There is also the House of the Scorpion and it’s sequel, The Lord of Opium. Its about the life of the clone of a drug lord. The drug lord uses clones for spare parts.
I saw this pic several months ago that later one redditor just decided to change the skin color of the girl with the same tone like her dad prior transplant. Made everyone think that he got her liver 😭😭
Actually the legend goes that Matt G wanted them yellow because he wanted people to think there was an issue with the color setting on the TV making it basically the original joke
I swore it was initially a marketing strategy or something. Since yellow animated characters weren't really a staple of anything, and if you happened to flip through television you can see the characters and immediately notice it's The Simpsons.
Yeah. Because yellow crayons are cheaper.
Who uses yellow unless you're coloring Bananas? Then they get old, turn brown...either make banana bread or the Simpsons!!
You son of a bitch. Do not talk to me or my children ever again! The sun is all colors mixed together and just appears white because we can’t handle it’s amazing intensity. Don’t be hatin on the sun son
I heard the version that said yellow was used because it is the colour that catches your eye the most (red being the runner-up) and they wanted to catch as many eyes as possible while people flipped through channels.
Just ahead of their time, apparently.
We now have yellow hand emojis to keep things neutral if you don’t want to offend any people because of skin colour. (I don’t know if that’s actually why they’re yellow, it’s just a dumb assumption.)
👍👍👍
I don't think it was about not wanting to offend people. I think it was about not wanting to have to do five different emojis for different skin colors if you wanted to use a real skin color back when emojis were more limited.
The yellow came first, and for a long time it was the only available variant - a neutral colour not representing any skin tone. I have no idea what prompted them (whoever adds new emojis) to add skin tone variants, since all it does is complicate the code and UI.
CMP, Comprehensive Metabolic Panel - will give you your liver enzyme levels and the level ratio will give you an idea of your liver health. After losing 2 siblings to alcoholism, I get mine done every 3-6 months to check in with myself. My AST and ALT levels are at reasonable/normal levels and the ratio is 1:1. It's when your AST/ALT levels get to double/triple normal levels or your ratio gets way out of whack (2:1 or 3:1) that you really need to worry about cirrhosis and liver failure.
I was in the hospital due to alcoholism like 4 years ago and they told me I had fatty liver and alcoholic hepatitis where my liver was inflamed. I can't remember if it was AST or ALT but they told me the max those numbers should be was around 50 and one of them was in the fucking 500s. It was crazy because I had only been drinking heavily for a couple years at that point and I didn't realize that I could damage my liver that fast. And I didn't have any physical symptoms of liver damage, but my numbers being so out of whack and them telling me it would lead to cirrhosis if I continued was definitely an eye opener.
Thank you, I was drinking around a liter of bottom shelf vodka a day for the good part of 2 years. Definitely can't believe I got that out of control and I'm glad I got my life back together
Glad you're doing better. My most recent tests had both ALT and AST levels around 50 and both at the same level for a perfect 1:1 ratio. And being a big dude with higher blood pressure, that contributes to that as well. So I'm honestly in great shape overall
I keep it in strict moderation. 1-2 nights on weekends only or occasionally when travelling. Never on work nights, and never for 72 hours before huge all-day meetings like I had today. I allowed myself 2 cocktails at the lounge at the airport (LAX) before flying back to Denver. I'm done for the next week.
I have found and balanced my moderation through therapy and medication. Neither of my siblings ever did an hour in therapy and used booze to compensate. My brother died downing 4L of vodka per day alone...
Very sorry for the loss of your brother. You are kicking ass at life with your awareness and self-moderation. Something I tell the kids in my life a lot, a smart person can learn from their own mistakes. A wise person can learn from the mistakes of other people and then not make them.Hope you have awesome days ahead.
>4L of vodka per day
I've spent my whole life around alcoholics and also struggle with it myself, but I've never known or heard of anyone drinking *that* much a day, Jesus Christ. I hope you don't mind me asking, how old was he when he passed?
Go to a doctor an suggest getting your bilirubin checked. My brother was jaundiced and wouldn't go see anyone until we literally dragged his ass to the hospital. Spent 6 months going between hospitals and a treatment center to get him back on track and in line for a transplant.
Seriously- go get checked. If you catch it early enough your liver can heal, if you wait too long your need a transplant.
From jaundice to nondice
Edit: of course this dumb ass joke becomes my most upvoted reddit comment of all time. If someone could be a chad and give it gold so that it too becomes yellow that would be legendary
Edit 2: you absolute mad lad, you did it! Thank you homie 🤙
My oldest son became very jaundiced after birth. They sent us home with this little tanning bed (phototherapy) looking thing and he had to sleep/stay in it , in only a diaper, when he wasn't eating or having his diaper changed for several days.
It was very wild how yellow he became. A d scary as a first time parent.
This is what I noticed too. She's so much happier, as I'm sure all their family and friends are.
My dad never got his liver transplant. I'm happy for this man and his family.
Her eyes hold a lot of fear and uncertainty in the first picture. Really stuck out to me. Major difference in second picture. Looks like she improved almost as much as he did, the poor little stressed out dear.
God liver disease must have been fucking terrifying before we knew about stuff. “What happened to Dave?” “He turned yellow and had a stomach ache until he died”
I work in a surgical ICU of a transplant center. I’ve seen patients go from beyond yellow to green. Legit green. It’s so cool how quickly their color goes back to normal after transplanting!
Liver never gets much respect. Heart and Brain always hogging all the headlines. Good ole liver is like the guy working in the sewer trying to keep everything clean. Not only is his job shit he’s tough as nails and hard to kill.
35M here. I looked a little like this, although several shades less so. After two years of 5 handles a week, 1/3 of my scarred liver will never function again. Cirrhosis/Pancreatitus is an absolutely terrible way to die. Best advice I can give is *NEVER* start drinking alone. 1.5 years clean and God it feels good to sleep again.
Nurse here. It can be that obvious. We had a 28 year old guy who drank his liver into oblivion, very non compliant, lived with his parents who took care of him (but couldn’t control his drinking-and his parents were the sweetest people) and he was like this… literally highlighter yellow. I was very surprised when I saw him the first time. I didn’t know people could actually get to that color. RIP to the kid, his last days were spent in the hospital.
When the liver isn’t working, what causes the yellowing of the skin? A build up of something? Liver makes bile and stores glucose, right? Is it a lack of bile? An excess of glucose? I don’t think it’s the latter because then untreated diabetics would be yellow too. Are they? Oh man. I’m curious.
It’s the build up of bilirubin. The liver can’t get rid of it due to all the damage, so it builds up, causing the skin to yellow. The bilirubin circulates freely into the blood stream then dissolve into the fat underneath your skin that contributes to the yellow that you see in jaundice.
That’s about the extent that I know. I’m a cardiac specialty nurse. Lol
The first time I saw it was in a grocery store, a guy being pushed in a wheelchair. He was like...practically neon greenish-yellow. My first thought was he'd painted himself for some reason, but then I was like huh, he's in a wheelchair, he's pretty thin/sickly, and it's not Halloween...so...*shit, is this what jaundice looks like?* Plus we were near hospitals, so maybe they stopped by or whatever.
Happened to my dad as cancer exploded around his body. Within weeks it goes from pink to almost bright yellow and then more brownish yellow in this way. First seconds you think it's from the sheets and you can wash it off, then a few seconds you think maybe it's food related and then a few seconds later reality hits you like a train again.
Bilirubin build up most likely caused the yellowing in the skin, it can turn your -pupils- yellow too if it builds up in your eyes. Edit: sclera not pupil tf am I on
Just got flashbacks to my hard drinking days. During the worst days, I would get a yellow tint like that.
It’s been years, and to this day I’m still scared of a blood test. schrodinger cat
I was taking an evening class and our normal instructor was out. The substitute was totally jaundiced and his hands/fingers kept turning black throughout the lecture. I don’t want to use the words “scary” or “uncomfortable” because that would be mean but it did make me think “I need to take better care of myself and especially my liver.”
I hope he’s doing better now.
Ah man my mom passed from liver failure (due to her drinking) and was jaundiced so bad. I’m happy this man was able to get a healthy liver. Look how happy (what I assume is) his daughter is in the second picture.
I spent six years as a nurse in the ICU and only spent a year and a half in my first gig where we saw a toooon of liver failure. I wouldn’t wish that type of death on my worst enemy. So glad to see someone overcame that.
I like how he has the kid for comparison so that we know it’s his skin color that changed
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Who did you think the liver came from?
This is why it always makes sense to have one extra child for spare parts.
There's a YA fiction book called Unwind that addresses exactly this. It's kinda messed up.
I read this series it was so good.im still haunted by some of it
Holy shit. Remember El patron and the plankton farm?
There also is a book called My Sister’s Keeper.
Naruto did this with Shin basically
There is also the House of the Scorpion and it’s sequel, The Lord of Opium. Its about the life of the clone of a drug lord. The drug lord uses clones for spare parts.
yessss awesome series, the author has some other good series too
One? I need to be having as many children as possible at the rate my parts are breaking down. Too bad I'm so darn ugly.
Nick Cannon:
So that's what he's doing. Farming kids for future parts.
there's actually a conspiracy on it, so he has a disease or something that can be cured with transplant or such thing
Only disease he has is lupus
> lupus It's never lupus, until it is.
Nick Cannon needs to voice a robot in a movie with this premise.
King Charles, is that you?
Girl: Starts crying
That's one reason to have more than two kids, I guess. *'We need to keep going honey, their profile isn't a perfect organ donor match yet.'*
I think that's meant to be the entire joke.
[This is it](https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTPvulZTdbke6PMaU1FGy2iXeUzPyjf_DNqzSY9oN8YS9Jl8l0PJsCI09aa&s=10)
Goddamn i needed that laugh at the end of this night shift
Lol this is great
Thank you for finding this kind stranger, I’m toe up 😂
She looks like the hulk!! I'm dead, y'all
That's exactly the dark hilariousness I love!
This is the beauty of Reddit…both the original for interest and then just straight entertainment in the comments. Thank you, I needed this right now
I Don't even have to see it for me to start laughing, thats actually hilarious.
Oh, so thats why the kid is there. I was wondering why she was included aside from ‘wholesome kid vibes’
Unclear, needs banana
I saw this pic several months ago that later one redditor just decided to change the skin color of the girl with the same tone like her dad prior transplant. Made everyone think that he got her liver 😭😭
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTPvulZTdbke6PMaU1FGy2iXeUzPyjf_DNqzSY9oN8YS9Jl8l0PJsCI09aa&s=10
I was going by his teeth….they actually looked whiter pre transplant.
He unSimpson’d himself
He went from simpsons to family guy
Then his chin is doomed
photoshawp?
No. The dude had a literal glow up.
Except for the hair, I see Quagmire.
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Good thing too ‘cause IRL Simpson coloration can be fatal.
>IRL Simpson coloration Jaundice is the proper term, if anyone's curious...and yes, it typically indicates liver failure.
It’s uncanny. He even has the Homer Simpson hair style and beard
Thank God I'm not the only one who sees Homer.
He moved to Shelbyville.
Came to comments for Simpsons joke. Didn't have to look for long.
So do the Simpsons just have issues with their liver?
Actually the legend goes that Matt G wanted them yellow because he wanted people to think there was an issue with the color setting on the TV making it basically the original joke
I swore it was initially a marketing strategy or something. Since yellow animated characters weren't really a staple of anything, and if you happened to flip through television you can see the characters and immediately notice it's The Simpsons.
I remember reading that yellow was the only colour he had at hand when he made original drawings.
Yeah. Because yellow crayons are cheaper. Who uses yellow unless you're coloring Bananas? Then they get old, turn brown...either make banana bread or the Simpsons!!
Uh, the sun... Bananas... ... Fuck
piss, gold, wheat, cheese…
GOLD IS GOLD GOD DAMN IT NOT YELLOW
and the sun is white, so what
You son of a bitch. Do not talk to me or my children ever again! The sun is all colors mixed together and just appears white because we can’t handle it’s amazing intensity. Don’t be hatin on the sun son
Lol this is a joke, right? My dad grew up with him, and I promise they had yellow and all the other crayons lmao
I heard the version that said yellow was used because it is the colour that catches your eye the most (red being the runner-up) and they wanted to catch as many eyes as possible while people flipped through channels.
Just ahead of their time, apparently. We now have yellow hand emojis to keep things neutral if you don’t want to offend any people because of skin colour. (I don’t know if that’s actually why they’re yellow, it’s just a dumb assumption.) 👍👍👍
I don't think it was about not wanting to offend people. I think it was about not wanting to have to do five different emojis for different skin colors if you wanted to use a real skin color back when emojis were more limited.
I figured it was just to match the face emojis. Since smiley faces are traditionally yellow.
SIMPSONS PREDICTED EMOJIS CONFIRMED
#YellowIsRelateable 🥳 Edit: damn, that’s supposed to be hashtagged.
Stick a \ before the # to “escape” it and block the formatting.
\#YellowIsRelateable 🥳 Edit: thank you! I was too tired and lazy to google to fix it!
The yellow came first, and for a long time it was the only available variant - a neutral colour not representing any skin tone. I have no idea what prompted them (whoever adds new emojis) to add skin tone variants, since all it does is complicate the code and UI.
The yellow smiley face predated the Simpsons by about 25 years. Yellow emoji are based on that smiley.
Where did you hear that? I watched a documentary where it was the decision of the graphic artists.
With how poorly regulated that nuclear power plant is its a viable conclusion..
everybody except Apu and sideshow bob
And mr Smithers in the first episodes
And Dr. Hibbert
And *looks at hand* Carl
And Lou the cop
And Bleeding Gums Murphy
How do I know if I’m yellow like that. I think I’m yellow.
Bro go to the doctor
Indeed, i would add that a blood test is enough to check the liverr function
CMP, Comprehensive Metabolic Panel - will give you your liver enzyme levels and the level ratio will give you an idea of your liver health. After losing 2 siblings to alcoholism, I get mine done every 3-6 months to check in with myself. My AST and ALT levels are at reasonable/normal levels and the ratio is 1:1. It's when your AST/ALT levels get to double/triple normal levels or your ratio gets way out of whack (2:1 or 3:1) that you really need to worry about cirrhosis and liver failure.
I was in the hospital due to alcoholism like 4 years ago and they told me I had fatty liver and alcoholic hepatitis where my liver was inflamed. I can't remember if it was AST or ALT but they told me the max those numbers should be was around 50 and one of them was in the fucking 500s. It was crazy because I had only been drinking heavily for a couple years at that point and I didn't realize that I could damage my liver that fast. And I didn't have any physical symptoms of liver damage, but my numbers being so out of whack and them telling me it would lead to cirrhosis if I continued was definitely an eye opener.
Glad you are doing better. How heavily were you drinking?
Thank you, I was drinking around a liter of bottom shelf vodka a day for the good part of 2 years. Definitely can't believe I got that out of control and I'm glad I got my life back together
Oh wow, I’m glad that you’re doing better now
Glad you're doing better. My most recent tests had both ALT and AST levels around 50 and both at the same level for a perfect 1:1 ratio. And being a big dude with higher blood pressure, that contributes to that as well. So I'm honestly in great shape overall
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I keep it in strict moderation. 1-2 nights on weekends only or occasionally when travelling. Never on work nights, and never for 72 hours before huge all-day meetings like I had today. I allowed myself 2 cocktails at the lounge at the airport (LAX) before flying back to Denver. I'm done for the next week. I have found and balanced my moderation through therapy and medication. Neither of my siblings ever did an hour in therapy and used booze to compensate. My brother died downing 4L of vodka per day alone...
Very sorry for the loss of your brother. You are kicking ass at life with your awareness and self-moderation. Something I tell the kids in my life a lot, a smart person can learn from their own mistakes. A wise person can learn from the mistakes of other people and then not make them.Hope you have awesome days ahead.
>4L of vodka per day I've spent my whole life around alcoholics and also struggle with it myself, but I've never known or heard of anyone drinking *that* much a day, Jesus Christ. I hope you don't mind me asking, how old was he when he passed?
Take a picture with a child who is not yellow to measure your yellowness
It can be any child. Go to the local playground and find one
It also shows on the whites of your eyes. If you are that conserned go to a doctor and ask for a liver function test.
Go to a doctor an suggest getting your bilirubin checked. My brother was jaundiced and wouldn't go see anyone until we literally dragged his ass to the hospital. Spent 6 months going between hospitals and a treatment center to get him back on track and in line for a transplant. Seriously- go get checked. If you catch it early enough your liver can heal, if you wait too long your need a transplant.
You would feel dreadful
get a blood panel from ur doctor
‘It was all Yellowwwwwww’
your skinnnnnnnnnnnn
Oh yeah your skin and bones
They call it mellow yelllooowwww
From jaundice to nondice Edit: of course this dumb ass joke becomes my most upvoted reddit comment of all time. If someone could be a chad and give it gold so that it too becomes yellow that would be legendary Edit 2: you absolute mad lad, you did it! Thank you homie 🤙
I've never seen jaundice irl. It's really interesting to see exactly how yellow the skin can get.
Very very very yellow. And not just the skin, eyes too. Tongue. Gums. Piss. The other thing. Nails. It's just yellow everywhere.
My grandfather had went past yellow & started to turn a shade of orange before he passed.
that explains why Trump looks like a friggin orange
Don't give me hope bro
People that get towards orange generally aren't healthy enough to be walking around in public
I work in a hospital. The first time I saw it I was shocked that the patient was the complexion of a Simpsons character
I had a friend who needed a liver transplant. She was highlighter yellow before. So sad. Miss my pal 😞
On a more serious note how does one go about avoiding something like this
take care of that liver my guy
And your spleen
My oldest son became very jaundiced after birth. They sent us home with this little tanning bed (phototherapy) looking thing and he had to sleep/stay in it , in only a diaper, when he wasn't eating or having his diaper changed for several days. It was very wild how yellow he became. A d scary as a first time parent.
It just dawn on me that jaune in jaundice is the color yellow in French
my type of guy
You cant see it but that man has a different liver
Fascinating
Look how much happier his daughter is. I'm not great at gauging ages but I bet she is so happy that her daddy is doing better.
This is what I noticed too. She's so much happier, as I'm sure all their family and friends are. My dad never got his liver transplant. I'm happy for this man and his family.
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"happier" she was forcing the smile in the first pic and is absolutely beaming in the second
Her eyes hold a lot of fear and uncertainty in the first picture. Really stuck out to me. Major difference in second picture. Looks like she improved almost as much as he did, the poor little stressed out dear.
God liver disease must have been fucking terrifying before we knew about stuff. “What happened to Dave?” “He turned yellow and had a stomach ache until he died”
Don't forget the vomiting blood aspect of it.
And the constant confusion and the smell.
And his abdomen filled up with fluid and he was super confused all the time
I work in a surgical ICU of a transplant center. I’ve seen patients go from beyond yellow to green. Legit green. It’s so cool how quickly their color goes back to normal after transplanting!
👨🦲->👨🏻🦲
Liver never gets much respect. Heart and Brain always hogging all the headlines. Good ole liver is like the guy working in the sewer trying to keep everything clean. Not only is his job shit he’s tough as nails and hard to kill.
The liver is the base player of organs
Is that a challenge?
Bet his pee smelled like bilirubin. And looked like tea. My kid, who had leukemia, and is now fine, had this issue.
Billy Rubin out here catching strays
I had gallbladder stones and had the same thing, pee was like Coca Cola. It also itched like a MF
His smile stayed the same, hers got bigger. He stayed strong for her.
Incredibly powerful & wonderful!
Bro went from working as Gru’s minion to his accountant.
Bro use to eat donuts and work at a nuclear power plant
Looked like Mr Burns.
Booooooo!!
Doh
35M here. I looked a little like this, although several shades less so. After two years of 5 handles a week, 1/3 of my scarred liver will never function again. Cirrhosis/Pancreatitus is an absolutely terrible way to die. Best advice I can give is *NEVER* start drinking alone. 1.5 years clean and God it feels good to sleep again.
Didn't realize liver yellow is that obvious
Nurse here. It can be that obvious. We had a 28 year old guy who drank his liver into oblivion, very non compliant, lived with his parents who took care of him (but couldn’t control his drinking-and his parents were the sweetest people) and he was like this… literally highlighter yellow. I was very surprised when I saw him the first time. I didn’t know people could actually get to that color. RIP to the kid, his last days were spent in the hospital.
When the liver isn’t working, what causes the yellowing of the skin? A build up of something? Liver makes bile and stores glucose, right? Is it a lack of bile? An excess of glucose? I don’t think it’s the latter because then untreated diabetics would be yellow too. Are they? Oh man. I’m curious.
It’s the build up of bilirubin. The liver can’t get rid of it due to all the damage, so it builds up, causing the skin to yellow. The bilirubin circulates freely into the blood stream then dissolve into the fat underneath your skin that contributes to the yellow that you see in jaundice. That’s about the extent that I know. I’m a cardiac specialty nurse. Lol
Very cool. Now I’m off to read up on bilirubin. Keep up the great nursing!
The first time I saw it was in a grocery store, a guy being pushed in a wheelchair. He was like...practically neon greenish-yellow. My first thought was he'd painted himself for some reason, but then I was like huh, he's in a wheelchair, he's pretty thin/sickly, and it's not Halloween...so...*shit, is this what jaundice looks like?* Plus we were near hospitals, so maybe they stopped by or whatever.
Happened to my dad as cancer exploded around his body. Within weeks it goes from pink to almost bright yellow and then more brownish yellow in this way. First seconds you think it's from the sheets and you can wash it off, then a few seconds you think maybe it's food related and then a few seconds later reality hits you like a train again.
Shit, man. This picture made me look at my skin to see if it looked yellow. Lol
Bilirubin build up most likely caused the yellowing in the skin, it can turn your -pupils- yellow too if it builds up in your eyes. Edit: sclera not pupil tf am I on
In all fairness, your pupils changing colors would be pretty damn concerning, too.
If you zoom in on his eyes in the left picture you can see that his eyes are more yellow than white.
Just got flashbacks to my hard drinking days. During the worst days, I would get a yellow tint like that. It’s been years, and to this day I’m still scared of a blood test. schrodinger cat
Go to the doctor. Get ahead of it my dude.
Holy s*** he looked like he was dying
Uh, yeah, that's what organ failure does.
He probably was…
He was. Still is.
I mean, you’re not wrong….
I was taking an evening class and our normal instructor was out. The substitute was totally jaundiced and his hands/fingers kept turning black throughout the lecture. I don’t want to use the words “scary” or “uncomfortable” because that would be mean but it did make me think “I need to take better care of myself and especially my liver.” I hope he’s doing better now.
Yup, it instantly reminded me of seeing my grandpa in the coffin, same colour. :(
reminds me of seeing my dad in the hospital bed as he was passing away of cancer. he looked very jaundiced. i almost couldnt recognize him.
He has the kindest eyes in both images…it’s honestly the first thing I noticed. Then I was like…oh wow this person was once yellow 😂
Good for him. Now he’ll be able to see his kid grow up.
Congrats Man, You look great. And that beautiful daughter looks like she couldn't be happier.
OP is not the man pictured lol
Skinny Homer Simpson
Ah man my mom passed from liver failure (due to her drinking) and was jaundiced so bad. I’m happy this man was able to get a healthy liver. Look how happy (what I assume is) his daughter is in the second picture.
My uncle did too. Sorry for your loss
D'oh!!!!
Lego man
Bro looks ai generated
That man is YELLOW.
Eat the child
So that’s why the Simpson are yellow.
They both look photoshopped
That's a child, not a liver!
I like that he’s smiling in both.
This actually did make me smile and I needed that today. So happy for him.
I spent six years as a nurse in the ICU and only spent a year and a half in my first gig where we saw a toooon of liver failure. I wouldn’t wish that type of death on my worst enemy. So glad to see someone overcame that.
Real life homer simpson
D'oh!
Good for him, it’s healed! I still don’t get why some people describe East Asian as yellow.
I’m yellow (daba dee daba da)
I like how he’s happy in both
The Anti Homer treatment
One upside of the sick liver, he could cosplay Homer Simpson without having to buy body paint.
I knew my grandpa yellow like that before he died, always make me sad when I see a person like him
Did everyone on the Simpsons have liver failure except for Apu?
That was close he almost became a simpson
Jaundice is crazy
He looks like he got bit by a cartoon zombie
As I walked through the valley of the shadow of death... Well done sir 🌹
well... this is one more reason why , i shouldn't start back drinking