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[–] FatTony@lemm.ee 55 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

So, the joke is just paedophilia?

Edit: Okay so according to the comment below “Elementary, my dear Watson” is his catch phrase. hence, the joke. Thanks for clearing that up Famko.

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world -2 points 10 months ago

It's a pretty lame comic trying to ride on having a controversial "punchline."

If it was posted on a larger site like reddit it would probably be on front-page just because of the drama and controversy people would extract from it.

[–] parody@lemmings.world -4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

This is an unusual comment I’m gonna make, unusual for me b/c I get phased by violent content and not dark humor

Comic made me a little uncomfortable maybe because it’s actually showing implied child abuse. If it’s just alluded to then it’s just your imagination and you don’t imagine it well enough way it’s painful, but they show it & it’s like “bro that guy’s a child rapist holy shit wtf”

Plus the lowest possible defense, 4chan-esque “akshually ephebophilia” “but in Japan…”, don’t even fly for Sherlock

Edit: also there’s no greater point as you’ve mentioned, like if he wore a Jared Subway mask… potential big change in vibe

[+] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de -16 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Yeah idk. There is a Sherlock Holmes show called "Elementary" but that doesnt really make any sense here. Weird comic.

[–] Famko@lemmy.world 92 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Sherlock Holmes' "catchphrase", for lack of a better term, is "Elementary, my dear Watson", which is parodied in this comic.

[–] Th3D3k0y@lemmy.world 51 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Fun fact though, Sherlock never actually says these phrases together. He does say "Elementary" and "... my dear Watson" but not together.

But really this is just an "akchtually" comment

[–] Test_Tickles@lemmy.world 61 points 10 months ago (1 children)

To akchtually your akchtually... He doesn't say it in the original books, but he has been saying in secondary sources for over a 100 years. So I don't think people are wrong in saying that it's his catch phrase.

[–] Th3D3k0y@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'd like to think of an akchtually to your akchtually but I actually can't think of anything to rebut with.

[–] Ziglin@lemmy.world 21 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Akchually you don't need anything. Here's your permission slip:

+-------------------------+
| Permission to akchually |
|   without a rubuttal    |
|  is hereby granted to   |
|  @Th3D3k0y@lemmy.world  |
+-------------------------+

Hope you appreciate your new found powers :)

[–] Th3D3k0y@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

Akchutally, I find I can do whatever I want now

[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de -3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I was thinking it might be something like that, but i dont remember hearing him say that, but idk maybe i didnt watch the right show.

[–] ignirtoq@fedia.io 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

He never actually says that exact phrase in the books. It's a cultural misquote, like "beam me up, Scotty," that somehow caught on in popular culture but wasn't in the original source.

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I think it caught on because few people have read the books. Once they used it in media and continued to that is what folks know of sherlock holmes.

[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

It also caught on because, while he never said it in the original books and short stories, it's something he absolutely could have said. He described things as "elementary" and used the phrase "my dear Watson" more than once, just never in quite that order.

For instance, here's a bit from The Crooked Man:

"I have the advantage of knowing your habits, my dear Watson," said he. "When your round is a short one you walk, and when it is a long one you use a hansom. As I perceive that your boots, although used, are by no means dirty, I cannot doubt that you are at present busy enough to justify the hansom."

"Excellent!" I cried.

"Elementary," said he.

It's just a coincidence that he never used the two phrases in one sentence.

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago

Everybody knows Sherlock Holmes, nobody knows anything about Sherlock Holmes... 🙄

[–] EmptySlime@lemmy.blahaj.zone 42 points 10 months ago

Gods I am not awake yet. I was legit confused why he was getting led away if the Lady taught Elementary school. Had to read that like 4 times before it finally clicked that the joke was she's IN Elementary.

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 34 points 10 months ago

Fake. Sherlock would know it’s Primary school in England.

[–] GiveOver@feddit.uk 30 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Joke police here. We don't have "elementary school" in England. Pack it all up please.

[–] Lv_InSaNe_vL@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Interesting. Here in my parts of the states (like everything, it varies widely across the country) we have elementary school from 1st-5th grade (so like 6-7 up to 10-11), middle school from 6th-8th grade (like 10-11 up to 13-14), and high school from 9th-12th (about 13-14 up to 17-18, and some school districts are big enough to have a "freshman campus" because they needed more space for all the kids).

And most kids go to kindergarten the year before 1st grade, and some even go to preschool the year before kindergarten as well.

[–] b3an@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Me: Surely this will have a witty endi— 😳🫢🤮

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

If this was reddit the comments would be 1000+ deep already, and all of it would be contentious.

[–] CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

So this is what you call “a hack”, right?

[–] MisterFrog@lemmy.world -2 points 10 months ago

It's a bit weird the artist drew an "elementary" school girl in their underwear though.