Editing Talk:1423: Conversation

Jump to: navigation, search
Ambox notice.png Please sign your posts with ~~~~

Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.

The edit can be undone. Please check the comparison below to verify that this is what you want to do, and then save the changes below to finish undoing the edit.
Latest revision Your text
Line 1: Line 1:
I have tried to think of what I could put in here, but I can't think of anything. Awkward. {{unsigned ip|108.162.216.149| 09:24, 19 September 2014‎ (UTC)}}
+
I have tried to think of what I could put in here, but I can't think of anything. Awkward.
 
----
 
----
 
Oh god, she's me. Someone please help her! [[Special:Contributions/141.101.93.206|141.101.93.206]] 09:28, 19 September 2014 (UTC)
 
Oh god, she's me. Someone please help her! [[Special:Contributions/141.101.93.206|141.101.93.206]] 09:28, 19 September 2014 (UTC)
 
----
 
----
 
By coincidence, on a Facebook Asperger syndrome group that I'm a member of, there was this bit of dialog, purportedly from a party someone had attended: A: So, what do you work at? B: I have an invalid pension. A. Ah, I see. What's wrong with you? B: I'm not capable of lying. --[[User:RenniePet|RenniePet]] ([[User talk:RenniePet|talk]]) 11:14, 19 September 2014 (UTC)
 
By coincidence, on a Facebook Asperger syndrome group that I'm a member of, there was this bit of dialog, purportedly from a party someone had attended: A: So, what do you work at? B: I have an invalid pension. A. Ah, I see. What's wrong with you? B: I'm not capable of lying. --[[User:RenniePet|RenniePet]] ([[User talk:RenniePet|talk]]) 11:14, 19 September 2014 (UTC)
:Surely no one would actually say "What's wrong with you?" in that situation, perhaps someone with Asperger syndrome wouldn't notice, but that's so rude. [[Special:Contributions/141.101.106.107|141.101.106.107]] 11:28, 19 September 2014 (UTC)
+
    Surely no one would actually say "What's wrong with you?" in that situation, perhaps someone with Asperger syndrome wouldn't notice, but that's so rude. [[Special:Contributions/141.101.106.107|141.101.106.107]] 11:28, 19 September 2014 (UTC)
::Well, it was freely translated from Danish, and Danes are fairly blunt, without it necessarily being considered unfriendly. The original text:
 
::Hørt ved et selskab:
 
::- 'Nå, hvad laver du så til hverdag?'
 
::- 'Jeg er førtidspensionist.'
 
::- 'Okay, hvad fejler du?'
 
::- 'Jeg er ærlig.'
 
::--[[User:RenniePet|RenniePet]] ([[User talk:RenniePet|talk]]) 11:50, 19 September 2014 (UTC)
 
----
 
She took the candle with her...
 
 
 
I guess she felt it would have been too awkward to leave him there alone with the candle burning as a symbol of what could have been...
 
--[[User:Mag748|Mag748]] ([[User talk:Mag748|talk]]) 11:55, 19 September 2014 (UTC)
 
:It's so no one holds a candle to Cueball. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.237.161|108.162.237.161]] 20:41, 19 September 2014 (UTC)
 
----
 
Regarding the comic, could what Megan does just be an "exit" out of the date? It seems to make sense that way —[[User:Artyer|Artyer]] ([[User talk:Artyer|talk]]) 16:21, 19 September 2014 (UTC)
 
----
 
He also drank his entire glass of wine during her (relatively short) comment.
 
 
 
This might be a commentary on online dating, where these sorts of questions crop up frequently, and people tend to give self-referential/empty answers to them.
 
--16:22, 19 September 2014 (UTC)
 
----
 
Related to above, the hover text includes something about not knowing what to write, which is common in online dating profiles. "I have no idea how to describe myself" is something of a cliche.
 
--18:11, 19 September 2014 (UTC)
 

Please note that all contributions to explain xkcd may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here.
You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see explain xkcd:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission!

To protect the wiki against automated edit spam, we kindly ask you to solve the following CAPTCHA:

Cancel | Editing help (opens in new window)

Template used on this page: