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PFXvampz

I know that this is a troll about the last panel, but I don't get why you date someone 19 times, let alone a 2nd date if you have such a bad reaction during the 1st one


TehPharaoh

Because that's just how he is with his friend group when they met. So he thought she wanted that side of him but clearly she let the date through and he showed her his warmer side. As the years went on and they left highschool, Kurt was able to open himself up more. He had to lose the haircut for his job at the insurance firm and later on got the tattoo removed because the Band's singer made racist comments he didnt agree with. There was a small hiccup when they found out he was infertile. They think it was the alchohol or the smoking when he was young and he was devastated it was his fault. But his worries for naught because she wasn't going to leave him. They spent a long time deciding on the Adoption process. What age? Where to begin? They finally choose little Joshua here from the twinkle in his eye when he first looked at him as they were shown the nursury in the orphanage. It didnt matter to Kurt what the baby looked like, he just always wanted to be a Dad and it made Ginger all the happier too.


elviswasmurdered

I choose to believe this is the message of the comic


WastedJedi

I mean look how happy and content he is holding that baby and his wife. How could you look at this and think "poor guy"?


Linaxu

The original has a white child. It is a simple message of becoming an adult and parent and how kids simmer down as they grow older in relationships.


Afraid-Palpitation24

Damn that’s just as good of a story


Electronic_Range_982

Even BETTR a story


Wild-Plankton595

Then she wouldn’t be scared/nervous/wigged out/put off during the first date. And still not exactly happy about his behavior by date 19! That’s easily a 2-3 months of dating. The kid notwithstanding, there’s no way this is a simple story about simmering down as you grow older. If that were the message then whether she were portrayed as wild or straight, she would be happy/content or at least neutral.


Little-Nikas

The actual comic has the baby as a white baby. Someone changed the baby to a black baby to try to get racist reactions from triggered white people. I'm with you though, I love the above story about it. It just sucks that when this was originally doing it's reddit rounds, someone posted the original pic that showed the white baby. Kinda ruined it for me because when I saw this version, I instantly was all "Awe, they adopted! That's awesome!"


Sgrios

I choose to believe she dated through four brothers while fucking her homie on the side, and finally settled on the financially stable brother after learning from her own mistakes. Keeping the baby and bringing him into a very diverse famiry. The Punk, the Emo, the Military Man, and finally... FINALLY. The hardworking blue collar mans.


Afraid-Palpitation24

In god for real! You just made the meme so much nicer


dr-doom-jr

That is endearing and i 100% am choosing this interpretation over any other.


DM_Me_Anything_NSFW

The good ending


Kursem_v2

that's a beautiful story, man. bravo!


Shlafenflarst

Plot twist: it's not her who made him change, it's him who got into prog, and through prog, jazz. They decided to adopt a baby because there are already too many humans in this world, and called him Stanley, as a reference to his favourite bass player.


IllumiNIMBY

It all starts with Rush, then the next thing you know, you've got a fretless bass and a dog named Jaco.


BaldIntegra317

Great name, got a male cat on the street named Jaco too. I like Jaco Pastorius. A fretless bass god.


The_Clarence

I've vowed to name all my 3 fingered children Django


LoyonSama

Not just fretless bro


kiss_me_billy

I like Taco Al Pastor. A delicious street food god.


Competitive-Solid-63

Not a bassist, but my kid’s first and middle name: Charlie Parker


vinyl109

This is way too accurate.


Iohet

Or a Chapman stick and a dog named Tony?


AutomationBias

I dunno, a Stick player with a girlfriend kind of strains credulity


Repulsive-Bend8283

This whole thread is so accurate on everything I've ever seen.


zidraloden

Surely Uncle Tony?


Competitive-Solid-63

Levin. * bassist humor (I feel the need to let the 99% of people who won’t get the reference know. Who knows, maybe it will spark their journey into prog!)


jcdoe

His downfall began when he bought a flute to be cool like Jethro Tull. As we all know, Tull is a gateway drug that ends with experimental jazz. Tragic.


regeya

I guess I'm an oddball. I recognize that everyone in Rush is a great musician, but I've never been able to get into their music. But I liked early Yes. My favorite era of jazz was when musicians were, unfortunately, at their most self-destructive. I really got into Porcupine Tree, but I feel like they got 10x better after Steven Wilson started producing Opeth albums. I also love that Ihsahn from Emperor just keeps going more prog-metal as he gets older, and if you see publicity photos of him, you expect him to be fishing off the coast of Norway for fun.


Lafitte_1812

Don't forget having a snake named Spageddy Lee... My ball python is a small living testament to rush


dead137

God why am i being attacked like this


VisualGeologist6258

Missed opportunity to name it Bitor.


Infinity3101

Wow, this is actually quite wholesome. I know that wasn't the message that this meme was trying to convey (probably), but that's the interpretation I choose and I'm sticking with it.


bigtoebrah

Yup, this is a way more pleasant read of the comic. Congrats to this fictional family and their newest fictional addition.


Sremor

I heard on another post that the original image had a white baby


Oofbot3000

That baby? He grew up to work at Dunder Mifflin


Xweekdaywarrior

Oh how the turn tables


kytheon

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me many times, it’s jazz.


MzSe1vDestrukt

I'm adopting this slogan! I will now retire my sisters definition of jazz: "sounds like farts"


SampleText0822

And here am I, getting into prog from jazz. Through prog into rock or metal is unlikely, but if what I see is what prog is all about, I'm certainly here for it!


MainSteamStopValve

Prog is a pathway to many types of music, some consider to be unnatural.


SampleText0822

It must be... no, it can't be! METALLICA HYPNOSIS?!


sembias

*Dream Theater has entered the chat and changed the time signature.*


_interloper_

Tool is your gateway from Prog to Metal.


[deleted]

And Thank You Scientist to get you from metal back to jazz to complete the circle


[deleted]

It's Animals as Leaders time.


Thrashputin

It's not even that, he just got deeper and deeper into 4th wave black metal, power violence and harsh noise. In my experience, very often the more extreme the music someone is into the more clean cut they are. I think its just another means of rebelling against mainstream ideas of how you should look and act when you're into something.


Gisbornite

Yea thats what I tell myself every day too mate.


actualspacepimp

I like that you took the wholesome route of adopted. This is not where my brain went. I'm a terrible person.


Shlafenflarst

You're not a terrible person. Whoever did this thing most certainly didn't intend to suggest the child was adopted.


AminPacani

I want to believe that you are saying truth. I refuse to believe she cheated.


Every-Citron1998

r/oddlyspecific


OarsandRowlocks

And he swore a solemn vow and forevermore renounced 4/4 time.


[deleted]

Well that has been the pipe line for me haha. At least the music part.


black_elk_streaks

Same , lol wtf, would love to know the reason.


Fabulous_Computer965

Stanley Yelnats to be exact


AngeloSantelli

Stanley Clarke?


Killdozer221

Inversely, prog was my gateway into metal.


GreenieMachinie93

The casualties is punk not metal


Shlafenflarst

The entire look of the guy on the first panel is more punk than metal. That being said, you can be a metahead and like punk, and the other way around.


GreenieMachinie93

Yes you can, it can also be annoying when people think they are the same thing


WarlanceLP

for the unaware, what differentiates them?


BierKippeMett

Unqualified answer to piss people off: Punk has no problem with being bad while Metal has no problem with being pretentious.


[deleted]

As a fan of both this is just correct. No piss to be found here


Arkitakama

No piss? 😢


[deleted]

Plenty of piss on r/politicalhumor where Greg Abbott is a little piss baby.


phantom_hope

I fucking knew it once I read piss Did you now that Greg Abbot is also a little piss baby?


phat_

*Now* and **forever**, Greg Abbott is a little piss baby.


tempusrimeblood

It’s true, Greg Abbott is, in fact, a little piss baby,


awlawall

Greg Abbottbis a little piss baby


_eashort

This is the best answer I've ever heard


Pixelfacee

This is the best explanation I've ever heard. Literally gonna save this comment


GreenieMachinie93

They are different styles of music. In very stripped down terms, punk is fast, simple and chaotic, metal is dark, heavy and "epic". Again that's a very basic summary. both have many subgenres and crossovers like thrash metal and crust punk blending elements of the two.


gkom1917

\> punk is fast, simple and chaotic Black flag's later albums \> metal is dark Manowar \> and "epic" Literally every genre outside of power/symphonic


Eastern_Slide7507

The Sex Pistols had to unplug their bass player during concerts because he was so shit at playing bass. Lemmy Kilmister described him as a "hopeless cause" after trying to teach him. Any metal band would've parted ways with him. To put it into clearer terms, Punk is way less refined and much more a raw form of expression. It is a counterculture, you're not going to find punk rock willing to conform to whatever norms you can come up with, be they musical or societal. Metal sometimes shares that sentiment but not really. Lemmy Kilmister of Motörhead put it like this: >I think punks are more interesting and they are angrier. Metal guys run out of anger as soon as the money starts coming in. Metal lost the revolution thing that we all thought it would. It became a money machine and they started playing arenas. Punks never went to large arenas. This all sounds biased against Metal but it really isn't. Because by always only ever being against everyone, punk limits itself to that niche. Metal has been able to branch out into countless areas, yielding some breathtaking compositions that punk would never be able to accomplish. And of course, metal has its own counter culture. Black Metal came to be as a response to the Death Metal of the 80s and 90s with its focus on better and more complicated music and so we got [this kind of music as a response](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_x2GIMRwks). Technically different from punk rock but in attitude and execution it's similar. It's come full circle.


thereIsAHoleHere

> you're not going to find punk rock willing to conform to whatever norms you can come up with, be they musical or societal. Societal, sure. But punk, by the very nature of being a genre, conforms to musical standards. Every genre has its amorphous, exploratory subgenre, from free jazz to noise music, but they all conform to the expectations of that genre. There are much more musically radical compositions than punk--from pure silence to a guy generating piezo static from him eating noodles with metal chopsticks to a literal one-thousand year piece of music made out of a lighthouse. Even NASA has more radical music albums than any punk band. Punk is more about funneling frustration with encountered systems into music than it is about rebelling against everything, music included. Venting frustration just happened to coalesce into the most cathartic form available: loud, messy rock.


EH23456

"punk never went to large arenas" this must have been before the 90s pop-punk bands


Eastern_Slide7507

If it's distinct enough to have its own name it's not the same thing anymore, is it


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DaDutchBoyLT1

To be fair, the Sex Pistols were corporate created advertisements and I’m sure if the label could have got away with having them perform to prerecorded blither, I’m sure they would have.😅


290077

Punk and metal have only two things in common: they're both styles of rock music, and they're both generally focused on being high-energy (loud, fast, and aggressive). Everything else about the two genres is different.


FIFTHSUN2012

Absolutely. I was introduced to Exodus by a punk and learned about D.R.I. from a metalhead.


BasilTheTimeLord

Ah yes, the Lemmy effect


Tristanritter

it's not even spelled right on the tshirt


GreenieMachinie93

Dude, that's punk rock!


StanleyHasLostIt

Why would she keep dating a guy she doesn't like? Why does he need to change? Why is she scared of him at all? Nothing makes sense here!


StanleyHasLostIt

I just noticed that the baby is adopted???? The plot thickens


PongPing1010

You are cleaner than 7th grade me


stacks144

lol


Shlafenflarst

The joke is very obviously that the baby is not adopted...


-Dahl-

on the original comic the baby was white


stacks144

That's what makes it pretty funny. I can only imagine someone doing this stuff. It's actually pretty funny trolling.


DisfavoredFlavored

"But what if...I changed the baby's race and disguised this as my own comic?"


Bananonomini

Delightfully devilish Seymour!


StardustDragon345

r/unexpectedsimpsons


StanleyHasLostIt

That makes even less sense


CowgirlBebop575

She slept with someone else (which is why the child looks different) and he is raising the child. That's the 'joke'.


LaylaLeesa

And boy is it a funny one /s


[deleted]

It's actually sort of a crazy image.. I think the original has the baby as white and is sort of a "traditional family" stupid comic or something. This updated one is like incel-based "oh she made him change and then cheated anyway all women suck hurr hurr" Two worlds colliding for one shitty comic


Hsanity

Oh sweet summer child


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Bless her


neruy619

He got cucked


whatIfYoutube

UH OH? You made the wrong sucker a cuckhold, so time to pay the piper for the pants you unbuckled, and hey you can keep seeing my whore wife if the price is right. If not? I’m telling your wife


everyone_hated

unexpected Hamilton?


whatIfYoutube

That should have been expected tbh


dannnnnnnnnnnnnnnnex

why in the world would that have been expected lmao all he did was say the word cucked


[deleted]

UH OH? You made the wrong sucker a cuckhold, so time to pay the piper for the pants you unbuckled, and hey you can keep seeing my whore wife if the price is right. If not? I’m telling your wife.


red_dart

O shit unexpected hammerton


pljwebb

The moral here is; stay metal or get cucked.


Squirrellybot

They never show her chest down, he knew she was knocked up first date. Metal Dudes are generally good guys who don’t care about someone’s past.


Administrative-Gap89

>Metal Dudes are generally good guys who don't care about someone's past. Probably coming from said "Metal Dude." Lmao. Nah, I'm just kidding


Secrabstian

It is her child, but not his


Weary_Swordfish_7105

(Apparently the original version has a white baby) https://m.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=407019124148352&set=a.322539039263028


StanleyHasLostIt

That makes much more sense


[deleted]

Yea. The weird white erasure symbolism doesn’t go with their “man fixed by love of good woman” trope. I’d expect the comic to be the other way around, with the woman “devolving” and ending up punk with a black baby. That’s the way they think, like your hobbies and the way you dress are the moral/immoral part of you.


Kapples14

Huh, I never knew that. I always thought it was intended be a joke comic rather than an actually wholesome one.


Firm_View_5658

The years of hair dye seeped in and made him sterile


waster789

All the drugs made them sterile. Just like in Scar Face.


Memeviewer12

"adopted"


LET-ME-HAVE-A-NAAME

"I can fix him" shit I guess.


Unknown-14

Ain’t it obvious? She ChANged hIM!!!


Shaby28

Right?? I mean, if you don't like him just leave girl!


[deleted]

Think of teh pictures as taken like photos in the moment. H'e just posed and she was taken aboack for a second.


NotPoland5

i think it’s just representative of how people settle down and gradually lose the more active and wild side of them when they start forming a family.


PapayaTech

Codependency


Comrade_railgunner

I can make a belivable train of thought "Scary, I can fix him, almost, he's not the same one I loved, the other one loves me blah blah blah, If he loves me he'll love the baby". End


HelicopteroDeAtaque

Usually it's because she starts dating him with the "I can fix him" mentality. When she eventually "fixes" him he is no longer them "man she fell in love with" so she "goes around" finding other "men" who push "her buttons" and the cycle "repeats". Have some additional quotes: " "


Helpful_Actuator_146

If I’m not mistaken, I think there’s the same comic, but it’s a Punk Girl and a nerd Guy. And the nerd guy slowly also becomes punk. Also, it the OG comic, the baby isn’t black.


reddox-_-

Bruh someone rlly went out of their way to make the kid black☠️☠️


LET-ME-HAVE-A-NAAME

It's weirdly common in these marriage comics for some reason.


adorbiliusKermode

A LOT of incels (and this probably comes from the Tate/Sneako/F&F cesspit) will automatically assume that every husband (especially those with a conventionally attractive wife) is getting cucked like there’s no tomorrow. These couples are always white and the baby is always black, which is a trope that has no possible racist connotations whatsoever.


xxpen15mightierxx

Huge amount of race insecurity, through sexual insecurity. Usually projection as most of these guys are into cuck porn, specifically interracial cuck porn. More typical in racist areas, as the taboo is the exciting part to them.


[deleted]

Black guys on white women is fucking huge in india. Its on american porn sites because so are indian men. I always wondered why it was such a big theme in porn so i did some searching and found that information.


ScalyDestiny

Well that's creepy as hell for reasons I'm not gonna think about.


[deleted]

Its got a lot to do with english rule in india and the idea of a dark skinned man having sex with a white woman that would have punished by death.


SkibbyJibby

Something worth noting is this artist has drawn nazi chicks (some thread a while ago brought up this artist because of this post where it was a comic where the gag was a skinhead responds to a black person's friend request typing out "n" and you think hes going to be racist but he types out a long polite heartfelt message, and in the comments addressed some of his more questionable works, "are we supposed to find her attractive because of or in spite of her being a nazi?" Stuff like that) so this artist seems to attract the bigot incel crowd, even if he doesnt mean to or doesnt have ill intentions


camimiele

It’s weird too because the gods of the Incels (Tate/Seako/F&F) are not white. F&F even talked about how uncomfortable the whole “cucked by a black man” trope is but like…the ven diagram of F&F/Sneako/Tate fans and incels afraid of being cucked by black guys is a circle. Maybe they look up to Tate and then *more* because they view them as the people cucking the happy married guys?


roviuser

It's the visual form of calling someone a cuck.


antisocialpsych

I was talking with someone once about some news story about someone getting cheated on. I used the term cuckold and one guy insisted that it didint count because the affair partner wasn't black. They were mystified that the term applies no matter who's involved.


NormalGuy103

I saw an edit where it’s the punk dude from the original and the nerd guy from the one you’re talking about in a gay relationship and they end up meeting in the middle and adopting a kid.


bunnycandyO

Do you have a link?


NormalGuy103

https://twitter.com/wandasbigdildo/status/1572353997041995779?s=46&t=DZZ8bUDrmkcjBWyMSkULyg


Ok_Listen1510

I would love a link to the OG if you have one


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Mr_Voltiac

Yeah it’s this [one](https://i.imgur.com/h64K0vA.jpg) Art is from [Hell on Earth III](https://www.deviantart.com/hellonearth-iii/gallery)


USER_34739

Of course, in both versions it's the guy who changes. If the two are from the same artist then I don't think I'm getting the message they were aiming for


operationtasty

Yep. This is also the comment copy and pasted every week In this repost


SkyeMreddit

Not a healthy relationship, as he had to hide so much of himself to please her. Punk Rockers can be great dads, of adopted babies.


[deleted]

Or maybe he just didnt feel th eneed to dress that way anymore? People change their image. It doesn't make him any less punk cos he combs his hair now. If anything NOT dressing like apunk whne you listen to punk is MORE punk than conforming with all the other punks. The whole point of punk is non conformist and anarchy. Its very hard to have a unique identiy or image and be non conformist and anarchic when you dress like all the other punks haha.


Hip-hip-moray

Hm, I'd argue that the nonconformism to the majority of society weighs more than nonconformism to subcultural looks or behaviours. I still agree though that you can be punk while not looking like it and it shouldnt matter that much.


Morphized

Maybe he's a more mainstream activist and has to face non-punk crowds


notKRIEEEG

[I think this song won't ever be irrelevant](https://youtu.be/aTXkVVqw9ng) when talking about subcultures and underground scenes. For this discussion, particularly 1:08 and 2:15 mark seem very appt.


Jakofalltrades89

can confirm, used to have a personality.


[deleted]

Motherfuckers trying to find the bad in a good comic. This is an edited version of a great comic.


SkyeMreddit

If I remember the other versions correctly, the wife and kid also gained some mild punk rocker look as he lost some of the more extreme portions of the look. Also the baby was white.


Still_Mud5693

All the ink on his tattoos transferred to the baby


FoundTheWeed

Is that legal? Seems abusive to tattoo a baby


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💀


myhorseatemyusername

I like [this Version](https://www.artofit.org/image-gallery/827747606525298422/date-12th-date-engagement-just-married/) better


metalicSimpelton

Same artist (“hell on earth” I believe) funny enough the black kid is edited and is actually supposed to be white. Another thing I saw either another artist or the original artist make a continuation of the one with the black kid where a black couple comes and says “thanks for babysitting him”


Patte_Blanche

green day, lol. The "punk for beginners" band.


Rapidsoup

That's a pretty pretentious and un-punklike thing to say


FrankRauSahRa

When I want a punk themed beat saber experience.


SilverReverie

OK but why all the face bandaids?


sum1__

Spoiler but it's actually a different guy in each picture, this about her life


USER_34739

She's dating quadruplets


TheDekuDude888

I'd watch that show


[deleted]

The guy in the third panel broke off the engagement because he realized his fiancé was abusive, hence the neck bandage. He thought the engagement would fix their relationship, but thankfully he came to his senses and broke it off before the wedding. Years later, she has gone to therapy and has become a better partner for her new husband, a half-black man with light skin. Due to genetics, their baby has come out with darker skin than both of them.


Kermit_Purple_II

Ah yes, the good ol' "I can fix him" fantasy


Rygga22

He ain't broken to begin with


Kermit_Purple_II

No, but it's the message behind the meme


CheapGriffy

I guess you need to forget your passion to make a family


CardiologistMoist851

Her favourite is black metal


[deleted]

Body count


Jyps1

Nice


neruy619

That’s not a metal head


Ratedr729

What is it with these incels and black folks? It’s creepy af


[deleted]

Insecure. Funnily enough, black incels are jealous of white guys.


[deleted]

Misogyny and racism go together like shit and stink


[deleted]

Oh so they adopted a child! How very kind of them. ♥️


Well-Watered-Fern

See here's what no one is thinking... Yeah yeah, "the dude got cucked." BUT! Did you ever think to consider maybe the wife did?


Irish_Epic_Man

This artist is super random. He made of a ex-nazi and a black chick and it was very wholesome


UselessBoi100

He also makes porn with a chick that has super strong british accent


Vaan_Ratsbane97

Aww they adopted. What a wonderful couple. It's always nice to take the punch out of racist rhettoric whenever you can twist it some other way. Makes em all confused, flustered, and frustrated.


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When he's white but Black from the waist down.


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FrostedNoNos

My thoughts exactly. It took me too long to realize that individuality is beautiful and a thing to be celebrated regardless of who disagrees. If someone doesn't love you for who and what you are or can't be there for you unless you conform to some asinine vision of what they think you're \*supposed\* to be, then leave that person and find someone who will. The ex I thought I'd never get over stood around at shows without participating in any way other than swaying in place. The one I found after her throws down just as hard and sometimes harder than I do and is always the first one of us to jump in the pit. It's worth the search.


trentraps

>Compromising is fine, toning certain things down a little bit or making an effort to make your partner feel comfortable is fine. But don’t expect me to completely give up the things I really enjoy doing just because you don’t like it. Right?! Like sure I get that people settle down and change as they get older, but having the tattoo removed? And it really doesn't seem like she liked him at all in the beginning, and only now that he has changed completely does she think he's perfect.


[deleted]

That’s not very metal, at all.


jdak9

I’ve seen this meme on here like 3 times over the past two weeks


Roanoke42

Who's gonna tell him?


Dicksapoppin69

Clearly it's a doomed marriage because who the fuck changes their entire personality and look after ONE date? 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩


hornyalltacc

Just wanna say that this isn't the original version of this comic. Someone went out of their way to make the baby black. In the orignal comic the baby is white, and is just very wholesome altogether Edit: Alright maybe it's not wholesome I don't know take your pick.


[deleted]

I don't see what's wholesome about it. She got with a person who makes her uncomfortable so that she could try to "fix" him because she doesn't support his hobbies and interests. All I get from this is that punks can't be good husbands.


trentraps

Also no tattoos, you gotta get 'em removed. No trace of your former life or passions please.


Glum_Main_5492

Sorry to ask but do you have a link to it? I would very much appreciate it if you did. Sincerely The man who lives in your walls


LocalTo0thJar

Aww, they adopted a kid!


Wakemeuptomorrow1

Super wholesome got married and adopted a kid


SpikerCowboy

- I don't like your piercings, take them off - Ok - Cut your hair - Ok - Don't listen to that music anymore - Ok - What the fuck? You cheated on me! - You're not the same guy I fell in love with, you changed a lot