# ­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:** 39
**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:** [May 22, 2021, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/762 "2021-05-22T14:34:43Z")
Agreed. It’s also fun to take your own major or your own occupation and fit it onto his scatterplot. That doesn’t work quite as well for folks in education such as yourself; after all, that’s what’s _supposed_ to be going on in classrooms! But for the rest of us … ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2021, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/763 "2021-05-22T14:59:01Z")
Where would theology fit? ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2021, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/764 "2021-05-22T15:18:12Z")
outside of the classroom. ---
**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:** [May 22, 2021, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/765 "2021-05-22T15:27:24Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > That doesn’t work quite as well for folks in education such as yourself; after all, that’s what’s _supposed_ to be going on in classrooms! But for the rest of us … But “education” isn’t the thing we study in my classroom. That would be math. And let me tell you, in the classrooms where “education” is the thing being studied, it’s sadly fairly weird for it to show up. I once had a professor in an education class ask one of the students (i.e., a future teacher) to read off one of the slides on the board. What the slide was saying, was not to ask students to just read off slides on the board. I’m also not sure that ethics “showing up” in an ethics classroom is a good thing. Good ethics are usually invisible. When ethics does show up, it’s usually because of bad ethics. ---
**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:** [May 22, 2021, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/766 "2021-05-22T15:28:02Z")
Some discussions of some theologies belong in some classrooms. But it’s going to be _really_ weird if any of the gods actually shows up. (However, I’d argue that geography in a classroom isn’t odd at all. It’s located someplace, after all.) ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2021, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/767 "2021-05-22T15:48:48Z")
> [@thorny\_locust](#): > > Some discussions of some theologies belong in some classrooms. But it’s going to be _really_ weird if any of the gods actually shows up. That was my point (a friend of mine has a theology degree). ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2021, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/768 "2021-05-22T17:28:39Z")
I disagree with paleontology. If that shows up in your classroom, it is bad. Very bad. ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2021, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/769 "2021-05-22T17:38:52Z")
Yeah, I saw that movie, too. It appears that Randall is more of a fan of Pauly Shore than I. ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2021, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/770 "2021-05-25T07:33:44Z")
> **[Wikipedia Caltrops](https://xkcd.com/2467/)** > > Oh no, they set up a roadblock which is just a sign with the entire 'Czech hedgehog' article printed on it. ---
**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:** [May 25, 2021, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/771 "2021-05-25T14:58:23Z")
I was disappointed to learn that Czech hedgehogs are those cross-shaped anti-tank structures from WWII (and later). I was hoping for some zany exploits of a wild hedgehog running amok in the Czech Republic. ---
**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:** [May 25, 2021, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/772 "2021-05-25T19:52:07Z")
See also Rommel’s Asparagus, which can’t be eaten. ---
**Author:** ![Cheesesteak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheesesteak/32/3694_2.png) [@Cheesesteak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheesesteak)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2021, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/773 "2021-05-25T23:26:53Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > See also Rommel’s Asparagus I am NOT googling that. ---
**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:** [May 25, 2021, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/774 "2021-05-25T23:38:16Z")
It’s totally safe for work. I’ve posted the wikilink in more than one thread. ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2021, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/775 "2021-05-26T00:56:30Z")
Though not safe, my grandfather was a glider pilot in WWII and was severely injured by one. ---
**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:** [May 26, 2021, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/776 "2021-05-26T01:04:50Z")
Ouch! I’m sorry to hear that. Yeah, the stuff was dangerous by design. An aerial caltrop of a sorts. Like all fixed defensive appliances it’s diabolical in its implacability. You can’t scare it, you can’t make it retreat, it never sleeps or forgets to pay attention while on guard duty. You just need to avoid it somehow or suffer its depradations on your formation and perhaps your body. WWII glider pilots had brass 'nads heavier than I could carry in a backpack. ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2021, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/777 "2021-05-26T02:26:22Z")
Uncle Fester (can’t remember the actor’s real name) was a WWII glider pilot. ---
**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:** [May 26, 2021, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/778 "2021-05-26T12:51:40Z")
> **[Jackie Coogan | World War II](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Coogan#World_War_II)** > > Coogan enlisted in the U.S. Army in March 1941. After the attack on Pearl Harbor that December, he requested a transfer to Army Air Forces as a glider pilot because of his civilian flying experience. Graduating the Advanced Glider School with the Glider Pilot aeronautical rating and the rank of Flight Officer, he volunteered for hazardous duty with the 1st Air Commando Group. > In December 1943, the unit was sent to India. He flew British troops, the Chindits, under General Orde Wingate on March 5... Who was otherwise a pretty interesting person in his own right, separately from his long career in showbiz. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2021, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/779 "2021-05-26T12:51:44Z")
My Father’s friend was a glider pilot. He flew in D-day, and was apparently slated to fly in the event we invaded Japan. ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2021, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/780 "2021-05-26T18:38:36Z")
> **[Inheritance](https://xkcd.com/2468/)** > > People ask me whether I feel any moral qualms about the source of the points, but if he hadn't introduced factory farming to Agricola, someone else would have. What game are they playing? ---
**Author:** ![Kron](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kron/32/12444_2.png) [@Kron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kron)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2021, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/781 "2021-05-26T18:45:40Z")
Pretty much any Euro-style game will use Victory Points as the win condition. ETA: And @gdave said it better 😃 ETA again: circular references!!! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574.md?page=38) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574.md?page=40)