You are an adult. You have to do what your body tells you to do. Children can distort, and play with figures and ideas, with a fluidity that strains us--which we grow out of. Except for if you're a children's book illustrator, and you're out of your mind.
Xkcd could certainly be accused of being lazy and pandering, though
I challenge you to produce any syllable-perfect patter following "Modern Major-general", on any topic, and then come back here and discuss why it proves you're lazy.
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Yes, I am sure it is very difficult to match different words to a tune
Muay Thai is srs bizness. Just push your elbow back in their face! It's just kinda how it works!
It was BJJ, so I was on my back and he was the instructor and my size or bigger so I was pretty much trapped. It was not a successful sales pitch of a session. Also, the place followed the Houston BJJ gym tradition of having no AC so the mats were covered in sweat, as were your classmates. Fucking disgusting. Lack of air conditioning doesn't build character. It grows ringworm and staph infections.
The lack of AC is definitely a terrible thing.
However, I'll give the instructor credit for showing you what it will be like when you roll with other students and not giving you any false ideas!
XKCD isn't a comic many people would accuse of being anti-intellectual and I don't think the comic is anti education really. As someone who's been like "man I don't know if I'm interested in any major or any job" I can relate.
I suppose the ostensible meaning is in the student explaining to his advisor why he can't pick a major. And of course it's presented in a tongue-in-cheek / ironic tone, for convenient defense of message. But in giving the common polemics as to why xyz majors are shit, such as an english degree being for naive dreamers, it seems to carry a more destructive message that education in certain fields doesn't have equal worth (yes, he pokes fun at Comp Sci and Physics as well, but having to slog through dense code or become an engineer doesn't seem as bad of an indictment as being the sexless unperson that is the philosophy major). Of course there are empirical differences in remuneration and future salary growth, etcetera. But all education, and everything that it entails, is still invaluable on a stratum more meaningful than money.
I felt it was presented in an overall pessimistic tone, and that it made a joke that is analogous to a racism joke about how every race is awful, but then proceeded to "equate" stuff like "blue people are awful because they have to go to a white collar job and have terrible sex" with "green people are awful because they can't count and are criminals".
I think you're reading far too much into it, and perhaps aren't familiar with either the comedic style or the Major-General's character. It's a note-perfect reproduction of both the lyric structure and the tone of the unknowing buffoon in the original work.
Basically I'm saying you need to get some knowledge here because your opinion is lacking it!
Xkcd could certainly be accused of being lazy and pandering, though
I challenge you to produce any syllable-perfect patter following "Modern Major-general", on any topic, and then come back here and discuss why it proves you're lazy.
:bz
Yes, I am sure it is very difficult to match different words to a tune
I await your parody with bated breath.
In other words, I'll bet you can't manage it.
No, I can't. Music and rhythm are entirely beyond me.
The solution is to surround yourself with interesting people and feed on their life energies until you become more interesting than them.
Eddy: You read far too much into my posts. I'm on my phone and I felt that 'jelly?' summed up the question of 'because you are jealous of them?' as opposed to 'because they are obnoxious about being interesting.' pretty well.
I guess a lot of people hate the fact that XKCD has stick figure art but the abstract art makes the comic feel more cerebral, and the fact that it's one of the few hand-lettered webcomics counts for a lot. And overall I think the comic is non-ugly - pleasing to the eye, even - which is more than you can say for New Yorker cartoons, Doonesbury or Achewood.
I am totally happy with the job I have lined up so... hells yeah!
You and simon still don't know where you are going, do you?
I don't know if Simon does yet but I don't. The australian consulate seems to be a couple weeks ahead of the LA one on average and results are supposedly starting to trickle out here.
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distribution of endowments simply doesn't matter as much as it does in theory to people
*author of Where the Wild Things Are.
Is this another stanza of that xkcd thing?
Well I mean, he had a good run
But when you listen to the startling avant garde maneuvers of his earliest material compared to his current mature works ...
Look all I'm saying is even the best prize horse eventually makes its last lap around the track in old age
And then: glue factory
Yes, but unfortunately, no one can be told what the Toyota Matrix is. You have to see it for yourself.
Take a page out of The First 90 Days.
Type it verbatim.
Submit.
Rince & Repeat.
Best quote that showed up in my FB feed from him:
I await your parody with bated breath.
Nooooooooooooooooooooo
you dudes need to lighten up
liberal arts majors am i right??
Jelly?
The lack of AC is definitely a terrible thing.
However, I'll give the instructor credit for showing you what it will be like when you roll with other students and not giving you any false ideas!
It's alright
I see people driving older model ... Matrices around all the time so I presume they hold up alright.
As a liberal arts major, I found that comic hilarious.
I am totally happy with the job I have lined up so... hells yeah!
The smugness in this post, even if it is jocular, is incredible
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
Of course.
It is not always consistent in actual parlance
You and simon still don't know where you are going, do you?
I think you're reading far too much into it, and perhaps aren't familiar with either the comedic style or the Major-General's character. It's a note-perfect reproduction of both the lyric structure and the tone of the unknowing buffoon in the original work.
Basically I'm saying you need to get some knowledge here because your opinion is lacking it!
No, I can't. Music and rhythm are entirely beyond me.
It is still terribly bad
arent you going to japan?
Also Little Bear, which I consider one of the young reader series' of all time. It is absolutely wonderful!
The solution is to surround yourself with interesting people and feed on their life energies until you become more interesting than them.
Eddy: You read far too much into my posts. I'm on my phone and I felt that 'jelly?' summed up the question of 'because you are jealous of them?' as opposed to 'because they are obnoxious about being interesting.' pretty well.
i mean there are some weak panels but some of them are quite clever
Listen ese
I don't know where you think you are but you're standing on the corner of Penny and Arcade
If you aren't ready to take web comics way too seriously then you're on the wrong block
To teach, yeah.
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
probably because they know their major is actually worthless and that they are frauds
i'm not sure that having two degrees in literature and one in pure math would make me exactly employable though
I don't know if Simon does yet but I don't. The australian consulate seems to be a couple weeks ahead of the LA one on average and results are supposedly starting to trickle out here.
As one who studied lyrics both iambic and pentameter
I found the comic well within my comedic parameters!
Perhaps that lack of subtlety is what people find annoying about XKCD
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
Just look at the facial expressions and body language of the characters
Is okay I still luvs you
what are you teaching
kawaii-studies?
desu-nomics?
pillow-chan-ology?
there were also older comics that were super melodramatic
that doesn't mean it doesn't have its good ones, or its astonishingly labour-intensive fact-storms