Your Five Variable Love Profile |
Propensity for Monogamy: Your propensity for monogamy is low. You see love as a gift that you should give to many. It's hard for you to imagine being with one person at at time... Let alone one person for the rest of your life! Experience Level: Your experience level is high. You've loved, lost, and loved again. You have had a wide range of love experiences. And when the real thing comes along, you know it! Dominance: Your dominance is low. This doesn't mean you're a doormat, just balanced. You know a relationship is not about getting your way. And you love to give your sweetie a lot of freedom. Cynicism: Your cynicism is low. You are an eternal optimist when it comes to love and romance. No matter how many times you've been hurt - you're never bitter. You believe in one true love, your perfect soulmate. And if you haven't found true love yet, you know you will soon. Independence: Your independence is low. This doesn't mean you're dependent in relationships.. It does mean that you don't have any problem sharing your life. In your opinion, the best part of being in love is being together. |
I call Bullshit. I find most of these quizzes quite fun and entertaining; this one is simply annoying. So why am I posting it? Just to see if others reactions are similar to mine. For the record:
My propensity for monogamy is pretty damned high… higher than most, I’d wager. TSMP and I were married for 20 years, and were together for 23. I’d still be married if I had my druthers. And it wasn’t hard at all for me to “imagine being with one person at a time… Let alone for the rest of your (my) life.” I was extremely comfortable with monogamy; it was a natural state. And I’ve always been a serial-lover, that is: one at a time. Now the time may have been pretty short on occasion, but it was still “one at a time.” For what that’s worth.
No quibbles with experience level. I made the most of life before marrying TSMP; I made extensive attempts at getting back in the game after her.
No quibbles with the quiz’s take on my dominance, or lack of same. I do have issues with bondage, though.
My cynicism is high. I am not an eternal optimist when it comes to romance. Au contraire, mon frêre. My glass isn’t half-empty, it’s Sahara-desert dry. With calcite rings. “Never bitter?” Oh, spare me, please. I won’t go down that road, but… (I’m sure you get my drift) I DO believe in the soul mate thingie. Unfortunately that wasn’t a mutually-shared perception. True love found, true love lost, game over.
My independence level is high. Take my word for it.
OK, two agreed areas, three areas in violent disagreement. Ergo, Bullshit. Your mileage may vary, of course. Let me know… (h/t: Cassandra)
Now here’s a very interesting article: Scientists respond to Gore's warnings of climate catastrophe. Here are the two lead grafs:
"Scientists have an independent obligation to respect and present the truth as they see it," Al Gore sensibly asserts in his film "An Inconvenient Truth", showing at Cumberland 4 Cinemas in
Professor Bob Carter of the Marine Geophysical Laboratory at
Say what? Pathetic? Really? You must be joking!
Here is a small sample of the side of the debate we almost never hear:
Appearing before the Commons Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development last year,
Patterson concluded his testimony by explaining what his research and "hundreds of other studies" reveal: on all time scales, there is very good correlation between Earth's temperature and natural celestial phenomena such changes in the brightness of the Sun.
Dr. Boris Winterhalter, former marine researcher at the Geological Survey of Finland and professor in marine geology,
Dr. Wibjörn Karlén, emeritus professor, Dept. of Physical Geography and Quaternary Geology,
No, really? But…but… Algore is so earnest, so committed. You’re saying he’s playing fast and loose with his inconvenient truths? G’wan!
Carter does not pull his punches about Gore's activism, "The man is an embarrassment to
In April sixty of the world's leading experts in the field asked Prime Minister Harper to order a thorough public review of the science of climate change, something that has never happened in
My illusions are shattered. Shattered, I tell you. The next thing you’ll tell me is Algore had nothing to do with creating the innernets. Right? I’d expect nothing less from you Doubting Thomases.
By the way, have you read Michael Crichton’s novel State of Fear? (Excerpts at the link) Crichton’s novel is the antithesis of “An Inconvenient Truth” and is also the most extensively footnoted work of fiction I’ve ever read, bar none. If you don’t have time to read the novel, you might try Crichton’s speech “Environmentalism as Religion.” I find it interesting that Algore gets tons of publicity over his junk-science movie, yet Crichton got barely a murmur when State of
Hey! Do you sometimes find yourself sorta stymied by the language (not the profanity, we can all deal with that) they use and feel generally out of it while cruising sites like Firedoglake, Shakespeare’s Sister, or dKos? Do those earnest folks throw out terms you’ve never seen or heard in your normal, day-to-day life? Do you feel clue-free when they talk Bushit for Fitzmas? Well, fret no more. Those helpful Lefties actually have compiled an extensive glossary kossary. Now you, too, can understand the code. Here’s MY favorite:
Rethug, Rethuglican
Epithet for Republicans, particularly those who seek to tar and feather any dissenting voice. In terms of maturity, not too different from the corresponding "dimmycrat", but it's ours, goddamnit.
Yep, it’s yours. Lord knows the Left would never “tar and feather any dissenting voice.” Um-hmm.
For some strange reason the HTML provided for the quiz results in extremely wide spacing. I've tried to fix it but cannot. {sigh} I hate it when this happens...
Propensity for Monogamy:
ReplyDeleteYour propensity for monogamy is medium. In general, you prefer to have only one love interest. But it's hard for you to stay devoted for too long! There's too much eye candy to keep you from wandering.
Wrong, wrong, wrong. They must assume the person is lying when they do not check the cheating or wandering eye question, because I didn't check either.
Experience Level:
Your experience level is high. You've loved, lost, and loved again.You have had a wide range of love experiences. And when the real thing comes along, you know it!
Mostly right except the knowing the real thing when it comes along.
Dominance:
Your dominance is low. This doesn't mean you're a doormat, just balanced. You know a relationship is not about getting your way. And you love to give your sweetie a lot of freedom.
Mostly right.
Cynicism:
Your cynicism is low.You are an eternal optimist when it comes to love and romance. No matter how many times you've been hurt - you're never bitter. You believe in one true love, your perfect soulmate. And if you haven't found true love yet, you know you will soon.
Mostly wrong.
Independence:
Your independence is medium. In relationships, you need both "me time" and "we time." You usually find it easy to be part of a couple. But occasionally you start to feel a little smothered.
Mostly right, I guess for when in a relationship. But I think I really like total independence. Except for those times when I wish there was a man around to do something with the car or shovel snow, or something like that ;)
This is one a poorly designed quiz, IMHO. I didn't check either of those traits either, Laurie.
ReplyDeleteAnd there's that SNOW thing again!! (Nice to know we're good for *something*.)
:-)
Yeah, there's always the something. That goes without saying.
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