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Vaniarrz@midwest.social to Comic Strips@lemmy.world · 17 hours ago

The Bucket

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Vaniarrz@midwest.social to Comic Strips@lemmy.world · 17 hours ago
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  • Jo Miran@lemmy.ml
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    17 hours ago

    I don’t get it. Did the bucket become a planting pot?

    • decended_being@midwest.social
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      17 hours 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.’

      • lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com
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        11 hours ago

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

          People need to think before they complain.

        • decended_being@midwest.social
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          11 hours ago

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

      • uncouple9831@lemmy.zip
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        12 hours ago

        Or you’re a failure. Both are possible options. It’s a nice story though.

      • cley_faye@lemmy.world
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        12 hours ago

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

      • tatterdemalion@programming.dev
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        That is just way too subtle.

        • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world
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          11 hours ago

          1000002500

          • lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com
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            11 hours ago

            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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        13 hours ago

        oh that's nice

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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.

        • 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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          12 hours ago

          Username checks out

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        14 hours 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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                Then it’s a bad fable.

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                It’s a bad comic

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      17 hours ago

      I think it watered the path back and grew flowers

      • Jo Miran@lemmy.ml
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        16 hours ago

        nice

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      15 hours ago

      I also didn’t get it. Thank you folks for explaining it!

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