https://theonion.com/baby-im-a-haunt-you/

  • heggs_bayer
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    3 months ago

    The anti-Roma pun becomes a lot less clever once you realize the the word "gyp" is derived from the slur.

    • Melonius [he/him]
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      3 months ago

      yeah I was wondering if there was some deeper pun I missed

    • Llituro [he/him, they/them]
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      3 months ago

      my mother maintains the inauspicious position of being the only person i've ever known to insist upon a waterbed, and one of the kind with minimal baffles at that. i'm more baffled than that bed.

      • came_apart_at_Kmart [he/him, comrade/them]
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        3 months ago

        I always thought the unspoken point of the waterbed phenomenon was that you could use the rhythmic wave motion to power assist sexual cranking.

        I was born after they were more or less gone from the scene, but the cultural references were always that dudes who bang a lot have waterbeds, ceiling mirrors, tiger print, etc.

        this is not an elaborate "your mom" joke, I swear lol.

        • Llituro [he/him, they/them]
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          3 months ago

          i dunno tbh with you, my mom's deal is that she's autistic and refuses to believe it. it's like a sensory comfort and cool in the summer or something

          • came_apart_at_Kmart [he/him, comrade/them]
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            3 months ago

            I liked them as a little kid, but never got to sleep on one. now that I'm an adult, all I see is the logistical nightmare of setting one up and the catastrophes that become possible with some giant bladder of water inside the house that could leak or burst.... and the whole time growing up, all the adults said they fail all the time, the sleep isn't restful because of all the rocking, etc.

            I slept on a big ship for a while, where some people need like Dramamine and stuff. I was out like a light being subtly rocked like that.

            I would totally love some hassle free opportunity to try one out for a week.

            • LocalOaf [they/them, ze/hir]
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              3 months ago

              I feel like nobody with a water bed had pets

              Like my cats would absolutely fuck it up and flood the bedroom if I had one

            • TraschcanOfIdeology [they/them, comrade/them]
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              3 months ago

              Not only that, but having a bladder full of high heat capacity water sucking up every joule of body heat from you will make for a very sniffly waking up.

              When I learned that almost every waterbed needs a heater I wondered how much energy is wasted on something that cloth and foam can do by just existing.

        • JoeByeThen [he/him, they/them]
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          3 months ago

          I always thought the unspoken point of the waterbed phenomenon was that you could use the rhythmic wave motion to power assist sexual cranking.

          It fought back at you, actually. Very difficult to get a good rhythm going. But they did have heaters and that was amazingly comfortable.

          • UlyssesT
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            2 months ago

            deleted by creator

          • SpiderFarmer [he/him]
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            3 months ago

            No shit, just look at the clothes of the era. The jean jacket was probably the only good clothing item in circulation at the time, which shows how low the bar was.

    • Wertheimer [any]
      hexagon
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      3 months ago

      An inauspicious debut if so. This one is the worst in a while. I like seeing '70s Kelly, though

    • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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      3 months ago

      My brain placed 'large' in front of adult son due to conditioning. It didn't notice the word large wasn't there until a second read

  • LENINSGHOSTFACEKILLA [he/him]M
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    3 months ago

    I don't understand the kelly slop. Is his work supposed to be satire? am I missing something or just stupid? His stuff gets posted all the time and I dont know why anyone likes it.

    • dead [he/him]
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      3 months ago

      it's the onion. it's a parody of right wing cartoonists. it's like parody Ben Garrison.

      the comic in the OP is meant to being making fun of the way that conservative men view women. the same people are in both panels and the adult son resembles the man, same clothing and hair. the comic says "forge a relationship with my adult son", however it safe to say that the son belongs to both of them. the comic portrays the man as the victim, despite him being an absent father to his own son.

      https://theonion.com/opinion/cartoons/

        • dead [he/him]
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          3 months ago

          wow that's the first time that I am learning this. I had assumed that the random american cartoonist was a radical marxist based on cartoons that they had drawn for a satirical internet newspaper. (me if I was delusional)

          it's an internet comic. sometimes it's funny, sometimes it's not. it's safe to say that 95% of web comics are made by liberals. it's okay to laugh at comics.

          • BelieveRevolt [he/him]
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            3 months ago

            Weirdly aggressive response. I had assumed he may have been further left than he actually was, since in some of his cartoons he, for example, mocks anti-China hysteria.