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[–] schwim@piefed.zip 334 points 1 week ago (5 children)

We should offer these two doctors' services for free penis enlargements to all billionaires.

[–] markz@suppo.fi 98 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Rather than free, you should offer the most exclusive and expensive dong surgeries on earth.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 66 points 1 week ago (3 children)

You're both half right. You offer the most exclusive expensive penis enlargement surgury for free just for them, BECAUSE they're a billionaire.

Nothing rich assholes love more than getting expensive shit for free because of their privledge.

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[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 187 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Hey Musk I got a proposition for ya

[–] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 56 points 1 week ago (2 children)

No no. You do it this way:

"Hey musk, you have a small dick"

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[–] 0ndead 39 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Didn’t somebody already botch his dick?

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[–] human@slrpnk.net 152 points 1 week ago (7 children)

Belgian-Israeli businessman Ehud Arye Laniado, founder of Omega Diamonds, suffered a fatal heart attack while undergoing injections intended to enlarge his penis.

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However, prosecutors later downgraded the charges to failure to assist a person in danger, drug-related offences, and practising medicine without a licence.

Call me paranoid, but I'd like anyone giving me penis injections to be licensed to practice medicine.

[–] becausechemistry@piefed.social 121 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You sound like the brainwashed masses. He, a billionaire, was much more qualified to determine if someone is fit to practice medicine than some institutional board. Obviously, otherwise he wouldn’t have been a billionaire.

[–] limelight79@lemmy.world 60 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Or the Oceangate ethos: They're are too many unnecessary rules in medicine! Controlled experiments to test new drugs are just slowing down innovation!

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[–] Yawweee877h444@lemmy.world 124 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] shittydwarf@piefed.social 114 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This is way more efficient than putting them each in a submarine

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 44 points 1 week ago (2 children)
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[–] jpreston2005@lemmy.world 96 points 1 week ago (6 children)

An autopsy later confirmed that Laniado died from cardiac hypertrophy, a condition involving an enlarged heart.

A search of his hotel room revealed he had been taking multiple substances banned in France, along with vasodilators commonly used to treat erectile dysfunction. According to judicial sources, these substances are believed to have contributed to his death.

Ah, so it had nothing to do with the procedure, dude was on a cocktail of his own drugs, didn't tell the doctor, had a heart attack.

So, if it was anyones fault, it was the pathetic billionaires fault. Also anyone who gets rich from diamonds is always, 100%, a scumbag.

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[–] SoupBrick@pawb.social 85 points 1 week ago
[–] _deleted_@aussie.zone 76 points 1 week ago (2 children)

He died while the procedure was being performed at a private clinic in March 2019

I wondered why he wasn’t answering my calls! Why are we only just finding out about this now?

[–] Trex202@lemmy.world 38 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Well, I thought I was going to get a call after the old snip snip cuz we talked about that

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[–] magnetosphere@fedia.io 70 points 1 week ago (5 children)

I still think autoerotic asphyxiation is the most embarrassing way to die, but, thanks to this article, I’ve now been introduced to a close second.

The fact that he was a billionaire diamond magnate just makes it easier to laugh.

[–] IronBird@lemmy.world 48 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

this is definitely worse than autoerotic asphyxiation, that's just someone trying and failing to explore their kink...this is just someone who won the game of life being insecure about his dick

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[–] Ceruleum@lemmy.wtf 68 points 1 week ago (4 children)

So the operation was a 100% succes.

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[–] Rooster326@programming.dev 68 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Number one. Steady hand. One day, billionaire need big penis. I do operation. But mistake! Billionaire die! Capitalists very mad! I hide fishing boat, come to America. No English, no food, no money. Darryl give me job. Now I have house, American car and new woman. Darryl save life.

My big secret. I kill billionaire on purpose. I good surgeon. The best!

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[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 68 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Lol. Lmao. Dude had billions of dollars and fucken died cause he wanted a bigger dick.

[–] mirshafie@europe.pub 28 points 1 week ago (5 children)

To all the kids out there: accept who you are. Love yourself. Be genuine.

[–] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 48 points 1 week ago (8 children)

To all the billionaires out there, keep getting shady, life-threatening surgeries.

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[–] Chill_Dan@lemmy.world 64 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Damn what a way to go, now the whole world knows he had a small dick as the last thing he does.

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[–] robocall@lemmy.world 59 points 1 week ago (9 children)

I can't believe being a billionaire wasn't enough for this man, he was still insecure that he felt the need to buy a bigger dick.

I don't know who needs to hear this, but women don't need a gorilla sized dick! They need you to eat them out! (this guy had a wife. We need to ask men if they crave gorilla dicks)

[–] the_mighty_kracken@lemmy.world 28 points 1 week ago (11 children)
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[–] cley_faye@lemmy.world 53 points 1 week ago

I applaud billionaire willing to die to show us what's right and wrong. Submarine excursions when you have no clue what you're doing, ruining the lives of millions with price hikes, penis enlargement surgery with unlicensed surgeons… keep at it billionaires. Let's step: going to Mars without a backup plan, because thinking things ahead is for pussy. You can do it!

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 49 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Let this be an example to every surgeon out there that if a billionaire patient dies during or after a surgery:

It can't simply be a statistical death, their trusts will have investigators digging through your trash for years and feeding a team of laywers to find the slightest excuse to end your career even if they die because they were taking party drugs and weren't honest with you.

Its best to just refuse doing surgery on a billionaire.

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[–] _druid@sh.itjust.works 49 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] RustyShackleford@piefed.social 46 points 1 week ago
[–] T156@lemmy.world 45 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Kind of weird that the surgeons are implicated to have caused it in the headline, when he died of a heart problem unrelated to the cosmetic surgery.

You'd think the drugs and medications he was taking would be more at fault in that case.

[–] Drusas@fedia.io 29 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The surgery was not found to be the cause of death. It's just included in the headline this way for clicks.

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[–] ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world 45 points 1 week ago (1 children)

“There was something futile and sad about trying to find someone responsible at all costs, following a purely accidental death.“

This was purely a case of litigation because they were a billionaire.

The “unlicensed” surgeon? Had an Algerian degree, which was a French colony, that’s just racism.

They were clearly just throwing charges at them until something stuck, presumably at the rich inheritor’s request.

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[–] Aljernon@lemmy.today 44 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Comrade Penis Enlargement Surgeon, the surgery was a great success! You are now heroes of socialism like Comrade Whale, Comrade Bee, and Comrade crushing pressure of deep ocean.

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[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 43 points 1 week ago (4 children)

You think these needledicks would learn from Elons botched surgery.

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[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 42 points 1 week ago

Now this is a feel good story

[–] EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 40 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Won at the game of life (i.e. being a billionaire), still insecure about your PP

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[–] Digit@lemmy.wtf 39 points 1 week ago (1 children)

oh!

so is that how we'll be rid of billionaires?

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[–] eskimofry@lemmy.world 39 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So pathetic they tried to pin this on the surgeon too.

The lead surgeon, identified only as “Guy H.”, was initially investigated on suspicion of manslaughter. However, prosecutors later downgraded the charges to failure to assist a person in danger, drug-related offences, and practising medicine without a licence.

Investigators determined that the injection itself was not responsible for Laniado’s death.

A judicial source told Le Parisien that the procedure was “quickly ruled out” as the cause.

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[–] Routhinator@startrek.website 35 points 1 week ago

Now there's a fucking Darwin Award

And nothing of value was lost.

[–] DirtyAnCom@discuss.online 34 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Including the 32 billionaires that died last year, that's just over 1% of all billionaires removed from this Earth! That's not an insignificant number. Let's make it even higher!

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[–] JizzmasterD@lemmy.ca 33 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The penis was purported to be so epic its legend stretched 7 years into the future, from a Parisian clinic to an Indian online news site.

🍆

[–] LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world 32 points 1 week ago
[–] MapleEngineer@lemmy.world 30 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I always thought that autoerotic asphyxiation was the gold standard comedic way for billionaires to die. I was wrong.

The thought of this wealthy pencil dick chasing what I have and dying in the process is hilarious.

I guess envy really is a deadly sin.

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[–] tomiant@piefed.social 30 points 1 week ago

Thank you for your service, penis enlargement surgeons.

[–] AeonFelis@lemmy.world 30 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Guess this needs to be updated?

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[–] MadBits@europe.pub 29 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"Belgian-Israeli businessman Ehud Arye Laniado, founder of Omega Diamonds, suffered a fatal heart attack while undergoing injections intended to enlarge his penis."

At least we get some good news this year.

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[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 28 points 1 week ago

Musk had the same thing, but his came out all butchered.

[–] hodgepodgin@lemmy.zip 28 points 1 week ago (2 children)

it seems like the operation failed. there's fewer dicks in the world now.

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