• Shapillon@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Imho the joke is that “snitches get stitches”

    absolutely doesn’t imply that “non snitches don’t get snitches”

    • Lem Jukes@lemm.ee
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      8 hours ago

      What? That’s exactly what the text is implying?

      The last panel is literally the doctor saying ‘I cannot give your son stitches because they did not snitch’

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        1 hour ago

        Yes but imho that is funny.

        “snitches get stitches” mean “if you snitch you will get stitches”.

        On the last panel the doctor says “if and only if you snitch you will get stitches” which is completely different and thus an humoristic subversion of expectations.

        (note that I’m not the final judge of what’s funny and what’s not. Kamel Debbiche is)