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Steph L. - Jun 08, 2017 11:31:04 am PDT #12445 of 30002
It's actually been a really hard year, when you stop and do the math. Eliot would cry, too, if it didn't take him seventy minutes of therapy, two cocktails, and a Sondheim medley before he can experience a human emotion through the haze of his PTSD.

Heh, I read the email from the angry author more closely, and she used the sentence "My readers expect no less than this figure from an article authored by me."

So, 1. She presumably typed that with a straight face. Somebody thinks SUPER highly of herself. And 2. She thinks "her readers" expect a fucking PIE CHART? I mean, pie charts are, basically, remedial medical figures. The complexity of the articles that the AMA publishes is not pie-chart level. Pie charts are a way of saying "Here are 5 categories and the percentages for each category. I could have just put this in a sentence in the article but I think a pie chart is fancier and I need tenure."

This author is pretentious as hell. Oh my god. I feel like I can summon some energy to email her, because she needs to know that she needs to back the truck up and take her fucking pie chart with her.

Gudanov - Jun 08, 2017 11:42:58 am PDT #12446 of 30002
Coding and Sleeping

You're pretty passionate about pie charts.

Steph L. - Jun 08, 2017 11:49:22 am PDT #12447 of 30002
It's actually been a really hard year, when you stop and do the math. Eliot would cry, too, if it didn't take him seventy minutes of therapy, two cocktails, and a Sondheim medley before he can experience a human emotion through the haze of his PTSD.

But apparently not as passionate as this author.

billytea - Jun 08, 2017 11:54:00 am PDT #12448 of 30002
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

It is my fond hope that you be permitted to send the author this in response: [link]

Dana - Jun 08, 2017 11:54:41 am PDT #12449 of 30002
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."

She presumably typed that with a straight face.

I assume they wait for each issue of the journal with bated breath, praying it will bring another installment of their favorite author's work.

Dana - Jun 08, 2017 11:56:02 am PDT #12450 of 30002
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."

Wow, pie flashback.

Steph L. - Jun 08, 2017 11:58:00 am PDT #12451 of 30002
It's actually been a really hard year, when you stop and do the math. Eliot would cry, too, if it didn't take him seventy minutes of therapy, two cocktails, and a Sondheim medley before he can experience a human emotion through the haze of his PTSD.

When come back, bring pie chart.

Jessica - Jun 08, 2017 11:58:30 am PDT #12452 of 30002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

I hope it's this pie chart.

Steph L. - Jun 08, 2017 12:04:41 pm PDT #12453 of 30002
It's actually been a really hard year, when you stop and do the math. Eliot would cry, too, if it didn't take him seventy minutes of therapy, two cocktails, and a Sondheim medley before he can experience a human emotion through the haze of his PTSD.

I might fight the senior editors to get that one left in.

Steph L. - Jun 08, 2017 12:25:05 pm PDT #12454 of 30002
It's actually been a really hard year, when you stop and do the math. Eliot would cry, too, if it didn't take him seventy minutes of therapy, two cocktails, and a Sondheim medley before he can experience a human emotion through the haze of his PTSD.

Bahahahaha, the author emailed me and said "I have written to the editor-in-chief to request a waiver of a misguided rule. I know that you were only following orders, but omitting this figure hinders research."

Again, this is a PIE CHART. I mean, complex figures do exist (and we hatessss them, yes we do), and I could understand her outrage if we axed a really complex figure. But this figure is the equivalent of "Dogs: 43%; Cats: 43%; Lizards: 10%; Mothras: 3%; That Thing From The Neverending Story: 1%." WHAT THE SHIT LADY.

This is not a good day to fuck with me.

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