This totally justifies another post

[fightingthecage]

Some of the comments on the xkcd_rss strip the other day just made my blood boil. Which I am not happy about, as it is detrimental to my good mood.

Example;

So you're bugged. Serves you right for considering yourself the center of the world and alienating readers who aren't in the Americas. The terminology may "bug" you, but it's not as retarded as a map that cuts Asia in half.

...this reader misses the point.


Has Sarah Palin taken over XKCD?

...this reader is just funny.

And the alt-text wins it all. I have lulzed for about four hours now.

Comments

[aberration]

Oh God, that annoyed the hell out of me. I got so tired of the "You're IN the West!" comments.

Yes.

And yet "the East" is west of us.

Because it's a GIANT SPHERE, MAKING THESE CATEGORIES COMPLETELY ARBITRARY. WHICH IS THE ENTIRE POINT. *facedesks*

[fightingthecage.livejournal.com]

Totally! And then all the people who were like, 'God Americans, the world doesn't revolve around you,' and also the, 'Britain/Europe rules that's why, motherfuckers mwhahaha!'

And I'm just all, 'YOU ARE MISSING THE POINT!'

[agoodshinkickin.livejournal.com]

There's a great episode of The West Wing that goes into the insidious ethnocentrism of maps.

That's what the comic made me think of.

[fightingthecage.livejournal.com]

Yep, I remember it. It was fabulous! I think sticking with the map we have now in the interests of not freaking CJ out is a good plan. :)

[agoodshinkickin.livejournal.com]

I maintain that the Giant Wheel of Cheese episodes are the best ones.

GIANT WHEEL OF CHEESE!

[fightingthecage.livejournal.com]

They are fabulous! Ahhh, I love Leo and his little speech. Though the season of finale of S2 will forever be my favourite hour of television anywhere, ever. Stunning.

[agoodshinkickin.livejournal.com]

....remind me how S2 ends.

[fightingthecage.livejournal.com]

Mrs. Landingham's funeral, Jed's admitted his MS to the nation, there's a tropical storm and he smacks down God in Latin in the National Cathedral. And then in finishes with him deciding to go for a second term while Dire Straits' 'Brothers in Arms' plays in the background. Amazing. gives me chills every time.

[agoodshinkickin.livejournal.com]

*WEEPS*

Mrs. Landingham!
Man that show was so good when it was good.

[fightingthecage.livejournal.com]

Really really was. It rallied after the disaster of S5 though - last two were pretty good.

...man, now I want to go watch the whole thing straight through. Might just hafta.