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Mom yells at computer for using electricity while fridge runs for decades

This two-panel comedy meme highlights hypocrisy in common parental complaints about household electricity consumption. The top panel features an angry, accusatory woman labeled as a mother telling her child to turn off their computer because it uses too much power. The bottom panel shows an ancient, menacing red-eyed skeleton surrounded by cobwebs and decades-old wiring, representing the family kitchen fridge that has been running nonstop since the dissolution of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s, emphasizing that the fridge consumes far more electricity over its decades of operation than a home computer ever would.
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Mom: „Turn off the computer, it’s using a lot of electricity!"
The fridge in the kitchen working non-stop since the downfall of Yugoslavia

Overview

This two-panel comedy meme highlights hypocrisy in common parental complaints about household electricity consumption. The top panel features an angry, accusatory woman labeled as a mother telling her child to turn off their computer because it uses too much power. The bottom panel shows an ancient, menacing red-eyed skeleton surrounded by cobwebs and decades-old wiring, representing the family kitchen fridge that has been running nonstop since the dissolution of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s, emphasizing that the fridge consumes far more electricity over its decades of operation than a home computer ever would.

Origin notes

This meme was sourced from the Reddit Meme subreddit via RSS feed, with the original submitted title being "And you can’t argue about it". It uses a popular two-panel contrast meme format to make a relatable joke about common parental double standards around home utility use.

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