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Everett's Precautions [Outbursts of Everett True; November 11, 1918] (midwest.social)
submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks 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.

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

For anyone wondering how True this is: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/7/27/2258381/-Red-state-governors-sacrificed-200-000-Americans-to-COVID-19

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago

Everett true is my goddamn idol

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago

Holy shit, based

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Where was this in 2020, hmm?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Already 102 years old

Hmmm?

[–] [email protected] 79 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 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] 25 points 3 months ago

Based af

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 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] 15 points 3 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] 15 points 3 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] 9 points 3 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] 4 points 3 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] 36 points 3 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Well, now I like him.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yikes. Fuck that artist in the ear.

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

In fairness, it predates Tintin in the Congo by about 20-30 years, and that's far worse.

Everett True is practically Wokey McWokeface in comparison.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Evenhanded in handing out the beatings

[–] [email protected] 185 points 3 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] 1 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 78 points 3 months ago

Thank you for your consideration of others ♥️

[–] [email protected] 72 points 3 months ago (1 children)

History repeats itself

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I just assume it's a George Lucas reference.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

it's a much older quote, often misattributed to Mark Twain, possibly because he has another quote about history not repeating. but it isn't this. this is possibly a humorous remark of some sort, but it's not that funny or clever imo. the main problem is that for it to work you need to completely misunderstand the saying "history repeats itself" to mean some sort of Battlestar Galactica's "all of this has happened before..." type mystical statement, which it isn't.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'm not sure if this is satire or not, but I was making a rif of the "It's like poetry, it rhymes." Meme

https://youtu.be/bxU2eqZtYmc?si=mBtc9CrcXdb0JPAd

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

yeah i didn't make the connection, i thought he probably said it somewhere.

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

If the quote at least itself rhymed, then you could call it an improvement, but no...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Mystery rhymes with history.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Dolt rhymes with colt!