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Cyanide and Happiness

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Hello fellow Cyanide and Happiness fans!

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

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History

@MrSebSin@sh.itjust.works started this community and wrote:

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.

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All comics posted are freely available online. In no way is the poster 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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[–] SARGE@startrek.website 94 points 5 months ago (2 children)

"No, I prefer to donate money directly, and if your company really cared about the cause then they would just donate without asking the customers to foot the bill"

Of course, the 9/10 times the cashier agrees and is only asking because their supervisor could be within earshot and decide to reprimand them for not asking.

[–] LeninOnAPrayer@lemm.ee 52 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yeah. I know you're just adding it for the comment. But don't actually bother the cashier with some grandstanding or lecturing. Honestly, a good "nah, I don't like kids" is a much better response to brighten their day. They've heard Karen complain about the guilt trip nature 100x already.

[–] zurohki@aussie.zone 14 points 5 months ago (1 children)

"I don't like kids. Not raw, anyway."

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 months ago

"I love babies: they're great roasted with small potatoes" - some baddie in one of the original Mad Max films.

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de -2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

if your company really cared about the cause then they would just donate without asking the customers to foot the bill

meh, there's a lot more nuance to this.

(all assuming the charity is legic)

The companies aren't really saying "we want to donate this money". They are just nudging people to donate a little bit, with the goal that if a lot of people donate a little, the charity will still have money in the end (and the company gets a tax break).

You need to understand, that almost all of the people nudged will not donate to a charity otherwise. And now they have the chance to donate a little bit without much effort.

In the end, good charities have more money for their work. And that's always a good thing

[–] hakase@lemm.ee 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Companies don't get tax breaks for their customers' donations.

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 5 months ago

Depends on the country

[–] zurohki@aussie.zone 32 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

A guy looking for loose change for food being made to feel greedy by a multi-billion dollar corporation which wants to take the marketing credit for other people's charity donations.

[–] nimble@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 5 months ago

No employee actually cares if you say yes or no. And i think i see this more frequently on the card reader now so you don't even talk to a human.

[–] dan1101@lemm.ee 15 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The company should donate the round-up difference.

Yep. Billion Dollar Companies asking customers to pay for the PR donation made by the Billion Dollar Company.

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 15 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Fuck that ... any time some idiot cashier asks me to donate to something I immediately and before they even finish, I will say 'NO THANK YOU'

If anyone ever asks me why I'm being so cheap, I remind them that the big giant corporation of a store that I am shopping at is more than capable of donating a few million dollars to the dumb charity they're trying to push on everyone.

Who's the cheap one in this scenario? Me not wanting to give a few pennies to a charity? ... or a corporation that isn't donating a million or two for no reason other than that it is chump change to them?

[–] vaguerant@fedia.io 24 points 5 months ago (1 children)

In fairness to cashiers, they're not the ones spearheading these campaigns. They're in the same boat as you except that their job security is contingent upon them presenting a donation option.

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 months ago

Yes, I fully understand that ... the ones that bug me are the young new workers who haven't learned the realities of these dumb marketing tricks and instead look at you like a cheap angry old man for not wanting to donate. It usually takes them about a week or two before the reality sets in that most people don't like these marketing ploys ... then it takes another two weeks for them to figure out why ... then they finally become the sullen cashier that mechanically goes through the motions of asking and then not really caring what your response is.

[–] Atomic@sh.itjust.works 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

They're just doing their job. No one cares why you don't want to. No need to have a whole speech prepared.

[–] kuberoot@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

If anyone ever asks me

If people are actually asking, then sounds like yes, there is a need to have a speech prepared.

[–] Atomic@sh.itjust.works 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

And if your grandmother had wheels she'd be a bike.

Just be nice and have the common decency of letting them do their jobs and finish their sentences.

[–] boonhet@lemm.ee 4 points 5 months ago

That saying is different in my corner of the world, it goes "she'd be an omnibus" lol

[–] Sarmyth@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

"Idiot cashier".... you're such a jackass.

[–] secret300@lemmy.sdf.org 13 points 5 months ago

I always say no and if an employee ever says anything (which they don't) I'm ready to hit em with "I don't give a fuck bout them kids"

[–] Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago
[–] PraiseTheSoup@lemm.ee 6 points 5 months ago

South Park did this joke years ago and it was great. Randy was the best before he became a pot farmer.

[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago
[–] LordWiggle@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Someone watched "A Serbian Film" too much. (disclaimer: the most horrifying film I've ever seen. Seriously, don't watch this shit, it'll give you PTSD. No joke!)

[–] Cordyceps@sopuli.xyz 2 points 5 months ago

Yeah that scene still haunts me after a decade, especially with having had a kid.