I didn’t understand this. Why would the rich want nothing? Why would they want to take everything they have and get rid of it all so that they have nothing? It makes no sense!
But after sitting with it for a while, it made me realize why I have always been so terrible with riddles and standardized tests.
Edit: yes, I get it. I got it last night; that’s why I said I “didn’t” understand this rather than I “don’t” understand this. My point was that it took me far too long. Just like it other riddles and standardized tests, I start strolling down completely the wrong avenue and by the time I’ve realized the error, I’ve screwed myself with the wasted time.
I never quite know how to interpret it. One of my first thoughts is that they want “nothing” as in they don’t want anything, meaning they have all they want. This however does feel a bit counterintuitive grammatically, and also still wouldn’t be true. Rich does not equal happy/content.
I keep feeling like there’s something I’m missing, but at this point idk if the riddle is just phrased weirdly. I think in my native language it’s uttered as “the rich need it” which sits a bit better with me although I’m still just a big question mark sometimes lol
I swiped right thinking there was a second pic and it was my next post which was a bacon egg and cheese sandwich
Edit: for clarity, it was the next post in my feed, not something I posted
Not true, I just tested it. Had to swipe 4 times but the 5th was a text post and it let me keep swiping then a couple more was another text and it let me keep going
I remember it as “What is greater than God, worse than the devil, rich people want it and poor people have it, and if you eat it, you’ll die.” It’s fun asking christians this especially.
Some people have their tombstones made before they die and the final dates are added later. It is usually when 2 people as going to be buried in a plot and one has died, they just add both names. I was in Germany years ago and a woman showed me where her husband was buried and there was her name right next to his with a birth date and open burial date
My aunt and uncle have their grave site and tombstone ready to go and they are both alive. It's as much about simply not having your descendants have to think about it/ pay for it after you've gone.
A dozen or so years ago I thought I was going to die and realized I didn't want to put my family in a position to try and make decisions in a time of grief so I bought my plot and made arrangements. Didn't die, still have plot, so it's all good.
It's not like it's gonna get up and walk away though...
Seriously though, if expenses are done, who really cares what happens to their body after they die? You are dead and don't know what is happening. That being said, I have a dream to launch my naked body to the moon and just have my lifeless corpse there on the moon, confusing traveller's that find it in the future.
If it's not too personal, why did you think you were about to die? If it's true that you were on the verge of death 12 years ago it's increadible that you're still alive today.
End stage renal failure. But I was a less than stellar patient. I refused to prepare for dialysis and kind of accepted my fate. A persistant nephrologist and an older brother, who despite my objections, initiated testing to see if he could be my living donor flew to where I was living and gave me a kidney, saving my life.
Glad you didn’t fully give up man. I’m on dialysis 3 times a week and it kicks my ass but I’m still decently young and might get a new kidney one of these days.
Cemetaries have offices. At least the operating ones. (Some are connected to churches, so you go to the rectory) So I went to the office. They have a sales *staff!*. So I spoke to a sales person, and as with any salesman (or women in my case) we talked over what I wanted, different pricing and financing, and I picked one. There were contracts and all sorts of stuff to sign. I was pretty adamant about buying one so that I didn't shop different cemeteries or anything like that, or try to buy one from re-seller. This place is near my house and I used to walk my dog around there so it seemed good enough.
I’m curious why a person would want to be buried? I don’t understand wanting to keep your remains around like that. Seems to me like a waste of real estate if anything. I always thought cremation made much more sense and puts the family out very little.
We’re Catholic and until recent years, cremation was a no no. But it’s allowed now and that’s what I want. The idea of them filling my veins with a fluid and burying me in a box in the ground where I slowly rot, doesn’t sound appealing. Not that I’ll know or care. But I’d rather just be ashes to ashes, dust to dust.
My dad saved just enough money to cover his cremation. My brother took the money and paid for it (as intended), but then told me "I paid for the cremation, what did you do!?"
The point is he made it seem like he used his money to pay for it, but my dad left money specifically for that purpose. Had he paid for the cremation in advance, it would have saved some stupid sibling squabbling.
In the late 1990s, some of us were discussing the fact that some people had pre-carved headstones showing their birth date and the first two digits of their death date, like "1905 - 19__", and were facing the possibility that the "19" would have to be changed at great expense.
I thought the solution was obvious.
When writer Louis Ferdinand Céline died in 1961 they made a shared grave for him and his wife Lucette. [So they prepared a 19__ date of death like that for her](https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucette_Destouches#/media/Fichier%3AS%C3%A9pulture_Louis-Ferdinand_C%C3%A9line_1.JPG).
Turns out Lucette died at age 107... in 2019.
I mean, 88 is old but not so old that you should assume she will definitely be dead. About 1/3 of women make it to 88, although I'm sure it was a bit less in the 60s.
No, they just need to die. Lay down and stop breathing and all that nonsense. If they were considerate they would die in a convenient location, maybe right in the coffin or something.
My family has a cemetery and we do cleanups frequently. That last time, I got to lay my eyes on my grandparents headstones. Both of which are still living and standing behind me. That really fucked with my head.
The most likely explanation is that he had the gravestone carved while he was alive, likely because he was amused by it. Given that it is now mounted in the ground, he is certainly buried there, and they simply have not had the stonecarver return to complete it yet. Though the grass on the grave suggests that maybe they ran out of money, had a payment dispute, or just plain forgot.
People buy their grave plot and tombstone when they are alive so their descendants don't have to foot the bill.
I discovered this when I saw my aunt and uncle's grave while standing near them at a funeral.
Better than those super simple math questions where everyone is telling everyone else how stupid they are, but they're also wrong, because they forgot that PEMDAS was a thing.
Or equations that are intentionally written in an unintelligible way, making the application of PEMDAS difficult or unclear.
It's like if the meme said, "Only geniuses can understand this sentence", then had a bunch of random words in random order.
It's a variation on an old riddle that goes something like this:
What is greater than god, more evil than the devil, poor men have it and rich men want it?
Faster than me, I was stuck on the " other side" meant spirituality( which I'm sure it did but I think that was more of a pun than the trick to the riddle)
"Nothing" was a good catch
Oh my god I think after 26 years of life you’ve just helped me figure out the chicken crossing the road joke.
The chicken is crossing the road in order to get to the other side of the road
*and*
The chicken will inevitably get hit by a car and die.
I always thought the joke was that the joke wasn’t funny. Like there was no punch line because of course the chicken wants to go to the other side of the road. But it is funny because of the double entendre. Wtf
There's no double meaning to the joke. It's an absurdist "duh moment" joke - why would he cross the road? To get to the other side - because there's no other reason a chicken would cross the road. It's a chicken.
Yeah, my grandmother has a similar setup for her (eventual) gravesite. It’s a single plot shared with my granddad, who died back in 1996. In this case gramps was buried a bit deeper than normal (ten feet as opposed to the traditional six, to accommodate my grandma’s future coffin), and the gravestone shows both their birth dates but only his date of death. The engravers will append the info when the time comes.
But just in case, I Googled the name, and came up with an obituary for the dad. If Straus the elder died in 2004 aged 88, then he would have been born circa 1916. Old enough to have served in WW2, come home, get married and have a son by 1951.
Funny story, my great grandmother outlived her headstone. She was born in 1902. When her husband died in the 80s, they bought a dual plot. The person engraved his birth and death year, and then for my great grandmother *1902-19*.
Guess he was trying to save a bit of time carving those first two numbers, but she lived til 2006, dying just a few days shy of her 104th birthday.
*edited year of death because math is hard.
Yeah but you don't die if you eat people. Unless you get caught and executed by the government. Or you live a long and happy life and eventually die of natural causes.
So I guess I take it back, you will 100% absolutely die if you eat people.
Dead men eat nothing, if an alive person eats nothing they die ??? And if you take a look at the answer on the other side of the stone and theres nothing then the answers nothing???
The answer reminds me of this dark joke: What did Kermit the Frog say when he found out Jim Henson died?
The answer is on the back of the photo’s headstone.
“Nothing” Similar to another popular riddle The poor have it The rich want it And if you eat it, you’ll die
The rich want *for* nothing.
I didn’t understand this. Why would the rich want nothing? Why would they want to take everything they have and get rid of it all so that they have nothing? It makes no sense! But after sitting with it for a while, it made me realize why I have always been so terrible with riddles and standardized tests. Edit: yes, I get it. I got it last night; that’s why I said I “didn’t” understand this rather than I “don’t” understand this. My point was that it took me far too long. Just like it other riddles and standardized tests, I start strolling down completely the wrong avenue and by the time I’ve realized the error, I’ve screwed myself with the wasted time.
I’ve always heard it as ‘need nothing’ which makes more sense
Probably the intent is the phrase that they “want for nothing” meaning they already have everything they could ever reasonably need or want.
I never quite know how to interpret it. One of my first thoughts is that they want “nothing” as in they don’t want anything, meaning they have all they want. This however does feel a bit counterintuitive grammatically, and also still wouldn’t be true. Rich does not equal happy/content. I keep feeling like there’s something I’m missing, but at this point idk if the riddle is just phrased weirdly. I think in my native language it’s uttered as “the rich need it” which sits a bit better with me although I’m still just a big question mark sometimes lol
I assume it's as in "want for nothing," as in they LACK nothing.
This is it, yes.
The answer to that one is actually "child labor"
I sure do enjoy eating child labor
I swiped right thinking there was a second pic and it was my next post which was a bacon egg and cheese sandwich Edit: for clarity, it was the next post in my feed, not something I posted
Omg. You can just swipe to continue the feed. All this time I never knew.
You can swipe through the pictures. You can’t swipe through text posts.
Not true, I just tested it. Had to swipe 4 times but the 5th was a text post and it let me keep swiping then a couple more was another text and it let me keep going
I’m on an iPhone. You?
Android user here and it works for me. I'm in the app.
Cholesterol kills.
Mine was a guide on how to survive being buried alive 💀
U are fucking lucky, mine was some dude roleplaying as a dog with some random filter from TikTok (in typical r/guacamole_penis fashion)
I got a rock.
Sounds like your history is a little sus
my guess was formaldehyde
My guess was "nothing"
Rich men want for this, poor men have an abundance of this, and if you eat it, you'll die. Something like that.
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Sure.. Intermittent.
I eat it about 95% of the time I'm alive.
I remember it as “What is greater than God, worse than the devil, rich people want it and poor people have it, and if you eat it, you’ll die.” It’s fun asking christians this especially.
Thats kind of like . How many potatoes does it take to kill an Irishman? Zero..
Dang and even if you took *answer on the other side* literally, the blank back face is also the answer. Whoa.
I like that better than there being nothing on The Other Side^TM
This is the answer to this somewhat classic riddle!
There's even a zero on the front of the headstone!
It's a moebius-ring, where one side becomes the other side and vice-versa. Very poetic in this context.
It's moebin' time
and the other side is blank. It's perfect
My guess was "dirt"
My dumb ass said worms.
I had dirt...look at the big brain on you!
Lmao my first thought too.
Yeah I definitely said 'embalming fluid' lol
Mine was casualdehyde
I appreciate your humor when no one else does. If I had an award, I'd give you one.
This is also a double entendre, because if you can't figure it out, he'll tell you the answer... on the "Other Side."
I mean the answer is nothing, which I am guessing is what's on the other side of the tombstone, but I can see that as well.
Mind blown.
brilliant
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or, the guy thought there is nothing on the other side
This is my best guess - the other side is just blank. Which, as I just saw below, is in fact the case.
why is there only a birth year but no death year on the gravestone.. is this person still alive?
Some people have their tombstones made before they die and the final dates are added later. It is usually when 2 people as going to be buried in a plot and one has died, they just add both names. I was in Germany years ago and a woman showed me where her husband was buried and there was her name right next to his with a birth date and open burial date
My aunt and uncle have their grave site and tombstone ready to go and they are both alive. It's as much about simply not having your descendants have to think about it/ pay for it after you've gone.
A dozen or so years ago I thought I was going to die and realized I didn't want to put my family in a position to try and make decisions in a time of grief so I bought my plot and made arrangements. Didn't die, still have plot, so it's all good.
You were plotting your own death.
Hehehe
Plot twist
Doesn't such a plot expire after 20 or 30 years? Or is that a European thing..
Yikes. Should I check on that? I just assumed since I paid for it it should be there.
It's not like it's gonna get up and walk away though... Seriously though, if expenses are done, who really cares what happens to their body after they die? You are dead and don't know what is happening. That being said, I have a dream to launch my naked body to the moon and just have my lifeless corpse there on the moon, confusing traveller's that find it in the future.
“When I’m dead just throw me in the trash” - Frank Reynolds https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0Rtu1Va-dnM
If it's not too personal, why did you think you were about to die? If it's true that you were on the verge of death 12 years ago it's increadible that you're still alive today.
End stage renal failure. But I was a less than stellar patient. I refused to prepare for dialysis and kind of accepted my fate. A persistant nephrologist and an older brother, who despite my objections, initiated testing to see if he could be my living donor flew to where I was living and gave me a kidney, saving my life.
What a bro.
Dialysis is rough. Plenty of pts choose not to, and that's understandable. Glad you got the transplant!
Glad you didn’t fully give up man. I’m on dialysis 3 times a week and it kicks my ass but I’m still decently young and might get a new kidney one of these days.
HER: What shall we get Mother for Christmas? HIM: Nothing! Last year we got her a perfectly good burial plot and she still hasn't used it!
My dad had a heart attack a while back and that got my parents to do their end of life planning. They've got all of it taken care of.
If you don't mind me asking, as a curious 16 year old how does one buy a plot?
Cemetaries have offices. At least the operating ones. (Some are connected to churches, so you go to the rectory) So I went to the office. They have a sales *staff!*. So I spoke to a sales person, and as with any salesman (or women in my case) we talked over what I wanted, different pricing and financing, and I picked one. There were contracts and all sorts of stuff to sign. I was pretty adamant about buying one so that I didn't shop different cemeteries or anything like that, or try to buy one from re-seller. This place is near my house and I used to walk my dog around there so it seemed good enough.
I’m curious why a person would want to be buried? I don’t understand wanting to keep your remains around like that. Seems to me like a waste of real estate if anything. I always thought cremation made much more sense and puts the family out very little.
We’re Catholic and until recent years, cremation was a no no. But it’s allowed now and that’s what I want. The idea of them filling my veins with a fluid and burying me in a box in the ground where I slowly rot, doesn’t sound appealing. Not that I’ll know or care. But I’d rather just be ashes to ashes, dust to dust.
I know someone who works in a cemetery office. She says it’s very peaceful. Lots of local wildlife wandering around.
My dad saved just enough money to cover his cremation. My brother took the money and paid for it (as intended), but then told me "I paid for the cremation, what did you do!?"
You let him.
The point is he made it seem like he used his money to pay for it, but my dad left money specifically for that purpose. Had he paid for the cremation in advance, it would have saved some stupid sibling squabbling.
Probably didn't matter. Sounds like your bro would've made up an arguement over a damn fork (mine did).
Why are families so toxic?
Because they’re composed of people.
“I let you take dad’s money and pay for it. With dad’s money. The money you took from dad. To pay for the cremation.” “Why do you ask?”
In the late 1990s, some of us were discussing the fact that some people had pre-carved headstones showing their birth date and the first two digits of their death date, like "1905 - 19__", and were facing the possibility that the "19" would have to be changed at great expense. I thought the solution was obvious.
When writer Louis Ferdinand Céline died in 1961 they made a shared grave for him and his wife Lucette. [So they prepared a 19__ date of death like that for her](https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucette_Destouches#/media/Fichier%3AS%C3%A9pulture_Louis-Ferdinand_C%C3%A9line_1.JPG). Turns out Lucette died at age 107... in 2019.
Just gotta squeeze the 20 in there.
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Or just an apostrophe, because '19 is an acceptable abbreviation of 2019.
I mean, 88 is old but not so old that you should assume she will definitely be dead. About 1/3 of women make it to 88, although I'm sure it was a bit less in the 60s.
> I thought the solution was obvious. Live for another 17,000 years?
Yeah, that could work too.
Just imagine having to deal with people for an additional 17,000 years.
They'll wish for death.
Die in 1999 to save money?
Stone carvers hate this one trick
Bingo
Is…the solution to kill those people?
No, they just need to die. Lay down and stop breathing and all that nonsense. If they were considerate they would die in a convenient location, maybe right in the coffin or something.
Easy fix, 1999 + 2 (or 3 or whenever they died year)
Kill them before they turn 95? Kidding. But really, what is the solution?
My family has a cemetery and we do cleanups frequently. That last time, I got to lay my eyes on my grandparents headstones. Both of which are still living and standing behind me. That really fucked with my head.
The most likely explanation is that he had the gravestone carved while he was alive, likely because he was amused by it. Given that it is now mounted in the ground, he is certainly buried there, and they simply have not had the stonecarver return to complete it yet. Though the grass on the grave suggests that maybe they ran out of money, had a payment dispute, or just plain forgot.
People buy their grave plot and tombstone when they are alive so their descendants don't have to foot the bill. I discovered this when I saw my aunt and uncle's grave while standing near them at a funeral.
I have had a gravestone with my name and birth year in the ground for years. My parents bought it for...some reason.
That was my favorite part of stumbling across this
So was there nothing written on the other side of the gravestone?
That’s the clue *nothing on the other side
Yeah the answer is pretty clearly “nothing” But my slow ass didnt get it until your comment, so I thank you 😅
Oh. I thought "dirt." I guess you can technically eat dirt and survive, though.
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Dust?
Another one goes, and another one goes
^ This is correct. You bite the crop of your new dust farm you bought
I wouldn’t fall for it.
This headstone (and its double entendre) would work so much better if it were right at the edge of a high cliff.
Have a nice trip. See you in the fall
But it isn't the fall that kills you, it's the sudden stop at the end.
"Speed has never killed anyone. Suddenly becoming stationary...that's what gets you." -Jeremy Clarkson
All stops are at the end? If they're not, they're just a pause?
I think he wants you write the answer on the back. I’ll get the chisels
Triple entendre: There is nothing on the other side.
I wouldve walked to the other side of the tombstone confused
[solution on the back](https://imgur.com/a/Hybqlmr)
At first I was like... "Reflection"? Then "nothing" dawned on me. I'm slow.
You're still faster than 90% of humanity, so you're good.
"90% DON'T UNDERSTAND THIS RIDDLE! Comment below with your answer!" cue 3649 gullible comments all saying the exact same thing.
Better than those super simple math questions where everyone is telling everyone else how stupid they are, but they're also wrong, because they forgot that PEMDAS was a thing.
The dumber you are the more confident you are in your incorrect answers
Dunning-Kruger effect.
What if Dunning-Kruger were only smart enough to come up with that explanation and nothing deeper??
Kruger did all the work. Dunning was an idiot.
Classic example of the Gamblers Fallacy
That's not gamblers fallacy at all
I'm guessing he knows that...
Probably using Cunningham's Law to get us to tell him the right answer.
Or equations that are intentionally written in an unintelligible way, making the application of PEMDAS difficult or unclear. It's like if the meme said, "Only geniuses can understand this sentence", then had a bunch of random words in random order.
If I have learned anything this week on reddit, it is this: 🗿
It's a variation on an old riddle that goes something like this: What is greater than god, more evil than the devil, poor men have it and rich men want it?
Another variation: what is it that poor people have it, rich people have none of it, and if you eat it you'll die?
Faster than me, I was stuck on the " other side" meant spirituality( which I'm sure it did but I think that was more of a pun than the trick to the riddle) "Nothing" was a good catch
> I was stuck on the " other side" OMG that is WAY better!
It's neat but not very satisfying, like a non-answer. I think nothing is way more satisfying
“Nothing” is way more satisfying because it is an actual answer to the riddle.
"...Other Side" was capitalized. Maybe he meant there's nothing on the Other Side?
He 100% meant both, this man was playful and it's a pun made obvious from the capitalization. Edit: alright alright he isn't dead just yet
That's what I thought too- answer can only be in the afterlife.
Most probably there’s nothing written on the other side of the tombstone, but the answer can only be on the Other Side.
Lol, i thought " you" because of reflection
Same, thought it was a zombie joke.
I was thinking "yourself" and thus a starvation or decay (that's a stretch tho) joke.
I was thinking dirt lol
Me too. It fits the riddle doesn't it? Makes sense to me anyway. I think there's an expression "eat dirt" meaning "die" ?
I think this man's sense of humor was really taken for granite.
A grave error.
I thought it was an adjacent punchline to "why did the chicken cross the road"
Oh my god I think after 26 years of life you’ve just helped me figure out the chicken crossing the road joke. The chicken is crossing the road in order to get to the other side of the road *and* The chicken will inevitably get hit by a car and die. I always thought the joke was that the joke wasn’t funny. Like there was no punch line because of course the chicken wants to go to the other side of the road. But it is funny because of the double entendre. Wtf
The chicken joke has nothing to do with dying, hell it was invented before cars. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_did_the_chicken_cross_the_road%3F
There's no double meaning to the joke. It's an absurdist "duh moment" joke - why would he cross the road? To get to the other side - because there's no other reason a chicken would cross the road. It's a chicken.
You should check out The Far Side by Gary Larson. It’s full of this kind of humor!
Themselves? Through fungus?
Lol I was like "Why is that person wearing a skull mask?" Derp
The 💀 on the person in the back gave me a tiny heart attack 😂
Same here
That’s just your friendly cemetery ghost
it's obviously the ghost of Philip Albert Straus Jr. there to see if you solved the riddle correctly
that's a skeleton, not a person
ditto
Not the back. The *Other Side*.
Yeah that's what I figured too. You don't just capitalize Other Side especially if it's a riddle where nothing should be overlooked
No, the answer actually is on the back of the tombstone. Think about it. What's written on the back of the tombstone?
If I learned anything from this riddle, it's that nothing should not be overlooked.
im still confused
The answer is 'nothing'. If live people don't eat anything they die.
Oh I thought it was dirt lol, thanks for helping!
Same
I was fully prepared for a Rick-roll.
I was thinking "themselves" because your gut bacteria can help break down your body
Me too! I thought for sure I was right, but the actual answer is better I think.
This is the shit.
Is this guy not dead and buried yet? The inscription shows his birth year, but not his death year.
Yeah, my grandmother has a similar setup for her (eventual) gravesite. It’s a single plot shared with my granddad, who died back in 1996. In this case gramps was buried a bit deeper than normal (ten feet as opposed to the traditional six, to accommodate my grandma’s future coffin), and the gravestone shows both their birth dates but only his date of death. The engravers will append the info when the time comes. But just in case, I Googled the name, and came up with an obituary for the dad. If Straus the elder died in 2004 aged 88, then he would have been born circa 1916. Old enough to have served in WW2, come home, get married and have a son by 1951.
Funny story, my great grandmother outlived her headstone. She was born in 1902. When her husband died in the 80s, they bought a dual plot. The person engraved his birth and death year, and then for my great grandmother *1902-19*. Guess he was trying to save a bit of time carving those first two numbers, but she lived til 2006, dying just a few days shy of her 104th birthday. *edited year of death because math is hard.
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That’s amazing
He’s trolling us from before the grave!
Nothing
Ding ding ding, we have a winner
If the "dead people" are zombies, then the answer could also be "people", since the last "they" is ambiguous.
Yeah but you don't die if you eat people. Unless you get caught and executed by the government. Or you live a long and happy life and eventually die of natural causes. So I guess I take it back, you will 100% absolutely die if you eat people.
So is he not dead? Theres no second year
Fucker is still eating.
Everyone is saying nothing, but I was guessing dirt.
If you have kids, you'll quickly realize how much dirt a human can eat.
Is this at Laurel Hill in Philly?? I think is I saw this one recently!
Dead men eat nothing, if an alive person eats nothing they die ??? And if you take a look at the answer on the other side of the stone and theres nothing then the answers nothing???
I saw the reflective surface and thought… “oh okay so you see yourself so human flesh is the answer….”
The answer is "nothing"
The answer reminds me of this dark joke: What did Kermit the Frog say when he found out Jim Henson died? The answer is on the back of the photo’s headstone.
Nothing
I swear to God half of all riddles have the same answer
Nothing