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can, in 8 January 2024

I don’t get it

BB69,

I assume this is an argument that zoos suck and animals should only be in nature.

An argument that ignores the conservation efforts zoos provide

MissJinx,
@MissJinx@lemmy.world avatar

We wouldn’t need conservation if it wasn’t men so, not a valid argument

BB69,

Would you prefer there be a center to help fight extinction or just let them go extinct

SacralPlexus,

I think the author is trying to make a statement about how much better it is seeing animals in their wild habitat than the artifice of a zoo environment.

The joke is that the character in the comic gets to experience this beauty of animals in nature and then reacts the opposite of how you’d expect. He doesn’t feel wonder and is so disgusted that he is led to create the first zoo.

I think you could best summarize the joke’s point as the author saying “Somewhere out there is an idiot that saw these beautiful creatures in the wild and thought ‘hey this would be so much better if I put them in a cage and charge money!’”

SpaceNoodle,

So the author has never been to a zoo?

wowwoweowza, in 5 January 2023

Came to Lemmy so I don’t get advertising. Pretty sure infantile cartoon can be made without obvious product placement?

trailblazer911,

“Dodged a bullet”. It’s a brand name perfectly used to convey a joke.

wowwoweowza,

Joke employed to feature product. Tomato, tomahto.

CADmonkey,

Except that Dodge doesn’t make trucks anymore and hasn’t for years. They’re called Ram now.

LaserTurboShark69,

Careful, I just got down voted to shit for making the same mistake

wowwoweowza,

It’s not a mistake. Creators need to be reminded product placement has zero role at Lemmy.

TheSanSabaSongbird,

Just admit that you didn’t get the joke. Now you just look petty.

pearsaltchocolatebar,

What product do you think is being placed?

KingThrillgore, in Random 2015-5-17
@KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml avatar

They wrote this entire fucking thing for the joke at the end.

RavindraNemandi,
@RavindraNemandi@ttrpg.network avatar

I mean, isn’t that how most jokes work?

paddirn, (edited ) in Random 8 January 2012

Is that how he got into bed with her or he’s just thinking about talking when he should be having sex?

In the moment, when I’m actually talking to a woman (or any person), it’s not really what I’m thinking about, but I do think about their anatomy and sex with a good number of women throughout the day. Just brief flashes of possible moments. Thinking about sex and talking at the same though is alot of processing power, I can’t do two things at once like that. Women though, are good at multi-tasking, so I assume they’re more likely than men to do that.

FireTower,
@FireTower@lemmy.world avatar

The joke is that he loves talking to women so much he fantasizes about it during sex. Which is humorous because the conventional wisdom displayed in the left side would indicate the inverse would be true. Happy to help.

Aldehyde, in 5 January 2023

Wife bad

Revan343,

Big expensive wedding bad

(But pointless RAM truck also bad)

Mango,

What’s pointless about a truck? They’re insanely useful and valuable!

Revan343,

Most trucks are for looks, and don’t actually get used for anything heavy-duty, and RAMs in particular are garbage

Mango,

Now how do you come to that conclusion??

Revan343,

The conclusion that most trucks are pointless, or the conclusion that RAMs are garbage?

The former by living in a place where pretty trucks are everywhere, and there isn’t a single scratch or dent on most of them (and they’re usually lifted crew cab short box). The latter, personal experience. If you want a truck, get a Toyota or a Chevy

Mango,

What I’ve gathered here is that you come from someplace weird with truck nuts who have definitely rubbed off on you enough that you make sweeping generalizations.

That said, I’m pretty sure Chevy is the only manufacturer I didn’t see on the list of auto makers lobbying against right to repair.

Revan343,

What I’ve gathered here is that you come from someplace weird with truck nuts

True, Alberta

who have definitely rubbed off on you enough that you make sweeping generalizations

Probably also true

I’m pretty sure Chevy is the only manufacturer I didn’t see on the list of auto makers lobbying against right to repair

Huh. Interesting.

Mango,

Yeah, I’ve been wanting a Subaru or Mazda, but it’s looking like Chevy might be the way. I try really hard to stand on principles that matter.

psmgx,

Nah they did too

TheGreenGolem,
@TheGreenGolem@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Pointless trucks, like in 90% of the cases. We are not talking about the people who actually use it for taking stuff with it on the field. We are talking about the assholes who drive it in cities “because it looks cool” or some shit. In case you were just kidding, consider my comment null.

TheSanSabaSongbird,

Almost no one actually needs a full-size pickup. The only real exception is if you regularly haul heavy loads on trailers, but that doesn’t apply to most full-size pickup owners. Most people buy them because it’s part of an image they’ve been sold through the advertising industry.

I drive a 20-year-old mid-sized pickup with an extended bed and there has never been a single time when it hasn’t been perfectly adequate for all my needs. It’s also a 4-wheel-drive, but since I only ever use that feature on snow and ice and rough unpaved roads and am not an off-road enthusiast, it’s not lifted and doesn’t tower over other vehicles in traffic.

wellee,

Yeah this comic might be the worst I’ve seen. Like ad placement as well, wut?

loobkoob,
@loobkoob@kbin.social avatar

It's not an ad. The entire comic is setting up a pun around the male character feeling like he's dodged a bullet.

Its mocking overly-expensive weddings. It's mocking overly-expensive cars/trucks. It's mocking self-centred people in relationships who are oblivious to their partners' perspectives. It's mocking people who have no financial sense and see their wants as needs but are happy to dismiss their partners' wants as unimportant. It's mocking car adverts. But mostly, it's just a silly pun.

Revan343,

Thank you for explaining the whole joke

…I don’t mean that sarcastically, some people needed the explanation

wellee,

Yeah, it’s a meta bad humor joke. Wife bad and inconsiderate.

pearsaltchocolatebar,

An ad for what? Dodge hasn’t sold trucks for 14 years.

Bipta,

That's not the joke. I'm amazed no one can get the joke here.

768, in 5 January 2023
  • Man vs Woman.
  • Wife Bad.
  • Big Car, Big Dick.
  • Man Leaves/Flees/MGTOW.
  • Women Expensive.
  • Showoff Wedding.
  • Eternal Bride.
Rachelhazideas,

The joke is that big trucks are just as frivolous as overpriced weddings, and both of these people are idiots.

agentshags,
@agentshags@sh.itjust.works avatar

And that he dodged a bullet

768,

I think bulletdouche has to up his comms with them feels

rab,

No it’s actually just a simple pun lol

RGB3x3,

It’s both

rab,

Dodge hasn’t even sold trucks in how many years

Got_Bent,

Huh? Is this like a secondary joke I’m missing?

Dodge trucks are all over the place round these here coal rolling parts. Most aggressive vehicles on the road.

www.ramtrucks.com

NaoPb, in 5 January 2023

Good call. Big expensive weddings are silly.

brlemworld,

Big expensive trucks are also silly.

pearsaltchocolatebar,

But they’re at least potentially useful.

LaserTurboShark69, in 5 January 2023

Ad placements in Cyanide and Happiness? Things really are going to shit aren’t they

commandar,

There hasn’t been a truck sold under the Dodge brand in over a decade at this point.

It’s a pun, not an ad. Dodged a bullet.

pearsaltchocolatebar,

Huh, I was about to call bullshit, but I guess Ram is now a subsidiary of Stellantis.

commandar, (edited )

Same parent company but trucks were split off into the separate Ram brand after the 2008 recession.

Giant megacorp isn’t going to spend product placement dollars promoting a branding they intentionally moved away from almost 15 years ago.

LaserTurboShark69,

Oh shit I had no idea. The internet has made me so cynical

Steve,

Everyone still calls it “Dodge Ram”

helpImTrappedOnline,

You forgot your /s

givesomefucks, in 5 January 2023

I’m not sure when it happened, but the author of these comics definitely pulled a Scott Addams at some point.

Probably when he got enough money to start thinking Republicans make some good points about tax rates

can,

A Scott Adams? As far as I’m aware there’s three authors.

EnderMB,

Wow, this is an absolutely wild take. What the fuck are you talking about?

givesomefucks,

It’s a ripoff of a 30 year old bumper sticker joke…

I legitimately remember seeing them all over in the 90s.

And it’s always been conservative assholes with the bumper sticker.

loobkoob,
@loobkoob@kbin.social avatar

Nah, Scott Adams is a hateful bigot. He thinks black people are a "hate group" - he truly went off the rails.

I don't really think this comic reflects its author's personal views at all. C&H has always been filled with shock comedy, black comedy, deliberate insensitivity, and silly puns, and everything is a target. This one doesn't really stand out as any different to how the comic's always been.

I don't really feel like there's ever really been a right-wing slant to these comics either. And I say that as someone who's ardently left-wing.

givesomefucks, (edited )

I mean, I remember it from like a decade ago when it first came out.

But before Lemmy it had been maybe 5 years since I saw one?

So maybe that’s why it seems like a big change. Back then it was just dark humor, now it seems like it tries to piss people off and say “just a joke”. Like, the quality isn’t what I remember, even if it’s trying to be the same thing.

Like comparing The Onion to Babylon Bee, they’re both trying to do the same thing, the result isn’t the same tho. There’s a conservative slant that just makes it annoying. Like, both of those things are giant wastes of money, why are they the two options?

The only webcomic I kept up with was SMBC and xkcd

bus_factor,

Cyanide and Happiness has always been hit or miss. It’s a collaboration between multiple cartoonists, and they’re not all equally funny to everyone.

Bipta,

TIL it's multiple cartoonists.

can,

For almost the first decade it was four.

underwire212,

There’s a conservative slant to The Onion?

agentshags,
@agentshags@sh.itjust.works avatar

I think they meant the Babylon Bee

Hawke,

No, to the Bee.

agamemnonymous,
@agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works avatar

I mean, I remember it from like a decade ago when it first came out.

Oh, buddy. 2005 was 19 years ago.

superduperenigma,
rickyrigatoni,

Classic case of the media not changing but the humor of the viewer did.

vinceman, in 5 January 2023

Interesting take to say this could even be conceived of as an ad, as that’s clearly based on like a 2009 Dodge. Interesting they used Bullet though, a company called Sterling used to make a heavy frame truck called the Sterling Bullet which would have been based on that body style of Ram.

loobkoob,
@loobkoob@kbin.social avatar

They used "bullet" because the entire comic is setting up the joke about having "dodged a bullet".

lseif, in 3 January 2023

how can you get a bajillion dollars from a film and then act pretentious about how people watch it. who cares?

hemko,

Artists.

Some years back when there was a bad quality demo leaked from Nightwish album, the head of the band was furious because people would judge the album based on that shit quality sample.

For some artists it’s important that the person experiencing the art can see and/or hear it as the artist intended. Which kinda makes sense that you’d want people to see the beat sidw, just like when selling a car

eatthecake, in 5 January 2023

What is this garbage?

KeefChief13,

Garbage

Rascabin, in 6 January 2023

Careful Icarus. That’s someone’s fetish.

optissima,

Where’s that “poorly disguised fetish” emoji…

Number358, in 22 October 2023

But pacman doesn’t kill the ghosts

vox, (edited )
@vox@sopuli.xyz avatar

he does tho.
well he turns them blue and returns them to spawn.
that kinda counts as killing right?

EvilEyedPanda, in 2 January 2024

Dude I had a panhandler pull this on me.

JoMiran,
@JoMiran@lemmy.ml avatar

Look at the last panel carefully

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