• Deep Thoughts and Silliness

    Just what it says on the tin

    • I thought I had escaped

      Wednesday, 23 Apr 2008 - 19:19 GMT

      The web is fully of odd tests designed to reveal your true self. They all seem to be run by dating websites, which makes the one I just tried slightly disturbing. It’s the Dante’s Inferno Test (HT: John Wilkins). And the results are…

      The Dante’s Inferno Test has banished you to the Sixth Level of Hell – The City of Dis!

      Level Who are sent there? Score
      Purgatory Repenting Believers Very Low
      Level 1 – Limbo Virtuous Non-Believers High
      Level 2 Lustful Low
      Level 3 Gluttonous Low
      Level 4 Prodigal and Avaricious Low
      Level 5 Wrathful and Gloomy Low
      Level 6 – The City of Dis Heretics Very High
      Level 7 Violent Low
      Level 8 – the Malebolge Fraudulent, Malicious, Panderers Moderate
      Level 9 – Cocytus Treacherous Low

      Level descriptions. Take the test

      I do wonder though, is there really any difference between Diss and Limbo?

      Last updated: Wednesday, 23 Apr 2008 - 19:19 GMT

      • Comments

        • Date:
          Wednesday, 23 Apr 2008 - 19:30 GMT
          Cath Ennis said:

          Bob, I’ll see you in hell. Is Level 6 close to the food court?

        • Date:
          Wednesday, 23 Apr 2008 - 20:44 GMT
          Jennifer Rohn said:

          No, the toilets.

        • Date:
          Wednesday, 23 Apr 2008 - 20:46 GMT
          Matt Brown said:

          Bob O’Hara: moderate panderer.

        • Date:
          Wednesday, 23 Apr 2008 - 21:33 GMT
          Henry Gee said:

          Unlike some of you miserable sinners, I just about managed to scrape into purgatory, which is, I believe, very similar to a dentist’s waiting room in Watford.

        • Date:
          Wednesday, 23 Apr 2008 - 21:41 GMT
          Cath Ennis said:

          I can’t imagine the meals on offer in hell’s food court being any better than your average mall fare. Separating the food court and toilets on different levels therefore sounds hellish indeed.

        • Date:
          Wednesday, 23 Apr 2008 - 22:18 GMT
          Henry Gee said:

          Oh, by the way, about Diss. I know nothing about it except that it appeared in a John Betjeman poem, and it has a railway station (my regular train stops there). But I am prepared to believe it is rather like limbo – in the middle of nowhere, it’s always on the way to somewhere else. My sister, desperate to keep Cromer all to herself, tried very hard to persuade me to live in Diss, solely for the commuting opportunities. Sigh. If I wanted that I’d have stayed in Ilford.

        • Date:
          Thursday, 24 Apr 2008 - 04:40 GMT
          Bob O'Hara said:

          No, the toilets.

          There aren’t any toilets in Hell. As Rowan Atkinson pointed out, it is damnation without relief.

        • Date:
          Thursday, 24 Apr 2008 - 06:57 GMT
          Richard Grant said:

          Diss only exists because the Fens get embarrassed that no one’s around.

        • Date:
          Thursday, 24 Apr 2008 - 09:00 GMT
          Matt Brown said:

          Haha, I’m an extreme heretic from the City of Dis. Bob – we’re on the same floor, but I get the office.

        • Date:
          Friday, 25 Apr 2008 - 15:32 GMT
          Heather Etchevers said:

          Same profile as Bob except I get to hang out in Limbo in even more illustrious company.

        • Date:
          Friday, 25 Apr 2008 - 15:47 GMT
          Henry Gee said:

          The dice are loaded, of course. I filled out the questionnaire in the way I thought a Bible-basher would, and I still only got as far as purgatory. The God of this test hates everybody.


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