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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:

Bello Bear !BelloBear@lemmy.world https://lemmy.world/c/bellobearofficial

Bloom County !bloomcounty@lemm.ee https://lemm.ee/c/bloomcounty

Calvin and Hobbes !calvinandhobbes@lemmy.world https://lemmy.world/c/calvinandhobbes

Cyanide and Happiness !cyanideandhappiness https://lemm.ee/c/cyanideandhappiness

Garfield !garfield@lemmy.world https://lemmy.world/c/garfield

The Far Side !thefarside@sh.itjust.works https://lemmy.world/c/thefarside@sh.itjust.works

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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[–] arctanthrope@lemmy.world 20 points 5 days ago (3 children)
[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 12 points 5 days ago (1 children)

This is the closest I could find.

[–] brotundspiele@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 days ago

SCP obviously stands for Self-Catering Postbox.

[–] AndrewZabar@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

They should really make a Netflix series on SCP. Like Warehouse 13 but like horror genre. I would watch the shit out of that show.

[–] Ghostie@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 days ago

SCP is really scraping the bottom of the barrel for new ideas.

[–] Thorry@feddit.org 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

They warn you about this effect in diving school... Sounds horrifying and unstoppable.

[–] 200ok@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

What's going on? It looks like a curious crab that runs off

[–] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Localized pressure differential... Also known as Delta-P...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diving_hazards#Localised_pressure_differentials

....the contents of the pipe being cut is a large volume of low pressure... The ocean at depth is a large volume of high pressure... The differential is high enough to suck a crab through a small space, making minced meat of it.

There's stories out there of it happening to divers... Mostly to do with low pressure gas pipes being fixed or repaired.

The morbidly curious can find plenty on YouTube.

[–] 200ok@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Oh... He's being sucked in, not running away 🥺

[–] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, sad isn't it...

Mind you there's also the idea that species in the ocean often end up evolving into crabs... So more crabs to come. They're somewhat inevitable.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcinisation

[–] 200ok@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago
[–] Inkstainthebat@pawb.social 2 points 4 days ago