Ship of Fools: Do you loathe most people?

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Posted by Silver Faux (# 8783) on :

This simple poll will help you to discern whether or not you loathe most people. For each of the four questions, choose one of the four possible answers; when completed, give yourself 1 point for choice 1, 2 points for choice 2, 3 points for choice 3, or deduct 4 points for choice 4.
If your total points are in negative territory, you probably loathe most people.

Posted by no_prophet (# 15560) on :

A wee bit obvious, and I had to answer arbitrarily between the wonderfuls.

Posted by QLib (# 43) on :

What is a polar bear swim, if it isn't swimming polar bears?

Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on :

[Killing me]

This is actually kinda great. I notice a lot of us lost our glowing love for humanity in specific cases of people blocking our way.

Posted by Sylvander (# 12857) on :

It keeps telling me I am not interesting enough to vote in this poll. Now THAT makes me loathe most people and especially all IT-people. Bah!

Posted by Marvin the Martian (# 4360) on :

I scored minus five. I have no problem with catholics or polar bears, but if one of them gets in my way I'll rip their spleen out through their nose.

Posted by Sir Pellinore (ret'd) (# 12163) on :

Poor Marvin. Always assuming you'll get first hit! [Snigger]

Posted by Bob Two-Owls (# 9680) on :

-16, I hate pretty much everybody unless I can keep them at arms length. Being an ex-Catholic I'm really not too fond of them at arms length either.

Posted by Boogie (# 13538) on :

Of course, I realised there was a score to late to see my score.

[Roll Eyes]

Posted by Silver Faux (# 8783) on :

Minus 9. I kind of like Catholics.

Posted by Amanda B. Reckondwythe (# 5521) on :

Rodgers and Hart must have had Miss Amanda in mind when they wrote:

She gets too hungry for dinner at eight.
She loves the theater, but never come late.
She can't be bothered with people she hates.
That's why the lady is a tramp.

Especially the third line.

And God help me if I **ever** turn into one of those little old ladies who can't master the concept of stepping out of the way when indulging in a confused fit of bumbling.

Posted by MSHB (# 9228) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Boogie:
Of course, I realised there was a score to late to see my score.

Oh. Was there a score?

Posted by Paddy O'Furniture (# 12953) on :

quote:
Originally posted by QLib:
What is a polar bear swim, if it isn't swimming polar bears?

You don't know? Really?

Posted by Niteowl2 (# 15841) on :

quote:
Originally posted by MSHB:

quote:
Originally posted by Boogie:
Of course, I realised there was a score to late to see my score.

Oh. Was there a score?

I'm another one who didn't see the score.

I do admit to being one of those people cussing in my car when people step out in front of my car when jaywalking or drive stupidly and almost involve me in an accident or actually do hit me (I've been hit 5 times, 4 by idiots running stop signs and one rear ender at a high rate of speed). Very seldom do I get that upset with people.

Posted by Boogie (# 13538) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Paddy O'Furniture:

quote:
Originally posted by QLib:
What is a polar bear swim, if it isn't swimming polar bears?
You don't know? Really?

I don't know either - really.

Posted by Niteowl2 (# 15841) on :

Too late for the edit, I calculated my score and it was still in the positive range.

Posted by Paddy O'Furniture (# 12953) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Bob Two-Owls:
-16, I hate pretty much everybody unless I can keep them at arms length. Being an ex-Catholic I'm really not too fond of them at arms length either.

I'm an ex-Catholic, as well. Run-of-the-mill Catholics I can handle a bit better than the militant ones... but worse for me is that one of my cousins is a very big deal in Opus Dei! He is a far-right wing Catholic, poor guy... I think he's really uncomfortable around me because I'm so obviously queer! [Biased]

Posted by Niteowl2 (# 15841) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Boogie:

quote:
Originally posted by Paddy O'Furniture:

quote:
Originally posted by QLib:
What is a polar bear swim, if it isn't swimming polar bears?
You don't know? Really?
I don't know either - really.

Going for a swim on New Year's in icy lakes or the ocean. Many are generally overweight and in thongs or string bikinis.

[ 17. July 2012, 14:31: Message edited by: Niteowl2 ]

Posted by Paddy O'Furniture (# 12953) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Boogie:

quote:
Originally posted by Paddy O'Furniture:

quote:
Originally posted by QLib:
What is a polar bear swim, if it isn't swimming polar bears?
You don't know? Really?
I don't know either - really.

For your edification:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polar_bear_swim

Posted by no_prophet (# 15560) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Niteowl2:

quote:
Originally posted by Boogie:

quote:
Originally posted by Paddy O'Furniture:

quote:
Originally posted by QLib:
What is a polar bear swim, if it isn't swimming polar bears?
You don't know? Really?
I don't know either - really.
Going for a swim on New Year's in icy lakes or the ocean. Many are generally overweight and in thongs or string bikinis.

It doesn't have to be on New Year's. Anytime you chop a hole in the ice and swim qualifies. It also qualifies if spring as arrived and the wind has blown the ice off shore so there's open water for you to jump in to. The media I think tried to turn it into a sponsored corporately advertised TV event, particularly in places where there is no tradition of swimming in icy lakes, and I loathe them. It is the northern equivalent of walking over hot coals.

Posted by Chorister (# 473) on :

I fear I already am the old lady bumbling around counting out her money....

Posted by leo (# 1458) on :

That's the problem with the questions - I fume inwardly and sometimes utter 'Oh for F's sake' outwardly at the checkout - but I know you so I'd either have warm feelings or curse you for making me feel guilty.

Posted by Sir Kevin (# 3492) on :

I got three: I am RC, but if I want to see a polar bear swim, I'll go to San Diego and visit the zoo! I don't wish to see obese lunatics at the local lake in the winter-time!

Posted by Paddy O'Furniture (# 12953) on :

quote:
Originally posted by leo:
That's the problem with the questions - I fume inwardly and sometimes utter 'Oh for F's sake' outwardly at the checkout - but I know you so I'd either have warm feelings or curse you for making me feel guilty.

The thing is, I'm always muttering under my breath at people who hold up the entire line... and then when it's me holding up the line... well, then it's another matter entirely! I feel the stares of hatred boring through the back of my head and hear the nasty comments which only make me fumble my change even more... oh dear, I AM a hypocrite! A stumbling, bumbling, disabled hypocrite... [Waterworks]

Posted by Boogie (# 13538) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Paddy O'Furniture:
I feel the stares of hatred boring through the back of my head and hear the nasty comments ....

It's another thread (sorry SF, don't be incensed) but how DO we feel this unexpressed hatred? I feel it when I do something stupid in the car. I can do exactly the same thing the next day (yes!) and I KNOW the feeling behind me is patience.

Odd.

Posted by Adeodatus (# 4992) on :

-4. I was mildly disappointed by the non-appearance of the word "wanker(s)!" in several of the choices.

Posted by Silver Faux (# 8783) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Sylvander:
It keeps telling me I am not interesting enough to vote in this poll. Now THAT makes me loathe most people and especially all IT-people. Bah!

That is a built-in feature of the poll; you must be signed in to vote, and must vote to read the results.
That way, no one (I hope) can vote more than once.
When I post a poll, I do things right!

Posted by Vulpior (# 12744) on :

-4, but I'm sure I'm more irritable than that. I can detest anyone.

Posted by North East Quine (# 13049) on :

Pond difference. What you call a polar bear swim, we call a Loony Dook.

Posted by Zappa (# 8433) on :

quote:
Originally posted by no_prophet:

quote:
Originally posted by Niteowl2:

quote:
Originally posted by Boogie:

quote:
Originally posted by Paddy O'Furniture:

quote:
Originally posted by QLib:
What is a polar bear swim, if it isn't swimming polar bears?
You don't know? Really?
I don't know either - really.
Going for a swim on New Year's in icy lakes or the ocean. Many are generally overweight and in thongs or string bikinis.
It doesn't have to be on New Year's. Anytime you chop a hole in the ice and swim qualifies.

It's more fun here ... you have to chop a hole in the crocodiles.

I voted with the masses, I note, and ended up negative.

Humanity sucks.
And also with you.

Posted by Spike (# 36) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Paddy O'Furniture:

quote:
Originally posted by Boogie:

quote:
Originally posted by Paddy O'Furniture:

quote:
Originally posted by QLib:
What is a polar bear swim, if it isn't swimming polar bears?
You don't know? Really?
I don't know either - really.
For your edification:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polar_bear_swim

I'm still none the wiser. Why, or more to the point how, would one of those be going on outside my window? I don't live near any water.

Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on :

A certain shipmate* once wrote a lengthy hell rant about a polar bear swim happening right outside his lakeside winter vacation rental. Several shipmates teased him for being an inhibited tightass.He defended his right to not have bare polar bear ass thrust upon him. Kenwritez famously threatened to come to his house and dance the dance of the seven veils on his lawn. Much hilarity was had. I believe the entry in the quiz was a winking reference to all that.

*I will let him do the honors on that one.

[ 18. July 2012, 22:27: Message edited by: Kelly Alves ]

Posted by AristonAstuanax (# 10894) on :

-9. Actually, a polar swim might be fun.
And really, the evil answers were more enjoyable than the happy ones, so of course I picked them.

Posted by Aggie (# 4385) on :

I don't think I loathe most people, certainly my score suggests that I don't. I can certainly tolerate elderly people holding up the check out queue or walking slowly, but younger people (especially big groups of teenagers spread out all over the pavement, dawdling along annoy me when I am stuck behind them)

What I loathe most is bad-manners, general boorish inconsiderate behaviour from others: people who play their music/television loud at night; people who push and shove their way onto busy public transport so they can get the last available seat, oblivious to everyone else; drivers who try to intimidate learner drivers by driving too close behind them or sounding their horn at them - the list is endless.

I also like my own personal space, and I cannot understand why some people seem to like sitting/being in really close proximity to strangers when they don't have to be - obviously certain situations are understandable, such as where a lone woman travelling at night on the train or waiting at a bus stop feels safer sitting or standing near a group of people rather than being in a carriage/deserted part of the street by herself ( I do this myself), or if seating in a certain place is limited or pre-booked.

However, when I was sitting on the beach on a recent holiday in Spain, a family came and plonked themselves right next to me, less than a couple of feet away, and yet there was a vast expanse of empty beach - why did they do that?? Once they'd put up their beach umbrella and put out all their chairs, I got up and moved away.
Likewise, at dinner in a fairly quiet restaurant with lots of empty tables, why do the next lot of people who come in straight after us sit at the next table to ours??

My gay best mate, and occasional holiday companion, is even less tolerant of strangers "invading" his personal space than I am, and finds such things really irritating; he has a hilarious way of "repelling" people, by suddenly exclaiming to me in his loudest, campest, Noel Coward-esque tones: "Wwwell my dear, he EJACULATED sooo violently, I thought it was going to hit the ceiling!!" Hilarious!!!

Posted by no_prophet (# 15560) on :

quote:
Originally posted by AristonAstuanax:
-9. Actually, a polar swim might be fun.
And really, the evil answers were more enjoyable than the happy ones, so of course I picked them.

Re polar bear swim and fun: if you like, er, your landing gear to retreat into your fuselage, so to speak, then immensely fun. Sort of reminds of why I like to hit myself in the head with a hammer: it feels so good when I stop.

Posted by Silver Faux (# 8783) on :

This poll is behaving differently from any other poll I have started here, and differently from how textbooks on polling suggest that that it should. On most polls, a clear trend emerges early, and tends to be maintained.
For example, if, out of 10 responders, 2 people chosse choice one, 2 choose choice 2, and 6 choose choice 3, that tends to be maintained; out of 50 responders, around 10 would choose choice 1, 10 would choose choice 2, and 30 would choose choice 3.

With this poll, the numbers vary pretty much at random as the number of responders increases, indicating perhaps that people are choosing an answer to achieve a positive or negative score, rather than answering with accuraracy as a main objective.
Fascinating! Also fun. As it should be, this being The Circus.

Posted by AristonAstuanax (# 10894) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Aggie:
I don't think I loathe most people . . .

. . . she said, before talking about all the kinds of people she loathed.

Hon, you've got the tiger avatar. You're supposed to loathe pretty much everyone.

Posted by saysay (# 6645) on :

Nope, sorry, the quiz sucks. I scored in the positives, and I loathe humanity (in the words of the immortal Erin: "I hate people - they suck festering mongoose balls. And I'm a classic extrovert." Except I'm not even an extrovert. Although I do miss Erin).

Posted by Fradgan (# 16455) on :

I tend to find something to like in most individuals, but I am repulsed by most crowds.

Posted by Aggie (# 4385) on :

quote:
Originally posted by AristonAstuanax:

quote:
Originally posted by Aggie:
I don't think I loathe most people . . .
. . . she said, before talking about all the kinds of people she loathed.

Hon, you've got the tiger avatar. You're supposed to loathe pretty much everyone.

That's not most people, only an irritating minority [Smile]

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