Graphology.

[islandman]

Because I'm always slightly amazed when people I consider to be fairly bright believe in bullshit.

I've never known those traits to be mutually exclusive. In any event, she's certainly bright enough to understand that it's not a science.

 

[butters]

If you have tea leaves in the bottom of your cup, that tells me that you don't use a proper filter when you make tea. And from that I can deduce that your cookie jar has crumbs at the bottom and you don't peel your carrots.

i have tea bags, don't own a cookie jar, and never (well, rarely) peel carrots.

this means: i drink mostly coffee, don't buy many biscuits or have time to play at baking them, and enjoy my carrots unmolested. the carrots. though i'm unmolested as well as my carrots.

 

[phrodeau]

my tea has leaves in the bottom, because i use fresh herbs and an old chinese teapot.

I deduce that you store your knives in a jar of rice.

 

[pointless]

do i really have to be the asshole that points out that a cup is a tool?

 

[butters]

Because I'm always slightly amazed when people I consider to be fairly bright believe in bullshit.

oh come on, sean, lighten up - if it wasn't for those you consider fairly bright slightly amazing you now and then, your life would feel less fulfilled. own it

 

[phrodeau]

i have tea bags, don't own a cookie jar, and never (well, rarely) peel carrots.

this means: i drink mostly coffee, don't buy many biscuits or have time to play at baking them, and enjoy my carrots unmolested. the carrots. though i'm unmolested as well as my carrots.

I deduce that you currently have at least four kinds of cheese.

 

[Sean]

do i really have to be the asshole that points out that a cup is a tool?

It's like trying to argue with people that think an exploding ball of hydrogen, the light from which set off before humans existed, influences your job prospects.

 

[butters]

do i really have to be the asshole that points out that a cup is a tool?

yes, it had to be you.

 

[butters]

I deduce that you currently have at least four kinds of cheese.

this deduction thing clearly has to be worked on . . . 3

two in the fridge, and a third inherent in my posts.

 

[neci]

I deduce that you store your knives in a jar of rice.

i store them under my pillow.

 

[hobbit.]

Nope, it pretty much doesn't from what I've been able to find. The British Psychological Association rates it on a par with astrology.

complete bollocks.

why do psychics need to advertise?

who ever heard of an astrologist getting killed by a meteor?

complete bollocks.
Trust in me, only me AND me alone!

 

[hobbit.]

I'm trying to invalidate what is obviously a pseudoscience.

Do you believe that tea leaf reading is valid? After all, the patterns are caused by how one drinks one's tea.

suddenly you talk sense. you ever read the leaves for someone who, despite earlier warnings, had to drink and eat though a straw?

 

[hobbit.]

She's of the opinion that you can tell someone's job from their handwriting.

vibraton white finger us so hawt .......

 

[hobbit.]

do i really have to be the asshole that points out that a cup is a tool?

it can also be a trophy.

 

[pointless]

i prefer my trophies to have little, frozen people on them.

 

[parodyluvr75]

"This year the partnership will shift its focus to find new ways to extract information from a person's handwriting," said Joan Caridi, public relations representative for Homeland Security Programs at WVU.


http://www.thedaonline.com/mobile/news/fbi-seeks-volunteers-for-handwriting-project-1.2570938

 

[Mischka]

She's of the opinion that you can tell someone's job from their handwriting.

You've intentionally obfuscated what I said. Certain professions have strong handwriting traditions. Architects are specifically trained in their handwriting when working on blueprints; they almost universally write in crisp, straight up-and-down all caps. Same with accountants, who exercise a precise, uniform style of writing, with few flourishes moving too far above or below the bulk of the writing, and evenly spaced out letters; their handwriting looks similar to the spreadsheets they spend time reviewing. And as I said before, most of us do not fall within these extremes. An innkeeper, a farmer, or a seamstress are not going to be instantly recognizable by their handwriting. As someone who has reviewed countless thousands of pages handwritten by various professions, knowing these overarching characteristics for a few professions has helped me quickly sort through some of the material; I can glance across the room at a stack of papers and know those are the journal entries from the architect, not the engineer. Or those are the meeting notes from the accountant, not the lawyer. Of course I independently verify this through additional information, but it's an easy short hand when I review documents.

What I find interesting about graphology, as distinguished from the forensic analysis of handwriting, is the chicken-and-egg aspect of our handwriting: how much does a profession influence a person's handwriting, as opposed to certain personalities simply being drawn to those professions? I have never seen an accountant's handwriting thick with flourishes, with words that trail off unfinished, with an i undotted, or with pools of ink as the pen rests too long on the page. Conversely, those characteristics are fairly common among people with a more dramatic bend, like actors and artists.

As butters eloquently explained, a person's use of a pen is unique. Your handwriting would never be mistaken for that of warriorqueen, for example. If handwriting was as happenstance as tea leaves in a cup, then our handwriting would change every time each of us put pen to paper. But it doesn't. I could try to forge your handwriting, but there would be telltale signs of my own style coming through (as I'm not an expert forger). That individual style is what catches my eye. I like studying those small details and seeing patterns emerge. But handwriting is not a shortcut to knowing everything about a person, any more than knowing their chosen profession or where they were raised.

 

[trysail]

She's of the opinion that you can tell someone's job from their handwriting.

She said no such thing.