Sunday funnies

February 28, 2016 • 12:45 pm

Here’s two new cartoons by reader Pliny the in Between from his/her website Evolving Perspectives. The first one’s called “Accommodation made easy.”

Does the faitheist look familiar?

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And this one is “Seat Map“. Careful inspection and an acquaintance with this site’s news will show all:

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24 thoughts on “Sunday funnies”

    1. Always does! He features frequently in the cartoons, his opinions exposed for what they are.

      I highly recommend subscribing to Pliny the Inbetween’s site.

    1. Me too!

      I am thinking of the El Al story; but, the cartoon went over my little Classicist head. I also saw Muslims and Hasidic Jews (the El Al story). Maybe it’s my poor eyesight…

    2. I don’t get it either. All the black coloured figures look like ultra-orthodox Jews up close, and the white guys up front look like Muslims or Sikhs or some other turban-wearing group. And I see the cross-shape made by the passengers.

      But, as I said, I don’t get the joke.

    3. I had to look up WLC, so I’m one behind you. Weekends… oh, look, there is the nightjar!

    5. Yeah, segreair definitely not funny and so poorly drawn that it’s a loser to me too. Possibly the worst Pliny cartoon I’ve seen. No, not possibly, it is. I get where s/he was going but if I have to think that hard to get in on the joke, then the author has failed rather spectacularly.

  5. Michelin guys are the ones who hang over from their seat into the adjacent ones, thereby taking up the whole row. Black are Hasids, white caps are Muslim, larvas are – I think – squalling babies. YMMV.

    1. And the Hasids are seated in the middle of a christian cross to maximize physical and mental discomfort.

      1. I think it means that Haredim in 1st class are in heaven (guys next to them, albeit ?Muslim), and Haredim in cattle class are in Hell. I assume the fat people are pregnant women. But it’s a bit obscure.

        (Is it okay for a Haredim to be seated next to a Muslim? Is it okay for a Muslim to be seated next to a Haredim?)

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  6. Pretty simple:

    1.) Rules are arbitrary.

    2.) Choice of rules is arbitrary.

    3.) Political questions over choice of rules consistent of one group dominating the other, or civil war in the alternative.

    In a much simpler social order, you have a homogeneous population, you teach them one set of rules, you tell them the rules come from gods, and you tell them they will be cursed if they question the rules. [Thereby minimizing group conflict.]

    This works pretty well until they come into competition with another community with a different set of rules.

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