'Seriously one of the best genre-satires of the last 30 years. Epically underrated.|||This is in no way an endorsement of my HS life, just a recounting of it:    I did just barely the minimum to pass. Final grade was a C+.  Got a 1350 on my SATs. (Standardized tests. In the 90's,...|||What makes an INTP laugh?  After 566 pages, part of the right answer is obviously: Aquamarine|||https://i.imgur.com/3s7d35n.gif|||I've learned over the years that I really have no idea what people think of me until they tell me, but I can tell the important parts...positive/negative, etc.  Generally I leave a good impression,...|||Not that many in the grand scheme of things for a guy my age. 4-8 depending on your personal definitions of what counts.  I've always had a high interest in sex, but at the same time I'm only really...|||Lego, followed by Transformers. Anything that could be more than one thing at a time was awesome.  The toy/game I always WANTED but could never convince my parents to buy me was Mouse Trap. ...|||I realize how much messed up body imagery our society throws out there, particularly for women, but I have to say this: There is nothing quite as frustrating (for me) as being deeply attracted to a...|||I don't know why, but that made me laugh so hard some beer came out my nose. I think my brain pictured what it would look like involuntarily.|||You have my knowing sympathies!  I am fortunate in that my parents are both have blue collar backgrounds and are EXTREMELY common-sense smart, so they recognized early that my curiosity about ideas...|||Valiant effort there. You have my admiration for trying. :)|||1. You got way more motivation out of my glib comment than I could have ever imagined...mostly because I put no thought into mine. It was a toss-away. :)  2. If this were not a forum full on INTPs,...|||I find it very difficult to type my immediate family.  I suspect it's because they're on the borderline in many ways. Putting this together based on their functions  Dad: ESTP Mom: ISFJ  Younger...|||38 here.  Really? There are only 5 old folks after this many responses?  ... and some of you think you can complain about feeling old in your 20's? This is proof life isn't fair. ;)|||Sounds likely, unfortunately.  If you got a bunch of space free as a result of the cleanup? It's almost certainly not quarantined, just outright deleted. Sorry to hear that. :(|||So uh, I hate to be the one to do this, but... Dude, did you check if your fly was down?|||Can you really be an outsider in a group as...eclectic...as a bunch of INTPs?  Personally I just wandered right in, never felt like I needed to prove anything... and that was just a couple of weeks...|||There are no rules against being an assertive Introvert.  I have no problem demanding people give me the things I need and then leaving me the hell alone.  I came for pizza, not chitchat.. NOM NOM...|||After all the (somewhat creepy) 3rd party commentary on your picture, it is fantastic that you finally waded back in...with those 4 words.  Then left it at that.|||http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBkAi-giu-g|||I read that, and nodded, but then I wanted to yell at the headline: I'm not 'emotionally unavailable', I just don't feel like sharing my emotions with YOU, dipshit! hehe|||http://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bp0IdkNIYAEW4_7.jpg:medium|||Nice to see the INTP penchant for accurate-yet-socially-awkward commentary crosses gender effortlessly. ;)|||Or statements of plain fact. It all depends on the parameters you define for the exercise. The more requirements you have, the harder it will be and the less likely it will be true. The fewer you...|||whatidonteven|||When I was a kid, there was no internet (the horror) and after school, instead of taking the bus home, I'd walk across the street go to the library. This was multiple days a week. I'd do it without...|||It sounds like Soylent is being made for you.  100% of your daily nutrition in drink form.  Mix up a batch, drink it through the day, stop worrying about meals.  Soylent - Free Your Body  I love...|||Just pineapple would be weird.  But pineapple and HAM? Sweet and salty are a powerful flavor combo in cuisine in general. Combine the richness of the cheese and the acidity of the tomato sauce, and...|||I really hope these theories have some level of testability so that experimental physicists can do something with them. This was always my problem with string theory... the only experiments that...|||It's an interesting theory, but I don't think you've clearly accounted for urban vs. rural.  The parallels sorta work as long as you stay out in the sticks, but once the populations migrated into...|||My only thought is that it's not a particularly fun way to shape your life and activities.  It's one thing to be embarrassed, or to not agree and thus not care, but if your first thoughts always turn...|||Thanks for the responses.  I wanted more data points for my working theory. :)  FWIW, I'm awkward in photos most of the time as well, because of the 'fakeness' issue. I have some techniques that...|||You know what's funny? I think a fair number of guys like tall women, but have been rejected or seen the dreaded words 'must be taller than me' hundreds of times on online dating sites, and just...|||Kinda like those two in your sig? (I've always assumed they were cacti.) They look like a lovely couple.|||Do you folks struggle to smile or look natural when asked to pose for a photo? My INTJ is almost comically awkward in this situation, and has not improved even a little over the years. I'm curious...|||http://pbs.twimg.com/media/BplHDxxCcAEmUuV.jpg:medium|||If they didn't cook the lobsters first? I'd be at least a little scared.|||I'm generally skeptical of where the coins are mined from. They're not profitable to mine in and of themselves.  (The power generally costs more than the coins that result from the mining.). That...|||I'm not stubborn!  ...and you'll never convince me otherwise, so don't bother!  (I have my own INTJ for when things need to get done. I'm not sure I would have gone on any real vacations the last...|||1. Deadlifting 175lbs is no joke, don't dismiss your hard work that easily for the sake of humility. There's a lot of sweat in that, you earned at least a little swagger from it.  2. That is why I...|||Have you been spying on me? Because that's eerily familiar... at least up until the part where I call for help. That never happens. I am male, and the last thing I will ever do is admit I am in over...|||Pfft, such an INTJ response... offering to solve our problem when all we want is someone to listen to HOW WE FEEL.  Wait no, that's someone else. Proposed solutions are good things. Disregard.|||1. Nope. Repeatable and verifiable facts or Go Home. 2. Likely neither. I'll ignore it and make them fend for themselves. I'm not a page service. 3. Both, but as I've gotten older I tend to spend...|||Always carne asada. The rest are just Beef For Americans. One of the transcendent beef experiences of my life was a carne asada plate at a real TexMex place near the Tex-Mex border. Mmm.|||Steak burrito? I kinda feel like it has to be steak, or the Cab will just overpower everything.|||If there is an idea out there that INTP's understand what misconceptions people hold about their type ...  ... I think you've just proven that is a misconception as well.|||I don't know. Neither does anyone else. We likely never will.  You can't measure or test theories about what exists beyond existence.  If you could find some way in, it would no longer be outside our...|||Hot damn, you do not mess around. (Not that I'd expect you to be. I can't imagine an INTP half-assing something like lifting. If you're going to bother doing it, you're going to do it right.)  Do...|||Whee...double posts thanks to errors|||All seafood, or just shellfish?  If it's just shellfish, you can make an excellent cioppino (Italian-American seafood stew) with regular fish types.  I'd probably break down weeping if I ever...'