xkcd

by **SecondTalon** » Mon Mar 12, 2012 8:03 pm UTC

Karkasmolen wrote:HULK a member of the Baha'i faith. HULK certainly not going to preach it unwanted to the uninterested but HULK ecstatic at the chance to share with those who are and elaborate to the curious. I will, of course, swing by your religious forum in the hopes that it's less the cesspool of association fallacies and misrepresented positions on abortions that such forums tend to be.

Religious Wars? Nah, that's for Mac vs PC fights.

You want Serious Business and News and Articles for the cesspools. Though Az has fixed SB more or less, so the biggest hive of scum and fallacy is News and Articles.

Particularly any thread about Israel/Palestine. Which, thanks to Sourmilk, is sometimes every thread.

by **Karkasmolen** » Mon Mar 12, 2012 8:19 pm UTC

SexyTalon wrote:Particularly any thread about Taiwan/Taiwan. Which, thanks to Sourmilk, is sometimes every thread.

Ah, see BRUCE BANNER an American white devil so it's not a problem, clearly the commies are in the wrong, no need to debate.

These filters are fun. Good show.

by **adnil** » Mon Mar 12, 2012 8:39 pm UTC

Hi all, HULK happy to discover xkcd has a forum -- yay for a new time-sink! HULK mid-20s, female working in software, seeking entertainment, likes outrageous people, loves the pure sciences, enjoys quirky humor, annoyed by people who can't tell the difference between "they're", "their", and "there", hates run-on sentences...

by **Karkasmolen** » Mon Mar 12, 2012 9:03 pm UTC

adnil wrote:annoyed by people who won't tell the difference between "they're", "their", and "there"

If English isn't their first language it's really truly understandable.

Otherwise...come on, at least the contraction should be easy to spot...

by **EmuSam** » Tue Mar 13, 2012 9:43 pm UTC

Hi, I'm Sam, and I'm not a large, flightless, hairy-feathered bird.

500/emu/English, French, or any language for which I can get my hands on a dictionary and grammarye. Oh, wait, l means location? CA.

I registered hoping some kind person could direct me to a policy on using a xkcd comic as a t-shirt decoration. Is there any way to buy the right to one-time use or to get special permission?

by **phlip** » Tue Mar 13, 2012 11:30 pm UTC

EmuSam wrote:I registered hoping some kind person could direct me to a policy on using a xkcd comic as a t-shirt decoration. Is there any way to buy the right to one-time use or to get special permission?

xkcd is released under a cc-by-nc licence... which means you can use the strip for anything, as long as you (a) give credit, and (b) don't use it commercially. So making a shirt with an xkcd strip on it? Great! Selling said shirt? Not so great.

by **Draco Tempus** » Wed Mar 14, 2012 4:05 am UTC

Hello I am Matt,
Some things you should know about me.

I derived my username from Latin not from harry potter.
I don't capitalize names I find unimportant.
I like bacon much like the rest of the community.
I created this user to post the comic.

by **EmuSam** » Wed Mar 14, 2012 4:05 am UTC

Thank you much, phlip. Now I found the reference at the bottom of the main page and every archived page, I can't believe I overlooked it. I promise I tried to find it on my own!

by **Weeks** » Wed Mar 14, 2012 4:19 am UTC

You must now make 1000 well thought out, on-topic, insightful posts to make up for it.

by **Felstaff** » Wed Mar 14, 2012 9:41 am UTC

Draco Tempus wrote:I don't capitalize names I find unimportant.
I like Bacon much like the rest of the community.

It's important that you capitalise nouns you do find important, so I fixed this for you.

by **Monika** » Wed Mar 14, 2012 9:49 am UTC

What is it with this bacon ...

by **TestTubeGames** » Wed Mar 14, 2012 2:03 pm UTC

Hi, I'm Andy, a:

Science Educator turned Game Developer
who loves Physics with a fiery passion.
And who never learned the rules of haiku.

(And, it goes without saying, I fancy geeky web comics.)

by **Zarq** » Wed Mar 14, 2012 2:43 pm UTC

Monika wrote:What is it with this bacon ...

It's tasty.

by **Monika** » Wed Mar 14, 2012 6:46 pm UTC

Bacon tastes kinda okay. Often too salty. But certainly not something worth killing over. It's not chocolate.

by **WhollyChao** » Wed Mar 14, 2012 8:01 pm UTC

What if that bacon has chocolate on it? I think that's worth killing for, twice.
Hey all, my name is Daniel. I'm a 23 year old Canadian, have lurked the fora previously.
My username comes from Principia Discordia. Chao is the singular form of chaos.
You'll probably see me around the music or art sections, not that I don't migrate from time to time.

by **Zarq** » Wed Mar 14, 2012 11:37 pm UTC

Monika wrote:Bacon tastes kinda okay. Often too salty. But certainly not something worth killing over. It's not chocolate.

I like salty stuff. Like anchovies. Mmmmm anchovies.

by **CaptainFinglass** » Sat Mar 17, 2012 1:19 am UTC

Good day all,
Right. My friend told me you all were an interesting lot. After lurking here for a while, I'm inclined to agree.
I live up in the lovely land of Canada, and love most things British *coughcoughDoctorWho&Sherlockcough* Music is my passion, with reading a close second.
You'll mostly see me around the Music and Mafia threads, but I do wander from time to time.
*posts*

by **Alvaro8100** » Thu Mar 22, 2012 7:42 am UTC

Hi,i'm Alvaro from Ottawa(Canada).I'm new to this website and not sure how to use everything yet. I'm just crazy anything talk about xkcd!

by **Tomlidich the second** » Thu Mar 22, 2012 5:50 pm UTC

ok, so i am not really new here, but my profile got blown out. yes, i am the one and only tomlidich.

hello, old friends.

by **HTML Mencken** » Thu Mar 22, 2012 9:43 pm UTC

Right, hi there everyone.

Long time lurker, first time posting. So, random facts to prove I am not a spambot:

I'm a 26 year old guy, living in London, but not originally from here. I work in the wonderful fields of private education and freelance research...the former involves mostly babysitting foreign students by being the resposible adult who tells them to clean their rooms, not drink out-of-date milk and other trivial matters, and the other involves being asked questions, and then getting paid for answering them. The particular kind of research I do is political science based, and so the questions are sometimes... odd, but usually interesting enough and not too difficult to look into.

Although I have a Masters in International Relations, I find 90% of politics to be pretty uninteresting and obvious, so I don't really comment on it much. The other 10% I do find interesting is usually obscure enough that no-one else finds it interesting or worth talking about. Also my interest in it tends to border on obsession, which will be useful when I decide to apply to PhD courses.

When I'm not at work, which is entirely too much of the time, I like to wander around London, acting like the complete tourist I secretly am. I think I've exhausted the possibilities of the major sights, so I'm now working on some of the more obscure yet notable things around. Like, for instance, the graveyard where they buried Jeremy Bentham is about a five minute walk from my flat. And there is a hidden bar on my street, which you need a password to access.

Anyway, I look forward to contributing to the forum. [insert comment about buying Viagra, gold watches or links to Canadian pharmacies here]

by **ahammel** » Fri Mar 23, 2012 2:21 am UTC

HTML Mencken

Great handle!

by **onjenae** » Fri Mar 23, 2012 3:38 am UTC

Hello everyone im new to the boards found this forum when i was googling lgbt safespace :shock:

anyways the forum seems interersting and hopefully i will enjoy wonderful discussions with you guys

the lght safespace thread, the woman thread and some other threads got me to sign up and i really want to see what else yall have to offer :oops:

by **HTML Mencken** » Fri Mar 23, 2012 7:41 am UTC

ahammel wrote:
HTML Mencken

Great handle!

Thank you, though I am ashamed to say I did not come up with it myself. :oops:

by **Monika** » Fri Mar 23, 2012 11:41 am UTC

onjenae wrote:Hello everyone im new to the boards found this forum when i was googling lgbt safespace anyways the forum seems interersting and hopefully i will enjoy wonderful discussions with you guys

the lght safespace thread, the woman thread and some other threads got me to sign up and i really want to see what else yall have to offer

Looking forward to seeing you in the LGBTIQQA safespace thread

.

by **Jplus** » Fri Mar 23, 2012 1:52 pm UTC

HTML Mencken wrote:Although I have a Masters in International Relations, I find 90% of politics to be pretty uninteresting and obvious, so I don't really comment on it much. The other 10% I do find interesting is usually obscure enough that no-one else finds it interesting or worth talking about. Also my interest in it tends to border on obsession, which will be useful when I decide to apply to PhD courses.

You have an excellent style of self-mockery. Welcome!

by **MichiK** » Fri Mar 23, 2012 11:45 pm UTC

Like suddenly struck by a lightning, I just realized that I registered my account over four years ago and never wrote a single post (but lurked here and there quite frequently). When, if not right now, is a good time to change from passive into active mode? Right! So here I am.

I'm a (hopefully) soon-to-be physicist from Germany, currently starting with my diploma thesis (and thus having a lot of time to kill and clearly nothing better to do than hanging around in forums or elsewhere in the web). I would also call myself a hacker and nerd (and yes, other hackers and nerds do that, too) and since, as so often, I have absolutely no idea what else to write, I will just stop here and press "Submit".

by **Monika** » Sat Mar 24, 2012 3:50 pm UTC

Hi Michi, where are you?

by **MichiK** » Sat Mar 24, 2012 9:54 pm UTC

Right here, between keyboard and chair. In Leipzig.

by **HTML Mencken** » Sun Mar 25, 2012 1:27 pm UTC

Jplus wrote:
HTML Mencken wrote:Although I have a Masters in International Relations, I find 90% of politics to be pretty uninteresting and obvious, so I don't really comment on it much. The other 10% I do find interesting is usually obscure enough that no-one else finds it interesting or worth talking about. Also my interest in it tends to border on obsession, which will be useful when I decide to apply to PhD courses.

You have an excellent style of self-mockery. Welcome!

Well, you know what they say, if you can laugh at yourself, you're allowed to viciously mock others as well.

At least, that's what I always say. Thanks for the welcome!

by **TheOtherCheek** » Tue Mar 27, 2012 6:26 pm UTC

Greetings Earthlings! I live and work near Toronto. I'm a writer/model. I write because it's my calling, and model because the publishing industry doesn't know writing is my calling yet.

I love Monty Python, chocolate, and having my brain pan and funny bone tickled, preferably at the same time.

by **infinabot** » Sat Mar 31, 2012 1:28 am UTC

Hello, I am a sock puppet for a game in Forum 47. Please do not mind me as I am just getting my five posts out here so I can post in there.

by **Sharpy3k** » Sat Mar 31, 2012 7:16 am UTC

Hullo internets!

I'm Sharpy, unfortunately some uncouth person had the audacity to steal my rightful username so I had to bang a the 3k on the end. I'm a Scotsman of the original flavour, enjoy a bit of banter with the English (cheating <swear> ************* ******** </swear>) and am into my random science because it's awesome. I'm new with the forum posting and thought now was a good time to start.

Cheers to all!

by **Pazuzu** » Sat Mar 31, 2012 8:32 am UTC

Okay, I guess I'm technically not lurking anymore, so here goes:

I'm Norwegian, meaning English isn't my primary language, so I spend a lot of time on dictionary.com whenever I post here. I work in IT. I never specialized, preferring to be a jack of all trades, which means I'm usually not the right guy for the job as it turns out. Also, I regret not studying the hard sciences when I was younger. I had no interest in it then, but I do now. I do have a very logical mindset though, so I understand most of the 'sciency' stuff I read or am told, I just don't have the basic understanding that you need to formulate ideas on your own.

One summer I read the first semester curriculum for the bachelor in psychology at the university here for fun, because the subject fascinates me.

I like most geeky stuff and also a lot of stuff that isn't usually considered geeky. I suppose I could be even more abstract and just say 'I like stuff'.

Also, I'll still be mostly lurking, I guess.

by **RollingHead** » Sun Apr 01, 2012 5:14 pm UTC

Welcome! I like stuff too!

by **youknowwho** » Mon Apr 02, 2012 10:16 pm UTC

some post to get out of premoderation...

I'm from Ukraine. my English is bad (especially tenses), so watch out (and feel free to correct me). also i'm not fan of capital letters.
because of low english reading/writing speed, i can't participate in every discussion. bad for me

that's all you allowed to know. to know anything else, you can figure it out or try to ask me.

and one more thing: usually my nickname is gamecreator, but unfortunately it was already occupied.

by **Pixyn25** » Tue Apr 03, 2012 12:20 am UTC

Hello world!

by **paprecamartin** » Tue Apr 03, 2012 2:26 pm UTC

Newbie here

. I just made an account and look forward to being a part of this forum and community.

Papreca Martin

by **rykilde** » Tue Apr 03, 2012 4:12 pm UTC

Hello all. I've read the comic and lurked for many years, and the Umwelt one has drawn me out (curses!). So, well, greetings, I spend too much time online and too little time asleep, I'm nerdy but think I should be nerdier, and my favorite animal is the noble yet humble hedgehog. I went to MIT, where someone first showed me xkcd. Now, for my sins, I larp, run guilds in an MMO, bake compulsively, and spend way too much on rent for the privilege of living in the Boston area. Science is also tangentially involved.

by **Monika** » Wed Apr 04, 2012 12:42 am UTC

Hedgehogs! \o/

by **rykilde** » Wed Apr 04, 2012 9:27 pm UTC

Indeed, hedgehogs!

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