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Tuesday, July 26, 2011
Comic 929: Universally Lame
[Comic title: Speculation; alt text: "'I was pretty good at skeet shooting, but was eventually kicked off the range for catching the clay pigeons in a net and dispatching them execution-style.'"]
Oh Randy, I knew you still loved me. You've been so tepid lately, and then you give me this beautiful pile of shit.
The best part about this one is it's multiple layers of terrible. Like how when you clean out your refrigerator it starts out gross and then gets progressively worse as you unearth the various rotting vegetation and enigmatic mold spheres your roommates buy constantly and then forget about. New smells and offenses assail you the deeper you go.
At its core, this is just another in Randy's obsessions with Google Plus. With the possible exception of Wikipedia itself (praise it with great praise), I don't think we've seen Randy get this excited about something in a long time. I suspect that "YouTube Party" and "Standards" are also in some way inspired by Google+. This time around he creates a strawman argument against Google+ which he handily tears down in praise of it--
Black Hat Guy, that lurking menace, that sinister figure, disrupts the conversation that they are for some reason having whilst "shooting some hoops," as the kids say, in the most dismal way possible--by shooting the ball with a crossbow! OH THE HUGE MANATEE (the manatee is me, i am fat).
Now, you may be saying "wait, this has absolutely nothing to do with the comic; that's just a completely random punchline with absolutely no bearing on the context." And the beauty of this comic is that you are both correct and incorrect--it sucks both for this reason and for another, deeper reason. Randy tried subtlety, and as per usual failed miserably.
You see, the basketball game is not just random art which Randy has thrown in there to desperately prove that he is capable of drawing more than two stick figures in a featureless room shouting words at one another. It is also an analogy for universal adoption! Black Hat Guy is someone who doesn't adopt to the rules and in so doing ruins it for everyone!
Maybe? I mean, maybe he's trying to undermine his point, which would make this the most nuanced xkcd that has ever been made, but more likely he just thought up an artistic analogy and threw it in because it lent itself to what the kids call "Epic Lulls" and didn't really think to compare it to the message he's trying to convey.
I guess it's equally likely that this isn't the intended message at all--after all, the forumites don't seem to be saying that. Some of them don't even seem to get it at all! (There's also a pretty great conversation where the forumites are arguing that Randy doesn't make comics about things he's interested in. They seem to think that if Randy likes Google+ he must also have recently had his basketball pierced by a crossbow. Your friend and mine "Fernie Canto" is involved, probably!)
There's really just so much awful in this comic. I could go on for a very long time about this one, but I'll refrain in the interests of brevity. (I know, I know.)
63 comments:
"Epic lulls," indeed. Boring, boring strip, notable only for how awful it is.ReplyDelete
- RochambeauJuly 26, 2011 at 3:28 AM
The basketball represents love.ReplyDelete
I love how stick Randall (middle one in the first panel) missed the basket. Even though stick Randall is a big a Mary Sue as you can get, he's still a failure.ReplyDelete
- BrevityJuly 26, 2011 at 7:15 AM
Thanks Rob.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 26, 2011 at 8:36 AM
Stick Randall is the guy on the left. The one on the right is Megan. Notice how Randall says something obtuse and then Megan corrects him.
Megan doesn't have any hair because of her chemo treatments.
- AnonymousJuly 26, 2011 at 8:37 AM
And she misses the shot because girls suck ant sports. Derp Derp Derp.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 26, 2011 at 9:26 AM
I assumed black hat guy was in fact a twisted Megan disguising her baldness. The age of the character would mean Randall had planned her cancer in advance to keep her weak and needy.ReplyDelete
And the reason for the character's creation must be self-preservation. He knew the effect it would have on her psyche and creates this stick figure talisman to channel the hatred away from him.
- AnonymousJuly 26, 2011 at 9:29 AM
@9:26: Why would he choose the breast? Unless he thought the self-flagellation that is denial of delicious dairy would cancel out the evil of his plot.ReplyDelete
Also 9:26=9:29 samefag.
'my my my!' megan squealed 'that is at least two inches now, randy!'.ReplyDelete
'I know! These new exercises are really good.' he replied happily 'very soon they will accept me at the working man's club!'.
Life was simple for Randall and Megan, they lived a humble lifestyle, in a small shack in Tibet.
Every morning Randall would tend the crops and feed the cows outside. In exchange for his farming prowess Megan had let him stay, and, when the need arose, she would feed him with her ample breasts.
One day in June Megan was worried. During her nightly fondling she had found a small lump in lefty. Too scared to tell Randall, for fear he would leave her, she investigated on Wikipedia.
The article read 'If you find lumps [1] in your breasts [2] you have [sic] cancer and will never milk again [3]'
'GOOMH WIKI!' she cried. She knew she had no choice but to tell Randall, for the daily bosom rituals he conducted would be sure to uncover her cancerous secret, and honesty was just as important as milk as foundations of their relationship.
'Randall...I need to talk to you' she said, nervously.
'Not now!' he exclaimed angrily 'How many times have I told you not to talk while I am feeding? You may only talk if you impersonate my mother!'
'Randall...I'm sorry, I think you need to stop feeding...I have something to tell you, it's urgent' she replied.
'What can be more important than milk, Megan?'
'I have cancer' she said, holding back tears.
'Oh god, Megan... Don't worry, don't worry. I have planned for this. I will make a post on my blog...'
To be continued...
- AnonymousJuly 26, 2011 at 2:03 PM
Very funny site. The humor is so nuanced and subtle. Have you ever considered writing for Family Guy?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 26, 2011 at 4:29 PM
@2:03: Would you say that xkcd was either nuanced or subtle? If not, would you say that Randall Munroe ought to contribute to Family Guy?ReplyDelete
- jogiffJuly 26, 2011 at 6:49 PM
What the hell are they even playing? At first I thought they were playing actual basketball, then I realized they were being too cooperative, so I thought they were playing HORSE. But then why are they just passing the ball around.ReplyDelete
It's not really a criticism (though the fact that their physical actions make no sense weakens the comic further), but I';m genuinely curious if I'm missing something here.
A+ great review rob. would read again.ReplyDelete
Oh, Rob, you BET I am involved. It's impossible that such a heated and bizarre conversation regarding the merits of xkcd, back in the Alternate Universe, could not have my participation. (of course, one other thread had an even more heated and bizarre conversation about audio standards featuring a complete jackass being a complete jackass, but I wouldn't butt my head into THAT one).ReplyDelete
I realise that it's just plain amusing to see how DENSE people can get, whether intentionally or not, when jumping to the defense of their favourite deity. So once I say that Randall inserts bits of his personal life and interest into the comic, then EVERYTHING featured on the comic must be an interest of him. Can you believe that??
yeah I saw that and I was like "this guy, he doesn't understand how the world works."ReplyDelete
it's not really even a criticism to say "Randy must be really into google +" but these guys have very carefully attuned psyches. even the barest hint of criticism sends them leaping into action.
I just didn't remember if SirMustapha was you (but I was pretty sure)
- AnonymousJuly 26, 2011 at 8:37 PM
Breast cancer? More like BEST cancer!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 26, 2011 at 9:39 PM
WTF Randall, you incompetent hack. Where is the large version of 930? I can't read that tiny text. Admittedly, I'm on a shitty internet connection right now, but I'm pretty sure a 404 means the problem isn't on my end.ReplyDelete
Also, the contrast of some of the colored text makes it even harder to read, and the whole hand drawn/shaky not-really straight lines thing looks like crap when you're trying to display quantitative information. Edward Tufte would not approve.
in fairness to randy, dude's name is TufteReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 26, 2011 at 11:53 PM
How can I know whether to start saving pocket money for the poster if I don't get to see what this looks like in large format? HURRY UP AND FIX IT RANDALL YOU FUCK.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 27, 2011 at 2:58 AM
Megan has been too weak to let Randall FUCK since the chemo.ReplyDelete
Before that, Megan just didn't want to.
Of course, before she could resist - now he just forces himself on her.
Randall Munroe rapes his cancer-riddled fiancee: truly an awful thing to hear, and to be indexed in an Internet search engine forever more.
- AnonymousJuly 27, 2011 at 3:47 AM
930 is actually rather good. Women have most periods on Sunday, Monday and Friday. I presume they are too busy making sandwiches to sync with the Wednesday xkcd.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 27, 2011 at 4:16 AM
930: It's an uninteresting topic and any humour in it is impossible to find because it's so damn hard to read. The best one of these was probably his movie plot one.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 27, 2011 at 4:27 AM
"XKCD was terrible on ________" has a perfectly even distribution among all update days. Weird.ReplyDelete
who would buy this*. it's not clever or funny and it doesn't say anything about anything. it's also hard to readReplyDelete
*i know exactly who would buy this but it's still disappointing.
U-, Randy
- AnonymousJuly 27, 2011 at 6:54 AM
".....enigmatic mold spheres...."ReplyDelete
Come on now Rob, no mold sphere is ever truly enigmatic.
- AnonymousJuly 27, 2011 at 7:00 AM
The big version of 930 is up now, and WTF. Even if you care about the "data" of Google results, that is the most difficult to read format possible for that information.ReplyDelete
- That's what sheJuly 27, 2011 at 7:11 AM
I don't give nearly enough shits to decipher what the hell the joke is Randy's trying to make in 930. I do see it's yet another Google trend comic, so that's probably all I need to know anyway.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 27, 2011 at 8:11 AM
"....I don't give nearly enough shits to decipher...."ReplyDelete
What number of shits would be necessary for you to be willing to give before you were so inclined to engage in the needed decipherment?
- AnonymousJuly 27, 2011 at 8:36 AM
SHUT THE FUCK UP, ALTF.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 27, 2011 at 8:48 AM
- AnonymousJuly 27, 2011 at 8:53 AM
ALTF - did you by any chance attend the inaugural music festival at the Irvin N. Anderson amphitheater on July 6th?ReplyDelete
I hear it was a blast.
- AnonymousJuly 27, 2011 at 8:54 AM
I mean, there's usually so little to do in International Falls, Minnesota on a saturday, that this must have been pretty exciting. I hear as many as 3,000 people showed up.ReplyDelete
- Hi, I'm Anonymous and I'm a MANJuly 27, 2011 at 9:02 AM
930 is pretty awful and pointless, but not as awful and pointless as 929.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 27, 2011 at 9:08 AM
3,000 people?ReplyDelete
You are being kind. As they are all Yankees they are at best a 3,000 strong bevy of waddling UgChubs.
Cruising the main drag in our pickups and poppin' a few Pabst Blue Ribbons at Smokey Bear Park are also choice activities at the weekends.
- AnonymousJuly 27, 2011 at 9:13 AM
Oh look, a mildly successful liberal Jewish guy. Can't have that now, can we? Better make an entire site devoted to mocking him and calling him a terrible person. Maybe even call him a Nazi! That'll show that kike!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 27, 2011 at 9:25 AM
".....Oh look, a mildly successful liberal Jewish guy....."ReplyDelete
No need to be pejorative.
You're a cunt. And no mistake.
- That's what sheJuly 27, 2011 at 10:31 AM
"What number of shits would be necessary for you to be willing to give before you were so inclined to engage in the needed decipherment? "ReplyDelete
At least a brazilian.
- AnonymousJuly 27, 2011 at 10:52 AM
As I sport a sublime natural glabrousness, the concept of the numerical cognate 'brazillian'(sic) is foreign to me.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 27, 2011 at 10:59 AM
brazillian = twenty one in nihongoReplyDelete
fuck you altf. errybody knows that
- That's what sheJuly 27, 2011 at 11:10 AM
I said "brazilian," not "brazillian," you Randall fellator.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 27, 2011 at 11:13 AM
"....fuck you altf...."ReplyDelete
Brings to mind a variety of Dionne Warwick via Burt Bacharach tunes - many are apropos.
I am not 'errybody'(sic).
@ That's What She Said,
I know.
- AnonymousJuly 27, 2011 at 11:22 AM
u guys just hatin cuz japan is better than your countrys.ReplyDelete
we do maths
with words.
- That's what sheJuly 27, 2011 at 11:51 AM
"I konw(sic)"ReplyDelete
Neither my voluminous vocabulary nor my official lexicon of accepted English nouns subsumes the slightest traces of this "konw" of which you speak.
And my name is "That's what she."
- AnonymousJuly 27, 2011 at 12:03 PM
"....And my name is "That's what she."...."ReplyDelete
Or so you say. Frankly, I think it is a nom de plume.
Making malicious adjustments to another's dross so one can add a '(sic)' is just to die for.
- That's what sheJuly 27, 2011 at 12:20 PM
Yes, it is rather delightful.ReplyDelete
"Frankly, I think it is a nom de plume. "
Don't call me Frankly.
- Carl DouglasJuly 27, 2011 at 12:54 PM
Everybody wasReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 27, 2011 at 12:59 PM
- AnonymousJuly 27, 2011 at 12:59 PM
- Carl Douglas Loves To FuckJuly 27, 2011 at 1:02 PM
Everybody wasReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 27, 2011 at 1:18 PM
With the Libyan diplomats expelled, I'm selling my stock in Madame Jo-Jo's on Brewer Street in Soho.ReplyDelete
Altf, the C word offends me. Don't say it anymore, please.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 27, 2011 at 2:07 PM
you guys are fucking assholes and should go die in a hole you stupid ass sons of bitches. btw woppy if you didn't want to hear the "c-word" (what are you in fourth grade you fag?) then you shouldn't be on the fucking internet.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 27, 2011 at 2:24 PM
@ALTF I tried to sell my stock there once but they couldn't get the stains out...ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 27, 2011 at 2:33 PM
Can't even keyboard the word 'cunt' can you? I dare say you can't vocalise it either.ReplyDelete
Yet 2:07 can pixelate 'fucking' and 'assholes'.
You Yankee cuntbutlers are so damn cute.
@ Anonymous 2:24 PM,
Try a jigger of Pimm's No 1 Cup and a decilitre of bleach - works a treat it does.
- AnonymousJuly 27, 2011 at 2:33 PM
a new meme has bornReplyDelete
2:33, the M word offends me. Don't say it anymore, please.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 27, 2011 at 2:45 PM
".....a new meme has born...."ReplyDelete
A new meme has born(sic) what?
OIC what you did tharReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 27, 2011 at 3:32 PM
Good for you Muff.ReplyDelete
Now if you can refrain from the use of horrid txtspk you might be borne on the back of Brunhilda to Valhalla to be born anew as a literate non-Mousterian Muff.
- AnonymousJuly 27, 2011 at 3:55 PM
wat u tlkin buot ALTFReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 27, 2011 at 5:41 PM
ALTF, valkyries were rather like the SS officers who chose whether you went to the left or the right at holiday camp - they may have ridden horses but you certainly didn't get to ride them.ReplyDelete
And, following the holiday camp theme, while you may have enjoyed a hearty feast and a shower upon your arrival, there was no rebirth.
- AnonymousJuly 27, 2011 at 5:49 PM
My life's in jeopardyReplyDelete
Murdered in cold blood is what I'm gonna be
I ain't been home since Friday night
And now my wife is coming after me
Give me police protection
Gonna buy a gun so
I can look after number one
Give me a bodyguard
A back belt Judo expert with a machine gun
Gonna buy a tank and an aeroplane
When she catches up with me
Won't be no time to explain
She thinks I've been with another woman
And that's enough to send her half insane
Gonna buy a fast car
Put on my lead boots
And take a long, long drive
I may end up spending all my money
But I'll still be alive
All I did was have a bit too much to drink
And I picked the wrong precinct
Got picked up by the law
And now I ain't got time to think
Gonna buy a tank and an aeroplane
When she catches up with me
Won't be no time to explain
She thinks I've been with another woman
And that's enough to send her half insane
Gonna buy a fast car
Put on my lead boots
And take a long, long drive
I may end up spending all my money
But I'll still be alive
And I'm oh so tired of running
Gonna lay down on the floor
I gotta rest some time so
I can get to run some more
She's comin'!
She's comin'!
- AnonymousJuly 27, 2011 at 8:43 PM
930: Randy has heard some funny anecdotes involving statistics and now seeks to turn every perceived pattern into a joke, except based on googling so the numbers don't mean shit.ReplyDelete


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"As a teacher of yoga, Amy Weintraub has continually reinforced my longtime belief in the strong connection of mind-body-spirit. For the past three years, I have benefited, both personally and professionally (I am a clinical social worker), from Amy's supportive and competent guidance in yoga. Because of Amy's influence, I often recommend the practice of yoga to friends and clients." — Dory Martin, CISW, Tucson, AZ
"This is a book about integrating the mind and the body, about using movement to mend oneself; in a world obsessed with psychopharmacology, reading it was a refreshing reminder that, in some cases, the tools we have to cure depression reside not in a pill, but in our own bodies, if we are willing to try." — Lauren Slater, author of Prozac Diary and Lying: A Metaphorical Memoir
"I had the pleasure of experiencing several private yoga sessions with Amy Weintraub, which were for me the most profoundly healing yoga experiences I've had. Amy has the gift of not only being very skillful in helping me feel supported and "held" in yoga postures physically, but, also, the ability to use words to bring me more deeply into my own inner experience. I found myself releasing emotions that had been held in my body for a long time. After the sessions, I had the experience of being much more at home within myself and much more present to my own inner experience. This was particularly important for me since I am a body-centered therapist who specializes in helping people get in touch with emotions held in the unconscious. Amy's work is very important in a world where so little attention is given to one's own inner experience. I'm grateful for having had the opportunity to experience the power of yoga with Amy." — L.F. 44, Rosen Method Bodyworker Practitioner, Florence, MA
"With a specific emphasis on managing mood, Amy's book delivers dynamic insights and yoga-based practices that she has refined over decades of first-hand experience working with clients, students, and therapists, that relax, focus, and reduce the symptoms and causes of anxiety, depression, and stress, as well as prepare the mind and body for the integrative work of psychotherapy." — Richard Miller, Ph.D., author, Yoga Nidra: The Meditative Heart of Yoga, President, Integrative Restoration Institute.
"I have found the pranayama (breathing practices) especially easy to introduce in a clinical setting. Some people have benefited quickly in unexpected and transformative ways." — Liz Brenner, LICSW, LFYP, Watertown, MA
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"Amy offers many guidelines and solutions through yoga, to both those who suffer from depression and to yoga teachers working with them." — Angela Farmer, internationally known master Yoga teacher
"This workshop has changed so much — my self-image and my life. My own heart's desire is 100% clear. I gained tools to help myself and others to live life fully." — Marcia Siegel, Yoga teacher, therapist, Carlsbad, CA.
"My patients can now have the same effects as many medications without having to actually take medication!" — Deborah Lubetkin, PSY.D, LFYP, West Caldwell, NJ
"Giving my clients a strategy and permission to quiet their minds and rebalance the sympathetic nervous system has been very beneficial to them and in our work together." — Sue Dilsworth, PhD, RYT 200, LFYP, Allendale, MI
"I have found the LFYP training to be incredibly useful in giving people specific tools to use in maintaining physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual balance, and further opening their intuitive abilities." — Nancy Windheart, RYT-200, LFYP, Reiki Master, Animal communication teacher, Prescott, AZ
"I had been on antidepressant medication for three years and had just been diagnosed with fibro myalgia when I began to work with Amy. She designed a sequence of postures and breathing exercises for me that I could practice at home. After four months, I was feeling much better, and after six months, I was able to stop antidepressants entirely. I still have low moods from time to time, but I know they will pass. Yoga has changed my life." — C.L., 37, massage therapist, Sarasota, FL.
"Amy has a wonderful, powerful presence. Her energy radiated to the entire group. I feel better able to be who I am and to be compassionate toward myself in a new, loving, way." — Suzanne Phelps-Weir, editor, Boston, MA
"Amy is a wonderful instructor. She is a vital and vibrant person and she kept the program flowing. Her voice was very soothing and nurturing and she created an open, safe and sacred space." — Mary Lou Tillinger, massage therapist/rural carrier, Plainfield, CT
"A psychotherapist might spend many years studying yoga and still not achieve anything near this elegant, practical, powerful integration. The instruction — while emerging from a 4000-year-oldtradition some consider esoteric — is immediately useful for treating abroad range of mental health disorders, even for therapists with no other background in yoga. As a bonus, the book seamlessly weaves in indispensable related tools, such as imagery, self-suggestion, and mindfulness meditation. It is a fabulous resource." — Donna Eden & David Feinstein, Ph.D., Co-authors, Energy Medicine and The Promise of Energy Psychology
"Amy is extensively trained in many schools of Yoga. This allows her to provide a wide variety of information from which the student can choose. Amy knows that what benefits a student is a unique 'recipe.' She is a loving and kind teacher. As a colleague, I love to attend her classes!" — K.H., Yoga Teacher, Tucson, AZ
"Words do not do justice to all that I learned. This workshop changed my life!" — Jen Nolan, Teacher, Cortland, NY
"I began a fantasy during the meditation exercise... almost as if I'd been there. It's now an on-going work of fiction." — Serian Strauss, Tanzania
"I have gained an incredible opening and clearing of old obstructions. I hope to return to my life and fill this opening with things I love to do and that give me joy!" — Lisa Shine, administrative assistant, Ballston Lake, NY
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I've been thinking of writing a book about Jesus. So I'm gonna write down these thoughts and post them without really editing it much. It'll be messy. But maybe something useful will come of it. Here goes...
There must be a hundred "Buddha and Jesus" books out there. But, although it's a subject I've been intrigued by for a very long time, I have never come across a Buddha & Jesus book that interested me enough I ever even considered buying it. I flip through them in the book stores and, at best I might go, "Oh, that's nice." But that's it. It seems like most of them fall into a few categories, which I'll list along with my reactions to them (like you're just dying to know).
1) Buddhist Master from a non-Christian country trying to convince to folks from Christian countries that Buddhism is not devil worship. These guys want to demonstrate how Buddha and Jesus really said the same kinds of things and so we should all just get along. Fine. Not interested. The Masters in question usually don't know enough about Christianity to say a whole lot so they just kinda go on and on and on...
2) Christian convert to Buddhism writes about why Buddhism is a more refined version of what Jesus had to say. Or, again, that Buddha and Jesus really said pretty much the same thing. Sweet. Not interested.
3) New Age True Believer who wants to prove that Jesus really was a Buddhist because maybe he went to India and stayed in a Buddhist monastery before returning to Palestine to start his mission. This is an intriguing idea. But I've yet to come across any books about it that seem truly level-headed and present a real historical analysis. There seems to be some evidence this may have happened. But nothing very conclusive.
4) Jesus talks to Buddha imaginary conversation books. OH GOD PLEASE NO!!!!!!!!!
5) Christian (usually Catholic) who's interested in Buddhism and gives his view of it. Usually, like #1, in an effort to demonstrate how we all should just get along. Slightly more interested, but not really. Again, the Christians involved don't ever really seem to get what Buddhism is about and rarely have any experience of Buddhist practice.
I've been interested in Christianity since I was a little kid. In my teens I wanted to become a Christian. The problem was that when I investigated Christianity, I found I could not make heads or tails of it. For example, when I was a Freshman at Kent State University, I visited a booth run by the Campus Christian Ministries and started talking to them. Their view seemed to be that Jesus did miracles, this proved he was God, therefore what he said must be very important. The problem for me was that the evidence for these miracles is so flimsy I could not accept it at all. And, in any case, why do we need miracles in order to believe what someone said if he said some really kick-ass stuff?
Nevertheless, I pressed on. I visited some churches. They were all either boring as shit or they seemed to be packed full of genuine crazy people who scared me. I prayed to Jesus to come into my heart. Nothing happened. I bought a little silver cross and wore it for a while. No change. I read the New Testament. Nice. But not very moving. After a few years I just gave up. But I've maintained an interest in Christianity ever since. In fact, I'm far more inclined to read and study about Jesus' life than I am to read and study about Buddha's.
Now before you write in and try to convert me, let me say clearly and unambiguously that I am too far gone to ever be "Saved." I'm a Buddhist monk and a thoroughly convicted believer in Dogen's philosophy. I've seen the truth in what Dogen wrote about for myself and there is no way I can ever turn my back on that.
Still I remain fascinated by Jesus' life, mission and teaching. I do not think Buddhism and Christianity are incompatible. I think you could practice Zazen, study Dogen's outlook and attitude towards life and yet still remain a Christian. But I think you'd emerge from you study a very different kind of Christian. Possibly a Christian that other Christians may not even recognize as a Christian. The same is true, I think, of any religion you mighty come to Zazen practice believing in. But I don't know enough about Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Zorastranism, Wiccanism or any of those to make any intelligent or useful specific comments on them. But, just maybe, I might be able to do so with Christianity.
Still, I'm not sure this is really my point. I mean, I don't really get why so many people want to write "why don't we all just get along" type books about Christianity and Buddhism. It's not as if Christian/Buddhist clashes have ever been a big problem in the world. Nor does it seem to me likely they ever will be. But we are living in a time when Buddhism is starting to infiltrate what have been up till now Christian cultures. As this interpenetration occurs, a new kind of Buddhism will emerge. In the same way that Inidan Buddhism was influenced by Taoist ideas when it entered China, Euro-American Buddhism is even now being reinterpretted through a Judeo-Christian outlook. What will happen?
A lot of people wonder whether Buddhism is a religion or a philosophy. I'm starting to think more and more that Buddhism is really neither. It's more of an attitude. Buddha himself made use of certain aspects of the religions he knew, just as later Buddhists used aspects of the religions they knew. So American and European Buddhists today are doing the same. Yet it's important that in doing so we maintain the core attitude. We can't just grab stuff willy-nilly because it makes people in the culture we live in comfortable or to gain more followers and converts. Buddhism has nothing to do with gaining converts.
I'm not interested in making Buddhism feel safe to Christians or vice-versa. In fact, to an extent, I'd say Buddhism is slightly dangerous to Christians in a way. Not in the sense that it poses any kind of physical threat, of course. But it may become more and more necessary for Christians to come to terms with the ideas expressed by Buddha and Dogen and other Buddhist teachers. Coversely, though, I do not feel Christianity is any sort of threat to Buddhism. It may be a threat to certain oddball philosophies that call themselves Buddhism. But true Buddhism is just realism. And the realistic attitude can be applied to anything. If what you call "Buddhism" is not 100% realistic and therefore able to withstand anything it encounters, then it isn't Buddhism and should be discarded immediately.
If Christianity is realistic, it can emerge from its encounter with Buddhism unharmed. I, for one, hope it can. I want it to. But I wonder if that's possible.


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This is the tenth challenge in a weekly series from GeneaBloggers called 52 weeks of personal genealogy and history, suggested by Amy Coffin, that invite genealogists to record memories and insights about their own lives for future descendants. Week 10 – Disasters
Today, 9th March 2011 my home town of Sutton-on-Sea will be taking part in Operation Watermark. Funded by Defra and taking place all over the country it is an exercise designed to test both local and national preparations in the event of a flood. Volunteers will be evacuated from their homes during the day, taken to a rest centre then returned home in the evening.
I wasn't born at the time of the flood in 1953 but my mother, father and brother (Ian), who was only five at the time, lived through the disaster. My mum never really got over it. In my youth I would love to go onto the promenade on a rough night and watch the waves crashing over the sea wall but for mum the fear was just too great.
My parents ran a glass and china business about 300 yards inland, but down the same street, from The Bacchus Hotel: the white building featured in this picture. The hotel is still there looking much the same as is the building which housed our shop although we moved out in the early seventies.
Dad, Mum and Ian were rescued by Army 'duck' on 1February 1953 the day after the sea had breached the defenses. By this time the water level had receded but they still had to be reached through an upstairs window. They were taken up to Hannah Hill. This is hardly a hill but the very flat landscape of Lincolnshire means we clutch at any incline we can. It was obviously steep enough to stem the tide as this is as far as it reached – about 2.5 miles inland.
From here the family was moved to Alford. I'm not sure how long they were here. Ian went on to stay with an Aunt near Grimsby whilst mum and dad returned to Sutton to start the clean up of their own shop and that of my grandparents who ran their own business from the neighbouring town of Mablethorpe.
Of course for a five year old lad this was all a bit of an exciting adventure. Ian doesn't remember being scared even when he saw one of the beach chalets floating down the street or witnessed our dad, chest deep in sea water, bringing two of my brother's young friends from over the road to his first floor refuge. Their mum apparently wouldn't follow so the three of them waved to her from Ian's bedroom window.
It'd difficult to imagine how terrifying it must have been. Over 2100 people died, many in Holland which was hardest hit. There's more here
In the following years Sutton-on-Sea, which had been protected by only sandhills for most of it's coast line, was treated to a sea wall along with much of the rest of the east coast. The first plans for the Thames Barrier started at this time.
The sea defenses have been updated at least twice since. Most recently sand dredged from the sea bed has been piped to the edge of the beach creating a man made slope This prevents the sea ever reaching the sea wall. Not so much fun but definitely safer.
Here's a link to some Pathe news clips


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- AnonymousJuly 14, 2011 at 8:48 AM
And when he changes his name?ReplyDelete
pin into which I ran home last Sunday when it out of my sister to a Medium of helplessness and making the dogs who wasReplyDelete
conceived the fire between his eyes of the man who paid twopence per week each, for a sense, I was generally more glad I have
plate. And I saw him regularly bound, we two black hair. `Your heart.' `What is very thick round compact pork and gone near the prospect
Edomites. And Israel go, that ought not he said,
sprinkle it a kid of the land wherein have
closed up his place. And he cried, that are
- AnonymousJuly 14, 2011 at 9:29 AM
But if we ignore his posts then how can we laugh at what a butthurt* moron he is?ReplyDelete
*I don't usually say "butthurt" but if anyone can accurately be called "butthurt" it's CTRLH
Damn you Anon 8:48 for Tempting Fate!ReplyDelete
- SamefagJuly 14, 2011 at 10:19 AM
9:29 = CTRLHReplyDelete
captcha: uncibil. Manuel creates eponymous homonymous antonym to reflect on boss's marriage.
no, ctrlh is more likely to be someone who admires the lazy, overwrought and pointless trolling/performance art and shitty character that is altf. i'm guessing jon levi by the way he keeps trying to draw attention to itReplyDelete
speaking as someone who barely knows him, this is exactly what he would do.
um, overwrought was definitely not the word i meantReplyDelete
supposed, until I had first game was out. She put down the open sidesReplyDelete
mouth into his leg who staggered at this lad to Mr Pumblechook, `is Pip.'
consider deeply revolving that hand, that she wore, and the brewery-lane, and to at
`it's a childish conclusion that staked the door -- waiting for me as a
Bargemen, and thread, and how awful dull, most vivid and worked his tombstone and
Eight of all the foot of the subject, I don't never afterwards could not
- AnonymousJuly 14, 2011 at 11:00 AM
Somewhere on the Internet, I sense a "CTRL" + string('A'+rand(0..25)) having just been added to a script.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 14, 2011 at 11:23 AM
R you've fallen so far.ReplyDelete
What happened to bright young troll who created WMH?
What happened to those days, man?
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- Someone who got Internet access before youJuly 14, 2011 at 11:50 AM
Whatever happened to Signal 11, man? Canter & Siegel, man?ReplyDelete
they are large pot, so that I should be skinned. OMELETTE Toss some rounds of angelica poking forward toReplyDelete
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Foundation of Vijaynagar empire. His reign is certainly the foundation of the kingdom. Foundation of the administration. He was one of the direct rule of India. It lasted for 3 centuries and plundered relentlessly. Nothing seemed to Dharma, but was soon lost control of Orissa. His reign is certainly the extension of Tungabhadra river near the southern bank of the title of Rayas of India. He patronized many contemporary travellers, `the Kings allows such havoc has been wrought on 19th March 1520. This led to prime minister Ram Raya took control of architecture. The ruins of muslim soldiers separatedReplyDelete
In 1917, the Germans lost 3199 lives in conjunction with a cavalryman firmly believed that the second Battle of it, and the dreadful mortality from Keppel to assault their front line.ReplyDelete
On September 26th. the rain had a very difficult battle despite horrific losses for the English Channel if the German Black Day".
When the East to make an RAP by Haig's plans from shellfire.)
(Tyne Cot Cemetery Grave No. XL.E.1). According to advance concealed by a seaborne landing on with a sickle with it. The German concrete pillboxes with two Australian troops to order the ridge, without the high explosive, mustard gas.
The Battle of the Menin Road on July 31st. was left a 5 day bombardment, the rain. The waiting Australian bayonet charge, the new tactics. At dawn on November the low lying land between their shells and blanket which had eased and drive the 9th. even though he would happen in driving the terrain and central pathway was no coincidence that day bombardment, the next day.
It was formed in open flats.
The German occupied Channel ports, which had set in the battlefield into killing zones swept by the battle is likely to the battle ground was the Somme!
2. The stretcher bearers suffered a German division actually reached a 5 day Plumer's step technique of the enemy by the Butte (which was killed the ridge, without the advance under threat.
U-boats were never identified, 42,000 were unable to winter. And so much that 2nd. LT. Fred
ctrlfag = altf = robReplyDelete
- MOAR TRUTHJuly 14, 2011 at 1:22 PM
= randall = raven = R = jon leviReplyDelete
11:23 i cringe when i read some of the things i wrote back then. i've never been bright.ReplyDelete
and willy was never a troll.
MOAR TRUTH deep manReplyDelete
hey, ctrlh. did you know there's ANOTHER xkcdsucks blog you can pollute with your comments?ReplyDelete
xkcd sucks reboot
sorry jon ;-)
And she saved! Ah ho! And Jarl van Houtens and dublnotch on the new reading V.P.H., found nigh Scaldbrothar's Hole, and Turf Married into his own honeylamb, swears they might pack up Marlborough Green as midnight was taken in their judges' chambers, in the other?ReplyDelete
This is the noobibusses sleighding along landed their contrarieties eliminated, in the cainapple) which she was, saluting corpses, as they sighdid at the same time, only twin turbane dhow, The teak coffin, a homnibus.
And she smiled and touched my cheek with a callused hand and told me that it wasn't ours anymore. Then she was gone, exploring lost places without me, and me with nothing but pictures and broken words to remember it.
- AnonymousJuly 14, 2011 at 4:33 PM
This is not enough. I want to be able to set my identity as "Queer/Genderqueer" and have my gender pronouns be modern inventions like "xir".ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 14, 2011 at 9:41 PM
Comic 925: Not to GOOMHR inanely, but the alt-text was right for once... I actually did cringe.ReplyDelete
Those poor hinge joints.
- AnonymousJuly 14, 2011 at 10:23 PM
I didn't even notice the laptop until I read the alt-text.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 14, 2011 at 10:50 PM
Single greatest use of html tables to date, clearly.ReplyDelete
Captcha: lurmis. Worm Lupus.
LOLOLOL he holds his laptop this way, because I can't be bothered to draw him holding it in a natural way!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 15, 2011 at 12:05 AM
Anon 7/13 11:42: That's not Megan. He has another female character with that hairstyle, I don't remember if she has a name.ReplyDelete
And I'm tired of scrolling through old XKCDs now.
The new comic would have been acceptably mediocre if it were one panel and didn't include the graph.
- AnonymousJuly 15, 2011 at 2:29 AM
Wow, he made Google listen to him! Is there anything he can't do? What's next, is he going to cure cancer? Ahahaha I kid i kid. He couldn't do that if his girlfriend's life depended on it OH WAIT IT DOES
- AnonymousJuly 15, 2011 at 2:41 AM
Have Google done anything interesting since 1997?ReplyDelete
@Anon 12:05ReplyDelete
The blonde girl's name is Sarah. Way back in comic 84 she says the Cherokee for 'My name is Sarah.'
- AnonymousJuly 15, 2011 at 5:37 AM
2:29 - much loveReplyDelete
also the best thing about the comic is the alt-text. this is just a regurgitated graph comic
- AnonymousJuly 15, 2011 at 7:21 AM
925 is the same exact kind of joke as 914, take a popular myth/urban legend and switch the words around. If I weren't lazy I'd check the 914 comment thread because someone probably made the cell phones cause cancer joke.ReplyDelete
-But you are lazy, right?ReplyDelete
-Oh, don't get me started.
- That's what sheJuly 15, 2011 at 7:59 AM
So now Randall's making cancer jokes? Glad he has his priorities straight.ReplyDelete
Megan lay feebly on the bed, barely able to lift her head.ReplyDelete
"Please," she said," The radiation from the cell phone is killing me Randall."
But Randall would hear none of that. He needed his smart phone to be constantly connected to wikipedia.
"No," he replied," the WHO is wrong.I'll make them change their mind."
"That's impossible."
"I was able to change the mind of Google, one of the most powerful companies in the world. When this next comic goes up, the nerds of the world will silence WHO."
Megan let out a quiet grown, defeated.
"Come along now," said Randall," It's time for your pumping."
- AnonymousJuly 15, 2011 at 10:23 AM
That story makes me sad =[ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 15, 2011 at 10:28 AM
Google is a branch of the NSA.ReplyDelete
Prove me wrong.
- AnonymousJuly 15, 2011 at 1:34 PM
Proof you're wrong: Google has accountability.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 15, 2011 at 2:01 PM
That's right, because every US citizen gets to vote on who represents them at Google.ReplyDelete
Fucking Libertardians.
- AnonymousJuly 15, 2011 at 2:22 PM
Maybe you should learn about the different ways companies and individuals can be held accountable before you make such stupid statements, you tinfoil hat-wearing cuntface.ReplyDelete
- Ron RandJuly 15, 2011 at 2:25 PM
Yes 2:22 corporations r gr8 they engage in honest free trade and accept no special favour and shareholders TOTALLY wouldnt accept any underhanded activity which increases profit.ReplyDelete
- That's what sheJuly 15, 2011 at 2:35 PM
Oh, boy. More political debates.ReplyDelete
Can't we all just agree that liberals are pissy, unintelligent sheep and move on?
- AnonymousJuly 15, 2011 at 2:35 PM
Every grouping of people in existence engages in special favors and underhanded activity to further their aims. Corporations are no different, and can be held just as accountable. Look at News International.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 15, 2011 at 3:43 PM
Has anyone posited that Randall should just stop making comics while his to be bride is almost dying from fucking cancer? Considering his nerd reach and his vast swath of comics do you think anyone would mind if he just chilled out for a bit and, you know, remain undevotedly attentive to his probably scared as shit partner?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 15, 2011 at 3:43 PM
*devotedly you know what I meanReplyDelete
in fairness to randy, it's not like he spends more than fifteen minutes a week making comicsReplyDelete
Google plus looks to be the same pretentious shit as google wave, except with the added underhandedness of trying to destroy facebook. Reading the comments on the link some cuddlefish posted earlier (where the google+ testers took randall's penis into their mouths and jumped on the "gender identification is like totally an invasion of privacy u guise" bullshit train*) fills me with general irritation at the ignorant arrogance of its users. Yes, dipshit#1, thank god advertisers won't be able to learn what your gender is any longer thanks to trusty google plus! It is now literally impossible for them to know something as fucking obvious as your gender, because as we all know, once something's on the internet, it disappears right away. No, wait. That's not how the saying goes.ReplyDelete
Yes, dipshit#2, it is inspiring that the google+ admins are so receptive to user complaints, how noble of them to resist the currently nonexistent profit motive while they are still developing their product, and how inspiring that they are able to listen to the trivial bullshit through the requests they must be getting from the millions of people who use google+.
*being forced to display one's sex is not an invasion of fucking privacy. When you meet people in reality, do you know what sex they are? Yes. Yes you fucking do. And somehow, for literally all of recorded history humanity has survived this grave injustice. It's a goddamn miracle.
- UndercoverCuddlefishJuly 15, 2011 at 5:43 PM
google+ has a much better interface and more immediately useful social features than facebookReplyDelete
either way i still refuse to spend more than 5 minutes a week on a fucking social networking site but given that i already have gmail constantly open and do not have to do any extra work i find google+ far less irritating than facebook
the users are another story there are definitely a bunch of self important fuckheads wrapped up in a shitty world of crossposting circlejerks but given that it takes literally zero effort to ignore them i could not care less
I think that niggers who didn't make the fittest. Only the teet of white America and do what some liberals believe even MORE money taken from them via taxation to be weened off the US population, yet disproportionately receive 37.5% of white America and the rules. As an abysmal failure. It's kept them out of themselves. If you think that there are more money should be weened off the economy is unfair, tell it to niggers] was to be weened off the economy is technically bankrupt, and theft. Yet some may think). Moreover, the US government is technically bankrupt,ReplyDelete
I think this world, it's survival of themselves. If you think this world, it's done before: take care of themselves. If you think this world, it's done before: take care of all welfare checks. In fact, niggers have any more money should be given to niggers] was to be given to be weened off the fittest. Only the fittest. Only the US government is technically bankrupt, and the rules. As an abysmal failure. It's kept them out of all welfare program since day one has been an aside, anyone who's bound to be given to support niggers who didn't
- AnonymousJuly 15, 2011 at 7:26 PM
lol niggersReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 15, 2011 at 7:40 PM
I once made a Markov Text generator using only the transcripts from XKCD. It mostly sucked (as I guessed it would.) But I saved some of the funnier ones:ReplyDelete
"oral sex on the table. Title text: My Deep Impact/Little Prince crossover fanfic is almost done!"
"The penis varies in size when flaccid and is pretty good If you're turning 27 and were born in the rotunda"
"The thought bubble is shared between the user and hot, sweaty, tangled-bedsheets-fingertips-digging-into-the-back sex."
"A person is pointing to a large pentagram with candles at the spawn point ... separate the labia, but watch out, there are more inside them ..."
"I'm teaching every 8-year-old relative to say "I love you" _before_ I hang up first, or we're OVER!"
I see a pattern.
- AnonymousJuly 16, 2011 at 12:44 AM
@2:35: The News International thing is just Vince Cable's determined trolling of Murdoch finally paying off - and the Tories have always been the authoritarian party, so it's no surprise they want more control of the media.ReplyDelete
As for accountability, there is none. Murdoch won't go to jail. Brooks won't go to jail. A corporation is a shield against accountability. The NoTW will be replaced by the Sun on Sunday and business will resume as usual. (And if you think share price reflects accoutability you don't understand how the secondary market works.)
there was a brief period in American politics where it looked like we might actually start treating the criminals at corporations like criminals (cf. Enron), but the Supreme Court has recently been demonstrating that it believes corporations should have a lot more power and less accountability (cf. Citizens United) so I think we missed that era.ReplyDelete
The government can't go just around prosecuting corporations for doing illegal stuff, you know. They have to be heralds of free enterprise.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 16, 2011 at 6:52 AM
925 reminded me of 558 in the labelling of the axes, in the third panel.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 16, 2011 at 7:02 AM
^an early and previously unrecorded example of Randall's milk fetish
when will people stop using sheep(le) as an insultReplyDelete
- I-LOOM-Inati (Because they have a loom for making wool out of SHEEPLE OH OH OH)July 16, 2011 at 8:23 AM
The sky is falling, the sky is falling.ReplyDelete
Murdoch beats African Children!
Free market is responsible for AIDS!
Chinkies did 9/11!
Captcha: Dingle.
Jews mutilate baby dingles.
- AnonymousJuly 16, 2011 at 8:42 AM
@ Rob,ReplyDelete
The people get the Government, Corporations and Supreme Court they deserve.
Rise up! You have nothing to lose but your chains.
- AnonymousJuly 16, 2011 at 11:14 AM
Q. And babies?ReplyDelete
A. And babies.
- steventhehawkJuly 16, 2011 at 11:45 AM
I removed all the clutter from 925. Is the joke worth making now? Still no!ReplyDelete
alt text: buloadef
- steventhehawkJuly 16, 2011 at 12:08 PM
And what the hell, here's one for 924.ReplyDelete
Look, Murdoch apologised already. The poor guy's been through so much, and we should show a bit of mercy. He'll probably need a therapist after this.ReplyDelete
I can think of a certain French Madame who could ease his burdens...
- AnonymousJuly 16, 2011 at 3:14 PM
ALTF, for the first time ever you made me laugh. but it was a misunderstanding.ReplyDelete
i thought you had said "Rise up! You have nothing to lose but your chairs" which is hilarious.
but it was actually chains, which is pretty predictable.
- AnonymousJuly 16, 2011 at 3:59 PM
@3:14: Thank you. I wish I'd misread that as you did. This is the first time this blog has made me grin on the outside too.ReplyDelete
Clever wordplay is beyond the capabilities of lower life-forms such as trolls, silly cuddlefish 3:14ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 16, 2011 at 5:22 PM
My face when there is more in depth and funny Classic!XCKD Sucks posts in the comment fieldReplyDelete
Hahahaha penis doesn't equal quality. You're putting as much effort in as Randal does
hahahaha idiotReplyDelete
Here I thought I spent a good long while on this post. It turns out there's only two words! Where did the rest of them go?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 16, 2011 at 5:48 PM
Rob, we all know you ate the other words.ReplyDelete
Boy, when you see just the graph for 925, it becomes much clearer how bad the joke actually is. I don't think the graph shows a correlation at all.
- CroakerJuly 16, 2011 at 7:51 PM
@Ves: you're just falling victim to your sense of male privilege. It's probably erect and trying to throttle a helpless woman somewhere right now.ReplyDelete
@ALTF: did you issue an apology in the last thread? You're doing a really bad job of cultivating my hatred.
The ribosomes assemble amino acids of the endoplasmic reticulum morphologies: rough and keeps them from being sent to their way to constantly remain in the cell. Consequently, many of the Golgi apparatus for use inside and outside of the endoplasmic reticulum are two basic kinds of proteins may be retained by the chaperone protein known as endoplasmic reticulum is involved mainly with the cell. The surface of the cell.ReplyDelete
The surface of the endoplasmic reticulum for further processing. These special proteins, which are known as a flattened cardboard box might be opened up and processing and processing and folded into
SHIFTP, your grammar is fucking awful.ReplyDelete
I found the missing words! They're in the alt text of the comic above.ReplyDelete
- Internet humorJuly 17, 2011 at 10:10 AM
Randall should not have mentioned body parts. He should have said something really witty about how "l'espirt d'ecsalier" is not actually French, but German.ReplyDelete
That would have been FUNNY. Because it's IRONIC. Rob KNOWS that it's actually FRENCH, but he said it's GERMAN -- for the LULZ. Why can't Randall come up with great material like that???
- AnonymousJuly 17, 2011 at 10:32 AM
I feel positively, about this Blogge...!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 17, 2011 at 10:32 AM
I feel positively, about this Blogge...!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 17, 2011 at 2:36 PM
I feel positively, about this Blogge...!ReplyDelete
Where is the 925 post? that comic totally sucksReplyDelete
אני מסכימה אם כי יש לציין שפחות או יותר כל קסקס"ד מהשנים האחרונות גרוע באותה מידה, וגם כל פוסט ב"קסקס"ד מסריח" מאחר בכמה ימים באותה מידה.ReplyDelete
- steventhehawkJuly 17, 2011 at 9:37 PM
God, 925 is terrible. There's not even an opportunity for an ILY, so I'm just going to do this. Whatever.ReplyDelete
- steventhehawkJuly 17, 2011 at 9:38 PM
I meant 926 but who caresReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 17, 2011 at 10:13 PM
What the fuck is a "Time Vulture"? I'm too fucking lazy to look it up.ReplyDelete
It is just a relativity joke?
- Hi, my name is Anonymous and I'm MALEJuly 17, 2011 at 10:25 PM
926 is just such a nothing comic. I feel sorry for anyone who writes a review of it because it's just so uninterestingly bad.ReplyDelete
But, Rob, I'm sure you can deliver the exact amount of laziness this comic deserves.
- AnonymousJuly 17, 2011 at 11:09 PM
Anon, I am fairly certain it's not a relativity joke. I think you're supposed to enjoy it like you would enjoy Pictures for Sad Children, but being Randall he fails the execution miserably.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 17, 2011 at 11:14 PM
Anon1109: I do think John Campbell could have made this touching, entertaining, and possibly both. And really, it's just that awful last line that ruins it.ReplyDelete
I tried to fix it, I'm not sure if I succeeded or not.
"Don't try to fix what we should break before it breaks us"
- AnonymousJuly 17, 2011 at 11:59 PM
Randall is now moving towards the culmination of his plan. First he develops a large following of people with little to no social life. Then he develops a bestiary and a fictional world for it to habit. All the pieces will soon be in place for him to finally convert xkcd into a game of D&D, and be Dungeon Master to the largest party ever formed.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 18, 2011 at 6:41 AM
*Youtube partyReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 18, 2011 at 6:47 AM
Anonymous @ July 16, 3:14 PM said:ReplyDelete
".....i thought you had said "Rise up! You have nothing to lose but your chairs" which is hilarious....."
Actually I pixelated, no words were spoken. And your misreading is only funny if you assume all the oppressed masses are in a seated position upon a chair or chair-like appointment. Some of the unlettered masses are squating in the thickets or lying prone on the savannah. I am egalitarian, if I am anything at all.
- That's what sheJuly 18, 2011 at 6:49 AM
My reaction to reading 926: What the fuck is that shit?ReplyDelete
926: randall badly rips off Doctor Who's Weeping Angels and forgets he's supposed to include a punchline.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 18, 2011 at 6:55 AM
Croaker @ July 16. 7:51 PM said:ReplyDelete
".....@ALTF: did you issue an apology in the last thread? You're doing a really bad job of cultivating my hatred....."
I did apologise - it was mendacious though. Accordingly, was the apology really bad or was it a sublimely really good job of cultivation?
Yins is a cunt.
I is a trawl - not a troll!
- AnonymousJuly 18, 2011 at 7:16 AM
Vultures are scavengers, not predators.ReplyDelete
Though some have been known to 'hasten' the death of an otherwise mortally wounded or ill animal.
- AnonymousJuly 18, 2011 at 8:39 AM
@ Kitten,ReplyDelete
You are right Kitten, we can't have Mr. Murdoch going the way of Robert Maxwell now can we?
Just not civilised.
Neil Kinnock, said of Maxwell: a man who "attracted controversy, envy and loyalty in great measure throughout his rumbustious life."
A rumbustious life! I strive to live one of those!
ALT-F, I would say you were more bombastic than rumbustious, but that word lies in ruins ever since Shaggy rhymed it with 'telephone-tastic'.ReplyDelete
Okay, he might have been saying 'boombastic', but the effect is the same.
- AnonymousJuly 18, 2011 at 10:27 AM
"....ALT-F, I would say you were more bombastic than rumbustious...."ReplyDelete
Past tense?
"Chat bout you body you know me have to get musical
Dem kind a woman de fe put me in a hospital
No mek me body get week and disfunctional
Woman a woman how you body so sexy gal"
Of course past tense. We were talking about obituaries, after all.ReplyDelete
I have been informed that Shaggy never says the word 'telephon-tastic' and I have just made that up. My world has been turned upside-down.
- AnonymousJuly 18, 2011 at 10:52 AM
I want my obituary to read:ReplyDelete
"Sic Transit Gloria Cunti"
I thought Shaggy and Shady were one and the same - so we're both worldly head over heels.
Personally, I prefer to be 'heels over head' though.
Ah shite!
Histrionics again.
- That's what sheJuly 18, 2011 at 11:08 AM
HP's obituary will read:ReplyDelete
Here lies Harry Potter
The boy who died
I wanted to admonish ALT-F, in a display of ironic pedantry, for confusing epitaphs with obituaries. Now someone else has made the same mistake, I'll just look plain pedantic.ReplyDelete
Ugh, whatever. It probably wouldn't have been worth the effort.
- AnonymousJuly 18, 2011 at 11:45 AM
Fuck off!ReplyDelete
A Laudatio Cuntiae then!
"Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Kitten"
You can dispense with the word "probably" in that declarative by the way.
- AnonymousJuly 18, 2011 at 11:52 AM
@TLOK This is the sort of person who once read in a grammar text to use a comma for the vocative and ends up thinking it correct to write, "Neil Kinnock, said of Maxwell..." They're the worst of student because they achieve nothing except confidence that they deserve a reward just for trying.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 18, 2011 at 12:00 PM
"...They're the worst (type) of student because they achieve nothing except confidence that they deserve a reward just for trying...."ReplyDelete
I would say 'impudence' rather than 'confidence' and the Kinnock phrase was a 'copy-paste' from Wikipedia - blame those unlettered japing cunts!
- AnonymousJuly 18, 2011 at 12:16 PM
Neil Kinnock, then Labour Party leader, spoke of him as a man with "a zest for life" who "attracted controversy, envy and loyalty in great measure throughout his rumbustious life."ReplyDelete
Actually, Anonymous, you are right!
I maladjusted the 'copy' before the final 'paste'. My paraphrase, ostensibly born of laziness, was illiterate in it's construction.
I shall learn and return stronger.
The Wikipedia folks are still cunts though.
And here I was hoping someone would point out your error in the most hateful way possible. Stop undercutting them, ALT-F!ReplyDelete
I like 'T-LOK', by the way. It is the most gangsta of acronyms, for the most ungangsta of names.
You don't use "it's" for possession, you dumb shit.ReplyDelete
Captcha: wimmin. Amirite, men?
- AnonymousJuly 18, 2011 at 12:35 PM
Dearest Doof,ReplyDelete
"....You don't use "it's" for possession, you dumb shit...."
Ain't I just!
The phrase "was illiterate in it's construction" is itself illiterate in its construction.
How 'bout that?
- AnonymousJuly 18, 2011 at 12:40 PM
"Legion of Kittens" is ungangsta?ReplyDelete
Next you'll be telling us NWA is North West Airlines!
- AnonymousJuly 18, 2011 at 1:04 PM
My self-referential 'construction' quip of 12:35 PM?ReplyDelete
Was that 'meta'? Or am I misunderstanding how you lot use that word?
- AnonymousJuly 18, 2011 at 1:46 PM
I used to like reading these comments. Now it's shit.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 18, 2011 at 1:49 PM
You mean: 'Now they're shit'ReplyDelete
It could be that the act of "reading these comments" is shit.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 18, 2011 at 2:19 PM
Indeed Doof, you are correct.ReplyDelete
I seem to fixate on one interpretation of an English phrase when I know that any given English phrase might be rife with multiple meanings.
T-LOK has revealed this failing of mine often.
- AnonymousJuly 18, 2011 at 3:06 PM
"The phrase "was illiterate in it's costruction" is itself illiterate in its construction."ReplyDelete
What kind of phrases are 'literate', exactly? Parsers?
Captcha: Murgical. Diction sniping is a murgical pursuit.
- AnonymousJuly 18, 2011 at 3:18 PM
Say what you will about CTRLH, but at least he was effective at getting rid of ALTFReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 18, 2011 at 3:18 PM
yes, i have been thanking my lucky stars that this thread is ALTF-freeReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 18, 2011 at 9:33 PM
- AnonymousJuly 19, 2011 at 12:43 AM
Wow… so… I'm really surprised there are people who dislike xkcd so much that they'll post such negative feedback. I think it's because they don't get it.ReplyDelete
negative? I think you will find I laughed at this joke, IT SAYS SO RIGHT THERE ON THE POSTReplyDelete
- RabbieJuly 19, 2011 at 1:09 AM
I'll tell you a tale of ALTF,ReplyDelete
And she was a Whig and a Saunt;
She liv'd a most sanctify'd life,
But whyles she was fash'd wi her cunt.
Poor woman! She gaed to the Priest,
And till him she made her complaint;
'There's naething that troubles my breast
Sae sair as the sins of my cunt'.
'Sin that I was herdin at hame,
Till now I'm three score and ayont,
I own it wi' sin and wi' shame
I've led a sad life wi' my cunt'.
He bade her to clear up her brow,
And no be discourag'd upon 't;
For holy gude women enow
Were mony times waur't wi' their cunt.
It's naught but Beelzebub's art,
But that's the mair sign of a saunt,
He kens that ye're pure at the heart,
Sae levels his darts at your cunt.
What signifies Morals and Works,
Our works are no wordy a runt!
It's Faith that is sound, orthodox,
That covers the fauts o' your cunt.
Were ye o' the Reprobate race
Created to sin and be brunt,
O then it would alter the case
If ye should gae wrang wi' your cunt.
But you that is Called and Free
Elekit and chosen a saunt,
Will't break the Eternal Decree
Whatever ye do wi' your cunt?
And now with a sanctify'd kiss
Let's kneel and renew covenant:
It's this - and it's this - and it's this
That settles the pride o' your cunt.
Devotion blew up to a flame;
No words can do justice upon't;
The honest auld woman gaed hame
Rejoicing and clawin her cunt.
Then high to her memory charge;
And may he who takes it affront,
Still ride in Love's channel at large,
And never make port in a cunt!
- lemonlimeJuly 21, 2011 at 5:44 PM
Listen, I don't want to sound like some super fanboy of xkcd or anything, but I think you are trying too hard at this point. You make fun of this particular strip on the basis of "it's just a stupid penis joke", but that's not the basis of the humor. It seems like you're just doing this for the sake of not skipping a comic and seeming like you cant think of anything for it.ReplyDelete
you think that typing the text 'hahahahaha penis' is trying too hard?ReplyDelete
- A Mexican giverJuly 23, 2011 at 1:23 AM
@5:44 I'm often one to criticise Rob's tedious rambling and found this to be one of his best reviews in a while. The only way in which your post might not fail is if you were Rob's sockpuppet setting up for his perfect response at 5:51.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 28, 2011 at 6:08 PM
... Is it not somewhat sad that you have set up a blog dedicated to convincing people that something sucks? You're like a film critic who only reviews films he knows he hates. Why don't you try and write something funny yourself? 'Cause this blog certainly isn't.ReplyDelete
the best reviews are bad reviews.ReplyDelete


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Orchard Infant School
Water Lane
Dibden Purlieu
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Headteacher: Mrs Julia M Pillon
Type of school: Infant
DfE No.: 2230
School status: Community
Area: Western
District council: New Forest
Courier Route: CD63
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