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TranscriptComic in 5 panels

Panel 1: a guinea pig stands in front of a barber shop sign that reads β€œ1/2 off Haircuts”

Guinea Pig: Oh, wow!

Panel 2: the guinea pig leaves the barber shop and sees his reflection in the window. He’s noticeable shorn evenly on only half his body from nose to tail.

Guinea Pig: Hey!

Panel 3: the guinea pig turns around and reenters the barber shop.

Panel 4: the guinea pig leaving the barber shop again spies his reflection in the window and sees a quarter of his body still has hair on it

Guinea Pig: What!

Panel 4: the Guinea pig re-enters the barber shop.

Guinea Pig: This is going to take FOREVER.

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[–] 23 points 2 months ago (1 child)
  • [–] 18 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    You would eventually get down to the last hair, and then have a 50% chance to remove it with each subsequent haircut. This is his how homeopathic solutions can end up with literally no β€œactive ingredient”, or only a small chance of containing a single molecule of it.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    No, they'd just keep cutting the hair in half

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  • [–] 18 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    It all depends if you know your limits

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  • [–] 14 points 2 months ago

    The fact that it's a guinea pig is an amazing choice.

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  • [–] 42 points 2 months ago (11 children)

    That's not how reflections work.

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  • [–] 34 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    It's also not how "1/2 off" cuts work, animals don't go to a barber, nor do they talk.

    But the reflection being unrealistic, yes, that's where we draw the line.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Yes, that is where we draw the line, because the things you listed are all part of the joke. The reflection is not (and is almost certainly due to lack of skill because reflections can be hard).

    Should we never criticise any unrealistic aspect of something as soon as it contains one deliberate unrealistic aspect? Is the coffee cup on game of thrones unproblematic because we can just as well imagine they have Starbucks in Westeros as dragons? If someone draws a comic with a talking animal, is it no longer possible to critique the anatomy in their drawing?

    Or does this not make sense, do we recognise a difference between deliberate deviations from reality and accidental ones (or deviations from the established or expected reality)?

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    You say it's not relevant to the joke, but a realistic reflection wouldn't show a side-by-side depiction. The way it's portrayed here highlights the hair cut that the animal is upset about, which is key to the joke.

    It might not be realistic, but I see this as "artistic license," along with the other absurd elements.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    Since you can see what's happened without the reflection, I don't think a realistic reflection would hurt that prospect. In fact it might be easier (if the reflection were kept as it is, and the piggie rotated so that it would produce the reflection)

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago

    So this is how they make skinny pigs

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    All depends on if he's a mathematician or a physicist.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago (6 children)

    After six or seven times it won’t matter.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    βΆπŸ€·β€β™‚οΈβ·

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    (I'm missing that ref, already seen several time, can someone explain me 😒)

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    67 came from a song lyric, then a kid made a tiktok where he frantically said "six seveeen!! six seveeen!!" to the camera while doing a gesture with his hands. and because kids love pattern recognition, when they see the number it's easy to point it out and do the gesture. and so the meme spread.

    the humor comes from it being nonsensical; the joke is on anyone who's either tired of it, or never found it funny at all, so i don't really see it going away anytime soon.

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