So, you think you're important then :p
So, you think you're important then :p
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ukbob

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16,277 posts

295 months

Monday 9th January 2006
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Isnt it scientifically correct (forget the word for hand writing analysis) to assume that people who underline their name in their signature are trying to make themselves that much more important, unconsciously.

In the same way that people whose writing slants to the right are more outgoing, slants to the left more reserved. Any resident experts?

timmy30

9,325 posts

257 months

Monday 9th January 2006
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Graphology

scorp

8,783 posts

259 months

Monday 9th January 2006
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Graphology is complete and utter rubbish im guessing.

ukbob

Original Poster:

16,277 posts

295 months

Monday 9th January 2006
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timmy30 said:
Graphology
Thats the one

scorp said:
Graphology is complete and utter rubbish im guessing.
I heard it was so effective, many of the larger blue chip companies hired experts, who used the techniques to whittle the last few job applicants down to the best candidates.

timmy30

9,325 posts

257 months

Monday 9th January 2006
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I think it's cobblers, but it's very very popular in France, and so if your'e applying to work for a French firm, chances are they'll use it.

.....thank goodness for keybords

Plotloss

67,280 posts

300 months

Monday 9th January 2006
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Never mind what your handwriting represents, wouldnt it be nice if they actually taught the beauty of well written words in schools?

Bad handwriting, theres just no excuse.

timmy30

9,325 posts

257 months

Monday 9th January 2006
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Plotloss said:
Never mind what your handwriting represents, wouldnt it be nice if they actually taught the beauty of well written words in schools?

Bad handwriting, theres just no excuse.


Being lefthanded doesn't help though.

Einion Yrth

19,575 posts

274 months

Monday 9th January 2006
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Plotloss said:

Bad handwriting, theres just no excuse.

I've not written anything of note by hand for over 20 years, consequently my handwriting is utterly atrocious. Does this make me a bad person? I'm quite bright, and I don't mess in the house. Please, please let me off Mr. Plotloss sir, a bigger boy made me do it.

ApexClipper

27,766 posts

273 months

Monday 9th January 2006
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Unless I really really concentrate, and write very deliberately, my hand-writing is shockin'

TheLemming

4,319 posts

295 months

Monday 9th January 2006
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ukbob said:
timmy30 said:
Graphology
Thats the one

scorp said:
Graphology is complete and utter rubbish im guessing.
I heard it was so effective, many of the larger blue chip companies hired experts, who used the techniques to whittle the last few job applicants down to the best candidates.


Many of them have at least at some point consulted feng-shui "experts" when designing new buildings.

That it's been endorsed by several large companies doesnt make it any less rubbish...

scorp

8,783 posts

259 months

Monday 9th January 2006
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ukbob said:
I heard it was so effective, many of the larger blue chip companies hired experts, who used the techniques to whittle the last few job applicants down to the best candidates.

You expect me to take that comment seriously right?

PhillT

2,489 posts

255 months

Monday 9th January 2006
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As a journalist who writes mainly in shorthand, my longhand attempts are so atrocious even I can't read them.
I underline my signature. Does that make me an overinflated egomaniac?
Of course, being better than anyone else I don't really care...

Code Monkey

3,318 posts

287 months

Monday 9th January 2006
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anonymous said:
[redacted]



was forced to write with fountain pen as a kid as well; went through loads of them as my handwriting is not suited to writing with one, and just another useless skill that adds nothing to correct development

On leaving school spent lots of time practising to write properly with biro and pencils, to the point when in my old job when people in the office needed things hand written i would get sweet talked into writing it as my handwriting is now much neater than most peoples illegible scrawl.

edit to add

oh yes and i underline my signature, plus full stop at the end with large initial letters for first and last name.
ego, moi?


>> Edited by Code Monkey on Monday 9th January 17:06

Trooper2

6,676 posts

261 months

Monday 9th January 2006
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scorp said:
Graphology is complete and utter rubbish im guessing.




reading the bumps on peoples heads is much more accurate..

timmy30

9,325 posts

257 months

Monday 9th January 2006
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Trooper2 said:

reading the bumps on peoples heads is much more accurate..


a knobbley forehead, and wandering eye is a bad sign.

Einion Yrth

19,575 posts

274 months

Monday 9th January 2006
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timmy30 said:
Trooper2 said:

reading the bumps on peoples heads is much more accurate..


a knobbley forehead, and wandering eye is a bad sign.

Unless you're a Klingon.

ukbob

Original Poster:

16,277 posts

295 months

Monday 9th January 2006
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scorp said:
ukbob said:
I heard it was so effective, many of the larger blue chip companies hired experts, who used the techniques to whittle the last few job applicants down to the best candidates.

You expect me to take that comment seriously right?


Well, I won the hand writing competitions we were forced to enter at school (also with fountain pens) so yes

zcacogp

11,239 posts

274 months

Monday 9th January 2006
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anonymous said:
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Funnily enough, I was forced to write with a fountain pen at school as well.

When I left, I tried the alternatives - biros, rollerballs, fibretips ... and decided that there really is nothing to beat a fountain pen. Get a good one, and you will loathe using anything else.

(My handwriting is still awful, mind. Just that it is slightly less awful when writing with my own fountain pen.)


Oli.

(Surname - Parker.)

motco

17,654 posts

276 months

Monday 9th January 2006
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timmy30 said:
I think it's cobblers, but it's very very popular in France, and so if your'e applying to work for a French firm, chances are they'll use it.

.....thank goodness for keybords


I find ineptitude with keyBOARDS indicative of something or other - I forget what though....

turbobloke

117,352 posts

290 months

Monday 9th January 2006
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That's quite a stunt from the frog graphologists, whittle the short-list for top posts (self-selecting anyway) down to the last two or three by methods that actually work, then make the final decision by tossing a coin - which is what graphology represents. Even if graphology was used throughout, if enough companies use it at every stage there are bound to be some excellent appointments due to randomly selecting the best candidate and these can be held up as 'proof' that graphology works. Like surgeons, graphologists bury their mistakes.