In what way are “they not kidding” about it being 2%?
Can you find an explanation that is not only plausibly intended, but makes a joke?

In what way are “they not kidding” about it being 2%?
Can you find an explanation that is not only plausibly intended, but makes a joke?
This Eyebeam from Chak is a perplexing CIDU. And no relief coming from the GoComics comments.
Some “classical” composers in the later parts of the 20th Century (or we could say “new music”), did have some fun with putting scribbles and illustrations onto their scores, for performers to interpret under guidelines. I don’t know if Electronic Dance Music performers work from anything like a conventional score, but this might instead be a “transcription” score, with the artist capturing the song in notation as best they can. The cloudburst notes and shaky-lines eighths are nice touches, even if we’re not sure what they mean.
HOWEVER, none of that explains why the guru is surrounded by that music, or if the hiker/seeker is exposed to that type of music so much that he has to go climbing in the hope of getting away from it.
Okay, there are clearly a lot of geezer-worthy references, and interlocking backstories. But no, I can’t make sense of most of the remarks.
Thanks to ZBicyclist, who says “Even if I understood what’s going on here, would it be funny?”.
Putting on the neck pillows is the part he hates??
To me this is an undecidable, but it’s not of the “What in the world?” type, but just which of a few basic alternatives. It could be the speaker is right, and the particular paintings in this gallery are setting the kid off. Or the kid is just tired and cranky, and being still walking around anywhere in the museum would set off the tantrum. In which case the speaker is probably just dense and mistaken (and we’re amused at him); or he is attempting a joke of his own.
An unpleasant image and I don’t understand the joke exactly.
And if the answer is “leash”, how ironic that the comic strip is “Free Range”.
Chak says “I know this is supposed to be a pun, but I’m hoping some of our Aussie readers will tell me what it is. ” I agree it has to be a pun — in fact the artist’s home blog gives the title “Ram home the pun” — and I’m no more able to say just what it is.