I understand, but it's worded so poorly. Would .ame more sense if they said they were that 1 doctor instead of 2/10?
this post was submitted on 24 Oct 2024
286 points (97.7% liked)
Cyanide and Happiness
4807 readers
283 users here now
Hello fellow Cyanide and Happiness fans!
About this community and how I post the comics… Many moons ago, I would ask my Dad to save the newspaper for me everyday so I could read my favorite comic strips. Of course these days you can read your favorite comics online instead of a newspaper, but I love the nostalgia of reading the daily comics. Anyway, one of my favorite current comics is Cyanide and Happiness and I will be posting the daily release from their website (https://explosm.net/) and a an extra or two randoms.
Cyanide & Happiness (C&H) is a webcomic created by Rob DenBleyker, Kris Wilson, Dave McElfatrick and Matt Melvin. The comic has been running since 2005 and is published on the website explosm.net along with animated shorts in the same style. Matt Melvin left C&H in 2014, and several other people have contributed to the comic and to the animated shorts… Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyanide_%26_Happiness
Hope you enjoy and feel free to contribute to the community with art, media, cool stuff about the authors, tattoos, toys and anything else, as long it’s Cyanide and Happiness related!
Ps. Sub to all my comic strip communities…
Bloom County !bloomcounty@lemm.ee https://lemm.ee/c/bloomcounty
Calvin and Hobbes !calvinandhobbes@lemmy.world https://lemmy.world/c/calvinandhobbes
Cyanide and Happiness !cyanideandhappiness https://lemm.ee/c/cyanideandhappiness
Garfield !garfield@lemmy.world https://lemmy.world/c/garfield
The Far Side !thefarside@sh.itjust.works https://lemmy.world/c/thefarside@sh.itjust.works
Fine print: All comics I post are freely available online. In no way am I claiming ownership, copyright or anything else. This is a not for profit community, we just want to enjoy our comics, thank you.
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
I think the joke is that it's a rating rather than a sample.
So this doctor gets 1* reviews vs the 4.5* doctors.
I had the same initial reaction but I think the doctor is treating it as a rating and not a fraction. E.g. a 90% grade doctor would recommend it, but they're a 20% doctor.
Or he's such a bad doctor he can't understand fractions?
There's no math prereqs!
It's a different joke. He's saying a doctor with good ratings like 9/10 would say to stop, but he has bad ratings, 2/10, so he's going to give bad advice.
I like to think this doctor goes up to eleven.
When reading the joke, replace the / with "out of" and the wording comes out better for the joke.
9 out of 10 doctors would suggest you quit. Luckily I'm a 2 out of 10 doctor.
Therefore good doctors would say you should quit, but I'm not a good doctor.
I would make less sense because then you would think he's saying 9 out of 10 different doctors recommend against it, ruining the punchline.
He should have said 1/8 doctor
I have never heard of "2/10", but after a bit of research, I see a couple very loose connections:
- An accounting term regarding a discount for prompt payment. I do not see reference of this being used in a drug context
- Smoking something and rocking the pipe back and forth between the "2" and "10" positions on a clock. I do not think this applies to cocaine, or even "crack"
It's a 5 star rating joke.
And you don't smoke cocaine
Welllllll
It's a 10 star rating joke tbh
That's crack, yo.
Not with that attitude, you don't.
Dr Leo Spaceman?