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Dealbreaker (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 4 weeks ago by AlexisFR_2@sh.itjust.works to c/comicstrips@lemmy.world

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[–] tkk13909@sopuli.xyz 32 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

I'm so thoroughly baffled by this comic. Can someone explain please T_T

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 78 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (9 children)

She has a Christian cross on and the wolfman shrimp hybrid is wearing a yarmulke meaning Jewish.

Which is funnier on a whole other level because shrimp are not kosher.

https://www.jccmb.com/templates/articlecco_cdo/aid/1339532/jewish/Shrimp.htm

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 40 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I liked how it's hidden in the second panel by the truck tire.

[–] N0t_5ure@lemmy.world 9 points 4 weeks ago

And how the cross is hidden in the 4th panel by the cleavage.

[–] Chronographs@lemmy.zip 13 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Tbf I feel like cannibalism isn’t kosher either

[–] saltesc@lemmy.world 8 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

It is. Humans aren't forbidden and we'd be considered a clean animal.

[–] Chronographs@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

What if the human ate shrimp

[–] BoosBeau@lemmy.world 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

If I eat a shrimp that ate human, would that be cannibalism?

[–] Chronographs@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

If you eat their digestive tract I think it counts (if the human is still in there)

[–] egrets@lemmy.world 1 points 4 weeks ago

Indeed, here's Genesis 9:3, right after the Quite Big Flood:

Everything that lives and moves about will be food for you. Just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything.

[–] jqubed@lemmy.world 10 points 4 weeks ago

A joke also used on Futurama

[–] FishFace@piefed.social 7 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I thought that was just a lump on his head :(

[–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 2 points 4 weeks ago

It is but it's also a hat

[–] PlaidBaron@lemmy.world 6 points 4 weeks ago

Part of it was an excuse to draw cleavage, wasnt it?

[–] CanadianCarl@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 weeks ago

I didn't notice his hat. Till you pointed it out.

[–] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Pretty sure he's supposed to be a lobster, not a shrimp

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 weeks ago

All shellfish are not kosher.

[–] MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown@fedia.io 3 points 4 weeks ago

Oh! That makes sense. I didn’t notice it because it was hidden/camouflaged as the truck tire in the first panel.

[–] tkk13909@sopuli.xyz 2 points 4 weeks ago

Ahh ok I see it now! Thank you

[–] eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 4 weeks ago

The girl is perfect for him, except that she's christian and he's Jewish.
That's it, that's the joke.

[+] Solumbran@lemmy.world -50 points 4 weeks ago (5 children)

I guess the joke is "stupid atheists want everyone to accept their weirdness but they cannot handle someone having a nice innocent lovely religion" or something.

[–] imsufferableninja@sh.itjust.works 31 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Shrimp man is clearly wearing a yarmulke. Must be one of those atheist jews we've been hearing so much about.

[–] Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Isn't an atheist jew just a jew?

Ernest Krausz; Gitta Tulea (1997). Jewish Survival: The Identity Problem at the Close of the Twentieth Century; [... International Workshop at Bar-Ilan University on the 18th and 19th of March, 1997]. Transaction Publishers. pp. 90–. ISBN 978-1-4128-2689-1. "A person born Jewish who refutes Judaism may continue to assert a Jewish identity, and if he or she does not convert to another religion, even religious Jews will recognize the person as a Jew"

[–] imsufferableninja@sh.itjust.works 8 points 4 weeks ago

The yarmulke is a religious symbol, not an ethnic one. And since Mr Crustacean is wearing it on a date, and not just to temple, he is an orthodox jew. I should have said "atheist orthodox jews", but I was concerned that the commenter wasn't well educated enough to know what that meant.

[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 12 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

So what is so nice and lively about Christianity?

~You know, the quaint religion that celebrates, and adorns effigies of, murdering the son of their God and claiming that said murder will save their souls from punishment for their sins (such as murder).~

[–] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 5 points 4 weeks ago

I think you’re misunderstanding what you’re replying to. The person you’re replying to is critiquing the author for making a joke about atheists not being reasonable, which the author isn’t doing but the person you’re replying to didn’t realize the joke was that the lobstrocity is Jewish, not atheist.

[+] Solumbran@lemmy.world -20 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

I don't know, you'd have to ask the author of the comic but they'd probably spit out incoherent fanatical nonsense.

[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 17 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Funny. I thought it was you who said:

I guess the joke is "stupid atheists want everyone to accept their weirdness but they cannot handle someone having a nice innocent lovely religion" or something.

[–] lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com -1 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

See, there are these cool things called inference & imagination where we make an effort to guess someone's thought based on their output. Maybe try acquiring an imagination?

[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 1 points 4 weeks ago

See, there's this cool thing called inference & imagination where we make educated guesses of someone's thought based on their output. Maybe try acquiring an imagination?

Wow. Just wow. Do you even hear yourself when you say shit like that? That I should just make up my own reasoning for the things people say? Did you really just suggest that? Because where I come from we have those people, and they’re fucking everything up for everyone because they think like you. You need to stop and really think about what you said.

[–] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 weeks ago

but they'd probably spit out incoherent fanatical nonsense.

Why would they try to imitate you?

[–] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 11 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

It’s a joke about the lobster finding someone that actually loves him in spite of being a monster truck loving lobster man but then they cannot date because he’s jewish and shes christian. I don’t understand how atheism factors in, like, at all in this joke.

[–] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 weeks ago

I don’t understand how atheism factors in, like, at all in this joke.

It doesn't. The user you reponded to is just a douchebag

[–] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 8 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (2 children)

A: you're projecting a completely different meaning onto this dumb joke and B: is it not reasonable to reject dating someone who has fundamentally different values and beliefs about the basic nature of reality than you do?

I have plenty of religious friends. But I've also known many religious people who undergo wild swings in behavior based on their perception of what god wants of them. That's not a good foundation for a partnership. I need my life partner and I to be approaching major decisions from the same ontological perspective.

[–] imsufferableninja@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 weeks ago

I'm so fortunate that my wife and I lost our faith at more or less the same rate. Shit would have gotten messy otherwise

[–] lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 4 weeks ago

completely different meaning

Is it completely different? Still a difference in faith.

[–] eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 4 weeks ago

Lol go ahead and tell some of your Jewish friends about Christianity being nice and innocent and see what they have to say about it.

There's a reason so many Jewish people are into boxing...

[–] MolochHorridus@lemmy.ml 12 points 4 weeks ago (4 children)

I wonder why artists so often are completely clueless about the things they make art about. Lobsters aren’t pink when they’re alive. They get the pink colour only after being killed by boiling them.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 8 points 4 weeks ago

Shoulda been blue.

[–] MiDaBa@lemmy.ml 5 points 4 weeks ago

He was dead inside

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 5 points 4 weeks ago

There aren't really lobster-headed lycanthropes either

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 0 points 4 weeks ago

He has a really bad sunburn.

[–] saltesc@lemmy.world 3 points 4 weeks ago

I'm sure it's fine. Most Christians aren't Christians anyway, especially if this takes place in the States.

[–] YoiksAndAway@piefed.zip 3 points 4 weeks ago

I feel ya, Zoidbefenrirbubba.

[–] Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 3 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

A bit transphobic of him to turn her down just because she's wearing the lowercase t transgender symbol /ref

[–] alt_xa_23@lemmy.world 4 points 4 weeks ago

What does /ref mean in this context? I don't think I've seen that one before.

[–] Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 weeks ago

Is the lobster supposed to be Zoidberg?