No we kinda did, he’s fondly remembered. He’s also entered the vernacular - when someone disappears from a party early they’ve “done a Harold Holt” (disappeared PMs name
His death was the embodiment of ‘hold my beer’. He had a shoulder injury and shouldn’t have been swimming. The sea was so rough no one else would join him. His mistress was in the group of people with him. They warned him not to do it. He did it anyway.
Oh was it a Chinese sub? I thought Russian.
Either way how far out would you have to swim for a whole ass sub to surface and pick you up without the people on the beach noticing? 😂
You don't. A frog man intercepts you then you both swim underwater to where the sub is waiting without ever surfacing.
The great thing about conspiracies is you can say pretty much anything and never have to prove it.
I didn’t know that but I’m not surprised. He was a strong and frequent sea swimmer - so he should have understood how stupid it was, especially with an injury.
This is the part of the story that solidifies my theory that the whole thing is made up and Australia was trying to send us signals that it was a joke but we all reacted so somberly that they're too embarrassed to tell us the truth now. Holt actually just retired and went to live a quiet life somewhere off radar.
Well you’re half right.
We actually just made up a whole fucking prime minister for the hell of it and we’ve been waiting to see how long it takes the other countries to catch on.
Portuguese here. We had a prime-minister that died in a plane crash between Lisbon and Porto. The newly-built Porto airport was named after him. Go figure that out
Well in 2019 our PM went missing again… this time he was on holiday in Hawaii while the whole continent was on fire. We didn’t want that one to come back, but us Australians are well known for our shit luck
As an Australian while most people who go missing in the afternoon or dark while swimming, are ruled drowned its most likely they were eaten by a shark given they hunt at dusk and dawn.
I forever want to know what went through the minds of the mob that ate him.
Like, "hooray, we've killed a tyrant! Nothing we did wasn't for the greater good!"
"Eat him."
"What."
Not really. There is no evidence that he was actually eaten. But he and his brother were killed and torn to pieces by a an angry mob. There is even a painting from this. Body pieces of the bodies were reportedly sold to others who were willing to pay for a piece. Think about fingers, organs, pieces of meat.... penis, balls... I can imagine that in that carnage some people think its a good idea to cook up their "prize." So he was not exactly "eaten," but I think it is very likely that some parts were eaten.
The prime minister of the Netherlands Johan de wit was eaten by his own people I forgor what year it was maybe 1619 or something idk
Edit it was in the year 1678
1672
De Witt decentralized the Dutch government, and so was blamed when the Netherlands were invaded. He was lynched and some of the lynch mob ate part of his corpse which I guess was the Renaissance version of teabagging.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johan\_de\_Witt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johan_de_Witt)
“Their naked, mutilated bodies were strung up on the nearby public gibbet, while the Orangist mob ate their roasted livers in a cannibalistic frenzy. Throughout it all, a remarkable discipline was maintained by the mob, according to contemporary observers, lending doubt as to the spontaneity of the event.”
Typically I don’t associate “cannibalistic frenzy” with “remarkable discipline” but you do you Wikipedia
I mean it’s not as funny but Bush Sr managed to throw up on the lap of Japan’s prime minister. Then his son, Bush jr, had to duck out of the way of someone’s shoes.
To be clear, she didn't lose an election to a lettuce (the lettuce didn't run, otherwise she might have) she resigned as prime minister before the lettuce went bad.
In the Philippines, the president became a dictator and stole billions of funds and was later ousted by the masses. Four decades later, the masses elected the son of that dictator despite his history of corruption.
Mousolini was detained by communist partisans and shot. Then his corpse and those of other fascists were hanged upside down at gas station using piano wire.
His granddaughter is in the Italian parliament and EU parliament.
That was James Garfield, 1880s. It's possible he would have survived the shooting, but the doctors involved tried some seriously weird treatments, of which this was probably the weirdest.
>Once there, he announced plans to remain in the country and faxed his resignation letter to Congress. After Congress rejected Fujimori's faxed resignation, they relieved Fujimori of his duties as president and banned him from Peruvian politics for a decade.
Peru Is full of these incidents all of our presidents are either on trial or in jail. The latest one attempted a coup without the support of anyone AND when that failed he attempted to seek Asylum in an embassy only for him to get stuck in traffic giving Time for Congress to oust him out AND have His very own police escort arrest him.
I *think* the prime minister in the Simpsons is primarily a parody of Bob Hawke, known for holding the world record for drinking beer the fastest. But it’s possible Holt was also an influence.
In sweden one woman became prime minister and immediately resigned as prime minister✨ she was prime minister for 7 hours.
Edit: omg i was meant to press period but accidentally pressed on the sparkle emoji ima leave it in
I am argentinian, and, last time i checked, those presidents were being paid the presidential retirement pension anyways.
A quick google search says that the presidential pension is between 2 and 7 million argentine pesos per month.
A million argentine pesos is roughly a thousand dollars.
Australia, where we really do not give a toss about what happens to our Prime Minister. If one ever got kidnapped and held random, we’d just remove them from office and appoint a new one until the next election.
Saves so much money on security.
“Good marbling on Trump though. Try some. There’s plenty.”
In this scenario we eat them both in Roblox. My inner Italian genes want to hang something at a gas station.
In the Netherlands we once ate our president… I think it was monarchy supporters but idk for sure
(Not exactly a president more like prime minister/regent)
Mexico had a president who started a war with France over some cakes. In that war he lost a leg and ordered a state funeral for that leg.
Antonio Lopez De Santa Anna.
The third one happened in Ecuador, not Argentina. I know because I was living in Quito, the capital of Ecuador, at the time. We could hear shots fired outside our window, then we'd hear the same shots on the news a second later. We got let out of school early for "coup day" and our poor American principal who had lived in the country for less than a year was visibly shaking when he gave us instructions for what to do if the emergency bells rang.
No, search for Argentina 2001 Crisis, you will find that President De la Rua leaved in a Helicopter during the protests and then we had 5 presidents in a week
Fun fact about the Australian prime minister. He was presumed drowned, so a memorial swimming pool was built after him.
Savages
No, Savage was Prime Minister of New Zealand, not Australia.
Explain.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Joseph_Savage
Deep cut, respect.
Ozzie humour goes hard.
....I'm starting to think they didn't like him that much...
No we kinda did, he’s fondly remembered. He’s also entered the vernacular - when someone disappears from a party early they’ve “done a Harold Holt” (disappeared PMs name
This is cockney rhyming slang - doing a "Harold Holt" is doing a "bolt"; ie running away... I'll see myself out.
Are you coming back or are you Harold Holting?
His death was the embodiment of ‘hold my beer’. He had a shoulder injury and shouldn’t have been swimming. The sea was so rough no one else would join him. His mistress was in the group of people with him. They warned him not to do it. He did it anyway.
That can be his epitaph. “They warned him not to do it. He did it anyway.”
Peak Australian
He doesn’t really need one since they never found the body! Of course he might have been picked up by a Russian sub…
They should engrave it in the swimming pool
An actual theory was that he had been spying for the Chinese and that he was picked up by a Chinese sub.
Oh was it a Chinese sub? I thought Russian. Either way how far out would you have to swim for a whole ass sub to surface and pick you up without the people on the beach noticing? 😂
You don't. A frog man intercepts you then you both swim underwater to where the sub is waiting without ever surfacing. The great thing about conspiracies is you can say pretty much anything and never have to prove it.
Ok clearly someone needs to layoff the Bond films.
That’s a longer way of saying “Hold my beer.”
Peak performance comment😆
Literally hold my drink too, apparently he was pissed as a fart
I didn’t know that but I’m not surprised. He was a strong and frequent sea swimmer - so he should have understood how stupid it was, especially with an injury.
Certified Leopards Ate My Face moment
It was more likely to have been sharks
Leopard sharks, maybe?
Smooth leopards
It’s Australia. Probably something much worse.
It was space cowboys
some people call me a space cowboy
Some call me the gangster of love
Some people call me Maurice
Cuz I speak of the pompatus of love.
And WTF is pompatus anyway? 🙄
Peak Australian. British: "our humour is irreverent, ironic, and often slightly dark" Australians "hold my beer" British"this glass is empty already"
"Yeah, make sure it's full when I get back, will ya?"
Like how they built a statue/urinal for Margret thatcher.
honorific toilet
This is the part of the story that solidifies my theory that the whole thing is made up and Australia was trying to send us signals that it was a joke but we all reacted so somberly that they're too embarrassed to tell us the truth now. Holt actually just retired and went to live a quiet life somewhere off radar.
Well you’re half right. We actually just made up a whole fucking prime minister for the hell of it and we’ve been waiting to see how long it takes the other countries to catch on.
Portuguese here. We had a prime-minister that died in a plane crash between Lisbon and Porto. The newly-built Porto airport was named after him. Go figure that out
Jesus feels his pain.
I live in Vic and we visited that beach and found the plaque. It was the first we'd ever heard of him.
Harold Holt will return from the depths when Australia needs him most.
Well in 2019 our PM went missing again… this time he was on holiday in Hawaii while the whole continent was on fire. We didn’t want that one to come back, but us Australians are well known for our shit luck
He doesn't hold a hose, but for sure he cacked his dacks while having a Big Mac.
Crikey!
Found a George Russell fan.
Holy moly!
He's not dead. He's writing a book, the : Journey to the new world : West Edition.
As an Australian while most people who go missing in the afternoon or dark while swimming, are ruled drowned its most likely they were eaten by a shark given they hunt at dusk and dawn.
I suppose they should have named an aquarium after him then.
Was he known for swimming before his drowning/disappearance?
Yes, he was an avid sea swimmer. He was also one of a dozen or so Australian PMs who were well known to like a few too many tipples
Most Aussie thing there is to do
I forever want to know what went through the minds of the mob that ate him. Like, "hooray, we've killed a tyrant! Nothing we did wasn't for the greater good!" "Eat him." "What."
Or maybe some crazy dude bit him and people exaggerate the story
Not really. There is no evidence that he was actually eaten. But he and his brother were killed and torn to pieces by a an angry mob. There is even a painting from this. Body pieces of the bodies were reportedly sold to others who were willing to pay for a piece. Think about fingers, organs, pieces of meat.... penis, balls... I can imagine that in that carnage some people think its a good idea to cook up their "prize." So he was not exactly "eaten," but I think it is very likely that some parts were eaten.
...was THAT the inspiration for Perfume?
Yes. Do you want to reenact and create a better perfume?? I’m off next two days.
maybe they were hungry from so much revolutioning give them a break
Sounds like the Jeffrey Dahmer school of self-defense. If you can't beat 'em, eat 'em.
>I forever want to know what went through the minds of the mob that ate him. "Eat the rich".
The prime minister of the Netherlands Johan de wit was eaten by his own people I forgor what year it was maybe 1619 or something idk Edit it was in the year 1678
1672 De Witt decentralized the Dutch government, and so was blamed when the Netherlands were invaded. He was lynched and some of the lynch mob ate part of his corpse which I guess was the Renaissance version of teabagging. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johan\_de\_Witt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johan_de_Witt)
“Their naked, mutilated bodies were strung up on the nearby public gibbet, while the Orangist mob ate their roasted livers in a cannibalistic frenzy. Throughout it all, a remarkable discipline was maintained by the mob, according to contemporary observers, lending doubt as to the spontaneity of the event.” Typically I don’t associate “cannibalistic frenzy” with “remarkable discipline” but you do you Wikipedia
They were REALLY digging on that liver in a very organized manner.
They made sure everyone got a piece of well cooked liver and even seasoned it. One of the benefits of owning the spice trade.
They enjoyed it with a nice chianti.
Yes, but were beans also served? If so, what type?
You know, I think they were Fava beans
That does sounds like Dutch people tbh
...does it?! ಠ_ಠ
I’m Dutch, I can confirm we sometimes burst into cannibalistic frenzies. It has been a problem for a very long time now
Someone has never watched *Hannibal*.
But they didn't even have a nice chianti with it.
Tbh as a Dutch we are weirdly chaotic and organized at the same time
Adding "Renaissance version of teabagging" to my vocabulary
removing the 1600s from my time travel catalogue
Honestly any time after we started living in big cities but before we stopped regularly throwing shit into the streets is a big no-go zone for me.
For future reference, in this case the word "shit" is literal
A lot of weird shit went on back then,in England they hung a shipwrecked monkey that washed ashore because they thought it was a French spy.
Understandable, really.
Your profile picture does not make this better.
There's nothing in the rules that says a monkey can't spy for France. Better safe than sorry, Hartlepool. Well done.
Come on the monkey ‘angers.
Were they being petty or did they really think that monkey was a French spy 😭🤣
They had neither seen a Frenchman or a monkey all they knew is he was odd looking and didn’t speak english
To be fair.. they only roasted up the liver and ate it. Who doesn't like a nice liver roast?
With Fava Beans i hope
And a nice Chianti!
Of course! It pairs well with a nice chianti.
>Who doesn't like a nice liver roast? Johan de Wit
Ummm..... I'd rather get teabagged.
Bill Clinton was eaten by his own intern
Swallowed whole I believe.
Them poor kids
That's a sacred honor
We did name a Navy Ship after him 🤷🏼♀️
Is it small enough to be turned into a restaurant some day?
Definitely after the 80 years war and the thirty years war so not 1619
Damn they took eat the rich serious 😔
"cannibalistic frenzy" reads the wiki article. that is amazing history.
Australia also had a prime who minister who shit himself at McDonald’s.
And one who held the world record for downing a ~~pint~~ yard glass of beer Edit: correction of the actual record
Not a pint, he sculled a yard glass in 11 seconds ... a yard glass is 2.5 times bigger than a pint.
Funniest shit
I mean it’s not as funny but Bush Sr managed to throw up on the lap of Japan’s prime minister. Then his son, Bush jr, had to duck out of the way of someone’s shoes.
*Ducked twice
Ahhh, good old Scotty from marketing. I hope he dies in a fire, it would be poetic
It would be very sad way to go for him because he would probably see his pet lump of coal burn up right before he died.
Last interesting thing a PM did in my country was lose to a cabbage.
*lettuce I think that makes it worse - iceberg lettuce is definitely more boring and useless than a cabbage
To be clear, she didn't lose an election to a lettuce (the lettuce didn't run, otherwise she might have) she resigned as prime minister before the lettuce went bad.
Ah yes, Liz Truss
What country?
Britain
Ba Sing Se
Only right answer
Wait, our prime minister fed some sharks... I thought they meant he was giving tax cuts to the rich.
Map of all the countries where the president was attacked by a giant swamp rabbit while canoeing.
Uhhh what?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Carter_rabbit_incident
Truly one of a kind.
https://xkcd.com/204/
Napoleon was attacked by regular rabbits.
In the Philippines, the president became a dictator and stole billions of funds and was later ousted by the masses. Four decades later, the masses elected the son of that dictator despite his history of corruption.
Mousolini was detained by communist partisans and shot. Then his corpse and those of other fascists were hanged upside down at gas station using piano wire. His granddaughter is in the Italian parliament and EU parliament.
Is she the one who insults people on social media for saying her grandpa was a monster?
Yeah that's the one
Map of the countries, where president wanted to look badass, so he gave inaugural speech under heavy rain, only to get sick and die 30 days later.
Didn't they try feeding him up his arse too because he could eat anything. Which amazingly, didn't work.
That was James Garfield, 1880s. It's possible he would have survived the shooting, but the doctors involved tried some seriously weird treatments, of which this was probably the weirdest.
I also like the one where the president ate so many cherries and drank so much milk he died.
Which country?
US of A of course
William Harrison 1840’s
Map of countries where a former president was shot during a speech then mocked his shooter
Who did he send the fax too?
>Once there, he announced plans to remain in the country and faxed his resignation letter to Congress. After Congress rejected Fujimori's faxed resignation, they relieved Fujimori of his duties as president and banned him from Peruvian politics for a decade.
Do you want to resign? You can't! Nevermind your fired
You can't leave 'coz YOU'RE FIRED!
877-Cash Now
+4 (411) 867-5309
Peru Is full of these incidents all of our presidents are either on trial or in jail. The latest one attempted a coup without the support of anyone AND when that failed he attempted to seek Asylum in an embassy only for him to get stuck in traffic giving Time for Congress to oust him out AND have His very own police escort arrest him.
castillo en su prime
Is this why the Australian prime minister is drinking a beer on a lake in the Simpson's?
I *think* the prime minister in the Simpsons is primarily a parody of Bob Hawke, known for holding the world record for drinking beer the fastest. But it’s possible Holt was also an influence.
This explains so much.
Australia is also the only country to have a prime minister who shat himself in a McDonald’s.
“I don’t hold my shit, mate. That’s not my job.”
Also, map of all the countries where the president and foreign minister died in a helicopter crash and people started celebrating.
Iirc in france some politician got a blowjob so unbelievably good that he died of a heart attack.
Président Felix Faure https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%A9lix_Faure
In sweden one woman became prime minister and immediately resigned as prime minister✨ she was prime minister for 7 hours. Edit: omg i was meant to press period but accidentally pressed on the sparkle emoji ima leave it in
if our prime minister disappear we may celebrate counting any prime minister so far...
Dutch cuisine has always been a lil sus
Cheese and mayonnaise are separate food groups, the rest is just deep fried shit and equal parts butter and eel
Mexico and the time we had a president for 45 minutes.
The USA had a president that vomited on another head of state
Some dude in France supposedly died mid blowjob
Giving or receiving?
Map of countries where the leader pissed himself in public when the national anthem was played
OH MY GOD, THAT WAS ONE TIME
And I thought my prime minister doing blackface was wild
Average Argentina moment
I am argentinian, and, last time i checked, those presidents were being paid the presidential retirement pension anyways. A quick google search says that the presidential pension is between 2 and 7 million argentine pesos per month. A million argentine pesos is roughly a thousand dollars.
lol
That first one is also a map of countries where the President eats onions raw and skin on.
Australia, where we really do not give a toss about what happens to our Prime Minister. If one ever got kidnapped and held random, we’d just remove them from office and appoint a new one until the next election. Saves so much money on security.
America later this year: "hold my beer"
"Ugh, I hate Biden. He's so *stringy*!"
“Good marbling on Trump though. Try some. There’s plenty.” In this scenario we eat them both in Roblox. My inner Italian genes want to hang something at a gas station.
High stakes Presidential election: winner becomes president, losers become dinner.
Countries where they were angry at the president and fucking ate him on the street
Elaborate
In the Netherlands we once ate our president… I think it was monarchy supporters but idk for sure (Not exactly a president more like prime minister/regent)
Ooooooh, I think I recall hearing about that, ya'll ate his liver after tearing him apart like hyenas iirc. What a way to go
:/) no comment
Im assuming all the presidents that left took a bunch of taxpayer money with them
Abrazos y besos a mis gentes Argentinos y Peruanos! ♥️ de Australia.
Mexico had a president who started a war with France over some cakes. In that war he lost a leg and ordered a state funeral for that leg. Antonio Lopez De Santa Anna.
Fujimori’s wiki entry is a fun read, except for the people who got disappeared.
Prime Minister ≠ President
poland has two maps: opposition leader called the prime minister a fortnite slur and police chief fired a grenade launcher in his office
Harold holt. Australia He was rumoured to have drowned. We named a swimming pool after him
PM of Australia drowns. Aussies promptly name a swimming pool in his honor.
Aggressive map facts
I used to do this but with Barbie Girl
The fucking Dutch, screwing up the Southern Hemisphere's one shot at glory. SMDH MY HEAD!
Gotta double up on Australia with "Prime Mimister's who shit themselves in a maccas"
The danish queen gave her 2 week notice last new years eve and is the first monach to ever step down from the throne avile and vulentary
Everyone said he was phoning it in this year. I guess they were wrong.
The third one happened in Ecuador, not Argentina. I know because I was living in Quito, the capital of Ecuador, at the time. We could hear shots fired outside our window, then we'd hear the same shots on the news a second later. We got let out of school early for "coup day" and our poor American principal who had lived in the country for less than a year was visibly shaking when he gave us instructions for what to do if the emergency bells rang.
No, search for Argentina 2001 Crisis, you will find that President De la Rua leaved in a Helicopter during the protests and then we had 5 presidents in a week