this post was submitted on 12 Nov 2024
176 points (98.4% liked)

Out of Context Comics

1132 readers
1095 users here now

Comic panels taken out of comics so we can make fun of them!! We love the golden age stuff!

Rules:

  1. Comics must come from actual comic books. No AI or Photoshops.

  2. Single panels are preferred.

  3. Comics should be unintentionally funny. Spider-man cracking wise is not what this is about.

  4. Don't be a dick.

  5. I can't believe I've had to add this... NO RACISM.

founded 1 week ago
MODERATORS
 
top 14 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago (3 children)

DDT is an extreme way to get rid of mosquitos. Seal up the gaps in your window screens. Keep the bedroom door closed. It's working for me during mosquito season on the subtropical island where I live.

I realize I'm giving advice to a comic about a banned chemical.

[–] IMongoose 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Probably more for bed bugs.

[–] massacre 2 points 2 days ago

Bedbugs have evolved resistance to DDT.

[–] FlyingSquid 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Citronella candles do an all right job too if you don't mind the smell.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

And if you do mind the smell, you might actually be a mosquito

[–] FlyingSquid 2 points 2 days ago

I have known individuals who, while I cannot prove it, are probably not mosquitos but who also hate the smell of citronella.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

DDT is what killed off Malaria in Europe (and probably in most of the US too, but I don't know as much about that).
It saved a hundred thousand times more lives than it may have cost.

[–] shalafi 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Yep, same in America. 10-seconds after we wiped out malaria we told the rest of the world to get fucked. "Oh, you can produce DDT, but we won't trade with you if you do."

A decade-long push and we could have eradicated malaria, then banned it. We got ours, fuck the rest of you. Now it's a brown people problem, just as intended.

That foul bitch, Rachael Carlson, and her cute little book Silent Spring, killed far more humans than Hitler and Stalin combined ever dreamed about.

[–] ThePantser 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Uh think more along the lines of it causing the genocide of bees. Without bees for our food supply, ddt is gonna cost way more lives than it saved.

[–] shalafi 2 points 2 days ago

Bees aren't the only pollinators, by a long shot. And do you have some evidence that DDT was wiping them out in the first place? You A-OK with the pesticides were using now, that are actually killing off honey bees?

LOL, no, you don't. Because Varroa mites, introduced in the 90s, long after DDT, are what are killing our honey bees.

[–] Thcdenton 2 points 1 day ago
[–] Hobbes_Dent 16 points 2 days ago

You down with DDT?

Yeah you know me.

- Naughty to Nature

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago
[–] Rhynoplaz 9 points 2 days ago

John Doe has a crippling fear of bald eagles.