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[–] [email protected] 66 points 5 months ago (4 children)

imagine in the 1930’s you could pump comics out like this for a living.

[–] [email protected] 80 points 5 months ago

From the 1950s to the 2010s you could pump out sitcoms like this for a living. At least this particular comic makes it so blunt as to highlight the absurdity, and subverts the expectation a bit by having the stupid dad express some real human emotion.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I feel like a 30's dad wouldn't cry so much as repress his emotions and drink though.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago

Don't forget beating the wife and son! The "golden years" as it were.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

1930s? That was like peak "Man of the House" era. The dumb dad trope wasn't a thing til later in the 1900s.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

I read the 100 years ago today sub, 100%. Though it needs more tophat.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 5 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 37 points 5 months ago

To be clear folks, this is an anti joke. Dissecting it is a waste of Fediverse storage space.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 5 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 months ago

Ha... ha. :(

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 months ago (1 children)

If we ignore the wife being a cunt, I wouldnt let my dad try to fix a toaster. Things that run on Transformers with lower voltage is free game but anything with parts that runs directly on main power is going in the trash* or a proper repairman.

*by trash I mean recycling station.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago

I'd be more concerned about ripping into anything with a capacitor. Microwaves are absolutely off-limits if you don't know what you're doing.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago

I can hear the laugh track from here

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

Taking things full circle, in this one wife = bad

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Damn, that one hit home way too close.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Dad's contraction of the words "dad" and "is" :)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Barely related, but I wish the English-speaking world would bring back 'tis and 'twas.