# XCKD freakin' NAILED it **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 10, 2008, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xckd-freakin-nailed-it/476487 "2008-12-10T02:08:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![HoboStew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/f17d59/32.png) [@HoboStew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HoboStew)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2008, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xckd-freakin-nailed-it/476487/1 "2008-12-10T02:08:31Z")
> **[Friends](https://xkcd.com/513/)** > > Friends with detriments. 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. ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2008, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xckd-freakin-nailed-it/476487/2 "2008-12-10T02:24:08Z")
I wish I could send that to my 27 year old self. ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Sensitive](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/58956e/32.png) [@Darth\_Sensitive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Sensitive)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2008, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xckd-freakin-nailed-it/476487/3 "2008-12-10T02:45:28Z")
I’m posting that in every single “I’m a nice guy, why doesn’t she like” me thread. (I love me some XKCD. :)) ---
**Author:** ![phouka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c5a1d2/32.png) [@phouka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phouka)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2008, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xckd-freakin-nailed-it/476487/4 "2008-12-10T03:21:47Z")
Ought to be required reading for both genders in every grade from 5th through PhD post grad. ---
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2008, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xckd-freakin-nailed-it/476487/5 "2008-12-10T03:41:03Z")
Sounds like my first marriage! ---
**Author:** ![Lakai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de0a6/32.png) [@Lakai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lakai)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2008, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xckd-freakin-nailed-it/476487/6 "2008-12-10T03:43:54Z")
I’m more impressed with the physics joke in the latest [comic](http://xkcd.com/514/). I had to look up what they were talking about and then go :smack:. ---
**Author:** ![Small\_Hen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ad7895/32.png) [@Small\_Hen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Small_Hen)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2008, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xckd-freakin-nailed-it/476487/7 "2008-12-10T04:21:59Z")
> [@Lakai](#): > > I’m more impressed with the physics joke in the latest [comic](http://xkcd.com/514/). > > I had to look up what they were talking about and then go :smack:. I dropped physics and I do not get this. ---
**Author:** ![neutron\_star](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/51bf81/32.png) [@neutron\_star](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neutron_star)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2008, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xckd-freakin-nailed-it/476487/8 "2008-12-10T04:25:18Z")
The only time xkcd is good is when it makes fun of its audience like this. ---
**Author:** ![SCSimmons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e495f1/32.png) [@SCSimmons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCSimmons)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2008, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xckd-freakin-nailed-it/476487/9 "2008-12-10T04:34:19Z")
> [@Small\_Hen](#): > > I dropped physics and I do not get this. Read [this](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relativity_of_simultaneity) and try again … (Oh, and [this](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin_paradox) might help with the annotation …) ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Carrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f0a364/32.png) [@Captain\_Carrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Carrot)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2008, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xckd-freakin-nailed-it/476487/10 "2008-12-10T05:04:11Z")
Much of that happened to me, but the outcome was less pleasant. ---
**Author:** ![Alan\_Smithee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/2acd7d/32.png) [@Alan\_Smithee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alan_Smithee)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2008, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xckd-freakin-nailed-it/476487/11 "2008-12-10T05:40:07Z")
> [@HoboStew](#): > > I really wish I could send this to my 13 year old self. > [@friedo](#): > > I wish I could send that to my 27 year old self. Hell, I’m just glad I read it NOW! :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2008, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xckd-freakin-nailed-it/476487/12 "2008-12-10T07:20:47Z")
> [@HoboStew](#): > > I really wish I could send this to my 13 year old self. 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. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2008, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xckd-freakin-nailed-it/476487/13 "2008-12-10T07:29:15Z")
> [@HoboStew](#): > > [xkcd: Friends](http://xkcd.com/513/) 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. ---
**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2008, 9:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xckd-freakin-nailed-it/476487/14 "2008-12-10T09:12:13Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2008, 10:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xckd-freakin-nailed-it/476487/15 "2008-12-10T10:11:10Z")
> [@SenorBeef](#): > > 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. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2008, 10:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xckd-freakin-nailed-it/476487/16 "2008-12-10T10:23:01Z")
Or in other words, it’s not true love because the guy’s a jerk. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2008, 10:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xckd-freakin-nailed-it/476487/17 "2008-12-10T10:30:59Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > 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. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2008, 11:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xckd-freakin-nailed-it/476487/18 "2008-12-10T11:07:19Z")
> [@WhyNot](#): > > 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. ---
**Author:** ![Henrichek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5daacb/32.png) [@Henrichek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Henrichek)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2008, 11:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xckd-freakin-nailed-it/476487/19 "2008-12-10T11:24:44Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2008, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xckd-freakin-nailed-it/476487/20 "2008-12-10T13:00:45Z")
I only wish my relationships went this well. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xckd-freakin-nailed-it/476487.md?page=2)