this post was submitted on 13 May 2024
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The Far Side

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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!

Ps. Sub to all my comic strip communities:

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Garfield [email protected] https://lemmy.world/c/garfield

The Far Side [email protected] https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected]

Fine print: All comics I post are freely available online. In no way am I claiming ownership, copyright or anything else. This is a not for profit community, we just want to enjoy our comics, thank you.

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Terrain, terrain... Pull UP... terrain terrain, Pull UP

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I AM pulling UP, but this is a Boeing, and every time I aim UP we somehow end up going DOWN!?!?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Sadly this is almost true. The MAX needed the pilot to overcome the extra stick force the MCAS put in to actually pull up.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Which is super weird because the threshold where MCAS would finally give up and let the pilot do some piloting for a change was ridiculously high (if it let go at all which is another fuckup)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

But the instructor always said to use soft moves.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Reminds me of that Korean Air flight audio where the second and third knew they were going to crash into the ground, but didn't want to disrespect the first who was saying the instruments were incorrect.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

My Favourite air crash investigation. That was an eye opener on cultural differences.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Definitely. I couldn't imagine being willing to die in order to not disrespect an elder or embarrass them.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago

I like to imagine that’s just a REALLY good mountain goat. Like “pfft! No more ground? I’ll just climb up these water vapor crystals into the sky.”

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

Either they've found heaven, or they're about to find heaven

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

That picture is hanging in one of my philosophy professors office. She used this image as an introduction to epistemology.

It is obvious to us that there is a mountain there but how are we coming to that conclusion exactly. I.e. What kind of logical assumptions and inferences are we making.

And how can we priorities sources of knowledge. For example what if the instruments of the plane claim there was no mountain.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Parachuting furry ?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

The goat of wisdom

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Tonight in Air Crash Investigation...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

They found mountain goat heaven.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 months ago

Damn, I wonder if it's anywhere near the time that Austrian pilot decided to go meet the mountain goats :/