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[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 76 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

I don't get it. I mean, yeah, I get what's going on, I just don't get what makes it funny, or what point it's trying to make.

[–] essell@lemmy.world 27 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I think its "Some people have strong reactions to public displays of affection "

[–] Blyfh@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There's affection, and there's... this. Some don't know the concept of "getting a room".

[–] essell@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I am not alive to live up to your expectations! 😁 Some people don't know the concept of "nunya"

[–] Soulg@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You can't claim that when you're loudly making a spectacle out of yourself

[–] essell@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

Everybody gonna draw the line in different places

[–] turkalino@lemmy.yachts 1 points 1 month ago

Doesn’t even have to be public, I never outgrew the childhood reaction of disgust to people making out. Like, why do I want to see a closeup shot of people kissing on my 65” 4k TV, even if it’s supposedly romantic…

[–] Shard@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

Stick around a bit. Unfunny comics is a hot new trend on this sub. Quality is going downhill.

[–] SatyrSack@lemmy.one 5 points 1 month ago

I initially thought this was one of those things where someone takes an actual comic and changes the text to make a different narrative. But this inscrutable mess seems to be the original...

[–] Monstrosity@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago

Ah, also, it's butt ugly. Sry to the cartoonist, who is probably very nice, but that plasticky, slick looking tablet screen linework is starting to get to me. It's everywhere.

[–] wander1236@sh.itjust.works 39 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] PrimeErective@startrek.website 36 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It seems like they're making fun of people that are overly affectionate in a public place, like on a train

[–] sundray@lemmus.org 6 points 1 month ago

I think it's the noise rather than simply the affection.

[–] Fleur_@lemm.ee 36 points 1 month ago (2 children)

That is a truly incomprehensible second panel

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I think English isn't their first language, lol

[–] niktemadur@lemmy.world 25 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Is their first language Python, by any chance?

[–] towerful@programming.dev 12 points 1 month ago

for kiss in love:

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 3 points 1 month ago

That's why kids should learn Pascal first!

[–] PapaStevesy@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Language barrier doesn't explain the image itself

[–] ulterno@lemmy.kde.social 2 points 1 month ago

Add a 've in the end of the "you" and you'll get what you want.

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 20 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I don't mind PDA most of the time. It's cute when two people are completely lost in each other. I appreciate it when people bother being discreet, but even when they don't, it's usually not that invasive when people express themselves just between the two of them.

But then there's the attention whores, playing it up for the crowds.

[–] sundray@lemmus.org 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Extreme mouth noises bother some people. Not that I'd ever call anyone out on a train over it, but the sound of loud wet kissing gives me the creepy-crawlies in the same way that hearing someone sloppily eating a particularly juicy apple does.

Thank Bose for noise-cancelling earbuds.

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 4 points 1 month ago

Just loudly whisper “oh yeah! Now grab her butt!” while groping yourself overtly.

[–] oce@jlai.lu 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Is the small character at the end a recurring character of this comic?

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yes, I know I've seen a few others from this comic with that little guy.

[–] oce@jlai.lu 24 points 1 month ago

Ok, because it makes no sense without knowing that.

[–] CitizenKong@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

Is that an AI comic? It's incomprehensible.

[–] Krafting@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

damn, i miss her

[–] lowleveldata@programming.dev 6 points 1 month ago

Can't beat me having a Zoom meeting with speaker on

[–] CobblerScholar@lemmy.world -2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

An asexual watching most modern media

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] sundray@lemmus.org 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Weird to see the proliferation over the years of think-pieces on the lack of libido in mainstream film. They act like it's evidence that America is dead from the waist down -- as if people can't just go watch sex whenever they want, without having to share the experience with an auditorium full of people. Depictions of sexuality have just become more private, that's all.

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

It's not just about sex, it's about lack of sexual tension or sensuality if you prefer to call it that. Zendaya and Tom Holland are actual couple but their on-screen chemistry as MJ and Peter Parker doesn't hold a candle to Sam Raimi movies.

Just one example among many.

[–] ulterno@lemmy.kde.social -1 points 1 month ago

But old films still featured recognizable human bodies and human faces—bodies that could theoretically be achieved by a single person without the aid of a team of personal trainers, dieticians, private chefs, and chemists.

Well, but when those bodies we not the absolute epitome of military fitness, would you believe them doing the feats that they do in the movies.
Sure it's not 100% believable even now, but it kinda feels more "fine" if someone with stone-like protruding abs and pecs, takes a pillar to the torso and gets pushed back 50ft instead of getting squished.