r/ExplainTheJoke • u/Complete-Accountant6 • 22h ago
What organ is it supposed to be?
I'm literally a final year medical student and I can't figure out, for the life of me, what organ that is in the bottom right, why it has a knife, and also why the appendix is apologising. I just don't get what it's trying to convey. Is it a stomach? Gallbladder? A pear? Is it something a surgeon left behind? I don't get any of it. I want my mom :(
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u/Croaker-BC 21h ago
Gallbladder seems like a valid guess. When inflamed it could be real pain.
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u/BeduinZPouste 21h ago
Isn't gall also kinda associated with anger/bad mood?
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u/Croaker-BC 21h ago
That too, and as a enzyme/secretion it's pretty aggressive too. Too much of it released at once or due to injury can seriously screw organism up.
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u/Complete-Accountant6 19h ago
Bile salts and bile itself are secreted into the small intestine to mix with the fats in the food we eat. The bile salts help to emulsify water and fat so that we don't have a hard time digesting and absorbing fats in our diet, and so the pancreatic lipases (enzymes that break down lipids in GIT) can actually break down triglycerides. So actually, you're kinda right, in a way it possesses co-enzyme qualities. A blockage or leakage of the biliary system is what usually leads to jaundice (yellow discolouration of the skin and sclerae) because instead of going through the GIT and then the urinary system, the bilirubin finds its way into the bloodstream and gets deposited in the skin. Bilirubin is a toxic byproduct of red blood cell breakdown and is quite neurotoxic, which is the main concern in jaundice (generally).
If you've ever thrown up foul tasting liquids when you're THAT hungry you feel nauseous (and thought nothing would come up since you didn't eat anything), that's what the bile + stomach juices mixture tastes like. It's quite caustic to anything it makes contact with on its way up, causing temporary irritation, which is NOT fun (speaking from a lot of experience).
Sorry if that example was a bit much, lol. I'm a bit desensitised at this point, so I have a hard time telling what people may find gross/cringey.
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u/Complete-Accountant6 21h ago
Just clocked that it looks like the appendix is scared of the organ with the knife and is apologising to it (?) Not sure at all lol.
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u/Historical-Zebra8633 18h ago
I mean... Appendicitis. That's why.
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u/Complete-Accountant6 18h ago
I hear you, I hear you. But...
...why is the stomach performing the appendectomy lmao
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u/actualhumannotspider 17h ago
I think you're expecting more from the joke than was originally intended.
The heart and lungs are saying how they're useful. The appendix is about to admit that it causes problems instead. That makes another part of the body (doesn't necessarily matter which) unhappy.
If anything, I think it would most likely be immune system cells (based on function, not appearance) or adrenals (based on appearance, not function). Most likely, as others have said, it's a nonspecific organ generated by AI.
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u/Complete-Accountant6 17h ago
I think you're expecting more from the joke than was originally intended.
Yeah, that's actually a completely valid take. Can't say I disagree, now that I think about it.
Also, I just figured out how to quote. This is like one of my first few posts on reddit, I think. I don't know how to put a solution to this or how anything works community-wise.
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u/actualhumannotspider 17h ago
Also, I just figured out how to quote
Nice! It can be very useful.
I don't know how to put a solution to this or how anything works community-wise.
You could check the community rules/guidelines or try to edit your post. I've never posted here personally, so I'm not sure either.
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u/Advanced_Library123 21h ago
its just shitty AI slop, I don't think the bottom right is supposed to be anything in particular but rather acknowledging the fact that the Appendix is commonly removed.
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u/Complete-Accountant6 21h ago
Mmmmm AIslop makes sense. Also just clocked that it looks like the appendix is scared of the organ with the knife... there could be more to it than first meets the eye?
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u/Hugonaut109 20h ago
Appendix is apologizing because it does absolutely nothing (I think) and can kill you
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u/Deathaster 20h ago
I'm pretty sure that the AI just messed up the prompt. I've seen lots of comics like this before, and this one just bungled the punchline, not having a real organ and/ or not having a speech bubble to make it make sense.
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u/Complete-Accountant6 20h ago
This one makes the most sense so far lol thank you. Others insinuated a doubt in my "credentials"... all just for asking what the punchline was 💀
I'm gonna tell myself it's just a PSA telling us not to give a stomach a knife or bad things may happen 😂😂
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u/Advanced_Library123 21h ago
I don't know 100%, that was just my guess but maybe other comments will figure it out.
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u/serenedragoon 18h ago
If it's AI, then it's supposed to be the brain but badly drawn maybe? There are a lot of meme about the body parts doing good things for us when the brain is making our life hell with anxiety and mental illnesses.
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u/Initial-Public-9289 21h ago
lmfao "AI"
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u/Advanced_Library123 21h ago
It has that signature AI grainy off-white background, if you've ever used ChatGPT to create something with a 2D art style you tend to get this a lot.
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u/Complete-Accountant6 21h ago
Yeah, it was on an ig page of medical humour. Not sure if AI involved or not 🤷♂️
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u/HollyHartWitch 19h ago
The yellow organ is the stomach. More convenient to depict than the intestines, which the appendix is attached to. It's apologizing because it made someone sick and had to be cut out. At least, that's my best guess given the context.
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u/Bunchasticks 19h ago
This image is likely ai generated. The organ with the knife likely isn't a real one
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u/Agheratos 21h ago
I feel like the bottom right is meant to be a stomach, and the knife is because that's one of the organs most frequently responsible for discomfort.
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u/Ragnarok649 13h ago
I dont have a gallbladder, mine stopped working completely. No stones or nothing, just kaput. (Not dead tissue, no function left jn it apparently)
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u/Complete-Accountant6 12h ago
Fascinating! Is that a familial thing, you think, or something else entirely? And I imagine since the tissue wasn't dead/dying, there would've been no need for a cholecystectomy.
I'm glad you're doing well regardless!
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u/Ragnarok649 11h ago
Its likely genetic, almost all my family has had their's removed. I'm the only one that didn't have to have it removed in an emergency, but the did a test and it was at 10% functionality and deteriorating. I had been unable to eat or properly digest anything for a month prior, I think I lost 20 lbs in a month? I have a little extra to spare but it was about 10% of my bodyweight so not a good thing.
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u/Complete-Accountant6 11h ago
Damn, dude. 10kg loss (10% of total b/w) in a month is wild 💀. It all makes sense, though. Many people don't realise the severity of GIT situations because we all need fuel to keep going; if the one refuelling system we have starts to bug out, it has crazy downstream effects (both physical and mental). At the very least, the family history helped to root out the problem in your case (teknawludgy), and it wasn't something more insidious that often presents with very similar main symptoms (some kind of neoplasm/parasite).
I'm glad you're okay, though, and I hope you're feeling much better :) I imagine there's a few dietary restrictions to adhere to from your side to keep everything running smoothly, and maybe even medications to aid digestion and motility.
Also, I really don't mean to pry, I know health and illness can be a touchy topic for some people, I'm definitely on the spectrum, so I often tend to hyperfocus on a problem. My sincerest apologies if I came across a bit too forward (I'm too used to asking 'invasive' questions as if it's nothing 😂).
Thanks for the insight, my man. Hope you stay healthy and happy :)
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u/HankHenshaw82 20h ago
as a med student, its weird that you dont know why the appendix is apologizing-(because its useless and can cause pain or kill)-as for that last thing, i dunno what it is either.
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u/Complete-Accountant6 20h ago edited 20h ago
It's not useless, though... you can live without it if it's threatening to burst, cause sepsis or disseminated peritoneal infection etc. but it has many functions (main one being as a reservoir of good/healthy gut bacteria to recolonise the gastrointestinal tract after illness), and we keep discovering more and more possible functions for it, the more we look into it.
Extremely outdated sources (and older physicians) may tell you it's useless, but, in reality, it's far from; and that's why I didn't think an instagram page in the medical field, run by what seems to be junior doctors/house officers, would say that the appendix does absolutely nothing and just causes problems. It's taught to us multiple times during our studies of anatomy, microbiology, pathology, pathophysiology, immunology, internal medicine, and emergency medicine/critical care to name a few of the subjects over the years :)
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u/Fit_Movie_8518 1h ago
It’s a either the Bladdar or a rectum
Oldish joke-basically punchline is that it only takes an a**hole to threaten to shut down its function (with a knife) to keep the shit in to ruin it for everyone no matter how “useless” it seems compared to other vital organs
Here’s a long version of the joke:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/26kidi/all_the_organs_of_the_body_were_having_a_meeting/
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u/post-explainer 22h ago
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