2247: Weird Hill
| Weird Hill |
 Title text: I'm compromising by picking a weird hill to lie on. |
Explanation
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This comic is a joke about the expression "A weird hill to die on": an opinion on an issue that you'll fight to the death for, despite it being pointless or a waste of time. Beret Guy interrupts Cueball arguing with someone who is wrong on the Internet, and, pulling him away from the argument, asks why he should pick a weird hill to die on (fight over an opinion online) when he could pick a soft hill to lie on, going out into nature and relaxing. This comic has a similar message to Duty Calls, Bad Opinions, and Wrong, which is that sometimes we feel too strongly over our opinions, and we should let that go.
The title text is an absurd juxtaposition: that Cueball will pick a weird hill to lie on. In this case, he may be referring to a physical hill, in which case the meaning of "weird" is unclear due to lack of context.
The phrase "a weird hill to die on" was also featured in 1717: Pyramid Honey.
Trivia
- A quick Internet search does not indicate the existence of a properly-named "Weird Hill" on which Cueball could lie[citation needed], but there is a public park in Massachusetts called Weir Hill. Weir Hill's landscape is a weird patchwork, including several threatened species, because it was used for different agricultural purposes by the Algonquin and then European settlers and American farmers before becoming a park in the 1960s.
Transcript
- [Cueball sitting on a chair in front of a computer and Beret Guy pulling the chair back]
[Cueball is frustrated]
- Beret Guy: Why pick a weird hill to die on...
[Cueball gets up, still frustrated]
- [Cueball and Beret Guy leaving the room]
- [Cueball and Beret Guy climbing a hill]
- [Cueball and Beret Guy lying down at the top of a hill]
- Beret Guy: ... when you could pick a soft hill to lie on?
- Cueball: This is nice.
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(obligatory comment about how the explanation I made was my first) but seriously, first time actually doing something after a long time checking here for comics I didn't get. Hope it's good. 108.162.216.222 06:55, 27 December 2019 (UTC)
Maybe there should also be a comparison between this and https://xkcd.com/386/? Baldrickk (talk) 13:45, 27 December 2019 (UTC)
- I'm not sure a comparison is in order, but this could easily be a sequel to 386 172.69.68.147 16:34, 27 December 2019 (UTC) Sam
As I have the mediator personality type (INFP) but I'm also something of a chaotic neutral, I can confirm that there are points where I've found a weird metaphoric hill to lie on... quite comfortably too. 172.69.68.147 16:34, 27 December 2019 (UTC) Sam
Is the expression "weird hill to die on" or "hill to die on" (as the link indicates)? 162.158.146.10 04:04, 2 January 2020 (UTC)loosenut
- I'm VERY sure the expression is "hill to die on", I usually hear it as "Is this the hill you wanna die on?". He's just describing this one as a weird choice. That link leads to an article simply titled "hill to die on". NiceGuy1 (talk) 07:11, 5 January 2020 (UTC)
Should it be mentioned that this comic is similar to 438 and 14? 108.162.219.210 18:47, 1 February 2021 (UTC)
I'd rather pick a soft hill to die on
Hills are itchy though GetPunnedOn (talk) 23:45, 25 December 2023 (UTC)
