xkcd Wins the Internets

Posted on March 14, 2010 by Jeff Fecke

I love this. Click to go to the original.

The mouseover text is full of win, too.

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15 Responses to xkcd Wins the Internets

  1. 1
    Pedantka says:
    March 15, 2010 at 3:24 am

    Best. XKCD. Ever.

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    Silenced is Foo says:
    March 15, 2010 at 6:07 am

    Randy has a wonderful skill of dropping the F-bomb with the perfect level of parsimony. He uses it when, and only when, it maximizes the punchline, like here.

    Also, alt text:

    Yes, there are a lot of longing looks across the bridge of Galactica first, but that’s beside the point!

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    Adrian says:
    March 15, 2010 at 6:15 am

    I really like the emphatic way she leans forward (or bounces out of her chair) in the last frame. Sure, just a stick figure, but still dynamic.

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    attack_laurel says:
    March 15, 2010 at 7:06 am

    Oh, win.

    I giggled over the PFW book, since someone I know got it as a wedding present (fun friends!), but yeah, when I’m looking for porn, I’d rather the object of my desire was nekkid and aroused, rather than ironing. But xkcd says it so much better. :)

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    Hershele Ostropoler says:
    March 15, 2010 at 9:23 am

    Ironing in the nude when you are in possession of sticky-outy bits sounds like a disaster waiting to happen, although now that I’ve typed that out I’m not sure clothing would offer a lot of protection in that circumstance.

    Anyway, as the person who does most of the cooking in my household, I haven’t noticed it being particularly a turn-on. I don’t think there’s anything weird or even notable or particularly praiseworthy about a man who cooks.

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    Pedantka says:
    March 15, 2010 at 9:25 am

    I dunno, Hershele. I did propose to my spouse on the spot after the first time he cooked mushrooms for me.

    They were really, really good mushrooms.

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    lonespark says:
    March 15, 2010 at 2:11 pm

    Heh.

    Well said.

    Housework works as seduction or foreplay, certainly. Or maybe porn, but you have to do it naked or scantily clad for that.

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    Antigone says:
    March 15, 2010 at 7:17 pm

    Well, it’s true that I don’t find my Hubby doing housework as arousing. That being said, him doing housework means I’m more likely (and more easily) aroused later. I don’t feel resentful, I don’t feel tired, I don’t feel distracted when he pitches in.

    ‘course, my porn has a lot of fucking too.

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    Jeff Fecke says:
    March 15, 2010 at 7:57 pm

    That being said, him doing housework means I’m more likely (and more easily) aroused later. I don’t feel resentful, I don’t feel tired, I don’t feel distracted when he pitches in.

    That’s a horse of a different color, of course — yes, you’re going to be more attracted to someone who does their part in life. If your significant other spends their time sitting on the couch drinking beer and watching TV while you clean the house and take care of the kids and hold down a job to boot, you’re going to be less attracted to your s.o., and that’s true regardless of gender or orientation.

    But there’s a difference between “I really love my s.o., in no small part because they do their fair share” and “what really turns me on is a man loading the dishwasher.” Nothing against those women who are into housework porn — but that’s a subset of all women. An awful lot — I daresay most — women find housework to be more of a basic requirement than a turn-on.

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    Lu says:
    March 17, 2010 at 7:53 pm

    I too giggled over PFW, and part of me wants to ask “don’t you people have any sense of humor?” It’s not really supposed to be pron, for Pat’s sake. (An almost belated happy St. Pat’s day to everyone btw, as long as I’m taking his name in vain.)

    Also, what Antigone said.

    Also, I do most of such housework as happens around here, because I work part time and my husband works full time. Like my husband, I am a born slob, so we pay to have our house cleaned (in part so that we are forced to move our stuff out of the way). With rare exception the cleaners are of course women. “The only way to get out of cleaning is to be born male or hire another woman to do it.” I will be seriously impressed by anyone under 35 who can identify the source of that quote.

    Yes, I am a bit conflicted.

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    Hershele Ostropoler says:
    March 18, 2010 at 7:43 pm

    To men who think of women as sexual gratification- and housework machines, though, “not tonight, honey, I’m too tired” is like some sort of weird out-of-cheese error. So all they know is that when they cook or clean or whatever, she doesn’t get these out-of-cheese errors. You can see how they draw the wrong conclusion.

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    Ampersand says:
    March 18, 2010 at 11:33 pm

    I too giggled over PFW, and part of me wants to ask “don’t you people have any sense of humor?”

    We got the joke.

    It’s just that XKCD’s joke was funnier.

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    Silenced is Foo says:
    March 19, 2010 at 6:29 am

    @Hershele Ostropoler

    I don’t want to vent about my marriage online, but all I get out of cooking and cleaning around the house is raised expectations (and yes, I do all the cooking, and thus also keep the kitchen clean). I think my cheese is defective.

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    Hershele Ostropoler says:
    March 20, 2010 at 7:16 am

    Actually, SiF, no one in our household keeps the kitchen clean. Me cooking doesn’t raise my partner’s expectations of me because I actually do it, and so meet her expectations.

    But I don’t do it to get sex, I do it because I like cooking I’m good at it and she’s indifferent though good at it. And, y’know, I can, if I want to, because I’m emancipated like that.