Wonkette
Look kids, this is what 10% unemployment looks like — one Men’s Room sign out of ten is filled with warm piss! The very important New York Times graphic adds, “That’s 15.7 million people. If the unemployed lived in one state, it would be the country’s fifth largest.” Great! Move ‘em all to one state, nuke it a few times, problem solved. [NYT]
Does this mean that Barack Obama is actually sorta kinda like Reagan?
But wait — the graph illustrates 10%, yet 10.2% of Americans are unemployed. They’re completely different numbers. How are we supposed to visualize 10.2%? And what is it about the .2% that the MSM is trying to hide?
A charticle!
And if you count the underemployed and those no longer looking it’s something like 17.5% or in laymen’s - an astounding one out of five piss-filled restrooms.
problemwithcaring: And in how many of those are Republican politicians offering police officers $10 and a blow job? And how would you represent that on the chart?
Sorry but I still don’t get it. Can we start with what a “zeeerrro” is first?
“Great! Move ‘em all to one state, nuke it a few times, problem solved.”
If you did that, there would be no one left to read Wonkette. And then where would you be, huh??
Back in the glorious 80s when I went off to college, I was required to take a class in something called “biology,” one of the assigned texts was “The Cartoon Guide To the History of the Universe,” by Larry Gonick. Yes, this was how I was taught evolution, in college. Le sigh.
They should have represented 10.2% by having a small portion of the second guy colored yellow. All Wonketteers should now guess which portion.
“Move ‘em all to one state, nuke it a few times, problem solved.”
Sounds like Jim has a hangover.
And how many of those have weapons?
Masterful
Please, NYT, what I really need is a chart to help me understand the concept of 26 years.
I clicked on the yellow one and it didn’t do anything. So I’ve learned nothing. Lame.
That one employed Men’s restroom segn needs to lay off the asparagus. Sheesh!
Graph of the Day: Employment-Population Ratio, 1960-2009
It’s odd that the employed are a sad gray color while the unemployed is a cheery yellow color. Then again, maybe the unemployed like receiving golden showers?
“Move ‘em all to one state, nuke it a few times, problem solved.”
I see I’m not the only Wonketeer who is having a piss-filled day.
Terry: And when he woke up, he discovered he peed himself. Hey, that would give me an itchy trigger finger too.
freakishlystrong: What’s a “segn”, fucktard?
They have a similar chart for “Behind the Homosexual Agenda,” but the yellow guy is pink.
I’m reasonably (10%) certain this is a racist graph.
Anyone else suddenly want some Orange Julius?
Woohoo!
Go Capitalism!
Being an unemployed Objectivist, I will now go off myself to cease being an unproductive parasite and thus sacrifice myself for the greater good.
Hey, wait a minute…
Every one of those gray dudes has a job? Awesome.
Well, if current statistics are to be believed, one in ten people are also same-sex oriented, are inclined to watch professional baseball regularly if they watch sports, drink a specific brand of American beer the bulk of their lives without switching, take antidepressants, are not inclined to get heart disease, are reformed Catholics, and are on food stamps. So we could form a state of gay baseball fans who drink Hamms, are mellow, healthy, progressive-minded, non junk-food eaters who have a lot of time on their hands. Sounds like a writer’s colony. Vermont?
maybe the unemployed like receiving golden showers?
Would people who enjoy golden showers really have trouble finding employment?
This is good news for John McCain.
Barrett808: Technical analysis of that chart indicates we have a long way to go before we hit bottom…
Scary.
I nominate South Carolina.
But what happens if you boil one, gradually? Will he just stay put in the water until he realizes it’s too late? I’ve heard this is what happens, but it could be one of those urban legends, knowhumsayin’? If only someone would be kind enough to demonstrate.
Unsnarky here, but the NYT also had another chart, showing the monthly job loss data, and it was less and less every month that Obama has been president. There’s good news you never hear.
This graph tells me that Chinamen are too lazy too work, while the gray Hulks have jobs. Just as I always suspected!
Prommie: And you probably still learned more about evolution than graduates of Liberty or Pat Robertson’s School of Law and Hair Design.
magic titty: When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. Then make piss-filled restrooms out of that. Then make Orange Julius out of that.
Barrett808: I don’t not unnerstan numbers.
Too many people + too little work = America FAIL.
Right?
“Move ‘em all to one state, nuke it a few times, problem solved.” They could be packed in ethylene glycol and shipped in DC8 type spaceships to Kilauea Volcano, where they could be nuked. Their souls could then be captured and allowed to wander around the earth in search of bodies to inhabit, thereby causing H1N1 flu.
SayItWithWookies: “How are we supposed to visualize 10.2%?” There should be a slight vertical sliver of piss in the second guy.
Chinamen are too lazy too work
If you enjoy watersports, I have a position open proofreading my blog comments.
Aurelio: Or he should have yellow feet. How is this graph colored anyway New York Times?!?!
SayItWithWookies: It’s a do it yourself kinda gig. They want to increase reader engagement in the content. So what you do is, pull that graphic back up. Now piss on the second dude’s shoes. 10 minutes later, a Muddy Waters impersonator will show up at your front door to lay open your cheek with a straight razor.
Marketing geniuses, I say.
Aurelio: Naked Bunny with a Whip: Some piss on #2’s shoes from a top-hat&tails-wearing Wall Street Bankster-figure would provide a proper visualisation…
When it comes to jobs, the unemployed suffer from a “going” problem.
There’s that guy in 23C again…ringing his call button. Would you get it this time? Last time I went, and he complained that his seat cushion smelled like ass. I told him well if you people wouldn’t fart…
That graphic is an illuminated flight attendant call button. That’s what I saw. And the above is taken from the
analsannals of bizarre but true airline complaints.Prommie: HaHa, I was assigned The Cartoon Guide to Genetics* for a History of Science class.
*It was actually quite useful, but yeah, silly also.
Wait, couldn’t we solve the whole problem by putting that 1 in 10 mens’ room back togather, and then employ the rest of the slobs to keep it clean when Larry Craig visits?
That is what happens when you try to hold it too long.
Prommie: FMA: right, at least Prommie was taught evolution. The students of Kansas, Texasm, SC, etc etc all get to learn intelligent design.
Oh, now I get it! The unemployed guy is yellow because of the jaundice caused by all the alcohol he drinks to bury the shame. All he needs is a noose and the graphic will be complete.
So this ten percent of orange-Americans…are they the same bunch W.E.B DuBois was going on about, however many years back?
Of course, the REAL (pre-Dubyah) calculation of the unemployment rate is 19.4 percent, but hey, math makes the media’s head hurt. Can’t be distracted by such disturbing facts when there are ambulances to chase and missing white girls to save.
I’ve been unemployed for seven months, and the “warm piss” joke made me laugh out loud. Thank you, Wonkette.
Monsieur Grumpe: Imma need that in graph form.
Neoyorquino: no snark, just wanted to say I am really sorry you, and other Wonketters who are unemployed, are going through this. I cannot imagine what I’d do and know I am incredibly lucky.
OK, back to piss andTruck Nutz.
Yes, a layoff followed by endless months of unemployment sucks donkey balls.
….
I should probably get back to work.
Well, since #1 is yellow, obviously #2 should be brown. Why doesn’t the New York Time understand what brown can do for them?
Extemporanus: I am so sick of hearing about old men’s piss problems..
“Bob was trying to fuck that sleazy next door neighbor in his golf cart, but just like his friends, he had to go!”
Smoke Filled Roommate: Related, whiskey tango foxtwat is up with Cialis ads featuring couples sitting outside holding hands in totally separate clawfoot bathtubs?
Not exactly a ringing visual endorsement of peen-in-poon party time. Or does Cialis give one such a raging, rock-hard rod that two layers of cast iron are required to protect one’s lady friend’s lady parts from being completely decimated during the doing of the deed?
Barrett808: Looking at that chart I realize that through all those peaks and valleys I had full employment until that one time during w’s term. Fortunately for Obama, I was able to convert my chronic unemploymentism into early retirement so he didn’t get the blame. Shit, the things I do for that man.
“..one Men’s Room sign out of ten is filled with warm piss!” According to Cactus Jack, that makes it the equivalent of the Vice Presidency of the USofA.
Doglessliberal: Thanks. I keep busy by cashing in my legacy on eBay. I can’t complain *too* much. Me and Mrs. Neoyorquino are still managing to pay most of the bills (F-U, Wells Fargo!), and that’s a beautiful thing when others are losing homes.
USA Today is preparing to sue the Ol’ Gray Lady for stealing its reporting style.
filled with warm piss…I have a feeling it might me cheap Scotch.
bitchincamaro:
mebe(so Freudian)
Slow down there NYT, way too complicated. Can someone at USAToday explain it to me, with more colors?
““That’s 15.7 million people. If the unemployed lived in one state, it would be the country’s fifth largest.” Great! Move ‘em all to one state, nuke it a few times, problem solved.”
Wait a minute. Not a state — the District of Columbia. 99% of Americans agree with you, and chose D.C. to be nuked. Some libtards in Arlington and Baltimore are waffling, but they are only 1% of the country. Hard, tough decisions are required for change and hope. That’s why we have hard and tough Raum and hard and tough Timmy Geithner. Nuking D.C. get the scale of efficiency that Timmy believes in.