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Original: vast on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal

Transcript

Panel 1:
Pirate (with a hook hand, parrot, and a peg-leg-era pirate hat): Vast there! I've a headache.
Second pirate (long dark hair, holding a tablet/device): Ho there, man! Go an' check ye medical website!

Panel 2:
The first pirate looks at the tablet.
Pirate: It's said I've ye scurvy!
Second pirate: Argh, it's always ye scurvy with these things.

Votey:
A medical-website page reads:
Have ye got ye sailor's curse?
Symptoms:
- Headache
- Fatigue
- General feeling of perhaps being sick
- Fatigue again

Alt text

Two pirates aboard a ship in a two-panel comic. Panel 1: A pirate with a hook hand, a parrot, and a pirate hat complains, "Vast there! I've a headache." A second long-haired pirate holding a tablet replies, "Ho there, man! Go an' check ye medical website!" Panel 2: The first pirate reads the tablet and says, "It's said I've ye scurvy!" The second pirate answers, "Argh, it's always ye scurvy with these things" — mocking how online symptom-checkers always return an alarming diagnosis, here a pirate-themed one. Votey: A screenshot of the pirate medical website, headed "Have ye got ye sailor's curse?" with a symptom list: Headache, Fatigue, General feeling of perhaps being sick, and Fatigue again — vague catch-all symptoms parodying real online symptom-checkers.

Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.