Lost causes
We've all seen them- trying to explain to two friends breaking up that no, you don't want to be dragged into their issues, trying to explain why modern music is just as good as Glenn Miller to your grandparents, that kind of thing.

I've just discovered a new one- trying to explain why I find this and this so damned funny.

XKCD- baffling your work colleagues since 2006.

What have you tried explaining to people, and then ended up just thinking "Oh... sod it".
( jim_bob can herd cats., Tue 30 Jun 2009, 12:18, 40 replies, latest was 17 years ago)

It's not THAT funny
Were you having to explain the joke or why you find it funny?
( Captain V, Tue 30 Jun 2009, 12:20, Reply)

Both, I think
And then I realised I was making two mistakes.

1. I wasn't speaking to a maths geek.
2. He was married.
( jim_bob can herd cats., Tue 30 Jun 2009, 12:23, Reply)

Could you please explain it to me?
Or will that infuriate you?
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Tue 30 Jun 2009, 12:24, Reply)

Maths geek tries to apply maths to romance.
Fails.
( jim_bob can herd cats., Tue 30 Jun 2009, 12:25, Reply)

: (

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Tue 30 Jun 2009, 12:38, Reply)

I'm not sure why 1. or 2. are important
You don't have to be a maths geek to recognise algebraic equations nor to be unmarried to realise that "love" can be difficult to understand.

:edit: Errrr, you've changed the url.
( Captain V, Tue 30 Jun 2009, 12:27, Reply)

Perhaps the problem lay in the explanation
I tried the simple one I gave to roota.

Still a blank.

Either the man has a heart of stone or just truly doesn't understand geeks.

In a way, I kind of pity the fact he'll never laugh at a raptor joke.
( jim_bob can herd cats., Tue 30 Jun 2009, 12:32, Reply)

I'm sure he understood that
But probably didn't find it very funny. I'd describe that particular comic as interesting rather than funny.
( Captain V, Tue 30 Jun 2009, 12:37, Reply)

Hey, make up your mind!
Which xkcd are you referring to?
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Tue 30 Jun 2009, 12:29, Reply)

Both put in.
Although, in a way, all of it.
( jim_bob can herd cats., Tue 30 Jun 2009, 12:31, Reply)

Do you mean
"I find XKCD funny, but my colleagues don't get it, maybe because they're kinda dumb"?
( Cawl, Tue 30 Jun 2009, 12:32, Reply)

I'm starting to wonder
Yet he has the house, wife, car...

Eeep.
( jim_bob can herd cats., Tue 30 Jun 2009, 12:33, Reply)

Er...
I think the problem here is that different people find different things funny.
Just the way things are.
You can't go over-analysing it.
I, for example, don't find Russell Brand funny.
Lots of people do.
Doesn't mean I'm worse than them.
( Cawl, Tue 30 Jun 2009, 12:37, Reply)

Fancy doing something else instead of going to the pub tonight
Perhaps involving axes, shotguns and a certain Mr Brand.
( Captain V, Tue 30 Jun 2009, 12:37, Reply)

Sounds sexy.
I've got a pocket-knife and a throwing star on me.
No other stuff.
( Cawl, Tue 30 Jun 2009, 12:42, Reply)

*looks about*
I've got keys, a biro, an old laptop and some cables. The cables are probably the most useful thing I have.
( Captain V, Tue 30 Jun 2009, 12:44, Reply)

we might need those cables at the weekend,
bring them with you.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Tue 30 Jun 2009, 12:45, Reply)

Tie the cables to the biros.
Nunchaku!
( Cawl, Tue 30 Jun 2009, 12:45, Reply)

Possibly the worst one ever
But never mind.
( Captain V, Tue 30 Jun 2009, 12:48, Reply)

If you kill him
you would deprive yourself the pleasure of hearing him squeal as he's tortured in a slow and very painful manner.

Perhaps have him buggered by wild boars?
( SpikeyPickle wishes he was mabazaritchie, Tue 30 Jun 2009, 12:44, Reply)

No
Hearing is voice is really, really horrible; I'd rather just kill the fucker and be done with it.
( Captain V, Tue 30 Jun 2009, 12:45, Reply)

this is the main reason I don't like the twat,
also the fact that he's a twat.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Tue 30 Jun 2009, 12:47, Reply)

I would have to
agree with this ^

Also I don't find Russell Brand funny either.
(Flim-Flam the Magnificent "You is talking loco and I like it!", Tue 30 Jun 2009, 12:39, Reply)

Agreed.
I can't stand the twat. Destroy him.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Tue 30 Jun 2009, 12:40, Reply)

Russell Brand?
That little bloody shit-weasel should have been strangled at birth.
( jim_bob can herd cats., Tue 30 Jun 2009, 12:43, Reply)

also,
yes, only 1 in 5 people find my bee joke funny but I just give the other four a look of pity and continue to believe in my superior gift of humour.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Tue 30 Jun 2009, 12:44, Reply)

Do share

( Captain V, Tue 30 Jun 2009, 12:44, Reply)

no, I have to tell it in person
and I fear, dear catface, that if I tell you and you don't find it funny, that my time spent grooming you will have been wasted
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Tue 30 Jun 2009, 12:46, Reply)

Oh
And there was I thinking I'd already made it worth your while.
( Captain V, Tue 30 Jun 2009, 12:48, Reply)

*smug grin*

( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Tue 30 Jun 2009, 12:50, Reply)

It's ok,
I can hook you up with a new one.
Payment as usual.
Euros. Brown paper. Wheely bin 57.
( Cawl, Tue 30 Jun 2009, 12:48, Reply)

can I have a nicer one next time?
This one was kind of broken.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Tue 30 Jun 2009, 12:51, Reply)

Ok.
It'll cost you more though.
This one was dropped on it's head as a child.
( Cawl, Tue 30 Jun 2009, 12:52, Reply)

Thus the discount.

( Cawl, Tue 30 Jun 2009, 12:53, Reply)

ah,
That explains the mentalness
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Tue 30 Jun 2009, 12:53, Reply)

Well, there are worse
Out there.
At least he doesn't pretend to be a fighter pilot/polar explorer.
( Cawl, Tue 30 Jun 2009, 12:55, Reply)

But I HAVE been to the North Pole
I went shortly after I retired from my post as a fighter pilot in the SDSFPA (super-duper secret fighter pilots' association).
( Captain V, Tue 30 Jun 2009, 13:02, Reply)

that's a roleplay special.
I get to be a husky.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Tue 30 Jun 2009, 13:02, Reply)

Well,
A bitch, that's for sure.
( Cawl, Tue 30 Jun 2009, 13:42, Reply)

damn straight.

( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Tue 30 Jun 2009, 13:46, Reply)