Talk:2714: Cold Complaints - Revision history

DollarStoreBa'al at 16:13, 6 October 2025

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172.69.206.226 at 21:33, 27 February 2023

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172.70.90.223: Original version written as a joke, but in a context that was lost during pre-post editing. So now it just looks wrong, that other way... Ah well!

2023-01-01T16:07:30Z

Original version written as a joke, but in a context that was lost during pre-post editing. So now it just looks wrong, that other way... Ah well!

172.70.90.222 at 15:21, 1 January 2023

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NiceGuy1 at 07:15, 1 January 2023

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NiceGuy1 at 07:13, 1 January 2023

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172.68.35.50: Added comment

2022-12-23T21:12:00Z

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172.68.210.10: Calling out unwarranted attack on women

2022-12-23T20:47:57Z

Calling out unwarranted attack on women

172.71.222.253 at 16:58, 23 December 2022

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172.71.242.75 at 01:42, 23 December 2022

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	Of all the vandalism, I found [https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/archive/f/fb/20221222085847%21the_end_is_not_for_a_while.png] to be the most thought-provoking and meritorious. [[User:Liv2splain\|Liv2splain]] ([[User talk:Liv2splain\|talk]]) 09:02, 22 December 2022 (UTC)		Of all the vandalism, I found [https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/archive/f/fb/20221222085847%21the_end_is_not_for_a_while.png] to be the most thought-provoking and meritorious. [[User:Liv2splain\|Liv2splain]] ([[User talk:Liv2splain\|talk]]) 09:02, 22 December 2022 (UTC)
		+	:One wonders if they were trying to send us a message. ik this may be a political hot take, but honestly I wouldn't be mad about a revolution right about now...--'''''[[User:DollarStoreBa'al\|<span style="color:#023020">DollarStoreBa'al</span>]]<sup>[[User_talk:DollarStoreBa'al\|<span style="color:#000080">converse</span>]]</sup> 16:13, 6 October 2025 (UTC)

	I got quite the surprise when I decided to visit the wiki, so I made an account and tried to help out as best as I could. Right now it seems mostly clear now at the time of posting. [[User:Neerti\|Neerti]] ([[User talk:Neerti\|talk]]) 09:04, 22 December 2022 (UTC)		I got quite the surprise when I decided to visit the wiki, so I made an account and tried to help out as best as I could. Right now it seems mostly clear now at the time of posting. [[User:Neerti\|Neerti]] ([[User talk:Neerti\|talk]]) 09:04, 22 December 2022 (UTC)

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 :That may be a neologism, but the recent concerns have been in (UK) news for a while, even back before it was this season's thing. i.e., upon lockdowns being relaxed, fears that everything that wasn't previously circulating so much (beyond just the target Covid) would get a foothold into the now slightly more naïve population (immunologically ''and'' in a wreckless 'return to socialising') and combine problems. Mostly, we didn't get that before now. Though a current surge with Strep-A deaths in children has been highlighted over the last month or so, and flu-season seems to have been an earlier thing than usual.
 :I'm not sure if this supports the idea (observer-effect, etc), but it seems to be both a realistic fear ''and'' a somewhat realised one... at least around these parts. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.90.222|172.70.90.222]] 15:21, 1 January 2023 (UTC)
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 Uhhhhh, "tripledemic"? This is the first I hear there's anything going on besides Covid and normal ordinary Flu Season (which does not a pandemic make, as it's yearly and no measures are usually taken other than flu shots and trying to be clean). I strongly question this claim. [[User:NiceGuy1|NiceGuy1]] ([[User talk:NiceGuy1|talk]]) 07:13, 1 January 2023 (UTC)
-:That may be a neologism, but the recent concerns have been in (UK) news for a while, even back before it was this season's thing. i.e., upon lockdowns being relaxed, fears that everything that wasn't previously circulating so much (beyond just the target Covid) would get a foothold into the now slightly more näive population (immunologically ''and'' in a wreckless 'return to socialising') and combine problems. Mostly, we didn't get that before now. Though a current surge with Strep-A deaths in children has been highlighted over the last month or so, and flu-season seems to have been an earlier thing than usual.
+:That may be a neologism, but the recent concerns have been in (UK) news for a while, even back before it was this season's thing. i.e., upon lockdowns being relaxed, fears that everything that wasn't previously circulating so much (beyond just the target Covid) would get a foothold into the now slightly more naïve population (immunologically ''and'' in a wreckless 'return to socialising') and combine problems. Mostly, we didn't get that before now. Though a current surge with Strep-A deaths in children has been highlighted over the last month or so, and flu-season seems to have been an earlier thing than usual.
 :I'm not sure if this supports the idea (observer-effect, etc), but it seems to be both a realistic fear ''and'' a somewhat realised one... at least around these parts. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.90.222|172.70.90.222]] 15:21, 1 January 2023 (UTC)

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	Uhhhhh, "tripledemic"? This is the first I hear there's anything going on besides Covid and normal ordinary Flu Season (which does not a pandemic make, as it's yearly and no measures are usually taken other than flu shots and trying to be clean). I strongly question this claim. [[User:NiceGuy1\|NiceGuy1]] ([[User talk:NiceGuy1\|talk]]) 07:13, 1 January 2023 (UTC)		Uhhhhh, "tripledemic"? This is the first I hear there's anything going on besides Covid and normal ordinary Flu Season (which does not a pandemic make, as it's yearly and no measures are usually taken other than flu shots and trying to be clean). I strongly question this claim. [[User:NiceGuy1\|NiceGuy1]] ([[User talk:NiceGuy1\|talk]]) 07:13, 1 January 2023 (UTC)
		+	:That may be a neologism, but the recent concerns have been in (UK) news for a while, even back before it was this season's thing. i.e., upon lockdowns being relaxed, fears that everything that wasn't previously circulating so much (beyond just the target Covid) would get a foothold into the now slightly more näive population (immunologically ''and'' in a wreckless 'return to socialising') and combine problems. Mostly, we didn't get that before now. Though a current surge with Strep-A deaths in children has been highlighted over the last month or so, and flu-season seems to have been an earlier thing than usual.
		+	:I'm not sure if this supports the idea (observer-effect, etc), but it seems to be both a realistic fear ''and'' a somewhat realised one... at least around these parts. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.90.222\|172.70.90.222]] 15:21, 1 January 2023 (UTC)

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 Swearing has been shown to be effective in pain management.  Maybe there's some precedent here for the whining response too.
-Uhhhhh, "tridemic"? This is the first I hear there's anything going on besides Covid and normal ordinary Flu Season (which does not a pandemic make, as it's yearly and no measures are usually taken other than flu shots and trying to be clean). I strongly question this claim. [[User:NiceGuy1|NiceGuy1]] ([[User talk:NiceGuy1|talk]]) 07:13, 1 January 2023 (UTC)
+Uhhhhh, "tripledemic"? This is the first I hear there's anything going on besides Covid and normal ordinary Flu Season (which does not a pandemic make, as it's yearly and no measures are usually taken other than flu shots and trying to be clean). I strongly question this claim. [[User:NiceGuy1|NiceGuy1]] ([[User talk:NiceGuy1|talk]]) 07:13, 1 January 2023 (UTC)
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	Swearing has been shown to be effective in pain management. Maybe there's some precedent here for the whining response too.		Swearing has been shown to be effective in pain management. Maybe there's some precedent here for the whining response too.
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		+	Uhhhhh, "tridemic"? This is the first I hear there's anything going on besides Covid and normal ordinary Flu Season (which does not a pandemic make, as it's yearly and no measures are usually taken other than flu shots and trying to be clean). I strongly question this claim. [[User:NiceGuy1\|NiceGuy1]] ([[User talk:NiceGuy1\|talk]]) 07:13, 1 January 2023 (UTC)

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 :My first thoughts were that it was a "ruffled" Cueball/Rob, sphysically/sartorially grizzled by his symptoms. All depends on whether Cueball is actually bald (at least since the days of "Kid Cueball", where the time-linked character has been depicted as moderately hairy), or merely that his hair is so immaculate (normally!) that it doesn't really show as a feature. But hard to imagine that his sick-bed bed-hair is the only time it ever ruffles into view, given other scenarios he's been in.
 :So my second thoughts were "Yeah, some kind of Hairy works for me", if that's what the early editors decided, at least until I could remember any closer match from the xkcd pantheon. Which I still haven't. But watch this space, or suggest your own precursor archetype if you have your own inspirational moment. [[Special:Contributions/172.71.242.75|172.71.242.75]] 01:42, 23 December 2022 (UTC)
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	I've tried relatively polite requests such as "I want to be alone" and "Go away, you are not wanted here". But women are lacking in basic communication and social skills, so you have to resort increasingly infantile levels of behavior in an attempt to communicate.[[Special:Contributions/172.71.222.253\|172.71.222.253]] 16:58, 23 December 2022 (UTC)		I've tried relatively polite requests such as "I want to be alone" and "Go away, you are not wanted here". But women are lacking in basic communication and social skills, so you have to resort increasingly infantile levels of behavior in an attempt to communicate.[[Special:Contributions/172.71.222.253\|172.71.222.253]] 16:58, 23 December 2022 (UTC)
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		+	:Please don't (ab)use this discussion to generalise your dissatisfaction with your own experience into an attack against all women. [[Special:Contributions/172.68.210.10\|172.68.210.10]] 20:47, 23 December 2022 (UTC)

	Is the accepted explanation for this comic that it is... mocking people who ask for sympathy or help when unwell for being "big babies"? That seems uncomfortably close to, say, making fun of people who seek treatment for mental illness... I understand that there is a disproportionate level of complaint relative to minor discomfort that is ridiculous and maybe even funny, but that doesn't seem to have been established here. I think we should emphasize that, "Hey, it's perfectly fine and even healthy to talk about the disappointment of feeling shitty, but don't take it to this extreme" - even if the original comic arguably doesn't do so. [[User:Notanotherusername\|Notanotherusername]] ([[User talk:Notanotherusername\|talk]]) 03:01, 22 December 2022 (UTC)		Is the accepted explanation for this comic that it is... mocking people who ask for sympathy or help when unwell for being "big babies"? That seems uncomfortably close to, say, making fun of people who seek treatment for mental illness... I understand that there is a disproportionate level of complaint relative to minor discomfort that is ridiculous and maybe even funny, but that doesn't seem to have been established here. I think we should emphasize that, "Hey, it's perfectly fine and even healthy to talk about the disappointment of feeling shitty, but don't take it to this extreme" - even if the original comic arguably doesn't do so. [[User:Notanotherusername\|Notanotherusername]] ([[User talk:Notanotherusername\|talk]]) 03:01, 22 December 2022 (UTC)

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	I know far too many people who already follow this course of treatment. And not just for viruses, either. [[User:RAGBRAIvet\|RAGBRAIvet]] ([[User talk:RAGBRAIvet\|talk]]) 23:59, 21 December 2022 (UTC)		I know far too many people who already follow this course of treatment. And not just for viruses, either. [[User:RAGBRAIvet\|RAGBRAIvet]] ([[User talk:RAGBRAIvet\|talk]]) 23:59, 21 December 2022 (UTC)
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		+	I've tried relatively polite requests such as "I want to be alone" and "Go away, you are not wanted here". But women are lacking in basic communication and social skills, so you have to resort increasingly infantile levels of behavior in an attempt to communicate.[[Special:Contributions/172.71.222.253\|172.71.222.253]] 16:58, 23 December 2022 (UTC)

	Is the accepted explanation for this comic that it is... mocking people who ask for sympathy or help when unwell for being "big babies"? That seems uncomfortably close to, say, making fun of people who seek treatment for mental illness... I understand that there is a disproportionate level of complaint relative to minor discomfort that is ridiculous and maybe even funny, but that doesn't seem to have been established here. I think we should emphasize that, "Hey, it's perfectly fine and even healthy to talk about the disappointment of feeling shitty, but don't take it to this extreme" - even if the original comic arguably doesn't do so. [[User:Notanotherusername\|Notanotherusername]] ([[User talk:Notanotherusername\|talk]]) 03:01, 22 December 2022 (UTC)		Is the accepted explanation for this comic that it is... mocking people who ask for sympathy or help when unwell for being "big babies"? That seems uncomfortably close to, say, making fun of people who seek treatment for mental illness... I understand that there is a disproportionate level of complaint relative to minor discomfort that is ridiculous and maybe even funny, but that doesn't seem to have been established here. I think we should emphasize that, "Hey, it's perfectly fine and even healthy to talk about the disappointment of feeling shitty, but don't take it to this extreme" - even if the original comic arguably doesn't do so. [[User:Notanotherusername\|Notanotherusername]] ([[User talk:Notanotherusername\|talk]]) 03:01, 22 December 2022 (UTC)

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 :I feel like the ''Journal of Clinical Psychology'' quote fulfills that purpose somewhat. Kudos to whomever found it. [[Special:Contributions/172.71.154.39|172.71.154.39]]
 ([[User:TehEpikXkcdsplainer]])Are we sure that this character is Hairy? His hair is kind of scarce and kind of looks like it's connected to his head like Bart Simpson. (PST) 4:29 December 22
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