xkcd vs. MATT

kinda amusing how this guy shits on liberal arts types when he's best known for illustrating a webcomic that often hamfistedly tries to be deep when it's not trying and failing to be funny

Liberal arts majors don't mind some self-debasement.

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/iso_8601.png

alt text: "ISO 8601 was published on 06/05/88 and most recently amended on 12/01/04" so what is he saying i don't even

hilariously the recommended items link in my google reader only ever contains xkcd posts.

he's poking fun at his own pedantry DONT U SEE

Note that 20130227 is explicitly allowed in that standard.

god damnit I just remembered that comic where he goes "Lol youre buying techno on iTunes? Why not just LOOP THE 15 SECOND SAMPLE 20 TIMES (lol ICEBURN!!! techno "songs" are 5 minutes!) and now I hate this guy again, that's a joke the shithead 13-year old version of myself would have come up with

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/steroids.png

sports are dumb hurrrrr

"nothing in the realm of human affairs will ever hold any significance, because i fucking love science"

hahah I was just gonna say that that reminds me of the I FUCKING LOVE SCIENCE movement

reminds me of a professor who said "Brett Favre is a manual laborer - he should be making $30k a year, at most."

keep in mind this was 2007, before he threw away the NFCCG - you did NOT talk shit about Brett Favre in those days

didn't read that comic as anti-sports, just anti-doping-scandal. sort of humorless alt-comic rant if anything.

I think some of y'all need Explain XKCD

no i think elmo got it

I don't think it's humorless as such, it's amused that some of the things athletes ingest are okay and some aren't and the dividing line can be a little arbitrary (but is treated as if it came down from the mountain on stone tablets). And no, Elmo didn't get it.

yes elmo got it

he's done other really dumb anti-sports comics as well, they all have that subtext of "lol I'm more intelligent than everyone else"

it's amused that some of the things athletes ingest are okay and some aren't and the dividing line can be a little arbitrary

this is true but the "punchline" of "oh some people got TOO strong!" imply this guy has no fucking clue what he's talking about

it's amused that some of the things athletes ingest are okay and some aren't and the dividing line can be a little arbitrary

if you can derive THAT observation from THAT comic you are a goddamn wizard

"humans are sacks of chemicals who eat chemicals" LOL such insight

he probably thinks the FDA should be disbanded, huh

food is just chemicals. who cares what's in it!!

"random number generator just generated another number" -LITERALLY ALL SPORTS COMMENTARY EVER, booooya!!!

though FWIW athletes should stuff themselves as full of drugs as they like. Bring it on!

a wiki devoted to the exigesis of xkcd comics, that sounds like a great place to learn about humor and what is funny

it's amused that some of the things athletes ingest are okay and some aren't and the dividing line can be a little arbitrary

if you can derive THAT observation from THAT comic you are a goddamn wizard

??? I hate xkcd as much as the next man, but this is quite clearly what he's trying to say. Whether or not it's funny is a different matter (hint: it's not funny, it'x xkcd).

the line is hardly 'arbitrary' nor is it treated like it came down from heaven either. ignorant fucking nerds.

yeah but I read an article on Reddit that says it kinda is sometimes because Kobe Bryant (when he wasn't rapin') did something

ok i know a whole bunch of sports fans who have basically the attitude of that xkcd comic towards steroids/doping. they don't try to turn that into stickman funnies i grant.

everything looks pretty arbitrary if you describe it all as "chemicals"

keep your ethic's out of my sport's

you see stickman, all programming languages are just 0's and 1's, but some of them use more 0's and 1's than others, and this makes people angry

would not read your comic.

don't worry, there will be a disclaimer: WARNING - This comic may be unsuitable for nerds

lol "why is ok for athletes to eat food but not ok for athletes to take steroids" is the sort of thing only a genuine idiot who was stupid and not smart and didn't understand simple things would say

fwiw the "explain xkcd" page for this comic states:

"This comic is one of many instances where Randall attempts to trivialize sports."

this was posted in another thread but i hope everyone sees these

http://imgur.com/a/5wM95

that's great

these are actually funny

the baseball diamond one is really good

Took me a few comics to realize they were parodies.

btw, they don't advertise this around i think, but the xkcd dude provides hosting to pbf basically gratis because he likes the strip. so there's that too.

by basically i mean totally.

haaaaaaaaah, these all rule

http://i.imgur.com/aNgCk.png

btw, they don't advertise this around i think, but the xkcd dude provides hosting to pbf basically gratis because he likes the strip. so there's that too.

also gives money to a "battered women's group" iirc (so it's okay for him to talk about rape)

no that's the oatmeal weirdo

hosting pbf is pretty menschy

bet PBF dude was a liberal arts major

he was a film student if I remember correctly. low man on the totem pole