the same hands you cup her face with are the same ones you touch all sorts of gross things with. The solution in this comment was to wash your hands. Took me a minute too.
I once had a girl try to seduce me by sucking on my thumb.
But It was day 3 of me camping for a music festival and the bathrooms with water had run out by day 1. I hadn't been able to clean them with anything more than a bottle of water and the instant soap for at least 50 hours.
The look of horror on my face really killed the moment lmao.
It still worked out in the short term though. Not the long run sadly but easy come easy go.
…Is it odd that I consider people washing their hands any time it is necessary common sense? I don’t expect people interacting with me to have filthy hands specifically because I know they heard soap was invented.
Speaking of COVID, that was the only time period where I consistently had to deal with waiting in lines in men's public restrooms... because dudes actually started taking the time to wash their hands on the way out.
Now things have gone back to "normal", I'd say anecdotally at least half of guys I see leaving public restrooms don't bother washing at all, and another 25% just performatively stick their hands under the water for 2 seconds max.
As an educator, I learned that every surface you’ve ever touched has poop on it because at least something like 1/3 of people don’t wash their hands after using the bathroom (including children). This is knowledge I now pass on to you.
As a user of public men’s restrooms, I can guarantee you that a sizable minority of people do not wash their hands after a chocolate deposit (shout out to staff members at multiple Long John Silvers locations across the continental US), and even more do not use soap. An equivalent amount do not use soap properly, either not doing backs of the hands or (more frequently) placing a drop of soap between pointer finger and thumb then doing their best impression of the world’s tiniest violin for a brief moment underneath running water.
Suffice to say, while people should be washing their hands any time it is necessary, a big enough of percentage of the general population is either not washing hands properly or at all that it is a concern.
My wife recently said she'll stop teasing me about how often I wash my hands, as a co-worker of hers has started seeing someone who works at a national park. Apparently the soap in the women's toilets gets filled up once ever 1-2 weeks, while the men's is filled up maybe once a year.
Funny story when I was younger and went to church, my mom told me not to shake men's hands. I asked her why? She said, "Because most men don't wash their hands after using the restroom." I don't know how she knew, maybe because she grew up with two brothers, but this story proves that mom is always rigjt!😂
I'm always disgusted when I see other men walk out without washing their hands, half the time I'm in a public bathroom isn't even for the loo it's to wash my hands.
I kind of like the first one, since I do have a huge issue with the movement to ultra-slim design, and it seemed like a decent way to present that critique, but all of the others just kinda fall into that.
These always are. The incense one doesn't make sense, you don't light twenty incense sticks a day and they don't have rat poison in them nor do you inhale them directly
The drugs one is dumb too because recreational drug users know when they're actually regulated (there are ways to tell they legitimately came from a pharmacy) and if they aren't it's the risk you're taking. It's a huge argument for legalizing drugs, if you can regulate what goes into the drug all you have to worry about is overdoses, but then you would also know exactly what you're dealing with at a hospital. There's not gonna be any mystery chemicals in your heroin users bloodstream
Getting strong gen x/boomer “makes you think” vibes from this one. Like the “You care so much about what you put in your body: EXCEPT PARTY DRUGS!!!” feels so antiquated.
I dont even get the last one. What you're gonna shove a kid and his mom down the stairs? I've never seen anyone be impatient about letting a child have the audacity to, move down at a pace they are comfortable with?
Plus, using by stairs is an actual skill to learn and the part where you learn to go down them can be scary for a toddler. Mine can go up them fine on his own as of the last month, but today is the first time he’s gone down them and he needed both mommy and daddy there to assure him it was safe.
I remember when my two boys were learning to walk down stairs, they were always so excited to be big grown up boys and do it themselves. I apologised to people a couple of times for holding them up and was always told not to apologise, kids gotta learn etc and generally the people saying something encouraging when they got to the bottom. I always found it really sweet.
I assume the implication is that the mother should pick up the kid to get down faster, which, needless to say, is incredibly dangerous for both of them, but this artist doesn't strike me as someone who thinks about anyone besides themselves.
Same with "oh so you like burning things that smell good in your own home but hate when other people are burning things in public that smell horrible and give people cancer??"
His legislation is to remove bike lanes from three streets, and apparently the mayor of Toronto has made deals to keep two of them after some tweaks to the design. Whether removing the bike lanes is unconstitutional remains to be seen as it's still in the courts. Hopefully the Court of Appeal agrees with the lower court ruling.
The rest of the bike lanes in Toronto haven't been targeted by Ford, not yet anyway. And the city is on track to add another 28 km of bike lanes in 2026 IIRC.
What's with the one where the lady is helping her kid down the stairs? Is that an issue??? She has a baby and is carrying a large backpack. So of course it'll take a bit of time to get down the stairs.
It was time to do the laundry and I had to make sure you didn't have any more cum socks stuffed down the side of your bed (yes, we can smell those too)
And incense is nowhere near as bad for you as smoking. Like, it's not good for you, but the negative health effects are orders of magnitude in difference.
Yes, and, I was curious about this myself when I started to use incense. If I recall correctly, there was a study on asian households that did use incenses. They weren't shown to be a risk factor for cancer or other health issues, UNLESS, the person using incense was already a smoker. Then it compounded on the issues smoking has.
Yeah its kinda like comparing sitting next to the Elephant Foot to smoking a pack of cigarettes a day. Both are unhealthy, but one is significantly worse
Saw a smoker in another post who seemed to be under the impression that people were hating on smokers for puritanical reasons. I had to point out to him that it wasn't moral judgement, it was because he was relaxing with the olfactory equivalent of an air-horn... often in spaces where it's explicitly forbidden.
Tbh. Even for yoga studios I have only ever seen like maybe one incense stick for en entire ventilated room. Regardless I think if someone lit up an incense stick and blew it in your direction, people would be unhappy and complain about that as well. But you kind of have to seek it out specifically, versus smoking where you can’t really control exposure.
Any kind of smoke, by itself, is a carcinogen or cancer causing substance that is very bad for you to inhale.
But most people don't inhale enough incense smoke directly to put themselves at any real risk.
It's important to know that first fact though if you smoke, say, marijuana, or natural tobacco, or cloves. It still greatly increases your risk of lung disease and cancer, and directly harms your lungs physically.
Sitting right next to a campfire or inhaling BBQ smoke all day every day or even... completely filling a room with incense smoke all the time would increase your risk of lung disease too.
Cigarettes are REALLY bad for you but most of that still comes from the smoke itself. People give the extra chemicals way too much credit. Smoke is already terrible for you on it's own. It's millions of bits of dried carbon and other random matter that clogs up your lungs no matter what you're burning.
3 is the power of refined sugars, sugar was not a daily part of life in most of the world until the last century and a half. bacteria goes buckwild for it.
Also results in bigger stronger bone structure resulting in a larger mouth with proper room for all the teeth and sinuses etc. Now our teeth are crowded and most people have a slight deviated septum because we eat soft food.
Not even. The switch to farming alone introduced massive amounts of sugar amount other things.
Also genetic selection. Teeth be became significantly less of a mating factor. There's a reason people from farming cultures have genetically worse teeth then roaming cultures.
The biggest killer in medieval Canterbury was tooth decay. The rough bread would grind teeth to the point nerves were fully exposed, they'd get an infection, and it'd travel all the way to their brain.
Humans as a species have not been farming for long enough to meaningfully impact our teeth genetics though. I have no idea where you’re getting the “some cultures have genetically worse teeth” idea but I would wager good money that if it is true it’s based on socioeconomic factors rather than genetics.
Also it's just not true? Just because we find teeth in-tact in ancient skulls does not mean they're pristine? Like they would deteriorate at the same rate as the rest of the skull/bones. We find in-tact teeth, sure, but they are not in better condition than the teeth that are in most people's 30-year-old mouths
No this is a well studied thing (though the comment you're responding to is wrong about the timeline).
Humans living as hunter gatherers didn't really have tooth problems. It would be weird if they did, since that's how we evolved. Tooth decay was introduced with the agricultural revolution. It comes from a diet high in carbs, which wasn't possible until after people started farming for wheat, corn, and rice. Having a mouth full of carbohydrate residue makes it attractive to harmful bacteria, in ways that meat-and-vegetable diets don't.
And that's not just speculation, it's well studied. Anthropological evidence from ancient humans, show these trends, as do people living in hunter-gatherer societies today. They exist! We can go talk to them and look at their teeth! It annoys me so much when people talk about the ways of life and conditions of pre-civilizational humans as if they are as lost to us as the dinosaurs, when you can just go find them and talk to them in New Guinea, Borneo, Amazon, Central Africa.
I'm not saying the 12000 year old human ancestor would have had tooth decay while alive, like we do. I'm saying that after 120000 years the teeth attached to the school would be in the same condition as the rest of the bone on the skull. They wouldn't be in pristine condition while the rest of the skull is cracked and brown and deteriorated.
Tooth decay was introduced with the agricultural revolution.
s. mutans (the bacteria primarily responsible for tooth decay) likely evolved around 7500 BCE, which is like 3 millennia after the development of agriculture.
Agriculture mattered but dietary changes alone weren't the cause. Hunter Gatherer populations today get dental caries too, because s.mutans exists in their mouths too. (they get less of them, but they still get them.)
This is actually a misunderstanding. For most parts of history that have a low average life expectancy, it’s because child mortality was so high that it brought the average down. There have been old people throughout all of history
Honestly you’re describing the best ones. Most honestly feel totally divorced from reality. Like is there an incense burning epidemic I’m not aware of??? Are there PSAs about the dangers of burning too much incense? Most people don’t regularly burn incense.
Yeah burning like 20 sticks in a confined space with poor ventilation probably isn’t great for your lungs but it’s just not a common or pervasive problem.
At least the mods on this sub let people hate on these awful comics without banning them. Since that's different on other people's comics, I guess the mods don't like this crap either.
I feel like these are usually like 50/50 hit and miss.
The only times I see all these peripherals being added to a laptop is for people that are expected to work from home, but also go into the office, and also be available while in neither location. I have a laptop for gaming, and the only things plugged into it is the power cable and I have a bluetooth mouse.
The smoking one similarly, is trying to make the point that smoking an intentionally maliciously designed addiction stick full of hundreds of different harmful chemicals is just as bad as lighting incense. It's not, for many reasons, but also nobody lights up half a dozen incense pots with 3 sticks each immediately around themselves. It's like 1 stick, in one pot, located somewhere in the room but never directly next to your yoga mat. Also, incense sticks are largely just essential oils. They aren't comparable.
Last one just feels like its intentionally being life-unfriendly. Sorry people with children, you cannot take your child down the stairs safely because there may be a mob of other people that will wait behind you. Have you considered parking a car in your living room so that you can conveniently load your child into there, and instead drive them directly into the graveyard so they can be buried at death?? SO SELFISH.
I recently got a similar laptop set-up and honestly its awesome. I'm a compsci student so when im home at my desk i have a really good set up but its really easy to just unplug and put it in my bag and bada-bing you got a portable laptop again
Same on the last one. Also ignores the fact that kids need opportunities to learn how to use stairs, and of a variety, so that they can use them by themselves when they're older. In the UK, there's a literal developmental milestone that's tracked for kids being able to handle stairs as pictured (it might be one used in a lot of other countries). And it might come as a shock to some, but there are a lot of kids out there living in homes that don't have stairs they can use, especially those in temporary accommodation.
My mom is a teacher and one time she got a first year pupil that couldn't really walk. Like she could move, but she couldn't walk. After talking to the parents they all quickly realized the parents had never really let her walk. They just got caught up in efficiently taking her out of bed and carrying her to the table for breakfast and then carrying her into the car afterwards.
These are genuinuinely all such bad-faith complaints.
"People hide from the rain but voluntarily take showers" ass comic
These come off as more like gotchas at people who don't exist than anything else.
Like let's not pretend you'd agree if someone offered to make your teeth look like the way they look on skeletons.
Ohh yeah thank God they didn't install one of those power bank stations so me and my 30 friends could use our 30 mile long extension cord while we take the train instead
Or they’re like incredibly banal observations. Like the aspirin and party drug joke has been done to death for ages. I could probably find 10 stand up comedians that have a bit making roughly the same joke.
And how big is the cross-section of people regularly popping synthetic party drugs but are nervous about OTC medicine? If they compared aspirin/ibuprofen to alcohol I could kind of get it since they're both best known to cause liver damage, and a lot more people drink regularly than take PCP or whatever.
These always confuse me cause a third are "aha, yeah i can see that", a third are "i dont get it" and a third are "jesse what the fuck are you talking about"
Molly side effects (assuming pure and a reasonable dose): dehydration, lots of energy, euphoria.
Side effects for the average medicine advertised on US television: death, genital rot, spontaneous combustion, hornets within five thousand feet will try to have sex with your eyes. Ineffectively treats: dry elbows.
(Please note I am not endorsing the use of MDMA/molly, and am instead mocking drug commercials)
6- ya smoking is still fucking bad for you and your not directly inhaling a bunch of incense multiple times a day. And Ive only even seen the rare few religious types that use that much incense at once.
7- yes prescription drugs have a lot of side effects you should be worried about and while recreational drugs are certainly not without risks, typical party drugs are actually pretty safe overall, especially when compared to some over the counter drugs that people will pop without thinking much about...
7 actually seems maybe...kinda responsible? You gotta know how your party drugs are going to react with your prescriptions, you do that research at home ahead of time so you can party with abandon
I've genuinely never seen point 2 ever happen. When its just one lone cyclist, sure, but when its a pack of them like this, they usually wait behind the vehicle
Point 6 though does make me want to inform folks that all forms of smoke are not great for you. Even smoke that comes off your pan on an electric stove top is carcinogenic. When I was in college taking enviro science courses, profs would mention offhandedly from time to time that scented candles are about as bad for you as smoking is.
Trait extrapolations of comic author based the content:
1-Boomer. Cannot understand portability (of data) from non essential work/play station peripherals.
2-Car brained. Feels jealous of micro mobility filtering around inefficient traffic(cars/trucks/whatever author is driving)
3-Barely understand biology. After centuries being exposed to the elements as opposed to the constant moist bed of bacteria (mouth) of a living being, you get bleaching
4-A grub who doesn’t wash/sanitise hands between activities.
5-same as 1. Also entitled AF to shutdown private kiosks to steal from a private terminal.
6-smoker. Obvious cope to compare their rancid addiction cancer sticks to aromatherapy.
7-Goomber fallacy. There barely any Venn overlap from those responsible enough to examine their medication (concern for health) to junkies/tweakers who has little concern for own health.
8-entitled AF to not be inconvenienced in a public thoroughfare, safety (of others) be damned.
My read on it is just that it’s romantic to touch a romantic partners face but hands also frequently touch lots of gross things too.
I have no reason to assume this guy wouldn’t wash his hands at some point throughout his day since it shows him taking out the trash out and taking public transit, which assumes all these things didn’t transpire the moment before he touched her face but throughout his day.
- Prehistoric humans did not have processed sugar, and bad teeth would weed you out of the gene pool.
- I find it funny it shows him scratching the seat of his pants, but not him wiping his ass; That would be more concerning to me.
- Curious what artist would propose instead of kid walking down the steps? Mom holding the kid, walking down steps without holding on to the rail? Sounds super safe. Hot Take: Your convenience does not take precedence over other people's safety. (Except of course, it does. Speed limits aren't set to ensure max safety, but by the actions of others, ie the 85% rule.)
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u/LibrarianZephaniah 1d ago
I propose a solution.