silverchris and Jenna's posts
You know, its funny you both should say that, as the type that I most often get from tests is IEI, followed by EII and ESI. Granted, as I've said, self-reported tests are a rather bad indicator and I feel I can't actually trust them, but all the same, why do you think I'm not IEI? You know, other than vibes?

munenori2
So... how do I remind you of them?

squark, CILi, and greenantler's posts
Yeah, I'm seeing that the point of the exercise is that the only person who knows me well enough to type me is, well, me. I appreciate the effort being put into it though, don't get me wrong.

As for B&D's poke, I've learned how to deal with hair-trigger people like him at work. He's more than likely not angry at me (since, like, he has no idea who I am and is probably half the continent away) but rather at what he feels I represent, which is, in this case, a homosexual who hates himself for his homosexuality and so puts up a gay-hating front to cover for that, I guess.

If you just answer that kind of person with overwhelming reasonableness they tend to just realize you aren't at all what they think you represent and problem solved. He hasn't even replied yet, so I suppose this all just took care of itself.

Aiss' post
They may assume that since it was the thing I felt most like complaining about that it was the part that bothered me the most. That Te was acting up now that it had an outlet or something like that.

What about me strikes you as extraverted?

Absurd's post
Oooh! Stealth burn!

ananke's post
Some people get hot and bothered for ninjas. Others get all moist over pirates. I get it up for knights. Because, I think, if you're going to idealize a historical figure, who better than someone who puts on his plate mail, gets on his horse, patrols his domain, punishes injustice, and woos maidens. No sneaking around and poisoning people or killing them with gardening tools or pillaging honest business men before starving to death at sea.

Granted, you kind of have to throw out all that stuff about only paying lipservice to the codes of chivalry or the fact that most knights were cruel, inbred, selfish bastards for the illusion to work, but oh well.

WorkaholicsAnon's posts
Ehhh... I'm skeptical about VI. I get the theory behind it, but it strikes me as a very unscientific way to do things. Not that I wish to impugn people who have put the time in to learn how to do it, but it still seems like cheating to me, sorry.

As to the metaphor it was originally a lot simpler, but I felt like embellishing a little. I like making big overbloated matephors that try to explain every possible detail within a system as a kind of joke. Friend #1 prods me into this by asking me to explain what everything is supposed to represent or be represented by until one of us finally says, "Good God, this metaphor sucks."

I can make pretty good ones though. In my intro. to news writing class I made a pretty good one about how writing a perfect paragraph transition was like executing a perfect right turn. Too fast and you go over on two wheels (which is to represent you going straight into the next paragraph with no transition whatsoever and thus jarring the reader). Too slow and you're liable to get rammed from behind when you come to a complete stop and then turn (this representing you taking way, WAY too long to transition and having it come off all awkward). I wanted to work in pedestrians or oncoming traffic somehow, but I had to keep it pithy.

stevENTj's post
Yeah, I know. I try diligently not to make those mistakes in my writing, but it still bothers me that people take a sickening kind of pride in correcting that. The fact that there are multiple Facebook groups with thousands of members each devoted to jacking themselves off over their overwhelming mutual grammatical correctness moves one towards nausea. Of all the things to get worked up over, they pick something so miniscule. Honestly.

Anyway, it seems that I'm more than likely IEI, but there are still a few voices that find evidence to the contrary... Any questions I can answer to help narrow it down?