Talk:1454: Done - Revision history

141.101.98.78 at 10:06, 10 June 2023

2023-06-10T10:06:02Z

ProphetZarquon: Wait, they're writing to a PERSON? I thought they were ordering a laptop.

2021-07-25T17:15:44Z

Wait, they're writing to a PERSON? I thought they were ordering a laptop.

NoriMori at 21:06, 10 August 2019

2019-08-10T21:06:39Z

162.158.38.40 at 21:59, 4 March 2019

2019-03-04T21:59:25Z

Jacky720 at 23:00, 14 September 2016

2016-09-14T23:00:55Z

108.162.216.77 at 22:30, 27 December 2014

2014-12-27T22:30:06Z

173.245.52.125 at 18:41, 10 December 2014

2014-12-10T18:41:59Z

173.245.52.125 at 18:20, 10 December 2014

2014-12-10T18:20:21Z

173.245.52.125 at 18:16, 10 December 2014

2014-12-10T18:16:18Z

108.162.223.35 at 07:04, 9 December 2014

2014-12-09T07:04:48Z

← Older revision		Revision as of 10:06, 10 June 2023
Line 54:		Line 54:

	:Absolutely not. It would be HIGHLY inappropriate in the case of a child. "I had started to think I was asking too much, that I needed to settle. And then I found you." When you have a relationship, if you think it is not good enough you can break up and look for someone else. When you cannot find anyone better, you have to settle for what you can get. But you can NOT take that attitude -- "if it doesn't work out we can send it back to the factory" -- towards having (or adopting) a child! That would be literally inhuman, like the mother's attitude at the end of "Supertoys Last All Summer Long" by Brian Aldiss. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.38.40\|162.158.38.40]] 21:59, 4 March 2019 (UTC)		:Absolutely not. It would be HIGHLY inappropriate in the case of a child. "I had started to think I was asking too much, that I needed to settle. And then I found you." When you have a relationship, if you think it is not good enough you can break up and look for someone else. When you cannot find anyone better, you have to settle for what you can get. But you can NOT take that attitude -- "if it doesn't work out we can send it back to the factory" -- towards having (or adopting) a child! That would be literally inhuman, like the mother's attitude at the end of "Supertoys Last All Summer Long" by Brian Aldiss. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.38.40\|162.158.38.40]] 21:59, 4 March 2019 (UTC)
		+
		+	:: While I do feel the language points more towards adults in a relationship, when I first read the adoption interpretation, I assumed the intended meaning would have been that the person would have to "settle" with never being a parent despite wanting to be, i.e. due to being unable to have biological children and/or being disqualified from adopting locally (which might not mean they are not suitable as parents, some countries have e.g. age cut-offs for adopting that are still well within the bulk of age range people have their first biological children). It didn't even cross my mind to interpret it as that they'd have to "settle" with adopting another child they don't really want to raise. [[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.78\|141.101.98.78]] 10:06, 10 June 2023 (UTC)

	As the argument over the sex of the subject of this comic rages on (hyperbole), I remembered that when I checked xkcd.com on Lynx, there were transcripts of every comic. I looked again and it seems that it does not do this for new comics. Does anyone know who writes those transcripts? If, for example, next week the transcript on the official website refers to the character as a girl, could that be used as a source? [[User:Maplestrip\|Maplestrip]] ([[User talk:Maplestrip\|talk]]) 11:41, 2 December 2014 (UTC)		As the argument over the sex of the subject of this comic rages on (hyperbole), I remembered that when I checked xkcd.com on Lynx, there were transcripts of every comic. I looked again and it seems that it does not do this for new comics. Does anyone know who writes those transcripts? If, for example, next week the transcript on the official website refers to the character as a girl, could that be used as a source? [[User:Maplestrip\|Maplestrip]] ([[User talk:Maplestrip\|talk]]) 11:41, 2 December 2014 (UTC)

← Older revision		Revision as of 17:15, 25 July 2021
Line 79:		Line 79:

	:Same. It's a bit baffling to me how much confusion and over-thinking that part is causing. [[User:NoriMori\|NoriMori]] ([[User talk:NoriMori\|talk]]) 21:06, 10 August 2019 (UTC)		:Same. It's a bit baffling to me how much confusion and over-thinking that part is causing. [[User:NoriMori\|NoriMori]] ([[User talk:NoriMori\|talk]]) 21:06, 10 August 2019 (UTC)
		+
		+	When reading the beginning of this comic, I assumed that the joke would be that the writer is ''not'' writing to a beloved person, but to a consumer product. Talk of needing to settle, finding something half a world away, saving for six months... I thought they were talking wistfully to the new Mac they planned to order; or a vehicle. The idea that it was actually a person-to-person love interest & not a joke, did not occur to me until the end of the comic presented itself & no such gag was evident. Even so, I think the comic works fine even if you imagine them writing longingly to an expensive carbon-frame bicycle or an especially fine wine subscription.
		+	[[User:ProphetZarquon\|ProphetZarquon]] ([[User talk:ProphetZarquon\|talk]]) 17:15, 25 July 2021 (UTC)

← Older revision		Revision as of 21:06, 10 August 2019
Line 73:		Line 73:

	:The facebook comment -- you may think you can still use the internet for something, but we know it's a crock so we know that you, like everyone else, have nothing useful to do with it any more. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.38.40\|162.158.38.40]] 21:59, 4 March 2019 (UTC)		:The facebook comment -- you may think you can still use the internet for something, but we know it's a crock so we know that you, like everyone else, have nothing useful to do with it any more. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.38.40\|162.158.38.40]] 21:59, 4 March 2019 (UTC)
		+
		+	:But she ''can'' connect with other people. The whole comic demonstrated this. If you specifically mean people around her, there's no evidence that she can't do that, either. We don't know her social life. We just know that this particular relationship is currently over the internet (though she doesn't plan to keep it that way). And there's nothing unusual, pathetic, or mockable about that, nor any particular reason to think that the comic is deriding her for it. Lots of people go through several relationships before finding "the one". And sometimes people meet "the one" in another country. Not finding your true love among the people in your immediate area is not some kind of personal failing, nor a sign that one "can't connect". [[User:NoriMori\|NoriMori]] ([[User talk:NoriMori\|talk]]) 21:06, 10 August 2019 (UTC)

	I, personally, have often seen the "The internet is done, shut it down." comments on humorous or clever posts on tumblr; that interpretation is what I got out of the comic, as the description says. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.216.77\|108.162.216.77]] 22:30, 27 December 2014 (UTC)		I, personally, have often seen the "The internet is done, shut it down." comments on humorous or clever posts on tumblr; that interpretation is what I got out of the comic, as the description says. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.216.77\|108.162.216.77]] 22:30, 27 December 2014 (UTC)
		+
		+	:Same. It's a bit baffling to me how much confusion and over-thinking that part is causing. [[User:NoriMori\|NoriMori]] ([[User talk:NoriMori\|talk]]) 21:06, 10 August 2019 (UTC)

@@ Line 52: / Line 52: @@
 At first I thought it was a romance kinda thing, but it would also be an appropriate/situation in case of adoption. Maybe she found her reason to live in an orphan across the globe (I presume in a poor country). That she will be able to fly him/her here in six months she will be able to support the kid. This is also supposing that all paperwork will be finished in 6 months (which I think it's quite fast for adoption, but then again, we don't know how long they have been communicating for). {{unsigned ip|108.162.215.102}}
 As the argument over the sex of the subject of this comic rages on (hyperbole), I remembered that when I checked xkcd.com on Lynx, there were transcripts of every comic. I looked again and it seems that it does not do this for new comics. Does anyone know who writes those transcripts? If, for example, next week the transcript on the official website refers to the character as a girl, could that be used as a source? [[User:Maplestrip|Maplestrip]] ([[User talk:Maplestrip|talk]]) 11:41, 2 December 2014 (UTC)
@@ Line 69: / Line 71: @@
 :And the irony is that I am making this comment to people half way around the world right now. :) [[Special:Contributions/173.245.52.125|173.245.52.125]] 18:41, 10 December 2014 (UTC)
 I, personally, have often seen the "The internet is done, shut it down." comments on humorous or clever posts on tumblr; that interpretation is what I got out of the comic, as the description says. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.216.77|108.162.216.77]] 22:30, 27 December 2014 (UTC)

@@ Line 1: / Line 1: @@
 To be honest, I have never really heard anyone say a phrase like that or other phrases with similar implications, it would be nice if someone could show real-world examples where the phrases are used [[Special:Contributions/103.22.201.168|103.22.201.168]] 10:29, 2 December 2014 (UTC)
 :I have never seen this either. I can see it being a meme, but a rhetorical device?! I think that's a stretch. [[User:Smperron|Smperron]] ([[User talk:Smperron|talk]]) 15:45, 2 December 2014 (UTC)
 :: I may have used the wrong term, what Ieant was like when someone gives up on something, others may say that "they said they were done" when they actually didn't say anything... I could be wildly off base though. [[User:Official.xian|Official.xian]] ([[User talk:Official.xian|talk]]) 05:28, 3 December 2014 (UTC)

← Older revision		Revision as of 22:30, 27 December 2014
Line 68:		Line 68:

	:And the irony is that I am making this comment to people half way around the world right now. :) [[Special:Contributions/173.245.52.125\|173.245.52.125]] 18:41, 10 December 2014 (UTC)		:And the irony is that I am making this comment to people half way around the world right now. :) [[Special:Contributions/173.245.52.125\|173.245.52.125]] 18:41, 10 December 2014 (UTC)
		+
		+	I, personally, have often seen the "The internet is done, shut it down." comments on humorous or clever posts on tumblr; that interpretation is what I got out of the comic, as the description says. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.216.77\|108.162.216.77]] 22:30, 27 December 2014 (UTC)

← Older revision		Revision as of 18:41, 10 December 2014
Line 65:		Line 65:
	This comic made me sad :( [[Special:Contributions/108.162.223.35\|108.162.223.35]] 07:04, 9 December 2014 (UTC)		This comic made me sad :( [[Special:Contributions/108.162.223.35\|108.162.223.35]] 07:04, 9 December 2014 (UTC)

−	I think the description completely misses the point. The key phrase in the dialogue is "Why can't I connect?". She is referring to her Internet connection, but what she should be asking herself is why she can't connect with people. Apparently, there is no one close to her she can connect with so she needs to look halfway around the world. The comic is mocking curly hair and painting ~~here~~ in a pathetic light. I'm still struggling to figure out what "Done" means. Maybe it means we should turn off the Internet so we connect with the people around us instead of chatting with strangers we've never met half way around the world. The Facebook comment in the title text might be supporting this. Stop commenting on random things on the Internet and talk to the people around you. [[Special:Contributions/173.245.52.125\|173.245.52.125]] 18:16, 10 December 2014 (UTC)	+	I think the description completely misses the point. The key phrase in the dialogue is "Why can't I connect?". She is referring to her Internet connection, but what she should be asking herself is why she can't connect with people. Apparently, there is no one close to her she can connect with so she needs to look halfway around the world. The comic is mocking curly hair and painting her in a pathetic light. I'm still struggling to figure out what "Done" means. Maybe it means we should turn off the Internet so we connect with the people around us instead of chatting with strangers we've never met half way around the world. The Facebook comment in the title text might be supporting this. Stop commenting on random things on the Internet and talk to the people around you. [[Special:Contributions/173.245.52.125\|173.245.52.125]] 18:16, 10 December 2014 (UTC)
		+
		+	:And the irony is that I am making this comment to people half way around the world right now. :) [[Special:Contributions/173.245.52.125\|173.245.52.125]] 18:41, 10 December 2014 (UTC)

@@ Line 35: / Line 35: @@
 It could mean the girl is in love or wants to adopt a child from a country like Iran, but before she can tell, the internet THERE is shut down by the government
 (which happens all the time because of some youtube video or something). [[Special:Contributions/108.162.237.114|108.162.237.114]] 14:18, 1 December 2014 (UTC)
 : Or the writer may be in a country like Russia, China, or Turkey, where the internet is widely used but under constant threat of political censorship.[[Special:Contributions/108.162.216.129|108.162.216.129]] 14:54, 1 December 2014 (UTC)

← Older revision		Revision as of 18:16, 10 December 2014
Line 62:		Line 62:

	This comic made me sad :( [[Special:Contributions/108.162.223.35\|108.162.223.35]] 07:04, 9 December 2014 (UTC)		This comic made me sad :( [[Special:Contributions/108.162.223.35\|108.162.223.35]] 07:04, 9 December 2014 (UTC)
		+
		+	I think the description completely misses the point. The key phrase in the dialogue is "Why can't I connect?". She is referring to her Internet connection, but what she should be asking herself is why she can't connect with people. Apparently, there is no one close to her she can connect with so she needs to look halfway around the world. The comic is mocking curly hair and painting here in a pathetic light. I'm still struggling to figure out what "Done" means. Maybe it means we should turn off the Internet so we connect with the people around us instead of chatting with strangers we've never met half way around the world. The Facebook comment in the title text might be supporting this. Stop commenting on random things on the Internet and talk to the people around you. [[Special:Contributions/173.245.52.125\|173.245.52.125]] 18:16, 10 December 2014 (UTC)

← Older revision		Revision as of 07:04, 9 December 2014
Line 60:		Line 60:

	:I agree completely. I have never heard the expression used to describe shut it down because the job is done but I have heard this wording used repeatedly in conversation when referring to something they were exasperated with. Also, this interpretation of the above seems more likely since it is a fairly common comment/joke, where as this would be the first time I would have heard someone joke that the purpose of the internet was to get ridiculous videos. If she had said a cat video, my perspective would, of course, be different.--[[Special:Contributions/199.27.133.41\|199.27.133.41]] 02:40, 8 December 2014 (UTC)		:I agree completely. I have never heard the expression used to describe shut it down because the job is done but I have heard this wording used repeatedly in conversation when referring to something they were exasperated with. Also, this interpretation of the above seems more likely since it is a fairly common comment/joke, where as this would be the first time I would have heard someone joke that the purpose of the internet was to get ridiculous videos. If she had said a cat video, my perspective would, of course, be different.--[[Special:Contributions/199.27.133.41\|199.27.133.41]] 02:40, 8 December 2014 (UTC)
		+
		+	This comic made me sad :( [[Special:Contributions/108.162.223.35\|108.162.223.35]] 07:04, 9 December 2014 (UTC)