https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/api.php?action=feedcontributions&feedformat=atom&user=Jp5424explain xkcd - User contributions [en]2026-05-21T22:19:55ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.30.0https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:3223:_Inflation_Timeline&diff=408813Talk:3223: Inflation Timeline2026-03-24T18:18:05Z<p>Jp5424: Weird X axis</p>
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What about the regular/sexy thing? {{unsigned|2a02:26f7:e344:4000:c000::f}}<br />
: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_inflation [[Special:Contributions/155.33.87.241|155.33.87.241]] 19:14, 23 March 2026 (UTC)<br />
:: I would say this is an application of the "today's lucky 10,000" concept, but this probably doesn't qualify as a thing that everyone knows by the time they're an adult so the number is probably lower. But I hope this experience of learning something new is still as fun as Coke and Mentos! [[User:Dextrous Fred|Dextrous Fred]] ([[User talk:Dextrous Fred|talk]]) 19:47, 23 March 2026 (UTC)<br />
:::Not so sure closing this gap in knowledge would really count as "lucky", but each to their own. [[Special:Contributions/204.77.3.72|204.77.3.72]] 00:07, 24 March 2026 (UTC)<br />
::::definitely not a sentence i expected to read on xkcd. [[user:lett‪herebedarklight|raeb]] 05:33, 24 March 2026 (UTC)<br />
::Since economic inflation is money becoming more worthless and therefore de-facto vanishing, it would be better represented by ''body deflation''. That is - character becoming increasingly more gaunt and skinny, until only pile of bones remain (or if cartoonish, until he becomes thinner than fishing line and collapses into a point). Dunno what sort of weirdo would use images of starving people (e.g. victims of nazi death camps) ''for sexual gratification''. --[[User:User 8496351|User 8496351]] ([[User talk:User 8496351|talk]]) 07:56, 24 March 2026 (UTC)<br />
:::Economic inflation is "more units of money needed for the same product/service", so entirely in line with "a need for more apparent body mass/volume of the same person" (e.g. BBLs, etc). At least as I understand both processes, which I may not entirely. [[Special:Contributions/82.132.237.186|82.132.237.186]] 11:47, 24 March 2026 (UTC)<br />
:: Well, I've obviously led a sheltered the last seventy years as I've never heard of body inflation.--[[Special:Contributions/2A00:23CC:D248:8901:D030:98E4:E22B:D2EF|2A00:23CC:D248:8901:D030:98E4:E22B:D2EF]] 08:56, 24 March 2026 (UTC)<br />
:: New to me too. But further proof of Rule 34 :-) [[Special:Contributions/2A12:F43:143E:0:C172:A03D:12FE:51AA|2A12:F43:143E:0:C172:A03D:12FE:51AA]] 11:36, 24 March 2026 (UTC)dww-uk<br />
The X axis is weird. The labeled ticks are logarithmic, but the unlabeled ticks are linear, and there are only 8 of them.[[User:Jp5424|Jp5424]] ([[User talk:Jp5424|talk]]) 18:18, 24 March 2026 (UTC)</div>Jp5424