"RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile) 03/09/2018 at 11:27 • Filed to: far side friday

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Ash78, voting early and often > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 03/09/2018 at 11:34

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This may be the darkest Far Side I’ve ever seen.

Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 03/09/2018 at 11:37

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OK, this one I’m going to need explained...

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 03/09/2018 at 11:44

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user314 > Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer 03/09/2018 at 11:45

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The other scientists either heard or saw something, rushed over to investigate the puddle of goo, and have now realized it is the remains of their colleague.

HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles > Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer 03/09/2018 at 11:56

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Is funny because he died

Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer > user314 03/09/2018 at 12:05

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Usually Far Side is deeper than that.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer 03/09/2018 at 12:31

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It’s one of those far side cartoons that is using something horrifying as a canvas to make jokes. First joke: labs are not normally exciting... like, at all. This is an exciting thing, but the scientists are barely rattled. Just, “wow, that’s weird!”. Second joke is that scientists of the playing-god variety have no ethical perspective. The humanity of someone just having DIED is not really that pressing, leading to the third joke: that their first impulse as scientists is to figure out what happened and why, because it’s new and exciting.

Fourth joke: people gruesomely melted into blobs look funny.

Bottom line, this is a cartoon about something fucked up happening, and revealing that the lab scientists themselves are even more fucked up, in a stereotype played to extreme.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Ash78, voting early and often 03/09/2018 at 12:33

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Well, there’s the wolves one from last week, but that didn’t have a corpse.

themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 03/09/2018 at 12:53

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Ha. Definitely printing this out and putting it up on the lab’s safety report board

TheRealBicycleBuck > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 03/09/2018 at 13:01

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That’s about how I feel right now. I’ve been doing post-Harvey site assessments all week and now I get to drive 5 hours to get back home.

Happy Friday!!!

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > TheRealBicycleBuck 03/09/2018 at 13:08

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Sometimes you’ve just got to look at something, say “shit’s fucked”, and see if there are enough hours left to straighten it out.

Die-Trying > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 03/09/2018 at 14:57

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TheRealBicycleBuck > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 03/09/2018 at 21:28

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The painful part is dealing with the FEMA inspectors. They insist on measuring every room, counting every outlet and switch, measuring cabinets and doors, etc. The worst is when they open a control panel and try to make sense of controller boards. It’s clear they have no idea what they are looking at. So, they take pictures of every component and try to write down every model number they find. They really should just write down that the lift station needs a new control panel to support two 15 hp pumps. While they are screwing around, there are six other people twiddling their thumbs, burning time. Many of the client site managers are waiting until they finish 90% of the repairs before calling for a site inspection. Once it hits that point, FEMA will just request copies of the repair invoices and call it good.