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Garfield has taken a weird turn lately

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[–] invalidusernamelol@hexbear.net 41 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I started putting up random Heathcliff comics in my office and it made everyone irrationally angry for a week until they came around and now everything that happens gets a Heathcliff meme edit

[–] NinaPasadena@hexbear.net 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I kinda wanna office job again to do this

[–] invalidusernamelol@hexbear.net 17 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

It's a blast, I named one of our internal tools 'heathcliff' so now management has to talk about utilizing the heathcliff tool to its full potential in meetings lmao

[–] NinaPasadena@hexbear.net 9 points 3 months ago

Now this is peak performance

[–] combat_brandonism@hexbear.net 7 points 3 months ago

now management has to talk about utilizing the heathcliff tool to its full potential

goated

[–] NinaPasadena@hexbear.net 36 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

To those confused... This comic from a few days before should answer all questions.

I kinda love heathcliff for being so weird lol.

[–] Abracadaniel@hexbear.net 19 points 3 months ago

why is gen alpha humor so weird?

[–] LENINSGHOSTFACEKILLA@hexbear.net 32 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I have no fuckin clue whats happening here

[–] context@hexbear.net 22 points 3 months ago
[–] Acute_Engles@hexbear.net 24 points 3 months ago

"Bro" refers to the cat. "Gnomes" is a verb meaning 'to gnome'

The neighbors are commenting on the skill with which bro gnomes

The joke is that the gnomes have bro on their hats like who does that lol

[–] Zoift@hexbear.net 23 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] kleeon@hexbear.net 18 points 3 months ago

I showed this to 40-odd professionals with doctoral degrees and none could understand it.

[–] DivineChaos100@hexbear.net 17 points 3 months ago

Youve been bro gnomed

[–] Meltyheartlove@hexbear.net 15 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Jimmy Cool will never buy into this helmet bro trend

[–] AnarchoBolshevik@lemmygrad.ml 15 points 3 months ago
[–] kristina@hexbear.net 14 points 3 months ago
[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 14 points 3 months ago (2 children)
[–] Flyberius@hexbear.net 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The really wanted that song to rhyme, didn't they...

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 4 points 3 months ago

They had a job to do and they did it. catgirl-salute

[–] HexReplyBot@hexbear.net 3 points 3 months ago

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[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The couple has a gnome with a little pointy hat, but the BROs have

Big

Red

Orbs

[–] relativestranger@feddit.nl 7 points 3 months ago

they're heathcliff's guardin' gnomes.

[–] Dessa@hexbear.net 11 points 3 months ago

Does Heathcliff own a house?

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 10 points 3 months ago

At first I was like eh? Then suddenly Ohhhhhhhhhh

[–] Acute_Engles@hexbear.net 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

"Bro" refers to the cat. "Gnomes" is a verb meaning 'to gnome'

The neighbors are commenting on the skill with which bro gnomes

The joke is that the gnomes have bro on their hats like who does that lol

[–] ThermonuclearEgg@hexbear.net 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

"Gnomes" is a verb meaning 'to gnome'

"Lambda" is a verb meaning "to lambda"

[–] shath@hexbear.net 8 points 3 months ago
[–] hedd616@hexbear.net 6 points 3 months ago
[–] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 6 points 3 months ago

This is a pun on "bronomics", the field of biochemistry that attempts to catalog the infinite natural variation of bros.

[–] LangleyDominos@hexbear.net 5 points 3 months ago

pro nouns < bro gnomes

[–] grendahlgrendahlgen@hexbear.net 3 points 3 months ago

It's giving Cow Tools