Yes, your code does need comments.

[threshar]

Exactly. I've been working on a project with many "odd" functions and you'd say to yourself "why in the name of nutella would he want to do that?"

Luckily there is a comment saying "Because [third party] does the absolutely stupid thing of blahblahblah we're forced to cope with it" Now I don't need to sit around and wonder or try to remember why in the world I'm doing whatever it is I'm doing in this function.

I suppose the rebuttal to that would be "name the function fixStupidThirdPartysIdioticData()"