Do You Have ESP?



  • Continuing the discussion from 🎂The cupcake thread of celebrations.:

    @dkf said:

    @abarker said:
    I don't have ESP.

    How are we supposed to know that, now? We don't have ESP…

    First off, I believe that @dkf can only speak for himself when claiming lack of ESP. Thus, he must have been using the royal we. Claiming lack of ESP for others would be very rude, as how would he know unless they told him?

    @dkf: If you were using the plural we: shame on you!

    Now, to the point: In the interest of fair and honest communication, I think that everyone should add a post here indicating whether or not they have ESP.



  • As noted in the quote in the OP, I do not have ESP.


  • I survived the hour long Uno hand

    I do not have an ESP.

    I do have a Schecter and a Fender.



  • I do not have ESP.

    I do have ESPN.



  • My car definitely has ESP.


  • BINNED

    How am I supposed to know if I have ESP? I don't have ESP!

    Filed under: ESP_NOT_FOUND


  • FoxDev

    I don't have ESP.

    I don't have PES either.



  • Do you have Pez?



  • @Rhywden said:

    ESP

    I have an ESP.



  • @cdosrun1 said:

    @Rhywden said:
    ESP

    I have an ESP.

    A friend of mine is member of the ESP.


  • I survived the hour long Uno hand

    I have ESP, depending on your definition of S



  • @Yamikuronue said:

    I have ESP, depending on your definition of S

    Spiny Monkey-Orange?


  • I survived the hour long Uno hand

    Yes, my perception is particularly spiny today :)



  • I think @Eldelshell is from ESP.



  • I don't know how to give these context, so I'll just write them down:

    Eggplant Salami Pizza
    Exceptionally Smelly Penis
    Excessive Semen Problem
    Excruciating Spleen Pain
    Esophageal Spinal Protuberance
    Extra Special Pizzazz
    Edible Strawberry Panties

    hmmm... why are so many of these body-horror?

    Effectively... Scratch... Pandas...

    OK, I'm done.


  • I survived the hour long Uno hand

    @Bort said:

    Edible Strawberry Panties

    I might have those, too :)



  • Depends on which ISO code you're using.

    And that's a reply you'll only get in a place like this


  • FoxDev

    @Bort said:

    Eggplant Salami Pizza

    That could work

    @Bort said:

    Excruciating Spleen Pain

    ...you may want to see a doctor...



  • Since I've recently become addicted to Elite: Dangerous, I have become an explorer of ESPs.





  • For the reader's comfort, I'll paste all the definitions here

    • Electronic Stability Program
    • Spain (ISO Country code)
    • Especially
    • English for Specific Purposes
    • España (Spain)
    • Encapsulating Security Payload
    • Electric Sound Products (guitar manufacturer)
    • Education Support Personnel
    • Extended Service Plan
    • Enhanced Services Platform
    • Extrasensory Perception
    • Electrostatic Precipitator
    • Environmental Studies Program
    • Event Stream Processing
    • Enhanced Super-parallel Processing
    • Eastern State Penitentiary (Philadelphia, PA)
    • Electrical Submersible Pump
    • Exchangeable Sodium Percentage
    • Electric Submersible Pump
    • Estimated Street Price
    • Electro Selective Pattern (Olympus cameras)
    • Energy Service Provider
    • Electronic Statement Presentment
    • E-Mail Service Provider
    • Energy Saving Products
    • Ensemble Streamflow Prediction
    • Essential Study Partner
    • Electronic Skip Protection (portable CD players)
    • Enterococcal Surface Protein (gene)
    • Electric Service Provider
    • External Static Pressure
    • Embedded Systems Programming
    • Enterprise Service Provider
    • European Society for Photobiology
    • External Service Provider
    • Extended Stack Pointer
    • Energy Saving Programmability (Philips)
    • Encapsulation Security Protocol (IPSec)
    • Eudora Sharing Protocol
    • Electronic Speed Control
    • Extended Service Program
    • Enhanced Serial Port
    • Enterprise Security Platform (internet security systems)
    • Empirical Studies of Programmers (Conference)
    • Extra Special People
    • Embedded Support Partner
    • Electronic Security Perimeter (computer security)
    • Emulation Sensing Processor
    • Emergency Services Program
    • Early Support Program
    • Error Some Place (attributed to Sam Walton)
    • Economic Security Project
    • E-commerce Service Provider
    • Équipement sous Pression (French: Equipment Under Pressure)
    • Electronic Shift Program
    • Emotional Selling Point (business/marketing)
    • Environmental Systems Products Holdings, Inc
    • Extranet for Security Professionals (US OPM/DARPA)
    • Earthquake Survival Program
    • Encapsulated Post Script
    • Extended Services Processor (Cisco)
    • Extended Self-Containing Prolog
    • Enhanced Survey Program
    • Engineering Support Personnel, Inc. (Orlando, FL)
    • EUV SpectroPhotometer
    • Ecological Society of the Philippines
    • External Services Provider(s)
    • Elliot Sound Products
    • Ethernet Serial Port
    • Extremely Small Penis
    • Econometric Software Package
    • Encoding Specificity Principle (cognitive psychology)
    • Esophagojejunostomy
    • Electromagnetic Surface Patch
    • Epididymal Secretory Protein
    • Extreme Support Through Personalization
    • Extra Special Powers :-)
    • Extra Simple Pascal
    • Equally-Spaced Polynomial
    • Evolutionary Spiral Process
    • Essential Service Protection
    • Electronic Skid Prevention (automobiles)
    • European School of Physiotherapy (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
    • Emergency Sickness Plan
    • Electronic Sales Partner
    • Electric Service Priority
    • Earth-Surface-Potential
    • Embedded Service Processor (Cisco)
    • Enterprise Simulation Platform (Microsoft)
    • Exposure Smart Protector (hearing aid)
    • Enriched Support Program
    • EMV Script Processor
    • Errored Second - Path
    • Enhanced Services Providers
    • Emily's Strange Posse
    • Extension Specific Processing
    • Emulex SCSI Processor (Emulex)
    • Enhanced SAR (Segmentation and Reassembly) Processor
    • Engineering Support Program
    • Engineer Starters Program
    • Edge Services Provider
    • Envelopes and Stubby Pencil
    • Extended Service Package
    • Extended Service Processor
    • External Sensory Perception
    • External Simulation Protocol
    • Erstsemesterinnen Projekt (German: first semester project)
    • Enterprise Security Protector (Visionael)
    • Energy Savings Payback
    • Enterprise Systems Platform (Cybermation Inc.)
    • Enhanced Support Program
    • Energy System Planning
    • Encrypting Security Payload (IPSec)
    • Emergency & Special Program
    • Electronic Support Planner (USAP)
    • Electronic Systems Personnel
    • Electronic Sales Promotion
    • Electro-Sensitive Programming
    • Electronic Sort Processor
    • Editable Stand-Alone Presentation
    • Engineer Supply Point
    • Engineering Service Project
    • Enhanced Storage Platform
    • Enterprise Strategic Plan
    • Equipment Survey Program
    • Essential Spare Pivoting
    • Executive Screening Program (various organizations)
    • Expeditionary Site Plan (Air Force Instruction 10-404)
    • Extended Sick Pay (AmSEC)
    • Event Script Programming
    • Engine System Prognosis (US DARPA)
    • Emergency Service Pack
    • Enhanced Server Pages (Grey Matter Intelligent and Interactive Inc.; web scripting language and file extension)
    • Educación Sexual Pública (Spanish)
    • Educational Series for Parents
    • Electronic Strike Package
    • Enhanced Service Package (Sprint, MCI)
    • Emergency Sprinkler Pump
    • Employee Stock Program
    • End of Segment Punctuation (Wordfast software)
    • Expanded Shortest Path (routing algorithm)
    • Exclusive Services Payment (theatre director rehearsal pay)
    • Expert Speech Processor
    • Ezilenlerin Sosyalist Partisi
    • Employer Sponsored Passes
    • Enroute Spacing Program
    • Element Skateboard Products
    • Electronic Security and Patrol
    • Ecumenical Service for Peace (Cameroon)
    • Eastenders Strong Pils
    • Exploitation of Signals Parameters
    • Eureka Springs Paranormal (Arkansas)
    • Electronic Systems Package
    • Extra Sex Please
    • Earth Sciences Partnership
    • E-Services Philippines (trade show)
    • Early Silicon Performance
    • Early Site Permit
    • Ecologically Sustainable Production (forest resources)
    • Easy Setup Program (software)
    • Easy Software Products (Morgan Hill, CA)
    • Eat, Sleep and Poop (parenting guide)
    • École de Santé Publique (French: School of Public Health; France and Belgium)
    • École Supérieure de Plasturgie (French: Graduate School of Plastic Processing)
    • École Supérieure de Publicité de Communication et de Marketing (French: Graduate School of Communication, Advertising and Marketing)
    • Economic Strategy Panel (California)
    • Education Scholars Program (various locations)
    • Educational Software Package (various organizations)
    • Educational Surrogate Parent (various locations)
    • Effective Sales Presentation
    • Effective Service Provision (UK)
    • Elder Signs Press (publisher; Lake Orion, MI)
    • Electric Soft Parade (band)
    • Electronic Systems Protection (various companies)
    • Electroshock Protection
    • Electronic Submission Procedure (Texas Automobile Insurance Plan Association)
    • Elektroniczna Skrzynka Podawcza (Polish: Electronic Inbox)
    • Ely State Prison (Nevada)
    • Email Standards Project
    • Electrochemical Simulations Package (software)
    • Electronic Stabilisation Programme (cars)
    • Electronic Security Products (various locations)
    • Enseignes Services Plus (French sign company)
    • Entelligence Security Provider (desktop security)
    • Entente Sportive du Plateau de Saclay (French sports club)
    • Enterprise Server Product
    • Enterprise Security Practice (451 Research)
    • Enterprise Security Program (various organizations)
    • Entertainment Software Publishing (Japan)
    • Entrepreneurial Signature Program (Ohio)
    • Environnement Sécurité Pyrotechnie (French: Environment Safety Pyrotechnics)
    • Environmental Science and Policy (various schools)
    • Environmental Screening Process (Ministry of the Environment; Canada)
    • Environmental Service Professionals, Inc. (Palm Springs, CA)
    • Environmental Services Project (various organizations)
    • Environmental Stewardship Program (various locations)
    • Employment Support Program (Massachusetts)
    • Employee Selection Process (various organizations)
    • Emergency Standby Power (various companies)
    • End Software Patents


  • I better still have it.

    I paid quite a bit for that network.


  • FoxDev

    @Bort said:

    Excessive Semen Problem

    otherwise known as @algorythmics unless i miss my guess.



  • You couldn't even but them in alphabetical order‽ Damn you!



  • If I have it, you would already know it.

    Wait...Something is coming through....Ahh, yes.

    ESP is about knowing the future, not being able to transmit and receive thoughts.

    Now all I have to do is figure out which of you didn't send that message, because that the person who knows.



  • Well I thought it was better like this. They are sorted in terms of "ranking", sorting them alphabetically would lose information.

    If you want to sort them just use @PythonBot and.. no wait, that one doesn't work, so just call @GLaDOS... nope, out of service too.


  • BINNED

    @loose said:

    Wait...Something is coming through....Ahh, yes.

    ESP is about knowing the future, not being able to transmit and receive thoughts.

    Now all I have to do is figure out which of you didn't send that message, because that the person who knows.

    The problem is that statement is so pedantic that it could have come from any of us.


  • Banned

    Cars in Poland hardly ever have working air conditioning, much less ESP!



  • I've had several ESBs in the past. Not while posting, though you might think so given some of the things I've posted, but still.

    Oops, you said, 'P', not 'B'. I got confused, I must have thought this was the HomebrewTalk forum for a minute there. 😅



  • @anonymous234 said:

    Well I thought it was better like this. They are sorted in terms of "ranking", sorting them alphabetically would lose information.

    Don't tell me how my CDO works!



  • @loose said:

    If I have it, you would already know it.

    Wait...Something is coming through....Ahh, yes.

    ESP is about knowing the future, not being able to transmit and receive thoughts.

    Now all I have to do is figure out which of you didn't send that message, because that the person who knows.

    Well, I didn't send that message. Because the person who sent that message is full of shit. ESP includes:

    • Telepathy
    • Clairaudience
    • Clairvoyance
    • Precognition
    • Retrocognition

    Essentially, the ability to gain information via any means that does not require the use of the standard 5 senses.

    The term was first adopted by a Duke University psychologist, Joseph Banks Rhine.

    @antiquarian said:

    The problem is that statement is so pedantic that it could have come from any of us.

    But it's wrong.


  • ♿ (Parody)

    @abarker said:

    But it's wrong.

    We do that a lot, too.



  • All I can contribute is that I received the message. My assumption that it was from many was because of the volume and "echos".

    It would appear that one or more among you may be faking their pedantry...


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  • I can perceive information that doesn't come from any sense. For example, through my memory.



  • @abarker said:

    Essentially, the ability to gain information via any means that does not require the use of the standard 5 senses ("sight, smell, sound, taste, touch").

    In this sense, I definitively do have ESP. Right now, I sense an overdose of warmth, neither by sight, nor by smell, nor by sound, nor by taste, nor by touch, but by the heat receptors in my skin.


  • I survived the hour long Uno hand

    It also ignores proprioception, whatever that sensation you get when you have too much CO2 in your bloodstream, that uncomfortable sensation some people get at the approach of low pressure fronts, muscle burn, and so many more "senses" that the basic 5 can't possibly explain.

    1. Equlibrioception
    2. Thermoception (as mentioned above)
    3. Nociception
    4. Hunger
    5. Respiratory rate control
    6. Salt level monitoring
    7. Chronoception

    And many more that I couldn't be bothered to fit into one to three words.

    Essentially, everybody has ESP, according to @abarker's incomplete definition of it. Non-traditional senses have feelings too.



  • @Placeholder said:

    proprioception

    This is one of my favorite words ever.

    It also let me coin a succinct phrase to describe, when you are driving, how well you know where the boundaries of your car are (something that was much more relevant to me when I had to park in a lot where there was often very very little maneuverability space): "vehicular proprioception," which I think also sounds pretty awesome. 😄

    (It's not a perfect analogue as your vehicular proprioception is rooted in your sight, but it's close enough to be useful.)


  • Fake News

    So what is ESP? I'm not psychic you know...


  • FoxDev

    Extremely Salty Peanuts



  • insert references to morphogenetic field theory and morphic resonance



  • I have RSP

    <invisible=I hate you all/>


  • BINNED

    @anonymous234 said:

    Extra Sex Please

    Request for ESP submitted


  • BINNED

    My request just got denied ....



  • Did you ask nicely?

    On a related matter: I overheard somebody saying that their partner has ESP, as every time he begins to even think about asking her for sex, she says no.


  • BINNED

    @loose said:

    Did you ask nicely?

    Did you notice where the P stands for?



  • I shall ignore the what's and where's (for the moment) and let others take up that challenge. I just wanted to say, without malice, that just because a "please" is used, you cannot assume it's a nice request. I have often noticed that a "please" is "thrown in" as if it is some sort of magic word that gets you want you want.



  • Definition 1: any sense (way to perceive external information) that humans don't generally have.

    Definition 2: an ability to perceive external information that defies the laws of physics

    If you want ESP of the first type, you can get a small magnet in your finger to feel magnetic fields. Or you can learn echolocation, or all other sorts of cool stuff.


  • FoxDev

    @anonymous234 said:

    echolocation

    Is just fancy hearing; hardly ESP


  • Fake News

    @loose said:

    some sort of magic word that gets you want you want.

    Just today I met someone who was wearing a t-shirt with this xkcd comic:


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