Kids these days need to get a taste of real American culture.
Posting in comics because I feel like calling them memes would be an insult to the man.
I’ve always liked this one, amongst many others. I have a few Far Side books kicking around on a shelf somewhere.
Right on, my dad had two of them, I think that is like a universal American dad thing to have a far side coffee table book
I imagined the parrot sounded like the parrot that imitated Linda on Bobs Burgers.
My middle school home room teacher had this as a poster in his room:
Ableism aside that one always got me too lol
How is it ableist? The joke is that even though the kid is skilled academically, he lacks the common sense to navigate simple everyday issues. Pretty standard joke.
That is a whole lot to unpack but I would be happy to explain to you how the overlap in gifted kid programs is extremely problematic and is another side of the special needs coin.
If your parents are rich and your hyperfixations are nurtured you get placed in your gifted child program (which includes a ton of extra pressure) If you are poor you get relegated to a whole other kind of special needs program and dehumanized.
It has roots in eugenics and it’s real bad. A rare Larson L but it’s still a funny comic.
I got a bit of a mix of both and came out the other end a very angry trans communist wanting to burn the world to the ground.
that a us thing? here the gifted program was just if you did well in a subject then you got accelerated. i was in it and my family was poor enough to qualify for free school meals
In the us school funding is decided by property taxes so more affluent areas have more resources for their students. This includes better teacher pay more tutors better teacher student ratio and better curriculum and extra ciricular activities. This is all part of the lie that is the meritocracy. I think funding is done differently elsewhere.
Hell yeah, comrade. Here’s the first newspaper-related one I could think of:
This is one of my all time favorites
Mine too! And from elsewhere in the lab:
lmao yeah the scientist ones are some of my absolute favorites. Also nice, one of the rare full color ones!
I have many more to post so I don’t want to post too many in one thread (gotta keep this bit going, not that there is a shortage of material) bur I love this one too:
The UFO/Alien ones are a gold mine
I’ve got that one in color for you, too. From December 1, 1980 of The Complete Far Side:
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The color on this one really makes the punch line pop more lol
My man Larson LOVES desert islands. Man could not get enough humor over marooned dudes on a small beach next to a palm tree.
Keep posting Far Side until we get a :cowtools: emoji (and then keep going)
Cow Doohickey
may you never get bored 🙏
Gonna post these at work while I do my soulless office job for a 100 millionaire owner that is in the fucking epstein files I just found out.
Citizen’s “arrest”.💁
:lathe-of-heaven:
there’s one ive been trying to locate for years. i saw it one if those big collections 30 years ago (can’t recall which) and never again since.
its a gazelle standing upright and looking hard, wearing a stetson as two predators approach. all the other gazelles are fleeing/gone.
the caption says something about how the lone gazelle “was through running”.
Shit beat me to it lol
omg you rock!
My dad had that same book I think. I will try to find it.
it would be incredible if you did. thanks for trying. ive been searching on and off for years.
omfg, you are my hero
keep going
I love far side
