# ­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:** 70
**Author:** ![Pleonast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pleonast/32/1183_2.png) [@Pleonast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pleonast)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2022, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/1382 "2022-05-12T03:28:09Z")
> [@JRDelirious](#): > > …but they got better. They still haven’t fixed the flaw where missing traffic data looks like good traffic. Makes it totally useless for route planning. ---
**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 13, 2022, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/1383 "2022-05-13T15:17:19Z")
> **[Crêpe](https://xkcd.com/2619/)** > > A medicine that makes you put two dots over your letters more often is a diäretic. Háha, good öne. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2022, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/1384 "2022-05-15T18:32:00Z")
But what he politely doesn’t mention is that Google maps has gone downhill. It’s now cluttered with ads and it’s also become hard to close out of. ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2022, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/1385 "2022-05-17T05:06:58Z")
> **[Health Data](https://xkcd.com/2620/)** > > Donate now to help us find a cure for causality. No one should have to suffer through events because of other events. ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2022, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/1386 "2022-05-17T20:24:25Z")
> [@dtilque](#): > > Donate now to help us find a cure for causality. Is it a coincidence that “causality” and “casualty” are almost exactly the same word? ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2022, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/1387 "2022-05-19T05:54:06Z")
> **[Mainly Known For](https://xkcd.com/2621/)** > > Oh sure, I know Keira Knightly, from the first movie in that series by The Land Before Time producer. You know, the franchise with the guy from Jurassic Park and Ghostwriter, and script work by Billie Lourd's mom? ---
**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 19, 2022, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/1388 "2022-05-19T21:22:57Z")
To be fair, I also mostly think of David Bowie as the guy from Labyrinth. ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2022, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/1389 "2022-05-21T04:43:39Z")
> **[Angular Diameter Turnaround](https://xkcd.com/2622/)** > > Thank you to Katie Mack for teaching me about this effect, and to Janelle Shane for describing redshifts as 'like galaxies sinking into a pool of dilute blood,' which is how I'll see them from now on. ---
**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 21, 2022, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/1390 "2022-05-21T12:03:21Z")
I was sort of expecting this one to be interactive-- It’d be clearer if you could move the foreground Samsungs out of the way. ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2022, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/1391 "2022-05-23T18:01:15Z")
> **[Goofs](https://xkcd.com/2623/)** > > The film is set in 2018, but when Commander Bremberly chases the hologram through Times Square, there's a billboard for Avengers: Age of Ultron. Depending on the date, that billboard would have been advertising either Infinity War or this movie. ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2022, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/1392 "2022-05-26T04:37:22Z")
> **[Voyager Wires](https://xkcd.com/2624/)** > > Also, they're getting increasingly worried that someone will accidentally hit the 'retract' button, and that the end of the cable thrashing around as it winds up could devastate the Earth's surface. ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2022, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/1393 "2022-05-27T17:09:24Z")
> **[Field Topology](https://xkcd.com/2625/)** > > The combination croquet set/10-lane pool can also be used for some varieties of foosball and Skee-Ball. ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2022, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/1394 "2022-05-27T19:19:15Z")
Football belongs in the one on the left. Originally it belonged where it is above, but they, um … moved the goalposts on him. ---
**Author:** ![Ponderoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponderoid/32/19221_2.png) [@Ponderoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponderoid)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2022, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/1395 "2022-05-27T21:24:50Z")
Which kind of football? ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2022, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/1396 "2022-05-27T21:39:05Z")
murkin football, of course. I’m sure that’s what kind is meant in the strip, since it also has soccer. ---
**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:** [May 28, 2022, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/1397 "2022-05-28T02:04:16Z")
Yeah- these are the current football goalposts [https://media.istockphoto.com/photos/american-football-field-goal-post-picture-id540869020?s=612x612](https://media.istockphoto.com/photos/american-football-field-goal-post-picture-id540869020?s=612x612) And these are the ones you see in a Ronald Reagan movie: [![](https://o-plus-a.com/oplusa/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/goalposts.jpg) ](https://o-plus-a.com/oplusa/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/goalposts.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2022, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/1398 "2022-05-28T02:11:20Z")
The old-style NFL goalposts were last used in Super Bowl I, according to Wikipedia. (They were also at the goal line, too, which caused people to run into the posts on occasion, instead of being back at the negative-10.) ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2022, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/1399 "2022-05-28T02:40:39Z")
> [@ekedolphin](#): > > They were also at the goal line, too, which caused people to run into the posts on occasion, instead of being back at the negative-10. It was the moving the goalposts that changed the topology of the field, at least the way the xkcd strip interprets it. And they did that not because people ran into them, but because kickers got so much better. The change from the old H-shaped ones to the newer Y-shaped was to reduce collisions, although they still happened at a lower rate. Moving to the back of the endzone reduced that further, but wasn’t the main reason for the move. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2022, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/1400 "2022-05-28T03:24:06Z")
It always amuses me when people insist “soccer” is the American term. AFAIK, it’s a British term for that style of football. ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2022, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/1401 "2022-05-28T03:31:02Z")
I didn’t claim soccer was an American term. But when both soccer and football are used in parallel (i.e. refering to different sports) by an American, it’s an easy deduction that “football” means American football. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574.md?page=69) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574.md?page=71)