• @[email protected]
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      I get more of a school bully vibe from it. The stereotypical old person joke is “wife bad”, this sounds more like something a self-described “alpha male” would say.

      • @Viking_Hippie
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        “Bullying and sex-shaming funny” is just as much of a boomer humor cliché as “wife bad”, though.

      • Fushuan [he/him]
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        310 months ago

        “sure was hard when you mom was bouncing on it last night”

        …and that’s a beating from the bully.

    • Jo Miran
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      A comeback to likely piss off said boomer since they are probably homophobic too.

      • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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        The original was better, since he left the antagonizer to his misery without any engagement, and went back to having fun.

            • Jo Miran
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              It is actually kind of nice that your mind went to him just enjoying life and not being bothered by bullies.

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      Gen-X here. Can confirm that “virgin”, " nerd", and “” were preferred punch lines by the boomers.

      • @almar_quigley
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        Also judging people for having a harmless hobby that doesn’t conform to their world view.

        • @almar_quigley
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          We watched an old episode of friends for nostalgia recently and the whole punchline of the entire episode was “yeah but you kissed a dude”.

      • oce 🐆
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        Wasn’t nerd still common bullying word in 80’ and 90’? Then nerds became the richest people with the internet and it doesn’t work anymore.

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    The moral of this comic is the last pane, where the hobbyist goes back to doing what they enjoy and the other guy is still a miserable, lonely cunt.

  • Jo Miran
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    I regularly flew kites from the campus yard in college (many moons ago). It was just something I had enjoyed doing with my mother who had died during my senior year of high school. I was never called a virgin for it, but I did get laid a lot thanks to it. It’s a wholesome conversation starter plus I think it made me approachable. Thanks mom.

  • @[email protected]
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    It’s hard to make time for sex when you are learning how to fly a kite from its tail. The man is defying basic physics right there.

  • DaGeek247
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    Now there’s a throwback to '90s/early internet humor.

    • @[email protected]
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      This kind of joke pre-dates the internet.

      What’s the hardest part about ?

      Telling your parents that you’re gay.

      This joke just switches homophobia with virginity shame.

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        I have no doubt about that. The virginity part was what dated this specific iteration of it.

  • @[email protected]
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    Staying a virgin is easy. Just develop a shitty personality or maybe even a personality disorder like I did and viola, you are now a forever virgin.

    However, living as a virgin is much more difficult. Between self-loathing and depression, you could turn suicidal. Again like I did.

  • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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    Do you think Benjamin Franklin was a virgin? No. Benjamin Franklin fucked, and flew kites.

  • don
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    kite: you do realize I’m up here, right

  • @Chriszz
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    I feel like basic kite flying is wholesome.