No Hands? How to Wipe Your Ass - Dark Humor Meme
Text content
How would someone with both his hands amputated wipe his ass?
Overview
This is a dark humor meme that combines a provocative, crude question with an out-of-context pop culture screenshot to create a visual punchline. The top text asks: "How would someone with both his hands amputated wipe his ass?" Below this text is a screenshot of Thomas Shelby (portrayed by Cillian Murphy) from the TV series Peaky Blinders, sitting shirtless in a plush armchair, holding a pipe in his mouth with his mouth, and resting in a relaxed, suggestive posture. The joke relies on an unspoken, vulgar implication: the person would use their feet or lower body to perform the task, with the character's pose leaning into this crude solution. The humor comes from the shock value of the question paired with the unexpected, repurposed visual reference, leaning into dark, edgy comedy.
Origin notes
The image portion of the meme is a direct screenshot from the British crime drama Peaky Blinders, taken from a scene where the character Thomas Shelby is in a private, relaxed setting. This meme is a remix/edited version of the original scene, created by adding the crude top text question to the screenshot. Memes like this are commonly shared on social media platforms such as Reddit (subreddits like r/memes, r/darkhumor), Twitter/X, and Instagram, where users repurpose popular TV/film screenshots to create comedic, often edgy content. There is no visible watermark, so the original creator of the meme is unknown, but it is a typical example of pop culture screenshot meme remixes that circulated in the 2020s as Peaky Blinders gained widespread popularity online.