"What is my purpose?"
"You help people get cancer by lighting their cigarettes, cigars, and pipes and occasionally arsonists burning down orphanages."
"Oh my God."
88People who light up candles: 😟
92Candles are actually bad for your home air and so are open wood fires, despite their romantic image. https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/jan/09/too-many-smelly-candles-heres-how-scents-impact-the-air-quality-in-your-home
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Do people still light their cigarettes with matches though? I can't remember the last time I've seen anyone even own matches outside of a survival kit lol
23According to George Bluth matches are superior for lighting cigars (and probably pipes).
8I know a lot of people who use them to light their fireplaces, since you just kinda prop it in there and leave it, which is unwise to do with a lighter.
5I used to use em for a bong because it seemed real cool at the time.
4Some liquor stores will give you matches if you ask, for free. It's not terribly common, but it's helpful if you're a smoker and your lighter runs out.
3Cigarettes probably not, cigars yeah. Apparently the gas from a lighter can ruin the taste of it.
3I use them for lighting up lamps
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Barbeque pitmasters in shambles
1On the bright side he can get some relief in knowing he's taking them down with him.
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Jesus fuck that was upsetting
67A lot more wholesome than I expected
36Hans Christian Andersen wouldn't have ended it there.
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21The older I get, the more I believe that life is really about enjoyment, not longevity. We are here to have fun and burn brightly, not live to be 120 years old and hate 50 years of it. Whats the point of busting loads against the wall for decades and doing nothing but surviving?
20Thanks for the insight. Most of us interpreted the comic in a more negative light (pun intended).
I completely agree with you. There is a book written by a nursing home carer where she collected the advise and words of wisdom from the elders. Pretty much all of them regret not doing many things while they were younger and more able. In hindsight, they realised that the things they have not done are completely innocent and should not have let fear of being judged or fear of the unfamiliar get to them.
So yes, better to have lived a full life even it's short, than to live old full of regret! So long as you and others are not harmed!
4Societies marketing of long life is creepy AF. I'm in my 30s and all I can see is the negative of how the world works. To entertainment myself and ignore the harshness of reality just makes me want to leave sooner. It feels so cowardly to have to live so helplessly in a world you know is wrong.
4I'm going to die tragically young at 137, too soon, but it'll be super bright and fun
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I bet there'd be different dialogue if the matches could feel pain.
12I actually like this depiction because while it does anthrophromize inanimate objects, it also doesn't at the same time. They're matches, even if they were conscious, there's no reason they would have the same philosophy and disposition as humans. From a human view this seems fucked up, but they're not humans, not even animals, and therefore likely have no need for a survival instinct or aversion to dying, and similarly would also have no need to feel physical pain since that's tied into the not dying thing, so they wouldn't mind at all. They would most likely see this as completely normal and even honourable, and might even consider us cowardly and pathetic for being so averse to dying by bursting into flames. Their worst fear might actually be the prospect that they'll be destroyed in some other, boring way, or worse, be forced to lay dormant forever, and therefore never get the chance to experience the glory of catching on fire. That might be what actually causes them pain and suffering which they are spared from by burning to death. In the same way that Klingons are depicted to hold dying in battle in higher regard than all other fates.
Basically matches are Klingons is what I'm saying.
15Kah pla
3Depictions of death as happy like this bother me because that's generally how I feel about suicide (I'm safe, don't worry, yada yada yada) and this still feels wrong somehow and those conflicting emotions fuck me up
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Humans feel pain, but we don't feel the oxidation happening in us constantly. I'd say it's more about what you're built for rather than strictly a concept of pain.
14I expected the last panel to be screaming.
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4No one camps anymore? 🤔
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3Oh, I thought it was gonna be a period joke.
2Benjamin shouldn't have been so weak and naive. A pawn to the game.
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