finally back

[Scurra]

wouldnt shooting him with the tank be better

Well yes, but apparently only Mrs Snail is qualified to drive a tank and she isn't here. (I hope!)

[Bunnylump]

Ann.. where are you? You're needed!!

[Wulfruna]

being pisces people and all

Me too.... perhaps we should have a pisces party for everybody in March? We could invite all those pretty fish to join us?
Hello Suec, by the way

[SparkOut]

Pisces people start in February too though.

[Wulfruna]

Yes indeed...... PARTY TIME!!!

[gill216]

Add me to the Pisces list

[Bunnylump]

Another one who's:

"Imaginative and sensitive
Compassionate and kind
Selfless and unworldly
Intuitive and sympathetic"

then?

Scurra, please note.

[Scurra]

How come there's nothing bad in there?

Here's my precisely calibrated personality reading for Pisces people.

You have a need for other people to like and admire you, and yet you tend to be critical of yourself. While you have some personality weaknesses you are generally able to compensate for them. You have considerable unused capacity that you have not turned to your advantage. Disciplined and self-controlled on the outside, you tend to be worrisome and insecure on the inside. At times you have serious doubts as to whether you have made the right decision or done the right thing. You prefer a certain amount of change and variety and become dissatisfied when hemmed in by restrictions and limitations. You also pride yourself as an independent thinker; and do not accept others' statements without satisfactory proof. But you have found it unwise to be too frank in revealing yourself to others. At times you are extroverted, affable, and sociable, while at other times you are introverted, wary, and reserved. Some of your aspirations tend to be rather unrealistic.

What do you think? Uncanny, huh?

[SparkOut]

What's the actual source of that tract there, Scurra? PMwise will be fine.

[Bunnylump]

Well I wasn't about to let on that we had any bad bits, was I?


Anyway

Disciplined and self-controlled on the outside,

is about as far from a description of me as is possible to get!
but

At times you have serious doubts as to whether you have made the right decision or done the right thing.

Like ever starting to try to solve a certain someone's puzzles on DVP a year or so ago?
and as for

But you have found it unwise to be too frank in revealing yourself to others.

All I can say about that is SNORT. Hands up all those who know just about all my life history / family connections / likes / dislikes etc. etc.? (Whether you wanted to or not, I may add...before Scurra does.)

[Scurra]

What's the actual source of that tract there, Scurra?

It was the first version of the Forer Effect paragraph I ever came across (years ago), although I understand that it isn't quite the same as the original. From that article:

In 1948, psychologist Bertram R. Forer gave a personality test to his students. Afterward, he told his students they were each receiving a unique personality analysis that was based on the test's results and to rate their analysis on a scale of 0 (very poor) to 5 (excellent) on how well it applied to themselves. In reality, each received the same analysis:
On average, the rating was 4.26, but only after the ratings were turned in was it revealed that each student had received identical copies.

It is very much more effective if the person receiving it thinks it was written especially for them. But it's a brilliant piece of construction, regardless of that.

[SparkOut]

Aha! I was trying to twig what the background was. (Now you've gone and blown the cover - it could have been a brilliant setup!)

[Scurra]

Ooops

I love the way the real experts (like Derren Brown) can do "cold reading" so naturally that it utterly convinces you that they are using some sort of psychic ability to read your mind. (Of course, when those cold readers claim to actually be using psychic abilities... hmmm.)

[Bunnylump]

Ha! See - I would've spoiled his results. I wouldn't have recognised that as being a description of me! But then I am indescribable...

[Scurra]

Oh no, you fall into the other category - the ones who "doth protest too much" that it doesn't resemble them in the slightest...

[Wulfruna]

Oh no, you fall into the other category - the ones who "doth protest too much" that it doesn't resemble them in the slightest...

....like your Piscean mother....