tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post4562393240290047405..comments2024-03-17T05:03:46.056-07:00Comments on xkcd sucks: Comic 737: Dated HumorCarlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01074589998141327538noreply@blogger.comBlogger89125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-50262099160149073262010-05-15T06:44:10.207-07:002010-05-15T06:44:10.207-07:00Rob has demonstrated once again that he's noth...Rob has demonstrated once again that he's nothing more than a fat communist who will never get laid.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-70721521592184255192010-05-12T16:24:07.053-07:002010-05-12T16:24:07.053-07:00in the event anyone were still looking for a solid...in the event anyone were still looking for a solid example of humans doing self-contradictory things without the faintest hint of irony, I invite them to look at our dear cuddlefish's allegedly final missive.<br /><br />here he makes the common assertion that "I don't care what you have to say." this is certainly not a universally false premise--it is largely true, for instance, that the standard internet insults in the key of lacking a girlfriend or a life or etc. are pretty much universally ignored, as they are entirely baseless. but imagine, if you will, someone who repeatedly returns to convince the same person that he does, in fact, have a girlfriend/life/etc., asserting that he does not care that this person keeps saying he has no girlfriend/life/etc.<br /><br />clearly he does care, or he would not bother responding. <i>(I am reminded of a recent discussion in which some of the many idiot fucks who comment on this blog mistook the word 'caring' as in 'being something other than indifferent towards, as in "I care if it rains today," for 'caring' as in 'being deeply affected by, as in "I care about my sister."')</i> it may be nothing more than caring because his poorly crafted attempts at irony are failing to accomplish his intention, or that he is annoyed that someone keeps making assertions that are not true, but a claim of unconcern is disingenuous at best.rshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15828938843801425383noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-26773021874888405052010-05-12T13:36:58.458-07:002010-05-12T13:36:58.458-07:00Start out jaded and have that attitude reinforced ...Start out jaded and have that attitude reinforced or become jaded over time, it amounts to the same thing.<br /><br />We appear to have quite the symbiotic relationship here. My unconcern for your assertion of superiority over me gives me a certain sense of personal power, while my responses are apparently perpetuating your own notion of being above the common chaff. It's delightful. Unfortunately, it must end here. I do have a disturbing amount of free time, but even I have my limits. I have other pointless discussions to partake of, after all.<br /><br />Enjoy having the last word. I promise I will come back to read it, and you can imagine my reaction in whatever way you see fit.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-12935012826432241172010-05-12T12:41:49.673-07:002010-05-12T12:41:49.673-07:00it's not a tale of becoming jaded. once again ...it's not a tale of becoming jaded. once again you demonstrate a terrible command of language. it's a tale of being unwilling to treat those who act in every way like one of the endless hordes of mindless fucks that post on the blog as if there is a chance in hell they are not, in fact, mindless fucks. at no point have I assumed good faith on the part of the anonymous commenters here. thus far my strategy has not failed me.<br /><br />treating you like a mindless fuck has its advantages, see. those of you who prove to actually be mindless fucks take offense and argue and whine about how much of a jerk I'm being, or say that the fact that I insulted them proves that they're right, or other stupid shit like that, ultimately proving my assumption right. those that are actually worthwhile to talk to are usually smart enough to figure out that, if they want to be treated like an intelligent human, they'd better start acting like one. once they do they find the discourse to be agreeable.<br /><br />sadly you seem to have failed the test. but keep trying your incredibly subtle attempts at irony if you like! it's rare enough to see cuddlefish who even know what irony is, so it's extra funny when they know what it is and are <i>incredibly bad at it.</i>rshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15828938843801425383noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-65915694034697516932010-05-12T12:15:57.957-07:002010-05-12T12:15:57.957-07:00*Your. Yes, I am not much of a typist at all.*Your. Yes, I am not much of a typist at all.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-41873791471295014672010-05-12T12:14:52.074-07:002010-05-12T12:14:52.074-07:00You tale of becoming jaded after a long history of...You tale of becoming jaded after a long history of feeding trolls is truly heartbreaking, but I really don't think it justifies being an arrogant jerk. Fortunately your attitude isn't my problem any more than my opinion of it is likely to concern you, so it can just be left at that.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-34747480311189266212010-05-12T12:06:32.128-07:002010-05-12T12:06:32.128-07:00oh no, someone has discovered that i dislike capit...oh no, someone has discovered that i dislike capitalizing things because the aesthetic bothers me, and intentionally avoid capitalizing walls of text to make them harder to read <i>what do i do</i>rshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15828938843801425383noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-76328575625758048952010-05-12T05:04:46.692-07:002010-05-12T05:04:46.692-07:00rob it would be easier to swallow what you're ...rob it would be easier to swallow what you're saying about illiteracy if you didn't seem to have an on-again-off-again relationship with your shift key<br /><br />(shit, do I use a :) or a ;) after that?)<br /><br /><em>which is more ironic</em>Simon Robertshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17656417618699122533noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-34214444774250287352010-05-12T00:57:27.208-07:002010-05-12T00:57:27.208-07:00occam's razor, see. the vast majority of peopl...occam's razor, see. the vast majority of people who comment here anonymously are complete imbeciles. they very frequently claim that they don't have time to do things, usually, to establish themselves as far too important or busy to involve themselves with the conversations here. <i>(I should probably here note that there is never an attempt to establish what they are so busy doing--we are left to assume that it is spending time with THEIR GIRLFRIEND, with whom they totally have sex all the time, it's a shame you couldn't meet her when she was in town, but they were too busy having sex to be social, because she is THEIR GIRLFRIEND and they constantly have sex. it is also possible they are super important scientists and programmers and college professors, who are too busy doing very intelligent and important and high-paying work. the one exception to this, of course, was Ryan Learn, hero among men who claimed to be an editor at an undefined scientific journal. it was later revealed that he was a glorified proofreader who mostly handled formatting in Latex or whatever, and later still that he was actually just a college freshman at FSU who possibly interned at his college paper. Ryan Learn will truly be missed.)</i> endless hordes of mindless cuddlefish are constantly saying, without a trace of irony, saying that we are wasting our time here, that we have no lives, and that they, unlike us, have no time to waste on such things.<br /><br />it is always better to assume that an anonymous fucktard is, in fact, an anonymous fucktard, and not someone whose carefully wrought irony is wrapped in an incredibly poorly crafted sentence. genuinely it's disingenuous, of course--like Chrissy's little tirade about how I am racist and classist and sexist and a rape apologist and hate science. so "I don't have time to go back and read the alt texts" is generally code for "I'm wrong and don't want to admit it so I'm just going to act arch so you will hopefully feel inferior for having wasted your time."<br /><br />humans are not rational creatures. they never have been and they never will be. (if you are for some reason still laboring under that delusion I suggest you start watching American politics for a day or two.) <br /><br />which is to say: if you are posting anonymously, you do not get the benefit of the doubt. I will assume that you are dumb as fuck, because chances are, dumb as fuck is what you are.rshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15828938843801425383noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-15310962314092191162010-05-11T23:21:39.315-07:002010-05-11T23:21:39.315-07:00Rob, I really don't know how you can belittle ...Rob, I really don't know how you can belittle the quality of other people's literacy when you are apparently incapable of detecting obvious self-deprecation. I was called on having failed to read the alt-text, and admitted defeat by poking gentle fun at myself on that account. I am amazed that you continue to entertain the illusion that there was ever a need to explicate what I had carefully made evident within my own text, and that you failed to realise that my remark about subtlety was in fact pointing out your failure to realise my intention.<br /><br />You really thought the inherent contradiction was a mistake and that detecting it was a stroke of ingenuity on your part? Do you actually think it is possible for someone to feel that rushing over here to complain about XKCD is time well spent, or that the microsecond it takes to read an alt-text is really a great expenditure of time? This is funny. You're funny.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-65779980841102886102010-05-11T14:26:01.100-07:002010-05-11T14:26:01.100-07:00aw, is Chrissy butthurt that someone complained th...aw, is Chrissy butthurt that someone complained that people these days revel in their idiocy instead of complaining about racism &c? poor ickle baby. and sadly he demonstrates the same problem about which I am complaining--namely, that he interprets phrases such as "one of the greatest tragedies," a phrase which obviously implies a plurality of tragedies, as saying something more akin to "the worst thing." he is also apparently incapable of grasping basic rhetorical flourishes such as hyperbole. another aspect of that selfsame tragedy--we breed people who think that they are wise and progressive, who believe that their stated concern for things about which they can do nothing makes them superior human beings, and yet they are unable to understand anything which does not express its absolute literal meaning.<br /><br />it does make for a beautiful strawman argument, though! "because Rob expressed his disdain for people who are unapologetically bad at language, he doesn't care about any of these things that I'm listing, which makes him an inferior human." nicely done! I also like that you replaced "tragedies" with "evils," which so subtly makes it look, to the sort of idiot that actually buys into your argument, that I was suggesting that the only evil in the world is being unapologetically careless with language. you forgot an evil that I didn't mention though! widespread intellectual dishonesty in order to advance a point. GUESS WHO I'M THINKING OF RIGHT NOW.<br /><br />really though, I'm not sure where you get the idea that the various -isms you mention are in any way unique to Western culture. they have been around since pretty much the dawn of time. but as far as I've been able to tell, the anti-intellectual phenomenon that makes people think that their "good enough"--that if other people understand what they are saying, they have no obligation to demonstrate a care for the arts of language, to do such a simple thing as to bother with correct spelling, or to even acknowledge that the error is an error, rather than pretending that it is the product of some profound attitude of uncaring.<br /><br />"good enough" has never been good enough when "excellent" has existed. if you're trying to suggest that as a matter of definition something is acceptable you're even worse at the whole language thing than I thought--and believe me, not understanding basic rhetorical flourishes is very nearly as dumb as someone gets, so that is saying something.<br /><br />to my darling cuddlefish: I no more feel more accomplished than you than I feel more accomplished than an insect. you live in your own little world where time is too precious to read the alt text of an XKCD in response to a point that you made, but not sufficiently precious to prevent you from repeatedly commenting on the XKCD in question. how could I think I'm more accomplished than you when you are obviously happy in your little world?rshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15828938843801425383noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-84881021960565549182010-05-11T11:12:38.711-07:002010-05-11T11:12:38.711-07:00An even greater tragedy of western culture is that...An even greater tragedy of western culture is that some people are so blind to the true injustices that they can honestly suggest that less-than-perfect spelling is one of the greatest evils in our culture. Never mind the racism, sexism, and classism that essentially define western culture; never mind our casual acceptance of rape; never mind gross ignorance of basic scientific principles; no, these are not the 'greatest' tragedies. It's spelling. You heard it from Rob.<br /><br />As for this being a phenomenon unique to 'these days,' I'm not sure what kind of idyllic past you imagine once existed, but I can assure you it did not. General rates of literacy--and the standard of proficiency required to be considered literate--have only improved over time. Yes, looking back at the great writers of history we see a mastery of the language absent from the average modern writer, but what we neglect to notice is that it was absent from the average historical writer too. We just don't bother reading mediocre literature from bygone eras, and this sampling bias creates the false impression that writers of the past were more proficient than writers today. <br /><br />Besides, 'good enough' will always be enough for someone to be considered literate; that's why we say it's 'good enough.' That much is a simple matter of definition.Chrisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-40678392373533817402010-05-11T04:42:13.968-07:002010-05-11T04:42:13.968-07:00If the ultimate result is that a simple typo can b...If the ultimate result is that a simple typo can be enough to feed a misguided sense of comparative accomplishment, you may well be right.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-1642678190633330242010-05-11T01:46:34.184-07:002010-05-11T01:46:34.184-07:00one of the greatest tragedies of Western culture i...one of the greatest tragedies of Western culture is that we've reached a point where being "good enough" is what people call literacy these days.rshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15828938843801425383noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-41967521039142559152010-05-11T01:43:44.564-07:002010-05-11T01:43:44.564-07:00I wouldn't call it my forte but I get by well ...I wouldn't call it my forte but I get by well enough.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-49413239819304330442010-05-11T01:23:27.018-07:002010-05-11T01:23:27.018-07:00spelling not really your forte, I take it?spelling not really your forte, I take it?rshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15828938843801425383noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-76856252867309011092010-05-11T01:10:33.537-07:002010-05-11T01:10:33.537-07:00Subtelty not really your forte, I take it?Subtelty not really your forte, I take it?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-18449061030809335452010-05-10T23:38:13.427-07:002010-05-10T23:38:13.427-07:00and yet you have the time to participate in a conv...and yet you have the time to participate in a conversation spanning the length of multiple days in a comment thread while posting anonymously, implying you haven't provided an email address for comment updates to be sent. so you have the time to actively check the comments of a post which is not the most recent just to see if someone responded to your point.<br /><br />but yeah, time is precious.rshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15828938843801425383noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-2191942007268225412010-05-10T23:34:39.652-07:002010-05-10T23:34:39.652-07:00What do you mean again? I rarely read them at all....What do you mean again? I rarely read them at all. Time is precious, I don't want to waste any of it hovering a cursor over the comic to read an even worse joke before rushing over here to talk about how crappy the most recent XKCD was.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-85034276131620252242010-05-10T14:02:17.450-07:002010-05-10T14:02:17.450-07:00Read the alt-text again Anon 12:53. It's prett...Read the alt-text again Anon 12:53. It's pretty much saying that.B.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-51735772512134097432010-05-10T12:53:50.951-07:002010-05-10T12:53:50.951-07:00That joke is very different. It would only be the ...That joke is very different. It would only be the same if the surgeon made a daily habit of trying to yank out adam's apples and butterflies in the stomach.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-33843379157300790172010-05-10T11:45:52.525-07:002010-05-10T11:45:52.525-07:00But that time he did it so much better!But that time he did it so much better!ScottMcTonyAgainnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-42552436221005329212010-05-10T11:38:55.960-07:002010-05-10T11:38:55.960-07:00Didn't he already do a comic that was pretty m...Didn't he already do a comic that was pretty much the same joke? What am I talking about, yes. Yes he did.<br /><br />http://xkcd.com/218/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-9182420202389529212010-05-10T11:31:31.851-07:002010-05-10T11:31:31.851-07:00Surgeons are old d00d.Surgeons are old d00d.scottmctonynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-82106529261514519942010-05-10T11:28:11.789-07:002010-05-10T11:28:11.789-07:00If the game has been in production since 1965, how...If the game has been in production since 1965, how is that in any way relevant?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com