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The urge to SMS your ex - science from Dolores

 We’ve received a graph from Dolores which I’m sure readers will agree is a fine addition to the plooptionary.

Dolores broke all the rules by insisting that the graph be posted with supplementary notes.  Having being through the correct referral channels and accepting that Dolores might be behind the power curve on this one … we’ve come up with an evergreen solution and done what she told us (notes below)!

 

Boyfriend, girlfriend and the urge to SMS

 

Notes:

In this model the breakup is assumed to have occurred on a Saturday, which it probably did.

The blips are caused by being drunk on subsequent Saturdays.

2 actual texts are sent. The first (day 7) reads “How r u?” and the second (day 14) claims that you have a new partner who actually appreciates you.

The shape of the graph suggests a horrible spiny fish, and that is what the whole situation stinks of.

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3 Comments so far (Add 1 more)

  1. it’s tough out here in the creative wildneress… like you dolores i want to do more but just can’t think like this. Frankly my one graph (which i wasn’t very proud of) was such agony to think of… the way old Ploop just tosses them off with gay abandon amazes and impresses me.

    But then it is his site and we should allow him to be king of all he surveys.

    i think i may yet have a flow chart in me… i’m going to keep at it

    very much looking forward to other ‘graphs that look like animals’ from you though… perhaps that could become your signature style!

    1. Jake Mayle on May 4th, 2007 at 2:06 pm

  2. Thanks Jake.
    I think you’re right - there are gender differences in texting behaviour. I wonder if it is mainly a woman’s medium though. I have a friend who will spend a whole evening with her (vile) boyfriend claiming everything is just fine and then go home and text him “How could you be so cruel and indifferent, you self-obsessed dickhead?” Then turn her phone off.

    As to further graphs - I’ve been looking at everything all day with an eye to graphing it - but nothing! They say everyone has one book in them, perhaps it is the same with graphs, and now I am a spent force.

    But I will always remember the day that I had a graph on plooptionary. As a fellow one-hit-wonder I would love to see your foray into graphing. Where is it?

    2. Dolores on May 3rd, 2007 at 6:16 pm

  3. this is excellent Dolores…

    although i think it’s probably gender specific…

    i think the graph for men who broke up would look a little different and the drunken caving in would probably result in abuot a dozen texts being fired off in rapid succession… i’m thinking of the moview Swingers here which had the painfully accurate scene where the hero leaves a dozen messages trying to get himself heard and ending up wrapped in agony and feeling like a stalker!

    but it’s a great graph - infinitely better than my one foray into the world of graphs.

    next?

    3. Jake Mayle on May 3rd, 2007 at 11:17 am

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