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sure, but i guess what i mean is like, that’s why the meaning of the idiom is clear to me even having not tested or watched someone test what the actual effect of firing a gun into a barrel full of fish would be. if you were ever in a conversation, prior to watching that episode, wherein someone used the idiom to describe a task, and you were like “oh, you mean that’ll be easy, because the shockwave from a gun shot would kill all of the fish in a barrel at the same time”, before you watched the mythbusters episode, i guess you’re a lot smarter than me

i always thought the point was that even if you miss, you’ve now shot a hole through the barrel and the water will drain out, killing the fish anyways

yeah i found this comic so opaque that i had to go look up the artist

it turns out that this is an explicitly christian comic where each strip is accompanied by a bible verse. the theme of this one is “love must hate evil” and it’s accompanied by Ezekiel 33:11, Proverbs 6:16-19 and Luke 13:3

it sort of explains why you get that weird feeling when you read it, because the point of the comic is not to be funny but to communicate some kind of moralistic lesson, and the straight-line clarity with which the comics do that is in direct conflict of the normal subversion of expectations that typically makes things funny

that said, basically all of the comics that deal with death are to me unintentionally hilarious because i do not share the worldview that dying and going to heaven is like, a net positive

https://www.thelamboy.com/comics/forsake-all

https://www.thelamboy.com/comics/ultimate-life-insurance

https://www.thelamboy.com/comics/boasting

all in all this was a kind of fun little excursion into something i would absolutely never have looked at otherwise. i’m gonna go ahead and just not try to look into what the artist thinks about gay people so that this can be a positive memory for me lol