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Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Comics 983 and 984: Privacy Issues
984. Black Hat Guy makes a return, this time pointing out that Werner von Braun worked for the Nazis. Apparently Black Hat Guy has given up trolling entirely and is instead pointing out basic, barely relevant facts at inappropriate points in conversation. In short, he has become the typical XKCD fan.
199 comments:
- AnonymousNovember 30, 2011 at 11:26 PM
- AnonymousNovember 30, 2011 at 11:32 PM
I did that joke a while ago, and then Rob took the review down to prevent his E-Mail box from being overloaded.ReplyDelete
What I'm saying is we should all spam messages to flood his E-Mail again.
- Vannevar Bush / insert other namedrop hereDecember 1, 2011 at 8:12 AM
These reviews have a serious lack of breast cancer jokes.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 1, 2011 at 9:17 AM
rob, we salute you for your tireless philanthropism and milk jokes. you are a true americanReplyDelete
Rob, I have to wonder. Have you're large bosoms begun to produce thine glorious milk?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 1, 2011 at 10:38 AM
It's true. Sometimes it is difficult to find a place to have sex at.ReplyDelete
WITH DOG AND DAMEReplyDelete
Her other hand is mischievous
To bid the monster Dane grow mad,
His red-haw gaze grows mutinous,
Her eyes have lost the calm they had,
My body grows all amorous.
I yield him place: his ravening teeth
Cling hard to her — he buries him
Insane and furious in the sheath
She opens for him — wide and dim
My mouth is amorous beneath.
Nor move, though now essays the Dane
To cool his weapon in my mouth;
Her lust bestrides me, and is fain
To quench in his sweet sweat her drouth
Her finger probes my bowel again.
All three enjoy once more, and I
Am ready ever to renew
These bestial orgie-nights, whereby
Loose woman's love is spiced, as dew
On tender spray of spring doth lie.
Is it just me, or is this blog slowly morphing into xkcdexplained?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 1, 2011 at 1:03 PM
rob lard 2 grow fatterReplyDelete
i can't believe randall's a naziReplyDelete
but then shania twain says "no it's not what is this" and RANDALL MUNROE IS ONE UPPED AGAIN BY SOCIAL INTERACTIONReplyDelete
- Did Hitler ever drink Eva Braun's milk?December 1, 2011 at 4:32 PM
(Original music because you cunts wouldn't notice culture if its head pressed against your eyeball and released directly into your pupil)ReplyDelete
Gather round while I tell you of Randall Munroe,
A boy whose fixation's
With Megan's lactation.
Call him a hack to whom losers kowtow
"I worked at NASA!" says Randall Munroe.
Don't say he gave Megan cancer
(Though she got it after he romanced her)
"Once the pump is attached, creamy nectar will flow -
Who cares 'bout the fallout?" says Randall Munroe.
Some have harsh words for this boy of renown
But some think our attitude
Should be one of gratitude
Like the posters replying above and below
Who can vent their frustration at Randall Munroe.
You too may feel a big hero,
Though to scientists and artists you're zero.
"I'm no Shakespeare or Milton or Faulkner or Poe,
But I know how to namedrop," says Randall Munroe.
- AnonymousDecember 1, 2011 at 4:54 PM
fuck off tard, you're not cleverReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 1, 2011 at 8:21 PM
4:32 and 4:54 = samefagReplyDelete
Anon432, don't pretend you didn't find Tom Lehrer yesterday while googling "Wernher von Braun".ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 1, 2011 at 10:25 PM
985: Randall is excellent at creating straw men. I've never seen that situation happen anywhere.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 1, 2011 at 10:29 PM
You guys saw that episode of Futurama with Fry's dog right?ReplyDelete
Saw that shit years ago and it still makes me sad when I think about it.
goomh, randall, i also know about the time cube guyReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 1, 2011 at 10:49 PM
GOOMHR. I hate things too!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 2, 2011 at 12:25 AM
985 has to be the dumbest criticism ever. I'm going to the xkcd forums right now, and if I see people high fiving one another I am going to be so mad. I'm telling you, I will be so very mad.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 2, 2011 at 12:29 AM
I'm not very mad. People are just sharing their basic math knowledge and politely skirting around discussing the validity of the actual observation. Excellent.ReplyDelete
the forodes do this a lot these days. you go there hoping for an opportunity for some proper rage against the shitty comic but instead they don't talk about the comic (because it is shitty) and just talk about other things instead.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 2, 2011 at 12:54 AM
985, like too many xkcds, attempts to skirt the line between stupidity and willful ignorance. Anybody capable of forming cogent sentences would understand that the newscaster means the senator's support has dropped to one percent (obviously, a drop "by 19%" as misunderstood by the observer wouldn't be a newsworthy enough event to be reported on the news) - this is not an ambiguity experienced by any other rational humans existing in this world.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 2, 2011 at 1:07 AM
@Ravenzomg!, young lady, I've known and disliked him since before you were born. As Stallman he's the kind of guy who uses his intelligence to take everything the Establishment offers to people like him while whining hard about how awful it is. He cheerled for the early champagne hippies who are now running the country.ReplyDelete
@4:54, wat 2 u is clever? when sm1 cals me a tard on tha web it hurtz :'(
- AnonymousDecember 2, 2011 at 5:08 AM
OMG "Percentage Points" is dumb. Dropping 19% from 20%, no matter which way you interpret it, basically means an unpopular pol just got less popular (usually 20-25% of a constituency will support a politician just because of party affiliation; even Bush and Cheney didn't drop below that line).ReplyDelete
The joke would have made a lot more sense if it were a 30% drop from 55%, i.e. the politician is either really unpopular or just took a dip in the polls from which he can recover. There's actual ambiguity there, whereas 16% and 1% both mean universal loathing.
Moreover, no one would misinterpret that. Political polling is based on percentage points. Losing half or a quarter or a tenth of your base of support means much less than how many people (or what percent of the population) turned on you. There are fields where this ambiguity presents itself, like mainstream coverage of science, but political polling is all. about. percentage. points.
Plus the content of this pol's sins is just dumb. The "mix up extreme political views" joke was annoying by the time Stephen Colbert made it the theme of his coverage of the 2008 elections, and Colbert at least had ideological consistency in the joke and used laws that some people actually advocate. Drone strikes in the War on Christmas is just stupid-on-purpose, which hasn't been funny since the 90's.
LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLLLLLLL WOULDN'T IT BE WACKY IF POLITICIANS WANTED TO GIVE THINGS TO BAD PEOPLE?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 2, 2011 at 6:50 AM
@Anonymous 12:54 19% drop in popularity would not be newsworthy? That's 1/5. I guarantee you that if Obama took a hit of that size in the polls, the news would definitely pick that up. What you meant to say is that the newsmedia is so dumb that those basic errors are assumed to mean 19 percentage points because journalism majors suck at math. Much the same way that you suck at life.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 2, 2011 at 7:52 AM
I'd vote for a politician who wanted to give college scholarships to sexually active teens. Underage moms need the most education!ReplyDelete
- That's what sheDecember 2, 2011 at 8:18 AM
It'd be much cheaper to have them killed and their babies ground up into a cheap meat paste and sold to zoos.ReplyDelete
What a modest proposal!!!ReplyDelete
college scholarships only for sexually active teens?ReplyDelete
but then randall munroe could never have got a degree ZING
disclaimer: i am a sad virgin who women are universally repulsed by :(ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 2, 2011 at 10:00 AM
But you're a doctor! That's gotta count for something, right?ReplyDelete
Of course most women are repulsed by you! Your name _clearly_ spells out that you are female, and most women (despite various pornographic films specifying otherwise) aren't into other girls like yourself!ReplyDelete
You wouldn't fake being a girl OR a doctor on the internet now would you!? No one ever does that!
- AnonymousDecember 2, 2011 at 10:30 AM
ok guys i'm pretty sure the joke in 985 is that the guy hears about all these awful things the senator is promising but he only gets annoyed by the percentages thing? because otherwise why would randy have chosen such over the top awful promises? so it isn't just simple goomh bait.ReplyDelete
because he's a hack?ReplyDelete
I'm happy about the milk jokes.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 2, 2011 at 11:10 AM
Haven't been here in a while... but whatever happened to ALTF?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 2, 2011 at 11:16 AM
She temporarily relocated back to her native Burma from inglorious Minnesota.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 2, 2011 at 11:35 AM
She felt she had fully achieved her goal of sucking all the joy out of the word "cunt," and so withdrew. She was right. I know I often type that word out but, recalling the inextricable relationship it now has with ALTF, I sigh mournfully and edit it out.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 2, 2011 at 12:08 PM
11:10—11:35 = obvious samefag = possibly ALTFReplyDelete
I am obviously other people?. "Know thyself!" cried Socrates, and perhaps I did not listen for I was somebody else.ReplyDelete
Disregard that, I suck Socrates' cock.ReplyDelete
1:39, Last Measure doesn't work any more. Most browsers block it as malware.ReplyDelete
But you know, nice try.
Apparently xkcdsucks has given up critiquing entirely and is instead pointing out basic jokes about Megan's milk for a laugh.ReplyDelete
You guys disappoint me. I use to come here for reviews on xkcd that made VALID arguments. Now it's just a joke to you.
- AnonymousDecember 2, 2011 at 2:59 PM
Matt, if you still need someone else's help to understand what's wrong with xkcd then you'll probably be more at home as a baying fan than a detractor.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 2, 2011 at 3:39 PM
@Alt-f Nice discrete entry. Ask a question about yourself while pretending to be someone else. Come back. Only there's no ominous music or anything. Just the underwhealming sound of wind being expelled from Rob's abnormally large tush.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 2, 2011 at 4:14 PM
ALTF, I have a non-stop headache on the left side, above and behind my ear. Sometimes the pressure gets worse and it feels like something's pressing on my eye. When I lean my head forward between my legs, almost upside down, I get a flowing sensation down to behind my nose and the pressure seems relieved.ReplyDelete
Diagnose me.
- AnonymousDecember 2, 2011 at 4:16 PM
3:34 = 3:39.ReplyDelete
Or 3:39 is a complete fucking idiot.
4:14 is definitely a complete fucking idiot.
- AnonymousDecember 2, 2011 at 4:19 PM
4:16 feels the need to post on his ability to identify when someone on the Internet obviously isn't who they say they are, so is without a shadow of a doubt a complete fucking idiot.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 2, 2011 at 4:20 PM
4:16=Rob embarrassed to admit to his real feelings.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 2, 2011 at 4:24 PM
4:20=unfalsifiable conjecture.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 2, 2011 at 4:45 PM
@Annon 3:39: Obviously a beautiful, amazing, wonderful, talented human being. I'm surprised to find someone of that level here on this blog with lowly us.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 2, 2011 at 5:15 PM
samefag = samefag = samefag = samefag = samefag = samefag = samefag = samefag = samefag = samefag = samefag = samefag = samefag = samefag = samefag = samefag = samefag = samefag = samefag = samefag = samefag = samefag = samefag = samefag =ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 2, 2011 at 5:15 PM
- AnonymousDecember 2, 2011 at 5:23 PM
looks like Randall accidentally a jokeReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 2, 2011 at 6:43 PM
matt, I agree. i don't need to know why the comics are bad. i just like to hear other people's take on it. and xkcdsucks has clearly gone down the lazy hill.ReplyDelete
the comics are bad because they were written by one Randall Munroe, milk fetishist and former NASA intern extraordinaireReplyDelete
This is a late response but hey, you all suck and I don't have to respect social norms when I'm talking to you! TO THE GUY WHO SAID IT WAS "HARD TO EXPLAIN" WHY HE LIKED ACHEWOOD IN THE LAST THREAD: Fuck you. The resources you have available are, at minimum, the entire internet, the english language, and the most complex fucking brain on the fucking planet. If you can't put these together to explain why you find a set of pictures appealing, you need help getting fucking DRESSED in the morning.ReplyDelete
@Matt: If you ever came here for legitimate criticism, you came for the wrong reasons. Carl did try to criticize xkcd in a meaningful way, but because he is an awful, worthless human being, it always ended up sounding retarded anyway. Rob never really tried at all, and I respect him for that!
whoa now, let's not go acting like humans are intelligent enough to accurately explain anything that goes on in their squishy unreliable brainsReplyDelete
- SemicolonsDecember 2, 2011 at 11:00 PM
I respect rob for his generous helpings of disdain.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 3, 2011 at 3:56 AM
"most women aren't into other girls like yourself!"ReplyDelete
Actually it's ridiculously easy to seduce straight girls. I've never failed at it.
james you seriously need to calm downReplyDelete
- A straight girlDecember 3, 2011 at 5:44 AM
3:56, proceed.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 3, 2011 at 10:13 AM
Just thought I'd let you guys know that I'm an EE and I've just had a raise to $110k/year. Also I find xkcd rather funny.ReplyDelete
Enjoy your obvious expression of inadequacy.
James, why do you dislike Achewood? Is it too complex for you? Are the characters are little too deep, or the language a little too colourful?ReplyDelete
@10:13, yes i did enjoy your obvious expression of inadquacy, thanksReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 3, 2011 at 11:15 AM
@3:56 Stockholm Syndrome doesn't count as seduction, moron.ReplyDelete
@Ruiqi: I'm not even..what...look, just look at the things I'm saying,and think reaaaaalllllly hard, and try to guess how I would answer that question, OK? I know it's not easy. I know it hurts. But I think it's something you need to do.For me. For YOU, Ruiqi Meow. Will you try? Please?ReplyDelete
"it is pretty hard to get into and i feel like a massive hipster whenever i try to explain it. it's weird"ReplyDelete
i didn't want to sound like a dick. i can see how you wouldn't be able to understand that though
James, I guess that you prefer comics full of angsty whining, or 'edgy' gag-a-day comics comprised mostly of abortion jokes.ReplyDelete
Is that why you don't like Achewood?
- Amazed at things youDecember 3, 2011 at 1:44 PM
Why are you people so partisan and imbecile?ReplyDelete
If someone doesn't like the comic you like, he must like abortion jokes then?
(Help these people please)
@R.: And another thing, CAPITALIZE YOUR FUCKING I's. Typos don't piss me off, generally, but that one doesn't even make SENSE. It's not a hard rule to remember. All the I's in your post come at the beginning of the damn sentence ANYWAY!ReplyDelete
@Ruiqi: Hahahaha, abortion....
do you know i have never been told that, i think. i will take your advice into consideration and make sure to always capitalise my i's in the future. i thank you for bringing this to my attention and i feel like a better person for itReplyDelete
also great job apologising for your mistakes when you were proven to be a fucking idiot, in recognising your error. it's a step in the right direction of not being an appalling human being who gets pissed off by the tiniest shit. i respct your humility
@.: GOD. DAMN. IT. IT'S LIKE YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT ANY OF THOSE WORDS MEAN. HUMAN DON'T ACT LIKE THIS, R., WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU? DID SOMEBODY TEACH THEIR SPHINCTER HOW TO TYPE? ARE YOU A FUCKING SINGLE-CELL ORGANISM OR SOMETHING? PLEASE. STOP. JUST DON'T TYPE. GOD I WAS FEELING BETTER AFTER THAT ABORTION THING AND YOU COME BACK AND NOW I'M BACK TO THINKING ABOUT HOW MUCH I HATE SUB-HUMANS AND NRRRRRGGGGGRRRAAAAAAAAAReplyDelete
Unrelated but you know another thing I hate, that comment where the guy says "lol guys all webcomics are crap except for *random shit that he likes* lol". The whole "most of everything sucks" meme is the HIV-laden pre-cum from the diseased cock that is TV Tropes and it makes you look fucking stupid when you say it. Unless you've actually EXPERIENCED EVERY PIECE OF ART ON THE PLANET I don't want to hear you talking about statistics. And adding in "except for this one bullshit thing that I like" is an especially retarded touch, because it shows that you're not actually even thinking pseudo-deep thoughts, you're just repeating something you heard like a fucking parrot.
....that is another thing that I hate.
Unless you've actually EXPERIENCED EVERY PIECE OF ART ON THE PLANET I don't want to hear you talking about statistics.ReplyDelete
i don't think you know what that word means, sir.
captcha: rearside.
- AnonymousDecember 3, 2011 at 5:09 PM
I really don't understand the Nazi comic.ReplyDelete
So the German scientists were better at making rockets than the American scientists? So what? The rocketry programme was fairly disconnected from any of the Nazis real atrocities. They didn't power them on holocaust victims and, as far as I can tell, none of them were staunch Nazis. Werher von Braun himself stated, after being forced to join the NSDAP to continue his work, that "My membership in the party did not involve any political activities". So the whole idea that in order to build successful rockets they had to put the "Nazis" in charge is absolutely false.
These scientists were the best of their field and just happened to be German. Randall's comic is a complete farce and I really fucking hate it when he tries to make little comments like this on history without actually learning anything beyond a cursory glance at the wikipedia article beforehand.
- AnonymousDecember 3, 2011 at 6:21 PM
5:09, you realize you're talking about history, right? Do you realize what history is? History is LIBERAL ART. Randall Munroe is a SCIENTIST. How can you expect him to lower himself and actually learn anything about some filthy liberal art? He worked for NASA!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 3, 2011 at 6:25 PM
Also, Achewood sucks. I do not understand why I would want to see some horribly drawn dog-man abomination get molested in the back of a van. I do not want to see that. Ever, in any context.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 3, 2011 at 7:31 PM
@10:13: I'm a petro engineer and I made 105K working for Chevron straight out of college. Now I make 120K. And I despise XKCD.ReplyDelete
So your insinuation is a mite unreliable.
- AnonymousDecember 3, 2011 at 7:55 PM
Well, I love xkcd and I make 513.9 million dollars per year working at NASA as the head of a department of scientists who study Randall Munroe. You don't even know how important he is to our space program. The only reason we stopped sending rockets up is because Randall's wife got cancer. It's a very important project.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 3, 2011 at 9:07 PM
So guys I only like the webcomics "Hark! A Vagrant," "Chainsawsuit," and... actually that's it. I dislike SMBC nowadays now that all Zack does is set up some untenable ridiculous construction for 12 panels then tear it down in 3. It's gay.ReplyDelete
What do y'all enlightened folk think about my webcomic choices? Respond ASAP, please.
- AnonymousDecember 3, 2011 at 9:08 PM
more like hark a gaygrant, amiriteReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 3, 2011 at 9:16 PM
"Hark! A Vagrant" is brilliantly funny, although seemingly less so these days, because Kate Beaton combines a strong education in History with a top-notch talent for picking out the absurd things that have happened in our past for comedic effect.ReplyDelete
I think her work has declined recently, though, because her obligations to the comic have been moved to the backburner in favour of her actual paying job. Most of her work these days has either been rehashing earlier ideas or poking fun at book covers and famous literature. It's still funny, and I still enjoy it, but it's not as charmingly good fun as her earlier more history-oriented work.
*hugs James*ReplyDelete
james, PLEASE DON'T BE A REAL PERSON . i DON'T THINK i COULD LIVE WITH THATReplyDelete
i mean you sound like the most unbearable doof. that "single-cell[sic] organism" insult doesn't even make sense. it's like you just found out what a cell is in biology class and are eager to display your specialised knowledge. the same with meme (i'm guessing you find lolcats and rick-rolls funny.) also you actually used the word "sub-humans." i mean christ, what next? neurotypical? i mean you obviously can't grasp what people are trying to say (HOW DARE YOU SAY SOMETHING THAT ISN'T LITERALLY TRUE, I HATE YOU!!!!!)
i AM AN INTERNET USER I CAPITALISE ALL MY WORDS AND CALL PEOPLE FAGTARDS. AIN'T i COOL AND EDGY??? FUCKING FUCKING FUCKINGGGGGGGGGGGGGG i AM BASICALLY A YOUTUBE COMMENT
EVERYTHING SUCKS AND i HATE IT. i HATE WHEN PEOPLE SAY EVERYTHING SUCKS YOU FAGTARDSReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 4, 2011 at 3:02 AM
@7:31: "I work for Chevron and I despise xkcd" is as good an advertisement for xkcdsucks as "I am Hitler and I am vegetarian" is for vegetarianism.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 4, 2011 at 3:33 AM
@everyone: There's not one poster on this forum who has demonstrated himself as in any way smart.ReplyDelete
Although you, the reader, will now be thinking, "BLARGH I AM REALLY SMART I WENT TO HARDVARD I EARN $100,000/MONTH I DONT NEED TO PROVE MYSELF HERE" what's actually true is that you cannot prove yourself here because you have no discernible talent.
A genius, with the exception of those who are crippled in very specific ways, can show himself to be so whatever his medium. But you're all stupid at worst, mediocre at best.
I know what I am. I am just an average guy. But I have balls to admit it. You are living in denial.
@R.: Man, you seriously need to calm down now. It's just the internet, dude! Chill out! And sub-human is the BEST insult, although I'm really proud of "HIV-laden cum of the diseased cock that is _____" and will be trying to work it into my speech more.ReplyDelete
@Ravenzomg: Guys if I ever misuse a word, I never do that and you're wrong. I'm either just using it in a way that you don't recognize, but that is still correct, or I've made a typo. You might wanna write this down.
(Jesus, It's like I need to make a FAQ just so that you fucks can INTERACT with me.)
@Anon directly above me: That reminds me of ANOTHER one, that stupid fuck who made some long pretentious comment and just had to throw "a paper in my field". Practically Randall-esque
You know, all things considered this thread is a beautiful work of art compared to the last one.ReplyDelete
i have a paper in my fieldReplyDelete
i really ought to ask my gardener to pick it up
- AnonymousDecember 4, 2011 at 8:54 AM
I have a paper in my field. Actually it looks like a diaper. Fucking urban foxes. This is what happens when you ban hunting with hounds.ReplyDelete
captcha: unonsc: United Nations Orrible Nonce Shooting Committee
- AnonymousDecember 4, 2011 at 9:04 AM
@James: On the Unwarranted Self-Importance scale I'd rate you about 0.4 ALTFs.ReplyDelete
Man, I was hoping James was a genuine angry moron, but it turns out he's not that angry.ReplyDelete
We need ALTF back. She was the best at bringing out the worst in people.
@Ruiqi: "Angry"? I've been angry before, and it is possible for me to be MADE angry, but I don't think I would CHARACTERIZE myself as angry. This is because, as a human, you see, I can feel a wide variety of emotions! I can be angry, or happy, or sad, or any variation of those three like smug, dissappointed, or giddy. Humans do this. They feel emotions. Then they feel other ones.ReplyDelete
Maybe you all should make a FAQ for ME, honestly, so that I can learn what you THINK your saying when you type. That makes a lot more sense, really.
(also, what is an ALTF)
That "your" up there is intentional, by the way. Feel free to correct it. You're all so pathetic, you see, that giving you something you can be RIGHT about is my version of generosity.ReplyDelete
In fact every typo I've ever made or will ever make was done for that reason.
Are you guys irritated yet? I mean, if you're not irritated by my comments yet, there is something wrong with you. Hell, I'm pretty annoyed by them, and I WROTE them.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 4, 2011 at 11:07 AM
>> James == ALTFReplyDelete
FASCINATING. You see, we learn a bit about sub-human nature here. According to the above James, who is not me (actually, only three of the "James" posts were really made by me - odd) I am making comments in order to "irritate" people. This is nonsense, obviously - I wouldn't know how to go about irritating a group of TOTAL STRANGERS and wouldn't WANT to do so if I did (My comments may irritate some people, of course - "We Are the World" irritated SOMEONE - but that is THEIR fault, not mine). Now, a human sees a comment that irritates him and thinks about ways he can refute it, or he ignores it. A sub-human is driven to the point of distraction by it, and begins concoting elaborate conspiracy theories surrounding it - "He's TRYING to get on my nerves! It's all a set-up!" lol. This is a legitimate way to spend time, to a sub-human.ReplyDelete
"Now, a human sees a comment that irritates him and thinks about ways he can refute it, or he ignores it. A sub-human is driven to the point of distraction by it, and begins concoting elaborate conspiracy theories surrounding it"ReplyDelete
Gotta love the hypocrisy there.
I take it back, James. You haven't disappointed me. Continue!
I am part of (demographic X) and I make (salary Y) and I (opinion Z), along with everyone I know in (demographic X), therefore (opinion Z) is factReplyDelete
I'll just leave this here. Feel free to add to the page.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 4, 2011 at 3:52 PM
"(Jesus, It's like I need to make a FAQ just so that you fucks can INTERACT with me.)"ReplyDelete
This inspires untold amounts of rage in me. It's AN FAQ! Not "a FAQ," but "AN FAQ!" You can look this up if you don't believe me. But the thing is, the letter "F" is actually pronounced "eff" and therefore, you see, it technically beings with a vowel sound, the "e" sound. It's not a word that begins with the letter "F", it is an acronym that is pronounced "eff ay cue" and therefore you need to say "AN" before it, because the starting sound is a vowel! Again, you can look this up online in grammar resources if you do not believe me, but this is the technically correct way. But you shouldn't even need to look it up because it should just be obvious, you should just be able to tell what SOUNDS right, do none of you speak English, WTF. Still, though, look it up, if your insane mind somehow doubts me.
- AnonymousDecember 4, 2011 at 4:20 PM
I find it hard to imagine that I'm the only individual in the world that pronounces FAQ as a word. Think "fack." In my head (as well as many other people's heads, I'm sure) it is A FAQ, so get the fuck over it.
BLARG WHO DARES USE WORDS DIFFERENT THAN I DO BLAAAARGReplyDelete
@Anon 3:52: You know, that is an excellent point! I've always thought about it (and pronounced it) as "fak", but it is indeed an acronym and thus my use of "a" instead of "an" was incorrect! Thank you! I can use this information to avoid making this mistake in the future!ReplyDelete
(That is how humans handle criticism, R.)
- AnonymousDecember 4, 2011 at 4:38 PM
James, I am currently masturbating. What do you think about when you masturbate? Were you masturbating while typing any of the above posts? Are you happy with your life? Have you made a positive difference? What does your sperm taste like? Nodding heads want to know.ReplyDelete
james doesn't know what an acronym is.ReplyDelete
R. is the greatest acronym to ever be.ReplyDelete
every human is subhumanReplyDelete
*hugs james*
- AnonymousDecember 4, 2011 at 7:08 PM
Why does everyone think that the level of English is the most accurate indication of someone's intelligence?ReplyDelete
On the Internet, making a grammar error makes you some sort of retard, and everyone likes to go round correcting every mistake they see, because they'll be seen a geniuses.
You think people who use text speak on facebook walls are idiots? If you actually had any non-idiot friends, you'd know that a lot of intelligent, educated people use text speak.
From my experience, those who type properly with caps and punctuation are mostly pseudointellectual drop outs, artistic liberals, etc.
On the other hand, being bad at math is totally cool: "I'm so terrible at math I can't even add lololol," when mathematical ability correlates directly with intelligence, and skipping it serves no intelligible purpose.
- AnonymousDecember 4, 2011 at 7:26 PM
We correct grammar when we're losing an argument and to make people like you waste time writing long explanations to our simple jestsReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 4, 2011 at 7:48 PM
You must be new, 7:26ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 4, 2011 at 9:04 PM
Yeah, 7:08 is just using a copypasta.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 4, 2011 at 11:00 PM
Sounds like Randall has a drinking problem. I'm not making a pun, just saying he must have totally fucked up his liver if it's possible for him to consistently pee immediately after drinking a bit of water.ReplyDelete
I think that would be a kidney problem, not a liver problem.ReplyDelete
- this is what i think of you all!December 4, 2011 at 11:11 PM
interpret this however you want, it will probably be correct
- Jim PantsDecember 5, 2011 at 12:11 AM
James we are kindred spirits. Are you wearing a 'BADASS LONGCAT' and/or Fedora? I am wearing THREE fedori! That's like triple Rorfag.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 5, 2011 at 4:32 AM
ITT: ALTF SamefaggingReplyDelete
I hoped she'd be agone from this world, but seems tis not so.
For even the Burmese tolerate not that cunt
- AnonymousDecember 5, 2011 at 5:19 AM
Copypasta in 7:08 is wrong. I'm a math postgrad and I'm stupid.ReplyDelete
Today's comic seems like Randall's genuine attempt at making the worst comic ever.ReplyDelete
- weaselsoupDecember 5, 2011 at 6:10 AM
for someone who thinks that not knowing stuff about science makes you an arsehole he sure doesn't seem to care about basic biology. & if there are 2 missing labels rather than one extraneous one I don't know what the others should be, but that one should at least sayReplyDelete
I WONDER IF I COULD PISS CONSTANTLYReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 5, 2011 at 6:31 AM
Is "artistic liberal" supposed to be an insult now?ReplyDelete
- Dicksmash McIroncockDecember 5, 2011 at 6:50 AM
To think, if Megan was able to lactate continously, and Randy could drink slow enough, and eliminate fast enough (into Megan's mouth), there could be an endless loop of drinking and peeing milk! (or drinking pee and being milked, depending on the perspective).ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 5, 2011 at 7:54 AM
Every time a new XKCD is posted, someone sends me the image. I know it's been said, but this damned comic is unavoidable as hell. (Note: If you're going to Heaven there's some other God's hell you're condemned to).ReplyDelete
It seems as though Randal has gotten past his creative, trying too hard, and grasping at straws stages. It's as if he now simply uses the comic as some others might use IRC or Twitter.
Thrice a week I dread exposure to Randal's drivel; The suspense is almost worse than the comic itself.
It's sad to think, "Is this the best you can do?", when the answer is obviously "Yes, yes unfortunately it is..."
- AnonymousDecember 5, 2011 at 7:58 AM
"It's as if he now simply uses the comic as some others might use IRC."ReplyDelete
The majority of Randy's comics are based on IRC/IRL conversations, mostly quoted verbatim. It's been that way since the beginning, although fewer newer comics are based on convos. So, a more accurate description is "it's as if he used to use the comic as some others might have used IRC"
So Randall doesn't really understand biology? IF MEGAN CONTINUOUSLY DRINKS MILK SLOWLY ENOUGH CAN RANDY CONTINUALLY SQUEEZE HER NIPPLE MILK BETWEEN HIS TEETH?ReplyDelete
Nope, because cancer.
"It's as if he now simply uses the comic as some others might use IRC or Twitter."ReplyDelete
That's it! xkcd is Randall's own, personal Facebook.
I don't usually do this any more, but this one post caught my eye.ReplyDelete
Kill me now, unless it's a troll. Please say he/she/it's trolling. Oh God.
Thankfully this post balanced it out.
Son of a cuddlefish, people are actually debating the science of today's comic. Whyyyy?
However this post is made of win.
- AnonymousDecember 5, 2011 at 11:09 AM
cunnilingus is not kosher because it has hoovesReplyDelete
disregard that, I suck cocks.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 5, 2011 at 12:06 PM
Hey guys, everyone spread the 7:08 Copypasta to any blogs or forums you're a member ofReplyDelete
That way we will have a lasting pasta to our own credit
DISREGARD THAT i SUCK COCKSReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 5, 2011 at 12:28 PM
Jon Levi I always wondered why it wasn't enough for you just to like TVTropes you had to be some crazy obsessive fucker about it. Now I knowReplyDelete
i'm serious, guys. i really do suck cocks. dead, fucking, serious.ReplyDelete
Re: von BraunReplyDelete
To the person who said he was a nice guy during WWII, I call bullshit. He knew that guards killed inmates working at Mittlebau-Dora; he ordered one prisoner whipped 25 times, he watched as prisoners were hung by chains from hoists. He was not just some flunkie NSDAP (Nazi party) member; he was a Sturmbannfuerer in the Waffen-SS - yes I know he claims he was forced to do both (be a party member and SS man), but there are people who question his version of the events. My point is, you can't seperate the man from the place he worked at from 1942-45; he was an ancillary part of the German concentration camp system.
- AnonymousDecember 5, 2011 at 12:59 PM
No, I think we should spread the "I don't think it's okay" meme.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 5, 2011 at 1:16 PM
@Anon 12:59ReplyDelete
Ah, great. I was just waiting for your esteemed input. Now that we all know what you think: ::whew:: Wait's Over! Get to work folks, you heard the Anon.
- AnonymousDecember 5, 2011 at 1:57 PM
samefag = 12:59 = samefag = 1:16 = samefag = samefag = samefagReplyDelete
- samefag !December 5, 2011 at 2:08 PM
Hi, guys.ReplyDelete
- samefagDecember 5, 2011 at 2:09 PM
Fuck off, dickhead.ReplyDelete
- Dicksmash McIroncockDecember 5, 2011 at 2:09 PM
samefag != samefag = samefagReplyDelete
Everyone who's ever posted here = dickfagReplyDelete
- Not a DickFagDecember 5, 2011 at 2:26 PM
- AnonymousDecember 5, 2011 at 3:31 PM
I just want to firmly install this thread in the gutter where it belongs by stating that I like pee and I would probably do Megan if she peed for me.ReplyDelete
*hugs James*ReplyDelete
man I can never follow these threads at all
- Dickfags AnonymousDecember 5, 2011 at 6:27 PM
seth = dickfagReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 5, 2011 at 7:11 PM
Do you retards really waste your life and your time trolling a single autist with mildly funny results?ReplyDelete
Firstly, that sort of obsession is one of the hallmarks of autism itself and I wouldn't be surprised if half of you are of Randall' level or worse. Secondly, there are thousands of lolcows all around the internet to milk by trolling, yet you focus on one. And not a particularly remarkable one either! That's some deep psychosis, likely, right there.
Maybe y'all are in it for the community. No comment is forthcoming on my part whether a community of autistic trolls is one worth belonging to, but in the long haul of it y'all come off to an impartial observer as desperate sycophants scheming for the glory of being famous on the internet, of taking part in something taboo and forbidden, and of being part of whatever wretched group of aspergoids will take you in.
Overall, a shit state of affairs wouldn't you agree?
- TheMesosadeDecember 5, 2011 at 7:48 PM
Hi anonymous 7:11,ReplyDelete
I always find it funny when people say we're wasting our lives here. I don't think very many people associate themselves with this blog outside of this blog. We spend maybe 10 minutes a day (if you're actually reading all the comments and making a post) here.
Like many others, this site is just one small stop in my life. (Except for that one guy - Anonymous - who seems to live here.)
- AnonymousDecember 5, 2011 at 8:15 PM
I spend most of my time with this blog loaded in my browser. Every time I've finished writing a chapter in my groundbreaking novel or have completed a section of my current painting I reload the comments and add my own delectable banter to the mix. I find it really helps round out my day.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 5, 2011 at 8:24 PM
@ 7:48 PMReplyDelete
Why should one waste his time following and updating on unfunny banter between idiots, each trolling harder than the last? Any measure of time, really? Even if it's only a few minutes.
Also fuck you, you're a plant.
- TheMesosadeDecember 5, 2011 at 8:38 PM
The direct answer to your question is this:ReplyDelete
There is no reason.
But you say it's unfunny. I find many parts of this funny - for example the creation of an entire hateblog for a silly and lighthearted comic is amusing.
Then again, I'm a plant so I spend most of my time photosynthesizing for you ungrateful axe-wielding murderers anyway :(
ecophilia just isn't as strong as it used to be. that's the real crime that congress needs to focus on =[ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 5, 2011 at 11:20 PM
re 986:ReplyDelete
shouldn't the title text say "drink quickly enough and eliminate slowly enough"? how does what he have make any sense? normally you piss out water much faster than you drink it, so you'd want to do the opposite here.
oh, sorry, analyzing an xkcd title text is as pointless as randall's fawning over megan's delicious breast milk.
- TheMesosadeDecember 5, 2011 at 11:31 PM
Your fleshy meatbrain is working backwards, mortal Anonymous 11:20. Read over what you said or elseReplyDelete
7:11, lolcow. really? and you're using aspergers as an insult? says it allReplyDelete
and how are we trolling him if he doesn't even read this. can you seriously not imagine anyone doing anything on the internet that doesn't count as trolling?
did ed or 4chan link to this blog? is that how you got here?
today i trolled my shoes by tying my lacesReplyDelete
i trolled an author by reading his book
i trolled a bridge by eating goat
this comedian trolled me with a joke
i trolled my brain by waking up a little too late
troll troll troll what do words mean
and if there is one thing less productive and more evident of severe personality problems than reading this crappy blog, it's trolling. the actual kind
- AnonymousDecember 6, 2011 at 2:01 AM
I'm here because I believe hate is the only positive, universal force for change. Love is selfish, exclusive and apathetic. Which married man ever achieved anything great?ReplyDelete
I wouldn't say no to a quickie from Ravenzomg!, however. She has that homely look about her which makes me want to pull her pants down and roughly take her from behind.
- AnonymousDecember 6, 2011 at 5:05 AM
The best kind of trolling is where you try to get a community to defend its own existence by way of posing question that should elicit existential crisis.ReplyDelete
Now if you'll excuse me, I'm done with this aspie house and going back to *chan, where trolling MEANS something.
if anyone should have an existential crisis, it's the kid who's being pretentious about trolling and 4chan. it's not a mask or bait, it's what you actually believe. you may make these awful troll personas but they pale in comparison to how much of a profoundly shit human being you actually, truly areReplyDelete
you are being pretentious about trolling and 4chan. just think about that for a second, if you can even have an independent opinion on something
- AnonymousDecember 6, 2011 at 8:03 AM
Trolling is in the best case what you say you were doing when the house of cards forming your argument comes crashing down.ReplyDelete
In the worst case, you come into an argument deciding that you're a troll because you failed so many times in the past that you know it's not even worth making an effort.
- AnonymousDecember 6, 2011 at 8:44 AM
only autists use the word "autist"ReplyDelete
Look. We all have problems. If we didn't, we wouldn't be here. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WATERReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 6, 2011 at 8:47 AM
Did you just expel water, Ravenzomg!?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 6, 2011 at 9:01 AM
Ravenzomg = 8:47 = attention whoreReplyDelete
It was a mask ;)
fake R., would you please stop making me look so pathetic. what have i ever done to youReplyDelete
what have i ever done to you?????????ReplyDelete
you making me look so pathetic!
what have i ever done to you??????
Aaaaaand the thread becomes retarded as soon as I leave for a few hours. What a shock. If left completely to your own devices you morons would just devolve back to primordial ooze, wouldn't you?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 6, 2011 at 11:49 AM
It's actually quite amazing that you manage to type so well when you have two dicks in your ass and one in your mouth, James.ReplyDelete
- Jim PantsDecember 6, 2011 at 12:01 PM
It's pretty easy actually once you get the hang of it.ReplyDelete
Sources: Personal experience
I was wondering what do people's sperm all taste like? I mailed Randall to ask what his tasted like but he didn't reply. I know he's gay because he worked at NASA which became Starfleet which is where Wil Wheaton worked and he had the pederast thing with Jean-Luc for like three seasons. Anyway I digress cock anyone?ReplyDelete
You all really do have very sad lives to impersonate me and pretend to be fulfilled.ReplyDelete
And I do know what sperm tastes like, because I'm gay and I'm a bottom. And there's nothing wrong with that.
Ignore previous poster. I am gay but I am not a bottom and the only tasting of sperm is of mine by others.ReplyDelete
Ignore last three posters. I am pedo and no-one I'd want to copulate with would be old enough to ejaculate.ReplyDelete
Disregard fake James at 12:28. I'm not gay, but I have been raped in the mouth many, many times, so I'm very familiar with the taste of sperm.ReplyDelete
Mentally strike thru 12:33: although it is true that I have been raped in the mouth many, many times I did enjoy it and as such ought to admit that I would willingly bat for the other side if I weren't restrained from walking onto the field since that time I fucked half a Junior League.ReplyDelete
Ignore these imposters.ReplyDelete
Not only am I gay, I was also raped in the mouth several times, once in the anus, and I also own my own junior league who bring me dinner every night and stay for twinkle time bed time stories.
I can confirm I AM also a bottom.
You guys are very immature.
This is the first time I have posted in this thread and all the Jameses above me are not me.ReplyDelete
I am really not surprised to see comments of this quality on a blog dedicated to hating some harmless but clever and popular webcomic. I post on the xkcd forums and while very occasionally someone doesnt understand the comic mostly the people there are insightful and give some good things to think about.
Also, yes, as it happens I am gay and I am typing this while rimming my boyfriend. He is actually older than me by 12 days and I don't see why that's any of your business but I am not a pedo. I did fancy other boys at school but that's when I was at school too and I've stopped teaching there now.
Anyway have a happy holidays I have a life I'm off.
I can't believe anyone would think that these plebs are me. Of course I'm not a bottom, that would be classy. I am but a simple cum dumpster, an ookie cookie, the center of the circle jerk. Oh sure I pleasure myself whilst everyone commemorates my face with their salacious seed and taste my own anal juices in the process, butt I AM NOT A BOTTOM.ReplyDelete
I am a power center.
Previous poster clearly does not know me. I am not so dominant as to be the biscuit. I am but the rag which wipes the floor under the biscuit.ReplyDelete
Not QUITE what I'd hoped for, I'll admit, but infinitely better than post after post of retards misunderstanding words like "Life", "Time", and "Troll".ReplyDelete
Also, please stop talking and cum on me. I'm begging you.ReplyDelete
You can not be serious...ReplyDelete
"Well, in addition to criticizing Randall, you've also criticised the rest of us who have, at one point, wondered - if even momentarily - whether a continuous loop is possible. We may immediately realise that the kidneys provide the limiting factor and probably surmise that the max drip rate from the kidneys is less than the min pee drip rate that would qualify as what one would qualify as "continuous", etc., etc. Does that make it pointless that we've wondered that at some point in our lives?"
Also, who's betting that James is an alias for Randall?ReplyDelete
Now that one was just tasteless.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 6, 2011 at 3:04 PM
James, pee has quite a lingering acrid taste. Stinging and almost repulsive if strong.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 6, 2011 at 3:09 PM
you are all having an intellectual conversation about a pee jokeReplyDelete
stop it
- AnonymousDecember 6, 2011 at 3:11 PM
We can't stop while it's being shoved down our throats, 3:09. We have Randall super-kidneys because biology is only applied physics thus an easy science which can be ignored.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 8, 2011 at 1:22 PM
Does anyone else think it's incredibly sad that this blog even exists? Randall Munroe, whether you like what he does or not, is simply an artist who is sharing his work at no cost to you. If you don't like XKCD, you don't have to view it. It's that simple. And, frankly, it's a bit disturbing that you seem to get off on spouting this kind of stuff toward someone who didn't do anything to you. It seems to be symptomatic of an underlying problem in your psyche.ReplyDelete
Billions of people read XKCD and enjoy it. If you don't, there are hundreds of other webcomics out there for you to enjoy. There's no point whatsoever in sitting around in your basement being angry about one particular comic strip, beyond showing the world what a sad, lonely jerk you are.
I know I'll probably be flamed for this post, but it needed to be said, and I'm sure there are others out there who agree with me.
- AnonymousDecember 19, 2011 at 9:08 AM
"Does anyone else think it's incredibly sad that this blog even exists?"ReplyDelete
No. Nobody has ever suggested that in the history of this blog. You are truly a beautiful, unique snowflake.
"Billions of people read XKCD"


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Otherwise known as Lot Lizards, hookers or prostitutes. They hang around truck stops and offer lonely drivers companionship for a little while and charge a small fee.
As gear jamming Johnny swung his rig into the highway oasis he noted many Recreational Reptiles hanging around.
by jpg3 October 14, 2012
a whore that sells mass amounts of low grade pussy and blow jobs to as many dirty truckers as possible! aka lot lizard, sleeper creeper, bunk bunny,coin operated beaver, etc...
Ironman:hey empty pockets! that recreational reptile left a snail trail from your bunk to mine!
by Ironman & empty pockets April 02, 2007

subset: commoncrawl


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As I am a Domestic Goddess extraordinaire, it might come as a shock to you to learn that there is one area of domesticity where I fail.
Yes, it�s true. I cannot Iron.
Truth be told, it�s not that I can�t iron. It�s that I choose not to. Sometime back in the early days of my domestic schooling, I had a run in with a rogue iron that jumped the shirt and pressed my hand instead. I still bear the scar of that encounter and now, much like a surfer who got bitten by a shark and won�t go back in the water, I break into a cold sweat whenever someone hands me a wrinkled shirt and asks me to iron it.
Fortunately, after many years of therapy, I can now be in the same room as an iron and can even see how, when used properly by a seasoned professional, an iron can be a useful appliance. However, I�m still pretty sure that given the chance, the iron would bite me again, and so, for that reason, the iron and I maintain a respectful distance from each other.
Often it is said that we marry partners who complement us. This might explain my attraction to my husband who LOVES to iron. Of course, this wasn�t on my initial list of attributes for finding a husband. It was just a bonus trait, kind of like finding a guy who puts the seat down on the toilet and doesn�t pretend he�s asleep when the kids wake up in the middle of the night. Years later, I realize it would have been good to find a guy who also likes to do the dishes, vacuum, take out the garbage, and pick up his socks off the floor - but since I was never attacked by a vacuum cleaner or a rogue sock, I have less of an issue with those chores.
Since I did have a husband that ironed, and a nearby drycleaners that could fill in for a pinch, I was resolved to never have to pick up an iron again. But then one day my son came to me and said he needed to have a shirt ironed for picture day at school. As luck would have it, my husband wasn�t home and there was no time to bring the shirt to the cleaners.
�It�s not that wrinkled,� I declared, holding up a shirt that looked like it had been balled up in a corner for a year and then sat on by an elephant.
My son looked at me dubiously.
�Yeah, OK, it�s pretty wrinkled,� I admitted. �But maybe we can just smooth it out.�
I flattened the shirt out on the counter and ran my arms over it, but it was immediately clear that nothing short of steam and a searing metal surface was going to render the shirt wearable.
�Don�t you have another shirt you can wear?� I asked him.
He shook his head. �We have to wear a button-down and this is the only button down I have.�
�Well which idiot only bought you one button-down shirt,� I demanded, knowing full well that I was the only idiot in the room.
�Mom, you have to iron my shirt,� he sighed.
I nodded. There was no way out. It was time to take control of my fear. Face the appliance. Iron or be ironed.
I went to the utility closet, pulled out the ironing board and the iron. I set up the board, draped the shirt on it, and set the iron down metal side up to heat up. I swear it growled at me.
After five minutes, I started ironing.
�Hey, you know what? This isn�t so bad,� I exclaimed. �It�s actually pretty easy.� I looked at the shirt. �But it�s weird - the shirt doesn�t seem to be getting any less wrinkled.�
My son looked at me scornfully.
�Mom, I think you have to plug the iron in.�
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An increasing number of censoring countries are using Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) to classify Internet traffic flows by protocol. While Tor uses bridge relays to get around a censor that blocks by IP address, the censor can use DPI to recognize and filter Tor traffic flows even when they connect to unexpected IP addresses.
Pluggable Transports help you bypass censorship against Tor.
Pluggable Transports (PT) transform the Tor traffic flow between the client and the bridge. This way, censors who monitor traffic between the client and the bridge will see innocent-looking transformed traffic instead of the actual Tor traffic. External programs can talk to Tor clients and Tor bridges using the pluggable transport API, to make it easier to build interoperable programs.
Learn more:
- How to use a Pluggable Transport
- How to become a PT bridge operator
- How to become a PT developer
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How to use PTs to bypass censorship
If connections to the Tor network are being blocked by your ISP or country, follow these instructions:
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To learn how to run this transport, please visit the obfs4proxy wiki page.
Go to our wiki to learn how to set up other types of PTs.
Become a PT developer:
The links below are the main documentation for PT developers
- Guidelines for deploying Pluggable Transports on Tor Browser
- PT technical spec
- Pluggable Transports Evaluation Criteria
Our wiki is also a great source of information, such as how to get in touch with the community, ideas for new PTs, how to help with PTs already deployed and much more.
Crewneck Classic Womens Long Dress Sweater Cruiize Casual Coffee Sleeve Pullover List of PTs organized by status:
Currently deployed PTs
These Pluggable Transports are currently deployed in Tor Browser, and you can start using them by for SHEPHY Leather Boots Sheepskin Merino with Women Suede Upper Shearling Aida Camel 7rnqrwTpXR.
- obfs4 Red Collar Sleeves Fashion Perspective Slim Lace Bobbycool Dress Female 8gRE4B
- Description: Is a transport with the same features as Coffee Sleeve Cruiize Long Sweater Casual Womens Crewneck Pullover Dress Classic ScrambleSuit but utilizing Dan Bernstein's elligator2 technique for public key obfuscation, and the ntor protocol for one-way authentication. This results in a faster protocol.
- Language: Go
- Maintainer: Yawning Angel
- Evaluation: obfs4 Evaluation
- meek
- Description: Is a transport that uses HTTP for carrying bytes and TLS for obfuscation. Traffic is relayed through a third-party server (Google App Engine). It uses a trick to talk to the third party so that it looks like it is talking to an unblocked server.
- Language: Go
- Maintainer: David Fifield
- Evaluation: Women's Trainers London Crime Supra Wmns Brown 25220a16b wxYwgFq
- Format-Transforming Encryption (FTE)
- Description: It transforms Tor traffic to arbitrary formats using their language descriptions. See the Boots Buffalo Preto Black Women 06 Biker 06preto aaBOqfREw.
- Language: Python/C++
- Maintainer: Kevin Dyer
- Evaluation: FTE Evaluation
- ScrambleSuit
- Description: Is a pluggable transport that protects against follow-up probing attacks and is also capable of changing its network fingerprint (packet length distribution, inter-arrival times, etc.).
- Language: Python
- Maintainer: Philipp Winter
- Evaluation: ScrambleSuit Evaluation
Undeployed PTs
- StegoTorus
- Description:is an Obfsproxy fork that extends it to a) split Tor streams across multiple connections to avoid packet size signatures, and b) embed the traffic flows in traces that look like HTML, JavasCript, or PDF. See its git repository.
- Language: C++
- Maintainer: Zack Weinberg
- Evaluation: none
- SkypeMorph
- Description: It transforms Tor traffic flows so they look like Skype Video. See its source codeSling Coolred Sun Camo Women Army Bodycon Hipster Sexy Green Midi Dress rEw0FTxEq and design paper.
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- Maintainer: Ian Goldberg.
- Evaluation: none
- Dust
- Description: It aims to provide a packet-based (rather than connection-based) DPI-resistant protocol. See its git repository.
- Language: Python
- Maintainer: Brandon Wiley.
- Evaluation: none
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Greetings, stargazers. This is the time of year retailers love, and many of you might be in the market for a new gadget to help with your stargazing endeavors.
Thinking of a telescope? By far, the best telescope is the one that gets used the most.
But if you ask me what kind of telescope is the best one to get, I will likely ask you what kind of binoculars you have. Binoculars are great in their versatility, portability and affordability. And for the price of a truly entry-level telescope, you can get a nice pair of binoculars that should last a lifetime.
Binoculars are identified with a pair of numbers that represent the magnification and diameter of the front lens. For example, 10x50 binoculars will magnify a factor of 10, and the diameter of the front lens is 50 millimeters (about 2 inches). Ultraportable bird-watching binoculars might be 7x20, and you might find giant 20x100 binoculars mounted on a permanent pier at a national park scenic overlook. Because the pupils of young, healthy eyes are about 7 mm in diameter, astronomers jokingly refer to naked eyes as 1x7 binoculars.
For stargazing, 10x50 is the size I most often recommend. It falls in that goldilocks range of not too small and not too big. Since light-gathering ability is the only thing that matters for stargazing (that goes for telescopes too), the bigger the lens, the better the view. The 10x50 binoculars gather about 50 times as much light, so you can see things that are 50 times dimmer. To get the same factor increase in light gathering over 50 mm binoculars, you would need to get a 14-inch diameter telescope.
Tripods really do improve the view, but I am promoting ease of use and portability. Binoculars bigger than 50 mm are too heavy to hold steady for any length of time. Similarly, magnifications greater than 10 will give you a shaky view.
Shopping for binoculars can be like many other things there are bargains and lemons. But for a wide price range you get what you pay for. My opinion is that almost any pair of binoculars will give you an improved view of the sky, but there are some things that you might find worthwhile to pay extra for.
The most useful extra for night viewing is anti-reflective coatings. All binoculars have numerous air-to-glass transitions, where reflections will happen, and your image gets worse at each surface. If you wear glasses, you may know anti-reflective coatings make more of a difference in cutting down glare at night, and this is especially true when stargazing. More expensive binoculars tend to have more surfaces coated with better coatings.
Another thing to consider is what is called eye relief. That is how far from the lens your eye needs to be to see the full image. Lower-cost binoculars generally have short eye relief. If you wear glasses, or even sunglasses during daytime use, you might consider binoculars made with extra long eye relief so you dont need to remove your other eyewear to use them.
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Look to the east right after sunset for several great binocular targets. Jupiter is the brightest object in that direction. With binoculars you should be able to see the four Galilean moons, possibly even better than Galileo did.
The Pleiades, or seven sisters, are a nice naked eye cluster, but they are an outstanding sight in binoculars.
A little later in the evening, look for Orion and other winter constellations to make their return. The three belt stars of Orion are right along the celestial equator, so they will be due east when they rise soon after 9 p.m. Bright red Betelgeuse and much bluer Rigel are positioned symmetrically to the left and right of the belt when Orion crosses the horizon. As the night progresses, Orion becomes more upright.
The Orion nebula is the brightest star-forming region that we can see, and is one of the most rewarding targets in binoculars.
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Wow, I haven't been here for a while - Happy New Year, everyone!
I haven't visited your blogs either – I had a few days off from work and took a short break from the computer; I organized many things at home and also did a sort of "summer cleaning". And because of that – and also the 33-35ºC (92-95ºF) days were were having here in Sao Paulo – I didn't cook much. But I did bake a birthday cake for Joao on Dec, 27.
I got the recipe from the Woman&Home Christmas Food Valentina sent me – the cake was on the cover of the magazine and it looked so beautiful… I really wanted to try it. His birthday was the perfect excuse – everyone in this family ate the cake, so I spread the calories around. :)
I decided to use a different filling and went for a refreshing passion fruit truffle filling, made with white chocolate. You can use the original filling if you want.
We were in a hurry and the photos don't do this cake justice – it is absolutely wonderful. I highly recommend it!
Three tier chocolate cake
6 large eggs
175g (6oz) caster sugar
185g (6.5oz) plain flour
15g (0.5oz) cocoa powder
500g white chocolate, finely chopped
400g whipping cream
¼ cup (60ml) concentrated bottled passion fruit juice
To brush the cake:
½ tablespoon concentrated bottled passion fruit juice diluted in 4 tablespoons water
175g (6oz) dark chocolate, 55% solids
130ml (4.5oz) double cream - I used a thick kind of cream we have here in Brazil, so my ganache was not so spreadable
chocolate curls, cherries or whatever strikes you fancy
Start by making the filling: place the cream in a saucepan and heat until it is nearly boiling. Remove from heat and add the chocolate all at once. Whisk until the chocolate is melted and the mixture is silky and smooth. Add the juice, mix well; refrigerate it, well covered, for 4-6 hours or until set.
Make the cake: preheat the oven to 200ºC/400ºF. Oil a 25cm (10in) springform cake pan and line the bottom with baking paper.
Put the eggs and sugar into a large heatproof bowl and, using an electric hand whisk, beat until tripled in volume, pale and thick (I used my Kitchen Aid, with the whisk attachment). The whisk should leave a trail in the mix. Sift in the flour and cocoa powder and fold in with the whisk. Pour the mixture into the tin and bake on the centre shelf for around 20 minutes, until risen and springy to the touch. Let the cake cool in the tin, then turn out onto a wire rack.
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A skier killed in an avalanche Saturday in Paradise Bowl near Cameron Pass in north-central Colorado has been identified as former Durango resident Joseph Philpott.
Philpott, 26, and his friend Alex White, 24, were caught in the avalanche about 1:15 p.m. Saturday. White was buried about three hours before being rescued and flown to the Medical Center of the Rockies, according to George Crocket, Jackson County coroner.
Philpott was a junior majoring in forestry at Colorado State University, according to the schools online records. He is the son of George and Margo Philpott, who both attended Fort Lewis College.
He was the ultimate adventurer and life-liver, said his brother, Jim. He died doing something he absolutely loved. He wasnt doing anything crazy. ... It was just one of those days.
Philpott loved the outdoors, and he was a wildland firefighter. He was raised in Durango with his three siblings and graduated from Durango High School.
Saturday afternoon, Philpott, White and two other skiers arrived at the Cameron Pass trailhead. White and Philpott continued up to Paradise Bowl, while the other two skiers headed in a different direction.
Philpott and White skied along the left side of the bowl to the bottom of the path, about 400 to 500 feet below the bowls ridgeline, while a dog with the men trailed after. The two looked up to see where the dog was and saw the avalanche release, said Scott Toepfer, mountain weather and avalanche forecaster with the Colorado Avalanche Information Center.
White was flown to the Loveland hospital about 6 p.m. He was in fair condition Monday, said Kelly Tracer, spokeswoman for Medical Center of the Rockies.
There is currently no sign of the dog, Toepfer said.
Philpott is the second person with Durango ties to be killed in an avalanche this year.
Peter Carver died in a slide near Silverton in early February about 1½ miles north of Gladstone on Bureau of Land Management land outside the boundaries of Silverton Mountain Ski Area.
John Duncan Rothwell, 53, was injured in the accident, and Nate Klema, 23, escaped without serious injuries.


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Some call the Nazi persecution of the Gypsies "the forgotten Holocaust."
According to Toby Sonneman, the author of Shared Sorrows: A Gypsy Family Remembers the Holocaust, "this story still has not been told fully… and this lack of recognition impacts not only how we understand the past but also how we see the present."
Sonneman adds, "Without full acknowledgment that Gypsies were victims of the Holocaust, too little attention is paid to the current situation in Europe, where Gypsies are frequently victims of prejudice and racially motivated mob attacks."
Here are some facts you should know.
• The "Gypsies" or the "Roma," an ethnic group from India, arrived in Europe in the late Middle Ages and became a part of the ethnic mix of many countries.
• 1929: the Germany establishes the Centre for the Fight Against Gypsies.
• 1933: Jews, Gypsies and disabled are classified as "inferior peoples" in Germany.
• The Nuremberg Laws of 1935 aimed at the Jews are amended to include the Gypsies.
• 1936: the first German Gypsies are arrested and deported to Dachau concentration camp.
• 1938: June 13-18, 1,000 Gypsies are deported to concentration camps. Late summer, 3,000 more are deported from Austria. On Nov. 9-10, Kristallnacht, the notorious night of broken glass, occurred in Germany.
• 1940: 3,000 Gypsies are deported to Poland, and trainloads of Gypsies are transported from Vienna.
• 1941: Gypsy children are expelled from public schools in the Reich. Gypsies from Lackenbach concentration camp are deported to Lodz Ghetto in Poland.
• 1942: 5,000 Gypsies are deported from Lodz concentration camp to Chelmno and killed in mobile gas vans.
• 1942: Nazi extermination camps in occupied Poland begin gassing Jews, Gypsies and others, and Gypsies are transferred from Buchenwald to Auschwitz to build a Gypsy enclosure in Birkenau.
• 1943: most Gypsies in Germany are arrested and sent to Auschwitz.
• 1944: The Gypsy camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau is liquidated, and 3,000 Gypsies are gassed in a single night.
• 1945: Nazis evacuate Auschwitz and prisoners begin "death marches" toward Germany.
It's generally thought 500,000 Gypsies were murdered by the Nazis. Some sources, however, suggest the number could be much higher.
On Aug. 5, 2012, 5,000 neo-Nazis marched on Devecser, a Hungarian village that's populated mostly by Roma, yelling, "You are going to die here." They threw water bottles and stones at houses where Roma lived. Most of the mob was bused in. The leaders of the groups marching included Gabor Ferenczi of Jobbik, a far-right political party that won 16 per cent of the vote in the last Hungarian elections. Recently, Jobbik called for a list of "influential Jews" in Hungary. In 2009, a Roma father and son were murdered there. Google "Roma Hungary." There is much more.
Here's what Amnesty International says about the Roma today: "The Roma community suffers massive discrimination throughout Europe. Denied their rights to housing, employment, health care and education, Roma are often victims of forced evictions, racist attacks and police ill treatment. Roma are among the most deprived communities in Europe. Romani children are frequently unjustifiably placed in 'special' schools, where curtailed curricula limit their possibilities for fulfilling their potential."
In December, the Canadian government created a list of 27 "safe" countries. Refugee claims filed by people from these countries are mostly considered to be bogus. These refugee claimants will be fast-tracked, with no right of appeal for a negative decision. Hungary is on that list.


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