OT - Psychological Profile Questions

Submitted by XM - Mt 1822 on June 3rd, 2023 at 6:36 PM

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 

 

Colt Burgess

June 3rd, 2023 at 6:47 PM ^

You must have something better to do with your time today than writing psychological profile questions. I would think that after a long winter you would be having fun outdoors. So what does it say about me that I have nothing better to do than read your questions? Never mind, I don't want to know. 

XM - Mt 1822

June 4th, 2023 at 3:15 PM ^

we don't live on the water but of course up north there are lakes everywhere.  so a hillibilly triathlon (my name for it, don't blame anyone else) is a mountain bike ride and a run around the farm and/or area.  then later in the day when i make it to a swimmable body of water, getting some form of an open water swim, figure 1/2 mile to 1 mile, depending on time, day, weather, body of water, how many kids are with me, etc. 

grumbler

June 3rd, 2023 at 7:02 PM ^

1.  What is your favorite store? 

Amazon for online, Virginia Hobbies brick and mortar

2.  Excepting Mgo, what is your favorite website? 

Languish.com

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

No tattoos.  Never even considered them, though don't mind if others have them.

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, "__________________________"

"Ever seen a horse with four asses before?"

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? 

7.  I like spicy but don't need to ruin the flavor for Manly Points.

JHumich

June 3rd, 2023 at 7:04 PM ^

1. local farmers' market
2. chess.com
3. no
4. the guy telling this joke forgot the Oxford comma
5. 10, but not every time. A good variety in 5–10.

mooseman

June 3rd, 2023 at 7:06 PM ^

1. Klingspor Woodworking

2. (varies) BBQ Brethren or The Garage Journal

3. No tootats for me and the missus 

4. "Look what I almost stepped in."

5. 7

GoBlueGoWings

June 3rd, 2023 at 7:09 PM ^

1 Guitar Center

2 MGoBlog and YouTube

3 No tattoos and no S.O.

4 where is the bathroom, I have to go drop a Mel. 
4 Do you mind if my pets come in 

5 5

charlotteblue

June 3rd, 2023 at 7:15 PM ^

1. Amazon

2. The Athletic

3. No tats

4. I would like a tarnished dome for fig thing, a third base for buckeye and a horseshit coach for sparty. 

5. 7

4godkingandwol…

June 3rd, 2023 at 7:22 PM ^

1. REI

2. Chess.com

3. Yes. A lion silhouette on upper neck

4. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 

5. Used to be a solid 9. But as I’ve gotten older I’ve toned it down to a 6. Too many sleepless nights with horrible heartburn. The joy of aging. 

Blue Vet

June 3rd, 2023 at 7:25 PM ^

1. Old favorite, now defunct: Bay City's Mill End

2. There are other websites?

3. No tatts. Old enough that my skin's already making unusual shapes.

4. (Comments: thank you for the "fig-thing" reminder; Grumbler (above) has a great punch line; my answer's similarly inspired.)
"Do you have toilet paper? Taking a dump, I couldn't get everything off my tail."

5. A 7 but it doesn't matter to my ex-mother-in-law who, because the first time we met I declined a spicy dish, and she ever after decided I didn't like spicy foods.

XM - Mt 1822

June 3rd, 2023 at 8:42 PM ^

fair enough, though my answers are lame, like me

1.  sports stuff - cabelas?  hunt/fish stuff

2.  with farming and how much i'm outdoors, weather stuff - noaa and weather underground; after that espn

3. nope.  years ago dear wife floated the idea of me getting a tribal band type of tat on my arm, back when i had hair and muscles.  i vetoed that.  seen way, way too many gangster and prison tats. 

4. i got nothing better than the very good answers we've gotten so far.

5.  mild/wimpy; 2 or 3 once in a while.  

Greg McMurtry

June 3rd, 2023 at 7:47 PM ^

1. Home Depot or Lowes or whatever

2. Probably pr0n related

3. Me: 0, wife: 0 Don’t mind them on others, just don’t really want any

4. There are more horse’s asses in the world than there are horses

5. 3. Don’t like hot stuff, but kinda spicy is ok, though I like more stuff than when I was younger

HighBeta

June 3rd, 2023 at 7:55 PM ^

Amazon: shopping for just about anything from my couch - delivered quckly to my lazy self for zero dollars.

Wall Street Journal. Followed closely by Car and Driver and Zillow (or some other RE website).

Zero body ink on either of us. And. The only piercings are in female earlobes so that you can adorn her with lovely things to highlight her face.

"Hay!". To which the Barman replies, "Sorry, kitchen's already closed for the night and isnt it pasture you bedtime?"

(Merde, that was awful, I apologize)

About a 2. I like to taste my food and was told as a child that spicey foods are an attempt to conceal that the underlying food is either spoiled or poor quality. Eh, I guess I was a gullible kid!

MgoBlaze

June 3rd, 2023 at 8:14 PM ^

1. Depends on what. I like buying as many things as possible directly from the people that produce them, so I use a ton of different sources.

2. Tie between memeorandum, mediagazer, and techmeme. All great media aggregators in their respective fields with multiple sources for stories to cross-reference for bias.

3. Tons of tattoos.

4. "Help, these guys want to get me drunk and take advantage of me"

5. 12. Spinal Tap 11 plus one. I've grown and eaten most kinds of superhot peppers so there are few kinds of heat that phase me.

Joby

June 3rd, 2023 at 8:16 PM ^

1. Grocery Outlet 

2. The Root, The Onion 

3. 0 (me)/innumerate (wife). She is way inked up, except for her face. 

4. "Hey Joe, it's actually us, Desmond and Charles in a horse suit. Mind if we leave these guys behind like we did on the field?"

5. 8

MostlyHarmless

June 3rd, 2023 at 8:29 PM ^

1. Amazon/Home Depot

2. Cracked

3. No ink on either of us. 

4. Would you believe we are all in the B1G now?

5. I’m good with 7 on the fire scale. 
 

drjaws

June 3rd, 2023 at 8:35 PM ^

1. tied. liquor store and lowes 

2. uhhh pubmed probably. the only place to get straight facts if you can critically think. Also great for challenging your own preconceived notions. Or youtube for music, videos, etc

3. lots ….. wife has 2 or 3 small ones no one ever sees but me. not posting anything but I’ll describe one. I have the state flag of Michigan on my chest above my heart.  Probably 6 x 8 inches and runs up on my neck it’s so big 

4. “fuck these guys amirite? Go blue”

5. Seven or 8. I can eat really hot food (think Chettinand Indian) but there comes a point where you lose flavor and it’s just hot to be hot and that’s dumb. I like food and spices and also like to taste them.

YakAttack

June 3rd, 2023 at 9:03 PM ^

1. Flight Club. It's for sneakers, not  strip club near the airport.

2. Mlb Trade Rumors dot com

3. We each have 3. I have inner L forearm, inner R bicep, and R deltoid. We also got our noses pierced for our 40th birthdays. I got my septum, and she got her nostril.

4. "Ladies, if you need help just order "Special Shot" and we'll call the authorities."

5. 5. I'm a wuss when it comes to hot foods.

Hotel Putingrad

June 3rd, 2023 at 9:19 PM ^

1. The grocery store, I guess. I can't think of anywhere else I go consistently.

2. Uh, you said no sexybits

3. Not my scene. I find them a turn-off on women. But this guy on Reddit posted a Mr. Met design he had done on his leg, and that was pretty sweet.

4. You can probably guess why the long face.

5. 11. I've only had one thing in my life that really blew me away heat wise. The Spanish teacher at my wife's school also owns a farm nearby. She's from Peru, and she makes this special corn relish that just about cratered me. That was a decade ago, and I still haven't recovered.

 

Maizinator

June 3rd, 2023 at 11:29 PM ^

Peruvian heat is next level. If she used these little devils watch out.

Peruvian White Habanero


The non-white guy version of some dishes in Thailand also recommended. Those bird's eye chiles are wonderful.  They are about 10x a jalapeno and about half an habenero, which is just about perfect to control the heat of the dish.

Bird's eye chile or Thai chile at Kota Kinabalu Market

turtleboy

June 3rd, 2023 at 10:04 PM ^

Aldi or Homegoods

YouTube

No tattoos

"1 trough of beer, and 3 soft drinks for my friends."

6. I can handle more spice, but wouldn't be and to taste the food. 

carolina blue

June 3rd, 2023 at 10:22 PM ^

1.  What is your favorite store? 
cole haan

2.  Excepting Mgo, what is your favorite website? There are other websites?  I’m pretty sure this is the entirety of the internet.

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.  None, and dislike them. Outside of maybe a small ankle tat or something, I find them extremely unattractive.  Just a personal preference  

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, " I’m a shit coach. " 

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? 6-7, but am game for a 10 if there’s flavor. A “Nashville spice” of 10 which is just heat: no. But an indian spicing of 10?  Yeah, I’m game. 

moldee_raspberry

June 3rd, 2023 at 10:59 PM ^

1.  Favorite store: Jungle Jim’s in metro cincy + most places that serve draft Guinness 

2.  Fav website: Google docs

3.   No tatts bc I don’t know what id get which makes me feel like an outlier among fellow mid-millennials, whose tattoos are already aging poorly 

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, "I heard sparty asked for a coach. I dropped him out front."

5.  6.5-7.5 on the spice index 

Maizinator

June 3rd, 2023 at 11:13 PM ^

1.  Uwajimaya asian grocery store in Seattle.

2.  Harney & Sons tea (I've recently been getting into tea).

3.   Not a fan, generally.  Although a tasteful one on a beautiful woman can be intriguing.

4.  A horse, a fig-thing, a buckeye and a sparty walk into a bar, and the horse walks up to the bartender and says, "I'll have a Four Roses Single Barrel and Zimas for the guys."

5.  My taste buds say 8-9.  My internal organs disagree and say 5-6.

 

MgoBlaze

June 4th, 2023 at 1:52 PM ^

Juuust gonna leave a few tea sites here for you to google if you're so inclined:

Japan:

Sazen

Hibiki-An

Ikkyu

China:

White2Tea

Yunnan Craft

Wuyi Origins

Tea Hong

Farmer Leaf

India:

Jay Shree

Ketlee

Taiwan

Global Tea Hut

Taiwan Leaf Tea

Others:

Shan Valley

Theceylontea

Hatvala

Teawawee

1989 UM GRAD

June 3rd, 2023 at 11:18 PM ^

Caruso Caruso, Trader Joe's, countless independent stores of all types. Love getting art or other items for our home. 
 

News and politics - CNBC, WSJ, CNN, NYT, 538, The Hill, Pew Research

No tats. Don’t mind them but don’t really understand the appeal or the point of them. 

Sorry. Not feeling creative. 

7. Thai dishes that are medium+.