Quizzes

May 23, 2009 on 9:24 am | In Internet | 13 Comments

The hundreds of look-a-like facebook quizzes that are endlessly there on the news feed are driving me insane with a net weight of pages and pages of complete drivel. Which wife of Henry VIII are you?

I mean seriously. Who has all the spare time to think up these ever-more-inane wastes of bandwidth??

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  1. I would utterly have agreed with you.

    Then I discovered I was most like a Riemann zeta function. Suddenly the world had more meaning to it. *sigh*

    Comment by Fiona — May 23, 2009 #

  2. Oh, facebook is full of drivel generally and yet I still sign in. I quite like quizze (though I never take them myself) especially ones like ‘which molecule/element are you?”
     
    /geek

    Comment by Flitterbee — May 23, 2009 #

  3. Maybe some people are paid to do that – wouldn’t be hard to think of topics if money is involved…

    Comment by Ipso Facto — May 23, 2009 #

  4. Are you a potato?

    Comment by Lucy — May 23, 2009 #

  5. I like to think I@m more like a parsnip, myself. Which vegetable are you?

    Comment by Jenny — May 24, 2009 #

  6. I may or may not be a potato.

    Comment by Lucy — May 25, 2009 #

  7. I think that is a perfect suggestion for Callan’s blog, Lucy, shame it’s more than six words, though…
     
    I think I like them because they extract ridiculous analogies from things that can’t really be compared. And that’s always fun to do.
     
    “You are water. You are able to perform strong, so called “hydrogen bonds” with other like minded people. You are naturally pure and live life as clean as possible. You are represented as “Normal”.
     
    Also, they’re uncannily accurate ;)

    Comment by Flitterbee — May 25, 2009 #

  8. Oh, and I would like to be chicory/witlof. A white leaf vegetable with a slightly bitter taste. And a funky name.
     
    But it turns out I am 50% pea, bouncy and lively! 20% carrot, sweet and kind, and 30% onion, very emotional. You just couldn’t make this stuff up.
     
    Disclaimer: you may not like the vegetable you turn out to be.

    Comment by Flitterbee — May 25, 2009 #

  9. How are carrots ’sweet and kind?’ or onions ‘emotional’? Dear oh dear. Is this a real quiz? I shall have to do it.
     
    Meanwhile, the potato line is very funny, so I could just stretch the word limit so callan can go down as ‘may or may not be a potato’. Or ‘may/may not be a potato’ which fits, yes?
     
    I like all vegetables, so I am bound to like whatever I go down as…
     
    xxx

    Comment by Jenny — May 25, 2009 #

  10. Or maybe Lucy intended that as her mousetag? Cross-blogreferincing ftw!
     
    I googled “which vegetable are you” and took a couple…
     
    You’re a potato!
     
    Just to clarify, we don’t mean that in a “couch potato” way. We see potatoes as full of possibilities. Think about it — they’re great all year round, in potato salad, as mashed potatoes, as French fries… the list goes on. You’re always willing to try new things, but at the same time, you’re very reliable. As vegetables go, you seem like you’d make a great best friend.
     
    Like I said, uncannily accurate.
     
    And, of course I should be revising.

    Comment by Flitterbee — May 25, 2009 #

  11. I didn’t mean that as my mouse-tag, but now you mention it…

    Comment by Lucy — May 25, 2009 #

  12. [...] the irony of making a quiz is not lost on me. [...]

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  13. [...] Depression , Internet Leave a Comment Facebook quizzes have already been commented on by Callan as to their sheer pointlessness. Well, yes. They can be quite entertaining, though, albeit briefly. [...]

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