https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/api.php?action=feedcontributions&user=173.245.56.112&feedformat=atomexplain xkcd - User contributions [en]2024-03-29T08:42:35ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.30.0https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1534:_Beer&diff=999751534: Beer2015-08-21T23:23:58Z<p>173.245.56.112: /* Trivia */</p>
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<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 1534<br />
| date = June 5, 2015<br />
| title = Beer<br />
| image = beer.png<br />
| titletext = Mmmm, this is such a positive experience! I feel no social pressure to enjoy it at all!<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
[[Hairy]] offers [[Cueball]] some beer from his fridge, and Cueball takes the opportunity to suggest that people should admit that beer tastes bad and stop pretending to like it. Hairy berates Cueball for making such an affirmation, and Cueball admits defeat, deciding to drink the beer anyway and pretend to like it to play his part in what he perceives to be a mass delusion.<br />
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There are two possible interpretations of this comic. One is that Cueball is right and that no one really likes beer, and everyone is just pretending in order to fit in. The other is that Hairy actually likes beer, but Cueball fails to recognize that possibility, assumes Hairy is faking it, and plays along.<br />
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In the case where Cueball is correct, the comic would imply that beer doesn't actually taste good, and instead fits the definition of an {{w|acquired taste}}, with most people initially pretending to like beer to conform to social norms, and later {{w|Internalisation (sociology)|internalizing}} this belief to prevent {{w|cognitive dissonance}}. The theory is that this dissonance is perpetuated by advertising and {{w|peer pressure}}, which present beer as a naturally pleasant beverage. In this interpretation, Cueball, having failed to break the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5S1d3cNge24&t=47m34s mutual knowledge barrier], admits defeat and joins Hairy in pretending to enjoy beer.<br />
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The second case would mean that Cueball mistaken in assuming that nobody likes beer, either because he fails to {{w|empathy|empathize}} with those who have a different experience than his, or because he's heard from other people who also admitted not to like beer, and extrapolated that opinion to everyone (perhaps assuming that such admissions are underrepresented due to the {{w|Drinking culture|cultural bias in favor of drinking}}).<br />
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The title text expands on Cueball's perspective, stating ({{w|sarcastic|sarcastically}}) that he feels no peer pressure to like beer. While Hairy did not actually pressure him in the comic, the pressure to drink beer or other alcoholic drinks is a well-known phenomenon, especially among {{w|Peer pressure#Substance use and adolescents|adolescents and young adults}}.<br />
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==Transcript==<br />
:[Cueball and Hairy standing in front of a fridge.]<br />
:Hairy: What do you drink? Stouts? Lagers?<br />
:Cueball: Uh, anything's fine.<br />
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:[Cueball and Hairy holding beers and Hairy is drinking.]<br />
:Cueball: ...do you ever think maybe we should just admit that all beer tastes kind of bad and everyone's just pretending?<br />
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:[Now Cueball drinks.]<br />
:Hairy: Man, you are ''no'' fun at all.<br />
:Cueball: Ok, got it. Not a word.<br />
:Hairy: Dude, if you don't like it, don't drink it.<br />
:Cueball: No, no, gotta do my part! Mmmmm!!!<br />
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==Trivia==<br />
*The [http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2014/10/01/352771618/from-kale-to-pale-ale-a-love-of-bitter-may-be-in-your-genes like or dislike] of certain tastes, such a beer, may have a [http://news.psu.edu/story/327406/2014/09/23/research/research-shows-alcohol-sensations-influenced-genes genetic background].<br />
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[[Category:Sarcasm]]</div>173.245.56.112https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:1556:_The_Sky&diff=98515Talk:1556: The Sky2015-07-27T14:36:14Z<p>173.245.56.112: </p>
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<div>Typical, I think nobody's actually going to try to explain this, and I get Save Conflicted. My (wordier) version. In case any of it is useful.<br />
:The sky is ever changing, and can often give interesting views such as that illustrated in the comic. Cueball and Megan seem to be agreeing about this, and its pleasing nature.<br />
:As (ignoring particularly unusual viewpoints, severe topography and obscuring vegetation/architecture) the sky is pretty much the upper hemisphere of any external view, it is inded a "half". It would seem to be redundant to say it is "one of my favourite halves", as that indicates both a list of at least two items to choose from ''and'' more than one 'favourite'. Being in 'the top two of a list of two' actually means nothing. But the other half could be the ground ''or'' the sea, ''or'' a composite of the two, so conceivably there ''might'' be more than two 'halves' to choose from in this case. Not that the statement makes much more sense.<br />
:The title-text acknowledges the fact that the other half can have snakes (the land), shipwrecks (the sea) and rocks (either), in a manner that sounds like justifications for any non-sky 'halves' being interesting too, to the kind of people Cueball and Megan seem to be. But it also suggests that by removing all of these you'd be seeing sky, below, that people on the other side of the 'rocks' (the whole Earth) had been seeing as their own 'sky above'. At least until the effects of entirely removing the substance of the planet start to show, of course.<br />
...for what it's worth. [[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.168|141.101.98.168]] 11:57, 27 July 2015 (UTC)<br />
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Maybe, maybe the comic is a slight refference to the recent observetory of plutos athmosphere. [[User:ẞ qwertz|ẞ qwertz]] ([[User talk:ẞ qwertz|talk]]) 12:55, 27 July 2015 (UTC)<br />
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Maybe this comic is related to comic [[1368]]? [[User:Gartenzaun|Gartenzaun]] ([[User talk:Gartenzaun|talk]]) 13:16, 27 July 2015 (UTC)<br />
:Or this [[1524: Dimensions]]. Regarding the favourite of a small set.-[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 13:52, 27 July 2015 (UTC)<br />
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I can't defend this position properly (other than by appealing to shipwrecks) but I'm pretty sure "the other half" is the ocean (or water in general) and that this is a callback to something in early XKCD (the halves thing.) I don't care enough to find the reference though, so FFTI. [[Special:Contributions/141.101.88.224|141.101.88.224]] 13:18, 27 July 2015 (UTC)<br />
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My read on the "halves" bit is the Biblical Genesis bit where the world was split into sky and sea, "And God said, “Let there be a vault between the waters to separate water from water.” So God made the vault and separated the water under the vault from the water above it. And it was so. God called the vault “sky.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the second day." -[[Special:Contributions/173.245.56.112|173.245.56.112]] 14:36, 27 July 2015 (UTC)</div>173.245.56.112