You know you're an Intp when...

[digital angel]

When you're response is "no" when someone knocks on the door and asks "are you in there??"

LOL.

 

[chrystalline]

Agreed.

You open the cupboard and see the butter you were looking for earlier in the fridge.

Hahahahahahaha! I usually put my cereal back in the fridge and the milk in the cupboard! That's awesome!

 

[Meer]

Watching a hockey game fills you with existential anxiety.

 

[pjoa09]

The day of XXXJs.

EDIT: There should be Perception Day.

LOL

I always wonder why the church perceives Judgement Day a day of hellish destruction and chaos.

If it by any chance it did happen it should happen in a very organized manner.

Like how Hitler dealt with Jews in his neighborhood except on a proper worldwide scale with intense accuracy.

Judging from God's performance so far, he can't organize one. Really he isn't doing any sort of population control or has helped us avoid recessions. He doesn't even bother to avoid nuclear radiation leaks. Maybe god is an INTP. He sits by himself meticulously panning for events and never employs them.

I got a source on wiki for Rapture day being after 2060. Newton predicted it from the bible. I guess he did it for fun.

On a more serious note, everyday is perception day. Except, natural disasters they are never indecisive but sure as fuck are random.

 

[GYX_Kid]

The day of XXXJs.

EDIT: There should be Perception Day.

Perception day is when god looks at earth for what it really is, and kills himself

happens on may 11, 3967
7-eleven stores replace numbers the year after
afterworks become firewords and liverwood fireworst
eats babies


On topic: when that shit ^ gets posted

 

[Particle]

I think many of us are prone to slight obsessive compulsive behaviors. Here is one of mine.

 

[MissQuote]

I am not sure if there is a conversation I should take note of and acknowlege here.

 

[scorpiomover]

We have a movie over her called "Idiocracy" you should check it out. Sometimes I think we're heading that way

It's been on late night. I found it so funny the furst time, that when I've ended up watching it again. Absolutely hilarious. I'm so pleased at least one other person on Earth has seen it, and, hopefully, enjoyed it.

FYI, I seem to recall reading that the same plot is being used for another book and another film. Mind you, with a few tweaks, it's not that far off from Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, another fave of mine.

But yes, things certainly look like that is the way things will end up.

 

[scorpiomover]

Before I posted, I started reading this thread, and found it immensely funny. After page 4, I just decided to post anyway.

Suffice to say, that well over 75% of the things here, I have thought, or done, including the bookmarks. I'm up to almost 5Mb, just in Firefox over the last 6 months alone.

In one way, it's eerie, how much of this thread applies to me.

But in another way, it's very comforting, to know that there is someone else like me on this planet. Who knows? Maybe I'm not the only extra-terrestrial on this damn rock.

 

[natg989]

You spend a Saturday in cozy pajama pants only to realize on Sunday that they're on backwards.

 

[anticroquet]

-When you get off of the elevator and walk to your living arrangement... only to realize that you're on the wrong floor.

I did this today. I've done it before. I'll do it again.

 

[Dr. Freeman]

-When you realize the first thing you would do with a time machine is use it to win arguements you were involved in, or at least point out some logical flaw you missed. (Rare, but it does happen)

 

[No One]

•When this is your first time ever posting on a forum
•You found out you're a INTP over a month ago and you haven't left this forum and been lurking the intire time
•You are willing to read this thread on your phone while waiting in the main office of your high school
•You are currently posting this at a friends party on your phone
•You are also frustrated that you can't remember any of the other things you wanted to, that you thought of over the past month
and hi everyone.

 

[anna]

- You will get bored of any job.
- You sometimes walk into doors.
- You can't grasp why anyone would want to wear high heeled shoes.
- You can remember all you friend's phone numbers but you never call first.
- You have spent time hiding in a toilet cubicle to avoid having to make small talk.
- You are reading at least 4 books, on 4 different topics, at the same time.
- You have at least 5 projects brewing in your head - none of which will be completed.
- You have never understood why anyone would study for days/weeks before an exam.
- You often avoid traffic accidents because you anticipate the other drivers' mistakes.
- You're always the last one to cop on that someone is in love with you/gay/on drugs/all three.
- You are better at English 2nd language spelling and grammar than most native speakers.
- You often spend more time logically organising a paper/letter/report/forum post, than it took to actually write the contents.


I doubted the results of my MBTI test until I read this thread - thanks a lot everyone!

 

[Bezaliel]

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 read up to this one and it all made sense.

 

[smithcommajohn]

you have like 10 browser windows open on different topics that you're kind of reading over in small snippets until you get bored and move to another one.

 

[Froyo]

people accuse you of not being interested in others and you're totally surprised.

 

[intpz]

It's good to know that I'm not alone on this ball of rocks, water and earthling trash. Many of these posts are funny, and however funny they might be - they still apply to me, almost all of them.
Good thread!

 

[Vecho]

You solved the labyrinth...

Didn't ya?

 

[digital angel]

This is an excellent thread. It's a great reminder of how funny we are and that we really are human...well, perhaps we're robots, too.

 

[GYX_Kid]

Spoiler

You solved the labyrinth...

Didn't ya?

ahaha

i need to get one of those!

 

[addictedartist]

when you know exactly what people think of you the instant they think no matter the difference in space

 

[Nath]

Read all the 1472 posts before registering and posting.


I know/think I'm intp because :

- I check the weather forecast several times a day, even and mainly when I 'know' (can never be sure) I'm gonna stay inside all day (especially when the weather is hot and sunny, and when they're hot chicks (2 or 3 exposing their boobs) tanning/toasting at the swimming pool, which is visible from the balcony (we've got a swimming pool for the block of flats). In fact I do sometimes go the swimming pool :
-when every one left due to thunderstorm rain (by the way I think it's one of the best moment to go there (just after the rain) : air temperature got down to an acceptable level, but the water is still hot enough, and above all : I'm alone)
-when there is this chick I suspect to be 4 times more smart than the other bitches.
-sometimes I plan to go there because of the preceding condition, but I decide finishing reading/procrastinate/whatever and forget about swimming.

- I discussed more than 1 hour with the girl ... in my head. But I don't even know her name (hardly exchanged more than 5 words with her, which in fact is quite a lot for me in that kind of situation)

- By the way it takes me between 5 and 30 minutes to check the weather on internet, I don't use classic information (with a tiny sunny or cloudy icon which is supposed to tell you the weather for half a day) to do so. Instead I prefer detailled graphics like theses http://www.vigilance-meteo.fr/fr/europe/france/temps-toulouse-blagnac/details/S076300/ and when I want to have even more precise forecast I use aeronautical forecast which look like these :
LFBO TOULOUSE-BLAGNAC
METAR: LFBO 221104Z 30009KT 270V330 9999 BKN017 BKN021 20/16 Q1020 TEMPO 4000 -DZ BKN006=
TAF LONG: LFBO 221100Z 2212/2318 30010KT 9999 SCT020 BKN035 PROB40 2212/2214 5000 -DZ BKN005 BKN012 BECMG 2214/2216 BKN035 PROB40 2302/2306 BKN012 BECMG 2312/2314 CAVOK=
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/METAR in case you want to understand

-Is it necessary to tell that I sometimes find myself reading things about physics, thermodynamics just because I checked the weather forecast and wonder for instance "how much power is there in thunder ?" ? <- I like the end of this sentence with 3 punctuation signs, but it lacks symetry '? " ?' or '?"?' would have been prettier but incorrect.

- I started learning German a few months ago just because I found 'new' (new for me) techniques of learning (some of which are Pimsleur and Michel Thomas) that I wanted to try. The hard part is to force myself to continue this learning regularly because I don't really need to speak German (but it may be useful later, I can't be sure).

- Most of the time I am very succinct when I talk to anyone (except for example when debating), but in my mind it's the contrary. Writing is difficult because I'm supposed to focus, choose words, and above all because my writing/typing speed is far slower than my mind (this is very annoying, someone should design something to plug the brain to the computer, maybe an INTP had already done so but is too lazy to build it (problem : it may crash the computer)).

- Read it elsewhere and do it too : stop in the middle of a sentence because I can't get back in mind the exact word I want, or sometimes after 15 to 30 minutes I can interrupt a friend speaking : "The word I was looking for was "blabla"". That's the kind of moment when people can think we don't care what they were saying (which also happens a lot !), only close friends understand (well, in fact they say they understand but are anyway in doubt).

- I stopped watching the news and disabled the widgets news on my startpage because I think it's too stupid and meant to distract us from the real important happening things such as economic disaster and creating a police state. By the way there is more than a year since I hadn't a television set at home.

I'd really like to apologise for the mistakes of English (I'm French and know it's annoying) and will receive any correction/critic with great interest (even small ones such as "this phrasing is grammaticaly correct but..."). I think this last sentence is useless as INTPs may not bother to correct even if irritated by mistakes.

 

[xbox]

people accuse you of not being interested in others and you're totally surprised.

Hahaha that's hilarious. I can relate. LOL

 

[xbox]

You solved the labyrinth...

Didn't ya?

I did, I just had to...

 

[xbox]

- You have spent time hiding in a toilet cubicle to avoid having to make small talk.

Oh wow lol. In middle school I spent many lunch times hiding in toilet cubicles, I hated being around those stupid preppy kids.

- You are reading at least 4 books, on 4 different topics, at the same time.
- You have at least 5 projects brewing in your head - none of which will be completed.

Yes yes yes. 7 books from the library, including 28 tabs. So much to read.

- You have never understood why anyone would study for days/weeks before an exam.

It just makes so much sense

- You can remember all you friend's phone numbers but you never call first.

Haha!! I never even took the time to insert the names into my phone, I know who called from just looking at the numbers too!!

And if I ever walked into doors or a wall, it was because I was reading while walking.

 

[Sixth_Fenrir]

- When you nearly kill your laptop's battery reading this forum because you didn't realize it was unplugged until page 13.

 

[Ex-User (4771)]

You have 10 internet tabs open about 3 different subjects, ie my browser right now

 

[humblecheesecake]

8,691) Your friend tells you something that requires intuited context while you are clearly not paying attention to even the words themselves, so you say, "What?" at the exact time you are saying this monosyllabic word, the sounds you've just heard shape into words and the context is filled almost instantly, and when your friend repeats himself, you appear to not be listening, but rushing to cut him off with an "uh huh" or "okay." (You do this because you think you are making up for your obliviousness.)

^Or am I the only one?

8,692) The seemingly random numbers you use may very well be significant to you and only you.

 

[humblecheesecake]

Oh and hi. This thread/forum fucking rules.

I too line up my tater tots, fish sticks, etc. How you gon' not line them shits up?

 

[humblecheesecake]

8,693) You're a robot, yet ironically, you're unreliable.

Gah, I told my friend I'd drive him to the airport, but then last night, got lost in analyzing MBTI, causing me to sleep late. fml.

 

[humblecheesecake]

Last one, I swear.

8,694) The only time you might ever reuse a glass is when you are holding the drink's container, provided you don't forget that it's in your hand. Or when making a concentrated effort to drink quickly at the fridge and to remember that you're standing in front of a fridge.

 

[Cheeseumpuffs]

117. You hate giving advice and you try to make that known to others but people still ask you about all of their little problems,
118. You end a relationship by simply ignoring your partner.
119. You analyze everything and when you realize that you are analyzing something irrelevant, you begin analyzing your reasons behind analyzing something irrelevant.
120. You dream about living in a house alone where you can't be bothered by people/the government and don't have to pay taxes to support a useless institution.
121. You seriously doubt that the count is right. Seriously, how does it go from 66 to 631 and finally to 99???? Ridiculous!

Edit: You read the first page and failed to realize that there were 29 others..............

 

[Cheeseumpuffs]

When trying to describe yourself as "not a people person" you have said "not a person" and didn't correct yourself.

 

[Meer]

You solved the labyrinth...

Didn't ya?

I went back to solve it and see if there was an alternate route.

 

[scorpiomover]

-When you realize the first thing you would do with a time machine is use it to win arguements you were involved in, or at least point out some logical flaw you missed. (Rare, but it does happen)

Yeah, yeah. I'm sure that everyone has considered building a time machine, just to settle the argument about if Jesus really did all those miracles, and to prove that dinosaurs really did exist on the Earth millions of years ago. Would make life a LOT easier if we could end all these arguments about what actually happened in the past.

- You will get bored of any job.

I discovered a cure for that. Do a job, where your boss likes keeping people on the hop, by always giving you things to do that you've never seen before, and even when he doesn give you something that you've done before, somehow, it always seems to have at least one peculiarity that means you have to solve a problem that you've never seen before, just to complete it.

- You sometimes walk into doors.

Only SOME times?

- You can't grasp why anyone would want to wear high heeled shoes.

I'm a guy. I still don't understand why anyone would not want to wear orthopaedic shoes. You need your feet for walking on, and you'll probably live to 80+. So you're going to need them a loooong time.

- You have spent time hiding in a toilet cubicle to avoid having to make small talk.

It's also great for hiding from your family, at parties, and all sorts of situations. Plus, it's the one quiet place where you can read without someone flipping your book, or asking you what you are reading.

- You are reading at least 4 books, on 4 different topics, at the same time.

I try to keep it down to 4. But it's usually about 20.

- You have at least 5 projects brewing in your head - none of which will be completed.

I don't even bother now. I just write down my ideas, and hope that I will get round to them. I would hate to list them all out. Probably run to about 5,000.

OR, you try an impossible project, just for fun. You finally prove the impossible. But then you realise that its publication would probably mean the end of the free world.

- You have never understood why anyone would study for days/weeks before an exam.

That, I understand, especially if it's a difficult subject, and you want to do really, really well in it.

you have like 10 browser windows open on different topics that you're kind of reading over in small snippets until you get bored and move to another one.

Usually about 30 in my case. Then I bookmark them all for the day, mark the folder with today's date, and the site, and then store them in my catalogue of folders of previous posts. At one time, I had 28Mb of bookmarks.

Had to move the browser. So I backed them up. I intended to reload them. Not got around to it, yet.

 

[Dr. Freeman]

"Yeah, yeah. I'm sure that everyone has considered building a time machine, just to settle the argument about if Jesus really did all those miracles, and to prove that dinosaurs really did exist on the Earth millions of years ago. Would make life a LOT easier if we could end all these arguments about what actually happened in the past."

I was actually saying that I would like to go back in time to when I was younger and point out to my younger self where I overlooked an otherwise damning detail of my opponent's arguements.

 

[Jelly Rev]

Quote:
Originally Posted by BoredRestless

When you were aware that Santa Claus was a load of BS by the time you learned how to walk and caught your parents stuffing presents underneath the tree.

and you were kind of happy about finding out the truth instead sad because santa was a lie

WE figured out santa wasnt real at this age because we reasoned that it was nearly impossible for santa to get to all of the good children of the world presents at that speed and still be able to drink his cookies and milk.

 

[xbox]

You go great lengths to avoid certain parties like pretending to be sick by inhaling dust and sneezing the rest of the day. If you dont mind going to the party, you actually go.. and not go through with the painful inhaling dust procedure.

You've had childhood arguments with children about the existence of santa.

You can be so fake sometimes in social situations, but it comes across as realness, that other fake people are actually impressed at your wisdom.

You're relatives children ages 2-6 visit you and as much as you hate them, they're somehow REALLY intrigued by you and follow you around asking you questions, and once again you lock yourself in the bathroom to avoid them and vow never to have kids. (kinda in this situation right now )

You are afraid to look into the eyes of Michele Bachmann, even when she's on TV, because she's an evil ESFJ robot that eats your soul when you glance into those dead, dead eyes. LOOK AWAY

As a kid, you've tried to get your parents to buy you a pet chicken.

 

[GYX_Kid]

You perceive your own judgement, stronger than your judgement judges

There's at least one area of intelligence in which you could replicate something relatively complex, verbatim (ex. in a drawing, the dialogue in a movie, a string of symbols/numbers, etc.)

Proving someone or something wrong is more attractive than proving yourself right

The closer to needle-thin precision, the closer to truth- even when trying to be "perfectly" apathetic

Your own social association patterns existed before you learned mainstream ones

 

[xbox]

You talk to kids as if you're talking to an adult because you just never dumb down the words and tone of your voice in general. And people think you would make a good parent.

Then you shudder at the thought of that.

 

[Peeps999]

You walk from room A to room B. While walking between the rooms you stub your toe on a stool. You decide to go from room B to room A and stub your toe on the stool again. Yet again you leave room A to go to room B and stub your toe for the third and final time within a 30 minute period.

Your ESFP girlfriend just broke up with you because she asked if you thought she was smart. You reply in the most tactful way possible, "No.".

 

[xbox]

People are either repulsed by you, or tell you "I feel I could open up to you".

 

[The Frood]

You solved the labyrinth...

Didn't ya?

...When you know the difference between a labyrinth and a maze....

It's a maze guys. Labyrinths have only one path that doesn't branch out. But yes, I did solve it lol.

...When you draw insanely complex mazes for fun.

 

[cranberryplains]

When you browse one at least one of the following sites daily:
TV Tropes
Cracked
and That Guy With the Glasses

When you pity your fellow classmates who don't know:
What Ontario and Quebec are
The Location of Poland
About the Swedish Colonization of Delaware
Who Adolf Hitler was, and why he was a horrible person
(They are all true stories. The person who didn't know about Adolf Hitler, believed that there was no possible was he could be bigoted because he was born in the 1890's. This person was thirteen years old at the time).

 

[xbox]

you start reading a paper when its placed upside down or sideways in front of you. Then 5 minutes later you realize what you're doing then face it towards you.

you painfully talk your way out of watching romance movies with friends. especially movies with robert pattinson.

you're really OCD about atleast 1 thing.

 

[EyeSeeCold]

You talk to kids as if you're talking to an adult because you just never dumb down the words and tone of your voice in general. And people think you would make a good parent.

Then you shudder at the thought of that.

Yes haha. The 'equal terms' thing is a double edged sword though.

 

[Sijov]

You've read all 1497 of these posts over the last two days.

Discovering the INTP profile led you to a frenzy of other research about exactly how well the INTP label fits.

You're disappointed that the thread hasn't gotten to 1500 posts yet.

 

[RobdoR]

you see this picture and agree, but are concerned that those fish sticks are not spaced as efficiently as possible.

 

[thoumyvision]

You've read all 1497 of these posts over the last two days.

Discovering the INTP profile led you to a frenzy of other research about exactly how well the INTP label fits.

You're disappointed that the thread hasn't gotten to 1500 posts yet.

You'll be disappointed that once it gets to 1500 it won't stay there.