Covid-19 Gallows Humor

Jennkryst · May 1, 2020, 4:40 AM

@Wretched Ice T posted? Time to go shit-talk him some more...

Aria · May 3, 2020, 6:14 PM

Aria · May 4, 2020, 1:08 AM

surreality · May 4, 2020, 1:08 AM

@Aria I actually can't even articulate the level of <internal screaming> that first half pic inspires. It really, really wants to externalize, on... on... on... like... a 'this photograph depicts cluelessly smug white male privilege if it was an actual face' as an opener and just taking off from there.

Sadly I just got up from a nap and haven't coffeed yet. So I probably have that woman's 'I am dismayed by literally everything I see here' speechless face.

So I'll just go with this for a reaction right now:

GreenFlashlight · May 4, 2020, 4:22 AM

@surreality said in Covid-19 Gallows Humor:

@Aria I actually can't even articulate the level of <internal screaming> that first half pic inspires.

I don't know about you, but I want to toss them a pair of scissors and tell them to get to fuckin work if they want their hair cut so bad.

Aria · May 4, 2020, 4:25 AM

Seeeeeee, the joke is that's a scene with Lieutenant Aldo Raine from Inglorious Basterds. As in "One hun'red Nazi scalps!" Aldo Raine, specifically the line where he gets excited that the Nazi they're interrogating is refusing to answer questions and would rather die for his country, so he lets one of his men beat a Nazi to death.

Get it? Haircuts. Scalps.

surreality · May 4, 2020, 4:27 AM

@GreenFlashlight I also just... just... I see absolutely nothing whatsoever wrong with their hair. Their hair is fine. It is fine. It's FINE.

And OH MY GOD of all the things to demand. It isn't adequate PPE, it isn't food, it isn't shelter, it is such a profoundly trivial bit of vain bullshit that it makes me want to buzz their heads to see if all that hair that's so clearly a problem is clogging whatever brain may be under it from proper function.

These people leave me gibbering in Even Cant with wild gesticulations enough to puy my grandparents' entire generation of Italian siblings -- they were each one of eleven! -- to shame, and that is truly a lot of emphatic hand gestures.