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How it started vs. How it's going (lemmings.world)
submitted 20 hours ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
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[–] mmddmm@lemm.ee 131 points 19 hours ago (3 children)

Why do those fish always pose with some dude holding them?

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 63 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

Ever watched a fish stand up?

They need to be held.

[–] msage@programming.dev 19 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

There's like 2 people who will get the reference, but fuck it, here it comes.

[–] magikmw@lemm.ee 5 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

There's dozens of us!

[–] reinei@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago

It does not have nerves, yet it feels pain. It does not have a mouth, yet it must scream. And until recently: death only made it so so much stronger!

[–] maniclucky@lemmy.world 33 points 18 hours ago

Don't we all really?

[–] omgitsaheadcrab@sh.itjust.works 15 points 18 hours ago

It's a child, that fish just wants to look bigger

[–] frezik@midwest.social 9 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

He probably paid some fishing tourist shop to get him to just the right place so he could hook it and pull it in. That pic cost him money, and it's really important to him.