The taste and smell of mint make me queasy.
I have a lot of trouble falling asleep without music.
I dislike salad dressing and have only recently started to actually put even the tiniest bit on my salads.
I am a sasquatch vegetarian.
'What do you have in size 14?...
"Oh we have a few...
"... that ISN"T made out of dead cow."
"Oh."
*Big-footed vegetarian bro-fist.*
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This too. Oh boy this. The guy I mentioned above? Very VERY intense direct-eye-contact talker. I HAVE to look away from him somehow or it just feels like I'm getting the staredown. I am terrible at maintaining eye contact and tend to look just below the face or past someone rather than meeting their gaze.
The best way to handle those situations is to stare at the person's nose bridge rather than the eyes themselves. That way, you can avoid the unease of directly staring at his eyes, while at the same time making it look like you are. Eye contact without eye contact! Heisenberg Socialization!
During the summer months, I hate everything that I wear.
I have a lot of trouble falling asleep without music.
I have tinnitus, and so I always sleep with some kind of background noise -- a fan, a looping Enya album, or if I'm lucky a tin roof during a rainy night.
During the summer months, I hate everything that I wear.
I have a lot of trouble falling asleep without music.I have tinnitus, and so I always sleep with some kind of background noise -- a fan, a looping Enya album, or if I'm lucky a tin roof during a rainy night.
Yeah, tinnitus sucks. One of the many symptoms of my stupid incurable ear disease. :/
I have a sleep sounds machine that I absolutely love. It can do white noise, rain, waves, and assorted other noises. I could not possibly sleep without it.
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I have a lot of trouble falling asleep without music.
This. A thousand times this.
From the time I got my first cassette player, as long as I was somewhere that it was possible, I had music going from the moment I woke up till I was fast asleep. Still like that to a large extent. Almost always have music going in the background, it's a HUGE part of who I am.
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Let's just say I plan to die in my sleep.
Strangled by an iPod.
I can't sleep with music, but I can't sleep in silence. White noise - usually a fan, though I used to have an awesome soundmaker that played wave noises - does the trick.
I also need it near-pitch black. I wrap a pillowcase around my MP3 player so I don't see the glow while it's charging.
I have a lot of trouble falling asleep without music.I have tinnitus, and so I always sleep with some kind of background noise -- a fan, a looping Enya album, or if I'm lucky a tin roof during a rainy night.Yeah, tinnitus sucks. One of the many symptoms of my stupid incurable ear disease. :/
I have a sleep sounds machine that I absolutely love. It can do white noise, rain, waves, and assorted other noises. I could not possibly sleep without it.
What kind do you have? My tinnitus just creates a high-pitched noise when I have nothing else to listen to, but I've heard of others who suffer a reverse effect: sound is almost unbearable to them, and their ideal circumstance is complete silence.
I don't mind shaking hands so much. It's when people I don't know or don't have anything in common with try to talk to me at length. I suddenly feel very awkward and want to run away in panic. Which is odd, really. When I was in college and high school I was the most outgoing and gregarious person you could ever meet. Everyone knew me on campus and I knew everyone right back, it seems.
Funny how things change.
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I have a poultry allergy, which I hate people asking about.
I also have a bean allergy, including peas.
The combination of those two means that I rarely get to join in on any pitch in meals, since there's assuredly one or the other there. Last month, I just walked out after finding all the meat was chicken based.
I tend to trail off when I talk, letting the listener infer too much, and click my tongue as I do so.
I make obscure references constantly, even if they don't fit. (thats what she said)
and I generally listen to a lot of music internally, to the point where I get a great deal of 'earworms', sometimes it keeps me from sleeping.
Sorry lynora, didn't mean to butt in on your conversation=)No worries. You were much better at expressing what I wanted to say anyhow. :)
And yes, the important thing is to ask permission. Cannot stress that enough.
=)
but living in the United States, a place where people seem to have a hard time even looking each other directly in the eye when speakingThis too. Oh boy this. The guy I mentioned above? Very VERY intense direct-eye-contact talker. I HAVE to look away from him somehow or it just feels like I'm getting the staredown. I am terrible at maintaining eye contact and tend to look just below the face or past someone rather than meeting their gaze.
Most of the people I know seem to have a hard time with that, even though they often don’t seem to consciously realize it and I’m not sure why but my natural inclination has always been to look people directly in the eye when addressing them so I often times can unintentionally make people uncomfortable.
I dated a Kenyan girl for a long time and her family loved me because I would always look them in the eye when speaking to them, which is how they like to do things too, and that made things a lot more comfortable then they sometimes can be.
What kind do you have? My tinnitus just creates a high-pitched noise when I have nothing else to listen to, but I've heard of others who suffer a reverse effect: sound is almost unbearable to them, and their ideal circumstance is complete silence.I have a lot of trouble falling asleep without music.I have tinnitus, and so I always sleep with some kind of background noise -- a fan, a looping Enya album, or if I'm lucky a tin roof during a rainy night.Yeah, tinnitus sucks. One of the many symptoms of my stupid incurable ear disease. :/
I have a sleep sounds machine that I absolutely love. It can do white noise, rain, waves, and assorted other noises. I could not possibly sleep without it.
The high pitched whine that won't go away. Exacerbated by most machine sounds. A poorly running motor can put me on the ground unable to tell which way is up. There is no such thing as complete silence. Something is always running. But the closer it gets to complete silence the more I hear that high pitched whine. And this is why I always have music playing when I'm awake and a noise machine when I sleep.
Despite my presence here, in real life I am soft spoken and reserved.Heh, I can relate. I'm smarter in real life than I am here.
This for me too.
Also, I'm an ass.
This too.
If given the chance, I will lick my plate clean. Literally.
This too.
I hate my job. (This combined with the not telling lies made for a fun meeting with my boss' boss when I was asked if I liked my job... lol)
My former boss was an idiot, to put it mildly.
She asked me this question. I was a teller at a bank.
My response was "I work in an entry level position. No one in an entry level position likes their job." She responds, "I like my job." I reply, "Are you in an entry level position?" Stares blankly.
Like I said. Idiot.
I'm not living; I'm waiting.
I work at the same bank as above, but not for the same person. I have a masters degree and am looking to improve my situation. Many days I feel that I'm just waiting. Many days I am.
I'm useless with musical instruments (although I never had any lessons to improve on that).
And this.
I sniff any food before i eat it (did not realize that habit until my wife pointed it out)
Yup. My wife pointed out the same thing for me.
Another quirk of mine is I can't stand anything touching my throat. It makes me feel like I'm about to suffocate. Blankets, collars, even earbud cords; if it brushes my throat I nearly freak out.
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I prefer meat undercooked to the point of literally raw if i think it is from a safe source. I sniff any food before i eat it (did not realize that habit until my wife pointed it out)
I'm the opposite. I like veggies raw, pasta and similar foods undercooked, and meat overcooked. I'd rather eat a hockey puck than anything with even a hint of red.
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AM Tangent.
Hate headphones , high pitched whiny noises, power windows.
Like rotary phones.
I have a lot of trouble falling asleep without music.
I can barely fall asleep if I have to sleep on the first (ground) floor. I also just have brutal insomnia in general, unless a movie is playing in the background.
I only eat eggplant if it is in Chinese food. No eggplant parmesan or moussaka for me.
I can always remember a path that I have walked, so I tend to always take the long way back.
I loathe buses as a form of public transportation in cities. Intercity buses are fine though.
I am very tall and rather heavy. That combined with my incredible clumsiness, turns me into a unintentional wreckingball. Somthing that i find very annoying, since i often break my own stuff, and also sometimes my friends stuff when i forget to be carefull.
I am very tall and rather heavy. That combined with my incredible clumsiness, turns me into a unintentional wreckingball. Somthing that i find very annoying, since i often break my own stuff, and also sometimes my friends stuff when i forget to be carefull.
Your name wouldn't happen to be Jerry, would it? Because he does the exact same thing, and is 6'4" and quite heavy, to boot.
I am very tall and rather heavy. That combined with my incredible clumsiness, turns me into a unintentional wreckingball. Somthing that i find very annoying, since i often break my own stuff, and also sometimes my friends stuff when i forget to be carefull.Your name wouldn't happen to be Jerry, would it? Because he does the exact same thing, and is 6'4" and quite heavy, to boot.
Nah not the guy, I do wish him luck thou.
Btw how much is 6'4 in cm ?
Btw how much is 6'4 in cm ?
193.04 cm
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Bad puns and movie quotes define me. With my friends, there are heaps of both! (And bless them for it!)
I have a somewhat "alien" physiology. My body temperature and blood pressure are both unnaturely low- but within medically safe parameters. And while I am allergic (in lesser or greater degree) to almost everything natural and organic, I can deal with the harshest chemicals/vapors,etc with little to no effect.
I also might add that I have had every hair color (except the one I love most- hence my avatar here) naturally at some stage in my life. Oh, an my mothers eyes turned from bright blue to the scintillating green they are now while she was pregnant with me.
Lastly. the bio-electric field my body generates both helps and hinders technology. Example: I cannot wear a watch, but my touch sometimes inexplicably restores electronic devices to functioning.
I guess you can file this post under "Believe it or not."
For all of my asocial tendencies, unwillingness to talk to people, and general reclusiveness, I am not a quiet person. I mutter to myself constantly, make noises at random, hum, read aloud (something I've trained myself not to do at work but catch myself doing at home all the time), crack my fingers and neck constantly, and walk with a very heavy tread. I'm the only person I know who's been told to "keep it down" frequently when absolutely no words have been said and no music/television is playing.
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Bad puns and movie quotes define me. With my friends, there are heaps of both! (And bless them for it!)
I have a somewhat "alien" physiology. My body temperature and blood pressure are both unnaturely low- but within medically safe parameters. And while I am allergic (in lesser or greater degree) to almost everything natural and organic, I can deal with the harshest chemicals/vapors,etc with little to no effect.
I also might add that I have had every hair color (except the one I love most- hence my avatar here) naturally at some stage in my life. Oh, an my mothers eyes turned from bright blue to the scintillating green they are now while she was pregnant with me.
Lastly. the bio-electric field my body generates both helps and hinders technology. Example: I cannot wear a watch, but my touch sometimes inexplicably restores electronic devices to functioning.
I guess you can file this post under "Believe it or not."
Also low temp but the opposite with chemicals. nothing natural bothers me including bad smells but almost any chemical messes with me.
Also a hair color changer, from very light blond to medium brown and my eyes have an opalescent way of reflecting color.
I don't go anywhere without a ton of both books. The thing is, I usually don't actually read the books. If I don't have them, however, I get antsy, because then if I have ideas for my writing I can't look up relevant information. To top things off, I get better ideas if I don't have the books available to me at the time.
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The reason I stay clean-shaven is that my beard is not only patchy (curse you Black Irish patchy beard genes) but comes in about five different colors, depending on the part of my face it sprouts from, including brown, red, black, gray, and associated intermediate shades.
Rainbow beard and irish... think of the possibilities!. You'll be finding gold coins inside your nose if you let it grow!
I dislike raw tomatoes, olives and mushrooms but will happily eat them cooked in food.
I'm the exact opposite. I grew up on a farm and my dad was constantly amazed that I preferred tomatoes, potatoes, okra, beans, peas, and corn fresh from the garden and raw.
I dislike water on my face.
"When" I wear socks, they have to be mismached.
I never sit with my back to the door.
I do not eat the toppings off of pizza.
I like Mondays.
I sleep with my feet sticking out of the blankets.
One I forgot earlier I can't seem to eat a meal at home without reading through a cook book while eating.
Only if I'm alone in the car. Best you'll get out of me if there are others there is humming.
It helps that I listen to a LOT of music without lyrics (orchestral stuff, classical stuff, video game soundtracks, electronic/synth, instrumental rock, etc. etc. etc.) so yeah, not a lot to sing along to.
I divide by zero.
I thought I'd necro this thread because I liked it a lot when I first posted it and there have been numerous new folks who've joined the boards. So tell me something that makes you distinctly "You".