Obvious facetious response aside
Two graphs that don't line up. There's no reason why they should line up, it's not as if they owe me any favours or anything, but it really would make my life a lot easier if they would line up.

Alt: The day my graphs line up. Don't know how long I'll be waiting for that one though.
(LongJohnBaldry, Thu 10 Mar 2011, 15:35, 3 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

Until you learn how to manipulate data to your advantage

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 10 Mar 2011, 15:37, Reply)

I've tried
I've even done the whole "I'm fine" trick when one of them asked me what was wrong...the little bleeders just won't shift.
(LongJohnBaldry, Thu 10 Mar 2011, 15:40, Reply)

hahahaha!
Poor Crow.
( girlinthehole, Thu 10 Mar 2011, 15:37, Reply)

I've flapped my wrists ineffectually at the screen and now I'm fresh out of ideas.

(LongJohnBaldry, Thu 10 Mar 2011, 15:40, Reply)

Have you tried making the scale enourmous?

(PsychoChomp, Thu 10 Mar 2011, 15:42, Reply)

I've even tried making it mega-ginormous
All it did was emphasise how badly they line up. Arguably it looks better if I make it small and squint really hard at it.
(LongJohnBaldry, Thu 10 Mar 2011, 15:43, Reply)

I'll swap you for this risk assessment form if you like.
I'd rather make maths obey me than fill this fucker in.
(berk, Thu 10 Mar 2011, 15:51, Reply)

Your offer is tempting
Though I'm not sure you'd want me filling in your risk assessment form...I'm a bit of liability, me.
(LongJohnBaldry, Thu 10 Mar 2011, 15:53, Reply)

You can be a liability all you like
It's having to fill in a seperate form for each of the cell lines we use that's pissing me off.
(berk, Thu 10 Mar 2011, 16:04, Reply)

Oh christ. Suddenly the offer is less tempting
But then...spectra I should know something about, or cell lines I can legitimately know bugger all about? They do say ignorance is bliss...
(LongJohnBaldry, Thu 10 Mar 2011, 16:08, Reply)

It gets better
we use 15 or so cell lines and some of them require two forms and information I have spent all afternoon trying to find.
*weeps quietly*
(berk, Thu 10 Mar 2011, 16:10, Reply)

Bloody hell
For what it's worth, you have my sympathies. (Are cell lines really that dangerous to work with?)
(LongJohnBaldry, Thu 10 Mar 2011, 16:15, Reply)

Nope
it's just the HSE making us jump through ridiculous hoops. The risk is virtually nil but we still have to fill in this 7 page cunting form for everything, with a further 10 page form on top of that for some of the cell lines. And that's just the biological risk assessments: we have to do a chemical risk assessment for every procedure we routinely do in the lab as well (ie, lots of them) And they all need to be completed for a week on Monday, on top of all the work I normally do and the work that neesd doing in the lab to ensure that it'll pass the inspection.
Guess who has to sort all that lot out? Fucking muggins here, that's who.
(berk, Thu 10 Mar 2011, 16:20, Reply)