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  • Alice@beehaw.orgto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneHairule
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    5 hours ago

    That’s actually the joke of the original comic. The kid calls the guy Shrek, and the mom apologizes for her daughter’s rudeness before saying something like “no, that’s just an ugly bald man”.

    I like how every time it gets edited, there are people in the comments who notice the Shrek similarity but don’t always agree if it’s intentional. The artist did a good job on that front.




  • Alice@beehaw.orgtoScience Memes@mander.xyzBees
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    2 days ago

    Not sure about hornets, but I know wasps eat a lot of herbivorous bugs like aphids and caterpillars.

    A lot of people see eating caterpillars as one of the “bad” things wasps do, but population control is necessary if we want crops.












  • Alice@beehaw.orgtoScience Memes@mander.xyzCucumber 🥒
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    13 days ago

    People just love to assume that archeologists have no idea what sex or gay people are. Not saying there isn’t a problem with that, but the memes are overblown.

    I remember seeing a ton of “archeologists: tHeY’rE jUsT fRiEnDs” comments on an ancient illustration of two Egyptian men, when every single source I could find explained why they seem to have been a gay couple.



  • I like this so much better than all the bitching about how surreal and unfamiliar gen alpha’s shit is.

    Something that’s really novel when you’re a kid is taking a strange premise that seems like a one-off gag and making a whole narrative about it. It’s why we had flash cartoons built around the premise of “what if Mario met Sonic using DBZ rules” or why some of us watched hour-long amateur movies about the Nostalgia Critic. I’m not saying those things were good, but it’s really subversive when you first encounter it, and it’s emotionally satisfying to explore the potential of something you liked instead of letting it be a flash in the pan.

    So basically, when the kids try to tell me about the Skibidi Toilet’s ability to turn even the bleakest situation around, even though I have no idea what the FUCK they’re talking about, I understand why it’s so riveting to them.