Following the questionnaires were a series of tasks. In one of these I had to arrange small wooden coloured blocks to match a pattern shown to me by the experimenter.
These were simple geometric shapes but the task for some reason reminded me of the joke in which a psychologist is showing one of his patients a series of Rorschach inkblots. "What do you see in this picture?" the psychologist asks as the first inkblot is shown. The patient hesitates for a moment before a replying "a man and woman having sex".
"And in this picture...?" the psychologist asks as he displays the second inkblot.
"A man and a woman having sex" the patient replies.
"And in this one?"
"A man and a woman having sex" comes the reply.
"I think you are preoccupied with sex" concludes the psychologist.
"I'm preoccupied with sex?" replies the patient, "you're the one with all the dirty pictures!".
Okay, I didn't say it was a funny joke. Sadly, the psychologist testing me didn't have any dirty pictures. At least none that he was showing me.
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well I thought it was funny
A man is visiting a mental institution and he asks the director how is it decided who needs to be committed for treatment.
The director replies "Well we fill this bath with water and give the person a teaspoon, a tea cup and a bucket and ask them to empty the bath"
The visitor then replies "Ah I see, if they are sane, then they will use the bucket to empty the bath, as that's the biggest tool"
The Director then replies, "No a sane person would just pull the fvcking plug out, now would you like a bed next to the window?"
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