# ­xkcd thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** comic-strips\ **Created:** [May 28, 2020, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574 "2020-05-28T00:57:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 136
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2024, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/2703 "2024-01-31T18:30:39Z")
15.13075 smoots. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2024, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/2704 "2024-01-31T20:43:52Z")
Or 3.14159 Whogasses. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2024, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/2705 "2024-01-31T21:51:48Z")
Re Minnesota: that last panel comes way too close to reminding me of a couple of planning board hearings. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Strangelove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.strangelove/32/6613_2.png) [@Dr.Strangelove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Strangelove)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2024, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/2706 "2024-01-31T21:55:09Z")
Or 1,609,340,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 Planck lengths. ---
**Author:** ![abcdefghij](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/43a26b/32.png) [@abcdefghij](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/abcdefghij)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2024, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/2707 "2024-02-01T01:08:42Z")
8.345 \times 10^{-16} parsecs ---
**Author:** ![abcdefghij](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/43a26b/32.png) [@abcdefghij](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/abcdefghij)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2024, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/2708 "2024-02-01T01:20:49Z")
Survey parsecs, that is ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2024, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/2709 "2024-02-01T01:55:04Z")
One hair of a bald frog ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2024, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/2710 "2024-02-03T14:07:15Z")
> **[Greenhouse Effect](https://xkcd.com/2889/)** > > Once he had the answer, Arrhenius complained to his friends that he'd "wasted over a full year" doing tedious calculations by hand about "so trifling a matter" as hypothetical CO2 concentrations in far-off eras (quoted in Crawford, 1997). ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2024, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/2711 "2024-02-03T14:56:31Z")
It’s certainly trifling if you and your grandkids won’t live to see it. Otherwise … ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2024, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/2712 "2024-02-05T19:14:00Z")
> **[Relationship Advice](https://xkcd.com/2890/)** > > Good to be a little wary of advice that sounds too much like a self pep talk. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2024, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/2713 "2024-02-05T20:08:53Z")
Hint: If it’s much work, it’s with the wrong person. BYDT; done now. Relationships with the right person are roughly effortless. ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2024, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/2714 "2024-02-06T04:49:14Z")
BYDT? Been married nearly four decades and with my wife for a few years before that. Pretty confident we are right people for each other. Effortless it has not been. Sometimes it _is_ grueling hard work. Hell we are both different people than we were barely out of college. We have not been in a Hallmark movie all this time. ---
**Author:** ![TroutMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troutman/32/6721_2.png) [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2024, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/2715 "2024-02-06T05:16:17Z")
> [@DSeid](#): > > BYDT? Been yhere, done that. ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2024, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/2716 "2024-02-06T05:20:25Z")
Booze yeeted, delirium tremens. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2024, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/2717 "2024-02-06T07:27:50Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > Relationships with the right person are roughly effortless. I found that true, but you still have to _communicate_. ---
**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:** [February 6, 2024, 7:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/2718 "2024-02-06T07:34:55Z")
Relationships aren’t difficult, but people can be. ---
**Author:** ![abcdefghij](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/43a26b/32.png) [@abcdefghij](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/abcdefghij)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2024, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/2719 "2024-02-06T12:17:50Z")
Leave people out of it ---
**Author:** ![peccavi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peccavi/32/388_2.png) [@peccavi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peccavi)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2024, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/2720 "2024-02-06T15:17:13Z")
[![](https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zegiExJ2d7M/UmUWl9E-p7I/AAAAAAAAF3w/a0WG8rmezxY/s1600/A2DerRUCQAEiHSS.jpg+large.jpg) ](https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zegiExJ2d7M/UmUWl9E-p7I/AAAAAAAAF3w/a0WG8rmezxY/s1600/A2DerRUCQAEiHSS.jpg+large.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2024, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/2721 "2024-02-06T22:08:04Z")
And with the right person, communication is easy, too. ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2024, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/2722 "2024-02-07T20:53:30Z")
> **[Log Cabin](https://xkcd.com/2891/)** > > I'm sure the building inspectors will approve my design once they finally manage to escape. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574.md?page=135) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574.md?page=137)