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Cyanide and Happiness

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Hello fellow Cyanide and Happiness fans!

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.

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

Hope you enjoy and feel free to contribute to the community with art, media, cool stuff about the authors, tattoos, toys and anything else, as long it’s Cyanide and Happiness related!

Ps. Sub to all my comic strip communities…

Bloom County [email protected] https://lemm.ee/c/bloomcounty

Calvin and Hobbes [email protected] https://lemmy.world/c/calvinandhobbes

Cyanide and Happiness !cyanideandhappiness https://lemm.ee/c/cyanideandhappiness

Garfield [email protected] https://lemmy.world/c/garfield

The Far Side [email protected] https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected]

Fine print: All comics I post are freely available online. In no way am I 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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[–] [email protected] 129 points 3 months ago (23 children)

Tbf I think this is an american thing. I have never asked someone for their hight, nor ever seen anyone ask this. American women are obsessed with men hight.

[–] [email protected] 63 points 3 months ago (5 children)

if you’re over 6 feet or so, all sorts of people will ask what your height is… but i have seen weird height minimums on dating apps… usually with “i want to be able to wear heels”

[–] [email protected] 61 points 3 months ago (9 children)

I don’t get it. Is there a rotating 1kW laser mounted on my head that may decapitate a woman slightly taller then me I didn’t recognize all my life?!

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 months ago (2 children)

People treat dating apps as a filter, and think that they'll only get people that match what they entered. So it becomes a wishlist for them. If they met a really great guy who happened to be short, sure they'd date him. But all other things being equal, would they prefer a tall guy to a short guy? Yes. All things aren't equal of course, but other stuff is harder to quantify. There's no "not an asshole" filter, for example.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

So what "If you're not 6 feet tall, don't bother" really means is "Hit me up anyway, we might click."

[–] [email protected] 35 points 3 months ago (2 children)

No, it means 'I'm a vapid person and you're dodging a bullet by swiping left on me'.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

Seriously, those people are a godsend. Thank you for telling me to stay far away lol I'd never want to be dating someone like that.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

1kW is too low

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago (1 children)

usually with “i want to be able to wear heels”

That's fine. I might wear them too.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 months ago (8 children)

As someone who's well over 2 meters tall, I can tell you that no matter where I travel, people always ask. Just depending on the country, they just stop me walking in public, or only after some small talk.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

But that has nothing to do with the dating thing where a lot of girls won't consider men under a given height, no exceptions.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I've never made height a thing in dating. But! I'm the shortest living member of my family (and by a large margin) so I appreciate when I have a partner who can reach all the things I can't reach at the store or wherever.

Why do we even have shelves so high off the ground???

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

For storage. Like, putting things on them.

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

It's not just the US, unreasonable focus on height is a thing in a number of countries, even non-western ones.

Though, where I live, it would be weird to ask this on a date.

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[–] [email protected] 89 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I assume you were planning on riding her?

[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Make sure you do it safely, with a lap restraint.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago

don't forget the latex helmet

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

And overhead bars.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago

Keep your hands inside the ride at all times

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[–] [email protected] 82 points 3 months ago (6 children)

5' 7"

How much do you weigh?

Slightly uncomfortable? Wondering what that has to do with anything? Then why did you ask for my height?

[–] [email protected] 42 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Sir, this is a ~~Wendy's~~ physician's office. You're here for your annual checkup. I am just taking down some basic information before the doctor arrives. Please unclench your fists so I can take your pulse/Ox.

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

Ain't doing shit 'til I get that prostate exam.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Highly recommend doing shit prior to that.

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

When his height starts with 5

When her weight starts with 200

Wtf why are you fat shaming me?

Why are you height shaming me? You could always lose some weight, but I can’t grow another six inches

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[–] [email protected] 60 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Little dude is taking no shit.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

Hobbit Smash!

[–] [email protected] 57 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I get more people saying to me “wow you’re very tall” to which I respond with “yes and you are very observant” which I feel is funny in the moment but is just condescending enough to make them realize it later on.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

What sometimes bothers me is constantly getting asked to reach for something high because I'm tall. My Wife has always been good at that despite all the step stools we have around the house for her.

I reached a point where I now ask her to pick things up off the floor because she's shorter than me, (she's 5'3" I'm 6'4"). Making her closer to the ground.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Got any more tips? I just kind of laugh it off and say yeah...guess so. Or nope too clumsy for basketball lol.

How's the weather up there is most annoying and I never know what to respond for that. Think I just glare lol

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 months ago

Sunny with a zero percent chance of an original joke.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago

You could always fart and say "a lot better than it's about to be down there"

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 months ago (3 children)

whatever happened to the old standards; 'can you nail a 6 inch spike through a board with your penis?'

e. ref https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRtLEhV1nho

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

One of the best movies ever.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Have you been playing with yourself, Kent?

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 months ago (1 children)

“How tall are you?”

“Do your eyes not function?”

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago

It's completely different! You can actually change your weight but not your height

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I don't understand why you'd ask when the person is right there with you. You can see how tall they are. I'm the average height of men where I live, and for whatever reason the tall guys here 95% of the time seem to date short women (which looks really weird to me but I'm the product of a union just like that - mom 5'4" dad 6'4", so maybe it's nature trying not to breed us into giants). I have really mostly only dated guys within an inch or two of my height, in both directions. Husband is almost exactly my height. Which all makes sense since such a large chunk of the guys here are close to my height.

Anyway - I don't ask, but have been asked, quite accusingly sometimes, as though I am being tall to make a guy feel short and they are offended.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Idk if getting on the table is a good response to being asked your height…

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 months ago

I don't think anything in cyanideandhappiness can be described as reasonable. The fact that there's no butt stuff here makes it pretty tame already.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago (1 children)

My friend doesn't get it, can someone help, please?

[–] [email protected] 62 points 3 months ago (1 children)

"you must be this tall to ride"

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

Oh. Thank you

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago

an emotional roller coaster

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

Short King getting on the table to present as bigger to deter predators.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (3 children)

am I the only one who doesn't get the joke, or

[–] [email protected] 41 points 3 months ago

Roller coasters famously have "you must be this tall to ride" signs where anyone shorter is not allowed supposedly for safety reasons

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago

Height doesn't matter except when queuing up for a roller coaster.

So someone who cares about height in other circumstances is superficial.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The only place you might get asked your height is at roller-coasters

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