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WCDT Nov 21st - Nov 25th (strips #4921 to #4925)
cesium133:
--- Quote from: Stoon on 23 Nov 2022, 18:40 ---Jeph, dude. You live in Canada now. Thanksgiving was last month.
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This year, I did Canadian Thanksgiving in the United States, and I’m planning to do American Thanksgiving in Canada (albeit on Saturday, because I don’t have Thursday off).
Mr_Rose:
--- Quote from: cesium133 on 23 Nov 2022, 20:03 ---
--- Quote from: Stoon on 23 Nov 2022, 18:40 ---Jeph, dude. You live in Canada now. Thanksgiving was last month.
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This year, I did Canadian Thanksgiving in the United States, and I’m planning to do American Thanksgiving in Canada (albeit on Saturday, because I don’t have Thursday off).
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Never let them know your next move.
snubnose:
Since people here think killer robots not having anyone to kill is funny:
https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/23/23475817/san-francisco-police-department-robots-deadly-force
Thats why its not funny. Ever.
BenRG:
I think that the funny part of it is the idea of a self-aware killer robot that it is easy to stop from hurting people (literally just "Dude, no, you don't need to kill them!") and then is able to discuss with their potential victim why being not allowed to hurt someone makes them feel devalued as people. The joke is in the ridiculous idea of a neurotic killing machine that feels that it is being prevented from doing what it was meant to do because kill-drones are very unpopular and then agonises about it to its potential victim. The humour is in the ludicrous nature of the whole scenario and ensuing discussion.
Douglas Adams basically wrote a very similar sketch (but with biological protagonists) in The Restaurant at the End of the Universe with the two space cops who whine about the bad reputation that they automatically have to put up with for being cops (whilst, simultaneously, showing them revelling in their ability to kill with impunity).
hedgie:
I don’t know what’s worse, deliberately making a kill-bot, or making one that’s self-aware and then taking away its raison d’ etre. Then again, my own sense of humour is dark enough that, particularly with the quality of my handwriting, it’s a pity that I never was a good enough student to go into medicine.
Speaking of which, I’m reminded of a time where I was serving coffee, and handing a “baby latte”[1] to a middle-aged lady, and I quipped that I ground up the baby nice and fresh that morning. She levels a death glare at me and snaps “I’m a paediatrician!”. Just as I’m starting to wish that I had worn the brown trousers to work that day, she cracks a smile and says “do you want to hear some dead baby jokes?”.
It’s just a pity that she had already paid, since I’ve never, before nor since had a customer get one over on me like that, and that would have warranted me paying for it out of the tip jar.
[1] Thus called because it was in an off-menu size for lattes, being served in a double espresso/macchiato[2] cup
[2] real one, not Starbucks
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