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<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 2363<br />
| date = September 23, 2020<br />
| title = Message Boards<br />
| image = message_boards.png<br />
| titletext = (c) You can have a scooter when you pay for it yourself, and (d) if you can't learn to start a new thread rather than responding to an old one, you'll be banned. [thread locked by moderator]<br />
}}<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
{{incomplete|Created by A LG Chocolate. Please mention here why this explanation isn't complete. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}<br />
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The joke of this comic lies in the dates of the forum posts and the (presumed) relation between the posters.<br />
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The initial post was made in 2000 by NIN85 who was, at the time, a teenaged girl (likely 14-15 years old given her username ends in 85, implying she was born in 1985), complaining that her mother did not allow her to get a {{w|Vespa}}. Vespa is a brand of scooters and mopeds produced by the Italian manufacturer Piaggio. Most U.S. states require motorcycle licenses for any vehicle with an engine size over 50 cubic centimeters. Most Vespas are larger than this, although 49 CC models (classified as mopeds) do exist. Depending on the state, the [https://drivinglaws.aaa.com/tag/mopeds-other/ minimum age to get a moped in the United States] is 14, 15, or 16.<br />
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The reply was written in 2020 (twenty years later) by JULZ (or Julian), the son of the now-adult NIN85, likely in his teenage years. The Z perhaps indicates Generation Z, paralleling the 85. "Julz" complains about his mother refusing to allow him to get an electric scooter, which doesn't require a license. He is implicitly pointing out the hypocrisy of his mother, as a 15-year-old, thinking that teenagers with scooters are perfectly reasonable, while as a 35-year-old, being against the idea.<br />
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The humor derives partially from the fact that this isn't really hypocrisy: we expect teenaged viewpoints to evolve into mature adult viewpoints, and do not hold adults to promises made or beliefs held when they were teenagers. Humor also results from the unexpected situation of the child tracking down his mother's old forum post, and his mother still being active in the same niche forum 20 years later. She quickly responds to his comment, addressing him by his real name, which makes it clear they are related. She points out that they had already talked about it (presumably explaining why he is not allowed to get an electric scooter) and expressing her disbelief that he managed to find her original post on the message board.<br />
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In the title text, the parent is apparently a {{w|Internet_forum#Moderators|mod}} on that board now, or at least can quickly twist the ear of an actual mod. (It is unclear whether she ever got her scooter and perhaps became a different kind of {{w|Mod_(subculture)|Mod}}.) She threatens banning if the kid does not learn to post a new thread for stuff like this instead of dredging up dead threads from decades ago, a common complaint on message boards. The act of 'reviving long-dead threads' is often described as "necroposting", or "necroing", and some subforums may actually encourage tagging onto existing but idle discussions (to add new/updated information) rather than repeatedly creating new threads (that end up rehashing or linking all old information).<br />
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This 'necro' does not seem to be particularly informative, however, except as a curiosity. It's possible the motivation to lock this thread is more about hiding her hypocrisy from other users on the board than for the usual reason of letting dead threads stay dead, but a locked thread is usually still readable. It could easily be found and read by old and new forum-goers alike. Even, if not lost entirely by then, by a son or daughter of Julz in yet another twenty years. And they may even be able to have the discussion unlocked on some pretext, then append their own topical teenage complaints against Julian the parent.<br />
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==Transcript==<br />
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:[Single panel showing a view of the "MopedPro" forum on a message board, with a caption below the panel.]<br />
::Forum Tab: '''''MopedPro Forum''''' (Top Left) | (4 tabs with illegible writing on them. None of them appear to be selected) (Top Right)<br />
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:NIN85 (posted December 5, 2000 - 13:01): <br />
:So mad that my mom won't let me get a Vespa. I'm old enough for a moped license and they're really not that dangerous.<br />
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:JULZ [new user] (posted September 23, 2020 - 17:05): <br />
:At least she's not stopping you from getting an electric scooter you don't even need a license for<br />
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:NIN85 (posted September 23, 2020 - 18:36): <br />
:Okay, Julian, (a) you know we talked about this, and (b) how the heck did you find this thread<br />
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:[Caption below the comic]:<br />
:I love that message boards are now old enough for this to happen.<br />
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{{comic discussion}}<br />
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[[Category:Social networking]]</div>Ysthhttps://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:2340:_Cosmologist_Genres&diff=195468Talk:2340: Cosmologist Genres2020-08-03T08:03:05Z<p>Ysth: </p>
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An ultra-early comic, after the prior quite-early one. Is Randall (suddenly now) getting enough sleep? [[Special:Contributions/162.158.154.71|162.158.154.71]] 08:31, 31 July 2020 (UTC)<br />
:Perhaps his sleep schedule has become completely hopeless instead. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.238.37|108.162.238.37]] 11:08, 31 July 2020 (UTC)<br />
:what do you mean ultra early?<br />
Is the 'pop' not considered a metal possibly referring to the 'pop test' for Hydrogen gas that I had to do hundreds of times in high school? [[Special:Contributions/162.158.2.230|162.158.2.230]] 10:13, 31 July 2020 (UTC)<br />
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Is "Lite" a play on "Light" - i.e. photons during the big bang?[[Special:Contributions/108.162.245.106|108.162.245.106]] 17:39, 31 July 2020 (UTC)<br />
:Nope. (Probably not, anyway.)[[Special:Contributions/172.69.63.169|172.69.63.169]] 18:31, 31 July 2020 (UTC)<br />
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Why 'pop' is 'lite'?<br />
[[Special:Contributions/162.158.238.6|162.158.238.6]] 19:29, 31 July 2020 (UTC)<br />
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I'd say it's because pop is the most commonly played music genre, just as hydrogen and helium are the most common elements. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.93.109|162.158.93.109]] 20:35, 31 July 2020 (UTC)<br />
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Surely Pop is 'Lite' because it refers to the Big Bang - or 'Big Pop' in this case. And it was all Hydrogen or helium at that moment therefore 'lite' not 'metal'. <br />
:I get why ''pop'' is lite, but why "Lite". Is that a collective term in cosmology for Hydrogen and Helium? [[User:Kapten-N|Kapten-N]] ([[User talk:Kapten-N|talk]]) 07:21, 3 August 2020 (UTC)<br />
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I'd like to point out that astronomers don't always refer to non-H/He stuff as "metal". When you start talking about exoplanets, asteroids and meteoroids, there's a different classification (albeit nearly as reductive):<br />
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*Gas: H<sub>2</sub> and He<br />
*Ice: anything made out of CHON<br />
*Rock: basically the ordinary meaning - mostly metal silicates and sulfides<br />
*Metal: native metals<br />
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Each of these has much less variation in density and volatility than the variation between categories (I listed them in ascending order of density and descending order of volatility), so these tend to stick together both in terms of what stays on a planet and in terms of forming layers on a planet (e.g. Earth has no Gas, a light dusting of Ice in the form of the biosphere and oceans, Rock crust and mantle, and a Metal core; Neptune's outer layers are Gas, most of the planet is Ice, and the core is Rock and Metal). [[User:Magic9mushroom|Magic9mushroom]] ([[User talk:Magic9mushroom|talk]]) 05:57, 1 August 2020 (UTC)<br />
:That calls for a sequel involving both drugs and music. I don't see how to make sex fit. --[[Special:Contributions/172.69.69.110|172.69.69.110]] 08:47, 1 August 2020 (UTC)<br />
I assumed pop->bang->big bang->(let there be) lite<br />
[[User:Ysth|Ysth]] ([[User talk:Ysth|talk]]) 08:03, 3 August 2020 (UTC)</div>Ysthhttps://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:2326:_Five_Word_Jargon&diff=194606Talk:2326: Five Word Jargon2020-07-13T12:40:59Z<p>Ysth: </p>
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Approximate nonnegative matrix factorization algorithms <br />
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That's all. -[[Special:Contributions/162.158.62.119|162.158.62.119]] 22:04, 29 June 2020 (UTC)<br />
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super cali fragilistic expiali docious<br />
[[User:Bo Lindbergh|Bo Lindbergh]] ([[User talk:Bo Lindbergh|talk]]) 22:26, 29 June 2020 (UTC)<br />
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Over at [https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/ Language Log] they have fun documenting bewildering "noun piles". In the post '''[https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=3341 noun pile blog post madness]''' for example<br />
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:: is a header in this page from Microsoft: '''[https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.web.dynamicdata.dynamichyperlink?view=netframework-4.8 DynamicHyperLink Class]'''<br />
[[User:JohnB|JohnB]] ([[User talk:JohnB|talk]]) 23:59, 29 June 2020 (UTC)<br />
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All cyanobacteria are unicellular. That word is just an imposition. [[User:Nitpicking|Nitpicking]] ([[User talk:Nitpicking|talk]]) 02:25, 30 June 2020 (UTC)<br />
: Cyanobacteria come in various types, such as unicellular, filamentous or colonial. Or even part of a composite organism such as lichen. Plastids, which are intracellular endosymbiotic organelles are technically acellular cyanobacteria. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.165.8|162.158.165.8]] 04:31, 30 June 2020 (UTC)<br />
::Plastids are still unicellular. Living as endosymbionts doesn't make them multicellular, it makes them endosymbionts. Colonial unicellular organisms are still unicellular. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.219.188|108.162.219.188]]<br />
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Cueball could be Randall copying down the phrase into his collection. [[Special:Contributions/173.245.54.131|173.245.54.131]] 03:10, 30 June 2020 (UTC)<br />
:Yea that is clear from it being one of my hobby. Have changed the explanation. --[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 09:32, 1 July 2020 (UTC)<br />
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I was expecting these would in fact all mean something incredibly simple. I'm a little disappointed :( [[Special:Contributions/198.41.238.108|198.41.238.108]] 04:03, 30 June 2020 (UTC)<br />
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My undergraduate research was on fluxional behavior in zwitterionic isoindoline complexes, so this struck close to home.[[User:Eärendil|Eärendil]] ([[User talk:Eärendil|talk]]) 04:17, 30 June 2020 (UTC)<br />
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The phrase from the caption '''really satisfying-sounding five-word technical phrases''' also meets (almost) every criteria it states (except maybe 'technical') - having read many of Randall's comics, I can't imagine this to be a coincidence... [[Special:Contributions/172.68.50.54|172.68.50.54]] 07:39, 30 June 2020 (UTC)<br />
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Before reading this explanation, I was convinced these were nonsensical phrases that Randall had made up![[Special:Contributions/162.158.155.168|162.158.155.168]] 08:18, 30 June 2020 (UTC)<br />
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anomalous electroweak sphaleron transition baryogenesis - roughly translates out of Jargon as Weird Forces Slippery change creation [[Special:Contributions/162.158.155.228|162.158.155.228]] 11:33, 30 June 2020 (UTC)<br />
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I really want to dive into the word relationships within these 'semantically multityped divaricatedly polyconstructed descriptors' and see how much or little they obey the 'rules' for {{w|Branching_(linguistics)|word order}} of component {{w|Adjective#Order|adjectives}}, etc. Maybe when I get a piece of paper and pencil and a bit of time to tease them apart. ;) [[Special:Contributions/162.158.155.240|162.158.155.240]] 13:02, 30 June 2020 (UTC)<br />
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Horrifically enough, Pachelbel's Canon uses five chords: I-V-vi-iii-IV-I-IV-V . (It's deeply hated by us musicians who have to play it at weddings and whatnot). Beethoven's 6th: AllegroMaNonTroppo; AndanteMoltoMosso; Allegro; Allegro; Allegretto. Mahler's Fifth: in short terminology, Pan&Bacchus; Flowers; Animals;Man,Angels; Love . [[User:Cellocgw|Cellocgw]] ([[User talk:Cellocgw|talk]]) 13:06, 30 June 2020 (UTC)<br />
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I don't believe Cueball is looking up the phrase when he types A-N-O-M... I think he's just typing the phrase into the file where he collects the 5-word phrases, as it's listed as the last of his favorites in the bottom section of the panel. [[User:Ianrbibtitlht|Ianrbibtitlht]] ([[User talk:Ianrbibtitlht|talk]]) 13:11, 30 June 2020 (UTC)<br />
:Yea that is clear from it being one of his hobbies to collect them. Have changed the explanation. --[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 09:32, 1 July 2020 (UTC)<br />
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I had a foundling dog diagnosed with "Juvenile Canine Psychogenic Polydipsia - Polyurea. He also had five different kinds of parasites. [[User:Pwydde|Pwydde]] ([[User talk:Pwydde|talk]]) 21:37, 30 June 2020 (UTC)<br />
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I've noticed that Epson loves five word names for its inkjet papers, such as "Ultra Premium Presentation Paper Matte" [[User:Tanana|Tanana]] ([[User talk:Tanana|talk]]) 23:37, 30 June 2020 (UTC)<br />
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“Natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery.” Might be one best not to know about.<br />
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"Stationary ergodic Gaussian random processes" were the central part of a university project I did just a month ago ! [[Special:Contributions/141.101.69.159|141.101.69.159]] 19:56, 1 July 2020 (UTC)<br />
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My new favourite is Dynamic Organic Anthropomorphically Engineered Entropy.<br />
[[Special:Contributions/162.158.159.66|162.158.159.66]] 21:59, 1 July 2020 (UTC)<br />
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"and then proceed to type the phrase into his phone to add to his list of favorite Five Word Jargon" - That's not how I understand the comic. I thought he was typing it to look up the term on Google. That is also supported by this discussion about the previous comic #2325 on the XKCD sub-reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/xkcd/comments/hhcgej/randalls_done_it_again/fwh1vl6/ [[Special:Contributions/172.68.215.166|172.68.215.166]] 04:04, 4 July 2020 (UTC)<br />
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An intermediate phase Type-II superconducting plate suspended in a gradually increasing strong uniform applied magnetic field will have its core penetrated by individual cylindrical magnetic flux quanta together forming an induced quantum supercurrent vortex lattice with a minimized field energy spacing parameter that exhibits quasi-bifurcating meta-stable equilibrium state trajectories that form a transitory phyllotactic fluxon lattice spiral before reaching critical field flux density limits. [[Special:Contributions/172.69.50.78|172.69.50.78]] 23:16, 8 July 2020 (UTC)<br />
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I would say it should be "Exhibit" instead of "Model", but that would be gauche.<br />
[[User:Ysth|Ysth]] ([[User talk:Ysth|talk]]) 12:40, 13 July 2020 (UTC)</div>Ysth