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Vaniarrz@midwest.socialdeleted by creator to Comic Strips@lemmy.world · 8 months ago

The Bucket

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The Bucket

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Vaniarrz@midwest.socialdeleted by creator to Comic Strips@lemmy.world · 8 months ago
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    8 months ago

    The leaky bucket caused the row of flowers to grow.

    Moral is something like, ‘even if you think you’re failing at a task, your benefit is simply not being measured / seen.’

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      The leaky bucket caused the row of flowers to grow.

      I just gotta say the execution in this comic horrible: it neither showed nor told. Just made guesswork.

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        Agreed, just trying to explain what I saw to othes.

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        It took me 5 seconds to get it instead of 1.

        People need to think before they complain.

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      deleted by creator

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      That’s great and all but I can’t eat flowers, my nana broke her back from the extra work you caused and my wife is deathly allergic to flowers, if you were only good at your one job we could have saved my entire family, go sit in the scrap heap and think about what you’ve done.

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        8 months ago

        Username checks out

      • AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net
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        The bucket is clearly still functional enough to be used, otherwise the other bucket would be difficult to carry due to lack of a counterweight. Of course the metaphor doesn’t work when you distort it as you have — the flowers clearly are meant to represent something unexpected and positive that arises from a minor fault in an item. If the person in the comic had a wife who was allergic to flowers, then the minor flaw would be recontextualised as a major flaw, and in that scenario, it would be the silly person at fault for continuing to use a functionally dangerous tool.

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      That is just way too subtle.

      • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world
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        8 months ago

        1000002500

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          No, the execution is trash. Comic as a medium should at least show. Some panels of the bucket dripping along the path wouldn’t have made this pure guesswork.

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      Great. Now they’ll have to do more work to remove the flowers.

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      8 months ago

      But flowers don’t come from water…

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        Flowers need water to grow, so if one side is dry and the other has water it would make sense for flowers to only grow on the wet side, right?

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          That little dribble of water isn’t going to be anywhere near enough water to germinate a seed.

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            It’s a fable…

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              8 months ago

              It’s a bad comic

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              Then it’s a bad fable.

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      oh that's nice

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