https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/api.php?action=feedcontributions&user=172.68.133.167&feedformat=atomexplain xkcd - User contributions [en]2024-03-29T14:52:34ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.30.0https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=2555:_Notifications&diff=2226552555: Notifications2021-12-16T09:22:44Z<p>172.68.133.167: /* Transcript */ ce</p>
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<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 2555<br />
| date = December 15, 2021<br />
| title = Notifications<br />
| image = notifications.png<br />
| titletext = It's 10:34 PM for this user. They really need to get going, they have a thing early tomorrow. Are you sure you want to notify?<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
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There's a function in {{w|Slack (software)|Slack}} and other messaging software that allows you to turn notifications off while you're offline or away. There's also a function to override this and notify the user anyway. Super handy. Would be even handier if you could turn off 'notifications' in real life. [[Cueball]] attempts to use this on [[White Hat]] saving [[Megan]] and himself from a presumably boring conversation. Whether due to the hypnotic way this is delivered or White Hat's characteristic naïvity it appears that White Hat has, at least for now, given up notifying Cueball and Megan about his annoyance. This could maybe stop being the case after the comic is over, since either Cueball's reply to Megan is a pretty big giveaway that the whole thing is just a trick (if the reason for it working is that White Hat is so naïve) or Megan's interrupted question would break the calm, hypnotic atmosphere (if the trick works by hypnotising White Hat).<br />
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In the title text, this is taken even further by combining this with a standard real-life excuse (or legitimate reason) to leave a social situation, it being that it is late and that the person using that excuse has to leave now. It is often used when someone either really has a thing early the next day and wants to get home early to get enough sleep to be prepared for the ''thing'', or just to get out of uncomfortable company or situations.<br />
The specific time being 10:34 pm does not seem to have any meaning.<br />
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==Transcript==<br />
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:[White Hat, Megan and Cueball are standing next to each other. White Hat is separated from the other two figures by a small margin.]<br />
:White Hat: And another thing that annoys me about people is...<br />
:Cueball: ''This user has notifications turned off.''<br />
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:[The camera zooms in on Megan and Cueball. Megan turns to look at Cueball.]<br />
:Cueball: ''They will see your messages when they're back.'' <br />
:Cueball: '''''Notify anyway?'''''<br />
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:[The camera zooms outward to show White Hat. All three figures are silently standing.]<br />
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:[Megan turns to look at Cueball again.]<br />
:Megan: What are you--<br />
:Cueball: ''Shhh- It's working.''<br />
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[[Category:Social interactions]]</div>172.68.133.167https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:2521:_Toothpaste&diff=218638Talk:2521: Toothpaste2021-09-29T19:28:37Z<p>172.68.133.167: Added Comment</p>
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The editing done so far looks fairly good. Hopefully not too many reversions, or it might be like moving the deckchairs back to their original locations on the Titanic! [[Special:Contributions/172.70.35.70|172.70.35.70]] 05:46, 28 September 2021 (UTC)<br />
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Was Megan going to say: "It's just like- putting toothpaste back in the tube"? If so this should go into the description (and if not then what was she going to say?) --[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 08:40, 28 September 2021 (UTC)<br />
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Putting the mouth over the tube? It is not the tooth paste in your mouth that needs to get back. It is that on the tooth brush... I think it is possible (although not sanitary) to get tooth paste still in a blob on the tooth brush into the tube if it is a soft plastic tube. Because then when you press it together, the air comes out, and then when you release it will suck air back in (I have seen how the paste coming out gets sucked back in if it is not put on the brush). But if you then put the end of the tube onto the blob of toothpaste on the brush, it would suck the paste right back in. So I think it is true that you can get the paste back in the tube. But not by blowing, and of course there are many kinds of toothpaste containers, and not all of them could suck it back in. You should not put it back but you could! So it is a bad saying, and Megan is correct in pointing that out. What she suggest is disgusting, though, for sure. If that is the worst she ever said, though, she has been too kind to Cueball :-D In some ways it is not a very great comic, but I guess the fun part is when she assumes that she can take something bad said back because Cueball states you can do with things said like tooth paste back in a tube, and since you can put toothpaste back in the tube, she must be able to take her words back. --[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 08:50, 28 September 2021 (UTC)<br />
:The tubes I have experience with may be able to suck a bit of paste back, but not much of it - they have little to no elasticity or how it's called, you permanently deform them when squeezing paste out. You would need to apply pressure, which, well, you either need some machine for or blow into them. -- [[User:Hkmaly|Hkmaly]] ([[User talk:Hkmaly|talk]]) 16:09, 28 September 2021 (UTC)<br />
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I disagree that blowing paste into tube is disgusting. Now, reusing such paste, sure, although it's unlikely to be that much unhygienic as I don't think the bacteria can survive in tooth paste for long. -- [[User:Hkmaly|Hkmaly]] ([[User talk:Hkmaly|talk]]) 16:09, 28 September 2021 (UTC)<br />
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Putting toothpaste back in the tube is easy with a syringe or an icing gun. But I want to know what happened at the 10th dentist's office? [[User:Cwallenpoole|Cwallenpoole]] ([[User talk:Cwallenpoole|talk]]) 16:58, 28 September 2021 (UTC)<br />
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I always heard it as "you can't put the genie back in the bottle". [[Special:Contributions/172.70.34.165|172.70.34.165]] 18:02, 28 September 2021 (UTC)<br />
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i have literally never heard this expression [[Special:Contributions/172.70.34.91|172.70.34.91]] 22:12, 28 September 2021 (UTC)Bumpf<br />
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Am I the only person who sees this as vaguely flirty? I kinda expect the next panel to be Megan grabbing Cueball and kissing him to metaphorically suck the words back in. [[Special:Contributions/172.68.133.167|172.68.133.167]] 19:28, 29 September 2021 (UTC) person who isn't sure how signing comments works.</div>172.68.133.167