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[–] [email protected] 41 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I just want to say that I love Devils Panties. I love that it is like half the time political and half the time not. I don't really know why, I just like that every day you don't know quite what to expect, but it is pretty consistently good.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 days ago

It’s like an autobiographical Calvin & Hobbes (meant as a compliment)

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago

I find it consistently bland but I'll give it its own identifiable style.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 days ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 30 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago

They're doing their best

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I didn't have the impression that he is generally, I figured this was more a case of what you grow up with is normal - to the point that he didn't even pick up on it!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The joke is that I have oversimplified the context.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

...I am very unobservant. (Especially early in the morning!)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Lololol all good, my friend.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

Yeah I read it that way too. Like his kid is perfect just the way they are... and his mom is perfect just the way she is too.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 days ago (2 children)

It's a version of the old (and, no longer accurate) joke: a mom knows her child's favorite foods, who their best friends and when their birthdays are, the names of their teachers, and their favorite crayon color. The farther knows some short people are living in the house.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Why is it no longer accurate? Maybe you meant to way it is not generally true, but it is certainly accurate as a description for my own family.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Gender stereotypes. I can't speak for the 50's, but all of the young parents, regardless of sex, that I've personally known in the past 15 years have been hyper-involved in their kid's lives.

[–] saigot 1 points 3 days ago

I interpreted more as: (autistic?) men rarely make eye contact.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 days ago

Just slice of married-family life.

Things like this occur and are relatable, or so I've been told.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

I was 28 before my mom told me I've had a lazy eye since I was a teen.