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[–] [email protected] 151 points 4 months ago (3 children)

I had a mask on in the grocery store yesterday and got some weird looks. Like people I'm not afraid of getting sick...

I AM sick

This is for you, you morons

[–] [email protected] 59 points 4 months ago

Thank you for your consideration of others ♥️

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Yer trying to protect me from them supposed viruses? Sounds like commnism' teh me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

When I do this I usually cough a lot demonstratively, just so they understand and are scared lmao

[–] [email protected] 60 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (2 children)

History never repeats itself...but it often rhymes.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

i hate this quote. it just doesn't change anything. "history repeats itself" means the exact same thing. it's not like people mean that the exact same people do the exact same things in the exact same circumstances... it's just meaningless distinction without difference.

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

Mystery rhymes with history.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

A full century after the Spanish Influenza and we still got to witness how so many imbeciles remain untouched by education and empathy.
What a dismayingly timeless old comic.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 4 months ago

Combination of shit eating grin and extremely punchable face, dude was cruisin' for a bruisin'.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 months ago
[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago

Where was this in 2020, hmm?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I've only got a single comment about wearing a mask in public. Somebody cattily asking "why are you wearing a mask?" to which I replied "How about you mind your own business?" Did not go any further than that.

Because I have stupid little bitch-ass immune system, I'm ridiculously susceptible to being sick, which I don't enjoy. So I'm either 1 germ away from being sick, or I'm already sick.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

One of the nice things about post-pandemic life where I am is the normalization of wearing masks if you're sick, vulnerable, or just feel like it. Someone shows up at work


or on public transportation


with a mask and no one bats an eye.

(I'm in the USA in a very blue, VHCOL area, YMMV...)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

It's nice! I don't like my health situation being outed, so I'm glad that it's now less acceptable to ask.

Unfortunately, I'm in a very red area. My last boss kept exasperatedly telling me that I "don't have to wear a mask while I'm at work"— which gave me more of a reason to wear a mask at work. Turns out, I was right. None of them were vaccinated, and my boss ended up having a heart attack which forced him to permanently close down the shop. Oh well.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

I got that a few times, and I ignored them, and then they all continued to make loud insults to themselves.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Hey, you're taking over Picard's job :)

One thing I've been surprised about with Everett's comics after buying a collection is how many I have sympathy for, or connect with - considering it's over 100 years old (and I'm not particularly a fan of violence as a response to anything).

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

He's not always on the right side of history.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Evenhanded in handing out the beatings

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I missed a family member's wedding because of covid. A few days later I saw a guy at the store not wearing a mask and I kind of went ballistic on him. I'm not proud to admit that I vented a lot of my frustration over the whole management of the pandemic on that guy. I was fully ready to fist fight over it. In the end, he decided he did not want to fight me, despite being twice my size and half my age. I made him go stand in the corner of the store until I finished my transaction and left the store.