Comments on: When The TV Breaks

By: gramer nawtsee

gramer nawtsee — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 02:17:43 +0000

You misspelled “woruntee”.

By: honestly

honestly — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 08:43:33 +0000

18 month rule: the battery in your cell phone will break 6 months after the warrenty expires, with 6 months to go until you get that new phone. the phone will die with one month left to go.

By: charlie oscare delta

charlie oscare delta — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 09:19:25 +0000

nor me

By: charlie oscare delta

charlie oscare delta — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 09:18:04 +0000

the other guy is right. in this particular set of data, the percentages are independant.

also, its not just public schools.i am in senior year at a private high-school and most of my class mates can’t read more that 1 word per second or with any emotion.

By: wasc14

wasc14 — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 02:27:33 +0000

A friend once said that before you used to be praised for inventing something useful to society, now you are praised for making something useful to society that breaks when you want it to.

By: danny

danny — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 06:45:47 +0000

sooo true we had 2 similar tv’s from the same store and after 3 years they both quit within 2 weeks of eachother.

By: dadada

dadada — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 02:28:43 +0000

Exactly what I was thinkin’!

By: Guess Again

Guess Again — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 08:47:15 +0000

@ original caption: That’s what you get for buying a plasma T.V.

By: kat

kat — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 19:10:24 +0000

Spell check.

By: majhparg

majhparg — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 15:15:28 +0000

Mama, you got to go.

By: Swar Benaghi

Swar Benaghi — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 04:25:48 +0000

“a single TV can only break once”

False.

By: observer

observer — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 04:04:00 +0000

Ummm… When THE television breaks. Definite article. Public schools failed you. Go back and learn 6th grade grammar.

By: i hate everything

i hate everything — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 03:57:53 +0000

yea that is true too. unless someone drops the tv and nobody notices it until its taken out of its box and partially assembled.

By: Points Out The Obvious

Points Out The Obvious — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 02:46:59 +0000

This is why they need to stop lowering standards in public schools. It’s not a graph of what time a specific TV will break, but rather the odds that any given TV, unbroken at the designated time, will THEN break (for him). If he were graphing what point in its lifetime a specific TV will break, yes it would need to add up to 100% as a single TV can only break once, but he is instead graphing the odds that any given TV at said time will break vs continue working. Honestly, I don’t get how anyone could fail to make that distinction.

By: observer

observer — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 23:53:59 +0000

Yes, they are dependent events. If the TV breaks a few months after you buy it, it cannot break when the warranty expires. It’s already broke. So these three choices need to add up to something less than 100%.

By: killer

killer — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 20:07:55 +0000

Shut up

U r so annoying

By: Donna

Donna — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 18:29:59 +0000

wasn’t this a led zeppelin song?

By: teh penguin

teh penguin — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 17:28:43 +0000

YOUR DOING SOMETHING WRONG IF THE TV BREAKS!

By: ie

ie — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 17:14:08 +0000

Or the date after circuit city (where you bought it) craters

By: papajon

papajon — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 16:52:48 +0000

Meh… another “obvious and annoyed me enough to make a graph”. And where’s the funny? Bring on the funny!

By: Dr. Wilson

Dr. Wilson — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 15:32:33 +0000

That’s so funny, because that’s exactly what House would say.

Gee Tee Eff Oh.

By: Swar Benaghi

Swar Benaghi — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 15:23:45 +0000

Well there’s your problem. You think there are moving parts in a TV. Noting in you TV should be moving. Either that or you have the old televisions with the “Barrel Tuner” knobs. Time to upgrade to wunna them there Aitch Dee Tee Vees.

By: C'est Moi

C'est Moi — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 14:19:38 +0000

No, it’s not.

By: Obligated

Obligated — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 14:17:15 +0000

No, it’s call engineering. They do it so well it become a art form. It true with just about everything, not just TV.

By: catgirl

catgirl — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 13:04:52 +0000

If House is on, I would want my TV to break. Or I would just change the channel or turn it off.

By: Marek

Marek — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 07:29:21 +0000

Ours broke three days after the warranty expired…

By: Not_you

Not_you — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 04:24:51 +0000

newsflash: “that’s so true” DOES NOT equal original nor funny. i hate it when i lose my keys. i hate it when someone cuts me off on the road. i hate it when my favorite team loses… these are boring truths, not insightful observations that make for good graphs.

By: Cattie

Cattie — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 03:30:57 +0000

Ah, they forgot the 100% option: the day after the warranty expires, right when the new episode of House comes on.

By: Stan

Stan — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 03:20:25 +0000

This exact thing happened to me a couple weeks ago. >_>
STILL need to get it fixed

By: i hate everything

i hate everything — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 02:59:40 +0000

seriously, a TV is a freaking TV! yea, stuff breaks… but yes, this graph is pretty unoriginal because there are too many graphs that say “chances something will…” blah blah blah.

By: i hate everything

i hate everything — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 02:57:06 +0000

actually, it is true… after you take something out of its box, like a new wii system, the TV has a good chance of breaking. or (in my case) the TV will break just before the Super Bowl or any other type of show that a lot of people like to watch.

By: the_rog

the_rog — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 02:40:01 +0000

For example here:

there is a 18% chance that the TV will break the day after you buy it
a 39% chance that the TV will break a couple months after you buy it
and a 95% chance that the TV will break the day after the warranty expires.

Separate events. They’re not dependent upon each other so they don’t need to add up to 100%

By: the_rog

the_rog — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 02:38:16 +0000

no you’re wrong. Do you know how bar graphs work? The X axis represents independent events and the Y axis (in this particular graph) represents the % chance that the TV will break while the person creating the graph is doing each independent event. You would think that people who comment on graphjam would know the different applications of different types of graphs.

By: almostdevine

almostdevine — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 02:33:30 +0000

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By: Luis

Luis — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 02:33:08 +0000

Dude, maybe it’s something you’re doing? I mean seriously, 1 in 5 chance your TV will break the day after you buy it?

By: CluePhone

CluePhone — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 01:02:40 +0000

Any chart that represents percentages of a total should add to 100%. I reckon that math wasn’t your best subject.

By: That Guy

That Guy — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 00:45:31 +0000

A couple minutes after unboxing your new Wii.

By: turquoise cow

turquoise cow — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 00:41:52 +0000

spelling FAIL! it’s warranty, genius.

By: Points Out The Obvious

Points Out The Obvious — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 00:05:53 +0000

not a pie chart, doesn’t need to be 100, and I think everyone who is commenting already knows how to spell warranty.

By: teh penguin

teh penguin — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 00:05:26 +0000

WII ^_^

By: teh penguin

teh penguin — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 00:04:34 +0000

TV’s break? I seriously never had a TV stop working.

By: Points Out The Obvious

Points Out The Obvious — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 00:04:12 +0000

Congrtatulations! You are grapher #1,000,000 to make a bar graph of Murphy’s Law! Now go make an original one!

By: crakykitteh

crakykitteh — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 23:55:33 +0000

Let me guess, your tv just broke and the warranty expired?

By: Kaly

Kaly — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 23:09:53 +0000

Mega boring…

By: FBR

FBR — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 22:49:57 +0000

These kinds of graphs are boring and unoriginal.

By: me

me — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 21:38:19 +0000

So true. Many appliances do this in addition to televisions lol

By: redswinglinestapler

redswinglinestapler — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 21:23:27 +0000

typo..

and this graph equals about 150%

fail.

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 21:18:23 +0000

Have you ever owned anything with moving parts before?

By: Mike Litoris

Mike Litoris — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 21:08:05 +0000

Maybe you should invest in a better TV next time…

How the F do you break a TV, you ‘tard.

By: Twing Twang

Twing Twang — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 20:58:47 +0000

Meh. How unoriginal.