1861 and 1862
Thank goodness, just when I was feeling guilty about not having a chance to complain about 1861 in time, Randall does me a favor and completes the most amazingly self-parodic diptych in the entire run of XKCD.
1861 is remarkably condescending and bitchy, especially coming from the guy who wrote 1053 (which was condescending and bitchy in its own way). You don't get to preen about what a generous soul you are and then turn around and sneer at people for being exuberant and curious about new things they're learning. What happened to wanting to spend time around people learning about science? Or bragging about watching NOAA livestreams, so as to commit onanism and exhibitionism simultaneously? No, much more important for Randall Munroe, NASA Engineer (Ret.), to get into some abysmally stupid dick-measuring contest with people who haven't taken 400-level physics courses because they are college freshmen.
To follow this up with 1862-- a catalogue of unfunny jokes every Physics 101 student comes up with independently-- is really a stroke of genius. Clearly I've misjudged Randall; he's still got it after all these years.
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2652 Self-deprecation can't last forever; at some point you have to actually be good at your job
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2651 It's hard to be as smart as Randall, because you become aware of so many conflicting threats and demands you have to keep in bala...
"......most amazingly self-parodic diptych in the entire run....."
ReplyDeleteA "diptych" has two panels - hence the Greek adverbial prefix "di". From what I am able to discern, Comic 1861 has but 1 panel, and one panel only. Well fuck me from behind with a conoidal manifestation of Carl's and/or Rob's calcified sense of humour, but yins is one Thalidomide stump-sucking and prolapsed cunt. And no mistake.
"......a catalogue of unfunny jokes every Physics 101 student comes up with independently......"
"comes up with" ???!!!???
What hideous rape of the Queen's English is that? A phrasal verb ending in not one, but TWO prepositions?
Ending a sentence - or phrasal verb - with a preposition is something up with which Sir Winston and I will not put!
"....a catalogue of unfunny jokes up with which every Physics 101 student independently comes....."
Sounds better. Innit?
Comic 1862 would have been better had Mr. XKCD used a reference to Scoville Units instead of chili-pepper icons to designate "Heat" - klassy as fook that way.
Innit?
Thanks for spelling the word "catalogue" correctly. Youse ain't half bad I reckon.
1861 and 1862 combined are a diptych. Also, I wouldn't trust the "Queen's English" if it's the one that codifies "aluminium" over "aluminum." (:
DeleteNow THAT'S the kind of comment I remember from classic XKCD Sucks! Maybe there's hope for this project after all!
DeleteDearest Ms. Miguel Dominguez,
DeletePlease be advised that El Barbudo who should pixellate a punctuation "happy face" at the end of a declarative sentence are nowt but hirsute, thrush-festooned cunts.
And no mistake.
Innit?
Query?
Do you abide the Noah Webster abomination of spelling conventions the hated Yankee applies to the written form of the Germanic language known as English?
Well, you do know that unlettered and innumerate Noah cunt wanted to spell the plural of woman as "wimmen"?
It's bad enough his Dictionary royally fucked the centuries old etymologies of various words, but wimmen? The man's a tosser!