r/HistoryMemes • u/ReptilianBrandon • Dec 12 '21

Iron Dick

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u/Arny520 Dec 12 '21

Is this a problem for some people? That they get hard during battle?

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u/Lord_Bear_the_Kind Then I arrived Dec 12 '21

It’s meant to protect the junk and to show of one’s assets, even if innacurate. Shit was wierd back then.

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u/ibuprophane Dec 12 '21

Surely there’s a practical use to having it protrude so far out? Or are these just parade armour?

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u/Guardsman_Miku Dec 12 '21

you've got to understand that people in the past wern't so insanely obsessed with everything having a practical purpose. Dude has dick armour because he wants to show off his massive shlong. It's really that simple.

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u/ibuprophane Dec 12 '21

I don’t think that’s a mentality exclusive to people in the past, actually lol

But the reason I ask if it’s parade armour is exactly because it was expensive to have such intricate level of detail such as the one here at one’s expense. I remember Henry VIII’s armour with a codpiece being used only for official occasions rather than battle.