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[–] Jax 55 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Few people understand why I glare them after obliterating a perfectly nice patch of flowers.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

I thought the joke was about the common mutation where your second toe is longer than your big toe.

Your explanation makes way more sense.

[–] duckythescientist 16 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I thought it was a foot fetish thing

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago

I thought city folk didn't like that feeling of grass tickling your feet.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 days ago (1 children)

You mean it's not the grass poking between your toes?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Grass poking was what I thought too.

[–] Jax 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I mean, I like the feeling of grass between my toes.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

This really depends on the type of grass and time of year

[–] Jax 1 points 3 days ago

I think we can assume that this is spring/early summer, but yeah - you aren't wrong. I can't see myself enjoying grass between my toes if I have to shove my bare feet through a meter of snow.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

are people traipsing through planted lilies or what?

[–] Jax 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Very common, at least here in California, for there to be nice blooms of flowers that people decide to obliterate so they can take pictures for social media. By the time the 80th troglodyte traipses through the flowers, they've ruined it for everyone else that might enjoy them - and the flowers are fucked.

I can almost guarantee that this is the point of the comic. The only other interpretation I've seen that I can accept is that it's actually about the grass between your toes, which some people dislike.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

why would they need to trample them to take photos?

[–] Jax 1 points 2 days ago

Because they aren't interested in the flowers, they're interested in how they look with the flowers all around them. It's a selfish act for vain individuals.