The tag is true. That is amusing.

If he ever drew faces, hat guy would look like this every time

Godwin'd in the Boobies.

Wernher von Braun was a Nazi, yes. He also married his cousin. So we might be chasing the wrong lead here.

/"Dear Mr. Lewis, we'd like you to offer the post of NASA director."

isxkcdshiattytoday (new window)

"Once they go up,
where they come down,
is not my department,"
says Werner von Braun.

Came here for thissinanju: "Once they go up,
where they come down,
is not my department,"
says Werner von Braun.

Came here for any portion of this, leaving satisfied.

Hmm post the punchline and put this in the entertainment section - hilarity ensues - because anti-semitism is funny.

Meh. not so much.

Jim Panse: xkcdsucks.blogspot.com

A quick skim over that blog reveals at least a dozen desperate cries for help.

Jim Panse: xkcdsucks.blogspot.com

Jesus, that dude has issues.

Jim Panse: xkcdsucks.blogspot.com

That's a pretty sad site.

Jim Panse: xkcdsucks.blogspot.com

Wow, did XKCD rape that guy's puppy or something?

nmiguy: Hmm post the punchline and put this in the entertainment section - hilarity ensues - because anti-semitism is funny.

Anti-semitism?!? Really?

"I aim at the stars (but sometimes I hit London)".

Anti-semitism?!? Really?

Sure, anytime anyone mentions that nazis were actually good at some things, they must be anti-semitic.

nmiguy: Hmm post the punchline and put this in the entertainment section - hilarity ensues - because anti-semitism is funny.

Meh. not so much.


You know how I know you're probably not Jewish? You think that comic is antisemitic.

/is Jewish

nmiguy: Hmm post the punchline and put this in the entertainment section - hilarity ensues - because anti-semitism is funny.

Meh. not so much.

I hope you're a troll, in which case I give you a solid 10/10 for keeping it brief and plausible.

If you're going to go all "warrr ifffs you dissagreez wiff me u jus call me trollolol" on me, then you're an idiot.

KatjaMouse: If he ever drew faces, hat guy would look like this every time

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Isn't he the hat guy?

On a completely unrelated note. I FINALLY figured out where the troll face comes from:

Antonio Inoki

Jim Panse: xkcdsucks.blogspot.com

NutznGum: isxkcdshiattytoday (new window)

hot, like leo can be.

mongbiohazard: nmiguy: Hmm post the punchline and put this in the entertainment section - hilarity ensues - because anti-semitism is funny.

Meh. not so much.


You know how I know you're probably not Jewish? You think that comic is antisemitic.

/is Jewish

mongbiohazard: nmiguy: Hmm post the punchline and put this in the entertainment section - hilarity ensues - because anti-semitism is funny.

Meh. not so much.


You know how I know you're probably not Jewish? You think that comic is antisemitic.

/is Jewish

my grandmother used to crack jokes about jews.

when her son in law(the dumber of my two uncles on that side of the family) got offended about how a joke was anti-semetic, she responded:

what, anti-semetic? how can i be anti-semetic, i'm a jew.

/jewish enough to have gotten on one of the last trains out before the gestapo shut down the train station. she had some really amazing stories about hobo'ing across europe to get away, and finally making it onto a passenger liner headed for america.

Jackson Herring: That Masked Man: A quick skim over that blog reveals at least a dozen desperate cries for help.

XKCDsucks actually sucks slightly more than XKCD.

xkcdsucks is obviously written by someone who is insanely upset that someone else out there has a successful web comic and they do not. Yeesh. It's embarrassingly bad.

Petit_Merdeux: sinanju: where they come down dawn,

Brawn, not Brown.

His name is pronounced "fawn Brown", not "vawn Brawn".

/Hope this isn't a troll.. ("D'oh!").

mongbiohazard: nmiguy: Hmm post the punchline and put this in the entertainment section - hilarity ensues - because anti-semitism is funny.

Meh. not so much.


You know how I know you're probably not Jewish? You think that comic is antisemitic.

/is Jewish

Funny, doesn't post Jewish.....

danny_kay: Can anyone explain to me the *point* of this comic?

This strip in particular or the comic in general?

danny_kay: Can anyone explain to me the *point* of this comic?

XKCD? To display the brilliant, witty musings of its creator, obviously. Personally, I think it sucks donkey balls about 95% of the time, with the other 5% split evenly between "meh" and "actually funny"

Persnickety: Jim Panse: xkcdsucks.blogspot.com

Jesus, that dude has issues.

Once upon a time, the site was a tad more amusing. I believe the original contributors have moved on. Formerly, they might lampoon two or three weak XKCD strips in a row, but also take a moment to praise those they felt were solid.... or at least not waste too much time trying to tear apart the ones that were merely 'meh'.

The current group (who I stopped following months ago) are just trying way to hard.

Ctrl-Alt-Del: danny_kay: Can anyone explain to me the *point* of this comic?

XKCD? To display the brilliant, witty musings of its creator, obviously. Personally, I think it sucks donkey balls about 95% of the time, with the other 5% split evenly between "meh" and "actually funny"

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Says the guy whose handle is reminiscent of a strip where one of the characters had a miscarriage...and the next week was all one offs based on video games.

danny_kay: PizzaJedi81: danny_kay: Can anyone explain to me the *point* of this comic?

This strip in particular or the comic in general?

This strip. Normally I do get xkcd. Normally it hits my funny bone, too.

But what does this want to tell me?
That non-Nazis are stupider than the Nazis?
That you can't just take over a little bit of Nazi knowledge, but that you always have to go full Nazi when you do that?

And not even the tooltip is of any help this time.

Eh...I think it's more Black Hat godwinning for shiats and giggles.

PizzaJedi81: Says the guy whose handle is reminiscent of a strip where one of the characters had a miscarriage...and the next week was all one offs based on video games.

'Cause we all know that "Ctrl-Alt-Del" is such an obscure reference that I must have gotten it from the comic. That's some good police work there, Lou.

Really dude, no need to get all butthurt because I find a comic strip you like to be overly pretentious and gratingly unfunny most of the time. Also, It would have had more punch if I actually liked the strip you mention, but I've never followed it, so whatever.

Ctrl-Alt-Del: I must have gotten it from the comic

Did I say you had, Mister Skin-Thinner-Than-A-Bubble? Hence...REMINISCENT.

Also...not butthurt. My butthurt comes off much differently.

I've seen the comics go from lovelorn to remorseful (his series about the family member with cancer was poignant) to downright hilarious in an in-joke way that saw me laughing crazily where others would simply give a o_O.

People get the mistaken impression that the XKCD comic du jour is for THEM. I see it as whatever stream-of-consciousness stuff comes from Munroe's head, and if we get it, wonderful. If we don't, or disagree with it, that's our own farking problem.

/All this comic told me was that we should respect German engineering regardless of the historical context.
//If Von Braun was still a "Nazi," he wouldn't have left in the first place.

th0th: All this comic told me was that we should respect German engineering regardless of the historical context.

I got that you should always hold back one vital piece of the information that you're giving, and once they FINALLY let you work on the project, you sneak it in.

cameroncrazy1984: If you think it's "gratingly unfunny most of the time" why do you keep reading it?

See, I stopped reading a bunch recently because either they didn't update regularly, I didn't find them funny or...well, there's really no third part there.

Ctrl-Alt-Del: danny_kay: Can anyone explain to me the *point* of this comic?

XKCD? To display the brilliant, witty musings of its creator, obviously. Personally, I think it sucks donkey balls about 95% of the time, with the other 5% split evenly between "meh" and "actually funny"

XKCD often operates on logical fallacies, which is fine, because LULZ. Get over it, or use a different URL as your start page.

// go see Copenhagen
// yeah, it's about Bohr/Heisenberg, but still a great play

Ctrl-Alt-Del
XKCD? To display the brilliant, witty musings of its creator, obviously. Personally, I think it sucks donkey balls about 95% of the time, with the other 5% split evenly between "meh" and "actually funny"

See, as someone who has been looking at getting a notebook for a few months now, I'm getting a kick out of the LCD strip.

/F*ck those stupid widescreen narrowslit displays; some people might want to use those things to work and not for watching movies.

Jake Havechek: Well, Nazis are not stupid. "Here, you either work with our rocketry and atomic programs or we lock you in room and throw away the room"



Man, those nazis were hardcore.

cameroncrazy1984: Sounds to me like you hate the comic for being popular.

If you think it's "gratingly unfunny most of the time" why do you keep reading it? Jeez, if I hurt myself doing something, generally I stop doing that thing.

Yeah, 'cause that's what I said - "I read it all the time"

Oh wait, no, I didn't, you invented that part in your head. What I actually said was "I think it sucks donkey balls about 95% of the time." I can understand how someone who is not very bright, or who simply wanted to argue for the sake of arguing, could interpret that to mean "I've read all of the strips and continue to do so." But I'm pretty sure that anyone who is not a sub-literate moron understood what was actually meant. Here, let me phrase it in a way that even sophist dickheads and butthurt XKCD fans can understand:

"In my experience, which includes a fairly large sample of strips that have been posted on Fark, posted on the cubicles of my coworkers, posted on the refrigerators of my friends, posted to the blogs and facebook pages of relatives, friends and acquaintances, posted on the popular blogs I read, as well as some other places, even including the XKCD website itself on occasion, I think XKCD sucks donkey balls about 95% of the time, with the other 5% split evenly between "meh" and "actually funny"

Yeah, that's pithy. I'll just post that every time I discuss XKCD.

or not

cameroncrazy1984: Sounds to me like you hate the comic for being popular.

Sounds to me like you're a butthurt fanboy.

Ctrl-Alt-Del: Sounds to me like you're a butthurt fanboy.

And it sounds to everyone else in this thread that you're a butthurt kneeejerk reactionist (Shut up, it's a word.) who can't seem to let other enjoy something without telling them why they're wrong for liking it. Seems like one of your tribe show up in almost everything thread, stating your opinion as nigh-incontrovertible fact.

The point has been made, but I will reiterate: If you don't like it, fine...don't crap on others who do. The only people who deserve that are Twilight fans.

Jim Panse: Think about it. It makes perfect sense.

Lose something?

Ctrl-Alt-Del: Yeah, 'cause that's what I said - "I read it all the time"

Oh wait, no, I didn't, you invented that part in your head. What I actually said was "I think it sucks donkey balls about 95% of the time."

So you read it enough to keep statistics on it, but not all the time.

How sloppy are your statistics? You've read 20 strips?

PizzaJedi81: And it sounds to everyone else in this thread that you're a butthurt kneeejerk reactionist (Shut up, it's a word.) who can't seem to let other enjoy something without telling them why they're wrong for liking it.



If you don't like it, fine...don't crap on others who do

The only people I'm crapping on are the douchebags who insist on attacking me for expressing the simple opinion that I find the strip mostly unfunny. But hey, you think whatever you need to think to get you through, ok?