Comment on An honorable warrior

herrcaptain@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• qprimed@lemmy.ml ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “tilting at windmills”

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  • Jimbo@yiffit.net ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Could you explain further… for another friend

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    • Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Here’s what ChatGPT had to say about it:

      The cartoon humorously plays on the classic character Don Quixote, from the novel by Miguel de Cervantes. In the story, Don Quixote famously mistakes windmills for giants and attempts to fight them.

      In this cartoon, Don Quixote is depicted on his horse with his lance, but instead of a windmill, he encounters a simple electric fan. The punchline, “I will not fight a child,” adds to the humor by suggesting that Don Quixote perceives the fan as a much smaller and less threatening opponent, akin to a child, thus deciding it’s not worth fighting. The absurdity of mistaking an electric fan for a child, combined with the reference to his original confusion with windmills, creates a humorous twist.

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      • soloner@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Chat gpt just loves pointing out twists!

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      • shinratdr@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        “Also you should probably put glue in your pizza cheese and eat a rock every day.”

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    • slimarev92@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Fans are “the children” of windmills.

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      • jaybone@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        “When one windmill really loves another windmill…”

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  • herrcaptain@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Ah, yes. Thank you (on behalf of my friend).

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    • troglodytis@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      But why does the fan think the old man is a child?

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      • problematicPanther@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        because it’s a small fan, this hinges on the premise that a windmill is a big fan.

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