• Lem Jukes@lemm.ee
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    9 days ago

    Is it just me or is this context kinda some horseshit? To me ‘snitches get stitches’ means ‘don’t rat out the people you were doing the thing with because that makes you a traitor’. This comes off as ‘don’t speak up when you’ve been abused’. I get it’s a joke I’m just saying it kinda rubbed me the wrong way and could be framed better and still be funny.

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      9 days ago

      Imho the joke is that “snitches get stitches”

      absolutely doesn’t imply that “non snitches don’t get snitches”

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        9 days ago

        What? That’s exactly what the text is implying?

        The last panel is literally the doctor saying ‘I cannot give your son stitches because they did not snitch’

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          8 days ago

          Yes but imho that is funny.

          “snitches get stitches” mean “if you snitch you will get stitches”.

          On the last panel the doctor says “if and only if you snitch you will get stitches” which is completely different and thus an humoristic subversion of expectations.

          (note that I’m not the final judge of what’s funny and what’s not. Kamel Debbiche is)

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        9 days ago

        Holy shit, it’s an open forum where we can talk about whatever the fuck we want. Why not just block me instead of being obnoxious?

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          9 days ago

          Well it kind of sounded like you just wrote down the whole joke and that’s it, so a holy shit teaction is understandable. I do get what you mean, I also find the bullying context a bit triggering, and I agree the phrase it was built around could have been used in different context. But the bullying context IS quite a classic and it shows the absurdity of the point very well, so I’m willing to allow the iffy aspect.