Such a complex idea and he hit it out of the park. I really wish I could send this to my 13 year old self.
I wish I could send that to my 27 year old self.
I’m posting that in every single “I’m a nice guy, why doesn’t she like” me thread.
(I love me some XKCD. :))
Ought to be required reading for both genders in every grade from 5th through PhD post grad.
Sounds like my first marriage!
I’m more impressed with the physics joke in the latest comic.
I had to look up what they were talking about and then go :smack:.
I dropped physics and I do not get this.
The only time xkcd is good is when it makes fun of its audience like this.
Much of that happened to me, but the outcome was less pleasant.
Hell, I’m just glad I read it NOW! :smack:
I really wish the link worked for me.
I guess the site is just having some kind of maintenance/downtime but seeing as how you played it up I want to see it now and I’m gonna have to wait until it’s back up.
On edit: it’s probably not even their site, but my internet connection. Seems like I am having trouble accessing several sites right now while others (such as this one) are working fine.
I fell into that trap a couple times in high school, but come on. Anyone who doesn’t learn that lesson by age 20 is trailing waaaaayyy behind the pack.
It’s insightful into the psychology of the way certain people persue (or fail to persue) relationships - but I find the implication - that a relationship that developed out a friendship couldn’t be true love (or something less than ideal that you’ll have to settle for) interesting. Is everyone agreeing with that aspect too?
I think the point was that it didn’t develop out of a true friendship - or rather, that on behalf of one of the parties, the friendship was essentially a ruse, a strategy. As the relationship was based on a lack of respect (hence the punchline), there was no way it could be true love.
Or in other words, it’s not true love because the guy’s a jerk.
True, and nailed it, but let’s not make it about gender, even accidentally. I’ve been both the bald character and the character with hair here. Ouch.
Yeah, but the emotional dependence tactic works better on women, and by ‘works better’ I mean it’s the most obtuse, drawn-out, excruciatingly slow, lamest form of ‘game’ there is.
I think XKCD only works with the geeky math/physics/programming/etc subjects, which are sometimes totally excellent. When he tries to go into relationships it rarely works and seems mostly awkward and sad instead of humorous. He’s doing it a bit too often lately.
I don’t see the fun in this one either.
I only wish my relationships went this well.