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2006-09-08

Original: 2006-09-08 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal

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Title: WEIGHT LOSS FLOWCHART!

The flowchart has four boxes connected by arrows.

Box 1 (top left, orange): "YOU'RE SO DAMN FAT"
An arrow points right to Box 2, and an arrow points down to Box 3.

Box 2 (top right, yellow): "SUICIDE"
An arrow points down to Box 4.

Box 3 (bottom left, yellow): "DIET AND EXERCISE"
An arrow points right to Box 4.

Box 4 (bottom right, pink): "YOU'RE NOT FAT ANYMORE!"

Caption below the comic: I told my wife I found the chart a bit insulting. At this point, she noted that I was correct, but also "so damn fat."

Votey:
Top caption: Reading this 10 years later...
A man lying down, viewed up close, says (in a speech bubble): "This is awful and a bad flowchart"

Alt text

A comic titled "WEIGHT LOSS FLOWCHART!" drawn on a blue and green background. A four-box flowchart: an orange box reading "YOU'RE SO DAMN FAT" has arrows leading right to a yellow "SUICIDE" box and down to a yellow "DIET AND EXERCISE" box. Both "SUICIDE" and "DIET AND EXERCISE" point to a pink box reading "YOU'RE NOT FAT ANYMORE!" — the dark joke being that both paths reach the same end state. Caption below: "I told my wife I found the chart a bit insulting. At this point, she noted that I was correct, but also 'so damn fat.'" Votey: a sketchy close-up of a man lying down under a caption "Reading this 10 years later..."; he says in a speech bubble, "This is awful and a bad flowchart."

Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.