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peoplesuck

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when someone comes over and you think,"well i guess im not eating today".
critiquing is like seeing in color, you can't not do it.
L is your favorite death note character.
 

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... when at times your deadpan humour/sarcasm is too convincing.
... you seem to use terms "analogy" and "(not) mutually exclusive" more than an average person.
... you leave a way out in your sentences (well, maybe not all of them).
... when you get (slightly) irritated when you realize others didn't want to know your honest answer and would have preferred a simple lie.
... when one of the cool ways of being mean is answering the questions the people ask and not the ones they meant to ask.
... at the time before browsers did not have tabs, you had a lot of instances of the same browser running.
... you appreciate the subtle differences between synonyms.
... you question everything. Yes, even these two sentences.
 

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... when at times your deadpan humour/sarcasm is too convincing.

Another INTP friend and an ENTP friend of mine would get into these three-way e-mail communications some years back.

The other INTP and I would insult each other purposefully, to such a degree that we thought it was obvious we were kidding. We didn't even have to check, we knew the other person was obviously just playing.

unfortunately, the ENTP wouldn't read into that and we gatherered eventually he was taking us far too seriously, which unfortunately also filtered into some of our interactions with him. It did not go well.

I've noticed with other types, I've also had to be careful about what types of jokes I make when, and how "subtle" I can afford to be, so as to not be misconstrued.

... you question everything. Yes, even these two sentences.

Define "everything"?
 

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Another INTP friend and an ENTP friend of mine would get into these three-way e-mail communications some years back.

The other INTP and I would insult each other purposefully, to such a degree that we thought it was obvious we were kidding. We didn't even have to check, we knew the other person was obviously just playing.

Sounds familiar, I'm constantly misunderstood in that way
 

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being sarcastic and forgetting to sound sarcastic. Miss-communications todos los dias!
 

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After all these vaguely comical notes, I just had to register to post this:

-1: You often indulge in substance abuse, not to party or be happy, but to slow your head down to a level on which it can function the way society requires it to.
 

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When everything is so relative that everything has so many different meanings that you really cannot decide anything about it.

Hahaha love this

Nihilism, when you relate everything down to nothing
 

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When you're convinced that you know how to make the world a better place, yet you're still too lazy to try.

When you discover that people are actually as stupid as they seem, and its not an act.

When your reason for most of the world's problems is, "There are too many people."
 

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When you look at posts such as "you know you're an X when..." and begin to think about the sociological reasons behind people's need to feel a sort of "togetherness" by sharing various situations related to a single trait of said people, when in fact many of those traits apply to all people, and we are simply stating the minor social faux pas and mishaps we would normally hide from others. When you do this, but can still enjoy reading all the things INTPs do as your mind also reels upon all the side-implications of this sociological ritual.
 

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When the forum you visit has a subforum for relationships named "human relationships"

Sent from my LG-LS980 using Tapatalk
 

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-You read every fantasy book you can find to compare the systems of magic in each book in order to figure out how magic actually works

-You forget your next point while writing your first point.

-Someone asks you to make a decision and you ask for details as a way of stalling only to ignore what they say and make a split second decision anyways.

-You wonder what number this thread is up to, but you are too lazy to go through every post and count.

-You notice a grammar mistake immediately after you post this and immediately edit it.
 

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When somebody in a senior position (be it at school, at work, at home) asks you to do something and your initial thought isn't "ok" but "Who does this person think he/she is?!?l Why do I need to do this??? Do I know a better way of doing it?".

When you find an excuse to go for a walk on your own (out with the dogs) and you see somebody else who wants to be friendly and talk. How dare they. Why are they even here? Why couldn't they have walked somewhere else?

When you read a statement and can counter said statement with eloquent prose. Someone then verbally makes the statement and you can't remember your argument nor can you bring yourself to counter the statement incase the person looks at you.

This is the only forum that you're not banned from.

When somebody causes a minor inconvenience to you whilst driving. HOW ON EARTH DID YOU PASS YOUR TEST? WHY CAN'T YOU CONCENTRATE ON THE ROAD. I HOPE YOU HAVE A CRASH.

When somebody sees you approaching in your car and still tries to cross the road. DO CARS BOUNCE OFF YOU? ARE YOU REALLY THAT MUCH OF A MORON?!?!?!?

* Anything written in capitals in muttered under your breathe to avoid any potential confrontation.
 

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One of the only reasons you have yet to kill yourself just to know what the afterlife is like is because you still have hope that immortality will be discovered in your lifetime.
 

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Your habit of randomly Googling stuff you're curious about lands you on every government watch list ever.
 

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When you have overthought a situation so much, you have convinced yourself an opposing argument is true. Then, instead of being satisfied, you overthink the thoroughly chewed morsel again, doing hours of research, until you reach a conclusion completely different than any original postulations. The issue finally comes to a close when you follow a link referencing a minor detail from a movie you always meant to see, so you decide to just go ahead and watch that movie.

(I know feelings on this next one might be mixed, but I am throwing it out there because it is how I feel and am curious if you guys feel the same)
You don't like to smoke weed because, instead of relaxing you. it makes the world seem more frantic. Iinstead of giving you silly carefree stoner thoughts, it makes the regular ones spin so fast you can't catch them any more. Afterwards, you turn into an exhausted, slumped over mess who feel like they just ran a marathon.

As much as you always think and say you can use a break from your own head, you have found you actually *like* how it is always active and spinning, and *prefer* to keep your head clear from drugs that bring it down.

You type something and delete it because you realize it sounded like something crazy a person who was drunk or on drugs might say, except you are dead sober.

Instead of taking a pain pill for random mild to moderate pains, you ponder and study it.

You edit a post two times after rereading it, even though you proofread it multiple times before. You fix the minor grammar snafu, as well as acknowledge the unrelated statements you made in your post seem like they are connected, but they really aren't and it was unintentional. But you still feel the need to acknowledge that you caught it too. :)
 

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- When you truly feel accomplished when you speak up in a large group for more than a few minutes.

- You have a great speaking voice...but you never use it.

- You learn to sing or play an instrument but you have no desire to play it for anyone else.

- Every part of you is seeking the design for the "Life PAUSE" button!

- Money would buy happiness...because then you wouldn't have to work with all those coworkers and clients.

- You have at least 3 monitors...displaying at least 3 instances of Wikipedia and/or Dictionary.com simultaneously.

- You own at least 1 musical instrument that you can't play.

- You can find everything in your organized chaos until your housemate moves something of yours...Now you don't know where ANYTHING is and you're in a fit of rage.

- You eat the same thing most days just to avoid making a pointless decision.
 

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- When you are eating a double pounder cheese burger with sauce dripping from your mouth in one hand and wanking off in the other while looking at a fine pair of biggums on the side walk as you sit in your truck.

- When you say hurrah every time you see an injun/arab/homosexual/ etceteraw eteceteraw.

- You like to sing out of tune and really badly johnny rebel songs about the good ol' days.

- When you prefer to klan to the clan.

-When your farts smell so foul that not even satan himself could have made such a disgusting smell yet you love it.

- when your penis is all small and button like but it still works just fine

- you hate geeks and other nancy boys with their girly talk like the post above

Yes, sir you know you are an intp then.
 

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Also to just add some from ma granpaw's list , old Willya Huck , and this one for sure makes you intp

-When you remember the sweet moment you lost your virginity on that cold wind swept march morn to the back end of an old mountain goat. Then you are an intp.
 

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-A random conversation between you and your friend leads you to look up the Wikipedia article on rhinoceroses when the conversation only contained rhinoceroses in a metaphorical context.
-You have conversations that contain rhinoceroses in a metaphorical context.
-When you find Captain's posts above not only personally insulting, but also grounds to lose faith in humanity.
-You regularly make halfhearted attempts at using psychic powers/magic/the Force because you feel like your mind is powerful enough to manipulate reality without relying on your body.
 

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when you're about to give the compliment: "one could plot only your frontal cheek/jaw silhouette in a coordinate system and it would still be sexy"
 

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you dislike the fact that people stopped counting after the first two pages of this thread.

you momentarily doubt if you should read the whole thread before posting so you don't write something that has already been posted.
 

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- You debate with your ENTP boss every day and still think he's a great friend and a father figure.

- You're already analyzing your 2 year old child's personality to determine their type, even though the results will always be inconclusive

- You can't help yourself when something is incorrect, so you go try to find someone to explain the incorrectness to, and they don't care, they thought that motivational poster was funny.
 

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When you have to consciously force yourself to understand that when your significant other says "I don't know" they do not mean: I haven't interpreted sufficient data on the subject to feel comfortable offering even an opinion with any certainty. They mean: I do not know and I am okay with that.
 

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948233958719458935. When part of you strongly wants to contribute to this thread and another equally strong part of you just doesn't give a shit.

(irresistable force vs. immovable object)

I often write posts, and then in the end I decline posting it anyway just because of that. I don't profile myself as an INTP though.

Here is what I was considering to post: When you think (and act like) to be the smartest person in the room.
 

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When you are almost always the first to get out from a workshop/seminar/group meeting/class/etc.


HsinHsin
 

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-When you carry a notebook everywhere containing every small idea of yours.
-When a debate with a friend makes you look up articles corresponding to the topic of the debate, which makes you look up even more articles until you're fully distracted.
-^^^ using formal words instead of conversational speech just for the fun of it.
-Not caring about your/others' feelings.
 

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...you create an account just for this.

I have some good ones:

In school:

In the phase before an exam when everyone else panics you and your best buddy threw with pens and made really bad jokes and couldn't stop laughing while everyone else had a book in their face and tried to last-minute study.

You don't understand the concept of trying to appeal to an adult who obviously knows less than you.

You didn't know the answers to the easiest questions in every exam, but you were the only who could answer the most difficult ones. (You actually take pride in not knowing the easy ones)

You didn't chose your classes by your interests, but by the likelyhood of passing without studying at all.

You were the first to finish a difficult task in class and the teacher wanted you to explain it in front of the class and you saw it as a punishment.

You stopped doing homework in 3rd class.

The teachers just accepted that you are always late.

"Religious class" is just another expression for "endless discussion with stupid shithead"

You questioned why girls have more time to finish a 100m sprint than guys but stupid people didn't get easier tasks in math.

You always sat in the last row but after 10 minutes you had to sit in the front row.

(For foreign speakers) You didn't learn any english in class, you translated yu-gi-oh/magic cards in 3rd grade, played pc games in english and generally spent all your free time reading english wikipedia articles because they are better than those in your language.

You started smoking/drinking way to early but it didn't influence your grades whatsoever.

You didn't know most of the names of the people sitting in the same room as you.

You didn't know the names of the characters in your english book.

Most of the guys you hung out with were stupid, but atleast they weren't boring.

You hacked yourself into having administration rights on your school pc's.

Teachers interpreted your sarcasm as stupidity.

You actually tried to leave the room when the teacher said "You can go if you're not interested".

When your parents asked you about your latest exam you had already lost it.

When you got your school report you forgot it in school.

You never had a timetable and you just followed the other guys to know where your next class is.

You played pokemon on your calculator.

You looked for 30min straight out of the window without moving or listening at all.

You build various construction (including catapults) with borrowed pens because you broke every pen your mom ever bought you before losing it.

You underlined without using a ruler.

Nobody but yourself could read your handwriting, but you could read every handwriting imaginable.

You did take notes, but you didn't take notes about anything the teacher said (except it was wrong or stupid).

You never read a book you had to read in school.

When you had 4 hours to write an essay you wrote exactly 1 1/2 sites.

You fell of your chair regularly.

Outside of school:

You almost died atleast 10 times but you didn't realize until a couple days after it happened.


You drive like a complete maniac.

(outside of usa where you only have petrol afaik:kodama1:) you put the wrong fuel in your car atleast once.

After heavy drinking you walk 2 hours home without exactly knowing where you are, because ... I don't really know why.

You don't dance.

When you enter your car you sit there for 20 minutes thinking about stuff.

You will never bother buying a new car as long as yours is still moving.

You question the arrangement of stuff in the supermarket.

You don't ask for directions.

You purposely drive into nowhere.

cats > dogs

You know a couple of phrases in 10 different languages.

You sometimes notice new stuff in your home eventhough it was there for 20 years and you lived there for 20 years.

You dont know the current date and you dont know what day it is.

90% of your stuff doesn't serve any purpose.

You have one pair of shoes 2 jeans and 500 t-shirts nobody else would want to wear in public.

Your day isn't 24 hours long, it varies between 70 and 2.

You enjoy exploiting the rules of games more than actually playing them.

You lie down in the shower.

Shitting involves 2 hours of doing nothing.

By the age of 20 you have visited the hospital 245 times because you constantly fall, walk into things or use the force to make heavy stuff fall on you.

You occasionally don't leave your room for 2 weeks.

You don't answer calls: You look at the phone and wait for it to stop ringing.

You love burning things.

You weren't aware that you could feel sad for the first 15 years of your life.

You actually have fun posting an endless list about things nobody should care about.
 

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After all these vaguely comical notes, I just had to register to post this:

-1: You often indulge in substance abuse, not to party or be happy, but to slow your head down to a level on which it can function the way society requires it to.

thats add
 

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You know you're an Intp when... you don't know if your an INTP but you have too many suspicions.
 

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Wtf. I re-took the test yest and now im INTJ. should i be happy or should i retake?!

Bad dreams are made of me.
 

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^ yeah, you're smiling in your avatar. Not very INTP I must say. You'll have to hand over your INTP card please. Resist and I'll be forced to use a mandated amount of extreme excessive force. Resistance is futile; you will be strictly categorized.
 

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You know your INTP when you can't get entertained, but you can still get it up.
 

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"... you leave a way out in your sentences (well, maybe not all of them)."

I appreciate this.
 

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... when you don't remember what colour your hair/beard is.

I do not dye hair and they stay the same colour, a question just caught me unawares. I knew it was either black or brown, just not sure witch one exactly.


... when you get stared at for doing or saying something that you thought is common knowledge and/or obvious. Even better/worse if they think you are joking when you are dead serious.

I was over at an acquaintance's house and he mentioned that his "piece of shit" headphones broke completely (for some time before that, only one earphone emitted sound). After some questioning, I suggested I would fix them and asked for scissors or knife and some matches or a lighter. He and his sister just started laughing like I just said something hilarious. After my assurance that I was not kidding, I fixed the broken wires in around five minutes. The cord was a little shorter and not as seamless, but the headphones worked.
So I am all happy with myself and go "now you will be able to fix them yourself" and he responded with "Nope, I haven't got a clue how you did this voodoo shit". In half a second I went from somewhat happy straight to disappointed. Two of the voices in my head were right- I should have never picked up the phone. Fuck democracy.
 

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you make mental notes to do things, but as soon as you get a chance to do it, you already become focused on something else and forget,
 

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Closing the browser windows you've accumulated over three days of attempting to solve a problem feels like murdering a distant relative. Okay, just a relative.
 

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You can't do or think of anything practical, even when you try....

When guests stay overnight with us, we secretly put our sheets on the guest bed (yes, we wash them first) because we only have one set. But one day, I noticed that the store was selling nice sheets for $20 a set and so I bought two! I was so very proud of myself for taking that kind of domestic initiative. I bought two Queen size sets. I thought we had Queen sized beds. We don't. They're only Full sized. And right now, three months later, it occurs to me that I could have just returned them for the right size rather than just using them "as is". I recall thinking, "It's okay, we'll grow into them".
 

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When you're convinced that you know how to make the world a better place, yet you're still too lazy to try.

When you discover that people are actually as stupid as they seem, and its not an act.

When your reason for most of the world's problems is, "There are too many people."

Too many stupid people.
 

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when constructing cute sounding "cool" phrases feels like hover skating on a laser plane
 
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