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![[0020] Failures Of Mankind](/comics/2008-12-29-[0020]-failures-of-mankind.png "[0020] Failures Of Mankind")
Sometimes readers ask cartoonists where they get their ideas for their strips. In this case, the answer should be pretty obvious.
Update (6 March 2011): I decided to completely change the punchline of this strip since both things seem to work correctly now.
- Sandra: Mankind: Capable of building International Space Stations and Large Hadron Colliders. But not coat zippers.
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oh so true… those zippers work ONCE and then are useless… the zipper on my coat actually fell off, so you know.
hmm… you know Ironically this exact same thing happened today.
You rule a lot for mentioning the LHC. ^^
Yup. Got a coat that can’t be zipped up, too.
Hate those coat zippers. Good thing i don’t need them here.
Ah yes, a problem which we struggle with every day. Especially when we are in a hurry.
I’ve never had too many problems with metal zippers. (Other than the occasional tooth falling out of some of my more ancient coats.) My problem tends to be with those plastic spiral-tooth zippers that either break or unravel from their foundation-strip and are nearly impossible to repair/replace without ruining the garment (usually very expensive) to which they’re attached.
My coat zippers work very well. But most trousers have their second zipper, because I killed the original one in a ‘zipper-won’t-f*cking-work’-rage XD
luckily my grandma could always fix the problem :DDDDDD
Many years ago, i bought a Really Great leather jacket for $20 in a thrift shop; with sales tax, $21.
It had a busted zipper.
Cost to replace zipper: $21.
With Sales Tax, $22.05.
lol…that is why i usually go for non zippered if i can
I had that problem in my younger days. Even though Im not even 16 yet…
But that was sure bothering. Also, an AWESOME point more to you for you mentioning the LHC.
:3
So true. My LHC broke today. It’s gonna be awhile before I have enough to buy a new one 🙁
@fairportfan
Funny, I bought a leather jacket in a charity shop (thrift store) a few years back, and that had a broken zipper when I bought it. I’ve never bothered to have it fixed, because it still has snap fasteners that do the job in a pinch.
Nice use of Asterix swearing in the third panel…
My zipper problem is when a tooth is skipped, and it causes the zipper to open in the middle (on my backpack. pants are okay.)
I’ve had the same problem with at least four backpacks… So frustrating. The moments is only made worse, when the thing snaps in two. ;-;
Another person giving you MAJOR PROPS for mentioning the LHC.
I hear they currently need to fix it in order for it to run at full power, but cuz everyone’s been itching to smash things with it, they’re going to operate at half power for a year first.
Hmmm… why do those things never work?
Large Hadron Collider – works like a charm
International Space Station – mostly works
zippers – still suck after being used for at least a century
Yep, those zippers suck. Especially when you’re in buying something and you can’t get the wallet out of the pocket. Because of the zipper!
i feel you there.. really hate it when my LHC doesnt work :/
@ Snake:
The LHC failed. The international space station failed too. That’s the joke here.
@ Odos:
Same thing happened to my old hoodie, I replaced it 4 days ago but I’m having trouble not wearing it. I refuse to just throw it out, because It was a gift…
lol love panels three and four, especially her reaction and facial expression in three. Number four though, they DO know how to make coat zippers, they just don’t know how to FIX coat zippers.
Out of curiosity, what was the original punchline (for those of us that remember when both the ISS and the LHC were punchlines of their own…)
(I’m late to the party, I know…story of my life.)
Too true…
… Usually when I can’t do a zipper up, I despair at my own inability to do something so simple as operate a zipper… rather than blaming the manufacturers or the zipper itself.
Different minds working in different ways, I guess.
Haven’t zipped up (or otherwise closed) a jacket/coat in over 20 years, even when walking around Scotland in the rain
Guesticus wrote:
I get that feel sometimes.
My current coat (the white leather long-coat that gets people staring at me on a daily basis) has what I tend to call the self-hug pockets… so when it rains I just stick my hands in the pockets and just hold the coat shut as best I can (as opposed to buckling it up)…
On the other hand, my hoodies with zippers… I DO zip those up. I’m generally a bit better at doing the zippers up than I used to be. Even the broken ones.
I never had a problem with zippers they almost always worked like a charm. …Until recently when like all my coat and jacket zipper fell of within the same month.
@ Kazekage:
To judge from the German version, something like “Mankind: Incapable of building functioning International Space Stations, Large Hadron Colliders and coat zippers”
Astrix and Oblix style Swearing
To be fair, they also are the same species which thinks that making a trap into a tiger trap just means adding a sandwich. To be fair, it sometimes does actually work.
Is this the first 4 wall violation?
Kazekage wrote:
Speaking of punchlines, there are no jokes about Jonestown because the punchlines were too long.
I am surprised nobody else mentioned this yet. From an excerpt from livescience.com:
“Many sources attribute the creation of Velcro to NASA, thought this claim proves quite false. While NASA wasn’t responsible for the material’s inception, the space agency’s use of the product did lead to Velcro’s popularity in all circles of life. In the 1960s, Apollo astronauts used Velcro to secure all manner of devices in space for easy retrieval.”
I’d say people at NASA would agree with Sandra wholeheartedly.
The more intelligent a species is, the more capable of being stupid it is.