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Monday, April 25, 2011
Comic 890: You've Never Heard Of XKCD? (i envy you)
[Title: Etymology; alt text: For some reason, my childhood suspension of disbelief had no problem with the fact that this ancient galaxy is full of humans, but was derailed by language. There's no Asia OR Europe there, so where'd they get all the Indo-European roots?]
Jesus fucking Christ, Randall.
Listen, we get it, you're quirky and nerdy and live in a rich fantasyland with the well-developed imagination you never bother using on your webcomic. You don't need to keep making comics about these made-up quirks you have in order to get your fans to fellate you.
No matter how you look at this strip it is fuck-off terrible. At first it appears to be advocating that science fiction movies should not use Earth languages if Earth does not exist in them. If the alt text is to be believed, Randy has always thought that such things were implausible! "Where do they get the Indo-European word roots?" asks child-Randy. "Why do these people speak English?" he demands. It would appear that he has never read the Lord of the Rings and doesn't understand the basic narrative convention that, in stories where the characters are meant to be speaking another language, they frequently instead speak English (or whatever language is native to the speaker), so that the native speakers will understand. In some stories, like the Lord of the Rings, the "translation" is actually mentioned as happening. In others, it's just assumed to be completely irrelevant.
This convention isn't unique to speculative fiction. Fiction that's set in a non-English-speaking culture or time period does it as well. Films like Gladiator, TV series like Rome. I'd compile a list if there weren't so goddamn many examples out there. I'd be willing to bet Randy didn't even consider this possibility when filing this arbitrary complaint, however--but if SF bothers him, this should bother him just as much. And yet!
Once you're ready to dismiss Randy as a complete moron, however, you realize that the nature of the complaint is weirdly specific. He isn't complaining that they are using English, but that they are using words with Indo-European word roots, because these roots come from Earth, and there is no Earth in Star Wars. Except--EXCEPT! Every single word on Earth comes from an Earth-based etymology. THEY ARE WORDS ON EARTH. So why is he complaining about this weirdly specific thing which ultimately means the same thing as the broader "they aren't speaking alien languages" complaint?
Some have suggested that maybe he's only complaining that their proper nouns aren't alien, but that's at least as stupid--more so, I think, because it's arbitrary. He doesn't mind them conversing in our language, but he objects to them not making up words to refer to their proper nouns.
Click that link I just made, if you haven't already. Remember when Randy complained that books that make up a bunch of words are dumb? Now notice how he's complaining that sci-fi movies don't make up a bunch of words--either all of them, or just some arbitrarily chosen ones, depending on your interpretation of his fuck-off idiocy.
I'm going to be honest: I agree with the sentiment in 483. I find it offputting when my SF stories contain a bunch of made-up words. Or even just randomly changing English word conventions! One of my biggest complaints about A Song Of Ice And Fire is how he insists on "ser" instead of "sir," and "Your Grace" rather than "Your Majesty" to refer to a royal, and some other things that don't immediately spring to mind. Their only purpose is to say "wooo, you're reading faaaaantasy" and it's just obnoxious.
And a huge part of the reason this bothers me is because the narrative convention where foreign and alien languages are translated into English is so necessary to storytelling, so embedded and taken for granted, that when you constantly throw out these random made-up words and needlessly different conventions you shatter the suspension of disbelief by constantly reminding them of the fact that they are reading a story.
But I shouldn't be so hard. This is just another attempt by Randy at making people think that he's quirky. He doesn't actually advocate this position, he's just pretending to adopt it because he thinks it makes him more endearing or interesting as a person.
Or maybe that's worse? I don't know. Is it worse to be stupid enough to actually be annoyed by the use of English in Star Wars, or to disingenuously pretend to be that stupid so people will like you more?
147 comments:
- AnonymousApril 25, 2011 at 10:06 PM
What are you, some kind of hipster linguist?ReplyDelete
Raven wrote a review and Rob's is up first?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 25, 2011 at 10:17 PM
On made-up words in a book: A Clockwork Orange was a GOOD BOOK--I had to read it like two fucking times just to understand what the fuck was going on.ReplyDelete
raven was being a petulant little bitch about her review and also i wanted to post one.ReplyDelete
@anon 10:15: nice.
- AnonymousApril 25, 2011 at 10:20 PM
Raven didn't show enough anger. Rob is 100% unjustified anger. Also, he jelly.ReplyDelete
"On made-up words in a book: A Clockwork Orange was a GOOD BOOK--I had to read it like two fucking times just to understand what the fuck was going on."ReplyDelete
that's the problem with rules of thumb--there's always exceptions. but in Clockwork Orange my understanding is the made-up words are kind of the point, and not just something the author threw in for flavor
What's wrong with 'your grace' to refer to the king? It is already used to refer to dukes and was used to refer to the king and queen of scotland until the two kingdoms merged.ReplyDelete
I have to admit the 'ser' thing was pretty bizarre and inexplicable.
Personally, (disregarding the terrible alt-text) I found the comic to be one of the most amusing in a long time.
Just like the rest of the English-speaking world had no word for kangaroo until Australia was discovered, I can picture Star Wars' characters generally speaking English but a word for an animal specifically indigenous to Earth seems a bit odd to me.
I get how it's still facetious nit-picking but I thought that's why it was funny.
yes, but you are a retardReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 25, 2011 at 11:13 PM
@Jonathan, and "a word for an animal specifically indigenous to Earth": It isn't. Yeah, that's hella obscure, but we're talking about XKCD fans here -- they're pretty well always all up on obscure nit-pickery.ReplyDelete
- LuigiHannApril 25, 2011 at 11:15 PM
There was a bit in the novel version of Star Wars where Obi-wan uses some figure of speech about a duck, and Luke asks what a duck is. It's a similar joke except in that case the joke is that there'd be nothing remotely like a duck on Tattooine.ReplyDelete
One thing that does bug me in stories where the dialog is being implicitly translated from another language is the use of English-based puns and malapropisms. Like it always annoyed me in Rugrats that the babies would substitute one English word for another... How does that happen when the babies aren't actually talking? Shouldn't the magical translation that lets us understand the characters always get the words right?
Ah yes, another example of Randal contradicting a previously held belief due to the fact that he has long since run out of ideas.ReplyDelete
It's a shame too, because when he is attacking longstanding nerd tropes he's usually right. But as soon as a few years go by, he's ready to forget he ever said it as he realizes that very trope is going to save his ass on a sunday night when he's late for his comic.
Okay, you win xD
Wait... you're complaining about the etymology in Rugrats?ReplyDelete
Well gee, I didn't think it was possible to be more pointlessly pedantic than Randall was in this comic, but you sure showed me!
- AnonymousApril 26, 2011 at 12:32 AM
Also, a parsec is a unit of distance rather than time. Did you know that the loresmiths later changed the nature of the run so that it would make sense for achieving it in a short distance being something to boast about? I didn't, but xkcd regulars taught me, and they would never have taught me such a thing if not for this comic. So thankyou, Randall, thankyou for this comic.ReplyDelete
- RochambeauApril 26, 2011 at 3:18 AM
Never seen Star Wars... Does it take place in space or something?ReplyDelete
In the news today, SMBC and Cyanide and Happiness did practically the same joke, but C&H did it better!
Compare SMBC with C&H.
How very surprising!
Rochambeau you moron that's Star TrekReplyDelete
I thought both of those (SMBC and C&H) sucked.ReplyDelete
Captcha: Magin = Magical Megan
- AnonymousApril 26, 2011 at 4:21 AM
So what, Randall's complaining that people shouldn't be speaking Indo-European languages because there's no Europe, but he's fine with all the main human characters being obviously of European descent? What a fucking racist.ReplyDelete
My biggest complaint about A Song of Ice and Fire is that Martin can't be fucked to finish the series...ReplyDelete
...actually, wtf? He's set a publication date? Holy crap.
Okay, please, please, someone explain the stupid C&H comic about cell phones. I read it yesterday and didn't get it, but now SMBC has done it and I really want to know.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 26, 2011 at 6:54 AM
uh, so, what did raven do to be a petulant little bitch?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 26, 2011 at 7:00 AM
"....I find it offputting when my SF stories contain a bunch of made-up words. Or even just randomly changing English word conventions!...."ReplyDelete
This is how I feel about the American version of the Queen's English.
- AnonymousApril 26, 2011 at 7:03 AM
"and "Your Grace" rather than "Your Majesty" to refer to a royal"ReplyDelete
Rob: confirmed for monoglot.
- AnonymousApril 26, 2011 at 7:06 AM
I'll have you know that Rob's glottis is far from mono.ReplyDelete
@Doof: Apparently, we, or a representative of the population, has such a short attention span that we either go into a full-on panic (SMBC) or experience extreme time-dilation (C&H) without access to the internet while doing mundane tasks.ReplyDelete
@Rob: Gorram and 'verse, two words that have slowly grown in how much I hate them over the years.
- RochambeauApril 26, 2011 at 8:08 AM
Is Star Wars the film with the giant alien spiders?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 26, 2011 at 8:16 AM
You used 'we'; a plural, and 'a representative of the population'; a singular, as a compound object. Accordingly, your choice of the word 'has' is incongruent.
I has a lot of training in grammar you know.
- AnonymousApril 26, 2011 at 8:21 AM
I've been groaning over XKCD and lurking here for a while, but this is the first comic that has finally driven me to actually post. Randy clearly reads TVTropes, since he did a comic (609) about it-- or maybe he pretends to read it for GOOMH!!! value. Maybe he should read the fucking entry for Translation Convention.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 26, 2011 at 8:46 AM
ALTF you are such a faux-intellectual bitch. Literally noone here likes you. F'ing uppity women. Also you're not even white, you're Oriental; hence, GTFO the internet and return to the kitchen.ReplyDelete
Literally nobody cares about your grammar either, whore. We get it, you're "quirky" and "intellectual", and that's fine I guess if you stick to yourself, but you definitely ain't no Robert Howard and forcing yourself upon the internet is a real gay thing to do.
- AnonymousApril 26, 2011 at 8:54 AM
I can't cook.ReplyDelete
But I do like to do gay things.
- AnonymousApril 26, 2011 at 9:07 AM
So you can't cook, can't clean, and your only known skill is bitching about grammar on the internet. And pretending to be a member of the Asian intelligentsia. And you're a feminist lesbian.ReplyDelete
Good job; you are definitely one useful woman. Who wouldn't want to marry you. Oh wait.
- AnonymousApril 26, 2011 at 9:12 AM
Pedicate and irrumate!ReplyDelete
When outfitted with my prosthetic penis that is.
To which Robert Howard do you refer?
There appears to be many of them.
- AnonymousApril 26, 2011 at 9:15 AM
"a word for an animal specifically indigenous to Earth"ReplyDelete
I can sorta see the proper noun argument, but I just can't wrap my head around Randall's ability to suspend disbelief at having Homo sapiens everywhere (humans being specifically indigenous to earth) while having trouble with other earthly organisms. Dude, if humans are everywhere, there's no reason why honest-to-god feathered specimens of Falco peregrinus can't be there too.
- AnonymousApril 26, 2011 at 9:16 AM
Sheesh, y'all are rather cranky today.ReplyDelete
"...your only known skill...."
What of all the unknown skills? A girl has to retain some mystery, innit?
- AnonymousApril 26, 2011 at 9:17 AM
Lovecraft's comrade. He was knowledgeable in phrenology and all the pseudosciences common of that time; he was also a purveyor of the darker arts.ReplyDelete
He was a bearable and even interesting intellectual. You, ALTF, pale in comparison to him: your intellectualism is fraudulent and your entire being seems despicable to me.
- AnonymousApril 26, 2011 at 9:18 AM
And quit using innit: you're no archaic scot. You're some chinky chong from Myanmar.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 26, 2011 at 9:23 AM
I'm pretty sure you're attempting to directly translate the chinese interrogative particle "ma" at the end of the sentence with "innit", but that's not how modern English works.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 26, 2011 at 9:26 AM
Oh good. Someone just as annoying as ALT-F has decided to argue with her.ReplyDelete
Both of you, fuck off already.
they ARE both ALT-FReplyDelete
the sad thing is, so are you :(
Can't we all stop fighting and agree the real enemy here is secondhand smoke? Look at it over there, just hovering and plotting.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 26, 2011 at 9:46 AM
CP secondhand smoke is just a myth the LIEberals came up with to take away your freedoms and abort grandma like global warmingReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 26, 2011 at 10:06 AM
@David: "Gorram" serves as useful a function as "frell" in that it exists to side-step television censorship, and " 'Verse", by absence of the "uni-", makes us curious enough about this setting to wonder if there ARE indeed parallel realities. Those were probably slated for season 2.ReplyDelete
Also,@Anonymice: Feeding dogs makes them come back for food later. Innit?
- Jon LeviApril 26, 2011 at 10:21 AM
@Anon 8:21ReplyDelete
Go to the Translation Convention page, and you'll see that some troper has already mentioned how xkcd has lampshaded it. My guess is that TVTropes has been overrun with xkcd fans ever since 609. I tried to write something bad about xkcd yesterday, on the Wall Bangers page, no less. And someone deleted it after 22 minutes.
If you think I'm being biased, just look how many tropes are illustrated by xkcd comics.
- AnonymousApril 26, 2011 at 10:27 AM
@Jon Levi: The best trope illustrations are always OOTS. ALWAYS.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 26, 2011 at 10:40 AM
Not true Ann Apolis. Check with the blog administrator - he'll authenticate the separate ISP addresses for you.ReplyDelete
Anonymous @ 9:18 AM
Thank you for using the word Myanmar. Those Brits and other anglophiles in the revolted colonies refuse to accept that the sun has set on the empire and my Motherland is no longer called Burma. And Aung San Suu Kyi is a caucasoid loving cunt.
I like second-hand smoked salmon when I can get it.
You always seem to be quite brave when you sense that your enemy is wounded. To keep with the canine metaphor, I reckon you place your self squarely in the middle of the pack.
"CP secondhand smoke is just a myth the LIEberals came up with to take away your freedoms and abort grandma like global warming"ReplyDelete
Well, that's a relief.
"If you think I'm being biased, just look how many tropes are illustrated by xkcd comics."ReplyDelete
Given how notoriously unoriginal and incapable of independent thought Randall has proven himself to be, is it any wonder that xkcd illustrates so many tropes?
- AnonymousApril 26, 2011 at 11:14 AM
The term trope derives from the Greek τρόπος - that is: 'tropos' "turn, direction, way".ReplyDelete
Dearest Gamey one, how is it meant here - in the pop-culture world that is.
Forgive my ignorance.
- AnonymousApril 26, 2011 at 11:24 AM
Re. Han's misuse of parsecs - I always preferred to think that he was an arrogant blowhard who didn't really have any idea what he was going on about. Same as people using "light years" to talk about a really long time, because it's got years in it duh. When I heard about the retcon explanation, it made me strangely angry...ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 26, 2011 at 11:27 AM
Raz, dva, tri, chetyre - a grammar war brings choate hysteria!ReplyDelete
My turn.
@Aquarians Love Attention-seeking Names: "There appears to be many of them."
to appear to be = complex copulative
many = subject
Now correct yourself.
- AnonymousApril 26, 2011 at 11:36 AM
"And I'm a member of the homogametic sex."ReplyDelete
Must suck growing up with Turner's syndrome.
- AnonymousApril 26, 2011 at 11:47 AM
The etymology of the word 'hysteria' is very interesting.ReplyDelete
"Четырехсопочные Острова"?
Surely not!
Anonymous 11:36 AM
XX - Homogametic
XO - Haplogametic
XYY - You. And that is fantastic, right?
- AnonymousApril 26, 2011 at 11:53 AM
And it's Turner Syndrome.ReplyDelete
You probably put an apostrophe in Finnegans Wake to doncha?
- AnonymousApril 26, 2011 at 11:54 AM
If I beat a 5-kilometre race in only 4 kilometres, I've cheated and circumvented a full kilometre of the [intended] race. So I boast, "I beat the 5-k in only four kilometres," because I'm proud not of being particularly accomplished, but of being a cheat. Happy?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 26, 2011 at 11:59 AM
I'm only concerned about you being caught using a performance-enhancing horse during the 5-k race.ReplyDelete
That would be embarassing.
- AnonymousApril 26, 2011 at 12:11 PM
Re hysteria - indeed. Perhaps Gandall can employ his artistic solipsism to produce a "Where's Wally? With Wombs".
Incidentaly, when I was 13 or so I once wrote "harrass". Since then I recall that you har-ass her-ass. Unfortunately, the same does not apply to "embarrass". Harassing her ass's embarrassing! But only if you're caught.
- AnonymousApril 26, 2011 at 12:18 PM
Actually homogametic just means one type of sex chromosome. Also, your second X chromosome is inactivated anyway. Cunt.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 26, 2011 at 12:22 PM
You probably put an apostrophe in Finnegans Wake to doncha?ReplyDelete
Fake intellectual. I knew it.
And by the way, I'm Slavic, and I greatly appreciate the slavic counting midear.
@ALTF: I'll have you know I've been beating myself up about that grammar gaffe all day today :/ReplyDelete
@Ravenzomg: Good point about "gorram", but I think you give Whedon far too much credit with "'verse"; if everyone in the Firefly world was aware of multiple universes, why can't they just say "best in the multiverse" or some such phrase?
And at any rate, it's not so much the practicality of those words as in, I dunno, how they come off especially in the fandom. Like an anime fan shouting "ne?" every time they ask a question, I seriously feel like punching someone whenever they use "gorram" and "'verse" in every day conversation.
- AnonymousApril 26, 2011 at 12:26 PM
I'm starting to think ALTF has a Robertsonian translocation involving the p arm of chromosome 14 and the q arm of chromosome 21.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 26, 2011 at 12:28 PM
"And it's Turner Syndrome.ReplyDelete
You probably put an apostrophe in Finnegans Wake to doncha?"
>Start's sentence with and
>what the fuck am I reading
>Start's sentence with andReplyDelete
*actually perfectly acceptable
*ripping off my previous analysis
*fuck you
- AnonymousApril 26, 2011 at 12:32 PM
>Knit oneReplyDelete
>pearl one
>drop one
>curl one
Kick it!
Out-analling Randall is like shooting wine in a barrel... then drinking it... then shooting it again!
- AnonymousApril 26, 2011 at 12:38 PM
>pissed off someone rips off analysisReplyDelete
>claims previous analysis was actually his and not mine
whoever is behind altf: shut up and fuck off.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 26, 2011 at 12:40 PM
I miss the days when the comments were full of whiny XKCD fans.ReplyDelete
I've never understood the furore over the use of "parsec" in this scene, since both the shooting script and Alec Guiness' facial expression immediately after that line say, in no uncertain terms, "Go on, pull the other one." It doesn't matter what parsec does or doesn't mean, because the point of the line is just that Han is full of sh!t and Ben's not buying it.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 26, 2011 at 12:43 PM
@ Anonymous 12:11 PMReplyDelete
Oooops, I's a true dullard. I wondered why I had an 'r' left over. "Harassing her ass's embarrassing!" Great mnemonic. Thank you.
@ Anonymous 12:18 PM
I know and I know. And I am indeed a cunt with far too much medical training for her own good.
@ Anonymous 12:22 PM
You picked up on that? Good for you!
You know what Hitler said about the Slavic races dontcha? Careful! And I am a 'fucking fake intellectual' - get it right.
@ David,
I am sorry, I do feel bad having to be the hated pedant, but y'all will thank me in the end. At least this is how I excuse my own asshole-ish behaviour so I can sleep at night.
Sheesh, R @ 12:39 PM, relax.
- AnonymousApril 26, 2011 at 12:44 PM
* is the symbol I useReplyDelete
> is what you use
See a difference, dumbass impersonating me?
- AnonymousApril 26, 2011 at 12:46 PM
"I know and I know. And I am indeed a cunt with far too much medical training for her own good."ReplyDelete
You don't have any medical training. You clearly skipped over 12:26 even though it's very straight forward for anyone who has ever taken a real medical class. I can only imagine that now you'll begin browsing the internet and try playing it off as though you missed it.
- AnonymousApril 26, 2011 at 12:47 PM
Yeah Hitler was pretty much an idiot; he was way too restrictive.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 26, 2011 at 12:48 PM
I use the name Anonymous. You use the name Anonymous. Other people use the name Anonymous. Nobody gives two shits who wrote it.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 26, 2011 at 12:48 PM
See ALTF is a real dumb bitch, and she's being called out by like 3 dudes. That's how many people hate your boring, semi-"mystical" or whatever that shit is, writing enough to call you out on the internet, that's like 1000 people in reality.ReplyDelete
no, ALT-F is being called out by herself. and now she herself is calling herself out for doing it. wheels within wheels, maaaaaan.ReplyDelete
frankly I wouldn't be surprised if she kills me and starts using my account to deny everything
- AnonymousApril 26, 2011 at 12:57 PM
@ Anonymous @ 11:27 AMReplyDelete
Now I understand what you were saying/doing.
Thank you.
I am still learning the Queen's English. And every day, in every way, I am getting better and better.
I did not see Anonymous 12:26. I know Chromosome 21 is connected to Down's Syndrome.
I am a 'really fucking dumb bitch' - get it right.
I know you young people speak like this: "and she's being called out by like 3 dudes." but I was not aware that y'all write like that too.
Mercy me, what's the world coming to?
- AnonymousApril 26, 2011 at 1:02 PM
Ann Apolis,ReplyDelete
I would not kill for an account.
I would not kill for money - I have enough - nor whould I kill for love - mere dopamine and seratonin. I kill as a matter of taste. I like seafood, I like the colour beige and I like to kill - simple as that.
- AnonymousApril 26, 2011 at 1:03 PM
"I did not see Anonymous 12:26. I know Chromosome 21 is connected to Down's Syndrome."ReplyDelete
Called it. What a cunt.
- AnonymousApril 26, 2011 at 1:07 PM
You are soooooo good at the "queen's" english. Oh wait.
I assume you mean British english but want to seem quirky, perhaps to impress us or for the purpose of feeling superior to us. Well it ain't working, b*tch.
- Secondhand SmokeApril 26, 2011 at 1:11 PM
- AnonymousApril 26, 2011 at 1:17 PM
"I am still learning the Queen's English. And every day, in every way, I am getting better and better."ReplyDelete
You fail the most important aspect of it which is communicating like a normal human being.
- AnonymousApril 26, 2011 at 1:17 PM
@ Anonymous 1:03 and 1:07ReplyDelete
Yes I am a cunt(1:03) and yes I am a b*tch(1:07)
You win!
I assume the submissive pose and present with lordosis behavior.
Be gentle.
- AnonymousApril 26, 2011 at 1:19 PM
@ Anonymous 11:17 PMReplyDelete
You can join in too.
Mind you, I am not normal.
- AnonymousApril 26, 2011 at 1:24 PM
I would prefer not to contract Trichomonas. Thanks for the offer though.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 26, 2011 at 1:27 PM
- AnonymousApril 26, 2011 at 1:29 PM
It's the Hep C you have to worry about!
- AnonymousApril 26, 2011 at 1:34 PM
No, it's the b*tchy fat feminist with a superiority complex and the inability to converse normally that he has to worry about.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 26, 2011 at 1:42 PM
@David way up there: Oh yeah, probably. But that's what geeks do, "give Whedon too much credit" ever since Buffy, isn't it? ;-)ReplyDelete
That said, I'll occasionally use "Frell" if everyone around me will get the reference because (a) I miss that show and (b) it's a funny sounding word.
@anonymice: as far as I'm concerned this dialogue is entirely internal. Carry on.
- A Roman CandleApril 26, 2011 at 1:48 PM
Complaining? About a Song of Ice and Fire? RRRGHH NERDRAGEReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 26, 2011 at 1:48 PM
@ Anonymous 1:34 PMReplyDelete
I am morbidly obese.
I apologise for not conversing in a manner commensurate with your level of reading comprehension.
I am indeed arrogant - and for good reason.
You are, of course, modest - also for good reason.
- AnonymousApril 26, 2011 at 2:01 PM
No, woman, you're wrong. I've read Joyce. I've read Lovecraft. I've read Tolkien.ReplyDelete
All of these authors use complicated phrasing and choose their words diligently from a wide corpus of literature, achieving what effect they meant to achieve. None of them were difficult to understand; neither is your writing.
But you are writing like some stuffy philosopher for no reason! Simply for to show off on the internet (before you bitch at me in feminist rage: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/for_to).
That just makes people hate you, not for being smart but for being arrogant. And I highly doubt you have anything, anything at all, that justifies arrogance.
2:01, you do realize ALTF doesn't actually care if you hate her, right?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 26, 2011 at 2:11 PM
I don't really give a shit what she cares about.ReplyDelete
She's an annoying little chinawoman to whom was given a dictionary and an internet connection, quite likely in her despised "Caucasoid" west. If she had stayed home, as her nationalism and race ought've compelled her to, she'd be a farmer's wife in some hellish locale in northern Burma.
I only wish she had stayed back in that little village, where she could've remained hating the West without being a hypocrite, and not chosen to inflict her incredibly stupid and boring pseudo-philosophy on this otherwise funny blog.
hot damn, ALTF brings me the very best hateReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 26, 2011 at 2:16 PM
She's such a bitch is why, Robdall, as I'm sure you know, fat one.ReplyDelete
man I used to be all like 'rr altf annoying rar' and it was frustrating, then it went away for a while and then it came back and i was like 'oh no i am going to be annoyed any minute' and then I was like 'oh hey I actually don't care,' so I was doing the whole 'ignoring it' thing and then just now I started reading how mad people got and it was like yessssReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 26, 2011 at 2:22 PM
Dear Anonymous 2:01 and 2:11ReplyDelete
Joyce, Lovecraft and Tolkien in the same sentence?
Oh dear!
Though I ostensibly respond and address my missives to you, I am not actually writing them for your erudition.
Copy this comment string and save it.
Review it in ten years time and you will understand what I mean. Or show it now to one of your smarter friends.
Captain Cameron!
I do care!
I care a great deal!
My thriving on rejection is just a poorly masked plea for love and acceptance.
I am actually embarrassed (learned to spell that one correctly today!) that I have succumbed to the 'anonymous' types today.
Forgive me.
- AnonymousApril 26, 2011 at 2:25 PM
Rob said:ReplyDelete
"....then just now I started reading how mad people got and it was like yessss...."
Welcome to the dark side Rob.
- AnonymousApril 26, 2011 at 2:29 PM
Oh so now she's a troll too.ReplyDelete
Jesus Christ you're right Rob. This woman's some sort of faggotress and it is not worth my while to listen to her. Thank you so much, O massive one.
As for ASOIAF I was under the impression that 'ser' and 'your grace' were common in ye olden tymes when english wasn't standardized and countries were much more religious. But that really only comes from reading a fuckton of historical fiction and watching the tudors.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 26, 2011 at 2:40 PM
@ Anonymous 2:21 PMReplyDelete
I like that word!
Which syllable is emphasised? You know, so when you are not listening to me I can at least pronounce it in a correct way for others of your obvious enlightened ilk.
- AnonymousApril 26, 2011 at 2:54 PM
I was amused by this comic but then I read the alt text and now I want to punch him in his neckReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 26, 2011 at 2:55 PM
I want to know what ALTF's profession is. If she's a student I want to know her major, where she went to University, whether she went to medical/graduate/law school, anything to shed light onto her most likely unwarranted sense of self worth. I want to know if she really has "far too much medical training for her own good" and why she is "indeed arrogant - and for good reason." Enlighten us.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 26, 2011 at 4:04 PM
That's so stupid, if Randal thinks that SciFi should not have any english words because Earth does not exist, them he could just as well complain about SciFi having any and aspects that come from human culture just as well.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 26, 2011 at 4:05 PM
I'll just leave this right here...ReplyDelete
- I made a name for this postApril 26, 2011 at 4:55 PM
ALTf's avatar makes it nice and easy to skim over his rubbish, but the thread is still ruined by everyone else talking to him :(ReplyDelete
What is the perfect XKCD sucks thread? Is it a slam-fest on XKCD-ers? Is it a thoughtful dissection of the critic's prose? Or is it the possibility of summoning demons forth from the nether regions of the human psyche? (Oh... already mentioned that.)ReplyDelete
Stay tuned!
- AnonymousApril 26, 2011 at 7:31 PM
Rob writes a good review and the comments are pretty muchReplyDelete
ALTF- "I'm so quirky and intelligent, watch as I make a bunch of asinine comments"
Group 1 Anonymous- "No."
Group 2 Anonymous- "Just ignore it. But ALTF is terrible."
Rob- "I ate an entire subway today"
it was only half a subway, thank youReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 26, 2011 at 9:10 PM
xkcd 891: "Hey guys, were you aware that some popular movies have come out within the last 16-35 years? Boy, that sure is a long time. Golly."ReplyDelete
What is that "child prodigy" thing, too? He's brought that up before... does anyone else get the feeling randall regrets not being freakishly intelligent?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 26, 2011 at 9:22 PM
The age bar seems highly unnecessary, and retarded. Also, no joke. He should have included a turtle.ReplyDelete
The whole thing seems highly unnecessary. And the chart format too. Randall has made these kinds of jokes before... I guess it was only a matter of time before he compiled them into chart form.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 26, 2011 at 9:59 PM
Did you realize that XKCD #631 came out almost 2 years ago?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 26, 2011 at 10:28 PM
I've never realised any of those things, and I'm younger than thirty. Maybe I'm just temporally retarded. Still, thirty five isn't very old at all so how is that the upper limit to feeling old?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 26, 2011 at 10:47 PM
"Did you realize that Shrek came out ten years ago?"ReplyDelete
Yes, Randall. I did. And there came three sequels, too. Your point?
Okay, people: facts! Randall is 26 years old. He's not 30 years old yet and far from a mid-life crisis. What the heck is up with him and feeling old? Remember that one about 9/11? The one with the two stick figures on a gray background that was horrible? Yea.
There's a few things I have a hard time standing, and one of these is people who feel old or are incredibly nostalgic at ages before 40. Stop that. You haven't lived even half your life expectancy, stop looking back at life and ENJOY IT, DAMN IT!
Oh, and the comic is actually a shoddily drawn chart. Fuck Randall and all that.
it's not too uncommon for (American) twenty-somethings to start feeling old well before the are, in fact, actually old. weird landmarks like "people who were born in 1990 are now legal adults now." it's sort of a relative thing.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 26, 2011 at 11:08 PM
Maybe Randall lamenting his age is a sign that he's starting to realise he may never achieve anything substantial in life. Maybe he'll move on to something better, or at least try to deserve the acclaim he receives in the field that he has had unwarranted success in.ReplyDelete
Personally, I hope he doesn't. It makes me feel better that at least one cocksucker out there is a worse person than me regardless of how successful he is. That's why I come here to glory in his failures.
- AnonymousApril 26, 2011 at 11:30 PM
Thought this comic was pretty good, altogether. None of the usual xkcd awfulness.ReplyDelete
You know your comic is getting old when you reuse the same joke over and over. "Heaven" was pretty uninspired, but this is just a total rehash of some of his previous comics.ReplyDelete
Joyce is pretentious, Lovecraft is ridiculous with his fake archaic language and Tolkien is so boring that you WILL be put to sleep. Good thing about him, though, is that you can easily make yourself a bed - or at least a comfortable nest - from the torn pages of his dreck.ReplyDelete
Also, Lovecraft and Tolkien were racists, but even that's not helping them.
- Jon Levi's forum-watchApril 27, 2011 at 3:46 AM
I'm willing the bet the official thread's full of people saying 'GOOMH, I feel old because of this!'ReplyDelete
Well the comments weren't as bad as I expected. No one yet has used the tired mantra, and there's nothing shockingly bad that I can point out. I'll just leave you with some 'normal' quotes instead.
"Great, now I feel old..."
"I had no idea that some things came out a while ago, thank you Randall for saving me a trip to IMDB."
"Dammit! I'm going to be 'off the chart' in five days!"
- AnonymousApril 27, 2011 at 5:26 AM
- AnonymousApril 27, 2011 at 5:28 AM
The average 35 year old US citizen around 1960 had a challenging past and an exciting future.ReplyDelete
The average US citizen of the same age fifty years later has shitty movies to look back on and the waning of an empire (which will not strike back) to look forward to.
I like Randall. He reflects justice, and justice gives me hope: his popularity confirms that this nation sucks and deserves to fail. As certainly as desperation and poverty will sweep the nation and those without privilege begin to cry for help on the streets, I shall look them in the eye and ask what they did when they first saw an xkcd strip. Then I shall tell them:
You had your chance to choose your fate. You could have walked the straight and narrow, fighting the demons of mediocrity and unwarranted self-satisfaction, but you chose to snigger at masturbatory humour and rest on the laurels watered by the sweat of your ancestors.
You're in hell now, son.
Rob, when you say you ate half a subway, do you mean that you devoured a good portion of an underground train, or that you messily consumed part of a sandwich shop (and its unlucky customers)?ReplyDelete
this IS rob we're talking about, why does it have to be 'or'ReplyDelete
- GenericGeekApril 27, 2011 at 7:13 AM
Anon 5:28, I take a few flaws in what you say. I have trouble seeing Randall standing up for those without privilege, because he is pretty privileged. I'm cool with people making money off of personal projects, but he's not exactly someone who spent years developing a real product and is now finally seeing some fruits of their labor. He's a guy who throws together three strips a week, and that's about it. He doesn't even proofread.ReplyDelete
As far as the average us citizen having more possibilities than us now, the white and male citizens maybe. The rest were still trying to get rights for equal pay, and higher paying jobs were few.
Also you are actually comparing bad movies with poor economy? Really? There are people losing their jobs and wondering how they'll make ends meet this month. I doubt most of them care that there's nothing good coming out in theaters this May.
- AnonymousApril 27, 2011 at 7:41 AM
@GenericGeek: My implication was that Randall acts as a rusty figurehead for the sort of people who believe they are privileged until the shit hits the propeller. And the more shit your country generates - as opposed to real production - the more chance your ship'll get caught up in the effluent.ReplyDelete
Those blessed with true privilege, i.e. that inherited either through direct injection of money or the fortune of good genetics and early parenting (sorry, egalitarians!), will either laugh at Randall or ignore him.
tl;dr Randall is a petty lucifer.
captcha: ledbut. Grasp onto him and he'll sink you with his ledbut.
- AnonymousApril 27, 2011 at 7:46 AM
ALTF seems to have fled. Alle ist gut.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 27, 2011 at 7:52 AM
I think Randall is legitimately depressed upon realizing he will accomplish nothing with his life now that he works full time on XKCD-- a comic which started mediocre, became promising/good, then spiraled down to the depths of hell. That's why his comic ends at age 35. If Randall is still writing XKCD full time by age 35 I am certain he will kill himself.ReplyDelete
"Did you realize that XKCD #631 came out almost 2 years ago?"ReplyDelete
Wow, THAT makes me feel old. I had no idea I'd been coming to this site for that long.
- AnonymousApril 27, 2011 at 8:16 AM
made up words in a fantasy book are bad...ReplyDelete
But what about Watership Down?
I'm a big fan of early parenting.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 27, 2011 at 9:47 AM
Rob, if you've finished eating the other half of your subway, there must be a guest review sitting in your inbox now. Go publish it, dammit!ReplyDelete
"made up words in a fantasy book are bad...
But what about Watership Down?"
True, but I think Richard Adams would have got in trouble if he didn't find a stealthy way to say "eat shit" in his book. So it's for a greater good, I suppose. :P
- AnonymousApril 27, 2011 at 10:44 AM
RANDALL SUCKS!!! HA HA HAReplyDelete
Captcha:Surap, the sound it makes when you hit someone while drunk.
- AnonymousApril 27, 2011 at 11:19 AM
Watership Down is not Fantasy, it's Natural HistoryReplyDelete
- Jon LeviApril 27, 2011 at 5:12 PM
I made a bingo for 890. Here it is.ReplyDelete
By the way, I don't know what you're talking about but my mental state is *TWITCH* absolutely fine.
If you're looking for an idea to replace bingo, how about Xkcdsucks Wordles (image here). We get to see which words commenters are using the most, and make a pretty picture out of it.
Captcha: saten. I can haz saten?
- Jon LeviApril 27, 2011 at 5:16 PM
Uhh, wrong blog.ReplyDelete
The joke in the comic is absurd, which I think could allow to it work under some circumstances, but any opportunity for that was ruined by the alt-text. I could see this joke working in something like Space Balls, followed by the actors giving an aside glance to the camera and then moving on. I actually laughed at this one, but then I read the alt-text and the joke became less funny.ReplyDelete
I'm new to the idea of xkcd sucking. It's been one of the three webcomics I read regularly for the last few years. I guess I've been reading it out of habit, because I can't really remember the last time I got a really good laugh out of it. The idea that it isn't quite as good as it's made out to be has been creeping under the surface. I remember I was showing it to a friend and I was just clicking "random" to give him a good idea of what the comic was about, and none of the ones that were popping up were very good at all. I forgot about it and continued to read it regularly without a thought, until I came across this blog. I think xkcd still puts out some good comics here and there, but this blog has pointed out to me that it might not be worthy of my regular readership.
"I'm new to the idea of xkcd sucking. It's been one of the three webcomics I read regularly for the last few years. I guess I've been reading it out of habit, because I can't really remember the last time I got a really good laugh out of it. The idea that it isn't quite as good as it's made out to be has been creeping under the surface. I remember I was showing it to a friend and I was just clicking "random" to give him a good idea of what the comic was about, and none of the ones that were popping up were very good at all. I forgot about it and continued to read it regularly without a thought, until I came across this blog. I think xkcd still puts out some good comics here and there, but this blog has pointed out to me that it might not be worthy of my regular readership."ReplyDelete
that is the service this blog provides, I think: it doesn't convince anybody that the comic sucks (nobody ever changes their mind on the internet) but it does allow people to see the elephant in the room: this comic that you've been reading for so long isn't really good, and hasn't been for a long time.
The alien! In the first panel!ReplyDelete
It has eyes!
- AnonymousApril 29, 2011 at 2:10 AM
"One of my biggest complaints about A Song Of Ice And Fire is how he insists on "ser" instead of "sir," and "Your Grace" rather than "Your Majesty" to refer to a royal"ReplyDelete
That's one of your biggest complaints about GRRM's sprawling tumor of a series? Really? Gosh.
- AnonymousApril 29, 2011 at 7:11 AM
"ser" isn't made up. Its just trying to be period speak. If you read any English Early Modern Drama around late 1500-1600's you see them dropping "ser" all the time. It does annoy me though because it is like sticking e's on the end of words to make it sound/look medieval.ReplyDelete
i never said it was made up, i said it was annoying.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 30, 2011 at 12:05 AM
the elephant in the room is you, Rob. You are so goddam fatReplyDelete


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RAVENSWOOD – Ravenswood versus Ripley.
It has a special ring to it when it comes to competitive athletics. It always has and it always will.
The two high schools could square off in horseshoes or chess for that matter and draw a crowd.
Even when things aren't going well in a given season (and such has been the case for both boys basketball programs in the 2012-13) the fans still show up. They certainly did Friday night on the Devils' home floor – Mick Price Court at the Old Gymnasium – for the second encounter of the season.
The Vikings garnered a season sweep of the series by handing the Vikings a 65-44 setback in what served as the regular season finale for both squads.
The win gave Ripley a 7-15 record for the season while Ravenswood dipped to 5-16.
The Vikings set the tone early by racing to a 9-2 lead, thanks to a trio of 3-pointers – two by Kade Harrison and one from Drew Harpold. Those 3s accounted for all of the field goals in the opening period for the Vikings. The Devils did fight back to keep it close by the opening period's with Ripley clinging to an 11-10 lead. Jake Martin scored eight of those 10 points for Ravenswood.
The Viking offense was again more productive to start the second quarter than was Ravenswood's as Ripley scored nine straight to take a 20-10 lead at the 6:20 mark. Harpold hit another 3-pointer, Harrison made two free throws while Jacob Haynes and Chuck Sleboda each scored baskets during that early stretch of the second.
Ravenswood stopped the bleeding momentarily on a basket by Martin but Harrison came right back and delivered a 3-pointer to give the Devils an 11-point buldge at 23-12.
Following that sequence, Ravenswood appeared to be getting new life as both Dalton Gandee and Martin drilled 3-pointers to go along with some free throws. Suddenly, it was back to a 3-point game at 23-20 with 2:47 to go before the break.
Ripley would close out the half by scoring the final five to take a 28-20 lead into the locker room.
In the third quarter, Ravenswood managed to get within five on two occasions but Ripley came up with key baskets to keep its distance. By the end of three it was a 47-38 advantage for the Vikings and Ravenswood never managed to be a threat in the closing period.
"In the first half they played a 2-3 zone and they were effective with it ," said Viking head coach Craig Harmon. "In the second half we were able to stretch it out a little bit. We forced them out of the 2-3 and that seemed to break the game open some."
Harmon applauded the Devils for their efforts. Ravenswood has battled a depth issue throughout the season.
"Mick always has his teams well-prepared," said Harmon, whose Vikings defeated Ravenswood at home on January 18 by a final of 55-33. "He does a great job. They are hard to beat at home."
Harrison led a trio of Vikings in double figures with 21. "He got into foul trouble and maybe only played about a half," said Harmon. "He's playing well. He's blossomed. He can be a real good player next season if he works at it. And I'm sure he will."
Harpold finished with 18 in the game and also pulled down a team-high nine boards. Casey Smith chipped in 12.
Haynes contributed six, Sleboda had five, Austin Parsons scored two and Luke Layhew hit a free throw.
It was the same offensive story for the Red Devils with Martin pouring in a game-high 27. Martin hit nine field goals, including a pair of 3-pointers.
"He had a solid night," said Price. "He shot the ball well."
Gandee had eight for the Devils while Heath Burgess scored three. Jon Crow, Logan Jarrett and Matt Peery all finished with two.
Besides his point production, Martin also led Ravenswood in the rebounding department with nine.
"We hung in there and played hard," said Price. "I thought Ripley shot the ball well from the perimeter. They kept us at bay with key shots."
Harmon says the Ravenswood-Ripley matchups are what high school basketball is all about. "The fans go crazy. It's a great environment to be a part of as a coach and player," said Harmon, who was a standout Red Devil back in the '60s.
Price echoed those thoughts. "It's a good house. It always is. One team came in with six wins and another had five. But you would have thought each team had won 25. Fans came to support their part of the county and that's what makes this rivalry unique."
Ravenswood versus Ripley. It has a special ring to it. It always has and it always will.
You can find video highlights and a photo gallery from this game online at www.jacksonnewspapers.com.
Vikes top Devils for second time, 65-44
RAVENSWOOD – Ravenswood versus Ripley.

subset: commoncrawl


text:
Leon Washington is on his way out. Washed up. He has had plenty of chances, and in this NFL era where good teams have electric kick returners he doesn't cut it anymore. Sure, he has been stellar throughout his career, but he is about done. We need to draft that young KR stud, or identify him on the roster, and plan for the future.
I will never buy that Breno Giacomini is a starting caliber RT. He is responsible for the majority of negative runs by Lynch, and how many more times can we watch him get bull rushed and stumble his way directly back toward Wilson? He has no strength, very little technique, and his nastiness costs us in penalties. He has consistently looked like a turnstile over the course of the season. Against good rushers you almost feel bad for him, the way he gets tossed back. Its disgusting to watch and I hope we address it.
I believe that addressing these two spots, in addition to WR, we will be in great shape.


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Life for Pot. Under Trump.[edit]
Trump's drug war has[edit]
Killed 72,000 in US in 2017[edit]
AOC supports federal cannabis legalization[edit]
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: Marijuana Prohibition Hit Black and Latino People Hardest So They Should Profit From Legalization First. 14 Feb 2019 in Newsweek. And: Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Hires Former Marijuana Lobbyist As Senior Advisor. By Kyle Jaeger. January 7, 2019. Marijuana Moment. From the article: "Both believe that marijuana should be legalized at the federal level". And: Haters. And: Dancegate.
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His 91% top marginal tax rate in the 1950s[edit]
4 Jan 2019: Ocasio-Cortez floats 70 percent tax on the super wealthy to fund Green New Deal.
7 Jan 2018: AOC is floating a 70 percent top tax rate — here's the research that backs her up.
Eisenhower, the progressive Republican President, had a 91% top marginal income tax rate.. He participated in one of the greatest eras of economic prosperity-for-more in the US in the 1950s. That era had lower overall taxes on the middle class.
Make America Progressive and Prosperous for All Again.
As Poll Shows Majority Back 70% Top Marginal Tax Rate for Ultra-Rich, Ocasio-Cortez's "Radical" Proposal Proves Extremely Mainstream. [89][90].
Rich get richer; while middle class wages are flat (inflation-adjusted).
USA. Since 2001, labor's share of national income has suffered a sustained decline. 11 Sep 2018.
The Richest 10% of Americans Now Own 84% of All Stocks. [91].
Lower taxes on the middle class in the 1950s[edit]
Overall taxes on the middle class in the US were lower in the 1950s
Chart. Homelessness is increasing under Trump. And: Inflation-adjusted wages are flat.
Prosperity for many more in the 1950s[edit]
Return to top. Happy alternatives to today's US Republican-led poverty, mass incarceration, food insecurity, debt, ill health, intense concentration of wealth, endless wars.
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Inflation-adjusted wages flat since 1960s[edit]
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For most U.S. workers, real wages have barely budged in decades. 7 Aug 2018. By Drew DeSilver. Pew Research Center. Chart below is from the article. Bottom of chart says: "Data for wages of production and non-supervisory employees on private non-farm payrolls."
The top line in the chart below is for hourly wages adjusted for inflation
Under Trump, inflation-adjusted real wages are flat. Real wages are adjusted for inflation.
Workers' wages fall after Republican tax cuts. June 13, 2018. Tax cuts went mostly to the rich. Should have gone mostly to the middle class who would have had more money free to plow back into the economy.
Inflation-adjusted wages for the last few decades have been flat.
Republicans refuse to raise minimum wage[edit]
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Wikipedia: List of minimum wages by country.
Democrats, following Bernie Sanders lead, propose bill to raise minimum wage to $15 by 2024. Republicans oppose raising federal minimum wage. May 26, 2017. [95] [96].
Republicans in several states are lowering the minimum wage — yes, you read that right. By Matthew Sheffield. July 9, 2017. Salon. And: Missouri's Republican governor signs state law lowering St. Louis minimum wage. [97]. July 3, 2017. And: Iowa's Republican governor signs law overturning local minimum wage increases. March 30, 2017. For more recent info and charts:
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See longer article: Cannabis is safer.
- Imagine if Mitt Romney had been elected President in 2012 instead of Obama.
- Obama on marijuana legalization. [104]. "My suspicion is that you're gonna see other states start looking at this". The Washington Post. Jan. 22, 2015.
Above quote is from Sanjay Gupta interview of Obama on April 15, 2015. Interview aired on CNN on April 19, 2015. [105][106][107].
- Obama administration asks Supreme Court to reject lawsuit filed by Republican governments in Oklahoma and Nebraska to stop legal marijuana in Colorado [108]. December 2015.
Presidents alone can not reschedule it[edit]
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Neither the president nor the Attorney General can reschedule marijuana by themselves. [111] [112][113]. The two of them together also can not do so. See Wikipedia: Removal of cannabis from Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act. See "Process" section.
Since HHS (Health and Human Services) and the DEA (Drug Enforcement Administration) have again declined to reschedule or deschedule cannabis, then only Congress can do so. But Congress removed help for veterans: Republicans in Congress Won't Let Veterans Access Medical Marijuana After All. [114][115]. And Congressional Republican committee leaders refuse hearings on CARERS bill to reschedule cannabis. See: Medical Marijuana Advocates Rally to Loosen Restrictions. By Alicia Ault. 23 Mar 2016. Medscape.
- Wikipedia: Drug Enforcement Administration. See "Criticism" section.
- DEA Removes Marijuana Misinformation From Website After Months of Pressure. By Steve Elliott. Feb 13, 2017.
- DEA Pulls Back From Calling Marijuana One Of The 'Most Dangerous Drugs'. By Cody Fenwick. August 16, 2016. Patch Media
- The Science behind the DEA's Long War on Marijuana. 19 April 2016. Scientific American. Unless Congress acts, the DEA has final say on rescheduling or descheduling marijuana.
- Pot Matters: For Legalization, Set Your Sights on the Senate. 23 Mar 2016. By Jon Gettman. "it will be helpful, and indeed crucial, for advancing legalization for Democrats to take control of the Senate." Maybe in 2020?
- FDA Weighs in on Rescheduling Cannabis. By Ben Adlin. 28 Dec 2015. Leafly.
USA. Republican-led war on cannabis[edit]
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- See also: Holy War on Drugs, Conservative-led global incarceration. And: Reagan's War on Cannabis. And: Drug war causes high U.S. incarceration rate.
|Legal Marijuana Advocates Rank The Best And Worst Governors On Cannabis. 2.. By Tom Angell, Jan 16, 2019. From the article (emphasis added):
|Of the governors who received passing grades in the new scorecard, 22 are Democrats and only five are Republicans. Meanwhile, 100 percent of those who got A grades are Democrats. On the other end of the scale, the 15 who got D grades and the four who received an F are all GOP governors. No Democrat got less than a C.
US Republicans block the federal rescheduling or descheduling of cannabis.
|16 Jul 2018: Republican Congressional Committee Blocks Marijuana Votes (Again).
|10 Jul 2018: GOP Congress Has Blocked Dozens Of Marijuana Amendments.
Vote out most Republicans and their cannabis war.
CannabisVoter.info - Click your state to see which anti-cannabis Republicans to vote out.
Drug war, mass incarceration, control[edit]
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|See: Drug war, control, and Republican-led income inequality. And: Drug war causes high U.S. incarceration rate. And: Drug War, mandatory minimum sentencing, handguns. And: US incarceration peaked in 2008. And: Number of marijuana prisoners in the USA. And: List of countries and U.S. states by incarceration rate.
|The majority of people incarcerated in prisons and jails in the USA are in due to drug-related offenses, crimes to get money for drugs, or drug-related parole or probation violations. Wikipedia: Drug-related crime. The number of inmates in the USA has increased almost 5 times over since 1980. It peaked in 2008. Obama's Democrat landslide in 2008 turned the incarceration rate around. But the USA still has the highest incarceration rate of any nation (b c). The cost of the U.S. drug war is at least 1.5 trillion dollars. Cannabis is safer! Share link.
|Jail, jail deaths (2), jail healthcare, and bail. A Lot Of People Are Dying At This Understaffed Texas Jail. And: How the Money Bail System Perpetuates America's Mass Incarceration Problem. 2.3.4. See: video. Dumbass Republican lock-em-up types can't do math. Jail costs a lot more than unpaid fines. Community service is better. It saves tax money on jail, and on city cleanup work. And: Justice Department blasts 'unconstitutional' fixed bail schedules. Many innocent people in jail. And: Many marijuana users in jail without bail money. And: Senator Kamela Harris push for bail reform.
|The mentally ill. Rundle Won't Charge Prison Guards Who Allegedly Boiled Schizophrenic Black Man to Death for 2 Hours in Shower. Death Ruled An Accident. Documents Show They Omitted Key Details. Florida inmate in for cocaine possession. 126.96.36.199.. Due to lack of single-payer universal healthcare the mentally ill end up incarcerated and untreated. Prison costs far more than caring for them to begin with. For their non-violent offenses three-quarters of Americans favor 'rehabilitation' over jail time, survey finds.
Poor health care in general in prisons and jails. Inmates Pay A Small Fortune To See A Doctor. 2.3.
Felon disenfranchisement & gerrymandering[edit]
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6 Nov 2018 election: 1.5 million felons given back their voting rights. Florida voted to restore ex-felon voting rights with Amendment 4. Article linked below from before the election:
27 percent of all the disfranchised felons in the U.S. live in Florida. 4 Feb 2018. Florida, the state where Bush stole the election from Gore in 2000. Without Bush the Iraq War based on fake news about fake WMDs in Iraq may not have been started, and the only war may have been in Afghanistan where Osama Bin Laden was based at the time.
Republican-led big spending on drug war[edit]
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Trillion-dollar Cost of Republican-led U.S. drug war. And: Its racist application. [116][117].
GOP-led spending on endless ground wars[edit]
Return to top. See: Wars and drug wars on demand.
$5.9 trillion for America's wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, and Pakistan that started with Bush and CIA WMD lies about Iraq. [118]. Interstate Highway System cost $526 billion in 2016 dollars. And: Landing a human on the moon cost $206 billion in 2016 dollars. And: Military veterans defy Jeff Sessions, fight for medical marijuana to kick opioid addiction. Of all the veterans returning from the Middle East, about 60 percent experience chronic pain.
U.S. Republican Party: Greed, Ground Wars, Drug Wars, and Mass Incarceration.
Total US public debt as percent of GDP. Timeline . Starting in 1900. Click to enlarge.
Record US government debt today not seen since just after World War II.
See Wikipedia: History of the United States public debt.
U.S. infrastructure badly needs this money[edit]
Return to top. See: Happy alternatives to US Republican-led poverty, mass incarceration, food insecurity, debt, ill health, intense concentration of wealth, endless wars.
- America's infrastructure is falling apart — here's a look at how bad things have gotten By Cadie Thompson. Feb. 12, 2018. Business Insider.
- More than 50,000 American bridges are falling apart. Jan. 29, 2018, by Conor Ferguson. NBC News.
U.S. household debt at all time high[edit]
Return to top. See: Canadian single-payer universal healthcare versus US healthcare.
U.S. household debt at all time high. Chart below from page 3 of PDF.
2003 to 2017 (4th quarter). Total Household Debt by Type:
Black upward-pointing line is student debt. Cumulative percent increase over time:
Canadian middle class has surpassed USA[edit]
Return to top. See: Cost of Republican-led U.S. drug war.
Wikipedia: List of countries by wealth per adult
Canada passes US in median income and wealth.
Median after-tax income in Canada is higher than in the USA.
The American Middle Class Is No Longer the World's Richest. [119]. By David Leonhardt and Kevin Quealy. April 22, 2014. New York Times.
Why? One reason is that Canadians pay so much less for far better healthcare.
Also, Canada has a higher minimum wage than the USA.
U.S. middle class wealth has collapsed[edit]
Return to top. See: Cost of Republican-led U.S. drug war.
U.S. middle class wealth has collapsed. [120]. And: Just 8 men own same wealth as half the world. See Wikipedia: Wealth in the United States.
When Active-Duty Service Members Struggle To Feed Their Families. April 19, 2017. NPR. And: The hidden crisis on college campuses: Many students don't have enough to eat. April 3, 2018. Washington Post.
Many nations surpassed US middle class[edit]
Return to top. See also: Under Trump, inflation-adjusted real wages are flat.
See: Wikipedia: List of countries by wealth per adult?
Note that USA is number 21 in the 2018 list. Canada is number 8.
Median wealth is exactly in the middle. 50% of adults have more, and 50% of adults have less. Wealth is all assets (money, stocks, bonds, property, etc.) minus all debts.
|Median wealth per adult. Credit Suisse 2018. Country links below are to Wikipedia articles.
per adult.
US dollars
USA. Richest 10% Own 84% of All Stocks[edit]
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- The Richest 10% of Americans Now Own 84% of All Stocks. Dec. 19, 2017. Time (magazine). "The top 10% of American households, as defined by total wealth, now own 84% of all stocks in 2016, according to a recent paper by NYU economist Edward N. Wolff."
- Oxfam: 42 Billionaires Hold As Much Wealth As World's Poorest 3.7 Billion. By Mary Papenfuss. Jan. 22, 2108. HuffPost.
Record global debt. Who will bail out USA?[edit]
Return to top. See: Wars and drug wars on demand.
Who will buy US government and corporate debt in the next global recession?
Global Debt Jumped to Record $237 Trillion Last Year. By Alexandre Tanzi. April 10, 2018. Bloomberg.
See Category: Charts and graphs.
Increasing US income inequality over time[edit]
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Republicans waste $$-trillions on health insurance companies, and ground wars ($5.6 trillion). Instead of paying higher wages, and higher minimum wages. As Canada does.
Rapidly rising income inequality:
A Republican Tax Plan to Turbocharge Inequality, in 3 Charts. Dec. 17, 2017. New York Times.
- Income Inequality Is At The Highest Level In American History. By Bryce Covert. July 1, 2016. ThinkProgress. "Incomes for the 99 percent have only recovered about 60 percent of what they lost. But the rich are doing great. ... They captured more than half of all the income growth in the country."
- Google News search: student debt.
Rapidly rising income share of the top 10%.
Rapidly decreasing income share of the bottom 90%:
And: The Richest 10% of Americans Now Own 84% of All Stocks. [121].
Canada has universal healthcare[edit]
Canada has single payer healthcare[edit]
Canadian healthcare costs much less[edit]
Half the cost of Obama-Trumpcare[edit]
USA could save $1.6 trillion YEARLY[edit]
Canada has better health outcomes[edit]
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- See: Canadian single-payer universal healthcare versus US healthcare. And: End drug war with universal healthcare. And: Canadian single-payer healthcare and Portuguese drug decriminalization.
Average per capita (per person) healthcare cost in chart below includes all costs public and private. See Wikipedia: List of countries by total health expenditure per capita.
|Universal healthcare, minimum wage, median wealth, homicide rates, handgun ownership rates, overpopulation, and quality of life are rarely compared by country by NPR or US mainstream media.
|Medicare-for-all is single-payer, non-socialist, non-government-owned, Canadian-style healthcare.
|USA spent $3.3 trillion on healthcare in 2017. (2.3.4.). Canada got better outcomes, spent half as much per person, and thus has a higher median wealth. 70% of Americans support "Medicare-for-all". (2.3.)
|Households with handguns: Canada: 3%. USA: 30%.
|Median wealth per adult 2018. US dollars
|Healthcare cost per person. US dollars PPP. 2017
|Murder rate per 100,000. 2016
|Life expectancy 2016 (2)
|Under-5 mortality rate per 1000 live births. 2017
|Maternal mortality rate per 100,000 live births. 2015
|82.8 years
|78.5 years
|Charts. Republican myths about Canadian healthcare: See many videos. And: Nations with better quality of life: See more videos. Math for Republicans: US spent 17.2% of GDP (national economy) on 2017 healthcare. - Canada spent 10.4%.
Canadian Single Payer: Show health card, get health care paid for by taxes. No deductibles on basic Canadian health care, and co-pays are extremely low or non-existent. And: No bankruptcies and personal medical debt in single-payer countries.
Huge wasteful spending in US healthcare[edit]
Return to top. Canadian single-payer universal healthcare versus US healthcare.
The Astonishingly High Administrative Costs of U.S. Health Care. July 16, 2018 by Austin Frakt. New York Times. And: The American Middle Class Is No Longer the World's Richest. [122]. April 22, 2014 by David Leonhardt and Kevin Quealy. New York Times. Median after-tax income in Canada is higher than in the USA. One reason why is that Canadians pay so much less per person for far better healthcare. So they have more money in their pocket after paying for healthcare taxes and premiums.
US healthcare spending per person is more than double the average of other developed countries. All costs, public and private.
Per capita (per person) healthcare costs by country in chart below: [123].
For more recent data see:
Wikipedia: List of countries by total health expenditure per capita.
This massive wasteful healthcare spending in the USA (compared to other rich nations) accelerated in 1980 (see chart below). How? It happened because non-profit health insurance was taken over by for-profit health insurance companies. They get a cut of all wasteful healthcare spending. The more wasteful, the more profits. Such as exorbitant drug pricing, expensive medical devices, overuse of emergency rooms. It is similar to how for-profit prison companies have an incentive to fill more beds, rather than rehabilitate prisoners.
Non-profit health insurance, and single payer healthcare, do not have these perverse incentives. So they tend to use more early preventive care that requires far fewer expensive drugs, devices, and visits to the emergency room and urgent care. Healthcare, like roads, should be publicly financed, and privately built. Private health insurance, like private toll road companies, are a kind of middleman mafia that skims profits, and shuffles papers, but don't actually do any real work.
Medicare spends less than 2 percent on bureaucracy. 1.4% to be exact. We need Medicare for All. Nearly a third of our health care dollars go to something other than health care.
Chart below shows the percentage of the GDP (national economy) spent on all healthcare costs (public and private) by year for some countries. Note that around 1980 US healthcare costs skyrocketed compared to other rich countries (all of which have universal healthcare, unlike the USA).
Source for above chart: Are any conservatives in the US for a single payer and a universal health care system, or can they not coexist? Chart is from comment around March 11, 2017 by Dan Munro, "author of Casino Healthcare, and Forbes contributor".
Each 10 million US uninsured equals[edit]
10,000 more US deaths yearly. Also:[edit]
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Bernie Sanders' projection of 'thousands' of deaths from lost health coverage is well-supported. By Louis Jacobson. June 27, 2017. Politifact. See article sidebar for many sources. [124][125][126][127][128].
10,000 die waiting for US disability yearly[edit]
Return to top. Canadian single-payer universal healthcare versus US healthcare.
10,000 people died waiting for a disability decision in the past year. Will he be next? By Terrence McCoy. Nov. 20, 2017. Washington Post. "10,000 people died in the past year while stuck in a backlog of judges' disability cases. ... they can't work while they wait if they want to be approved."
With Single-Payer Universal Healthcare people get healthcare no matter how much they work or not. And it doesn't matter if they lose their job, or change employers. People don't have to show they are totally disabled to get adequate healthcare. People can try to work now and then as much as their disability allows them, and not lose their healthcare. And they get drug treatment on demand.
Republicans block pre-existing conditions[edit]
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Voting Record: Republicans Repeatedly Voted to Kill Protections for Pre-Existing Conditions. 11 Oct 2018. Mother Jones.
16 Oct 2018: Republicans Are Suddenly Running Ads on Pre-existing Conditions. But How Accurate Are They? The Republican Party has worked unceasingly to repeal coverage of pre-existing conditions. New York Times.
Trump's drug war[edit]
Killed 72,000 in US in 2017[edit]
Portugal has universal healthcare[edit]
Portugal decriminalized all drugs[edit]
Portugal has drug treatment for all[edit]
In Portugal few die of overdoses[edit]
Return to top. See: Canadian single-payer healthcare and Portuguese drug decriminalization.
Portugal's drug decriminalization. 22.214.171.124. Based on single-payer, universal healthcare. 2.
USA had 185 overdose deaths per million people. From 2016 chart in article. Also, see chart below.
Portugal had 6 overdose deaths per million people.
Chart of the day: Drug overdose deaths per million persons. Can the US learn something from Portugal? • AEI | Carpe Diem Blog » AEIdeas. By Mark J. Perry @Mark_J_Perry - July 9, 2017. See chart:
How Europe's heroin capital solved its overdose crisis. By Chris Brown. Apr 25, 2017. CBC.ca. "Goulao says 90 per cent of public money spent fighting drugs in Portugal is channeled toward those health-care goals — just 10 per cent is spent on police enforcement."
- Portugal. Cannabis-related links. Also has links about Portugal's drug decriminalization.
Green love[edit]
Return to top. See: 2019 Global Marijuana March and 420 event map
Hug a friend, hug a tree, smoke a tree! 5 Benefits Of Forest Bathing. And: Replacing Vacant Lots With Green Spaces Can Ease Depression In Urban Communities.
2018 Global Marijuana March and 420 event map
The Global Marijuana March is the first Saturday in May. The first Saturday in May is also World Naked Gardening Day. Your marijuana garden needs love too . (see Google search for it). But, be safe!
Colorado's Effort Against Teenage Pregnancies Is a Startling Success. Free birth control.
|Republicans think they can spend an infinite amount of money (many trillions of dollars) on private-health-insurance-company-based healthcare, and have an infinite number of babies, to feed their appetite for endless ground wars, and for more inmates for more prisons for more drug war.
|Wikipedia: Population milestone babies.
|As with cannabis legalization Colorado led the way.. More info. 2.3..
Hemp for all[edit]
Return to top. End drug war with universal healthcare and decriminalization.
- Google search: The Emperor Wears No Clothes. Jack Herer. Chris Conrad.
|12 Dec 2018: Veto-proof Farm Bill passed overwhelmingly by Congress. American farmers will be able to plant and harvest hemp. It could spark a boom for the $1 billion marijuana-linked CBD industry. 2.
Global Marijuana March and 420 photos[edit]
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Cannabis polls. Marches, rallies, and medical cannabis made cannabis popular.
2018 Global Marijuana March and 420 event map.
Flat list. All event graphics and photos. In alphabetical order by city over the years. More flat lists:
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Global Marijuana March. And: By year. Click images to enlarge, and for info. Share links: crowd or crowds. And: Some years: 2018 photos. 2017. 2016. 2015. 2014. 2013. Google images of crowds and flyers: Marcha da Maconha. And: Marche Mondiale du Cannabis. And: Marcha Mundial de la Marihuana. And: Global Marijuana March. Add city name to searches. Search for marijuana march videos. And more.
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|Climbing Type
|Bouldering & Sport
|Rock Type
|Autumn, Winter, Spring
|Western Cape
Rocklands is undoubtedly famous for it's world class bouldering but this should not deter you from sampling the fine sport climbing. There is a large variety of quality climbing of all grades in both bouldering and sport climbing. All the sport routes are single pitch and you will have to do a small amount of walking to get to the different areas. Most of the original climbing is situated on Cape Nature Conservation (CNC) land and thus day permits must be obtained or a Wildcard from Cape Town or Porterville (small detour off the N7 on the way up). Many of the newer areas being developed are on private farms some which have small (30-40 rand)day fees.
- 1 How to get there
- 2 Getting around
- 3 Fees & Permits
- 4 Accommodation & Food
- 5 Attractions & Activities
- 6 Map
- 7 Closures
How to get there
From Cape Town, get onto the N1 towards Paarl, take the N7 turnoff towards Malmesbury. Follow the N7 north for roughly 200km, eventually you come across a large dam after which you take the R364 turnoff towards Clanwilliam. Turn right at the T-junction and continue straight passed the town and up a small pass reaching a dirt road which is followed for about 16km until you hit another tar road. This is followed to the top off the pass where you'll spot a dirt road on the right. Park here and walk...
Getting around
A car allows one to access the full range of areas in Rocklands. The bouldering is spread out along around 20 km of road. After parking there are generally with a number of clustered different sectors within walking distance of each other. Assuming one could get to the DePakhuys campsite, it would be possible to climb there without a car (300 or so problems within walking distance of the campground), though getting to town for supplies (26km) could be difficult unless other climbers provide transportation.
Fees & Permits
You need a valid permit for bouldering activity which is obtainable from the Kliphuis campsite office, Clanwilliam information centre or De Pakhuis on the Eastern side past Kliphuis.
Bouldering/Rock climbing is allowed at the Kliphuis campsite area on condition you stay at CapeNature premises – either the campsite or one of the three cottages. The rest of the area is excluded from these terms and a permit is required.
Permits are R60/day per person or R270/week per person (Excludes Wild Cards)
Accommodation & Food
Clanwilliam is the nearest town to resupply and is located about 20 minutes back down the road. It has everything you'll need in terms of camping, internet, restaurants and food but no climbing gear. Beancas currently has three computers for internet (slow but not horribly so)and the the gas station before the Shell has two.
Climbers generally either rent a house/cottage or camp. Most of the campground have cottages available for rent.
Currently, as of August 2008, the camping based climbing scene is centered at De Pakhuys with a large number of international climbers staying here. De Pakhuys (phone 027 482 1468 or 027 482 1879) offers camping and cottages. It is 26km from Clanwilliam on the right after the paved road turns to dirt again, and bouldering area is on the farm. As of August 2008, camping is 40 Rand a night with a discount of 10 Rand if you stay over 7 days. There are flush toilets, hot showers, electricity, a fridge, sinks for dishwashing, a covered communal braai (BBQ) area, firewood, and wi-fi at the campsite. The camping also includes free access to the bouldering areas surrounding the campground, which normally has a fee of 30 Rand for access. Chalk can be purchased here and bouldering mats are for hire.
Alpha Excelsior Guest Farm is also a great alternative. It is down the other side of the pass about 1km from the ending of the tar road. Accommodation consists of self catering cottages (with optional breakfast) at R400 to R600 per cottage per night (April 2006). Contact Connie and Liz at email@example.com or phone 027 482 2700.
Another alternative is Klein Kliphuis (phone 027 482 2564) which offers camping and self-catering accommodation. Klein Kliphuis is about 11km from Clanwilliam (i.e., closer to Clanwilliam than the Kliphuis campsite). Rates are R30 per person per night (August 2008). This campsite is less sheltered from wind than the Kliphuis campsite.
If it opens again, the best place to stay would be the Kliphuis campsite (sites are R90/night). The campsite is just next to the Pakhuis Pass directly after the road changes from dirt to pavement at about 17km. Unfortunately, this campsite is currently closed (July 2007, August 2008). From talking to the farmer across the road it sounds like the campground will be closed until new management is found.
There are a number of supermarkets and restaurants in Clanwilliam, about 17km away. The supermarkets generally close around 7pm though basic supplies can be purchased at the gas station next to DeKelders until 9pm. There is also a butcher selling fresh meat, biltong and even Ostrich Eggs (feeds 9 people) in town that closes at 5pm.
Cooking equipment can be purchased in Clanwilliam. The fuels Benzene, also known as white gas, and Paraffin, known as Kerosene can be bought in small quantities at the SuperSpar supermarket on the main street in town. Bulk quantities can be purchased at AgriMark, also known as the co-op which is on the right fork of the main road near the PriceClub supermarket. Gas-cartridges can be purchased there as well.
There are also a couple of restaurants in Clanwilliam with the 'Olifants Huis' (steak & pasta), Beancas (pizza & coffee) and De Kelder (burgers, beer & pizza)being my favorites.
The campsites also sell minimal amounts of basics at exhorbitant prices.
Attractions & Activities
- Black Shadow area
The Black Shadow area in Rocklands has been closed down due to graffiti on the boulders. MCSA is in communication with Klein Kliphuis and will be working on regaining access to this area via more effective means of keeping it clean and looking after it. In the meantime, we ask that you please do not climb at the Black Shadow area until further notice and kindly inform any other boulderers you meet who are intending to go there who might not be aware of the closure. We appreciate your compliance with the decision of the landowners to close this area for the time being.
Classic Routes
- Rubik's Cube (19)
- The Arête/ First Impressions (21)
- Orange Plasma (21)
- Ceder Rouge (24)
- Cattle Rustler (20)
Rocklands Sport Climbing Areas
Rocklands Sport Climbing - Park as for Roadside Bouldering
- Crags included: Adultworld, Biscuit Wall, Black Slab, Cattle Rustler Area, Cedar Rouge Boulder, Chappelle Rock, Orange Plasma Wall, Outback Area, Rubik's Cube Wall, Skinner Boulder, Sunblock, The Bastille, The Fortress, The Island, Wildwest Wall
Bouldering Areas
Road Crew|Bouldering - Road Crew
Bouldering - De Pakhuys
More Info
Some of the routes (e.g. Alto Rouge 27 on the Sun Block) have really dodgy bolts. Be careful!
Bolting is allowed at Rocklands however a process needs to be followed - failure to comply to these regulations will result in the area being closed. The procedure to bolt in Rocklands can be found here: http://alewis.its.uct.ac.za/mcsa/rock/manplan.html
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the raptor thing used to be funny, now it's just so laborious. Does Randall think anything he says about Raptors will be funny, because ha ha, "raptors!"
what's crazy is, this isn't even the first joke about jurassic park and genetically altering someone's DNA to better fit your needs.
But let's talk about something else. xkcd makes a point, fairly often, of getting mad at people who don't understand science, or choose to forgo the extra work needed to understand it. You see this in comics that lecture people on how numbers work, or the people who want to sensationalize the Gulf Coast oil spill, or make fun of twitterers who don't know how Swine Flu works, or mock a president's misstatement from five decades ago. All very nice and superior. And then he comes in with this comic that's all like "Just turn on the gene for dwarfism!" like that's a thing you can do! Come on, man! "Activate the gene for extreme dwarfism" is as bad as those movies where people demand that blurry photos be enhanced (or my favorite, "uncropped").
Now some silly people will probably say that the point of this comic is that such a thing is overly simplistic, and Randall isn't endorsing the idea. But I think that's wrong - I think Randall just doesn't care. The point of this comic is to recontextualize Jurassic Park in a way where a previously terrifying idea - raptors on the loose! - is shifted to a minor annoyance - ugh, stupid raptors are out again... . To say that the joke is that you can't do that is to undermine everything actually written in the comic. Clearly, there are only some types of science that Randall has any respect for.


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