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Monday, May 7, 2012
Comics 1050-1052: Every XKCD Is Terrible
And people aren't "proud" of not learning math. They resent having to learn it and they feel justified when it turns out that much of it does not have any immediate applications to their real life (and everyone loves being right). And, as it turns out, knowing math isn't particularly useful to your garden variety human.
1051. In case you forgot, Randy is quirky and goes to weird Wikipedia articles pretty frequently!
1052. When I first loaded this, it was a comic where he declared that ten thousand people learned something that "everyone knows" every day. Or something. Then a few minutes later it was this 'Every Major's Terrible' thing, which is all right, I guess. I can't tell if the bits where the rhythm falters are his fault or mine, but I'm going to assume it's his fault, because that's what I'm here for.
Did anyone else get this "the 10,000" comic or whatever? This comic switch is way more interesting to me than the actual comics. Is there a scandal? Were his maths so wrong he just pulled an entire comic? WHAT HAPPEN
Noted city-woman hybrid "Ann Apolis, MD" sent me these images:
202 comments:
That aside, really? Does anyone have the comic?Replies
do do do dooDelete
i mean whenever i make fun of someone for not knowing something, part of that is me explaining what they don't know to them so i can better mock them
randall clearly does not know how to make fun of people :(
- AnonymousMay 7, 2012 at 1:34 AM
Math is hard for some people.ReplyDelete
Here is a ball. Perhaps you would like to bounce it.
- AnonymousMay 7, 2012 at 1:45 AM
In the latest comic, Randall is frustrated by his own failure and makes himself feel better by arguing that everyone else is a failure as well.ReplyDelete
Also, to compare choice of major with Sophie's Choice (penultimate panel) - which of your children you choose to die in Auschwitz - is out of character even for Randall.
I assume he's not an "agorophobiac" and had outside help on this one.Replies
- In honour of Randall's conception of scanceptionMay 7, 2012 at 6:58 AM
Randall Munroe's the model of an Internet sophisticateDelete
His Wiki page shows rubber ducks stacked earnestly quadruplicate;
He graduated with a Bachelor in Science certificate
From Christopher Newport, a lib'rul arts college remediate.
His last real job was as a NASA Langley rocket lubricate
"Waste anything but time!" was written on his pink slip rubricate -
He'd always been a math, romance, language, and Hobbes & Calvin fan
So he took out his pen and started doodling a stick figure man.
- AnonymousMay 7, 2012 at 1:45 AM
I also got the 10,000 people comic. When I loaded it to this new comic, I thought my cache must have had the previous comic in it, so I pressed back... and it wasn't the 10,000 people comic. What is going on here?ReplyDelete
- weaselsoupMay 7, 2012 at 3:22 AM
the ten thousand one (am I the only person here old enough to remember Natalie Merchant? i bet I am) seems to be based on assuming that 10,000 infants learn science trivia at one day old, another 10,000 at two days old, etc. maybe. i dunno, i don't understand maths.ReplyDeleteReplies
- AnonymousMay 7, 2012 at 4:05 PM
"(am I the only person here old enough to remember Natalie Merchant? i bet I am)"Delete
Um, no? I'm pretty sure most people in their 20s or older have heard of Natalie Merchant or at least 10000 Maniacs. Hell, *I* know about her, and I'm one of the least music-savvy people I know.
Have I been wrong? Have I been wise to shut my eyes and play along?Delete
- AnonymousMay 7, 2012 at 4:44 AM
Maybe he finished the every major's terrible thing too late and a site script posted one from his rainy day queue before he went in and replaced it. Or something like that. Perhaps we'll be seeing the 10,000 people comic again sometime.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMay 7, 2012 at 5:08 AM
Here is the original, courtesy of reddit's /r/comics:ReplyDelete
Alt-text: http://i.imgur.com/H6w19.png
I think you may be entirely missing the point on 1050... it's not all that deep... the point is that if you never learned or learned and then promptly forgot a skill then of course you will never use that skill. But maybe I'm just trying to hard to fine some value in an obviously terrible comic...ReplyDelete
Looks like the forumites have managed to recover the original comic dubbed http://forums.xkcd.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=84021ReplyDelete
in case you wanted to add it to your review:
XKCD ####: "Ten Thousand"
hover-text: Saying 'what kind of an idiot doesn't know about the Yellowstone supervolacon?' is so much more boring than telling someone about the Yellowstone supervolcano for the first time.
Someone in the thread implies that he meant to do this so that a few XKCD fans will know about the "Ten Thousand" comic and over time more and more people know about it until finally "everyone knows about it" as described in the comic... I'm going with "update script error".
- AnonymousMay 7, 2012 at 6:50 AM
I have met people who expressed pride that they were bad at math. As someone who is bad at math, it confused me.ReplyDeleteReplies
- AnonymousMay 7, 2012 at 2:00 PM
I have met people who expressed pride that they were bad at math(S). As someone who has a degree in the subject, it pissed me off. Incompetence is fine. Wilful stupidity is not. And anybody who is proud of their non-achievements is wilfully stupid.Delete
- AnonymousMay 7, 2012 at 2:47 PM
As someone with a 1st class undergrad mathematics degree and postgrad mathematics degree "with distinction", I take pride in being bad at maths (but rather good at taking exams and sounding like I know what I'm talking about).Delete
So stick that in your Klein bottle and smoke it.
- AnonymousMay 7, 2012 at 4:07 PM
I'm proud of my non-achievement of genocide. Does that count?Delete
- AnonymousMay 7, 2012 at 5:02 PM
But actually you're just hoping for attention and acknowledgement of your non-achievement, arentcha.Delete
- AnonymousMay 8, 2012 at 9:36 AM
here's the secret, 2:47:Delete
if you sound like you know what you're talking about, and what you're talking about is math, and the people you are talking to are mathematicians, you know math.
I'm sorry you had to hear it here first.
People are proud of not knowing math, but even more proud of not knowing it but getting good grades it in. But, of course, this is true of every discipline. Everyone is very proud of saying "i learned nothing in high school lololol"
- AnonymousMay 7, 2012 at 7:37 AM
Randall's got some slight of hand going with "learning to cook". It can mean two different things. There are many competent cooks, who are perfectly capable of feeding themselves, who want to "learn to cook". The archetypical cooking blog is probably written by a competent daily cook who wants to "learn to cook". "Learning to cook" in this sense could involve traveling to France to spend a week in a French cooking school, or attending workshops on wine and cheese pairings at Whole Foods. In this sense, "learning to cook" is an aspirational goal towards someone's idea of gourmet cooking. Like music and learning a foreign language, gourmet cooking is not a necessary life skill, but it arguably makes one a "better" person.ReplyDelete
The other meaning of "learning to cook" applies to a man-child who can't figure out how to boil water and who gets all their meals from restaurants. It's about not having a basic life skill, and people who can't manage to cook to feed themselves are losers who deserve to be mocked.
It's disingenuous of Randall to lump "learning to cook" with foreign languages and music when that grouping clearly implies the aspiration to gourmet cookery, rather than Randall's inability to manage a basic life skill.Replies
- AnonymousMay 7, 2012 at 8:03 AM
You don't have to cook if you always have access to a lactating woman, though.Delete
Naw... I saw an episode of Criminal Minds about that and it turns out you would die of malnourishment or something.Delete
Yeah, learning to cook was a confusing choice. I immediately think of my older brother who used to routinely wake up the house at 5am trying to make toast when we were kids. He learned to cook. I don't mean that he went to a French cooking school, he just learned to heat food up in a an edible and sometimes even tasty fashion since then.Delete
In the same vein, the top portion of the comic talks about forgetting algebra. Then the bottom says, "not learning math" as if anyone that didn't learn or retain algebra doesn't know or use any math.
Personally, I use math all the time, but still have yet to use algebra in my daily life or workplace outside of classes I had to take. I also know how to cook, though I can't say I've been to France or would necessarily be able to get Gordon Ramsey to say something nice to me (though I think my cooking is pretty good).
- AnonymousMay 7, 2012 at 9:57 AM
Ron Paul 2012ReplyDelete
I actually like the 10k comic for the fact that it is a bit thought provoking. If though the reason it got replaced with the current garbage that is comic 1052, so he could do a meta-humor joke then I think that Randull needs to be hit in the nose with a newspaper and be told "Bad Randull, you do that outside! Not in the house!"ReplyDeleteReplies
- AnonymousMay 8, 2012 at 12:51 PM
Randull. Hahaha.Delete
Randull. Nice jab.Delete
- AnonymousMay 7, 2012 at 10:25 AM
Comic 10K is the only one up for me, can someone link to the "majors suck" version please?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMay 7, 2012 at 10:27 AM
Hey, it seems linguistics isn't terrible!ReplyDeleteReplies
- AnonymousMay 7, 2012 at 3:22 PM
Nor is political science!Delete
Unsurprisingly, though, economics, literature and philosophy fell victim to more of Randy's garden variety "everything not sufficiently math related is worthless" arguments.
- AnonymousMay 7, 2012 at 11:13 PM
This is more of Randall's "I'm totally a hard science major guize!!!" Even though he majored in "computer science" which at the undergraduate level means "I know perl, Java and maybe some C." Note how his math comics all revolved around esoteric, nonphysical mathematics, like Karnaugh maps. He does the occasional "physicsastronomylol" comic based on stuff you could learn in an hour from Wikipedia. He thinks he knows about hard sciences because he had to take calc III, but he probably knows less actual math than the average molecular biologist.Delete
- AnonymousMay 7, 2012 at 12:25 PM
Half of the things listed in 1052 aren't "majors".ReplyDelete
I'll eat my hat if there are any institutions in the US that offers bachelor's degrees in: social psychology, seismology, virology, astronomy, herpetology, gastroenterology, poetry, or (meta-academic) epidemiology.
You might be able to get a graduate degree in some of these, but in my experience, grad students identify either by department (more general than subdiscipline) or by giving an overview of their research (more specific than subdiscipline), rather than the subdiscipline itself. And grad students certainly don't identify by "major"
I'll spot Randy "lit", even though it rarely goes by that name (usually that's an English major).
Theology is a major, but only at religious schools. It's not on the standard menu of majors; you'd have to first choose to enroll in a school that offers it.
Geography deparments/majors exist, but are rare.
IT/CS: Both degrees exist, but I'm skeptical that any one school offers both.
Pre-med: not a majorReplies
- AnonymousMay 7, 2012 at 12:43 PM
Your post was boring. Not wrong, not quite right, but boring. What were you trying to achieve with it?Delete
- AnonymousMay 7, 2012 at 2:23 PM
I'm an undergrad astronomy major. =PDelete
- AnonymousMay 7, 2012 at 10:22 PM
Eat your hat. EAT IT.Delete
- AnonymousMay 7, 2012 at 11:08 PM
Places with astronomy bachelors degrees:Delete
University of Illinois
University of Arizona
SUNY Albany
University of North Carolina
Literally off the top of my head. And I *hold* a degree in poetry.
- AnonymousMay 7, 2012 at 1:58 PM
I guess I appreciate that Randall actually seems to have put some effort into 1052, but I can't help but be overwhelmed by how unbearably unoriginal and unfunny all of the jokes are.ReplyDelete
- weaselsoupMay 7, 2012 at 2:00 PM
who else would quite like to see rob speak german a bit?ReplyDeleteReplies
- AnonymousMay 7, 2012 at 2:21 PM
Me! Ich will Rob Deutsch sprechen zu hören!Delete
God it's been so long, I'm pretty sure the grammar is awful. Your turn, fat man.
- AnonymousMay 7, 2012 at 2:22 PM
Ah, forgot to say: I am especially interested in seeing the fat man speak German naked, if that's not too much to ask.Delete
- AnonymousMay 7, 2012 at 10:40 PM
Goring has been dead for decades.Delete
- Miss LenhartMay 7, 2012 at 2:57 PM
I've done the math based on Randall's figures, and I think the reason why the Ten Thousand comic was pulled is that the correct value is actually far closer to eleven thousand.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMay 7, 2012 at 4:25 PM
I was hoping for more rage about 1050. Randy lied. He doesn't think it's weird. He KNOWS why people regret not learning cooking, music and language. Those are social hobbies. Most people have been moved by great conversation, a fine meal or an exquisite piece of music. Only math people are moved by math. If all math people are unlikable pricks like Randy, why would anyone regret being unable to share in what brings them joy?ReplyDelete
'The same arguments' indeed. Arrogant piece of shit.
One thing that is downright hypocritical in Randall's part is that, in that godawful "Learning to Cook" "comic" (the one with the boring flow chart), in a way, Randall was showing his pride in not knowing how to cook. In fact, he got quite a beating from the forumites for that. So, Randall did towards cooking exactly what the strawman character did towards math. It just shows that Randall is invariably biased and SIMPLY CAN'T SEE THAT.ReplyDelete
Regarding today's comic, I just can't wrap my head around Randall's writing style. Even though the lyrics are supposed to be overworked and stilted, it's still too overworked even for that. It's just like Randall simply can't put two words together.
- AnonymousMay 7, 2012 at 4:58 PM
1050 is just kind of silly, because I know plenty of people who are proud of failing to learn music, failing to learn how to cook, and ESPECIALLY failing to learn how to speak English (a foreign language in these here parts). And don't get me started on everything to do with chemistry, physics, history, etc.ReplyDelete
Math isn't special.Replies
I think you can only really be proud of being bad at something if you couldn't care less about the subject and if you have some other interest you do care learning about. Maybe that's obvious. I would like to be better at math even though I'm already fairly good (or educated). And I'd love to be a talented musician but I just never bothered to master any instrument or learn to understand notes. All comes down to the fact that I like to make games. Hmm, but I still have hard time coming up with something I'm proud of failing at. Sports? I don't care about it but why belittle it? AckDelete
- BobertMay 7, 2012 at 7:52 PM
Rob, I too saw the alternate 1052. There can be only one explanation.ReplyDelete
A more-than-man sits (loosely speaking) at his desk. He has just finished his latest attempt at reproducing a fragment of his knowledge- though it be no more than a mere pothole to the vast, yawning chasm that is his unparalleled intellect in its totality. Only his magnificent girth dares rival his brilliance in sheer magnitude. The behemoth laboriously grasps at his mouse. At last, he manipulates it to do his bidding, submitting his newest masterpiece, Xkcd 1052, to be ravenously devoured by the cuddlefish masses starved for his genius.
The great Robdall lets out a resounding grumble of content. He thinks to himself, "Yea, my cuddlefish, drink in my bountiful wisdom and rejoice, for I have declared ye worthy." Miraculously, a sigh slips through his lips as he allows himself to daydream. "Mmmm... drink..." His enormous fingers slide down ever so slowly. He is unable to stop himself as the thought of sacred milk from divine Megan's perfect breasts. The nectar gushing forth from her-
A frown. Or flesh drooping to very much resemble one. Something has broken Robdall from his fantasy. From somewhere within his mass, a fearsome gurgling erupts as he vocalizes his displeasure. What could it be that troubles this more-than-man, nay, this GOD?
"I... try... not... to... make... fun... of..." He grunts in distress. Simply muttering the words is a most impossible task. So much so that he never bothers proofreading his work anymore. Robdall needs it not, and it only results in over-exertion anyway. But then what of this pressing urge? He finishes re-reading the comic (dear Feynman, never again) yet was unable to find any errors, not even a typo. Robdall's laughter booms out. "Dear me, how could I be so silly as to doubt my glorious mind?" he ponders. His hands glide back down as he slips into the dream once more.
It hits him all at once. A horrifying bellow echoes out across the lands and sends the peasants fleeing for their lives, fearing he has left his abode to feed once again. "Curses! Impossible!" He cries out in anguish at his stupid mistake. "In my kindness and grace, I have instructed the cuddlefish to educate the common fools of the world! The cuddlefish will go forth with this message, teaching them and bringing them all up to our level!" With one fell swoop, Robdall had forsaken his claim to intellectual superiority and his sole right to be smug!
With the fury of over nine thousand storms, he hastily worked to remove the comic from the internet. Sweat ushered forth from every pore, dousing the realm and polluting the earth. Those who remained sought higher ground to escape the rising tide, praying they would be elevated enough that their pleas for mercy might reach their awesome lord's ears. The ground shook as his body swung to and fro while he mashed at his keyboard and mouse. Finally, it was successfully removed, and a calm overtook the mighty Rob.
The danger had passed. His mind drifted back to the forgotten thoughts of Megan's milk. With what little energy he had left, he wanked and came all over his desk. Gasping for air, Robdall despaired. He still had to come up with a replacement, but maintaining focus was absolutely impossible. Glancing downward, he saw a piece of paper, covered in his own ejaculate. His new masterpiece.
I know he was making fun of "every" major, but I'm still angered by what he said about my major, economics, because the "joke" comes from such a place of total ignorance. If he seriously thinks the "dismal" part is OK, then I don't think he knows why it's called "the dismal science." The guy who first called it "the dismal science" was an idiot who had no clue what he was talking about and knew nothing about economics, and was slammed down by people who actually DID understand economics.ReplyDelete
And the other part of the joke is basically saying it sucks because it's not a science. This is what I hate about Randy- the fact that he thinks anything that's not a hard science is useless. Economics isn't a hard science, but the world would be in serious trouble if we didn't have any economists.Replies
No no chaos, you've got it all wrong. the JOKE isn't the quote, the JOKE is economics! =vDelete
- AnonymousMay 7, 2012 at 9:06 PM
Don't be so dismal.Delete
Well I certainly didn't enroll in no science department. =[Delete
- AnonymousMay 7, 2012 at 10:38 PM
With respect, the world was doing fine before all the "economists" and is in serious trouble because of them, not despite them.Delete
While every subject pretends to be more rigorous than it really is - except mathematics, which sometimes too much emphasis on unimaginative, uninteresting rigour - economics is unique in the amount of fuck it has caused recently. This is because only economics makes theological assumptions and then pursues them with so much oversimplified but high-level mathematics as to try to blind the reader to where he and reality may have parted ways.
This doesn't mean we shouldn't study economics. But we should study it in the way we should have studied psychiatry 100 years ago: by realising the discipline is, at best, in its infancy, and should only be used to make observations and academic predictions. It cannot be used to make practical decisions except perhaps on a limited scale and with supporting evidence from other fields, not merely because the models are too simple but because economics remains a branch of the local group's politics (whence "political economy"), despite the renaming so... Orwellian.
I feel like you're talking about the Neoclassical theory of economics, which is the dominant theory in the Western world, but which is clearly stupid and wrong. Personally, I follow the Old Institutionalist theory of economics, and none of the things you say really apply to that.Delete
- AnonymousMay 8, 2012 at 12:47 AM
Total airball at 10:38pm. Suggesting that the world is in serious trouble because of economists is similar to suggesting that scientists have caused the sun to start running out of hydrogen.Delete
- AnonymousMay 8, 2012 at 1:41 AM
11:07, exactly. Economics contains too much theology for the Real World[tm] to take so much notice of economists as a group. Economics is still a good thing to study and it is your job as an enlightened nascent economist to take economics out of disrepute so we can apply it sensibly.Delete
12:47, no it isn't. Your comparison was silly and you appear silly.
(also is Randall doing something lame like delivering the old comic 1 in 10,000 times?)
You can't just choose not to practice economics. Even if we all go back to just trading goats for flower, that's still a primitive form of economics, right?Delete
- AnonymousMay 8, 2012 at 9:27 AM
1) The sun is not running out of hydrogen. The world is in serious trouble.Delete
2) If the sun were running out of hydrogen, and scientists were working as seven figure salaried consultants to hydrogen mining firms instructing them how to extract the hydrogen to sell to space lizards, then yes: they would be at fault.
- AnonymousMay 8, 2012 at 12:47 PM
>(also is Randall doing something lame like delivering the old comic 1 in 10,000 times?)Delete
I don't think so, but seeing how popular Umwelt was, I wouldn't be surprised if they tried to use more scripts.
Speaking of, I can't help but feeling a bit bad for Davean, xkcd's sysadmin. I mean, cuddlefish were all "that was great, Randall!", even after the poor fellow posted in the forums basically saying "nope guys, that was my idea and my scripts, not Randall's". That thread taught me the true meaning of "injustice". When I think about that incident, my heart hurts so much that I'd like to rip it out and squash it with my bare hands, out of sadness. I would like to poke little holes in it so that it cries its silly drops. Haha just kidding, I would simply sit on it until it stops beating, in case it hasn't already stopped doing so by that time. But yeah, that's the kind of things I want to do when I think about Davean.
- AnonymousMay 7, 2012 at 9:20 PM
I much prefer the original song, but that might be because I'm a huge chemistry geek.ReplyDeleteReplies
- weaselsoupMay 8, 2012 at 1:40 AM
you mean 'fan of light opera', either that or you are trying to wind me up in which case evidently it workedDelete
- AnonymousMay 8, 2012 at 1:43 AM
He might mean that no huge chemistry geek would like Lehrer's version because that would be as a "huge English geek" enjoying the Sesame Street alphabet song.Delete
Well, you can hope...
- weaselsoupMay 8, 2012 at 2:06 AM
oh yeah, that too, that is the nicest reading. I'm going with thatDelete
- AnonymousMay 8, 2012 at 2:09 AM
No, the original song.Delete
It's like some people refuse to expose themselves to anything older than themselves.
And no, it's funny even if you have a grasp on more complicated concepts. Provided you have a sense of humor, of course.
- weaselsoupMay 8, 2012 at 2:21 AM
but the Pirates of Penzance was written in the 1870s which, although i am pretty old, i am not that old.Delete
- AnonymousMay 8, 2012 at 2:51 AM
I consider that some of Lehrer's political songs are creative and substantive. But the Elements Song is a list of elements. How is that "funny"?Delete
Unless you mean that he's presciently trolling fans with his own preamble, "It's simply the names of the chemical elements set to a possibly recognizable tune." I guess that's funny.
- AnonymousMay 8, 2012 at 1:58 PM
You know that's not the original song, right?Delete
- AnonymousMay 8, 2012 at 2:58 PM
I heard about begging the question on TV, so I guess the communications people know about it too.Delete
- AnonymousMay 8, 2012 at 7:47 PM
Too uptight to see humor in anything except what you perceive as wit. In hindsight, I guess it's not surprising that Xkcd Sucks is full of people with a limited sense of humor. I mean, I don't like xkcd much myself, and doubt I'd stop by the blog if I did, but really.Delete
@1:58. Yes it is. Read the text over the top of the tune. It's not a coincidence that it scans. Not to mention that he actually cites it in the comic...
- AnonymousMay 9, 2012 at 12:41 AM
@7:47 wasn't he saying the Lehrer song isn't the original? Or are YOU saying the Lehrer song WAS the original. fuck i hate thisDelete
- AnonymousMay 9, 2012 at 12:55 AM
7:47 is just trolling as the usual cuddlefish persona. No-one that stupid would have the wherewithal to post here.Delete
- AnonymousMay 9, 2012 at 12:58 AM
It is the original. How much fucking effort would it cost you people to just listen to the thing? I gave you the link. Jesus.Delete
- AnonymousMay 9, 2012 at 2:33 AM
No, Tom Lehrer's version is not 'the original'. Read the fucking comic.
Randall's song is based on "The Major-General's Song", which was written by Gilbert and Sullivan, and premiered in the comic opera "The Pirates of Penzance" in 1880.
"The Elements" was published in 1959.
Do the math and then fuck off, you sophomoric dilettante.
- AnonymousMay 9, 2012 at 4:38 AM
2:33 = 12:58.Delete
- weaselsoupMay 9, 2012 at 7:42 AM
that's what wound me up the most, the comic's assumption that the best that could be expected of the reader was to have heard of the elements song. mr Munroe knows the tune was written by someone else, but *you* wouldn't, because *you're* a pleb. according to the ten thousand comic the thought process ought to be 'Gilbert & Sullivan? who are they?' 'oh man! come on, we're going to the record shop' 'why' etc.Delete
except this comic it's ''Gilbert & Sullivan? who are they?' 'you don't need to know that, you just need to have heard of tom lehrer' 'tom lehrer? who is that?' never mind, just think Mary poppins because you're OBVIOUSLY not 'one of us''
although according to this comic, knowing anything about anything that isn't "hard science" is useless anyway so maybe that's why.
also fuck that stupid 'geek song' fucking bullshit. fuck it in its fucking EAR. jonathan fucking coulton type shit. everyone who is a fan of that stuff is an idiot
i hate xkcd hate it hate it hate it. and I hate its forums even more. 'Hey! I love showing people cool stuff. i like to lecture people and show them how much more i know than they do.' YOU SOUND LIKE A CREEPY PATRONISING ARSEHOLE. there's one colossal knobend on there insisting on interpreting this as being about how terrible it is that people are sometimes afraid to admit they don't know stuff at job interviews when they ask you about whether you know what you need to know to do the job.
- AnonymousMay 9, 2012 at 8:03 AM
i love you weaselsoup <3Delete
- weaselsoupMay 9, 2012 at 8:26 AM
thank you. that totally makes up for the guy that called me 'annoying' the other weekDelete
- Dicksmash McIroncockMay 9, 2012 at 11:44 AM
Was it me? I think that was like two months ago.Delete
some of jonathan coulton's stuff is pretty goodDelete
unfortunately people prefer the geeky dog-whistle stuff that isn't as good
because people are awful
- AnonymousMay 9, 2012 at 5:34 PM
some of chris houlihan's stuff is pretty goodDelete
unfortunately people prefer the geeky dog-whistle stuff that isn't as good
because people are awful
- AnonymousMay 9, 2012 at 5:49 PM
some of jon levi's stuff is pretty goodDelete
unfortunately people prefer the geeky dog-whistle stuff that isn't as good
because people are awful
- AnonymousMay 9, 2012 at 5:50 PM
lol just kidding, none of jon levi's stuff is goodDelete
- AnonymousMay 10, 2012 at 8:33 PM
Weaselsoup, I would like nothing more than for you to extrude your secondary carapace, engage your clasping spurs, and insert your ovipositor into my gut, pumping the black soaked eggs of your wicked offspring into me, to use my body to nurture their growing, Gehennan malice.Delete
Maybe there's not enough room in this crazy, xkcd-filled world for a lovestruck, ungendered and anonymous forum poster and a beautiful, hate-filled she demon like you. I don't know if we'll ever be safe from the Randall Munroes, the jon levis, or the chris houlihans. But I'd like it if, when you're dipping your forelegs into the sulfurous magma you use to preen the rows of barbed setae which protect your dorsal pinnacles, you would think of me a little. And who knows? Maybe, one day, when you look into the network of black peridots embedded in your thorax in lieu of a heart, you will find a single, unoccupied corpuscule, in which there will finally be room...for love.
- AnonymousMay 7, 2012 at 11:04 PM
This is something everyone does, and it's fucking stupid. So AWWWWWWW JEAH. It's the breakdown:ReplyDelete
--Most people do not end up employed in the major they choose. College is not job training. If it were, most people would be majoring in "data entry." Randall himself is a good example of this (which begs the question, why the hell is he lecturing us on choosing a major? He's a grown man who makes stick figure doodles for a living. Where does he get off telling me a literature major is useless?)
--The job market for EVERY discipline is pretty much dismal. Most people in "sensible" disciplines who are crowing "should have gotten a real degree ENGLISH MAJOR LOLOLOLOLLLLL" are either undergraduates who don't actually know what they're doing after they graduate, old guys who got jobs before the market started to suck, or people who have jobs unrelated to their degree, but think their choice of degree somehow made them stand out.
--Like I said before, Randall doesn't have a real job. He thinks "every major is terrible" because every major requires learning skills, then applying them to the real world for more than two years before you give up and start selling t-shirts. It's like Zach Weiner and his "publish or perish" comic: where the fuck do webcomic authors get off scolding the rest of us for making poor career choices? Maybe he and Randall wouldn't be so big if they had to sack up and get a job that makes them put on pants, and where you can't drink NyQuil all day until you pass out jerking off to a netflixed episode of She-Ra on just any old Tuesday.
Which is not to mention that half of these are not problems with the major, but dumb shit that's just there so it can rhyme/just barely scan. Chemistry? High on methylacetate? Methylacetate doesn't get you high, and are chemistry majors know to collect stamps? Is this a periodic table joke? Fuck you Randall.Replies
- AnonymousMay 7, 2012 at 11:17 PM
also fuck Richard Feynman. How an arrogant, sociopathic sex-addict became someone we're all supposed to admire because he could take a few integrals is baffling to me. Fuck you, Feynman.Delete
"Where does he get off telling me a literature major is useless?"Delete
That's because Randall reads REAL literature, that is the GEEKY stuff such as Orson Scott Card and Terry Pratchett (Douglas Adams is too mainstream). All the rest of literature is only worth for making jokes and out of context quotes. You don't need a major for that! Wikipedia is enough.
- also Megan has cancer and that's funny tooMay 8, 2012 at 4:13 AM
Am I the only one to think Pratchett is overrated and unsophisticated? Far be it from me to kick someone while they're down, but my first thought on hearing of Pratchett's dementia was that he gave himself an intelligence test and found out he actually wasn't that smart so concluded that he must suffering a horrible disease.Delete
He needed an excuse for not being able to milk his fans with more of the same tired old style. "It can't be that they've grown up," he thinks to himself, "So it must be that I'm reverting to childhood."
Given our treatment of Randall on this blog I suppose it's par for the course to attack Pratchett... but as a Pratchett fanboi myself I having to defend his writing... it is more like a "intelligent sitcom" (thinking "Seinfeld" or "How I Met Your Mother" or "Big Bang Theory" or "Frasier" here). There's usually a decent story, a few poignant puns, some dry laughs and some thinly veiled social commentary that doesn't really say anything. They are fun to read and well written but they are not the best books ever.Delete
- That's what sheMay 8, 2012 at 7:03 AM
It does not beg the question. lrn2englsh.Delete
- weaselsoupMay 8, 2012 at 7:59 AM
to know what beg the question actually means, you have to study a subject that xkcd thinks is worthlessDelete
- AnonymousMay 8, 2012 at 9:01 AM
11:04 did say he was a lit majorDelete
- AnonymousMay 8, 2012 at 9:22 AM
Using "begs the question" in that context is a perfectly valid use of the English language, bad Latin aside. Who the fuck are you, Horace?Delete
- AnonymousMay 8, 2012 at 9:24 AM
And anyway, he used it perfectly. If people use "begs the question" in the sense of "raises the question" then so be it, that's its new meaning. I think it's safe to say its use in this sense is widespread now, so yeah. Ah, descriptive vs. prescriptive linguistics, oldie but goodie.Delete
- AnonymousMay 8, 2012 at 9:55 AM
The original latin is "petitio principii." Whatever asshole decided the best translation of "principii" (dative singlular "principium" lit. "beginning" as in "first principle") was "question" is a moronDelete
- AnonymousMay 8, 2012 at 11:47 AM
I like ampayala, hoppy beers, cheap espresso and 11:04's post.Delete
- AnonymousMay 8, 2012 at 12:13 PM
It makes perfect sense, 9:55. You're answering the question ("why is x true?") with the substance of the question itself ("because x is true").Delete
- That's what sheMay 8, 2012 at 1:43 PM
So what you're saying is no phrase can ever be used incorrectly, because the instant it is used in a way not originally intended, that's its new meaning.Delete
Eat a bag of dicks.
- AnonymousMay 8, 2012 at 3:16 PM
@That's what she, that's the kind of counterargument I'd have expected from a Ron Paul supporter with Asperger's.Delete
- AnonymousMay 8, 2012 at 3:21 PM
He's got you down perfectly, Booty, you stupid sack of shit.Delete
- AnonymousMay 8, 2012 at 4:40 PM
for all intensive purposes, 9:24 is a complete faggotDelete
- That's what sheMay 9, 2012 at 7:31 AM
I love you too, 3:21.Delete
- AnonymousMay 10, 2012 at 8:10 PM
It's "intents and purposes" not "intensive purposes." What you just said is that 9:24 is a faggot, but only when the job really requires it.Delete
- AnonymousMay 12, 2012 at 7:34 PM
That's the joke.Delete
- AlessandroMay 8, 2012 at 4:42 AM
The way Randall talked about the majors topic is weird because it makes it seens like he's thinks he's a young guy who is actually in the time of his life when he's going to make a choice in what field he's going graduate in. Perhaps all those boring years drawing doodles made him long for the time when he could actually make huge choices which would determine the course of his professional life?ReplyDeleteReplies
- AnonymousMay 8, 2012 at 8:38 AM
Nope. This is him coping with his regret for not having done something more interesting by claiming all the other things he could have studied instead would have sucked just as much as his own decision.Delete
- AnonymousMay 8, 2012 at 11:48 AM
Alessandro, he's not 18 any more, but he's still young enough (especially given that he has a BS already) to go back to and get into any field he wants to. He just happens to prefer drawing three stick figure comics a week to having a real job.Delete
more likeDelete
he WRITES BS already
- AnonymousMay 8, 2012 at 11:40 AM
I'm 44 years old and have had both of my ring fingers (left and right hands) nails split down the middle of each finger. My two nails look like they have verticle ridges down both of them and they both split from the nail end inward toward my cuticle. The split is ever so short, but I keep my nails trimmed fairly short with just a few centimeters of white on the end. I have to continuously clip my nail to minimize the split from catching on blankets, towels, anything cloth and my hair when I wash it - it drives me crazy! This is not a nervous condition, not a result of back trauma or back pain (I have none and have never had any back issues), not a hand washing (water and soap or detergent) issue as I use rubber gloves when I do the dishes... this is definitely a nutrient issue.ReplyDelete
Taking vitamin A and vitamin E helps, but it doesn't go away completely. This is hereditary. My mother had the same issue, but she didn't know enough to take vitamins. My sister has the same issue and she is well nutritioned and has to take A and E to help it too (she is 49 and an RN).
So, super gluing your nails may help because of the pressure pushed against the front of the nail when it is glued helps elliviate the back of the nail, but who wants to superglue their nail for life? (It can't be healthy.)
Just my two cents because I had researched all over the internet and googled tons of sites, read everybody's posts and tried alot of different things over the past two years to come to this conclusion.
Take vitamin A and E.
fuck off, everyone knows vitamin c solves every health problem known to man.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMay 8, 2012 at 1:34 PM
Adolf Hitler 2012ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMay 8, 2012 at 1:41 PM
No one mentioned how the "ten thousand" comic implies that people don't become adults until they're 30.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMay 8, 2012 at 7:15 PM
Thank you
- AnonymousMay 8, 2012 at 7:46 PM
What is everyone's favorite goatkcd?ReplyDelete
Mine is 832, although I also like 1020.Replies
- weaselsoupMay 9, 2012 at 12:37 AM
- AnonymousMay 9, 2012 at 2:47 AM
Mine is http://goatkcd.com/535/Delete
- AnonymousMay 9, 2012 at 8:32 AM
Also, any of the ones about cancer.
- AnonymousMay 10, 2012 at 7:45 PM
793; 394; 764; 1009; 547; 767Delete
- AnonymousMay 8, 2012 at 8:28 PM
@anon141: Randall does not know that his life experience is not representative.ReplyDelete
- weaselsoupMay 9, 2012 at 1:20 AM
did you people see the link on the comic page to thhe youtube video. someone has videoed themselves singing this piece of shit and posted it to youtube. thing is, i can't watch, it's too cringingly embarrassingReplyDeleteReplies
Watched a good minute of it. Turns out the "good" part wasn't that literal. Noooope, not at all. I think I saw my life flash before my eyes. I... why did I watch that.Delete
- AnonymousMay 9, 2012 at 4:51 AM
Butteriss looks like David Mitchell. And, though he's not half good, my mother's town choir group made a more rousing performance.Delete
As to the xkcd singalong, no wonder Americans are failing even in their own universities. I am both depressed and excited that this is the best the country has to offer. Good riddance, fallen empire. Stirring panda, nos morituri te salutamus.
- AnonymousMay 9, 2012 at 5:12 AM
fucken spergs lmaoDelete
- This one's for weaselsoup for reminding me how much I hate Portal and its fanbaseMay 9, 2012 at 8:57 AM
My life's a failureReplyDelete
I'm making a note here: I've no friends
And my wife's dying of a carcinoma.
Stick-figure comics:
I draw what I can
And nothing else.
Pandering to mainstream geeks
But not the ones with a clue.
But there's no sense rectifying every mistake
When you have do-overs and a meme about cake.
And the drawing gets done
With a speech-bubble pun
Voiced my Megan (who is still alive).
I'm not even trying
I've lapsed into childhood right now.
Even though I once wrote code
For NASA.
And blew up a rocket.
And became a villain of the state.
As it burned I smiled because
I'd just conceived Black Hat Guy.
Now these wretched comics make a popular site
I gave up my day job
To become a white knight.
So I'm glad I got fat
And gave each figure a hat
Except Megan (who is still alive).
Go ahead and mock me
Carl won't keep writing anyway.
Maybe someone else'll keep it going.
Maybe Rob Mason
Anyway, berets are great.
They're existential and gay.
Look at me still talking
When there's drawing to do
When I see you try
It makes me glad I'm not you.
I've Wikipedia to rape
And some t-shirts to shape
For my Megan (who is still alive).
And believe me she is still alive.
Though her cancer reduces her drive.
She is LACTATING and she's still alive
And her vulva is still worth a dive
And when I'm broke she may still be alive.
Don't revive.
Don't revive.Replies
- AnonymousMay 9, 2012 at 9:25 AM
make love to me :-D I have a thing for fat lonely men ha ha :DDDDelete
i think that means rob has first dibsDelete
- cuddlefish #211978531May 9, 2012 at 2:54 PM
i'm differentDelete
- AnonymousMay 9, 2012 at 5:41 PM
I've just read all the comments here.ReplyDelete
Due to the threaded crap, I can't just leave a useless post as a bookmark anymore.
How do I (easily) see which posts are new the next time I come here?
Thanks. And thanks for the great reviews rod.Replies
- AnonymousMay 9, 2012 at 6:26 PM
fuck you ravenzomg samefagDelete
- AnonymousMay 10, 2012 at 1:23 AM
The best way is to never come here then if you were here they'd all be new.Delete
we should all agree to not reply except at the bottom, fuck da threadsReplyDelete
which is to say we all agree to not read anything not replied at the bottom*Replies
- AnonymousMay 9, 2012 at 7:22 PM
I heartily agree with this suggestion.Delete
Weren't people happy to finally have threaded comments? I seem to remember having read some old comments about it.Delete
I think that if everybody started to comment at the bottom, there would be even more random comments (e.g. memes and copy-paste). Not complaining about random comments, but a minimum of topicality can't be that bad either.
- AnonymousMay 10, 2012 at 12:55 PM
Maybe you're thinking about another blog. All I remember was a string of curses against this thing called "change." Also "inconvenience."Delete
Then people went on to use them anyway because it gets even more confusing when sometimes people are discussing things in threads and other times they're discussing them outside of threads.
- AnonymousMay 10, 2012 at 4:30 AM
Kizolk, the problem with threading is that it assumes you have only one thing you want to reply to. I frequently like to list various posts to tell them they suck, and it's harder to do with threading. For example, Kizolk, you are wrong, and also SinbadEV@5:45 is wrong to like Terry Pratchett. Sometimes I then take the opportunity to point out why these seemingly disparate posts are connected - in this case, it's that both of you lack imagination.ReplyDelete
tl;dr Threading allows those who posted earliest to discourage discussion of relations between topics, and like xkcd that's an awful thing.Replies
Though unless I'm SinbadEV or Kizolk, chances are I won't know what comment of theirs you're refering to, hereby effectively making an open discussion a closed one, where only two people know what they're talking about. If I want to participate, I would have to find their comments among all the non-topical/threaded crap that's been said before. I could Ctrl + F their names, but since most posters are anonymous, it's just not viable. Just try to Ctrl + F "2:56" for instance and you'll see. And anyway, that's assuming people would bother Ctrl + F things.Delete
A good compromise would be to quote any message you want to react to. Easy, quick and clear. Only a genius would come up with this kind of brilliant idea.
Also, note that for someone new on the site (well, not *that* new, I've been posting anonymously for some time, but still), I sure love to speak like I've been here all my life.Delete
- AnonymousMay 10, 2012 at 5:51 AM
chris houlihan's roomDelete
But AnonymousMay 10, 2012 4:30 AM, how can it be wrong when it feels so right?Delete
- AnonymousMay 10, 2012 at 5:56 PM
You should compartmentalize your online critique into multiple posts then. It is considered the state of the art in anonymous persona management.Delete
- AnonymousMay 10, 2012 at 6:38 AM
Kizolk, name@time is shorthand for quoting what you're replying to - it's not necessary to explicitly describe what everyone said like that hilarious Summarising German from a few weeks ago. If the comment you're replying to is almost immediately above yours, there's no need to put the time.ReplyDelete
In the unusual event of two Anonymous comments posted at the same time of day, it's not too hard to guess which is being replied to.
It's much easier to deal with this than to have to search through the whole fucking comment section for new comments. And I don't have a Blogger account and don't intend to get one, so don't expect me to do that just to tweak some view settings and fix what didn't need to be broken (if it's even possible).
Even Google is aware that putting stuff in one place in a hierarchy is artificially limiting, hence eschewing traditional folders in that otherwise abomination GMail. I am right and you need to accept it.
honestly kizolk i think you are overestimating how important formality of sub-discussions are on a site called "xkcdsucks".ReplyDelete
I am ashamed and would like to die, if possible. Furthermore, I would like to die a shameful death, because it has to reflect my despicable behavior. In the meantime, I promise I won't praise threaded comments again, nor will I advocate such foolish devices as quoting the comments you want to respond to. Even though I haven't changed my mind, and will die knowing that my intellect is still unrivaled.ReplyDelete
Nah, but one thing's for sure, finding new comments sure is a pain in the ass as of now, so yay for changing that I guess.
- AnonymousMay 10, 2012 at 2:07 PM
personally, i'm more annoyed that all the comments are still in fucking bold. fix the goddamn template already rob, you worthless fatassReplyDelete
Hold up here a second Ravenzomg, I believe that the sub-discussions on this site are of the utmost importance. You are the choas butterfly Ravenzomg, just remember that, you are the choas butterfly.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMay 10, 2012 at 4:36 PM
The only change to this blog that upsets me is the loss of Jon Levi.ReplyDelete
The rhythm's fineReplies
- AnonymousMay 11, 2012 at 12:27 AM
The rhythm may be fine (I'm not going to watch more than five seconds of that video), but why are you self-promoting your xkcd fanboyism on an xkcd hate blog? Were you rejected by the forums or something?Delete
- AnonymousMay 11, 2012 at 12:59 AM
Broatch, it may be that you can sing. It may be that you can perform. It may even be that your singing performances are so good that they can be used to determine whether a set of lyrics fits with a tune.Delete
But you've demonstrated none of these things with your offering. All you've shown to us is that you have access to a microphone, can read words, and can put on the almost unbearably smug face of someone whose world is so small that he thinks he's on top of everything.
- AnonymousMay 11, 2012 at 1:12 AM
Hey, OP, since you seem to imply that you sing as an analysis of artistic quality, how about publishing a performance of the below lyrics to the tune of Still Alive. My day job doesn't consist in writing comics and it took me about 5 minutes to knock it out so it won't be quite as perfect as Randall's oeuvre, but I would like to get the message out.Delete
P.S. I know Randall's not generally regarded as fat - this is one of those "in jokes" that helps cuddlefish feel like they belong. Thanks!
My life's a failure.
I'm making a note here: I've no friends
And my wife's dying of a carcinoma.
Stick-figure comics:
I draw what I can
And nothing else.
Pandering to mainstream geeks
But not the ones with a clue.
But there's no sense rectifying every mistake
When you have do-overs and a meme about cake.
And the drawing gets done
With a speech-bubble pun
Voiced my Megan (who is still alive).
I'm not even trying
I've lapsed into childhood right now.
Even though I once wrote code
For NASA.
And blew up a rocket.
And became a villain of the state.
As it burned I smiled because
I'd just conceived Black Hat Guy.
Now these wretched comics make a popular site -
I gave up my day job
To become a white knight.
So I'm glad I got fat
And gave each figure a hat
Except Megan (who is still alive).
Go ahead and mock me
Carl won't keep writing anyway.
Maybe someone else'll keep it going.
Maybe Rob Mason.
Anyway, berets are great.
They're existential and gay.
Look at me still talking
When there's drawing to do -
When I see you try
It makes me glad I'm not you.
I've Wikipedia to rape
And some merchandise to shape
For my Megan (who is still alive).
And believe me she is still alive.
Though her cancer is reducing her drive.
She is LACTATING and she's still alive
And her vulva is still worth a dive
And when I'm broke she may still be alive.
Don't revive.
Don't revive.
- AnonymousMay 11, 2012 at 1:33 AM
Can I also please offer one of my earlier ditties which I just remember having knocked out on a cold November day. This one adapts the lyrics of Norma Jean but is expressed with the sincerity of the Princess Di version. No royalty payment necessary.Delete
Goodbye Janet Doe
Though I never knew you at all
You had the grace to wear your wig
While those around you scrawled
They scrawled into MSPaint
And they whispered into your brain
They set you on the milk pump
And they made you change your name
And it seems to me that you're Randall's wife
A mistake but not a sin
Having no real man to cling to
When Big C set in
And I would have liked to have bought you
But I was just outbid
Your bosom burned out long before
Your potential to be milked for sympathy by a failing comic who desperately needs a new creative angle and to look like more than a big kid with no real responsibilities ever did
Stick figure female geek was tough
The toughest role you ever played
Randall he created a superstar
And pain was the price you paid
Even when you died
Oh the trolls still hounded you
All the hate blogs had to say
Was that Megan was found lactating
[repeat chorus]
Goodbye Janet Doe
Though I never knew you at all
You had the grace to wear your wig
While those around you scrawled
From the young man browsing xkcdsucks
Who sees you as something more than sexual
More than just our Megan Munroe
[repeat chorus]
- weaselsoupMay 11, 2012 at 6:39 AM
oh no, the link on the comic is to that other guy who got there first. that must boil your pissDelete
- AnonymousMay 11, 2012 at 1:45 AM
Changing the stress of a word, to some extent, is permissible in songs, yes. But Randall didn't provide us with a song: when I hear Jagger sing "sa-tis-fac-tion", that is a permissible deviation from proper scansion. But I would not read the lyrics for fun, nor would I consider new lyrics clever or interesting (chloroplast gun?). This is irrelevant in the face of the fact that the original patter lyrics scan perfectly, which is why they can be patter songs: distorted stresses or extraneous syllables ruin the rhythm for the lister, as evidenced by the stop and go performance above.ReplyDeleteReplies
- AnonymousMay 11, 2012 at 3:31 AM
I don't know... I do find Literal Videos' lyric replacements for music videos somewhat amusing. Of course any fool can see the videos are ridiculous, but I think it's OK to allow ones self to be amused a little bit, occasionally... when I'm not hatefully critiquing things online.Delete
I'm not aware if they've done Jagger -- However, I am petitioning congress in support of DMCA exemptions for such satirical works, as exemptions are up for renewal.
I do agree: New lyrics aren't especially clever, and neither are Randal's, but at least the videos have music to keep the tempo, and they try to have somewhat synchronous dubs. As far as opinions of humor go, I don't value yours any more than you value mine.
- AnonymousMay 11, 2012 at 2:13 AM
A frame by frame list of mistakes in Randall's song:ReplyDelete
1. Philosophy is major plus sense, not sans sense;
2. Maths, goddamn Americans;
3. On the contrary, a good business major is probably one of the best ways to get ahead;
4. Stamp collectors? Methylacetate? This frame is complete nonsense;
5. Isn't the very definition of a geek someone who wants to learn rather than merely "get a job"?
6. HAHA HISTORY IS LAME SO IS ART SO ART HISTORY IS LIKE THE WORST (also a future art history course will inevitably critique xkcd);
7/8. Hee hee "underwater basket-weave" so quirky!
9. Found Wikipedia Bufo_fowleri page, meaninglessly connects its eating to studying biology;
10. A true discipline ignores all others, eh Randall?
11. "Too unbearable" being like "too pregnant";
12. TERRIBLE kinda rhymes with GENERAL!!!!! Also I like the way Americans go into uni not knowing what they're studying... kinda;
13. Can't or can?
14. Theology is not "religion", goddammit Randall you fuck;
15. The one thing Randall remembers about CS is having difficulty matching brackets in LISP 101. His mistake was writing source in Paint;
16. No, Randall, it's not virology that'll guarantee you never get a hug. Of course Randall draws the woman as hugless so that they'll be all OH RANDALL SO UNDERSTANDS ME I WANT HIM TO DO ME WITHOUT A CONDOM;
17. Not if you know what you're doing;
18. Being a paraphrase of a quote (which Randall of course dishonestly puts in quote marks), it's still the wittiest frame so far;
19. Feynman was a bit of a dick, and no undergrad degree promises you the career of one of the disciplines heroes. What are you, 12?
20. No it doesn't. This isn't even funny.
21. Well, you study history so you know how to do again what's been done before - but your way of looking at it is true too.
22. The most powerful people I know, i.e. those in good positions in the civil service, have all studied History or variations thereof.
23. What plan? I thought he had no plan? You can't just put in some idea vaguely associated with your message if it doesn't follow.
24. As 12.
25. Why? Because of astrological connotations? I thought it was only politicians who went full retard over "lunatics";
26. "agorophobiac";
27. *too* ophiophobic, because a syllable was missing;
28. 1) GE is not a major; 2) "I can't stomach GE" is not funny;
29. Yeah, no need to try otherwise! Lol college is a stepping stone to comic writing!
30. What? You're just putting random words together, Randall.
31. True.
32. I'll leave it as an exercise to the reader to find out the usual terms for the study of the study of some discipline. "Meta-academic" doesn't feature. Of course, META is one of those PANDER things;
33-34. Econ discussed above;
35. "Sophie's choice" is the choice given by a camp guard of which of your son or daughter you will choose to die at a concentration camp. The comparison borders on offensive.
36. See 12, 24.
In short, every single fucking frame falls short. Contrast with the original which is accurate, clever, funny and scans perfectly. If you think Randy's work is good then you simply have low standards. Looking at the way America's going, it's probably hard to find anyone geeky who doesn't have low standards, whence "dismal" xkcd's popularity.Replies
- AnonymousMay 11, 2012 at 3:16 AM
35. I'm sorry, but perhaps you are unaware that the popular Television show Friends has done the same thing? Twice, even. You obviously have no idea what you're talking about.Delete
- AnonymousMay 11, 2012 at 3:31 AM
Every episode of Friends is offensive to human intelligence, though. And while it's probably appropriate to consider xkcd to be as high-brow as that harbinger of Western cultural destruction, Randall prides himself on sensitivity, understanding and geek-like interpretation of the original or literal meanings.Delete
The fact is that death at Auschwitz is what Sophie's Choice is referring to. Not only is it irrelevant to the processs of choosing majors, but it's stupidly hyperbolic to compare the two.
In short, I obviously know exactly what I'm talking about and your defence of Randall is embarrassing.
- weaselsoupMay 11, 2012 at 4:38 AM
so right on 'meta'. let's all just look at the discussion on 'begs the question' above and imagine how this thread will go rather than going through with it thoughDelete
You don't like Friends? How can you not like Friends?Delete
Friends is almost the opposite of xkcd.
Friends was great, but it stopped being funny when I acquired a sense of humor.Delete
- AnonymousMay 11, 2012 at 2:54 PM
Is Randall really saying that all physics majors end up as engineers? He does know that many different subdisciplines of engineering have their own majors (which he conveniently neglects here? Is there some problem with being an engineer? Give that his objection to lit is that it won't get you a job, it seems odd that he would think a career with starting salaries >50K is just as bad) and that no employer (or for that matter, graduate admissions committee) seeking an engineer will be inclined to take a physics major over an engineer. Maybe because he worked at NASA, and saw physicists doing things other than pontificating about string theory, and was like "oh you end up doing more ENGINEERING than PHYSICS" not really comprehending how physics works, or how a physics major at an aerospace concern may be subtly guided towards assisting with designs, or how "engineer" is an extremely broad category whose overlap with "physicist" vanishes at the limit of low dumbassery.Delete
I am a scientist. Randall does not speak for us. Randall, you do not speak for us.
- darwiniacMay 11, 2012 at 2:59 AM
1054: Wasn't Randall the one who wrote a comic a few years back about how communicating poorly then acting smug about it isn't cleverness?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMay 11, 2012 at 3:03 AM
matthew brotach is a dumb fucking cuntReplyDelete
- AnonymousMay 11, 2012 at 5:54 AM
Youre all funny people :)ReplyDelete
Man this is a Troll dungeon. Here i have a bucket full of fish for you guys:
I think the best way to keep the advantages of threads and lose the big disadvantage would be to use cookies to take note of when you visit and highlight posts that were posted after your last visit. Hop to it, Google.ReplyDeleteReplies
- AnonymousMay 11, 2012 at 3:07 PM
Google should also use its data to reorder posts based on what it calculates as most relevant to your unique interests. So, for example, I would get all jokes about lactation would be listed at the top while all jokes about cancer would be near the bottom.Delete
- AnonymousMay 11, 2012 at 2:16 PM
Comic 1054!ReplyDelete
Verbose? Check
Wikipedia? Check.
Unfunny? Check.
Looks like business as usual.Replies
- AnonymousMay 11, 2012 at 3:04 PM
Comic 1055!Delete
Leopard? Check.
Sustainable? Check.
girllookatthatbody? Check.
So. It has come to this.
- AnonymousMay 11, 2012 at 5:43 PM
I love that xkcd memes have become hyper-hyperreal. I'm so meta oh god there's so much bloodDelete
Well, it's better than Vista.Delete
Is 1054 the worst xkcd in a while? Explain why.ReplyDelete
I can answer that! Let me start by saying that this comic is terrible indeed!
As to why it is terrible, it's mostly due to the lack of a funny joke? Though I'll admit that my definition of "funny" is pretty narrow, as, to me, it has to imply haha's or similar onomatopoeias at some point. Much to my regret, onomatopoeias weren't had upon reading this comic.
It wouldn't even deserve it's picto-blag article if you ask me. I know that it's kind of part of xkcd's premise: find the little things that make life seem enjoyable and fun; "it may not be much, but...", "have you tried to look at this that way?", "I just thought I'd share this with you guys" etc. But here, it is too incidental; it is not cute, not quirky, not sweet. There's no black hat guy assholery, no creepiness. Nothing.
Sometimes, there's a comic I hate personally but that I'm still OK with, it's just not my cup of tea; 1052 for instance was such a comic. 1054 isn't. I am offended by 1054. There's nothing I would like more than to slap 1054's stupid nose -- unfortunately, it doesn't have one, so you can imagine how frustrated I am right now. In fact, I'd slap *any fucking body part* of it, but apparently, I just got bored with this joke so I'm not going to finish it. I still think I'm a comical genius, but yeah, as much as I like my jokes, I never shy away from doing the necessary pruning work.
Which Munroe doesn't... or so I'd like to think, but the scary part is that, he might be doing it. I still like most xkcds, but when I see this kind of thing, I can't help but think it's been going on for too long, honestly. The fact that he got this idea and decided to make it a comic, then drew it, felt proud of it and decided it was obviously good enough to be published (as opposed to staying in that special drawer where he puts the not-so-good-comics-that-might-come-in-handy-the-day-all-my-other-comics-will-suck-even-more comics), speaks volumes about Munroe's current inspiration, or lack thereof.
Man, the three-updates-a-week thing is such a bad idea. I mean, do you know of a good band that tells its fans "we will release a new album exactly every 18 months"? No, of course not, that's not how sincere art works. Unless you are veeeeeeery productive, and your works all attain a high degree of "perfection", in which case an update schedule isn't such a bad thing; the problems start when your schedule dictates you *when* to be artsy.Replies
- AnonymousMay 11, 2012 at 3:08 PM
HI JON LEVIDelete
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I think you mean "its."
I think I mean "fuck you very much for the correction, pal", but I made a little typo, how embarassing. Fuck you in the ass indeed!Delete
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You HAR ASS her in HER ASS => HARASS.
But you do not EMBAR in the ASS.
Well, that's how I remembered those two as a kid and it made perfect sense to me.
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If you're a particularly keen user you may have spotted that the v3.2 update for our official app has just hit the marketplace. This is another incremental update clearing up some of the loose ends since the v3 release and various updates to our website.
You can pick up the update on the Windows Phone marketplace here, but if you want to know what's coming first you can find the change list below.
- Added option to receive e-mail alerts when someone replies to your comment
- Added comment editing functionality
- Updated comment icons to be a higher resolution
- Changed live tile to render at double resolution to improve sharpness on Windows Phone 8
- Fixed most instances of the black live tile bug
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- A few other smaller bug fixes not worth mentioning
This update applies to Windows Phone 7 users and above so can be downloaded by the broadest possible audience. Of course we are aware that those of you with Windows Phone 8 devices would like an upgrade (particularly to make the most of 16:9 resolutions where you have them). We will be producing such an update but there is a little more work than expected to ensure we make the most of the new resolutions, so bear with us whilst we get it right.
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A textile factory operated at the U.S. Penitentiary in Leavenworth will close later this year, prison officials said.
A textile factory operated at the U.S. Penitentiary in Leavenworth will close later this year, prison officials said.
The plant is operated by Federal Prison Industries, or what also is known as UNICOR, according Thomas Sheldrake, public information officer for the USP.
He said the factory, which currently has about 90 inmates working there, usually makes items for other government entities, producing things such as T-shirts for the military.
Sheldrake said the factory is scheduled to close this summer.
"They're consolidating different plants," he said.
He said inmates are paid for their work in the factory, and they can use the money to for things such as making phone calls and using email.
The closing of the plant will impact six employees at the USP. He said the prison usually can absorb these employees into other positions.
Warden Claude Maye discussed the closing of the factory during a recent Community Relations Board meeting at the USP.
He said the program provides inmates with a skill.
"It keeps them out of trouble," he said.
Sheldrake said the prison is putting together a committee to find a way to deal with inmate idleness. He said the goal is for every inmate to have a job, but he admitted there's only so much for them to do inside the institution.
He said Federal Prison Industries also operates a print program inside the main prison as well as program that recycles computers at the camp that's on the USP grounds.
Sheldrake said between 25 and 30 inmates work in the print operation. About 125 inmates from the camp work for the recycling program.
Sheldrake said USP officials feel confident the recycling program will remain at the camp.
"We think that one's safe," he said.
He said there's no word about whether the print program will remain at the USP.


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2 cups granulated sugar
1/4 cup butter
1/2 cup milk
3 cups old fashioned oatmeal
3/4 cup smooth peanut butter*
1 teaspoon vanilla
Bring sugar, butter, and milk to a full boil, remove from heat, add oatmeal. Stir. Then add vanilla and peanut butter. Stir. Drop by teaspoonfuls on to waxed paper. When cool, pack in single layer in Tupperware or other air-tight container to store.
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No. The IRS interprets, implements, and enforces the tax laws and rates that are adopted by the U.S. Congress and signed by the President. As part of the implementation of tax law, the IRS publishes the annual rate schedule listing the tax rate for each income bracket.What is "Where's my refund?"
"Where's my refund?" is an online tool offered by the IRS that allows taxpayers to check the status of their tax refund. In order to use the tool, a taxpayer must enter their Social Security number, filing status, and the exact amount of the refund as shown on the tax return.What should I do if I made a mistake on my tax filing?
It depends on the type of mistake. IRS employees can correct mathematical mistakes without the need to file an amended return. Mistakes in filing status, deductions, income, or credits require an amended return. The amended return should be filed using Form 1040X.


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If you are Robert Henney,
Hullnumber.com was founded in 1999 and was active until late 2003. During 2003 the code that I had written in 1999 was gradually becoming unstable. At that time, being a one man operation, I could not teach my self a new programming language and update the site. As an ex-Hull Tech, I'm much better with a cutting torch and a sledge, than I am with BITS and BYTES!
In early 2006 I started nipping at learning the new language and got the 8,700+ ship, sub and air squadron rosters posted. Since I've been "plugging and chugging" on the code and researching privacy and security issues
My orginal aim is the same:
- Provide a FREE means for US Navy shipmates to get back in contact
I believe if an OLD, Old Salt wants to get in touch with a Navy buddy, he shouldn't have to pay.
- Have continually up to date Security and Privacy Systems
- Listen to the crew's suggestions thru the "Comments" links
You are listed on the DDG-43 Roster becase you either Registered previously or a Ship Mate of yours "Remembered" you.
I invite you to update your record, by clicking on the link below.
Best wishes to you and yours!
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When selecting modern kids and baby bedding, some qualities may be obvious, and some less so. Materials that feel soft to the touch—cotton, silk, certain synthetic blends—will obviously feel soothing to your baby or child, and will, no doubt, enhance their sleeping hours, so being mindful of the way modern childrens bedding and baby blankets feel to the touch is an obvious way to make an informed decision. But also be mindful of fabrics that breathe and help your children maintain healthy body temperatures while they sleep, being sure to avoid overly silky and stiff fabrics when choosing modern baby bedding for that perfectly chosen modern baby crib.
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A couple more questions from the readership:
I finished reading your book about a month ago and I really enjoyed it, I'm 17 and for the past 3 years I've been trying to figure out what life is all about. I started reading books on buddhism by tich nhat hanh, surya dass, and the dalai lama. But I was always a bit turned off by zen, Im not sure why, it just seemed really esoteric. Well, I was wrong. Your book was great, it painted an amazing picture of what zen is, and I've been trying to do zazen ever since. But I have a question, where do buddhist morals come from? In a religion that believes in a god or gods, they are the ones that decide what is right and wrong. How does zen make a distinction from what is moral and what is not?
You're starting early! And I'm starting late because you asked me this over a year ago and I'm only just now getting to it. Now you're 18 and you've probably moved on to cooler things than Buddhism. But here goes anyway.
Buddhist morality comes from the situation at the moment. I know whenever I say this people scream and cry and tear their hair out yelling, "That's situational ethics!" As if that's a bad thing. But I really don't think it is.
I guess when people say "situational ethics" they mean an attitude where you change your ethical stance on a whim according to whatever suits you at the moment. Buddhist morality isn't like that.
We have guidelines in the Ten Precepts. You can read all about those by downloading this pamphlet. But as it says in the pamphlet, Dogen said that the precepts were the habit of Buddhists, not their goal. Nishijima's Q&A at the beginning of this pamphlet really lays out the Buddhist view on morality way better than I'm able to.
In real life the proper course of action always presents itself clearly. But we are usually unable to discern it because we have a strong habit of shouting down our intuitive response with thought. Part of the reason we do zazen is to learn to ignore thought and pay attention to the intuitive response.
Morals are not decided by the opinion of the majority, even if that majority calls themselves "Buddhist." As I've mentioned recently, there's a tendency among American Buddhists to apply the precepts the way the Ten Commandments have been applied by some Christians, as a way to criticize or even ostracize others. It's as if no one read The Scarlet Letter when it was assigned in ninth grade, or at least they didn't get it. The point of the precepts is not that they be used as a guideline to judge whether other people are good or bad. They're to be used as a guideline for our own behavior in times when intuition fails. But, as I'm sure I've said, intuition never really fails. But we do screw our bodies and minds up to the point where we become unable to see it clearly.
Another question:
I've been a Buddhist geek for a long time and have been sitting zazen every day for about a year. I'm also and electrician, a job that requires random drug testing --no problem. I was called in for one such test about a month ago and got a case of stage fright resulting in my inability to produce a sample and the subsequent loss of my job. This has been a problem for me since I was ten and, while I've noticed some improvement since I've been sitting, it's by no means cured.
So, I went to my doctor, a man who I respect very much. He called it paruresis --a mild anxiety disorder. He wrote me a note to challenge the loss of my job and prescribed me some medication. One of these pills I'm now taking is Zoloft.
Here's my question: While I haven't noticed any effect on my sitting zazen, I worry that this kind of treatment will cheapen my practice and ultimately do more harm then good. What do you think? Again, I know you're busy and I'm only asking your opinion because I'm between zen teachers and I respect your take.
I get questions like this a lot and I'm always a little hesitant to answer them. The reason I'm hesitant is that I really don't know the people who are asking these things personally, so I can't assess their situation in any reliable way.
In general, I'm pretty much anti-drug all the way down the line. I don't even like taking Asprin, though I will take it sometimes. So I'm not a big fan of drugs like Zoloft, Paxil, Prozac and all the rest of the modern miracle cures for whatever ails you. I've gone through some serious depression in my life and I am sure that, had I gone to one of the kinds of doctors who deals in these wonder drugs during those times I'd surely have been prescribed them. Had that happened I'm certain I'd still be dependant on them to this day. So I thank God I'm just a little too old, so that those drugs hadn't yet been invented yet when I "needed" them.
To me, your particular problem seems a bit simpler than it's being made out to be. I mean, if it were me, I'd have gone out and bought a huge thing of lemonade and drank it all in one go. Or just sucked on the cold water tap in the bathroom for a few minutes before entering the stall. The biological urge would then overwhelm any stage fright. Still, having been prescribed the drug by a physician gives you more leverage to take action against your former employers. So I think it's a good thing to have done in that sense.
In most cases I'd guess the problem is a lot simpler than the cure. Once when a friend of mine who was studying clinical psychology told me about the side effects of the various drugs her profession used, I said it sounded like tuning a piano with a sledge hammer. Maybe the one string you were trying to fix would get tuned up that way, but you're gonna wreck everything else in the process.
Still, I want to be careful. There may be times when a medical solution is called for. But, to me, the decision to go for the medical solution is like the decision to declare war. It's something you want to hold off on until there are absolutely no other options. Nobody was gonna stop the Nazis with diplomacy, so war had to be declared. But unless you're up against someone like the Nazis it may be better to avoid declaring war. My take on the use of anti-depressants and similar drugs is like that.
I'm still in Ohio. Here's the gig list again:
November 7th at 7PM I'll be at the Akron Public Library downtown.
November 7th (same day) 0DFx (the hardcore band I played bass in in the early 80s) will play the Matinee in Akron after the talk at the library.
November 9th my movie Cleveland's Screaming will be shown at the Beachland Tavern in Cleveland. There'll also be live performances by 0DFx, CD Truth, Cheap Tragedies and This Moment in Black History.
November 10th 0DFx plays at the Spitfire Saloon in Cleveland.
November 12th I'll give a Zen talk at Lambert's Tattooing and Body Piercing (I kid you not) in manly, he-man Mansfield, Ohio at 7PM (Sponsored by the Mansfield Zen Center).


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Elizabeth FullerAlumni, Class of 2010
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Elizabeth was a student of mass communications with a side of computing. Deciding that she was tired of being spoon fed her education, Elizabeth joined the ITP community with the class of 2010 and is loving every minute of it.
|Current residence:
|New York, United States