Comments on: What My Cat Sleeps On

By: Elliott

Elliott — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 20:19:19 +0000

It’s much more likely that you’re the only insane one.

By: Tami

Tami — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 03:42:30 +0000

FUN IS SERIOUS BUSINESS.

By: Skif

Skif — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 22:33:26 +0000

…but would also make no sense. How could “extremely important” enclose “no importance”?

By: Where's my refund

Where's my refund — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 16:35:14 +0000

I was going to comment on the same thing. Basic graph understanding fail.

By: Gibsoncat9

Gibsoncat9 — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 07:50:54 +0000

This graph would be much more accurate (and a lot funnier) if instead of “What My Cat Sleeps On” it was called “I’m a loser with no life and also I am not funny,” and instead of a graph below the title there was no graph at all.

By: ClickClickNow

ClickClickNow — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 06:18:04 +0000

I think all your ‘x’ vs. ‘y’ complainers should go look at that lemon pie chart again. Cheer yourselves up.

By: crouchingbruin

crouchingbruin — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 02:04:29 +0000

@nevermoreangel, apparently you’re the only insane one, because the majority of comments are complaints about the axis being incorrectly oriented. The purpose of a graph should be to simplify a confusing or complicated idea, not to make a simple idea more confusing. You should be able to look at a graph and not say, “huh?” or “wtf?” Like most jokes, it ain’t funny if you have to spend too much time figuring it out.

By: Amanda

Amanda — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 00:57:58 +0000

Who said anything about inanimate objects? My cat sleeps on my face, that’s pretty up there on the ‘level of importance’ chart if you ask me.

By: lawlsam

lawlsam — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 23:36:11 +0000

Ceiling Cat help us! Can’t we get some graphs that are correctly oriented?!

By: BC girl- Jen

BC girl- Jen — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 23:05:40 +0000

Tuche though- tis not a funny graph. Im just bored at work

By: BC girl- Jen

BC girl- Jen — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 23:03:36 +0000

Does it make someone who doesnt own a cat- yet spends a notable amount of time looking at cat-graphs to qualify you as not ‘sucking’? Cat owners are actually smart. We are the lazy dog owners of the world- just as much cuddles, half the poop and walking time
Now we are done.
Non-Cat owner FAIL.

By: nevermoreangel

nevermoreangel — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 21:43:04 +0000

what is the problem with you people? people make these graphs when they’re bored, and they’re just for fun…so NO more complaining about how “the X and Y axes must be reversed because it’s not scientifical enough” or how “it should give examples of the things the cat sleeps on!” I am truly disappointed with you people.

Besides, I thought it was funny. Either I’m the only insane one…OR I’M THE ONLY SANE ONE!

By: davidoffbeat

davidoffbeat — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 21:42:30 +0000

My cat sleeps on my roommates homework all the time. But thats the only thing I can really think of.

By: 216

216 — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 20:51:15 +0000

Nice. It still doesn’t change the fact that this graph sux. Not because cat owners suck (which they do), but because it lacks direction and humor.
Done.
Cat Owner FAIL.

By: BC girl- Jen

BC girl- Jen — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 18:16:45 +0000

You are 100% a douche. Poll THAT.

By: superkoopa

superkoopa — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 18:15:09 +0000

comment doesn’t make sense
you can’t spell probabilities like that
if you want to write the word “probabilities” you have to use b instead of p

By: 216

216 — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 17:34:30 +0000

As a cat owner, you would know the true definition of lame.
I am 100% correct. Wanna take a poll?

By: Eirc

Eirc — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 17:20:29 +0000

Haha, wow. Graphjam commenters never fail to amaze me with their lameness. And, as a cat owner, this graph is 100% correct.

By: Kit

Kit — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 16:00:54 +0000

For example, you have to use the can… kitty is asleep on the toilet seat. You are brushing your teeth… kitty is asleep in the sink. You are looking for your car keys because you are late for work — you better believe kitty is sleeping on them.

By: 216

216 — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 15:46:39 +0000

FAIL, FAIL, FAIL!
How can you not know that this graph would be a lot funnier if you had used actual objects that your cat sleeps on rather that the level of importance to you. If you want us to read it, let us in on the joke. I mean what is this “Extremely Important” thing your cat is sleeping on. I can’t be entertained by the abstract.
FAIL.

By: nevermoreangel

nevermoreangel — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 15:33:17 +0000

wow. you guys take these waaaaay too seriously…THEY’RE JUST FOR FUN!

By: zBjoern

zBjoern — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 15:18:34 +0000

i can’t believe im doing this

ok, there is another way to read this graph
by counting all the cases the cat sits on something,
and showing the propability the cat actually falls asleep

but i highly doubt this was the intention of the author

By: zBjoern

zBjoern — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 15:06:04 +0000

ok, third post (guess i just cant help myself)

the only other way to save this graph ist to say that every level of importence on the axis encloses all cases with lower level of importance as well

which would make the actual propabilities equaly distributed

By: zBjoern

zBjoern — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 14:57:04 +0000

in your graph the highest level of importance already holds 100% of the cases, and yet the is a continous spectrum of levels of importance that also hav nonzero propabilities

it just doesn’t work this way

By: Mike C

Mike C — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 14:55:49 +0000

I am never making a GraphJam again. When crap like this makes the front page, and my graphs don’t… why bother?

By: zBjoern

zBjoern — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 14:54:08 +0000

graph doesn’t make sense

you can’t show propabilities like that
if you want a continous distribution of propabilities you have to use dp instead of p
(and the integral (the area below the graph) represents the total propability)

By: brittany

brittany — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 14:43:00 +0000

You need to switch your x and y axes. Importance is the independent variable.

By: Eddy

Eddy — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 14:28:06 +0000

I also have to wonder what this importance may be. For example, my cat sleeps on my scanner but I wouldn’t consider that to be “important.” Actually, come to think of it, “importance” is sort of a weird quality for an inanimate object to have. Value? Cost? Breakability perhaps?

By: C'est Moi

C'est Moi — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 14:20:07 +0000

The title doesn’t quite match up with the graph. It doesn’t say WHAT the cat may be sleeping on, just the level of importance of on what it sleeps.
Other than that, I like the graph!