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Donator — Female Posted 7 years ago ( 2018/05/11 17:46:44 )



@Another Movie Addict: yup.
And IIRC the bearded lady was like 10 or something.
Assuming what I've read is accurate of course.

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Donator — 0% Edible Posted 7 years ago ( 2018/05/11 17:50:01 )

@Lady Luna: In many cases most of his 'bearded ladies' were just really femmy fat dudes pretending to be ladies.

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Donator — Female Posted 7 years ago ( 2018/05/11 18:09:46 )



@Another Movie Addict: XD True.
And he was one hell of a scam artist.

Again, if what i read was accurate. XD

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Donator — 0% Edible Posted 7 years ago ( 2018/05/11 18:12:29 )

@Lady Luna: Oh he was, but supposedly he was pretty open about his show being a scam. Like when the stone giant thing happened, he tried to buy the original knowing it was a hoax. But when the owner of the original stone giant said no, he just went a built his own. Even bigger. Was upfront about it being fake. He was still a massive piece of shit though. Pretty racist too.

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Donator — Female Posted 7 years ago ( 2018/05/11 18:16:57 )



@Another Movie Addict: Sadly, that's unsurprising considering the era he was alive in.

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Donator — 0% Edible Posted 7 years ago ( 2018/05/11 18:25:31 )

@Lady Luna: According to a documentary I watched a month ago, Tom Thumb I believe was his stage name (one of the little folk) actually died richer than Barnum though. And that they're buried pretty damn close to each other.

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Donator — Female Posted 7 years ago ( 2018/05/11 18:26:47 )



@Another Movie Addict: That's.... actually that's pretty cool. lol

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Donator — 0% Edible Posted 7 years ago ( 2018/05/11 18:29:08 )

@Lady Luna: The 'freak' lives are waaaaaaaaaaay more fascinating than Barnum's. Like Tom Thumb met his future wife doing Barnum's show, even though they were billed as siblings. Back then freaks had to be related, because you know that shit can't be widespread!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CShh8uAXZg0


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Donator — Female Posted 7 years ago ( 2018/05/11 18:32:51 )



@Another Movie Addict: At least their lives weren't absolute hell, really.

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Donator — 0% Edible Posted 7 years ago ( 2018/05/11 18:33:24 )

@Lady Luna: Some were, but a few of them got pretty damn wealthy exploiting people's prejudices XD.

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Donator — Female Posted 7 years ago ( 2018/05/11 18:35:18 )



@Another Movie Addict: XD I meant overall.
But true.

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Donator — 0% Edible Posted 7 years ago ( 2018/05/11 18:36:38 )

@Lady Luna: I really wish that the movie had been more about them.

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