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[–] 3 points 8 hours ago

Its like my dad

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  • Alternate ending: She's removed his issue/irritant, he pays her bill, everybody's happy.

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  • [–] 37 points 23 hours ago (1 child)

    You saw her wearing a pearl necklace. Giant red flag right there.

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  • [–] 41 points 1 day ago (4 children)

    I haven't really even experienced this sort of betrayal myself but this comic always makes me feel so sad for the oyster.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 day ago (3 children)

    This must feel so bad for the oyster.

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  • [–] 27 points 22 hours ago* (2 children)

    On the contrary: pearls come into existence because something, like a grain of sand or whatever, gets stuck in the oyster. The foreign object is irritating to the oyster so it coats it with a substance that makes it smoother and less irritating. So if you could remove a pearl without killing an oyster, you'd actually be doing it a favor.

    There's some kind of mental health metaphor in that, I'm sure, but damned if I know what it is.

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  • [–] 9 points 15 hours ago (1 child)

    if you could remove a pearl without killing an oyster

    This is actually doable. That is how the pearl farms sometimes work, you do not need to kill the oysters. They do intentionally create the pearls though, by inserting pearl cores in the oysters.

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  • [–] 26 points 1 day ago (3 children)

    You know that the Pearl is an irritating grain in the oyster, that they can't get rid of?

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  • [–] 13 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    😭 why is this in particular so sad

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  • [–] 2 points 17 hours ago (4 children)

    Learned the most important lesson

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  • [–] -2 points 6 hours ago (3 children)

    Never trust a woman with authority?

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