770: All the Girls
| All the Girls |
 Title text: You know that I'll never leave you. Not as long as she's with someone. |
Explanation
This comic pictures a guy hugging a girl and saying that he loves her most of any girl. Then he adds that he actually only loves her more than any other girl that loves him back. This is because everyone has those crushes on people that are out of reach. They love that person a ton, but they don't love them back. In many cases these crushes are celebrities that probably don't even know who you are. He then takes it a little further in the title text and says that he'll never leave her unless the other girl breaks up with whoever she is currently with.
Transcript
>[Guy and girl are standing together.]
Guy: I'm so lucky to have you.
Guy: I love you most out of all the girls in all the world
[They embrace.] Guy: who love me back.
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The reasons why this algorithm wouldn't work so well in producing stable marriages are
- the people preferences may change (especially if they know someone better)
- people may prefer not having marriage at all (when rejected by some of their choices)
Still, it's not like there is better algorithm. -- Hkmaly (talk) 10:02, 17 April 2013 (UTC)
sub BetterThanNothing { my (@everyone,@m,@f,@o,@r,@Ps) = @_; while (my $person = shift @everyone) { push(@m, $person)&&next if _isMale($person); push(@f, $person)&&next if _isFemale($person); push @o, $person } my $priority =(@m>=@f)?[\@f,\@m]:[\@m,\@f]; while (@{$priority[0]}) { push @Ps, [splice(@{$priority[0]},rnd(@{$priority[0]}),1), splice(@{$priority[1]},rnd(@{$priority[1]}),1)] } } @r = (@m,@f,@o); while (@r>1) { push @Ps, [splice(@r,rnd(@r),1), splice(@r,rnd(@r),1)] } } @r && push @Ps, [(shift @r) x 2]; return @Ps } # Totally untested Perl for when you /really/ don't care too much... ;) 31.110.88.49 04:34, 4 May 2013 (UTC)
When I read 'I love you out of all the girls who love me back,' I thought that he meant...
- Rob: 'I courted a lot of females because I was looking for the best life partner, since marriage is a serious thing. You are the perfect future life partner.'
- Megan: '...but what about all those girls who do not love you?'
- Rob: 'Frankly, my dear, I couldn't care less. They do not love me. Why bother violating their wishes for my own?' Greyson (talk) 14:44, 28 June 2013 (UTC)
You know, when I read the comic, I thought he meant the "girls" who were related to him (e.g. is mother, his grandma(s), his niece(s),etc.)
I'm not sure the explanation needs profanity such as "shitty". Sure, XKCD can often be very vulgar and profane, but I think that if the comic doesn't involve such a topic, it doesn't require that. I am still having second thoughts about editing, though (as "shitty" is actually a perfect way to describe something that is terrible). SilverTheTerribleMathematician (talk) 22:24, 8 December 2022 (UTC)
- You’re right. I made an attempt to use less attention-seeking adjectives. I don’t know. —While False (museum | talk | contributions | logs | rights | printable version | page information | what links there | related changes | Google search | current time: 18:57) 22:30, 8 December 2022 (UTC)
