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James Bond (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 7 months ago

He's Dead, James Dead

[–] [email protected] 36 points 7 months ago

First read "he is dead, Jim", which created a funny crossover meme

[–] [email protected] 24 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Why is this funny? Like at all.

[+] [email protected] 36 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (4 children)

or he's uncocking the thing, right? i'm not a gun person or anything :shrug:

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I'm not the author or an expert or anything. But I'm fairly sure the joke is about how his license expired and she just made him realize she's a witness to murder.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

And that's funny why?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago

My dude I'm not going to explain comedy to you. It isn't objective or universal. If you don't find it funny, that's okay. This comic ain't for you.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

His license expired but he's gonna do it anyway.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

I read it as he's performing a press check in preparation for shooting the person next to him.

Presumably, Bond did a bunch of shooting to get to the point where the comic starts. The gun is potentially dirty enough where failure to feed or extract may be happening. A simple push of the slide back enough to verify that he's got a live round chambered might save him from having to resort to other methods to silence the other person in the comic.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Not enough detail in the comic to tell whether it's a striker or hammer-fired pistol.

Most striker (and some hammer) automatics cannot be decocked without pulling the trigger on an empty chamber.

And got those that can, you either have to pull the trigger while holding the hammer back and lowering it manually, or by flipping a separate switch or button.

If it could be done by moving the slide back and pulling the trigger, then holding the trigger down while firing the gun would result in full-auto.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Maybe if the fourth panel was removed, it would hold some humor. An expiration date on something so special as a licence go kill could give a soft chuckle. But since the fourth panel suggests that he is about to solve the issue somehow, it just makes it confusing. What is the funny part?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

looks at expire license to kill

James 'Bail' Bond?

Huh.

[–] And009 1 points 7 months ago

You too, James...

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The Venture Bros. had an entire episode about this and it was excellent.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

License to Maim

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Haha that's a good point. If he doesn't kill them can he be done for assault with a deadly weapon?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Why is he cocking a gun he just fired? He likes to toss unspent bullets on the ground?