I remembered a few of my malfunctions but i forgot them now...(if you dont know what im talking about, have a look at the subject of the topic
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I remembered a few of my malfunctions but i forgot them now...
dead on the inside, i've got nothing to prove
keep me alive and give me something to lose
has anyone here ever taken one of those ink blot or personality tests? not the one that tells you what career you should be, but the ones they use to diagnose mental illness and/or describe your personality type (characteristics).
for one of my psychology classes we took a bunch of these funky tests (supposed to have been for fun), and i discovered that apparently i am borderline nuts. fortunately i dont care, so it wasnt a terribly disturbing revelation, but i wonder if anyone else has taken one of these tests and had the results show something totally different from what they were expecting. (and i am well aware of the pronoun disagreement in that sentence and i dont care....i am such a rebel!!!)
anyhow, there were a few students in the class that were upset by their results and i found that kind of funny. i suppose it would have been different had we been in a psychiatrists office, i had blood on my hands, and there were uniformed police behind me, but i didnt take it very seriously.
Then we sat on the edge of the earth, with our feet dangling over the side, and marvelled that we had found each other.
what fun! we only learned about them, never took them.
though there was a number we learned (to see how many we could store in our short term, the usual max is 7 or 9) and it stuck with me for months afterward (219 526 748 i think oh god it's been almost a year, go away!!!)
oh no your poor classmates
i'd be scared to see what mine revealed...
shh!!!
the air and water have been here a long time, and they are telling stories.
yes that memory device is called chunking right? where you break it into more meaninful groups, because you can actually remember 7 groups of things?
Then we sat on the edge of the earth, with our feet dangling over the side, and marvelled that we had found each other.
Hey mom, I took this normalicy test on tickle.com and it told me I was 4 percent normal. I also took the ink blot test and it told me I was governed by imagination, I guess that's not too bad of a dictatorship.
nice. tickle eh? i'll have to try that.
my inkblot test said that i was totally ruled by my sexuality.
and this one test said that from 5-10 was normal and over that was Schizophrenic...and my score was 18!!! yikes.
Then we sat on the edge of the earth, with our feet dangling over the side, and marvelled that we had found each other.
I took that Tickle Normalcy test. It says I'm 3% normal, and "least like others in the area of imagination."
And I took their ink blot test, and it said I'm driven by imagination. "You have a deep desire to use innovative ideas to enhance your life and influence the world around you.... On an unconscious level, the reason you may be so driven by imagination is your fear of destruction, the opposite of creation."
.... But I already new that.
So, I guess that means I'm imaginitive or something?
Last edited by emily655321; 05-04-2004 at 08:24 AM.
If you had to live with this you'd rather lie than fall.
You think I can't fly? Well, you just watch me!
~The Dresden Dolls
Anybody ever have to take the MMPF? Minnasota Multi Phasic.
Uhhhh...
never heard of it, what is it?
Oh I'd love to take those tests!!! I love tests! And I want the scientific proof of my non-normality!!!
dead on the inside, i've got nothing to prove
keep me alive and give me something to lose
The normalcy test on Tickle.com said it was based on the MMPF, or used questions from it, or something to do with it anyway.
Those ink blots are scary, though! It's weird, but two or three, when they flashed on screen, actually made me feel horrible, REALLY not wanting to look at them.
Oh, they had a link to a Poetry IQ test on there too. I didn't take it, but I think I'll go do that now. If I can pull myself away from the forum. Wish me luck.
*puts hand over eyes and feels around for the mouse*
[edit] The link to the poetry test brought me... guess where?... Poetry.com *ew* *bad* The top of the page was full of "winners" of some kind holding their checks or something. So I high tailed it out of there. I don't want any part of that place, even if it's just a quiz.
Last edited by emily655321; 05-04-2004 at 10:30 PM.
If you had to live with this you'd rather lie than fall.
You think I can't fly? Well, you just watch me!
~The Dresden Dolls
LOL, baddmom, it cracks me up the way you wrote "emily(bunch of numbers)"!
You're just another bastard.
yeah, poetry.com pisses me off. But its cool because some people I know are winners of those contests.
Anarchism is a game at which the Police can beat you. What have you to say to that?
-Misalliance
George Bernard Shaw
um, yeah we are all winners. there have been experiments where some of the crappiest poetry of all time has been submitted and won, including one that deftly suggested that poetry.com was a scam. i am personally one of the winners of the editor's choice award. yay. that goes on my resume...NOT
Then we sat on the edge of the earth, with our feet dangling over the side, and marvelled that we had found each other.
Why is it still alive, though, if it's scam?
You're just another bastard.
i think it's sort of like those "contests" where you get a phone call and are "selected to recieve" something like dinner for two at a great resort, but over dinner, you are forced to listen to a high pressure sales pitch for the resort's time share......its a rip off, and they misrepresent themselves, but you do (usually) get what you pay for and they remain just within the bounds of the law. the problem with these guys (poetry.com) is that instead of feeding off of greed, like the majority of scammers out there, they feed of the fragile self esteem of the artist...whose only joy is to hear that someone appreciates their work. that is what i think is so disgusting.
interesting note, and i think it's been mentioned on this forum somewhere, but your poetry for submission to their site, must not contain the word scam....it will not be posted. ironic. i thought.
Then we sat on the edge of the earth, with our feet dangling over the side, and marvelled that we had found each other.
Cool, I'll try it out.
You're just another bastard.
so if iye
just post
sumthing
lyke thys
end priint it owt
cend it two
thim end say ime
uh poet-
ess, they'll
giv mee tuns uv
press
and ile bee won uv
there feechird
riters?
weeoooh!
must try it!
actually, a fireman's wife at easter dinner suggested i submit something to them. needless to say, i did, was a semifinalist, and they were going to audiorecord it. after i received a second congrats more than a year later, i e-mailed them and said, "yo, y'all have received no poems from me" - they nevercontacted me again.
Last edited by amuse; 05-07-2004 at 12:21 AM.
shh!!!
the air and water have been here a long time, and they are telling stories.
I skipped a couple pages of this thread, but I decide to be fair I should throw in one of my malfunctions as well.
Ever since I got really, really addicted to the Internet, I compulsively use the expression lol... in fact, I've used it so much it sometimes nearly slip off my tongue when I converse in real life!
You're just another bastard.
--> LOL <-- Me too! I used to hate it, but now there are times I wish there was an equivalent I could use in conversation. So much easier than thinking of something to say.
If you had to live with this you'd rather lie than fall.
You think I can't fly? Well, you just watch me!
~The Dresden Dolls
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