The patient had burns covering 50% of their body.

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  • 110 points Somerandom1922

    Eh, it's a different joke. Not bad, like the pacing is a bit better, but it's just a completely different punchline.

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  • 21 points Gold_Strength

    Where's the original?

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    5 points CubeTThrowaway

    Linked in the post

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    3 points the_horse_gamer

    not showing up for me. care to link it here?

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    8 points CubeTThrowaway

    https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/quality

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  • 134 points zenithBemusement

    Eh, the original felt well paced — this wasn't meant to be the punchline, just the build up.

    The punchline is that the reason for this is shockingly simple. It talks about it like he's some fiendish supervillain, but reveals that the actual reason is painfully mundane.

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    45 points meterion

    No I think the punchline is that the modern QALYS system is being built up as some evil dystopic system uncaring of who it screws over and then reveals "oh this guy probably would make the lives of everyone he comes into contact with worse"

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    16 points Tall_Professor_8634

    Racism and being homophobic is "painfully human" ok lol

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    31 points zenithBemusement

    I was on the verge of passing out when writing it, mundane woulda been better. Gonna edit that in now, actually!

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    2 points Tall_Professor_8634

    Ok :3

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    7 points futuranth

    Is this sarcastic? Xenophobia is one of humanity's fatal flaws

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    7 points battlerez_arthas

    Human in the other commenter's statement means "relatable", and while you're right, you shouldn't really find xenophobia relatable and if you do that's a solvable problem on the individual level

    Also neither racism nor homophobia are really the same thing as xenophobia

    I think meterion has it right

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    12 points zenithBemusement

    For the record, I did in fact mean human in the way futuranth assumed. Mundane woulda worked better, so I've edited the comment to say that instead.

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    5 points battlerez_arthas

    My bad for the misunderstanding ❤️

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  • 21 points SpecialistAddendum6

    Operation was wholly unnecessary, but it worked okay

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  • 16 points Spider_pig448

    Significantly worse. You should have your license revoked.

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  • 6 points Delicious_Bat2747

    I prefer it this way. Other was too slow, even if the message was good.

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  • 7 points hanz-kreigermann

    I think the operation was a wonderful success.a

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  • 4 points Impressive_Vehicle83

    wonderful operation

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  • 1 points seventeenMachine

    The joke is pretty undalvageable, the punchline requires such wordy setup

    Yet somehow not nearly as lame and pathetic as the actual joke in the original

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