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==Explanation== | ==Explanation== | ||
− | In this comic, | + | In this comic, two girls have just completed a [https://damnyoulittlerock.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/img_5457.jpg tire swing]: A common makeshift {{w|swing (seat)|swing}} created by hanging a car {{w|tire}} from a length of rope, typically tied to the branch of a tree as in the comic. (The left girl has a hair bun with a ponytail and thus has a similar appearance as the adult [[Hair Bun Girl]]. The right girl might at first look like [[Megan]] but not quite as she is revealed upon zoom in to have curly hair). |
− | In the second panel of this comic | + | In the second panel of this comic the girl with the hair bun muses that there are huge [[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2337351/Worlds-biggest-tyre-graveyard-Incredible-images-Kuwaiti-landfill-site-huge-seen-space.html tire dumps] filled with noting but old tires that have no use. In the last panel, she continues that maybe they should use a tire from such a dump next time they make a tire swing. The presumption is that perhaps they used a brand new tire, or a tire from some other source. This is confirmed by the other girls response (and confirmed coupled in the title text, see below) which makes it clear that the tire they used was in fact stolen from a guys car. The last reply from the girl with the hair bun suggests the victim put up a fight and they had to take the tire by force. So these two small girls actually fought an adult man over his car and won the fight. |
− | Vehicle tires have a limited lifespan. The natural end of their life is when the pattern of raised treads on the circumference of the tire, which promote traction on | + | Vehicle tires have a limited lifespan. The natural end of their life is when the pattern of raised treads on the circumference of the tire, which promote traction on the road, are worn down to a point where they are no longer effective enough. Tires can also become damaged in other ways, such as puncture. |
− | {{w|Tire recycling|Used tires}} are a notable ecological problem for a number of reasons (e.g. | + | {{w|Tire recycling|Used tires}} are a notable ecological problem for a number of reasons (e.g. their size, the quantity produced, their relatively short lifespan, and the fact that they are difficult and slow to break down). A tire swing represents a functional use for otherwise useless old tires. The amount of tires (it is estimated that 259 million tires are discarded annually) makes them attractive targets for recycling. Nonetheless more than half of used tires are simply burned for their fuel value. |
− | The comic is thus clearly [[Randall|Randall's]] attempt to | + | The comic is thus clearly [[Randall|Randall's]] attempt to divert attention to this huge ecological problem, as he so often before has done with other climate change/global warming related comics. So while this is not the joke of the comic, it is the point of it. |
− | + | The title text goes further, suggesting that they actually stole the victim's entire truck - possibly just to harvest the tire needed for the swing - and that he may have attempted unsuccessfully to recover the truck, so they probably did fight him. And since they have the tire to show for it they won the fight, even though he put of a fight bad enough that they do not wish to fight him again (so he did survive at least). Actually the girls expect him to come back trying to get the stolen car back (maybe with only three tires). One of the girls suggest that is they could just find one of these tire dumps, then they could take a tire from there, make a new swing and then just retreat and let the guy have the car if he really want it so bad... | |
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− | The title text goes further, suggesting that they actually stole the victim's entire truck - possibly just to harvest the tire needed for the swing - and that he unsuccessfully | ||
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==Transcript== | ==Transcript== | ||
− | :[ | + | :[Two girls, one with a hair bun with a curly ponytail the other with long curly hair, are standing under a large leafless tree as the girl with hair bun adjusts a tire swing hanging from the largest of the branches of the tree. The tire hangs so high that the small girls only reach up to just above the center of the tire which has a diameter of more than half the height of the girls.] |
− | : | + | :Girl with hair bun: Ok, looks good. |
:[Zoom in on the girls so only the tire swing can be seen, and nothing of the tree. They both look at the tire.] | :[Zoom in on the girls so only the tire swing can be seen, and nothing of the tree. They both look at the tire.] | ||
− | : | + | :Girl with hair bun: I read that there are these huge dumps everywhere full of millions of old tires that no one knows what to do with. |
− | :[Same setting but | + | :[Same setting but the girl with hair bun looks up at the tree (outside the frame).] |
− | : | + | :Girl with hair bun: We should use one of those next time. |
:Curly haired girl: Yeah. That guy was real mad. | :Curly haired girl: Yeah. That guy was real mad. | ||
− | : | + | :Girl with hair bun: I would ''not'' want to fight him again. |
{{comic discussion}} | {{comic discussion}} | ||
− | + | <!--These girls are kids - see the size of the tire - and thus not Hair Bun Girl and especially not Megan as the girl has curly hair which Megan never does! --> | |
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