• stupidcasey@lemmy.world
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    14 hours ago

    That’s great and all but I can’t eat flowers, my nana broke her back from the extra work you caused and my wife is deathly allergic to flowers, if you were only good at your one job we could have saved my entire family, go sit in the scrap heap and think about what you’ve done.

    • AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net
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      1 hour ago

      The bucket is clearly still functional enough to be used, otherwise the other bucket would be difficult to carry due to lack of a counterweight. Of course the metaphor doesn’t work when you distort it as you have — the flowers clearly are meant to represent something unexpected and positive that arises from a minor fault in an item. If the person in the comic had a wife who was allergic to flowers, then the minor flaw would be recontextualised as a major flaw, and in that scenario, it would be the silly person at fault for continuing to use a functionally dangerous tool.