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Cyanide and Happiness

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Hello fellow Cyanide and Happiness fans!

Cyanide & Happiness (C&H) is a webcomic created by Rob DenBleyker, Kris Wilson, Dave McElfatrick and Matt Melvin. The comic has been running since 2005 and is published on the website explosm.net along with animated shorts in the same style. Matt Melvin left C&H in 2014, and several other people have contributed to the comic and to the animated shorts

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About this community and how I post the comics… Many moons ago, I would ask my Dad to save the newspaper for me everyday so I could read my favorite comic strips. Of course these days you can read your favorite comics online instead of a newspaper, but I love the nostalgia of reading the daily comics. Anyway, one of my favorite current comics is Cyanide and Happiness and I will be posting the daily release from their website (https://explosm.net/) and a an extra or two randoms.

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[–] dumbass@leminal.space 2 points 36 minutes ago
[–] AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 2 points 43 minutes ago

Moving from hungary to sweden is wild. Going from tall to a bit above average is insane and it feels like less because some people tower over me here.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 2 points 1 hour ago

This tall.

*Puts hand on top of head. Whilst sitting down.

[–] x4740N@lemm.ee 7 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)
[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 4 points 2 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Malfeasant@lemm.ee 2 points 13 minutes ago

No love, just fucking.

[–] JokeDeity@lemm.ee 1 points 1 hour ago

I've never been asked by anyone when I was first dating them. But then I'm just a hair under 6'.

[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 7 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

What a weird question. They do have eyes, do they not? If you cannot visually establish if someone is smaller the you then it's probably negligible.

[–] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 8 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

For a beautiful strange moment, I thought you were going the other direction with this:

What a weird question. They do have eyes, do they not? If you cannot visually establish if someone is a roller coaster, then it's probably negligible.

[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 1 points 44 minutes ago
[–] MissJinx@lemmy.world 30 points 7 hours ago (3 children)

Every time I see memes about hight I ask myself why are americans so fixated on that. It's like this is the major thing american women look in a man. Never seen that anywhere else.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 points 23 minutes ago* (last edited 22 minutes ago)

It’s like this is the major thing american women look in a man.

My sister did the Tindr circuit back in the '10s, and she regularly passed on anyone who was shorter than 6'. Some of this might have simply been that all the men and quite a few of the women in her family were at least that tall, but she capped out at 5'3".

She struggled with dating for years, because a lot of the guys she went out with were either fuckbois or work-a-holics or otherwise unfun people to be around. Eventually, she got two requests in one day - one dude who was 6'1 and another who was 5'2". At this point, she was getting burnt out and felt a bit bad about not even giving the 5'2" a chance.

The date with the 6'1" guy was predictably awful. She didn't even bother suggesting another.

The date with the 5'2" guy was incredibly. The immediately clicked. She totally fell for him. He fell for her. A couple years later they got married. Now they've got an adorable little girl and we're all joking about how it would be funny of my sister's tall-family genes take over and she's towering over her parents in twenty years.

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 5 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Brazil here. My ex wouldn't date anyone shorter than 175cm and my current gf wouldn't even look at me if i was under that height.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 0 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Couldn't you just have lied I mean on the first date did you bring out a measuring tape? Do you actually know how tall you are I find it weird that people would care enough to check.

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev -4 points 1 hour ago

Couldn’t you just have lied

Why would I? I am over 175cm

did you bring out a measuring tape?

With my current gf, she was the measuring tape, we're both the same height.

Do you actually know how tall you are

Of course I do

I find it weird that people would care enough to check.

Weird is not caring about your height, imo.

[–] Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 9 points 7 hours ago (4 children)

I've never actually heard anyone say they cared about height. I've only heard second hand stories.

Mostly saying, I think it's a fairly small amount of people that care.

[–] fishy@lemmy.today 2 points 46 minutes ago

Haven't been on one in years, but women would put "guys over x height only" in their dating app profiles. I saw it as an advertisement that those particular women were very insecure and should probably be avoided, but it was a significant number of them nonetheless.

[–] bob_lemon@feddit.org 1 points 55 minutes ago

It's relatively common in dating apps here in Germany. I just see it as an immediate red flag and move on.

[–] Poxlox@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago

Not true at all. Hugely important factor for women who are dating. You can literally look up the data on this, heigh is incredibly important for hetero women

[–] 0x01@lemmy.ml 10 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Many of my American friends will not date someone shorter than themselves, I guess in part it's social inertia because it's just embarrassing more than unattractive

[–] ziggurat@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago

Thank you for adding one more second hand story to alexstsrfire's collection

[–] XaetaCore@lemmy.xaetacore.net 4 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (2 children)

I would see myself do this just to make fun of the situation XD. Honestly if height is a requirement your better of looking somewhere else 😅

And that's coming from a dutchie.

[–] iknowitwheniseeit@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Speaking of Dutch height requirements.... my wife is Dutch. We met at a dance. We chatted a bit, and she did a literal translation at one point of "hoe lang ben je?".

Her: You're pretty tall. How long are you?

Me: Long enough, I promise you!

[–] XaetaCore@lemmy.xaetacore.net 1 points 1 hour ago

That is one way to break the ice XD

[–] Landless2029@lemmy.world 10 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I think that's a good response.

"How tall are you?".
"Why, are you a rollercoaster? Haha"

Laugh it off and see how she reacts. If she's awkward and remorseful or she's pushy you can either go on with the date or ask her how much she weighs or her bra size. Then transition into how men can be offended by such a question.

Statistically taller people are seen as more attractive and therefore more successful. So good genes. So "you want to have kids with me? That's a little fast..." Could be a quip.

This is hopefully a more avoidable issue because the more toxic people put in rollercoaster requirements right in their bio.

[–] FlyingSpaceCow@lemmy.ca 4 points 4 hours ago

"Must be at least this tall to ride"

[–] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 20 points 13 hours ago

Better than most of these!

[–] vga@sopuli.xyz 1 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (3 children)

I've never had to be in the dating game, so I gotta ask: Is there any way this is a good question in a conversation? Is it possible that it's just an awkward opening, or is it always the equivalent of asking a woman what's her bra size or whatever?

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 4 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Is there any way this is a good question in a conversation?

It's a pretty dumb question in a face-to-face encounter since you can see for yourself how tall somebody is.

[–] vga@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 hours ago

So pretty much the same as asking for cup size

[–] krawutzikaputzi@lemm.ee 4 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Usually it's not part of the date conversation for me because it doesn't matter if you date an average heigth guy. if a guy is really fucking tall and I'm genuinely interested about how tall he is I have asked, nobody ever minded. I think this whole height fetish is a little bit out if control because of dating apps maybe. Because I've met all of my boyfriend live and then you can see about what height they have. And I've never minded if somebody is small or tall.

[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 hours ago

Sure, and if a girl has mega huge 32h knockers I'm sure she isn't (that) mad either (except you're still objectifying the tall/giant tiddie person in a sense, even if that isn't the intent, and the man is less likely to even catch on to that to be mad about it, but I digress), but asking someone who has been repeatedly made fun of or rejected because they are "short" or "flat" is more likely to yield a different reaction.

Though yes there are also women who don't care, my first GF was taller than me for instance, just like there's men who actually prefer smaller boobs, like me, it happens. Though the existence of people like my ex and I doesn't indicate frequency (as in, though our preferences are as such, it is still entirely possible that most women prefer tall and most men prefer honkers, all we prove is the existence of people who do not fit that paradigm, too, but not in what ratio.)

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 4 points 8 hours ago

Maybe if your first date is to go on a rollercoaster