The folks in these comments mad they had to work to understand are cracking me up.
And yeah, it could be much better executed.
I didn’t get the message as well.
I think the big reason is the tree to the right obscuring the continuity from the pond to the house. Maybe the row of flowers continuing towards the pond’s edge (sans tree) would have made it more obvious.
Also because it shows her walking to the right then flips perspective and she’s on the left, confusing the viewer
🪣🦭 I has a bucket.
Dear god…
This applies to ADHD as well: We might seem to be procrastinating, but i at least get a whole lot of stuff done during that “procrastination” period, such as reading unrelated wikipedia articles. I wouldn’t learn stuff if i didn’t do it because i’m procrastinating on something else.
I’ve got two words that I’ve coined that I use to describe this stuff.
“Para-productive” tasks are like what you describe. Usually procrastination related, but in a useful way. Examples might include tidying up my desk rather than starting the essay I need to do. For me, that kind of thing helps me to gear up towards the proper task. Random reading of fun stuff also helps me to focus better when I get onto the task. I find that I work best when I do a sort of task “circuit training”, where I have an array of tasks that I cycle between — and some of these tasks need to be fun for it to work.
“Psuedo-productive” is similar, except bad vibes. It is often associated with unhealthy avoidance towards tasks that I’m dreading, or an excessive level of procrastination. This word is mostly just to distinguish between the good and bad kinds of procrastination.
that’s very interesting. I’m gonna try to remember that “para-productive” term, it fits really well :)
I don’t get it. Did the bucket become a planting pot?
The leaky bucket caused the row of flowers to grow.
Moral is something like, ‘even if you think you’re failing at a task, your benefit is simply not being measured / seen.’
The leaky bucket caused the row of flowers to grow.
I just gotta say the execution in this comic horrible: it neither showed nor told. Just made guesswork.
It took me 5 seconds to get it instead of 1.
People need to think before they complain.
Agreed, just trying to explain what I saw to othes.
Or you’re a failure. Both are possible options. It’s a nice story though.
Great. Now they’ll have to do more work to remove the flowers.
That is just way too subtle.
No, the execution is trash. Comic as a medium should at least show. Some panels of the bucket dripping along the path wouldn’t have made this pure guesswork.
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.
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.
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But flowers don’t come from water…
Flowers need water to grow, so if one side is dry and the other has water it would make sense for flowers to only grow on the wet side, right?
That little dribble of water isn’t going to be anywhere near enough water to germinate a seed.
It’s a fable…
Then it’s a bad fable.
It’s a bad comic
I think it watered the path back and grew flowers
nice
I also didn’t get it. Thank you folks for explaining it!
The difference of weight on each side would drive me crazy.
You can shift the pole on your back until it’s balanced.
Also the water is the vast majority of the weight
Flip sides to “even it out” throughout trips but then the dumb comic makes even less sense
What a pleasant response.
I’m agreeing with them? Lmao
Who needs disagreements when we have passive aggressive “agreements”
That’s exactly what I’m thinking lol
What a charming story. There is much depth to it beyond the obvious.
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Damn my pollen allergy. I must get rid of that leaky bucket.
The row of flowers escaped me for a minute
