He certainly was a lover:

If anyone’s wondering why:

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The joke is that the teal shirt guy did something awkward, and then awkwardly tried to change the subject and drew more attention to himself instead of successfully changing the subject. It’s not a whole lot of joke I think

Yeah, there’s no redeeming quality to this strip. Matt Melvin is the artist and has a series of C&H strips like this and I think is trying to do over-the-top humor like this one but isn’t really getting it:

If anyone thinks we should do a different posting order for the old ones (i.e. random from all of C&H instead of sequential), it’d be good to hear feedback here: https://discuss.online/post/17098553

I hope they name the fork “Orgasmic Maps”

Just trying to bring a little joy to everyone’s day 🙂

For some background if anyone missed the joke:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_United_States_presidential_debates#"You_forgot_Poland"

I’d say it falls into the category of anti-joke. Kind of like this bit from Space Ghost

That could work, it would take a bit of jiggering with the script I use to post, but not too much.

Does anyone else have opinions? I suspect nobody else will see this before I do it, but if someone does, would that be too many posts?

Yeah, it’s weird to think about but its lifespan can be measure in decades now 😮

Here’s mine (https://explosm.net/rcg/usjewjphe):

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The blue shirt guy thinks fast and comes to the conclusion that life isn’t worth living because of things like past due bills and intentionally gets hit in the head in order to die.

Yeah, I think this is where they were trying to go with the joke from the previous strip. That one just wasn’t absurd enough

I look forward to seeing it! Based on responses to other old comics that I’ve posted, people will understand that it was a product of its time, unless it’s really mean or something. See here for a recent example: https://discuss.online/post/18096035

The closest thing I could think of is https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AntiquatedLinguistics

Lemmy used to hardcode it, and you would’ve needed to patch the code to remove it:

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/622

It’s now editable in the admin settings of the site. I’m not sure if the Lemmy devs inserted a default value or if it was manually set by @jgrim@discuss.online, but right now it just filters that one word and variant spellings on discuss.online. So IMO not really censorship in the same way that lemmy.ml does it

Yeah, I copy/pasted the quote as-is, and Lemmy has a slur filter that automatically changes things to *removed*, which in this case made it more confusing.

I also don’t get why he’s old and she’s not 🤷

See glowie if you’re confused about the joke:

From glow +‎ -ie. Originated by Terry Davis, who stated in a 2017 video that “CIA removed glow in the dark”, implying that they are conspicuous. The term “glowie” would become popular on the 4chan /pol/ board around 2019.

Oh thanks, should’ve clicked the back button before asking 🤦