A test

BEAT · 23-09-2004 7:52pm

Mordeth wrote:

i thought blue hammer too

this either means something very very deep about us, or it's complete bollox.

I also said blue hammer....I feel.....brainwashed :eek:

Hello Kitty · 23-09-2004 8:39pm

I thought of a red spanner.....but before i finished reading to the end i changed my mind to a red hammer?!

Piste · 23-09-2004 9:18pm

Yup, red hammer as well

accensi0n · 23-09-2004 9:26pm

grey spanner

JackKelly · 23-09-2004 9:26pm

um i got "yellow spanner"

anyone else?

Matters · 23-09-2004 9:43pm

I thought of of Pat Kenny and Grey

Miguel_Sanchez · 23-09-2004 10:02pm

I thought of a purple carrot named Roger.

Is that normal?

ando · 23-09-2004 10:37pm

brown hammer

Kell McDonald · 24-09-2004 3:04am

Red Spanner.
Though I can say in all honesty, what I actually thought of was a red monkey wrench, I just said spanner out loud 'cause I couldn't fit the words 'monkey wrench' into my fragile wittle mind.
Why a red monkey wrench? Half-Life: Opposing Force. One of the residual mental images that comes from playing too many first-person shooters ( ack! ack! crosshair retinal burn! )
D'ya think the test takes that into account...? :rolleyes:

the_syco · 24-09-2004 3:13am

Black drill, on a red-wood coloured workbench.

simu · 24-09-2004 3:25am

I got a pink wood shaver.

I'd also like to know why people were supposed to get a red hammer.

I've seen a similar test before where there was a lot of scooling down to be done and people had to name a vegetable at the end and the idea was that most people would pick a carrot because of it's long, vertical shape.

Going Demented · 24-09-2004 8:45am

Red Hammer here

ToxicPaddy · 24-09-2004 9:53am

Green Hammer here..

Has anyone got it right yet

Too early to read all the thread!!!!

Tox

pickarooney · 24-09-2004 10:04am

Most people here are deliberately not picking hammer, particulary those who say "chainsaw", "hacksaw" or anything similarly specific. The test only works if you give the answer made automatically by your brain, i.e, a word-f-r-word association as opposed to thinking of an object and then giving its name. You could make a list of a hundred categories and most of the answers would be predicatable, e.g. fruit would always be apple or orange for native English speakers, vegetable is usually carrot (occasionally potato)...

Kêrmêttê · 24-09-2004 10:12am

Matters wrote:

I thought of of Pat Kenny and Grey

Hehe! The ultimate "tool"

Somebody hates me! They've turned the radio in work over to RTE1 just now and I'm being forced to listen to that bloody spanner right now!! :eek:
help!

simu · 24-09-2004 1:22pm

pickarooney wrote:

Most people here are deliberately not picking hammer, particulary those who say "chainsaw", "hacksaw" or anything similarly specific. The test only works if you give the answer made automatically by your brain, i.e, a word-f-r-word association as opposed to thinking of an object and then giving its name. You could make a list of a hundred categories and most of the answers would be predicatable, e.g. fruit would always be apple or orange for native English speakers, vegetable is usually carrot (occasionally potato)...

Hm, but I always see things in my head before I find the word for them.

pickarooney · 24-09-2004 1:27pm

simu wrote:

Hm, but I always see things in my head before I find the word for them.

Because you're converting the word on the page to the image, seeing an associated image and then describing it - two extra steps, which negate the verbal association.