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Hello fellow Far Side fans!
About this community and how I post the comic strip… Many moons ago, I would ask my Dad to save the newspaper for me everyday so I could read my favorite comic strips and one of those was The Far Side. These days of course you find just about anything online including www.thefarside.com where they post several comics a day and I repost them here. Just to note, the date you see in my posts is not the initial release date, but the date they were posted on the website.
The Far Side is a single-panel comic created by Gary Larson and syndicated by Chronicle Features and then Universal Press Syndicate, which ran from December 31, 1979, to January 1, 1995 (when Larson retired as a cartoonist). Its surrealistic humor is often based on uncomfortable social situations, improbable events, an anthropomorphic view of the world, logical fallacies, impending bizarre disasters, (often twisted) references to proverbs, or the search for meaning in life… Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Far_Side
Hope you enjoy and feel free to contribute to the community with art, cool stuff about the author, tattoos, toys and anything else, as long it’s The Far Side!
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I really wish these existed...the amount of people I see not washing their hands in bathrooms only a few years out of a pandemic is ridiculous.
During the pandemic too lmao, idk there was a trend of a shared sink area so everyone would see everyone washing hands (or not) but I've been seeing that less since the end of the pandemic.
I remember seeing a YouTuber building this for real. Ofc it just detected if you used the sink etc, but it's totally possible to make.
And it's seriously frustrating when it's a bathroom with no paper towels and no way to open the door without using your hands.
Dude I just saw you holding your dick in your hands and you walk right to the door and leave, and now I gotta touch the damn door handle!
Sorry to be one level down but I open the door with my shoe if there is no paper towel and I have to use hands, because I know someone had fecal matter on their hands and touched the doorknob. My action of the shoe makes it worse but protects me? I also throw paper towels on the floor if they have the can back by the sink in a larger bathroom. If I can "shoot a hoop" or open a can with a foot opener I'll get it in there but if logistics force me to choose between having fecal matter free hands and the owner having to pay someone to clear up paper towels I'll do the former. When I worked in restaurants I always dragged towel cans/garbage toward the door for this purpose. How do health inspections (I guess they just never happen) not catch this stuff?
I keep handsanitzer clipped to my pants because of shit like that
afaik the large majority of transmission is from the air rather than surface contamination