OT - Psychological Profile Questions
Mates,
Last year we did a very serious study of mgobloggers with a set of psychological profile questions. The answers were analyzed by a group of equally serious experts, and a new set of questions have been put together. You might ask, how serious were the experts, well let me tell you the finest minds from the APA, AMA, B10, the CIA and some BAMF's also were tasked with analyzing this group.
The newest questions are these:
1. What is your favorite store?
2. Excepting Mgo, what is your favorite website?
3. Tattoos or no tattoos (you or your S.O./spouse). Extra points if you post a picture as long as it's not sexy bits type of stuff
4. Complete the following sentence: A horse, a fig-thing, a buckeye and a sparty walk into a bar, and the horse walks up to the bartender and says, "__________________________"
5. This is a control question, necessary because a non-zero % of you answered last time that you preferred creamy peanut butter over crunchy. Here goes: From a scale of 1-10 on preferences of spicy foods where '1' represents completely bland food, like the rice your mom gave you when you were getting over being sick and a '10' is a five-alarm fire habanero chili, fire breathing dragon of spiciness, where do you fall?
XM
1. Scheels
2. Wingingitinmotown
3. No
4. “Help me.”
5. 7
1 - Woodcraft/Cabela's
2 - YouTube
3 - No Tattoos
4 - Have you seen a tunnel around here, I have to get rid of these
5 - 6
1. Meijer
2. Realclearpolitics
3. No to tattoos. Especially women. Women are lovely creatures, no need to defile their lovely skin with awful tattoo ink.
4. The horse says: "Am I supposed to pee on the red one or the green one? "
5. 3 1/2
The horse should have the good sense to piss on all three.
1) A local butcher shop nearby our house. Whenever I go there it means I’m making something damn good for dinner that week. It’s the only store I can think of, that I go to with any semblance of regularity anyway, that I get excited about. Other than that, CostCo? Love roaming the frozen aisles and seeing if they have any new pre-made dinner meals I’d like.
2) Probably YouTube. I do a lot of mindless video watching at the end of the night.
3) None on my wife or I. I don’t think I’d ever look good with one, but if my wife told me she ever wanted one, depending on what it was and where she wanted to put it I’d actually be all for it. In my opinion, if tattoos are done right and put in the right place, they can be extremely sexy on a woman. Of course, on the flip side they can be a complete turn-off if not done right, either.
4) As Clint Eastwood said in Gran Torino regarding a very similar, although much more racist version of this joke, “Get the fuck out.”
5) I’d say probably a 7 to a 7.5. I love food that has some kick to it, even if it makes me sweat a little bit. But I’ve also never seen the point in eating food that is so spicy it makes me physically uncomfortable or ill. At the end of the day, I still want to enjoy the food. That’s the point of eating it. So I almost never order the spiciest wings on the menu or the one that has all the skulls and crossbones next to its name.
1. Rockler
2. Reading links to articles from journalists I follow on Twitter. Mostly finance/sports related.
3. No for both
4. Tuck’s buying
5. 7. Regular hot sauce level. No ghosts needed.
1. I don’t have a favorite.
2. I don’t have a favorite.
3. No tats.
4. “Lagavulin, no ice for me. I’m not with these other guys, we just walked in here at the same time.”
5. 7.5
1. Mardel
2. There are other websites? Actually, lately it's been RCMB for the schadenfreude.
3. None for either of us, although I've been told I'm the kind of person who would have a secret tattoo. (I have secrets, but they're not tattoos).
4. Help me.
5. 6.
1. Best Buy
2. YouTube
3. I'm covered in tattoos, my girlfriend has a few herself.
4. Did someone here order a pizza?
5. I'm about a 3 or 4. I'm a huge wimp when it comes to spicy foods lol
1. Duluth
2. hemmings
3. none
4. Watch what they’re about to step in.
5. 6/7 depends on if you’re grading on a curve.
1. In terms of where I shop/spend the most: Meijer. If there was one nearby: Wegman's. I'm at the point in my life where I don't need to buy much of anything except food and beverages.
2. weather.gov (not .com), zillow/realtor, various news sites from local to national
3. No tats for me--never interested me at all; wife had seven--all dots to align the radiation treatments. A few simple ones on other people are okay by me, particularly if they have some deep meaning for them, but to me people who cover themselves with tats generally aren't happy with themselves the way they are and rather than changing their inner selves, they change their outer selves.
4. "I used to have problems with nightmares. Now I've got these asses following me around."
5. I like to make a distinction between 'spicy' and just 'hot'. Spicy: 6, Hot: 3.
1. Games Workshop
2. YouTube
3. Tattoo's (brother owned a tattoo shop so....)
4. "No sir, I don't like it"
5. Probably a 6 if its flavourful spice, 3 if its just artificial metal tasting spice.
1. Favorite store depends on the year of my life and the time of year- Costco right now, followed closely by our local wine shop and local grocer/ vegetable market. Admittedly, I have grown to enjoy providing support to the wife’s estate sale hobby.
2. Besides a handful of chemical commodities sites and a sort list of e-commerce sites to save time (eg. Amazon) I enjoy reading the New York Times and Atlantic on line.
3. No tattoos for either of us.
4. PSU will be here shortly, thanks for allowing our support group use of your back room. I’m here to help them determine a proper tip.
5. I’m comfortable from 4-8- let’s call it a 6.
1. Cantoro Market in Plymouth, though the original store in Livonia is pretty sweet.
2. Bring a Trailer
3. No.
4. HORSE: I've got the greatest joke in the world... it's a knock-knock joke. You start.
BARTENDER: OK, Knock Knock.
HORSE: Who's there?
BARTENDER: .....
5. 6.
+1 for my favorite knock-knock joke of all time.
Favorite knock knock joke is a low bar, but if I had any grandkids or grand nieces and nephews, I would wear it out like my grandfather would wear out "Look for any skulls rolling in the street!" everytime we passed a "Stop Ahead" street sign. "Grampa, that's not what it means!"
1. Like, brick and mortar store? Does anyone even do that anymore? Umm... my local gaming shop. Barnes and Noble if it needs to be something everyone would recognize.
2. YouTube. There's always an entertaining rabbit hole to fall down.
3. None. For both of us. Though I've always passively wanted one, just never enough time, money and/or motivation to actually do it.
4. I'll have a Doomsday Comet, please.
5. 3-4. I'm from Michigan.
1. Dollar Twenty-Five Tree
2. www.allmarsupialsmustdie.com
3. zero point zero
4. "All marsupials must die"
5. 11
1) A liquor store with an excellent selection of whiskeys, amaros, and gins
2) cnbc (this site is clearly my favorite, cnbc is probably second highest visits.)
3) 0/0 (the big kid has enough for all os us)
4) “Sorry the clowns didn’t clean up behind me.”
5) 6-8 depending on cuisine (Indian vs Thai, etc.). 10 sounds masochistic.
Favorite store: either Cermak Market here in Chicago or Fresh Farms in Niles (suburb of Chicago). Like the United Nations of grocery stores. Just a crazy amount of interesting food.
Favorite website: Pinterest
Tattoos? Nope. My son just got his first. Pic posted.
All these people walk into a bar and I'm just too tired to come up with something clever (just moved)
Spicy food? Yes, probably a 7. I once had habanero salsa that was just ground up orange habaneros and I will never do that again. We had ceviche right after it and couldn't taste a thing. 
please tell me your son is/was a left-handed pitcher.
He's a righty. This is from an album cover, as opposed to being a symbol of his throwing lightning.
cool.
so how is his dream job going? difficult? rewarding? somewhere in between?
Good. I think it's helping him find more focus in what he wants to do long term. He really likes working directly with players. He's passionate about making them better and working to their strengths.
good stuff. happy for him and of course for you and mr. k5. does he see a next step, a league or team upgrade in any foreseeable future?
Tony's Fresh Market on Cermak in Berwyn is the best Chicago-area grocery. It's been there 45 years, predating and unrelated to the Cermak Fresh Market chain, which seems to be improperly trading on Tony's goodwill and name.
Double post
1) The Buffalo Stop (on Leonard Street in Grand Rapids)
2) There's other websites?
3) No. Nay. NEVER.
4)
...then Ed tells the bartender, "buck these other guys".
5) depending upon the ethnicity of the food, I'm generally good around levels 5 - 7. That said, my favorite Mexican restaurant (Esther's Authentic Mexican Restaurant on Drummond Island) has some absolutely delicious dishes that are quite low on the heat level.
Esther's Authentic Mexican Cuisine https://icookyouenjoy.com/
The food at Esther's is well worth the drive and the extra cost of having to take the car ferry to get there.
6) Those who chose creamy peanut butter over crunchy are wimps.
1. Jungle Larry's
2. blogredmachine
3. 0 for me and 8 for my wife. I would get a three birds tattoo for a handful of reasons, but I'm not all that interested at 44.
4. Feels like everyday, let's talk football.
5. 5, my palate likes jalapeños and such, but my butt doesn't like much more than spicy garlic parm
1. Eddie Bauer. Stop laughing, I'm single handedly keeping them in business. XL Tall is a standard size. Yes, I'm almost 50.
2. MGo is by far my favorite. After that, weird shit like Atlas Obscura.
3. No tats. Wife either. Tits, yes, great ones, but no tats.
4. "Whole milk, bitches?"
5. I'm a 6 on the spice meter most days
1. My local independent book store, my local independent grocer and (go figure) Costco.
2. Reddit, probably, although my interests are pretty narrow and I may drop it if they kill off third party apps.
3. No tattoos. I have nothing against them, but I don't have enough interest in them to actually get one.
4. MOOOOOOOO!
5. I go back and forth on this--anywhere from 3 to 8. If I'm cooking for my wife, towards the lower end; for myself, if I have the time and the energy, towards the higher end.