this post was submitted on 10 Mar 2026
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The bot appears to be down, so it's now up to me again like in the old days to post new xkcd comics here. :D

As always, you are permitted to call one person for guidance, but that person must be a grandparent.

https://explainxkcd.com/3217/

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[–] Hadriscus@jlai.lu 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

No.... I know of skunks from the cartoon Pépé the Skunk, but I never really reconnected that with reality, as in, they smell bad IRL, that's not just a cartoon thing. So that prevented me from identifying the xkcd being about grandma's remedies.

[–] marcos@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

they smell bad IRL

They smell about as bad as a feral cat. What they do is they make you smell bad if you scare them.