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Cyanide and Happiness

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Hello fellow Cyanide and Happiness fans!

About this community and how I post the comics… Many moons ago, I would ask my Dad to save the newspaper for me everyday so I could read my favorite comic strips. Of course these days you can read your favorite comics online instead of a newspaper, but I love the nostalgia of reading the daily comics. Anyway, one of my favorite current comics is Cyanide and Happiness and I will be posting the daily release from their website (https://explosm.net) and a an extra or two randoms.

Cyanide & Happiness (C&H) is a webcomic created by Rob DenBleyker, Kris Wilson, Dave McElfatrick and Matt Melvin. The comic has been running since 2005 and is published on the website explosm.net along with animated shorts in the same style. Matt Melvin left C&H in 2014, and several other people have contributed to the comic and to the animated shorts… Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyanide_%26_Happiness

Hope you enjoy and feel free to contribute to the community with art, media, cool stuff about the authors, tattoos, toys and anything else, as long it’s Cyanide and Happiness related!

Ps. Sub to all my comic strip communities…

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Calvin and Hobbes [email protected] https://lemmy.world/c/calvinandhobbes

Cyanide and Happiness !cyanideandhappiness https://lemm.ee/c/cyanideandhappiness

Garfield [email protected] https://lemmy.world/c/garfield

The Far Side [email protected] https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected]

Fine print: All comics I post are freely available online. In no way am I claiming ownership, copyright or anything else. This is a not for profit community, we just want to enjoy our comics, thank you.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (7 children)

I understand, but it's worded so poorly. Would .ame more sense if they said they were that 1 doctor instead of 2/10?

[–] Okami_No_Rei 39 points 1 month ago

I think the joke is that it's a rating rather than a sample.

So this doctor gets 1* reviews vs the 4.5* doctors.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I had the same initial reaction but I think the doctor is treating it as a rating and not a fraction. E.g. a 90% grade doctor would recommend it, but they're a 20% doctor.

[–] Nurse_Robot 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Or he's such a bad doctor he can't understand fractions?

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

There's no math prereqs!

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's a different joke. He's saying a doctor with good ratings like 9/10 would say to stop, but he has bad ratings, 2/10, so he's going to give bad advice.

[–] Verqix 4 points 1 month ago

I like to think this doctor goes up to eleven.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

When reading the joke, replace the / with "out of" and the wording comes out better for the joke.

9 out of 10 doctors would suggest you quit. Luckily I'm a 2 out of 10 doctor.

Therefore good doctors would say you should quit, but I'm not a good doctor.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

I would make less sense because then you would think he's saying 9 out of 10 different doctors recommend against it, ruining the punchline.

[–] thesporkeffect 2 points 1 month ago

He should have said 1/8 doctor

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I have never heard of "2/10", but after a bit of research, I see a couple very loose connections:

  • An accounting term regarding a discount for prompt payment. I do not see reference of this being used in a drug context
  • Smoking something and rocking the pipe back and forth between the "2" and "10" positions on a clock. I do not think this applies to cocaine, or even "crack"
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (3 children)

It's a 5 star rating joke.

And you don't smoke cocaine

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Welllllll

It's a 10 star rating joke tbh

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Not with that attitude, you don't.

[–] ninja 2 points 1 month ago

That's crack, yo.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Dr Leo Spaceman?