Cyanide and Happiness
Hello fellow Cyanide and Happiness fans!
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.
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… Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyanide_%26_Happiness
Hope you enjoy and feel free to contribute to the community with art, media, cool stuff about the authors, tattoos, toys and anything else, as long it’s Cyanide and Happiness related!
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The Far Side !thefarside@sh.itjust.works https://lemmy.world/c/thefarside@sh.itjust.works
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I don't get it lol
Fred Durst, of the famed Limp Bizkit band, is a speech therapist. You can see him wearing his signature red hat.
Fred Durst is reciting the lyrics to the Limp Bizkit song, “My Generation,” to which the lyrics during the pre-chorus are:
The last word, “generation,” repeats the first letter twice before saying the word fully, for musical effect in the song. However, since in this comic, Fred Durst is a speech therapist, he is saddened to hear his patient repeat the first letter, as the effect resembles a stutter, which would signify a failure on Fred’s goal as a speech therapist.
The intentional stutter on the g in generation, as well as being present in some other words and verses, is meant as a kind of self - referential mocking of what someone hopped up on amphetamines sounds like.
It would be a fairly obvious and humorous reference to what many concert and festival goers would be used to. Stuttering and slurred speech were/are common effects of significant usage of the kinds of drugs they'd all be familiar with.
https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/roger-daltrey-stutter-the-who-song-my-generation/
On its face, without stuttering, the lyrics read as a rebellious screed of the optimistic youth against a corrupt and unfulfilling system.
But the intentional stuttering and slurring makes the whole thing into a tongue in cheek, semi self aware critique of the prevalence of massive drug use amongst the people purporting these ideals, making the song to sound more like a mockery of, or perhaps lament of drug addicts with no productive life who are just coming up with an ideological excuse/explanation for their lifestyle.