xkcd

Blacksails, I am pretty sure you are not an English teacher*, and also I can say with reasonable assurance that the question (The) EGE asked was not aimed at you. *How do I know this? Wikipedia has reported a chronic shortage of [citation needed] tags since you made that post. Now cut out the bullsh...

Awww, you hang up fir--*boooooooop*

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Although many years have passed since the publication of any work by Salinger, friends and visitors to his home have revealed that he has a large safe containing at least 15 completed manuscripts. makes me pretty excited, regardless of how unlikely it is that his widow or whoever will publish them....

Auch, this thread refuses to die and is always at (or near) the top of my 'view your posts'

So fine.

Have a hug Icenine.

Raaaaaaaaage

Greetings, I'm Mike from London and I'm 24. I've been friends with Felstaff (one of the mods) for a good 10 years and after too many conversations with him about topics on this forum I decided to join and see what all the commotion was about. I believe I've met some of you at a social event in the ...

Mention the word deglove, and this story would have achieved the Full House of things that make me squirm.

Men: You want it to be 1976, and you want to speed through the streets of Paris in a Ferrari at breakneck speed.

Do not lie. You do. And if you don't yet, you will.

But yeah. I wanted to go fight crime in a suit too. Ok, so...why are we not forming our own superhero alliance? According to the trailer, we need to find a 10-year-old who's adept at wielding a pantographic knife. I hope this movie influences lots of young girls in how to obtain, and use, such weap...

I re-read A Study in Scarlet after watching this, and it's really interesting to approach the story from a new angle. The story seems much more exciting with the Downey Jr. interpretation of Holmes, as well as Watson and Lestrade (who I think was casted perfectly). I liked the film because Watson is...

You'd sound Welsh.

Kevin Costner fired his arrows. And you wouldn't be anally pedantic about semantics around him. Not with all those arrows he's fired.

I have trouble believing that any film could induce lasting depression and/or suicidal ideation by itself. This film reportedly caused a man to kill his wife, family, and then himself. In a crude search all I found was hearsay (try googling successfully for "threads"), but I remember a te...

It's the fans I'm annoyed by, not the comic. The comic's just fine. I chuckled at today's comic. I feel the same way. You know who I fucking hate? Archers. They annoy me no end. Bows and arrows, I'm fine with. But the people who ejaculate them? I might go here and tell the archers there how much I ...

Either Randall (via his stick man avatar) means Britain will drift further out to sea, or Scotland and Wales are about to get very squished. Or he means the United Kingdom and what's left of the dispute over Northern Ireland is about to get a lot more interesting. Two way misunderstanding: Brits: &...

Background: Sega Mega Drive game. It was a sports game where you could choose one of three options: one of them was to be on a bike, another was to be on a skateboard, I can't remember the third. Are you sure it was definitely a MegaDrive game? Because that sounds an awful lot like ESPN Extreme Rac...

Fairly boring statue.



Until you CLICK IT AND IT'S NIGHT-TIME

By no means the best, but one of the most powerful films of this decade I've seen is a small Iranian film called A Time for Drunken Horses . It's about poor Kurdish orphans who have to travel over the Iraqi border to get medicine. It feels more like a documentary than a work of fiction. Also, the mo...

Ixtellor wrote:Your the same.

You are Sarah Palin.

And then Rush was a zombie.

I don't have particularly good spatial or temporal reasoning skills, (more so than this lady, I hasten to add). This car-park would be ideal for me! I dislike that it's marketed towards women. What about us non-women crappy parkers, eh?

Wheatbread wrote:Oh hai...

I play Marimba

You should begin your Adventures Through The xkcd Fora right here.

davean wrote:Search re-indexing should be done now.

A post I posted 6 hours ago isn't showing up in my user post history or egosearch - is this related/still an issue?

The world has become to[o] politically correct Well, yeah . I was only in Botswana the other day and called the Southern Ndebele tribe 'crazy Sothos'. Or that time I was in Cambodia and called the Mon- Khmer people a bunch of Norodom-lovers. I tell ya, you can't go round voicing insulting opinions ...

Two brothers have been ordered to have their ears and noses cut off, after they kidnapped a woman and did the same to her for refusing to marry one of them, in accordance with a strict Islamic eye-for-an-eye law that is rarely sentenced and apparently 'never carried out' (until now?). They are also ...

aleflamedyud wrote:a particularly juicy story

Sounds like someone's got a desirin' for some vampirin'

By hierarchy, I don't mean gendered hierarchy; I mean Big Chief Wears Brightest Feather social hierarchy. The most respected Rogue Trooper was the warrior (why not the chef, or the guy who takes the town hall meeting minutes?)

... like human tribes. Like all alien films, they weren't alien enough.

I'm pretty sure there was a plot to this film, but having watched in 3D, and it being my first ever 3D cinema-going experience*, I thought it was frolicking cool. Interesting how the indigenous bluepeople spoke with cod Afro-Caribbean creole accents, with tribal dress and heirarchy that perfectly mi...

This avenue of conversation should stop. Like, about now.

The comic itself makes no implication of non-consent. Khaz wasn't helpful in his follow-up post. We'll just leave it there and move on. Don't make me break out the red text.

I'm going to allow this.

Based on the reception it got last year, but Nick the Newbie; please try to participate more on the forum, rather than just turn up once a year to advertise Mag-fest. Thank you.

Gay men are disallowed from giving blood because of "the aids". Thus I won't give blood until this outdated and homophobic policy is removed. Gross, and more importantly damaging misconception. Gay men are allowed to give blood. Men who have had homosexual intercourse (MSM) ar...

⋅ Broke my 486 by placing all hidden files in Windows 95 System32 folder into a folder called 'hidden files' (OCD made me do it!). When I restarted, it couldn't find Windows. As my dad had got the computer from work, we had no CD to reinstall it. ⋅ My friend broke my Pentium 166...

I'm far too grumpy for inanity and pointlessness today.

First of all, I don't think I implied it, I stated it outright. Which is where you fucked up, genius. sje is right, that kind of pathetically failed attempt at humour is not welcome here at all. It's not funny, and defending it makes you look, as the Pope once said, 'a bit of a cunt'. Admitting out...

Amazing.

It's how I imagine warfare to look like in the future.

No, but for comical purposes, you can have the same affect applied to this thread.

LemonyCricket wrote:I DO NOT UNDERSTAND. How could they NOT have a history section?

We did have a debate over this.

But that's all in the past, now.

Advertise on craigslist/gumtree etc.

Emphasising 'free web design' and 'charity'

How is it surprising to learn to speak with an English accent in London? London has probably the most diverse range of ethnicities in the world. Some street signs are in Eritrean (which I thought were just rejected pieces of alphabetti spaghetti). By 'fairly posh English accent' you can presume tha...

endospire wrote:And, when you silently rage when people mistake it for microbiology

Yeah, the textbooks are way smaller.