xkcd #2905: Supergroup
xkcd #2905: Supergroup
For the uninitiated:
- 21 Pilots
- 5 Seconds of Summer
- 4 Non Blondes
- 2 Live Crew
- 100 Gecs
- 3 Doors Down
- 9 Inch Nails
- 1 Republic
- 1 Direction
- 30 Seconds To Mars
132 0 ReplySo the joke is they added up a list of bands with numbers in their names to get 176? I dunno if it's just me but that seems profoundly, purposely unfunny. But I'm also not smart enough to get most of xkcds jokes so it really is probably just me
43 12 ReplyMost xkcd's are perfectly fitting for this magazine:
56 0 ReplyI'm with you big dog. That shit whack.
6 1 ReplyTbf, notice the "#2905". Dude's been cranking these out consistently, 3 times a week, for 18+ years.They can't all be great.
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And for the alt text:
12 0 ReplyI totally forgot 1000 miles, my brain was stuck on 500 miles (and it’s now stuck in my head)
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Coulda been Blink 358 Pilots…..
Or Sum, Blink 399 ….
10 0 ReplyThe other bands rejected the suggestion "Mostly Gecs"
8 1 ReplyIt just doesn't add up!
1 0 ReplyI've never heard of half of those bands.
9 10 ReplyCongratulations?
I'm a very uncool 40-something from a different continent than most of them and I've heard of all but 2..
28 4 ReplyThat's what makes you beautiful.
1 0 ReplyI would hope twenty one pilots are in the known pile, I've been a massive fan since Vessel.
1 0 ReplyI've never heard of 4/5 of those bands
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27 0 ReplyI thought this was going to be some math thing, turned out to be so much more straightforward.
22 0 Replyit does involve some familiarity with song names, and some basic addition skills, right?
19 0 Reply
I still don't understand lol
1 0 ReplyIf you need a wikipedia page to explain a joke, then maybe it's not a very good joke
4 35 ReplyWell it's not a Wikipedia page, but good try. Further, Xkcd is fantastic in general but we cannot expect every single one of them to appeal to everyone, even angry commenters on Lemmy
21 1 ReplyYou just missed the joke
9 0 ReplyI don't think anyone's necessarily positing that it is a good joke
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Traurige 2raumwohnung Geräusche
11 0 ReplyGecs in xkcd? Now we're cooking
8 0 ReplyWe built this city. We built this city on rock & roll.
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