Editing Talk:418: Stove Ownership

The title text doesn't "imply" that Randall went through a frosting phase in college similar to his present-day bacon obsession; it flat-out states it. The reader need not infer anything. Also, the usage of parens to define both a "phase" and "frosting" struck me as a little bit pedantic. I suspect most, if not all, readers of both xkcd and this explainer site are well enough versed with these nuances. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.219.21|108.162.219.21]] 08:29, 21 May 2014 (UTC)

Is it really necessary to describe why eating copious amounts of bacon will have adverse affects on ones health? Should we also describe the metabolic effects of eating fat on the digestive and circulatory system? Bacon contains nitrates and has carcinogenic properties as well. Are we going to deconstruct the various ways his body might try to accept or reject his comically obscene bacon intake? I don't mean to sound so smug and cynical, but some of Randall's comics are rather self-explanatory. I believe we've satisfactorily cleaned up this explanation.
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 The title text doesn't "imply" that Randall went through a frosting phase in college similar to his present-day bacon obsession; it flat-out states it. The reader need not infer anything. Also, the usage of parens to define both a "phase" and "frosting" struck me as a little bit pedantic. I suspect most, if not all, readers of both xkcd and this explainer site are well enough versed with these nuances. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.219.21|108.162.219.21]] 08:29, 21 May 2014 (UTC)
-:I appreciated the definition of frosting, as in Australia, it means the sugar you dust over a cake, sometimes over icin, but not the icing itself. Frosting-in-a-can I had interpreted dusting-sugar-in-a-can. Someone redefining it as icing was useful to me. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.250.162|108.162.250.162]] 23:38, 11 October 2016 (UTC)
-On 5/30/14, I rewrote the description. It's still marked as inaccurate or incomplete, but the revision hasn't been reviewed yet ~J. {{unsigned ip|173.245.54.44}}
+Is it really necessary to describe why eating copious amounts of bacon will have adverse affects on ones health? Should we also describe the metabolic effects of eating fat on the digestive and circulatory system? Bacon contains nitrates and has carcinogenic properties as well. Are we going to deconstruct the various ways his body might try to accept or reject his comically obscene bacon intake? I don't mean to sound so smug and cynical, but some of Randall's comics are rather self-explanatory. I believe we've satisfactorily cleaned up this explanation.
-Is it really necessary to describe why eating copious amounts of bacon will have adverse affects on ones health? Should we also describe the metabolic effects of eating fat on the digestive and circulatory system? I don't mean to sound so smug and cynical, but some of Randall's comics are rather self-explanatory. I believe we've satisfactorily cleaned up this explanation. {{unsigned ip|173.245.54.44}}
-Okay, I explained, hopefully to the satisfaction of the editors, why eating a ton of bacon would make somebody unhealthy. Can we close this one out? Thanks [[Special:Contributions/173.245.54.44|173.245.54.44]] 01:53, 7 June 2014 (UTC)