• @Rodeo@lemmy.ca
    22•1 year ago

    Excellent use of the second and third panels. Really adds so much to the whole thing.

  • Margot Robbie
    8•1 year ago

    Here’s a question: since there are no pedals on this uh… “bike”, how are the wheels moving?

    I choose to believe the illustration actually shows someone sitting on an exercise ball and holding another exercise ball, instead of… this.

    • @arandomthought@sh.itjust.works
      38•1 year ago

      Let me explain: The humor in this comic strip lies in the absurdity as well as the “comedic timing” in the pacing of the individual panels. The symbol at the start clearly depicts a very minimalist version of a person on a bike. The comic however “takes it literally” and imagines a person driving around with only two wheels, one of which runs between their butcheeks (also a “funny part” of the human body). It doesn’t show this right away but contrasts two panels where “nothing happens” with the sudden appearance of this… Thing. It gradually reveals three funny things: First, the absurd thought that what is shown in the symbol is literally what is happening, as explained before. Second, the wheel running through the butcheeks, and lastly, that the person doing this is suffering. This means, there must be some even more absurd circumstances that lead to this whole situation.

      I hope I could explain to you how this is funny. Although jokes notoriously die while being dissected.

      Edit: aaaaaand the comment is gone.

      • @STOMPYI@lemmy.world
        1•1 year ago

        What do you think happens when you watch say… John Wick… yes the frontal cortex is like “this is a movie I don’t have to worry”, yet your nervous system doesn’t need your frontal cortex to set into motion a whole chain reaction. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0747563220300133 shows me long term media violence exposure will increase proactive aggression and reactive aggression, this study https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4393354/ shows me experiencing higher levels of real-life violence was linked with maladaptive outcomes including higher trauma symptoms, escape to fantasy, and reduced empathy. this book in 2002 https://www.amazon.com/Media-Violence-its-Effect-Aggression/dp/0802084257 talks about how the body automatically responds to violence weather you frontal cortex knows its fake or not. this study acknowledges higher anxiety in youth while staying away from naming the exact mechanism https://www.researchgate.net/publication/256469919_The_Effects_of_Media_Violence_on_Anxiety_in_Late_Adolescence . this study talks about the increase in heart rate and other metrics like blood pressure from watching violence https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/204790 .

        And that is just science…

        The five Mindful trainings rooted in the five precepts offered by the Buddha, number five, is about mindful consumption, to help us not bring toxins and poisons into our body or mind, as expressed by Thich Nhat Hanh. He offers this direct quote “Movies are food for our eyes, ears, and minds. When we watch TV, the program is our food. Children who spend five hours a day watching television are ingesting images that water the negative seeds of craving, fear, anger, and violence in them. We are exposed to so many forms, colors, sounds, smells, tastes, objects of touch, and ideas that are toxic and rob our body and consciousness of their well-being.”

        Christian text say "Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things. "

        Buddha is quoted as saying “All that we are is the result of what we have thought: it is founded on our thoughts and made up of our thoughts. If a man speak or act with an evil thought, suffering follows him as the wheel follows the hoof of the beast that draws the wagon… If a man speak or act with a good thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him.”

        So perhaps violent media is creating it or revealing it. Either way a brain is not to be fuked with. The mind is a collection of experience, if that mind has tons of violent expressions it will seek to see the world consistanltly, that is our ego trying to make sense of the world with expectations met.

      • @STOMPYI@lemmy.world
        -8•1 year ago

        I still stand behind it! Humor with a victim is dumb. Suffering is dumb. Watching things suffer is also dumb. I’m a blast at parties don’t worry about me…

        Real humor is funny juxtaposition… like a monkey wearing a shirt on its head. Dam monkey those go on bodies but wait! Your also a monkey. Now that is peak lolz

          • @STOMPYI@lemmy.world
            1•1 year ago

            No. It was never fun watching Larry curly or moe poke eyes out and smash heads. After watching a bunch as a kid I smacked a buddy in 2nd grade thinking it would be funny. My friend was hurt and confused and I learned humor shouldn’t have a victim.

              • @STOMPYI@lemmy.world
                2•1 year ago

                and it is those movies that are setting expectations… just sayin… there are two wolves in you, a frontal cortex of thinking, and an animal subconscious, all content gets pushed through both and one can respond withing milaseconds to release stress hormones, the more stress you have the less your life will be. I do like gif replies though!

            • @PhoenixAlpha@lemmy.ca
              2•1 year ago

              One time I brought a horse into a bar and they called the cops to kick me out. I can’t believe comedians didn’t warn me I wasn’t allowed to do that irl. We really do live in a society

        • @Carlo@lemmy.ca
          1•1 year ago

          I generally agree with your stance regarding humor with a victim. Stupid and regressive. Caveman stuff. I don’t know if that precisely applies here, although I don’t see any humor in the comic either. Maybe that wasn’t the intent ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯