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[MyGumsAreBleeding] They want their trauma back (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago by Stamets@lemmy.world to c/comicstrips@lemmy.world

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[–] NegativeLookBehind@kbin.social 18 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Given the setting of this comic (Some time after 2001), wouldn't they have already known what happened to the WTC? And dude is using a corded, residential phone, so it couldn't have been that long after it 9/11...

[–] Stamets@lemmy.world 66 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I don't understand this weird Lemmy fascination with over-analyzing and breaking down shitposty jokes.

[–] Cold_Brew_Enema@lemmy.world 25 points 2 years ago

I use Arch, btw

[–] NegativeLookBehind@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I am deeply sorry for upsetting you with my observations

[–] Stamets@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I said I didn't understand it, not that I was upset over it but okay.

[–] streetfestival@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 years ago

The corded phone is my favourite part :P

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago

I imagine, it's part of the joke, that the phone looks old. Like, if the 50s called, it would have been a rotary phone...

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

I over slept for work that morning and my mother screamed that I needed to get out of bed because the world was on fire.

I got my work clothes on in a minute because I was a teenage dirt bag, baby. By the time I got to the living room she was in tears because the Pentagon was going up in smoke.

I'm not sure if it was survival instinct or what, but I said, 'Silly Government, tricks are for kids!'

I just remember her shouting, "This is serious!" As I dashed to my car.

The radio sucked that morning. Pretty much all the fm band was nothing but church talk. The walkman I had plugged into my stereo was off charge, so I had to listen to some Spanish sermon as I wondered if the Spencer's I worked at was going to be blown up.

This has been a '9-11 Moment', reply with 'I was there.' if you'd like to know more.

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 1 points 2 years ago

Well, it’s not actually the year 2001 calling on the phone.