing when you know the context behind it.
It's debated with no clear answer. Syphilis is one suggested reason. From what we know he was apparently just a sickly man in general, so it could have been a number of compounding things.
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wesker@lemmy.sdf.org · 38 pts · 308d
This picture of him is a sad one to use, because he was extremely deteriorated at this point.
wander1236@sh.itjust.works · 45 pts · 307d
Other pictures don't seem much less mustachey.
muffedtrims@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 307d
That's still pretty dang mustachey
some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 307d
I would even say mustachioey
ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com · 22 pts · 307d
Indeed, this picture is from the last year or so of his life when he was completely lost to mental illness. It looks goofy at first but is quite disturbing when you know the context behind it.
_stranger_@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 308d
I was going to say he looks like he made a bad deal with Ursula, but now I feel bad
shawn1122@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 307d
Syphilis?
wesker@lemmy.sdf.org · 2 pts · 307d
It's debated with no clear answer. Syphilis is one suggested reason. From what we know he was apparently just a sickly man in general, so it could have been a number of compounding things.
Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone · 25 pts · 308d
So glad we’re out of the obligatory mustache era.
blave@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 308d
True, although I think it’s great that beards have made a comeback
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 307d
nah i could probably rock one of these if i ate with a straw
rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 307d
Every time I have chicken soup, there's never any chicken bits in it
*Harrumphs and blows out his mustache, showering the locality in chicken globs*
fsociety@sopuli.xyz · 11 pts · 308d
Mama says Friedrich Nietzsche was ornery cuz he got all them mustache hairs and no mustache comb.
rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 307d
He doesn't need to eat in the standard manner, he can just strain krill out of the ocean like a whale.
AngularViscosity@piefed.social · 9 pts · 307d
Everything I eat tastes like the last thing I ate.
PrimeMinisterKeyes@leminal.space · 3 pts · 307d
In this case, everything you eat tastes like the first thing you ate.
rumschlumpel@feddit.org · 9 pts · 308d
If your beard looks like that, it's probably quite flavorful.
But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 307d
How do you even kiss that man?
Arello@sopuli.xyz · 6 pts · 307d
Great philosophers don't get kissed, silly. (Actually Nietzsche himself likely said something like that.)
danekrae@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 307d
I could probably grow a mustache like that, but I think my chances of getting kissed are low enough as it is.
Jax@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 307d
Something tells me philosophers are typically not too concerned with attracting sexual partners.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 307d
women flock to them like flies on poop though. maybe i should have studied brain studies when i was in the schools.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social · 3 pts · 307d
Nietzsche had a sister complex.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 307d
Nietzsche if brought to 2025: "So tell me about this phenomenon you call 'anime'"
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 307d
very [ee]nteresting.
frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 307d
What does not kill you makes you stronger. Chew that hair.
MrSulu@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 307d
Nietzsche appears to have evolved independently to fill the same environmental niche as Dr Zoidberg.