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Pore Strips
by Jeff
Image text: I'm sure they're a harmful tool of the cosmetics-industrial complex and all, but my goodness do those strips ever work to pull gunk out of your pores. I was shocked, disgusted, and vaguely fascinated by the result.
In this comic, Cueball uses the anti-acne deep cleaning strips that you are supposed to rub all over your face to get the dirt and sweat out of your pores. However, as the box in the comic explains, the pore strips are deep cleaning and in the case of the comic too deep. The pore strips used in the comic cleaned too deep and in the process of cleaning his face, Cueball pulled out his skull, which resides deep within his face. Whoops!
August 9th, 2010
Welcome back, Jeff!
August 9th, 2010
You’re close – the strips in question don’t get rubbed all over your face. You wet them, than adhere them to your nose or chin or whichever spot they’re designed for. Let them stay there for a few moments, and the adhesive dries. Peel them off, and you have a little “forest” of stuff that’s been pulled out of the pores.
The one in the strip is designed to go on your nose. But it’s a deep cleaning version, so it pulls your skull out right through the center of your face.
August 9th, 2010
This one is a little more Cyanide & Happiness than XKCD
August 9th, 2010
What…no detailed explanation behind the complex dynamics involved in the chemistry behind the pore strips? You’re slipping…
August 9th, 2010
I don’t think that has too much relevance to the strip in question.
August 9th, 2010
That’s a berg-type explanation, not a jeff explanation.
August 9th, 2010
I read this earlier this morning and thought, “This is going to be a short explainxkcd” and it was. Not a whole lot of explanation needed.
August 10th, 2010
Jeff comes back for ONE day and then it’s an immediate difference in explanations lol.
The poster up top already explained that these are adhesive strips, which you stick onto your face.
Let me try a quick Berg explanation:
Acne is a prevalent cosmetic problem many younger Americans have, due to a diet consisting of high amounts of oil and fat. As such, the body absorbs this oil and “gunk” into the skin, forming red skin irritations. Pores are tiny openings in the skin, which are usually filled with blood or sweat or other internal liquid secretions. The problem of acne occurs mostly on the face, due to facial skin having larger pores than anywhere else on the body, allowing oil and fat to accumulate and cause irritations.
To reduce the occurence of acne, a healthier diet consisting of less fat (and also more water to cleanse the skin) is required. The problem is that nobody wants to give up their hamburgers, so this isn’t a viable solution.
Cosmetic companies invented pore strips, which adhere to your face, and then literally rip the pores right out of your face.
August 10th, 2010
You guys are being a little too hard on Jeff, I mean he created this site to begin with. Jeff does less detailed explanations than Berg, but hey, he tried this week.
August 11th, 2010
Berg’s explanations are awesome, but I personally prefer Jeff, who is more to-the-point. Berg sometimes gets TL;DR, IMO. Maybe they should have separate blogs, or they could do both a short and a long description to cater to fans of both styles –oh, who am I kidding? who has time for that? keep up the good work, guys. For what it’s worth, both styles are much better than the sarcastic, bordering-on-arrogant approach of xkcdexplained.com.
October 11th, 2010
It’s less the arrogance, more the bullshit psychoanalysis that hacks me off about xkcdexplained.com
August 10th, 2010
I don’t like the Berg explanations. I don’t need a long winded thing unless the comic involves physics or math.
Yay for Jeff!
August 11th, 2010
but… really, guys
Do this strip really need explaining?
i am more interested with the next one “Scheduling”
August 11th, 2010
I am in total agreement with red-DIE, I am totally befuddled by the “Scheduling” strip.
I’m also blown away by the irony that this website said my previous attempt at a response was “too short” and made me write a longer one.