I once slid a large rock across an entire frozen lake. Please, contain your admiration
Living the dream…
Grew up on a lake that used to freeze in the winter, this is the best but worst thing we used to do (because it was fun, but the rocks/ice chunks would refreeze in place and be a hazzard while skating)
Hazard? I think you mean obstacle course
You should try curling. No greater satisfaction.
I opt for the primitive version, as it appeals to my caveman brain.
Winner buys drinks. It’s in the rules.
Finding a nice stick
I practiced spinning sticks so that it looks like I know what I’m doing and every now and then I even look like a cool martial artist when doing so. My wife doesn’t think so but my homies got my back. I love nice sticks.
I practice drill team exercises with the broom whenever I’m sweeping the kitchen.
“mmm yes that’s a good stick.”
Especially when its the right height to use as a staff
That’s a dog
I’m sure bitches like that too
“I’m making a comic about stereotypical man, but I don’t know any man”
Must be a good read.
In this case it’s funny…if the person asking that were a white straight guy asking about any other group, folks would be getting out their pitchforks.
Hehehehehe sounds like satire as you point this out to how often the opposite happens
Digging a hole
Watching someone dig a hole. Or standing by the side of a hole that was just dug and commenting about the hole. Or watching construction work in a previously dug hole.
We seem to just like holes. We are simple creatures.
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Diggy Diggy hole.
Digging a hole was my covid project.
And now I have a pond and a fondness for pretty fish, lol.
Love me a good hole
At the beach. Also sandcastles.
Fuck no. I hate digging holes.
Man police here: hand over your man card.
Saw the comment and was going to post this exact thing lol
Surely women also love seeing large rocks fall into a lake from great height, right? This has to be just a human love.
I’m mostly ambivalent about it really.
Edit: am woman, still human though
still human though Sounds sus.
I do very human things, such as metabolize milkshakes and grow eyebrows.
Definitely passed the human vibe check. Please sign up for your existential dread and inability to move freely between nation states!
Women love throwing paper airplanes, when it glides perfectly on the first try
I like both. Does that make me non-binary?
Yes, now go buy the plush shark from Ikea.
So if I already have blåhaj, do I automatically become egg? I don’t think my legs would look good in thigh high socks…
You got trans in your username, I think it was probably too late before the shark.
I know I do.
If there is a fire it must be bothered. It must be prodded several times and sticks need adding to it. The fire cannot be trusted not take care of itself.
This mostly applies to other people’s fires. My fires mostly collapse in on themselves gracefully and I might take offense at anyone prodding it before it’s ready.
AND DIGGING BIG HOLES
Hell yeah
Fuck yeah to throwing rocks into bodies of water from great heights though fr.
Yes, but if you throw a small light stone at the right angle, you can make in bounce off the water. That’s much more fun.
That’s fun, but definitely not more fun than big KERPLOOSH
Women writing men.
What’s the equivalent reverse of ‘mansplain’?
Estrolucidate?
Bringing in all the groceries in one trip.
Although… that’s a lot easier now-a-days.
I remember grocery shopping as a kid filling the cart completely full and when we went through the register it was over $100 and my mom was going jeez that’s a lot of money for a lot of food. It took 3 people several trips to unload the car.
Today I go through the self checkout, get a few frozen meals, some store brand cookies, and a case of cheap beer for $80. I can carry the two bags and beer with one hand.
I’ve been going to Costco every week for several years. Pre Covid my big trips were around $350. Yesterday I went and got some beer, wine, and some beef jerky and it came out to $350
My big cart days are a lot closer to $700 too now. Certain items I remember being $10 are now $16-18. It’s insane.
Just a note here, I bet your mom wasn’t buying “dinners,” she was buying “ingredients.” Ingredients take up a lot more space in the cart per dollar spent. Sometimes that’s because you pay a premium for prepared foods, (flour vs cookies) and sometimes it’s because there’s inherent waste, like onion skins, and both ends of that head of celery, and the bones of the whole chicken, and the stem, seeds, and vacant space inside a bell pepper. Also, not judging the beer, but in my childhood Dad bought all the alcoholic beverages from the liquor store in a separate trip. So it wouldn’t have been in the grocery bags, nor on that receipt.
Inflation is real. But it’s important to:
A. Make accurate comparisons
B. Value the work that went into turning those ingredients into dinners.
They’re raising the prices because we’re buying “frozen meals, cookies, and beer”. All of that can be made at home for cheaper. Well, the beer and cookies may cost the same but they will be twice as good.
Figure out what is your biggest purchase and find the recipe for it. Pasta, Indian food, cookies, and even beer can be made at home if you know what you’re doing.
Prices were lower before because everyone knew they could probably whip up something similar. If you have a bag of flour, some butter, and some sugar you can basically make half of the things at the grocery store.
You have extra carrying capacity now because your wallet got lighter.
Hitting something with a ranged attack. Doesn’t matter the target, doesn’t matter the projectile. Basketball at hoop, dart at dart board, pee at poo stain, bb gun at empty can, snowball at tree, bullet at bullseye, it’s all the same to us
How can a woman make it to adulthood without knowing any men in real life?
Very religious single mother with lots of money from a divorce has a daughter, sends her to a girls-only boarding school, she studies theology and joins a convent, becomes a nun - now you have a thirty-something year old woman who has never known a man on a personal conversational basis (may have seen/heard them in passing, possibly a teacher or church leader as well).
(This is most likely not the case and purely exists as a ridiculous but possible answer to your question.)
Already a better story than the one shes writing
How did she get the daughter?
You do realize some daughters are born with asshole dads who abandon their mothers before they’re born, right? Not everyone knows their father on a personal level, some have never seen them …
The person who “has never known any men in her life” is the daughter here, not the mother…
What you’ve never encountered one of those “went to an all-girls school then got a job at a daycare” chicks?
well the closest I ever got to that was having an all-consuming hobby of attending aerobics classes and there were no men anywhere and I was so sexually frustrated. Had no idea how to meet men cuz all I wanted to do is go to a aerobics classes.
LPT for men: If you want to meet tons of thirsty women, go to aerobics classes.
lol nope. Meeting women at the gym is “creepy.” Had that screamed at me for years now.
It’s only creepy if you’re a creep.
Men who aren’t creepy aren’t creepy.
lol nope. That’s not what women say.
I am a woman.
You’re probably a creep if that is the message you are getting back from everyone.
Believe it or not, not all men are creepy.
Ladies of Lemmy: What y’all think of guys joining aerobics classes to meet women?
I’m so baffled that most people reading this don’t get its satire of a lot of comics, sci-fi, video games, etc but with the genders reversed and people thinking it’s a reasonable position.
The author isn’t being literal, they are making a joke about men who unironically say this and expect it to be considered normal.
Please don’t yell at me for this I am just the messenger.
That’s because there is good satire, and pretty often rubbish niche satire. Satire usually relies on everyone being in on the joke, accepting the ludicrousness of it. Political satire is good at this, gender stereotype satire is pretty deep psychologically layered stuff. Most people are not psychologically trained, or even people watchers. So the satire gets missed.
Or… All satire isn’t meant for you and that’s ok. It doesn’t automatically make it bad, good, or niche.
If it isnt as much of an everyman then its just punching down or an in-joke.
Or… Satire. Nothing wrong with an in-joke anyway.
To me, trying to be dispassionate here, that’s also an issue with capping tweets.
In a social media feed such as (pre-Elon) Twitter, if one were the depicted author one would expect ones followers to know you are a successful illustrator, political essayist, social commentator and published author on the topics of sexual violence in culture and an NEA fellow off the back of your successful graphic novel, putting the context of the original tweet in perspective and making the satire very obvious.
To be a little less dispassionate and a little more arch: isn’t the burden of that on the reader, not the author?
To be a little less dispassionate and a little more arch: isn’t the burden of that on the reader, not the author?
Yes and no.
We have limited cognitive abilities as humans. With every bit of information on social and regular media screaming for our attention its easy to miss the nuance. Add to that even the difference in culture in countries side by side there can be barriers to this absorption generated by our various cultures. You have to actively break from cultural norms to explore these other ideas and philosophies.
Might well be a little too deep for “I dont know any men” type memes… 😅
A fair point but also, if one wants to say “hey they didn’t give context to their joke, when the poster deliberately removed it from its contextual home!”, there’s nothing that can stop them, but also, they shouldn’t be surprised to find people asking them to understand the context before complaining about the lack of it.
Consider something like “I didn’t know Stevie Wonder was blind, and it’s therefore not my fault that I didn’t get the joke about Stevie Wonder being blind.”
Like, sure, maybe it’s not, but also, it would hamper any joke if you had to explain all context.
A rabbi, a priest, and an Iman walk into a bar (a rabbi is a spiritual leader and officiant in the Jewish faith, Judaism is a monotheistic religion, a religion is a set of beliefs that characterize a worldview including but not limited to spirituality, ethics, morals, social conduct and worship of divine beings…)
Man no get satire so satire bad! Man over analyze reason instead of just accepting it not for man and moving on! Grunting noises or something!
Doesn’t know any men in real life? Does she live in a nunnery?
I think this is a tongue-in-cheek jab at the very real issue of men who try to write women who literally don’t have any women in their lives except possibly their mothers.
That’s reading a lot into the post. Her profile says she’s a feminist cartoonist. This is standard virtue signaling. She is such a great feminist, against the patriarchy, she doesn’t know a single one. You still know you’re father, brother, male coworkers? You’re not on her level.
Explosions
Except not looking at them.
That’s only cool guys.
Can confirm, I look at explosions all the time.
Pissing from great heights is a wonderful, wonderful feeling.
JA’LOJA!!!
Always on the Bortus side of life
just watch out for the headwind
