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How cynical are you?
Fashion Cat Posted Feb 17, 2004
*sigh* cynisism just runs through my veins obviously. Isnt it odd, given the current climate? 
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Methos (one half of the HHH Management) Posted Feb 17, 2004
I'm a second rate cynic.
What I find interesting about tests like this is that there rarely is a result saying 'you're perfect'. You are too whatever-the-test-is-about or you are too little - whatever-the-test-is-about.
That gets me thinking about horoscopes. I alwaysws wonder if they say that the scorpio is intelligent, is there a sign which is dumb? Surely not, or at least they wouldn't call it that way...
Methos 
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A Super Furry Animal Posted Feb 17, 2004
Time to start writing "alternative" horoscopes, methinks, like that guy in Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency.
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Methos (one half of the HHH Management) Posted Feb 17, 2004
Well, how much more 'alternative' could you get? I mean, they always write them so that they fit for everyone. Keeping it as vague as possible.
Though I was read a horoscope where I would meet a man but nothing would come out of it because I was afraid of his dog - I love dogs!
And I'm really 
but could you give me a hint hwo those horoscopes in "Dirk Gently's..." worked again?
Methos
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Zak T Duck Posted Feb 17, 2004
Get a job for writing horroscopes for a newspaper that you know someone you don't like reads
Make sure that you write dodgy horroscopes for the person you don't likes star sign. Note that this has the added side effect of losing 1/12 of the readership of the said newspaper.
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U563386 Posted Feb 18, 2004
Very cruel this but I always thought that if there was a horoscope that just read "Yes, you are fat." we'd have mass depression on our hands.
Hokum really shouldn't be that powerful.
(starting to see why I got top class cynic!)
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Methos (one half of the HHH Management) Posted Feb 19, 2004
Ah, I remember, yes.
Well, I think the reaction to a horoscope this fitting would more likeley be mass hysteria. "They are out there!" "They are watching us!" - whoever "they" are.
Methos
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happyhappygirl Posted Feb 25, 2004
Aren't I a sweetie too.
This was a surprise as I'm really quite cynical. I think the questions are a bit dodgy, there were quite a few that I would have answered differently to all the choices I was given.
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kelli - ran 2 miles a day for 2012, aiming for the same for 2013 Posted Feb 25, 2004
A top grade cycnic.
Something of a surprise, because I was trying not to hit obvious 'I'm a cynic' answer every time...
So even when I am actively trying not to be, I should still loosen up a bit 
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Demon Drawer Posted Feb 25, 2004
Another Top Grade Cynic but then I am politically active IRL.
DD (possible future MP) 
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Flamestrike Posted Feb 25, 2004
Well I am a 2nd rate cynic actully more world weary but I should laugh less at children - hmmmm
Thought I was more cynical than that - guess I am in a hopeful mood today.
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Behind Geddon's wall, The Wall of death! (chemist-assassin, keeper of the hooded swan) Posted Feb 25, 2004
Top grade as befits any true desciple of Diogenes. Could somebody move please, you're blocking the light!
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