Comments on: The urge to SMS your ex - science from Dolores http://www.plooptionary.com/2007/05/03/the-urge-to-sms-your-ex-science-from-dolores/ Fine graphs and cynicism fuelled by idiocy in TV, politics, celebrity and business Tue, 14 Oct 2008 10:42:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.2 By: Jake Mayle http://www.plooptionary.com/2007/05/03/the-urge-to-sms-your-ex-science-from-dolores/#comment-374 Jake Mayle Thu, 03 May 2007 11:17:43 +0000 http://www.plooptionary.com/2007/05/03/the-urge-to-sms-your-ex-science-from-dolores/#comment-374 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? 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?

]]> By: Dolores http://www.plooptionary.com/2007/05/03/the-urge-to-sms-your-ex-science-from-dolores/#comment-380 Dolores Thu, 03 May 2007 18:16:13 +0000 http://www.plooptionary.com/2007/05/03/the-urge-to-sms-your-ex-science-from-dolores/#comment-380 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? 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?

]]> By: Jake Mayle http://www.plooptionary.com/2007/05/03/the-urge-to-sms-your-ex-science-from-dolores/#comment-388 Jake Mayle Fri, 04 May 2007 14:06:00 +0000 http://www.plooptionary.com/2007/05/03/the-urge-to-sms-your-ex-science-from-dolores/#comment-388 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! 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!

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