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[–] [email protected] 71 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Being the best you can be implies resisting temptation for junk foods. He liked his tattoo but the second he was tempted, the tattoo’s advice went out the window. He either covered it up to hide other people from seeing it while he eats a donut, or he’s hiding the tattoo itself from seeing and judging him.

I had to read it like 5 times because I thought there was a dirty undertone.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I think he wants to f*ck the donuts

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

A holes a hole 😔

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

I don't think he's covering it out of shame or anything like that, it seems more that he's grabbing it to remind himself of his message, like "be strong." Plus, we don't see a panel of him having eaten a donut so it could be interpreted either way, the comic artist tends to lean towards positive messages with a cynical twist so I think that's intentional.

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

But his sleeve is lowered in the fourth panel

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Being the best you can be implies resisting temptation for junk foods.

Debatable. Personally to me someone's qualifications for "best" or "worst" are pretty far divorced from food choice, since I'm not a vegan who ties morality to consumption. Hell my grandma would say he killed that "best" goal for himself the second he got a tattoo lol.

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

Oh yeah that makes sense. I was thinking it's some Chinese text tattoo, and he saw the same text in donut packaging but that didn't make much sense eh

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

My first thought was he clearly was not being the best he could be, because he was not the one that brought in the jam filled donuts.