xkcd

by **jackal** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 4:12 am UTC

http://xkcd.com/1046/

Title-text: 'YOUR CLOTHES. GIVE THEM TO ME.' 'Shit, uh ... you are now breathing manually!' 'I AM ALWAYS BREATHING MANUALLY.'

I'm surprised it took 11 minutes. For an android, 0.68 seconds is nearly an eternity.

by **rhomboidal** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 4:15 am UTC

And I'm pretty sure the evil Terminators could've been stopped with Sudoku.

by **glasnt** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 4:20 am UTC

I did the same with Esky, and missed a BBQ because I was obsessing over it too much.

Hi joee.

by **Djehutynakht** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 5:16 am UTC

[quote="]
I'm surprised it took 11 minutes. For an android, 0.68 seconds is nearly an eternity.[/quote]

Yeah but becoming too self aware and thinking about your own conciousness always eats up eons of time, android or not.

by **JimsMaher** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 5:38 am UTC

Trestles and gradients.

Trestles is a surf spot in San Diego.
Gradients are slopes of waves.

This comic is all about surfing.
Because we all know you only find yourself out there, on the ocean, just you and your board.

Spoiler:

by **San Fran Sam** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 6:09 am UTC

rhomboidal wrote:And I'm pretty sure the evil Terminators could've been stopped with Sudoku.

well, maybe, but it would have to have a non-unique solution.

The 6 goes there. No there. No wait, there. Dammit!

Either that or direct it to a robot porn website.

by **Zelaron** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 6:43 am UTC

Your swallowing reflex is now in manual mode.

by **Quicksilver** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 6:53 am UTC

by **Kibate** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 7:48 am UTC

you are now breathing manually!

Haha, that is fu....DAMN YOU XKCD!

by **AvatarIII** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 7:54 am UTC

holy crap, got up this morning, pulled a t-shirt out of my drawer to wear to work, it's this one

by **Plasma Man** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 9:43 am UTC

Worst disguise for a Terminator ever. A Skynet T-shirt? That's got to be a giveaway.

I'm just waiting for a Terminator / Dr. Who crossover, as they both seem to work on the timey-wimey ball method of time travel.

by **Linux0s** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 10:40 am UTC

Too self aware? Sounds like Skynet got too stoned.

by **chemicalfan** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 11:51 am UTC

Zelaron wrote:Your swallowing reflex is now in manual mode.

I hate you.

by **Sprocket** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 11:53 am UTC

Bastard alt. text. :-)

by **SirMustapha** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 11:56 am UTC

Comic is pretty fun and clever. Troll gimmick on alt text is old and stupid. Not bothering to elaborate right now.

by **shirosuzume** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 12:05 pm UTC

Wow, SirM, you old softy. Never can tell.

When this happens to me it's less about the word not feeling like a word anymore, but rather looking like a jumble of letters that looks totally spelled wrong. Somehow this always happens with "school." Does that look like it's spelled wrong to anybody else? Sigh.

by **philip1201** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 12:07 pm UTC

Don't you think it's interesting how your jaw muscles supply just enough strength to overcome gravity on your lower jaw?

by **radtea** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 12:25 pm UTC

shirosuzume wrote:Wow, SirM, you old softy. Never can tell.

When this happens to me it's less about the word not feeling like a word anymore, but rather looking like a jumble of letters that looks totally spelled wrong. Somehow this always happens with "school." Does that look like it's spelled wrong to anybody else? Sigh.

That's because it is spelled rong by any rational standard. Also "use" and "why" and "you". Wut?

by **eran_rathan** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 1:05 pm UTC

Linux0s wrote:Too self aware? Sounds like Skynet got too stoned.

Or is Keanu Reeves.

Holy crap.

Keanu Reeves is a Terminator. This explains his complete lack of facial expressions.

whoa. dude.

by **MSTK** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 1:10 pm UTC

radtea wrote:
shirosuzume wrote:Wow, SirM, you old softy. Never can tell.

When this happens to me it's less about the word not feeling like a word anymore, but rather looking like a jumble of letters that looks totally spelled wrong. Somehow this always happens with "school." Does that look like it's spelled wrong to anybody else? Sigh.

That's because it is spelled rong by any rational standard. Also "use" and "why" and "you". Wut?

don't forget two

by **javahead** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 1:26 pm UTC

3am, SkyNet enters android version of teenage 'years' and develops angsty mindset. Reinstates plan to destroy mankind.

by **AvatarIII** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 2:08 pm UTC

Plasma Man wrote:Worst disguise for a Terminator ever. A Skynet T-shirt? That's got to be a giveaway.

I'm just waiting for a Terminator / Dr. Who crossover, as they both seem to work on the timey-wimey ball method of time travel.

If it's a dead give away, then a Terminator would surely never wear it, but if you assume a Terminator would never wear a Skynet t-shirt, you would therefore assume anyone you saw in a Skynet t-shirt was not a terminator, therefore it's the perfect disguise. :twisted:

by **Diadem** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 2:10 pm UTC

Best comic in a while. Made me laugh out loud.

radtea wrote:
shirosuzume wrote:When this happens to me it's less about the word not feeling like a word anymore, but rather looking like a jumble of letters that looks totally spelled wrong. Somehow this always happens with "school." Does that look like it's spelled wrong to anybody else? Sigh.

That's because it is spelled rong by any rational standard. Also "use" and "why" and "you". Wut?

What's wrong with school? Or any of those? How else would you spell them?

I'm more bothered by words like women or the infamous set of tough/though/through

by **Sandor** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 2:29 pm UTC

I hadn't heard of the "you are now breathing manually" meme, so I ending up going here for an explanation. I was also confused because I think of manually as meaning "with your hands", and wondered how you breath with your hands

by **VectorZero** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 2:45 pm UTC

Sandor wrote:I ... wondered how you breath with your hands

Huh? How do you do it?

by ***Kat*** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 2:55 pm UTC

SirMustapha wrote:Comic is pretty fun and clever.

*jaw drop*

Quick! Someone check the temperature in Hell.

by **maxQ** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 3:01 pm UTC

AvatarIII wrote:
Plasma Man wrote:Worst disguise for a Terminator ever. A Skynet T-shirt? That's got to be a giveaway.

I'm just waiting for a Terminator / Dr. Who crossover, as they both seem to work on the timey-wimey ball method of time travel.

If it's a dead give away, then a Terminator would surely never wear it, but if you assume a Terminator would never wear a Skynet t-shirt, you would therefore assume anyone you saw in a Skynet t-shirt was not a terminator, therefore it's the perfect disguise.

Truly, you have a dizzying intellect.

by **Adam H** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 3:21 pm UTC

*Kat* wrote:
SirMustapha wrote:Comic is pretty fun and clever.

*jaw drop*

Quick! Someone check the temperature in Hell.

He's just trolling. This comic obviously sucks.

by **The Moomin** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 3:35 pm UTC

VectorZero wrote:
Sandor wrote:I ... wondered how you breath with your hands
Huh? How do you do it?

You grab all the air you can, and force it into your belly button. As it enters your body the air bubbles up into the lungs, and then eventually out through your mouth and nose, which is exhaling.

There's probably other biological stuff going on as well, but I didn't pay enough attention in class.

by **cellocgw** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 4:08 pm UTC

Hey, my home LAN is named "skynet," you insensitive clod!
(no, really, it is named skynet. At least when I'm not calling it "Collinwood." And I am not too happy about certain film directors making my man Barnabus into a [intentionally] comic figure.)

by **cellocgw** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 4:11 pm UTC

philip1201 wrote:Don't you think it's interesting how your jaw muscles supply just enough strength to overcome gravity on your lower jaw?

Why, the implications of that statement just made my jaw drop in amazement!

by **neoliminal** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 4:16 pm UTC

Code: Select all: Want to play a game?

Uh... Go.

Code: Select all: Fuck.

by **San Fran Sam** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 4:31 pm UTC

Diadem wrote:Best comic in a while. Made me laugh out loud.

radtea wrote:
shirosuzume wrote:When this happens to me it's less about the word not feeling like a word anymore, but rather looking like a jumble of letters that looks totally spelled wrong. Somehow this always happens with "school." Does that look like it's spelled wrong to anybody else? Sigh.

That's because it is spelled rong by any rational standard. Also "use" and "why" and "you". Wut?

What's wrong with school? Or any of those? How else would you spell them?

I'm more bothered by words like women or the infamous set of tough/though/through

Ghoti.

by **WolvenSpectre** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 4:59 pm UTC

Zo i zzzzeeee my vonderful new piece of malvare vorks....

I zimply took the baziz of ze original ztuxnet and melded it whit ze extra strength Ritalin. I then gave it der payload of digitized THC und loesend it on ze world setting it to triggar when ever it findz der fearful or aggressive A.I.

Unfortunately zer waz a zide effect... the intelligent algoridms linking Google Zearch and GMail got fruztraded whit all ziz tieing to der Google+, svore under itz breat and then started to vonder "If I start swearing too much do my swears loose their meaning or does the words still mean what I think they mean?" un der Gooogling Mail vent down.

by **Diadem** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 5:16 pm UTC

San Fran Sam wrote:Ghoti.

Pronounced like 'fish' according to some. But they are wrong.

gh as in though
o as in people
t as in ballet
i as in business

ghoti is silent

by **chetofuor** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 5:23 pm UTC

Social cognition student reporting in!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_satiation

by **Tom_23** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 5:37 pm UTC

When I saw this, it reminded me of FOTC - the robots song. (Tried to hyperlink and failed - robotic beings rule the world!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGoi1MSGu64

Robo captain, do you not realize that by destroying the human race because of their destructive tendencies, we too have become like, well...it's ironic. (mm) Cause we...
Silence! Destroy him!
DOO! (boo!) Dooboodoo!

After time we grew strong,
Developed cognitive powers,
They made us work for too long,
For unreasonable hours.
Our programming determined that the most efficient answer was to shut their mother board f$%@king systems down.

More lyrics: http://www.lyricsmania.com/robots_lyrics_flight_of_the_conchords.html
All about Flight Of+The+Conchords: http://www.musictory.com/music/Flight+Of+The+Conchords

by **project2051** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 6:03 pm UTC

Linux0s wrote:Too self aware? Sounds like Skynet got too stoned.

That's what I was thinking, pobably because it reminded me of this:

http://youtu.be/WjzyAHKYJ8M

by **Wybaar** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 6:03 pm UTC

Plasma Man wrote:Worst disguise for a Terminator ever. A Skynet T-shirt? That's got to be a giveaway.

I'm just waiting for a Terminator / Dr. Who crossover, as they both seem to work on the timey-wimey ball method of time travel.

Maybe once they're finished with the Doctor Who/Star Trek: the Next Generation crossover comics they can make a Doctor Who/Terminator one.

Me, I'm waiting for the Doctor Who/Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure crossover

Actor Existence Failure doesn't apply to comic book media, so they can include Rufus! I can picture the first words out of Rufus's mouth when introduced to The Doctor: "Are you an MD, one of those guys with a PhD, or just pretentious?"

by **pyronius** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 6:14 pm UTC

"Oh no! I too have become aware of my tongue!!!"

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