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While doing the spring cleaning in my furniture, I found a very old and worn-out book on graphology, and here's what it says about the person whose neat handwriting we can see on the sleeves of the reeditions:

Sensible. Good organiser. Independent. Dynamic. Likes to feel important and to fill the living space with his personality. Ambitious. Pugnacious. Wants to achieve power and prestige. Authoritarian. Egocentric. Likes to have influence upon vast audience. Cares about his own benefits more than the others’. Hates objection. Demanding. Convinced about his own infallibility. Has capacities for leadership. Has constant conflicts at work unless others subordinate to him. Finds it difficult to separate work from private and family life. Knows how to make and invest money.
Has good taste, likes simplicity. Well educated and experienced.
Focused on pursuing one big religious / political / wiev-of-the-world idea.
Honest, sincere, straightforward. Lacks diplomatic abilities. Likes getting to know new people in casual social situations. Open-minded. Open towards the outside world, but feels the need to conceal his personality in order to be regarded as difficult to predict, mysterious, having a secret to hide. Feels underrated. Tries to bring himself into prominence to be regarded as greater than he really is.
Has inner strength and ability to cope with adversities.
Sensitive, gentle, easily hurt. Shy and thus seemingly arrogant in behaviour. Emotional. Has wild imagination and a variety of inner experiences. Pessimist. Careful.
Thinks a lot about existential and spiritual issues. Thinks a lot about carnal and sensual issues.
Has big sexual potential but cannot fully develop his sexuality, restrains instincts.
Sometimes acts against his conscience and his own standards, and feels bad about it.

I personally find it hillarious, so feel free to move it to joke of the day.

Brilliant!

i think it's interesting at the very least, thanks for this Emma.

itnAklipse wrote:i think it's interesting at the very least, thanks for this Emma.

Genau

Still wonder what a graphology expert would make of my handwriting

"Has big sexual potential but cannot fully develop his sexuality"

that'll be the coke

Normally I would be saying that graphology is pseudoscience at best (see Skeptic's dictionary on graphology) but this just fits too well!

markfiend wrote:Normally I would be saying that graphology is pseudoscience at best

So would I. But as I said the book is worn-out, and I must admit that a long time ago when I spent many entertaining evenings with it, I found a lot of truths in it, about people I actually know in person (including myself) .

Pseudoscience must be a devastating concept when one still believes in 'science', the new religion.

Just think what shady secrets would become revealed if I could see a sample of real handwriting (not just a printed fragment of a songtext), with the margins, layout, pressure and that kind of things!

markfiend wrote:Skeptic's dictionary

I find that site a bit too "skeptical" sometimes. I mean, they don't even believe in rumpology, for fucks sake.

Well, judging by Von's bottom clad in black leather I presume his personality must be fine and very interesting.

smiscandlon wrote:

markfiend wrote:Skeptic's dictionary

I find that site a bit too "skeptical" sometimes. I mean, they don't even believe in rumpology, for fucks sake.

Obviously a load of arse then.

smiscandlon wrote:

markfiend wrote:Skeptic's dictionary

I find that site a bit too "skeptical" sometimes.

I know what you mean; in general I try to be sceptical rather than credulous (keep an open mind, but not so open my brain falls out...) but being skeptical is going too far

smiscandlon wrote:I mean, they don't even believe in rumpology, for fucks sake.

Rumpology? That's a new one on me!

itnAklipse wrote:Pseudoscience must be a devastating concept when one still believes in 'science', the new religion.

When pseudoscience can bring us the Internet, and synthesizers, maybe then I'll stop believing in science.

Aye, indeed.

Anyway, I don't know whether it's really correct to say that one "believes in" science. One accepts the results of science (or rejects them...)

Science the new religion? Yeah that's right, the war in the Middle East is actually to do with the fight between string theorists and loop quantum gravity-ists.

"Oh, you believe religion trumps science? O.k., tell you what, next time you're on the highway and everyone else stops, don't hit your brakes, just pray."

markfiend wrote: loop quantum gravity-ists.

Shifty buggers them. Can't trust 'em you know. Attempting to reconcile the seemingly incompatible theories of quantum mechanics and general relativity?

That's devil talk!