Are you the kind of person who has to touch the hot plate to find out if it is hot, or does someone saying "watch out it is hot" do it for you?

Do you have to experience something before you will believe it? Or can you simply understand that someone else who knows better says to stay away?

50/50

yeah I agree with eK, fiddy/fiddy

I like to try out new experiences but if somebody older and wiser warned me against it I'd listen.

I'd like hover my hand a few millimeters above the hot plate to see if i can feel the heat rising from it. sif burn your hand just to find out ... thats crazy talk! :P

last edited by demon at 15:30:34 26/Sep/05

shoot first ask questions later.

I'd like hover my hand a few millimeters above the hot plate to see if i can feel the heat rising from it. sif burn your hand just to find out ... thats crazy talk! :P

.GIFs or lying!

Emo you say? sounds more like a Common Sense question.

I use common sense myself. And for the unexplained, i form an opinion through research, what others say, and logic.

So Kat, did you know having unprotected sex would cause kids or did you have to experience it to find out?? (joke. was wide open for it.)

50/50 depends if its a subject i have existing knowledge on.

if I have no idea about the subject i'll take the word of someone else - if I feel I disagree based on my own knowledge I'll test the waters.

if someone says 'that hotplate is hot don't touch it' I wouldn't - but not because of what they said, but because I know that hotplates tend to be hot.

if someone said, don't touch that volcanic rock because it will burn your hand I wouldn't because I have no idea about volcanic rocks.

however if someone said don't dive into that river because there is a rock under the surface and I'd been swimming in that river several times before, I would base my decision on my own experience rather than what they told me.

meh.

Dangerous things like getting hit by cars will hurt I'll believe. Other things like that thing feels like play-doh or that mouse is heavier than that other one, I'll usually check it out, probably due to curiosity more than anything else.

last edited by Seven at 15:43:44 26/Sep/05

Level with us Kat, the hot plate scenario is just a euphemism for something else.

Of course, you're expecting to be asked this, so i fully anticipate a detailed emo story, ending with the lesson "sometimes i do stupid s*** and get hurt" being leaned, and we benefit from (yet another) insight into your mysterious emo character.

Awesome

last edited by korbs at 15:51:04 26/Sep/05

Are you the kind of person who has to touch the hot plate to find out if it is hot, or does someone saying "watch out it is hot" do it for you?

Well if I had never touched the hot plate before and never did and only took the advice of someone else I may have got through without being burnt, however I would never understand WHY not to touch it. I could be told, because it burns. Then I would wonder what is this burns?
Sometimes you have to be burnt in order to understand..

Sometimes you have to be burnt in order to understand..

burn me, cos i have no idea what the hell you just said

"Tell a man there are a billion stars in the galaxy and he will believe you.
Tell a man the seat has wet paint on it and he has to touch it".

I believe only what evidence shows me there is no reason to reject the null hypothesis. I'm not going to believe the sky is pink just on your say-so, but I'm not going to touch a hot plate just to find out if you're right or not.

"insert generic answer to generic question here"

Life is pretty boring if you dont do nothing, however I would judge each scenario, like for example I wouldnt want to get some chick pregant at 18 years to see what its like to waste my young days.

Level with us Kat, the hot plate scenario is just a euphemism for something else.

Actually no... I am that stubborn and stupid that I would touch it and have on many occasions :D

I am one of those frustrating people that you try and warn time and time again, but I won't listen until I have experienced myself...... really pisses my loved ones off



last edited by Kat at 16:04:57 26/Sep/05

Let us hope that you never encounter a taipan in your lifetime.

So shoudlnt the question be:

If you came to the understanding that the hot plate burt upon touching, would you still continue to touch it hopeing that it wont burn this time?


last edited by Tollaz0r! at 16:16:14 26/Sep/05

it's called wisdom, some people can see it/have it, some people can't/don't.

Let us hope that you never encounter a taipan in your lifetime.

That is the sweetest thing I have ever heard on qgl.. thank you *hugs*

So shoudlnt the question be:

No. That isn't the question I want the answer to

I on the other hand do wish that you meet a taipan.

playing on the highway isn't dangerous.

if someone tells me the hot plate is hot dont touch it... i smash it

That is all you can do, you have lost the ability of the gentil touch :p

Let us hope that you never encounter a taipan in your lifetime

He doesn't post much anymore so I'm guessing you'd be safe ;P

My philosophy:
Take the labels off an let nature sort the rest out

acetame that made me lol

50/50, just depends on what it is. Sometimes in woodwork at school I wanna put my hand on the table saw or table router to see if it would hurt....

tell me to stay away I'm more likely to go do it. Depends what it is. If someone says a gun is loaded and if I point it at my head & pull the trigger I'll die, I'm obviously not going to try it (sorry nF).

last edited by whoop at 19:11:12 26/Sep/05

i knew you weren't hardcore

nF is in the lead at this stage

change the question. "if you where told that centerlink will ask for the money back when they find out you were working, would you still tell them that your working?"

STOP STEALING MY s***E TROY!!!! *insert angry face*

So Kat, did you know having unprotected sex would cause kids or did you have to experience it to find out?? (joke. was wide open for it.)

shut up you little twit, you're been on these forums what a week

3 or 4.

Generally I have to experience something before believing it. Obviously it doesn't stretch to all things, like if someone said "Dont eat that, it will kill you", odds are good I wouldn't eat it to find out if they were telling the truth. But if someone tells me "God is real" or "Ghosts are real" or "The new Nintendo Revolution controller isn't just a ridiculous looking gimmick" I wouldn't believe it without experiencing some proof first-hand for myself.

don't touch the hotplate; it's hot

*slowly reach to touch*

then, based on their reaction, i act

As far as everything I've read uni wise its primarily a developmental thing. It all really stems from childhood.

It is in a childrens nature to touch sharp objects, lick dirty surfaces etc until they're told not to or they can associate a given feeling with the proper reaction then learning for themselves that its bad to do certain things.. Eg sharp object would create a pain reaction. Pain is a bad feeling to experience.

Depending on how you are positioned developmentally speaking you'll be able to interpret the correct way to react in a given number of situations therefore learning for yourself that it is indeed a bad thing to touch a hotplate if its 'hot' but again that all stems from your childhood and how much your parents may or may not have guided you through

If you find yourself continually doing things like touching hot plates then you're just simply gathering evidence to create a proper reaction say for the next time you're presented with a similar situation, developing the right response for a given stimulus and so on. Some people take longer then others to develop that ability to associate but thats attached to a whole host of childhood type things aswell..

its called a HOTplate for a reason. so no. i wouldn't touch a circle of flame. maybe if I was 4 years old and it was an electric one and I wanted to touch the glowy lights or something..

s***. I can't edit my post, have to log into something, doesn't work for me - so can you all just please ignore my retarded < b> tag, kthx.

Some hot plates you can't help but touch.

http://projectstripe.com/i/skylights.jpg

depends if the hotplates were on

I feel dirty touching those hotplates nf...

ahhh taggs... ya daggs!

Ha, i almost typed some really emo s*** here. Lucky i changed my mind or i would have been very embarrassed.

Basically, 50/50 depends on the situation. Sometimes you just feel like saying 'f*** the consequences!.'

When I was younger I was a daredevil, now I'm paranoid freak who takes 0 risks.

So I guess I learnt never to take risks and live a boring predictable life. But I don't make any mistakes, except the mistake of not to take risks at all. lolz OOHH how profound life is.

Or can you simply understand that someone else who knows better says to stay away?

'can't say I'd touch the hotplate, but I did used to have a thing for bridgejumping as a kid :P


gaming related - I'd never take someone else's opinion on something onboard without checking out the software for myself. most people seemed to like CS and the Sims for some reason :/

last edited by koopz at 12:45:36 27/Sep/05