Xander ,'Empty Places'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
He's a stoic AP-loving copy-editor with a checkered past and an ex-wife out for his blood. She's a lacrosse-playing lesbian author with a unshakable belief in the Chicago manual of style and a passion for the oxford comma. Together they... mostly argue a lot.
I would watch this.
Also apropos: today I matched with someone on tinder and she messaged me "what's your feeling on the Oxford comma? Also, DTF?" Sigh.
DTF?
OMG this thread is everything.
"Depends on your feeling on the Oxford comma."
Wait until the pie chart lady learns about the new augmented-reality features on the iPhone.
Down to Fuck
Mac is playing the song "From the A to the D" on repeat. I hate Trap Rap, hate. trashy trash.
Man, I am sorry to keep spamming with The Pie Chart Saga, but I just got copied in on the end of the email chain with the Editor-in-Chief, and Pie Chart Author really wrote this:
"Readers will expect it from me. Had I realized such a figure was not acceptable to JAMA Journals, I would have submitted elsewhere. No other journal has ever hesitated to publish a figure of this sort. The apparently offending pie chart is attached (hopefully with its format intact). It is simple and unambiguous. It is a canonical illustration of our results. It is truly bait-and-switch to ban it after acceptance. Can you possibly help me?"
Someone has the ego of a white male Senator. Holy moly.
Although (and I realize I'm burying the lede here), the Editor-in-Chief did tell Pie Chart Author to look at our Author Instructions, which clearly include the words "Do not use pie charts." And so Pie Chart Author said (I may save this email forever) "I concede."
#winning
Get ready for the imminent launch of Pie Chart Monthly, whose author instructions will prohibit verbal descriptions of relative percentages.
Oh man, I want to edit that journal.