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  • Registered Users Posts: 2,632 ✭✭✭SligoBrewer


    Craguls wrote: »
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    Biology ain't a science though. :confused:


  • Registered Users Posts: 7,231 ✭✭✭Fad


    First time I ever took one of those interest/personality tests I was told to be a midwife.......entry under that was marine biologist :confused:

    The next time I took it, I was told to become an obstetrician.

    Perverted program.....How it extracted that career from my inputted info I do not know, I deliberately stated I have no interest in anything to do with working with children/babies......

    The next entry under that was psychiatrist and then surgeon and so on. All careers I have no real interest in. I also go an amusingly high score for car park attendant and taxidermist (Both of those were listed as careers in this :confused:)

    It also told my friend who was in pass Irish to become an Irish teacher......


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,383 ✭✭✭Aoibheann


    Pygmalion wrote: »
    Won't say it's not accurate (in most cases at least), but I dunno if I'd call it amazing.
    You answer a bunch of questions which clearly directly relate to one of the 4 groups and it tells you which end of the spectrum you fall on in each one.

    Then for career recommendations and personality descriptions they just point out obvious stuff, such as the fact that those who tend to think things through rationally instead of acting on impulse tend to make better mathematicians/engineers than those who don't like to plan ahead and always act on impulse.

    EDIT: Also INTJ, AKA the Mastermind, description seems pretty much perfect tbh, and I'm not just saying that due to the cool name, it captures my complete failure in social situations too.


    I'm going to +1 all of this - but then again, I would, because I got exactly the same personality type.. We're meant to think like that, they're on to us.. *narrows eyes* *breaks out tinfoil hat* IT'S A CONSPIRACY I TELLS YA!


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,944 ✭✭✭Jay P


    I was told I could be a PR Specialist, despite the fact I'm borderline useless at talking to people. I also got Fitness & Nutrition, Fashion Designer (:confused:), and Early Childhood Education. I wouldn't like any of those.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,552 ✭✭✭Bobalicious93


    Just stumbled across this gem of an article about an obscure Irish footballer named Ronnie O'Brien. I've been laughing at it for a good 10 minutes...
    This article by Mark Wrafter of VISION first appeared in the Sunday Business Post, Ireland on April 6th 2003.

    It started with a simple e-mail, but ended up catapulting an obscure Irish footballer into a competition to name the most influential person of the century.

    In early July 1999, a bored office worker in Ireland sent an e-mail to his friends. He had visited the website of Juventus, the Italian football club, and saw it was conducting an online poll to select the most promising newcomer to the team.

    "Hey if you've never heard of Ronnie O'Brien, he's a young Irish footballer who, after being let go by Middlesborough, was unbelievably signed by Juventus a couple of months back. He needs your help. Go on, vote for Ronnie, it's your duty as a patriot. Please send this to bored Irish people. Thanks, Eoin."

    Little did Eoin, whose identity is still not known, know what he had started. By the following week O'Brien was one of the most famous footballers on the planet.

    Like a chain letter, people forwarded the e-mail to friends; within hours it ended up on the computer screens of the Irish all around the world. O'Brien shot up from last to first on the poll, with 32% of the total vote.

    In one 24-hour period, Ireland's relationship with the Internet had changed utterly. It was revolutionary. It had done for us something no other media had ever been able to do. The web grew us an instant community. It did so because the Internet is the only media that allows its users to communicate with each other directly, publicly and instantly, be that one-to-one or one-to-many.

    The O'Brien success prompted his fans to set their sights even higher. In August 1999, Time magazine in the United States conducted an Internet poll to find the Person of the Century. Why not Ronnie O'Brien, they thought? A new volley of e-mails was sent out.

    Ronnie vaulted his way to the top of the standings, beating out such notables as Albert Einstein, Martin Luther King and Yitzhak Rabin. O'Brien was unaware of the fuss. The former supermarket shelf stacker from Bray found out from his agent a few days later that he was jostling Mother Teresa for greatness. Then, mysteriously, there was a computer crash, a result Time said, of too many people voting online at once.

    Instead of being named Person of the Century, O'Brien was taken out of the running, because Time officials said not enough people had heard of him. The official rules stated, "whimsical candidates will not be counted." The US magazine didn't welcome the prospect of having O'Brien on the cover of their Person of the Century issue.

    The reaction at the time to O'Brien's demotion was heated. The Irish set about plotting how to dupe the publication again by getting another Irish person to the top of the list.

    Ireland's office staff hit back, voting in their thousands for Dustin the Turkey, proclaiming him a great visionary. Within hours the e-mails where again winging their way to Time's US headquarters.

    The stuffed ex-presidential candidate polled over 1,000 more votes than Adolf Hitler.

    Time eventually realised something was amiss and restricted the nomination to a pre-selected 100 candidates, with Albert Einstein eventually winning.

    It was a defining moment for online polls. Never again would a site, unless it was its expressed wish, leave open their voting criteria in such a fashion. It's only the very naïve that do so today, but having to protect against it pre-99 was unheard of.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,089 ✭✭✭jefreywithonef




  • Registered Users Posts: 1,808 ✭✭✭ohthebaby




  • Registered Users Posts: 929 ✭✭✭TheCardHolder


    Pretty Interesting:

    http://www.worldometers.info/


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,779 ✭✭✭A Neurotic


    2010-02-24-determinism.png


  • Moderators Posts: 8,678 ✭✭✭D4RK ONION


    Projection reaches whole new gigantic levels of awesome. If you do not click this link, you will regret it and your parents will love you less.

    http://vimeo.com/11160666


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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,498 ✭✭✭Jamie Starr


    This may be of interest to the mathsy blokes amongst you:

    http://www.theflatearthsociety.org/forum/

    They basically use mathematical and theoretical debates to refute the idea that the Earth is round, and I'm led to believe the maths are actually pretty solid. My brother finds it greatly entertaining anyway, and he's not even good at maths.


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,944 ✭✭✭Jay P


    This may be of interest to the mathsy blokes amongst you:

    http://www.theflatearthsociety.org/forum/

    They basically use mathematical and theoretical debates to refute the idea that the Earth is round, and I'm led to believe the maths are actually pretty solid. My brother finds it greatly entertaining anyway, and he's not even good at maths.

    Wasn't he an admin or something on that site?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,089 ✭✭✭jefreywithonef


    This is pretty class. A day in the life of New York City. Looks like models but it's not.

    http://www.wimp.com/newyork/


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,632 ✭✭✭SligoBrewer




  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,164 ✭✭✭Konata



    Wow. That was pretty fascinating.

    "If you have a bank account, you are part of 8% of the wealthiest people in the world"

    o_O


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,089 ✭✭✭jefreywithonef


    steven_segal_emotion_chart.jpg


  • Moderators Posts: 8,678 ✭✭✭D4RK ONION


    That's my favourite image on the internet. Sceptical is excellent :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,552 ✭✭✭Bobalicious93


    Monzo wrote: »
    Seagal image

    Reminded me of

    BerbatovFaces.jpg

    Oh Dimitar...how you divide us...


  • Registered Users Posts: 929 ✭✭✭TheCardHolder


    The guy who created Kate's party is actually a comedian. Check out his stuff:

    http://www.27bslash6.com/matthewsparty.html

    I've just spent the past 5 minutes sitting by myself crying with laughter.


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,532 ✭✭✭Ginja Ninja


    this picture:
    1_389065266l.jpg
    I like angels anyway,but there's something about this picture I really like.it made it into my pretty picture folder on my hard drive and I've it stuck in some other things as well.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 3,779 ✭✭✭A Neurotic




  • Registered Users Posts: 2,632 ✭✭✭SligoBrewer


    http://truelad.com

    Thank me later.


  • Registered Users Posts: 7,231 ✭✭✭Fad


    http://truelad.com

    Thank me later.

    Lads from my year had it in fb statuses a couple of weeks ago, initially assumed it'd be a blue waffle type thing.......it's amazing though


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,426 ✭✭✭Arcade Panda




    One of the best examples of stop-motion I've ever seen.

    And the music is wonderful.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,632 ✭✭✭SligoBrewer




    One of the best examples of stop-motion I've ever seen.

    And the music is wonderful.

    And you'd give her one


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,632 ✭✭✭SligoBrewer




  • Registered Users Posts: 3,532 ✭✭✭Ginja Ninja




  • Registered Users Posts: 3,532 ✭✭✭Ginja Ninja


    eww,double posting but this deserves a thread by itself:

    David belle is one of my heroes,For the little time I spend doing parkour,I admire his "flow" and sheer athleticism.How many people can claim to be the progenitors of a sport?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,164 ✭✭✭Konata


    Stop motion \o/ A few guys I know from home made this video a few years ago. It's actually pretty good and won an award at something. Make sure you watch the credits starting at about 4.00 in Part 2 - they're really creative!





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  • Registered Users Posts: 929 ✭✭✭TheCardHolder




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