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[–] Toes@ani.social 4 points 13 hours ago

She touched grass

[–] Throskie@midwest.social 5 points 16 hours ago

"Hello, hookworms. Get in my feet."

[–] Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 27 points 1 day ago

Only after reading the comments do I realise it's about crushing flowers.

I thought it was about how when you run through the tall grass with no shoes as a kid you can get effectively paper cuts between your toes haha.

I internallly winced at seeing this photo picture remembering all the times as a kid

[–] Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 33 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Having your bare feet in the grass feels so goddamn good and I'm tired of pretending that it doesn't feel great

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 23 hours ago

having your bare feet on the ground generally feels way better, with the exception of dark surfaces in the summer and, like, any outdoor surface in the winter.

Even the most miserable jagged gravel can sorta start feeling nice when you've taken some years to build up thicker soles, then it becomes like those spike mats people lay on.

[–] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 7 points 1 day ago

I disagree, but I'm allergic to grass. However, if you like it, there should be no reason to pretend you don't.

[–] jia_tan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 16 hours ago

I thought this is about liking feet

[–] NutinButNet@hilariouschaos.com 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I love seeing all the people get mad that they can’t do this now that my local city has effectively banned visitors during flower season :)

You can still see it from afar, but a bunch of people got mad because they drove over two counties to trample and crowd the flower fields for their own selfish desires only to find that the area has been blocked off completely to cars and people.

Get fucked in the nicest way possible. Enjoy it from a distance like a normal person so everyone else can enjoy it and so the damn flowers can keep coming back each year.

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 6 points 22 hours ago

Somewhere in TX?

All the people killing the Bluebonnets, trampling them for photo ops, or even dangerously stopping in breakdown lanes on the freeway to access Bluebonnets in the median for more pics.

[–] ryan213@lemmy.ca 78 points 1 day ago (4 children)
[–] Scipitie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 41 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Hypothesis: the message seems to imply that the cliche nature lover needs to trample and destroy said nature to be close to it.

This seems the most likely explanation to me.

And I find it neither funny nor insightful.

Edit: I can't manage to copy paste usernames on mobile but please check out the refinement by the comment to this post. Highly valuable edition. Tldr of it: not "nature lovers" in general but social media invasive nature lovers.

[–] Wrufieotnak@feddit.org 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's not so much nature lovers but social media "content creators" who are criticized here.

There was a case I read of a man caring for a beautiful patch of flowers, but then it got famous on social media and those assholes went there in buses, took pictures lying in there and destroyed it. Heartbreaking to read about that one. Sadly I can't find that specific case anymore, but there are enough articles about the problem, like this one.

[–] Scipitie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 day ago

Oh. That would explain the hashtags. I'll edit my comment to point out yours!

Thanks!

[–] Jax@sh.itjust.works 56 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Few people understand why I glare them after obliterating a perfectly nice patch of flowers.

[–] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 35 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I thought the joke was about the common mutation where your second toe is longer than your big toe.

Your explanation makes way more sense.

[–] duckythescientist@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I thought it was a foot fetish thing

[–] parpol@programming.dev 13 points 1 day ago

I thought city folk didn't like that feeling of grass tickling your feet.

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You mean it's not the grass poking between your toes?

[–] KazuyaDarklight@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Grass poking was what I thought too.

[–] Jax@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I mean, I like the feeling of grass between my toes.

[–] tdawg@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This really depends on the type of grass and time of year

[–] Jax@sh.itjust.works 1 points 15 hours ago

I think we can assume that this is spring/early summer, but yeah - you aren't wrong. I can't see myself enjoying grass between my toes if I have to shove my bare feet through a meter of snow.

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

are people traipsing through planted lilies or what?

[–] Jax@sh.itjust.works 3 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Very common, at least here in California, for there to be nice blooms of flowers that people decide to obliterate so they can take pictures for social media. By the time the 80th troglodyte traipses through the flowers, they've ruined it for everyone else that might enjoy them - and the flowers are fucked.

I can almost guarantee that this is the point of the comic. The only other interpretation I've seen that I can accept is that it's actually about the grass between your toes, which some people dislike.

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

why would they need to trample them to take photos?

[–] Jax@sh.itjust.works 1 points 53 minutes ago

Because they aren't interested in the flowers, they're interested in how they look with the flowers all around them. It's a selfish act for vain individuals.

[–] dingus@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I weirdly see a lot of these "yes...but..." Comics everywhere and I don't get like 90% of them tbh.

[–] ryan213@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 day ago

This is the first one I've seen so I guess I'm at 0%. 😭

[–] BoobaAwooga@lemmynsfw.com 37 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I’m always more concerned about the ticks tbh

[–] scytale@lemm.ee 5 points 1 day ago

And ants. I see all the crawling things on the grass/ground when I do yardwork at home, how much more in an open field.