Comments on: Sunday Funnies: LOL April 11

By: Soup Dragon

Soup Dragon — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 18:36:54 +0000

DPWally #29: Well, she could have picked up that phrase somewhere, and thought this was the right time to try it out.

Sometimes, when I was a lad, my mum would be angry at me or my sisters for some reason, and would exclaim “what did I do to get such naughty kids!”, and we would giggle and reply “I know what you did!”. Of course, we didn’t know, but mum laughed, and the situation was defused.

By: DPWally

DPWally — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 17:28:23 +0000

Elyrest (24) - This conversation goes past both relationships and sex to concepts of age and menopause that should completely foreign to a girl that young, even a sexually precocious one (which she’s not supposed to be, according to comments from people who follow the strip).

By: Naomi

Naomi — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 21:46:29 +0000

The “Brokeback Fountain” one is a CIDU for me - I do have an idea of what the movie “Brokeback Mountain” was about, although I never saw it. I was thinking, maybe it’s too low and hurts your back, but the drawing style leaves that unclear, plus the expression on the cowboy seems to imply a different meaning.

By: Winter Wallaby

Winter Wallaby — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 04:26:41 +0000

Mitch4, I’ve not actually read “Against Method,” so I’ll have to defer to you on which positions are his core ones, and which ones are his “stink-bomb” ones. I hope I don’t have to take back my LOL, though. That little banana pig made me LOL so hard.

By: John Small Berries

John Small Berries — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 01:15:41 +0000

Thanks for the link, Nate! This is a good week for bizarre Tetris implementations. A couple of days ago I ran across Magic Eye Tetris, now xkcd’s Hell.

By: Skaloop

Skaloop — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 00:51:11 +0000

Someone made a game of hell. http://www.swfme.com/view/1046212

By: Elyrest

Elyrest — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 00:32:49 +0000

Soup Dragon (23) I think the Mom would have said that no matter which of her daughters had made the comment about the eggs. The Mom wanted a conversation about relationships - not sex. Parents are often less ready than their children to talk about the “facts of life”.

By: Soup Dragon

Soup Dragon — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 00:26:04 +0000

Bill #19, the point is that the line does come from a presumed innocent. Hence mothers reaction, “we are not having this conversation!!”

By: mitch4

mitch4 — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 20:31:32 +0000

Winter, I’ll give you that Feyerabend has characterized his own positions in rather different ways at different times and in different forums. And I may be giving more emphasis to the relatively “conservative” version where you are picking up on the more “radical” version — but I’m fairly confident my version of him has some solid basis, even if he contradicted that in other places. Further, I’m not sure how — taking the more radical versions — you would be able to distinguish genuine attachment to quackery from knowingly provocative stink-bomb pronouncements.

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Weird confluences department … I’m very late doing my taxes, and dealing with the 2009 sale of property my father left to my siblings and me in 1987 which my stepmother has been living in under her lifetime residence option. (Sorry about the TMI! Just saying it’s keeping me on that focus a bit.) But among other memories this is bringing back are times I visited Florida and stayed there — and one time my main poolside reading was in fact “Against Method”, Feyerabend’s big messy tome.

By: Winter Wallaby

Winter Wallaby — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 19:00:19 +0000

Mitch4, Feyerabend didn’t just argue that there’s no clear formula for what constitutes scientific methodology. He argued that there’s no reason to think the reults produced by the methods used by the scientific community are generally any better than that produced by other communities (astrology, alternative medicine, religion, etc. . .). To me, that makes inflatable banana pig a fair rough characterization. Admittedly, two cartoon panels are not the best way to fairly and accurately describe and critique a school of philosophy.