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[–] flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz 140 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Leave home to buy some spices, then go to a wrong grocery store and make a mess there breaking everything on the shelves

[–] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 86 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Don't forget to kidnap a few employees too while you're in the wrong store

[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 34 points 2 years ago

And cut out their tongues and get arrested.

[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 42 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You gotta wipe out 90% of that wrong grocery store's employees and patrons through communicable diseases, even the ones in corporate who have no idea who you are or have ever met you.

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[–] MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 35 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] grue@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago

WTF now I'm almost pro-Columbus again.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 22 points 2 years ago

And the spice isle is twice as long as you think it is, but you keep insisting that it's that length.

[–] booly@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 years ago

Leave home with spices on a shopping list, come home with syphilis instead.

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 48 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Hundreds of years from now people will claim that only you knew that your route to the spice store existed while in reality everyone knew that it was too long.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 41 points 2 years ago

"Oh, you're back. Did you bring back the cinnamon and nutmeg?"

"They were definitely out of those spices, but look at all of these severed hands!"

[–] magic_lobster_party@fedia.io 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You found some other spice store on the way and convinced yourself it was the spice store you were after

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 7 points 2 years ago

Although the Norwegian couple living above you has been going there for years.

[–] hopesdead@startrek.website 27 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 23 points 2 years ago (4 children)
[–] match@pawb.social 4 points 2 years ago

best I can do is monkeypox sorry

[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

It’s the Nutella of 1492.

[–] bamfic@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

And get syphillis in exhange. and lung cancer from the tobacco

[–] pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de 25 points 2 years ago
[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 19 points 2 years ago (2 children)

"Listen, I'm white. Columbus is associated with settlers and colonialism which the left unfairly demonized so poor Columbus got cancelled! Because I'm white I feel personally attacked because fox news says I should be so I'm celebrating out of spite even though I don't really even know what I'm celebrating! Make America Genocide Again!"

-Some Magoos subconscious probably

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Oh they definitely complain that people don't celebrate Columbus Day anymore like they never did anyway.

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[–] M1nds3nd@lemmy.ca 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Columbus Day could also be celebrated by breaking into someone's house and forcing them to find and bring you money. If they don't bring enough start killing their family.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Or at least just chopping their hands off.

[–] DahGangalang 17 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Unironically saw this meme while in line after having just done that.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 19 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You got lost in the spice aisle? Because they generally are straight lines.

[–] DahGangalang 18 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Eh, got lost looking for ground ginger. Started in the spice aisle, but they were out, so some directed me to the produce area (apparently didn't realize I didn't want whole ginger). After a bit more wandering, I turned some up in the Asian food section.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 26 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

I think you're celebrating Magellan Day or something. You don't ever get to the Asian food section on Columbus Day if you celebrate it properly.

[–] MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Damn it, every time someone posts a Key and Peele gif, I spend the next hour watching Key and Peele sketches.

[–] MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Happy to be of assistance.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

I said, biiiiiiiitch...

[–] match@pawb.social 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

i think you celebrate magellan day by getting beat up by a short pinoy king

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

I assume you celebrate Cook day by getting killed by Hawaiians.

[–] Slovene@feddit.nl 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

All ginger is ground ginger.

[–] match@pawb.social 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

what about hydroponic ginger

[–] Slovene@feddit.nl 6 points 2 years ago
[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Did you go to the pharmacy looking for spices? Did you make a scene and berate their employees? You’re doing it wrong.

[–] DahGangalang 2 points 2 years ago

Naw, I just kidnapped a bunch of people and left some dirty old blankets laying around /s

[–] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I used to observe columbus day by having the day off school. Now it's meaningless to me like every other "holiday" I have to work through and get pissed off because I drove all the way to the bank to get change and they're closed.

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[–] Randomgal@lemmy.ca 13 points 2 years ago

While you have COVID so you can side-kill anyone not immune.

[–] niktemadur@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'll observe my sister-in-law's birthday, thank you very much.

[–] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Don't mind me I'm just observing ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[–] Klear@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Completely off-topic: That cartoonist is continuing a tradition that goes all the way back to George Herriman near the beginning of the 20th century. He had an incredible strip called Krazy Kat, but it started out like the Tom Waits sub-strip there, under a strip he ended up abandoning.

I'm betting the cartoonist here knew about that and is continuing the tradition, which is pretty cool.

[–] Klear@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The strip is a tribute to Tony Millionare, which is also where the sub-strip comes from.

Dresden Codak used to be a wonderful webcomic with great surreal humour and some super funky layouts. Then over a decade ago the author started a long, boring and confusing storyline which is apparently still ongoing? Crazy.

Anyway, mostly everything under "One-Offs" in the archive is solid gold and highly recommended. The rest of it... don't bother.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Layers upon layers. Thanks for the info!

[–] bananapinball@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Columbus day? Supposed to watch The Goonies, Gremlins, some Mrs. Doubtfire and little bit of Sorcerer's Stone.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Don't forget Home Alone!