FWD: Testing

[Captain Utopia]

Yeah, sorry man, that's pretty old news. I think it's one of those games the phys ed teacher had us play in 6th grade.

Then can you tell me the punchline - why it works the way it does? It's a two part question I ask, the first being the initial post, but I can't ask the second without invalidating your answers to the first.

[Elder Iptuous]

Give the kid a break, Nigel.  she's probably just now in 6th grade....
Illuminatus! is on the 6th grade reading list, isn't it?

I'm rereading it and it's a lot less interesting now that I'm not in high school any more.

I'm thinking it's not age, or your lack of enrollment in high school that makes it less interesting.  You've just internalized all the exciting novelty that it offered you the first time.  you need new taboos and wrecking balls...
incidentally, are you joining in on the PD book club thang, Badge?

[BADGE OF HONOR]

The what?

[Elder Iptuous]

the book club thing....
we're reading 'Poker without Cards' right now, and then we will discuss over tea and crumpets....

also, when are you gonna change your name back since that other, less desirable, badger fellow is gone?

[BADGE OF HONOR]

Finding a copy of Poker Without Cards = effort.  And I like this name.

[Sir Squid Diddimus]

the book club thing....
we're reading 'Poker without Cards' right now, and then we will discuss over tea and crumpets....

also, when are you gonna change your name back since that other, less desirable, badger fellow is gone?

SHIT! I want crumpets and tea!
But if it means reading.... well.....

maybe.

[Elder Iptuous]

Finding a copy of Poker Without Cards = effort.  And I like this name.

there's a link-o to a pdf in the thread....
i think that's going to be a requirement for any book we choose, that it be available in pdf for all to read....

[Captain Utopia]

Is there _anyone_ on this board with enough intellectual curiousity to try the experiment?

[Payne]

There are plenty of people on this board with enough intellectual curiosity for this. In fact, mostly they have so much more intellectual curiosity than is required that they're off doing something else more interesting to satisfy it.

If I were you, I'd just let this go.

[AFK]

Why does it take intellectual curiousity?  Our human bodies have lots of weird quirks to them, this appears to be one of them, though, with a bit of concentration, I'm able to do it.  So why don't you give us your take on this little bit of motor-skill quirkery?

[Sir Squid Diddimus]

Is there _anyone_ on this board with enough intellectual curiousity to try the experiment?

What makes you think we haven't.... in 6th grade? (as previously mentioned)
Pick a real brain teaser and try again.

[trippinprincezz13]

Yea, just kinda reminds me of the " try pat your head while rubbing your stomach" thing which I'm pretty sure parents and/or teachers introduced us to in early grammar school or so.

[Bebek Sincap Ratatosk]

I'm with trippinprincezz... this is making use of the same neurological quirks that the pat your head/rub your tummy trick uses...

Our brains have a hard enough time getting through the day without intentionally trying to get them to send opposite commands to two different extremities at once. You can do this with legs only, hands only, a mix of the two etc. Out of all the ways to confuse your own neurological system this is a pretty simple one.

[Captain Utopia]

Why does it take intellectual curiousity?  Our human bodies have lots of weird quirks to them, this appears to be one of them, though, with a bit of concentration, I'm able to do it.  So why don't you give us your take on this little bit of motor-skill quirkery?

Thank you. And sorry (forum) for the intellectual curiusity/kick to the balls. Especially to those members who have no balls. You kinda broke the spell with the "bit of concentration" line. It's not a motor-skill issue - it's just a mind-fuck - literally.

It has a whole bunch of manipulative elements: the comic sans font (I'm not threatening), it came from a doctor (appeal to authority fallacy), repetition that you won't be able to do it - "there's nothing you can do about it" (power of suggestion), "how smart is your right foot" - repeated (encouraging separation of consciousness), the author professes they can't do it either (follow-the-leader).

Question - is it likely all these elements came together by accident? If not - who has an interest in monitoring the collective suggestibility of the populace with forwards like these?

If you're still having trouble doing the simple exercise, just repeat "I am not a robot" a few times, and understanding that all talk of the "difficulty" is an intentionally made-up lie, you'll have no trouble doing it.

[Bebek Sincap Ratatosk]

Why does it take intellectual curiousity?  Our human bodies have lots of weird quirks to them, this appears to be one of them, though, with a bit of concentration, I'm able to do it.  So why don't you give us your take on this little bit of motor-skill quirkery?

Thank you. And sorry (forum) for the intellectual curiusity/kick to the balls. Especially to those members who have no balls. You kinda broke the spell with the "bit of concentration" line. It's not a motor-skill issue - it's just a mind-fuck - literally.

It has a whole bunch of manipulative elements: the comic sans font (I'm not threatening), it came from a doctor (appeal to authority fallacy), repetition that you won't be able to do it - "there's nothing you can do about it" (power of suggestion), "how smart is your right foot" - repeated (encouraging separation of consciousness), the author professes they can't do it either (follow-the-leader).

Question - is it likely all these elements came together by accident? If not - who has an interest in monitoring the collective suggestibility of the populace with forwards like these?

If you're still having trouble doing the simple exercise, just repeat "I am not a robot" a few times, and understanding that all talk of the "difficulty" is an intentionally made-up lie, you'll have no trouble doing it.

It's like memetic magic, done poorly with failsauce applied liberally to the top.