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[-] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 186 points 1 year ago

I had a mask on in the grocery store yesterday and got some weird looks. Like people I'm not afraid of getting sick...

I AM sick

This is for you, you morons

[-] Bonesince1997@lemmy.world 78 points 1 year ago

Thank you for your consideration of others ♥️

[-] tfw_no_toiletpaper@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

When I do this I usually cough a lot demonstratively, just so they understand and are scared lmao

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

Yer trying to protect me from them supposed viruses? Sounds like commnism' teh me.

[-] niktemadur@lemmy.world 79 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

A full century after the Spanish Influenza and we still got to witness how so many imbeciles remain untouched by education and empathy.
What a dismayingly timeless old comic.

[-] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 72 points 1 year ago
[-] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

History never repeats itself...but it often rhymes.

[-] pyre@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

i hate this quote. it just doesn't change anything. "history repeats itself" means the exact same thing. it's not like people mean that the exact same people do the exact same things in the exact same circumstances... it's just meaningless distinction without difference.

[-] Klear@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

If the quote at least itself rhymed, then you could call it an improvement, but no...

[-] greedytacothief@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I just assume it's a George Lucas reference.

[-] pyre@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

it's a much older quote, often misattributed to Mark Twain, possibly because he has another quote about history not repeating. but it isn't this. this is possibly a humorous remark of some sort, but it's not that funny or clever imo. the main problem is that for it to work you need to completely misunderstand the saying "history repeats itself" to mean some sort of Battlestar Galactica's "all of this has happened before..." type mystical statement, which it isn't.

[-] greedytacothief@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I'm not sure if this is satire or not, but I was making a rif of the "It's like poetry, it rhymes." Meme

https://youtu.be/bxU2eqZtYmc?si=mBtc9CrcXdb0JPAd

[-] pyre@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

yeah i didn't make the connection, i thought he probably said it somewhere.

[-] NaoPb@eviltoast.org 6 points 1 year ago

Mystery rhymes with history.

[-] shasta@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Dolt rhymes with colt!

[-] blackluster117@possumpat.io 36 points 1 year ago

Combination of shit eating grin and extremely punchable face, dude was cruisin' for a bruisin'.

[-] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 26 points 1 year ago

Where was this in 2020, hmm?

[-] Neon@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Already 102 years old

Hmmm?

[-] Artyom@lemm.ee 25 points 1 year ago
[-] SharkEatingBreakfast@sopuli.xyz 15 points 1 year ago

I've only got a single comment about wearing a mask in public. Somebody cattily asking "why are you wearing a mask?" to which I replied "How about you mind your own business?" Did not go any further than that.

Because I have stupid little bitch-ass immune system, I'm ridiculously susceptible to being sick, which I don't enjoy. So I'm either 1 germ away from being sick, or I'm already sick.

[-] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 15 points 1 year ago

One of the nice things about post-pandemic life where I am is the normalization of wearing masks if you're sick, vulnerable, or just feel like it. Someone shows up at work


or on public transportation


with a mask and no one bats an eye.

(I'm in the USA in a very blue, VHCOL area, YMMV...)

[-] SharkEatingBreakfast@sopuli.xyz 9 points 1 year ago

It's nice! I don't like my health situation being outed, so I'm glad that it's now less acceptable to ask.

Unfortunately, I'm in a very red area. My last boss kept exasperatedly telling me that I "don't have to wear a mask while I'm at work"— which gave me more of a reason to wear a mask at work. Turns out, I was right. None of them were vaccinated, and my boss ended up having a heart attack which forced him to permanently close down the shop. Oh well.

[-] Xanthrax@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I got that a few times, and I ignored them, and then they all continued to make loud insults to themselves.

[-] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 14 points 1 year ago

Holy shit, based

[-] ripcord@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Hey, you're taking over Picard's job :)

One thing I've been surprised about with Everett's comics after buying a collection is how many I have sympathy for, or connect with - considering it's over 100 years old (and I'm not particularly a fan of violence as a response to anything).

[-] Taleya@aussie.zone 11 points 1 year ago

Everett true is my goddamn idol

[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 1 year ago
[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

He's not always on the right side of history.

[-] Enkrod@feddit.org 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Evenhanded in handing out the beatings

[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago

Yikes. Fuck that artist in the ear.

[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 4 points 1 year ago

In fairness, it predates Tintin in the Congo by about 20-30 years, and that's far worse.

Everett True is practically Wokey McWokeface in comparison.

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

I missed a family member's wedding because of covid. A few days later I saw a guy at the store not wearing a mask and I kind of went ballistic on him. I'm not proud to admit that I vented a lot of my frustration over the whole management of the pandemic on that guy. I was fully ready to fist fight over it. In the end, he decided he did not want to fight me, despite being twice my size and half my age. I made him go stand in the corner of the store until I finished my transaction and left the store.

[-] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago
this post was submitted on 21 Jul 2024
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