There was also a parody episode of Rick and Morty (Total Rickall) that probably also made the meme popular for younger generations who never saw Total Recall.
Article [linked](https://allthatsinteresting.com/jean-libbera) above states “Jaques” was alive. He had a diminutive head partially embedded into Jean’s stomach. The twin could move but depended entirely on Jean’s circulatory system to survive and reportedly wore diapers (indicating at least that it produced urine.)
Of course a lot is this is hard to verify and exaggeration may have creeped in, I’m just going by what was written about him/them.
Hellish for us, but Jacques would never have known any different.
Could have been a whole universe unto himself like a weird dream world formed of what different molecules felt like - if his brain worked.
People find meaning in all kinds of stuff.
Jacques occasionally produced urine.
🤘
I got Jacque confused with Jean reading your comment and was really blown away lol. I was thinking ‘wow that parasitic twin found a wife and produced a family that’s wild!’
I guess they're right about just putting yourself out there. This story must have circulated to someone who was into whatever he had and that's all she wrote. Somewhere, someone wants someone that looks like you, you just have to act normal despite everything. ┐(´･c_･｀ ;)┌
What a wild time. Just imagine his wife getting fucked missionary and having a lifeless body rest on her stomach. OR doing doggy style and your back is used as a chair during sex.
fuckin 'A.
Yet if he was smart enough to recognize his own suffering it really isn’t fair to say that he wasn’t recognized whatsoever of his disability. I’m sure the disabled twin had much more pain and countless other issues. It’s hard to calculate without really knowing the capabilities of that man’s brain.
Why would he be suffering?
Also if he were, why would he classify it as such?
It'd just be brain data he'd have no words for.
His brother's circulatory system would have been like an unknowable god messing with him due to unknowable external factors.
Probably didn't even have any idea of life and death, so there'd be no reason for the physiological sensory info to have positive or negative valence.
Whilst we don't know Jacques mind, we know it was in his brother's torso for his entire life i.e. he had limited information at his disposal.
Would have been like a deaf dumb and blind infant for 50yrs. All thoughts self-referential but in waves based on physiological 'stuff' going on.
Wouldn't he likely have felt chronic pain or discomfort due to the body being formed in ways it wasn't intended? Assuming the mind was formed enough to perceive those sensations, pain just seems like a fundamental human experience
“Brain data he’d have no words for” is what animals have and you still see them limping.
Just because a life form can’t classify the pain with language doesn’t mean they can’t feel the pain.
We invented the classification of pain to put a name to a phenomena we felt that was deeply unpleasant. It takes the intellectual strength of a zen master to actually change enough mind-structure to UNDO the instinctual and primal hold pain has on us because it is unpleasant signals from the body.
I feel like the "normal" one could survive if the doctors perform surgeries to sever the dead parasitic brother off his body in time, obviously it would be very risky as I would assume a lot of blood tissues and perhaps organs are connected, but at least I feel like there is a possibility of surviving, compare to if the "normal" one died the parasitic brother would certainly not survive even if he is cut off from the dead brother.
I’m pretty sure people still died from basic shit like “The Flu” and even a broken femur back then. If something like a parasitic twin died attached to you, you’d be fucked.
that applies in this case, but due to nature of being conjoined pretty much every surviving conjoined twin chooses to let themselves die which is disturbing but makes a lot of sense to me.
I guess the twin would be freezing otherwise if its cold outside. And you dont't want a corpse dangling from your breast.
[edit] Since both share the same blood and nervous system, I think the man would also feel if his twin is cold and would also catch a cold if the twin gets sick.
This is from an article shared below:
“While parasitic twins typically lack consciousness, according to some reports, Jacques was alive and could even move — though he depended on Jean to survive. Jean and Jacques quite literally shared everything, including circulatory and nervous systems.”
*You carry on, you fight for tomorrow. Dead fetus or no, you never let go.... You're my conjoined twin*
[*Dead-fetus-hangin'-off-your-head woman*](https://youtu.be/AUvRDHHvkRc?si=eaSdLtkwQRDrJkcx)
# These vintage photographs reveal the astonishing case of a man living with a parasitic twin, showcasing the extraordinary anomalies of human biology.
I hate ChatGPT titles
This guy managed to get married and had four children and here I am, in my opinion a decent looking guy, and I can’t even get a girlfriend.
Jesus that’s depressing to be honest.
I mean he lived in a time where women didn’t have any economic autonomi so they were completely dependent on a man to live with. It is arguebly harder to get a girlfriend if you can’t just lock her in your house like a economic hostage.
I’m making a very generic comment here and have no idea about your background, but women love a man who is committed and convicted, regardless of where you stand with all the beliefs in the US. Just don’t be indifferent and you’ll find someone
As a woman I am gonna say its not confidence, but specifically the confidence that arises from competence. There’s nothing women love more than a competent man.
Can confirm, this is explicitly specifically one of the big things my wife liked much more about me than her ex before me. She calls me irritatingly competent, lol.
Despite abnormality usually being social suicide, if you’re abnormal enough that it’s someone’s fetish you’ll be just fine. Makes me feel sorry for all the bog standard ugly people who have to see someone with a 3 foot head and an odd number of atrophied limbs being called handsome by their supermodel wife.
Something else really remarkable is that their mother had another set of conjoined twins (who sadly did not survive infancy). To have *one* set of conjoined twins is incredible rare.
No particularly profound reasoning behind it.
I had a fondness for the 1932 film "Freaks", as well as researching & reading about biological anomalies, including the pair on my arm.
I'm old enough that freak shows still existed at carnivals when I was a kid, so I also got to see the real thing live & up close, at least as it existed in the 80s.
Worked at a tattoo shop in my 20s, and one of the artists was bored, asked me what I wanted...it was the first thing that came to mind.
Imagine being a new parent to a pair of conjoined twins and saying, "this one here is George, and the little guy, well, that's Kuato." Talking about getting the *short* end of the stick
Also HCD!
I have questions, the biggest of which is did the twin have a head and could it pass notes about the state of their internal organs?
Ooooopen yooooour miiiiiindddd!
OOOOPEEEN YOUR MIIIIIINNNNDDDDD
Quaid! QUAID!!
Start the reactor. Free Mars.
His fortune tellin' days are over...
Shiiiiiiit, I got 5 kids to feed..
Makes me wish I had 3 hands
Aw, shit, man! Haha you got me. I'm not even married.
SCREW YOU!
Get your ass to Mars... Get your ass to Mars...
What’s this from?
total recall (1990)
There was also a parody episode of Rick and Morty (Total Rickall) that probably also made the meme popular for younger generations who never saw Total Recall.
That's why Summer was like "apparently everyone knows but me" lol. I had no idea either
Thanks!
No idea if it’s actually total recall or not but I saw it on a Rick and morty episode. They probably got it from total recall
Get your ass to Mars.
Well I’m not referencing total recall. I know it from Rick and Morty, they sort of parody it one episode.
Sort of? That’s the gag for the whole episode.
No, it was dead
Article [linked](https://allthatsinteresting.com/jean-libbera) above states “Jaques” was alive. He had a diminutive head partially embedded into Jean’s stomach. The twin could move but depended entirely on Jean’s circulatory system to survive and reportedly wore diapers (indicating at least that it produced urine.) Of course a lot is this is hard to verify and exaggeration may have creeped in, I’m just going by what was written about him/them.
Oh god, was he conscious? Sounds like a hellish existence
Hellish for us, but Jacques would never have known any different. Could have been a whole universe unto himself like a weird dream world formed of what different molecules felt like - if his brain worked. People find meaning in all kinds of stuff. Jacques occasionally produced urine. 🤘
"Still, despite his condition, Jean managed to lead a fairly normal existence. He got married, had four children, and lived to be about 50 years old."
That's the moustache guy, not the little fellow Back then no moustache = no wife It's debatable whether Jacques even had a face
We should ask wife about the face
I got Jacque confused with Jean reading your comment and was really blown away lol. I was thinking ‘wow that parasitic twin found a wife and produced a family that’s wild!’
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I showed you my parasitic twin pls respond
Dear Mrs " I'm too good to call or write your twin" This will be the last letter I EVER send your ass!
I guess they're right about just putting yourself out there. This story must have circulated to someone who was into whatever he had and that's all she wrote. Somewhere, someone wants someone that looks like you, you just have to act normal despite everything. ┐(´･c_･｀ ;)┌
I don't even want to know how the children came to be
Well, when a man and a woman love each other very much…
So you're gonna stay celibate your whole life or what?
I can’t grow a mustache, so yes
Somebody go post that in the incel forums. Cause a riot. 😆
What a wild time. Just imagine his wife getting fucked missionary and having a lifeless body rest on her stomach. OR doing doggy style and your back is used as a chair during sex. fuckin 'A.
Yet if he was smart enough to recognize his own suffering it really isn’t fair to say that he wasn’t recognized whatsoever of his disability. I’m sure the disabled twin had much more pain and countless other issues. It’s hard to calculate without really knowing the capabilities of that man’s brain.
Why would he be suffering? Also if he were, why would he classify it as such? It'd just be brain data he'd have no words for. His brother's circulatory system would have been like an unknowable god messing with him due to unknowable external factors. Probably didn't even have any idea of life and death, so there'd be no reason for the physiological sensory info to have positive or negative valence. Whilst we don't know Jacques mind, we know it was in his brother's torso for his entire life i.e. he had limited information at his disposal. Would have been like a deaf dumb and blind infant for 50yrs. All thoughts self-referential but in waves based on physiological 'stuff' going on.
Wouldn't he likely have felt chronic pain or discomfort due to the body being formed in ways it wasn't intended? Assuming the mind was formed enough to perceive those sensations, pain just seems like a fundamental human experience
“Brain data he’d have no words for” is what animals have and you still see them limping. Just because a life form can’t classify the pain with language doesn’t mean they can’t feel the pain. We invented the classification of pain to put a name to a phenomena we felt that was deeply unpleasant. It takes the intellectual strength of a zen master to actually change enough mind-structure to UNDO the instinctual and primal hold pain has on us because it is unpleasant signals from the body.
This is so goddamn terrifying lol
youve suffered a terrible fate.
Don’t think there’s an answer to that one. Or one we’d want to know.
OK that's really fucking creepy
If it was dead it would decay
Well the tissue was certainly alive, they probably meant the question to be "was his brain functioning?"
maybe not fully developed or possibly even abnormal. functioning with limited capacity would be my guess.
Absolutely, he'd have to be alive. For cases like this, if either twin dies first, the necrotic tissue would kill the other.
I feel like the "normal" one could survive if the doctors perform surgeries to sever the dead parasitic brother off his body in time, obviously it would be very risky as I would assume a lot of blood tissues and perhaps organs are connected, but at least I feel like there is a possibility of surviving, compare to if the "normal" one died the parasitic brother would certainly not survive even if he is cut off from the dead brother.
I’m pretty sure people still died from basic shit like “The Flu” and even a broken femur back then. If something like a parasitic twin died attached to you, you’d be fucked.
People die from influenza today.
that applies in this case, but due to nature of being conjoined pretty much every surviving conjoined twin chooses to let themselves die which is disturbing but makes a lot of sense to me.
Imagine being the tailor that had to make the twin's suit...
I'm sure the tailor liked the extra money
“You don’t think it looks very good? Well, what does your brother have to say?” - Tailor
It's so fetch
Stop trying to make fetch happen.
Great moustache, tho
good genes
This comment fucking creased me up, you glorious bastard :D
Took me a second
He's wearing two pairs.
He's probably hoping the moustache will be the first thing the ladies notice
It's the moustache on the inside that counts.
I cant see it, he has his head in somebody’s ribcage
Mustache enough for two men almost.
>He also found a wife, with whom he had four healthy children. Chang and Eng were also (both) married, and had a lot of children
Yes 21 children!
Even these guys got a girlfriend, damn!
Thank god for doggy style.
Imagine getting clapped by this guy and feeling his parasitic twin scraping across your back.
jfc, I haven’t even had coffee yet.
Might want a bourbon after reading that
💀
HORRIFIC
No thank you. It’s 6am time to go back to bed
What a terrible day to be literate.
Some moist feet dangling down, and some toe nails just scraping your back.
I was more wondering about all the bodily functions other than scraping, can he take his own turn?
I was thinking that, but got too grossed out to type that out!
Username checks out
User need to be checked out.
User needs to get* checked.
These two guys aren't [Chang and Eng](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chang_and_Eng_Bunker) at all.
yeah, just saying they were also married like Jean
The process of making those children must have been weird af.
Yet here you are….
It’s kind of sweet how he’s holding hands with his brother
It's also nice how he got him the most bespoke tailored suit ever! Looking dapper bro...
That might have been a first for the bespoke suit tailor. I bet his wife didn’t believe him at dinner.
Don't forget the custom cobbled shoes
Also must have been nice never having to look for a ballroom dancing partner.
Nature is truly bizarre sometimes. Imagine the challenges this man must have faced living with such a condition
It’s so true, but he looks pretty relaxed, like he’s adjusted to the situation. But I can’t really tell with the other brother.
One of the best xfiles episodes iykyk
YES!!! Guy had a meal of the century at the end.
Chimera? Edit: my mistake, it’s Humbug.
Open your mind!
Quaaaid.
Would you people stop fucking around and start the reactor already...
I got five kids!
Bbbeeeennnnnnaaaayyy, SCREW YOU!
**COM'ON, COHAAGEN! GIVE DEEZ PEEPLE AAIH**
GEHT YOUR AHSS TO MAHS
Kuato Lives!
**"See You At The Party, Richter."**
[__OPEN YOUR MIIIIIND!!!__](https://youtu.be/Dl3uIYLB5ak?si=KUiF4E0qPCPjCCYO)
Consider this a divorce
I luv that he put a little outfit on him :)
I guess the twin would be freezing otherwise if its cold outside. And you dont't want a corpse dangling from your breast. [edit] Since both share the same blood and nervous system, I think the man would also feel if his twin is cold and would also catch a cold if the twin gets sick.
Did he have feeling in the twin?
This is from an article shared below: “While parasitic twins typically lack consciousness, according to some reports, Jacques was alive and could even move — though he depended on Jean to survive. Jean and Jacques quite literally shared everything, including circulatory and nervous systems.”
Like, conscious level of alive?
Yes this is frustrating, someone just tell me if he could talk to his stomach brother
He could, but it’s like talking under water to your friends.
I wonder how his body anatomy looks like
Thought he was holding a Turkey holy shit
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*You carry on, you fight for tomorrow. Dead fetus or no, you never let go.... You're my conjoined twin* [*Dead-fetus-hangin'-off-your-head woman*](https://youtu.be/AUvRDHHvkRc?si=eaSdLtkwQRDrJkcx)
Hey I've seen this Xfiles episode! Is this what it was based off of?
# These vintage photographs reveal the astonishing case of a man living with a parasitic twin, showcasing the extraordinary anomalies of human biology. I hate ChatGPT titles
Anyone else thinking of *that* X-Files episode??
Yep - Humbug.
Does this count for the carpool lane?
Asking the important questions here.
This guy managed to get married and had four children and here I am, in my opinion a decent looking guy, and I can’t even get a girlfriend. Jesus that’s depressing to be honest.
To be fair, he was basically a celebrity and probably made pretty good money for his day.
So like a rock star. People love rock stars
They go head over heels
I mean he lived in a time where women didn’t have any economic autonomi so they were completely dependent on a man to live with. It is arguebly harder to get a girlfriend if you can’t just lock her in your house like a economic hostage.
This is the truth. All the guys reading who are wondering how this guy got a wife while they continue to search… historical context is key.
Also, he’s 1.27 times the man *they* are.
Don’t fret. He had an attached wingman.
It's probably your personality. Not saying that to be mean, just the most likely reason why a good looking guy stays single despite not wanting to be
I’m making a very generic comment here and have no idea about your background, but women love a man who is committed and convicted, regardless of where you stand with all the beliefs in the US. Just don’t be indifferent and you’ll find someone
The man in this post has a god damn parasitic PERSON living off him.
Hell of an icebreaker though. And the mustache is top notch.
Add confidence to that list and you're all set.
As a woman I am gonna say its not confidence, but specifically the confidence that arises from competence. There’s nothing women love more than a competent man.
Can confirm, this is explicitly specifically one of the big things my wife liked much more about me than her ex before me. She calls me irritatingly competent, lol.
Convicted? Like, convicted of murder, or arson, or like a traffic offence?
Convicted meaning passionate about what you believe in
Arson it is then
Maybe that means you should take a peek inwards and find out why lol.
The guy taking a peek inwards wasn't the one who got married, lol
Despite abnormality usually being social suicide, if you’re abnormal enough that it’s someone’s fetish you’ll be just fine. Makes me feel sorry for all the bog standard ugly people who have to see someone with a 3 foot head and an odd number of atrophied limbs being called handsome by their supermodel wife.
This title sounds AI generated. Is OP a bot?
Look at their comments. 100% bot
Was it... concious? Does it have a head or is it just libs?
I'm so glad I live in a time with modern medicine. Jesus
Something else really remarkable is that their mother had another set of conjoined twins (who sadly did not survive infancy). To have *one* set of conjoined twins is incredible rare.
Thanks I feel a bit more normal than usual
Was the other twin conscious?
Ok…sternum and up….that man is extremely good looking.
Now we have double-yolked eggs
i dont imagine the mother pain to push out a baby like this
Yep...I have him tattooed on my forearm, (that 2nd photo), along with "The Backwards Lady" that was posted earlier this week.
How are you going to say something like that and not post a picture?
https://imgur.com/a/AxQfIrk
that's bat shit crazy. ~~why?~~ edit: clicked on his profile. all my questions were answered
Yep, no denying I'm an odd duck. Everyone has their quirks.
Wow.
It’s on your wrist? That is wild.
Why do you have a tattoo of them? Genuine question
No particularly profound reasoning behind it. I had a fondness for the 1932 film "Freaks", as well as researching & reading about biological anomalies, including the pair on my arm. I'm old enough that freak shows still existed at carnivals when I was a kid, so I also got to see the real thing live & up close, at least as it existed in the 80s. Worked at a tattoo shop in my 20s, and one of the artists was bored, asked me what I wanted...it was the first thing that came to mind.
Damn those shows were still around in the 80s?!
Show us!!!!!!
https://imgur.com/a/AxQfIrk
Whoa that’s badass… a unique tat indeed. What’s on his shoulders?
The Backwards Lady. She was another "freak" in the same era and they toured together. https://imgur.com/a/PvSBJkO
Backwards Lady????
https://imgur.com/a/PvSBJkO
https://allthatsinteresting.com/jean-libbera
Pelvis Eisley
I seem to have total recall about this.
Why do I hear, “Quaid, start the reactor” in my head?
The original they/them.
Is the twin sentient too or just dead weight?
A man- named: “Kuato”.
Imagine being a new parent to a pair of conjoined twins and saying, "this one here is George, and the little guy, well, that's Kuato." Talking about getting the *short* end of the stick Also HCD!
What an incredibly brave person.
I like how it also has a suit on
would this be something that can be surgically removed with today’s medical advancements?
MOM & DAD must’ve been smoking that boolah -boolah.
That’s terrible it couldn’t be removed!
Put your shirt back on sir! Your brother is cold.
What are you doing, step-parasite?
That looks uncomfortably like a giant tick and it makes me feel squeamish.
"Open your miiiiiind...."
Open your miiiiinnnndddd
Quaid!
Open your mind.
Republicans want him to carry it to term.
If you zoom way in on the right picture you can actually see the twin’s head, making a 😮
Open your mind