major malfunction

I remembered a few of my malfunctions but i forgot them now...:eek: (if you dont know what im talking about, have a look at the subject of the topic :D)

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.

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 :eek:
i'd be scared to see what mine revealed...:D :p :D

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?

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.

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. :mad: :p :p

So, I guess that means I'm imaginitive or something? :p

Anybody ever have to take the MMPF? Minnasota Multi Phasic.

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!!!

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. :D

*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.

LOL, baddmom, it cracks me up the way you wrote "emily(bunch of numbers)"!

yeah, poetry.com pisses me off. But its cool because some people I know are winners of those contests.

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

Why is it still alive, though, if it's scam?

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.

Cool, I'll try it out. :D (I'm good at composing trashy poems anyway.)

so if iye
just post
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end priint it owt
cend it two
thim end say ime
uh poet-
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giv mee tuns uv
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and ile bee won uv
there feechird
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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 never :) contacted me again.

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! http://www.addis-welt.de/smilie/smil...kopfpatsch.gif

--> 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. :D

I say "laughing out loud" out loud instead. Hey, just in case you haven't noticed, you've passed your 1000th post! Yippee!!

Holy divah!!! Wow!!! LOL!!11!!1!!!!ONE!!!one11!!

I usually just laugh when I find something funny.

i agree with you simon. just because i spend waaaaay too much time on the internet does not mean that i have lost my ability to express myself in social situations of the face to face persuasion. in fact i sometimes wish that i had the ability to use my body language and facial expressions to express myself on this forum. there are times that the only thing that correctly says what im feeling is one eyebrow raised or a great big grin. and Em, as if you cant think of something to say at all times. that just strikes me as not possible.

and a big huge congrats on the post'o' rama you have engaged in. (postfest? post-stock? postacular?...i think im really tired!)
the big 1K eh? good for you hon. you win!:D

Often I miss tone of voice for instances like sarcasm, but sometimes not being able to hear a person allows for less altercations and misinterpretation.

i think i might have to disagree. rhetorical questions, sarcasm and teasing all require tone of voice and body language (specifically facial expressions) to be properly understood. there is so much more range to communication if the whole of the language is at our disposal, and so much of language is not just what is being said (or read).
that said, i believe that this forum is extremely useful, not just because of the friendships forged here or the benefits reaped from having intelligent sounding boards, but also for the practice in making oneself understood using only words. for any person who wishes to write effectively, that is an immesurably important tool. the ability to make clear your ideas and feelings using only the written language is highly underrated, and also much more difficult than one would think.

see?
;)

Agreed mom, pretend to hear my chuckles then.

i already heard the chuckling...that wasnt you before? uhoh
:confused:

If it wasn't me you'd better lock your doors and find the baseball bat.

LMAO!

Wait, you mean you guys don't do that anyway?...uh...heh...I mean, me neither...

:D

Oh, and yes, I agree with you, VB. About the "learning to communicate with only words" thing. Although, I think maybe I have to spend more time on the "learning to communicate verbally" thing. When I type I don't skip a beat, but when I'm talking it's just a series of rapid "uhh...er er...well, it's like...wait, no, you know...um um um..." :D

Oh, and were people referring to me about the 1000 posts? I'm way ahead of you. :D See "A hero's welcome."

that is so funny Em. sometimes that happens to me where i just cannot find the right words and i sound like a sixth grader trying to order something on the phone with a parent's credit card. and other times everything comes out smooth and clear and with all these big words flowing like silk. while that is happening i am aware of it and so scared it will stop. but if it is the first time im meeting someone and it happens im thrilled because my first impression rocked. then of course, the next time i see them, im back to being a bumbling idiot. i wonder why that happens? (there is no relation to drug use, im sure!)

I think I am the same way. My freinds will introduce me to someone, and because I really havent heard their voice I cant "pass judgement" on them. I meet girls who are no problem talking to when I dont know them, but once there is a connection there I always seem tense, and I start stuttering, and then I start feeling stoopid, and... Well, not all girls, but the ones who show some interest in me, and then I feel dumb and I am scared to really tak to them and the girls then think I am blowing the off. Writing seems to work best, I can be "sweet" and not really feel weird about it for some reason.

But that is one thng I forgot to mention... I analyze peoples voices alot. No scientific things, just cues. I have no idea how I do it, but I could tell for one reason or another a co-worker was dyslexic and adopted, and I had only met her a week before and talked once. Another girl talked to me for like 5 minutes and I knew she was seriously messed up, the next day found out she tries to kill herself sometimes. A freind(male) of mine never said A WORD about his parents, but I always knew there was something alittle off with him, and now I find out that his dad abused his mom and cheated on her and he saw and heard all/ most of it.
I blame all of that from listening to loveline^^^

LOL Loveline has made pop psychologists of us all.

I liked The Cable Guy

But seriously, I just have this nasty habit of starting impossible things, and then when i get to the point that it seems possible, I quit, because it isn't fun anymore.

But, if something seems impossible, or I don't think that I'm able to do it, I'll sit down for 72 hours to prove to myself that it can be done. It just won't actually get done, since I'll quit.

Does that make any sense?

I liked Cable Guy too.

And yes, that makes sense, because I'm the mistress of unfinished projects. In school I always picked the impossible research topic and right up til the deadline ignored any remark that I would be unable to complete it. Cut to 1am the night before it's due, me frantically googling and flipping through encyclopedias, trying desperately to paste together my thesis from obscure, unrelated sources...

I'm worse, cos I do that with possible/easy tasks :eek:

all right, so im bringing this back up because i have discovered a new addiction in my life, and apparently its a major malfunction.
i have the piercing bug....i cant seem to stop. i have had nine in the last couple of years...and they keep getting more and more daring. i have almost run out of places to pierce. its costing me a fortune and irritating the heck out of my kid.....