xkcd

by **Dingbats** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 5:58 pm UTC

I won't let this die!

Why is it that I can make up long ten minute conversations with potential girl friends in my head, but when the situation actually comes I forget it all and just return her questions/keep silent...

Oh well.

by **Ketzerei** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 6:08 pm UTC

Real conversations with other people are never as interesting as the ones I make up.

by **Insignificant Deifaction** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 8:28 pm UTC

...I make up conversations with people all the time.

I usually forget them after I realize it wouldn't work, because I can't articulate myself as well as I can in my head, and most are not smart enough to generate the responses I assigned them.

It makes me sad, I don't do it anymore very often, as the only person I could come up with appropriate responses for is so unpredictable that I never actually come up with an accurate response.

by **tmad40blue** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 8:28 pm UTC

Mmm. Chocolate.

by **KicktheCAN** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 8:35 pm UTC

I make up conversations with people all the time but I never actually have them because I am too afraid to actually talk to the person most of the time. That does not stop me from having some of the most out-there conversations of this century though!

Edit: Just to clarify, when I said out there conversations I meant the ones I have in real life. the ones I can't bring myself to start are the meaningful ones.

by **Rodan** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 8:36 pm UTC

The only person I know who isn't family or xkcd (same thing, right?), who is even remotely geeky is my drama teacher.

Also:

I make up conversations with people all the time but I never actually have them because I am too afraid to actually talk to the person most of the time. That does not stop me from having some of the most out-there conversations of this century though!

me too.
Also:
Summer Glau is really hot.

by **Cheese** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 8:55 pm UTC

I have a close friend who's geeky enough, and reads xkcd...
But refuses to sign up to the fora, which is a little annoying, and decreases geekiness by 6 units.

And I also do the conversation thing, but generally don't even get into the situation I would need to have such conversations.

And as something completely unconnected to teh rest of the thread: I'm starving, especially as I've just been having an msn conversation about sausages and bacon.

by **Rodan** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 9:36 pm UTC

I've just realized how many Eisner awards Alan Moore and Neil Gaiman have won. It's a lot.

by **Æshættr** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 9:05 am UTC

The other day I was at a rock concert and in between acts I noticed that, as is almost always the case with a large group of people talking, I could not pick out individual conversations very easily. A lot of this is due to the voices of the people in the room cancelling out/augmenting each other. Right then as the next band was setting up I thought "wow, it'd be cool to use those randomly placed peaks/troughs in sound as a random number generator.

by **Fantastic Idea** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 3:48 pm UTC

The other day I said to a friend that I don't really talk to myself. Since I said that I have come to realize- I do nothing BUT talk to myself. I just hadn't realized it.

by **MFHodge** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 3:55 pm UTC

Meaux_Pas wrote:The other day I said to a friend that I don't really talk to myself. Since I said that I have come to realize- I do nothing BUT talk to myself. I just hadn't realized it.

. . . sometimes you talk to me. I'm somebody right?

by **Fantastic Idea** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 4:11 pm UTC

Awww, of course you are! I meant when I'm alone. Or when I'm at work and I'd rather talk to myself than my coworkers.

by **Ketzerei** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 6:30 pm UTC

Exactly! The people who don't talk to themselves are the crazy ones.

by **Tractor** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 7:51 pm UTC

You mom.

That is all.

by **Ishindri** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 7:57 pm UTC

While sitting in my school's (extraordinarily long) lunch line, I suddenly had the idea to turn the slinky I got in first period into an electromagnetic coil gun. A large metal coil, magnetized a certain way, preferably superconductive, and bullets that change their magnetic polarity at preset intervals would be needed.

Oh, and I do the making up conversations thing, too. Probably too much.

by **Dingbats** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 8:05 pm UTC

Good to hear I'm not alone in making up conversations.

I'm a documentation freak. I keep a diary where I write down everything that's happened every day on a full A4 sheet of paper with 5mm lines. I save all my school note books. I've written down the stories behind all the songs I've written so I'll never forget. The only major thing I don't really do is photograph stuff.

by **Soma-Dreamer42** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 8:11 pm UTC

I just had my appendix out, and my neighbor, a nurse, looks at me and says:

Don't fart, you could rip your stitches

I can't decide if she was serious or not!

by **Ketzerei** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 8:11 pm UTC

If she was lying, that is both incredibly cruel and hilarious.

by **Soma-Dreamer42** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 8:12 pm UTC

Meaux_Pas wrote:Awww, of course you are! I meant when I'm alone. Or when I'm at work and I'd rather talk to myself than my coworkers.

Totally Yay Monkey!

by **ZeroSum** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 8:12 pm UTC

Dingbats wrote:Good to hear I'm not alone in making up conversations.

I, uh, do it all the time, actually...

by **HawkMatt** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 8:13 pm UTC

Could getting checked for hernias be any more awkward?

by **Ketzerei** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 8:14 pm UTC

Almost as awkward as not posting in the introduction thread, zomg.

by **HawkMatt** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 8:18 pm UTC

http://forums.xkcd.com/viewtopic.php?t=5379&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=2440

I did way back in August, not sure why I still show as one post. :lol:

by **Ketzerei** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 8:22 pm UTC

Ah, it must not count posts in locked threads.

Well, now don't I look silly.

by **ZeroSum** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 8:26 pm UTC

I didn't post in the intro thread until about 35 posts...

by **zenten** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 8:30 pm UTC

ZeroSum wrote:I didn't post in the intro thread until about 35 posts...

Same here. I wanted to feel "dangerous".

by **PatrickRsGhost** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 8:31 pm UTC

I thought I was the only one who made up conversations with other people, regardless if they'd actually work or not. I usually talk to myself a lot, so if I'm going to discuss something that's on my mind, I try to pretend that I'm talking to a certain person. I usually tell myself "if so-and-so and I were talking one night about such-and-such and he/she said blah-blah..."

Sometimes the thoughts can run for a long time.

by **Ketzerei** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 8:34 pm UTC

I'll generally just do it with myself, holding up one side of the conversation in my head and the other out loud (though usually quietly) in a voice different from the one I habitually speak in.

by **Tractor** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 8:35 pm UTC

Ketzerei wrote:I'll generally just do it with myself

Goodbye context!

by **Ketzerei** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 8:36 pm UTC

I'll admit that I expected it to take longer than a minute for someone to do that.

by **Tractor** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 8:40 pm UTC

That's what she said.

Edit: See what happens when I am not amused at work? I resort to this...

OK Tractor. Three times on one page is quite enough.

Edit2: Aww, red-penned. Work is over now anyway, woo!

by **zenten** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 8:55 pm UTC

I wonder why Data didn't just create copies of himself ala Tom Riker.

by **chaosspawn** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 9:06 pm UTC

carcinogen is such as stupid scare word.
The Freaking SUN is a carcinogen so we're all screwed anyways.

by **madjo** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 9:09 pm UTC

Everytime I see keozen's headbobbing cat avatar, I want to pet that cat, and perhaps also say "You're a kitty!".

Website · by **lowbrass** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 9:13 pm UTC

I looked at chaosspawn's avatar, and it reminded me that i once saw a picture of a guy with a totally bitchin' Mandelbrot Set tattoo.

by **Fantastic Idea** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 9:19 pm UTC

I am blind, but I can see quite clearly. Alas.

by **Gordon** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 9:28 pm UTC

The rain HAS gone.

by **Rodan** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 9:29 pm UTC

fuck sprinkles! I wanna ejaculate chocolate syrup!

by **ZeroSum** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 10:05 pm UTC

Holy shit that would be so cool. Except for the resulting vaginal candidiasis due to the sugar content...

by **Rodan** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 10:11 pm UTC

That's what condoms are for.

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