The liberal elites at the New York Times want to point out to you that you talk funny and have put together a quiz to help you sort out where your dialect comes from. Take the quiz and post your results. Continue reading
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There are two tests out there that can quantify the amount of millennial you possess. Both state that being millennial isn’t just about age — it’s more about how you see and interact with the world. So let’s give a looksee and determine whether or not you do things ironically, have a landline phone, or somehow believe the world revolves around cupcakes. We’re not kidding. Cupcakes are somehow now synonymous with the millennial generation. Who knew? Continue reading
“The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.” ~George F. Will, The Leveling Wind
“A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.” ~Harry Truman
I wrote about gratitude before Thanksgiving and it started me thinking about how differently each person can view the same situation. I am a half-full gal but I married a half-empty kind of guy. My lovable husband has moments of being just like Glum in Gulliver’s Travels, “Flirtatia, we’ll never make it!” Continue reading
Hello again Crasstalkers, lets look at results of our little quiz from yesterday.
Credit where it’s due: the quiz was taken from a book called Snoop by Professor Sam Gosling, an entertaining and informative study on what we can learn of people’s personalities through their offices, bedrooms, trash cans, cars, music collections, job interview behaviors, etc.; in many cases, what we think we can learn but actually can’t.
The quiz, seemingly about our knowledge of various celebrities, was not really about our knowledge of celebrities. You are not about to be shamed for knowing all about Apple Martin while knowing nothing of Hermann von Helmholtz.
I’ve come across an interesting psychological study involving your knowledge of various celebrities that I’d like to try out on the Crass Commentariat. The quiz is simple and will take you only a minute to answer. At the end of the post is a list of names. On a scale of 1 to 10, how much do you know about each individual on the list, where 1 is “never heard of them” and 10 is “know their life story”?