Comments on: How to get punks off your lawn

By: Me

Me — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 14:08:21 +0000

It’s funny because at no punks you have to shake your fist 8 times

By: mhm

mhm — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 04:09:54 +0000

No because then it would seem to say that no fist shakes results in no punks, and lots of fist shaking results in many punks. The graph is messing you up because the independent and dependent variables are out of place. :]

By: flieroflight

flieroflight — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 10:34:38 +0000

they forgot vote conservative. or is that gypsies

By: KnifeySpooney

KnifeySpooney — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 03:50:15 +0000

Yeah, the axes should definitely be switched.

And the best way to get punks off your lawn is to take the shotgun.

By: Alan

Alan — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 06:20:30 +0000

I may be a little late, but THIS IS THE BEST COMMENT EVER and could be easily 10 times funnier than the graph.

By: Simon

Simon — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 14:43:42 +0000

“Handfull”??

By: eclipse

eclipse — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 05:29:49 +0000

the punk axis should have “no punks” nearest the intersection and “lots of punks” furthest from the intersection.

By: erick

erick — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 07:53:38 +0000

I also imagined the senile old man. I think that’s what the creator intended. Ha!

By: casey

casey — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 23:05:08 +0000

that’s because the x and y axes are reversed from what was intended. you know, it’s not just a nerd thing, it helps with comprehension as well.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 17:51:43 +0000

Oh – so funny. My side!

By: Lunchbox307

Lunchbox307 — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 02:53:09 +0000

Seriously… you young people are just the punks we old senile geezers are trying to rid our yards of!!! Don’t you get it? The more punks that exist on said yard, the more vigorous the fist-shaking needs to be. Period. There are NO reversed-axes options here. Young punks do not respect fist shaking unless it is vigorous.

Now get off my lawn!

By: fciron

fciron — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 19:57:41 +0000

Take them bowling!

Yes, I know but it’s so close.

By: Mallory

Mallory — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 15:11:55 +0000

Uhm… Not funny.

By: SwissBee

SwissBee — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 13:54:14 +0000

Isn’t it that the more punk you have the less you shake your fist because you’re afraid of them being so many? Then when there’s less of them, you become braver and shake you fist more vigorously.
Right?

By: Joey Y

Joey Y — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 13:51:26 +0000

Axes. Double bladed war axes. With frikken’ laser beams. That will get rid of those punks.

Wait, what was the question again?

By: Luke

Luke — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 11:42:04 +0000

HAHAHAHAHAA!

By: Ninjah!

Ninjah! — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 05:52:09 +0000

Oh, so it’s supposed to be that the more you shake your fist, the lesser punks you have on your yard – not that you need to shake your fist more if you have just a few punks on your yard? That makes more sense.

Good chart idea though.

By: !null

!null — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 04:22:40 +0000

Chalk up another one for the “reverse the axes” vote. I totally read it the wrong way at first too. It really needs to be clearer, because if it was, it would be hilarious.

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 04:21:36 +0000

Make it a bar chart. You can’t have a continuum of punks. Or is this a linear regression to interpolate the vigor of fist shaking required for numbers of punks not listed?

By: Anthony

Anthony — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 03:46:09 +0000

…WAT!….

By: Jess

Jess — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 23:54:14 +0000

I thought this was funny, but I read it a different way. I thought a senile old man vigorously shaking his fist at no punks in his yard to be hilarious.

By: lawlsam

lawlsam — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 23:34:35 +0000

I agree, switch the Axes! Axises? Axississies? Regardless, the number of punks is dependent upon the degree of vigorous-ity of said shaking fist.

By: brittany

brittany — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 23:00:24 +0000

Yeah, seriously… what is it about people on this site not understanding independent and dependent variables??? It kills any bit of humor the graph may have had.

By: Void

Void — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 22:54:15 +0000

I like this graph tons.

By: chenry

chenry — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 22:30:32 +0000

it would make more sense to me if the fist-shaking were more vigorous as the number of punks increased.

By: tom

tom — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 21:48:13 +0000

another vote for “switch the x and y”
ur using yr variablz wrong.

By: Steroid

Steroid — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 20:45:20 +0000

I think the x and y axes should be reversed.

By: Neil

Neil — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 20:37:28 +0000

yeah, i agree. it seems to be advocating *how much fist shaking* to do, which doesn’t make a lot of sense. Graph should be called “Number of punks on lawn based on fist-shaking” or something like that.

By: Eddy

Eddy — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 20:15:20 +0000

So does that mean very vigorous fist-shaking results in no punks or it only works if there are no punks?

By: Danyell

Danyell — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 20:14:36 +0000

OMG, yes!

If you still have damn punks on your lawn, it’s because you’re not shaking your fist hard enough!!

By: Mike C

Mike C — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 20:06:12 +0000

There are some graphs that are simple, and I just find them boring or stupid. Then there are graphs that are simple, and I consider them to be nigh-genius. This is one of the latter.

I’m trying to decide if the x and y axes should be switched, but I think it works either way. Regardless, excellent graph.