INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES HOARDER?

Then May-Britt has some bad news for you

The ultimate blogger trick. Lacking time and inspiration for a photo? Then all you have to do is write down an inspirational quote in your prettiest handwriting and roll out the red carpet for a ton of likes. Women love quotes.

I have a love-hate relationship with this trick. Some quotes (like the ones you’ll find on Amayzine.com for example) are ones I can enjoy, especially when they’re funny. But if you use a quote you have to be careful it’s not one that you’ll find in your nearest Target or Marks & Spencers store. Those are always way too cringe worthy.

A sentence may exude inspiration, but framing it and mantling it above your fireplace is just so domestic. I remember seeing photos of a wall in someone’s house and they had written ‘Carpe Fucking Diem’ on it. I don’t know about you but…childish much?

“I remember seeing photos of a wall in someone’s house and they had written ‘Carpe Fucking Diem’ on it.”

Apparently there’s a huge market for quotes. People are obsessed. Reason enough for a university in Ontario to do some research to see how intellectual these quote slurps are. They let their selected test group look at some randomly formed sentences. They had mixed and matched some sentences from different quotes.

Afterwards, they showed the test panel the ‘real’ quotes from people like Ghandi. Apparently the quote obsessed group are easily pleased as long a the semantics are correct. ‘Pseudo profound bullshit’ was a hit with the test group. Apparently the content of the quote doesn’t interest them too much, which clearly shows the link between their intellectual levels and their need for quotes,

You know what, I wouldn’t attach too much importance to this research. The researchers need to fill their days with activities too.