Swearing Analysis

Over on FB Joachim asked me a question about my link post tags, and how long it had been since there was a day without an OhForFucksSake tage. I grabbed my data from Pinboard, did a tiny bit of processing in Powershell, dropped the results into Excel, and produced this lovely graph:



And then had a quick check, and the answer is the 31st of July. Clearly a day of joy, which will be remembered for ever.

Interesting Links for 06-08-2018

Why Airlines Want to Make You Suffer

(tags: airplanes business OhForFucksSake )

31 Signs You Have a Partner

(tags: list relationships funny horror )

I am definitely starting to feel this way about British politics

(tags: politics death funny )

Fairly sure I used to have some respect for the Telegraph as being a sensible paper of the Right

(tags: UK Europe idiocy newspapers )

Saudi Arabia recalls its ambassador to Canada, considers Canadian ambassador persona non grata. Freezes all new trade and investment transactions with Canada

(tags: Canada saudiarabia )

Naomi Wu: My Experience with Sarah Jeong, Jason Koebler, and Vice Magazine

(tags: China technology journalism OhForFucksSake )

People frequently think they understand things when they must know how to use them

(tags: meaning viaCipherGoth psychology religion ethics )

Writers should be loudly boycotting Woman’s Weekly

(tags: writing rights publishing OhForFucksSake )

Far right racist thugs attack bookshop

(tags: books UK OhForFucksSake racism )

Fairly sure I used to have some respect for the Telegraph as a vaguely sensible paper. Not any more

Are there any right wing newspapers which are attached to reality?
(tags: UK Europe law newspapers OhForFucksSake )

Amazon’s tax is not transparent – and politicians let them get away with it

(tags: Amazon tax accounting transparency )

Elderly Men Escape Nursing Home To Attend World's Biggest Heavy Metal Festival

(tags: HeavyMetal age Germany festival )

People have higher Self-Control because they don't feel things as much

(tags: emotion hunger stress self-control )

"Skirt" - A Fringe recommendation

(tags: theatre edinburgh )

How much do I despair of the world (by percentage)

After I posted the original analysis, a couple of people asked for "FFS by month, as a percentage of all tags".

Some more calculation later, here it is:


Clearly the world _is_ getting worse. Or I'm swearing more. One of those might be causal with the other ;-)

The original data is about 10MB, so if anyone wants to slice and dice it themselves, they're welcome to it if they drop me an email.