What makes you, you? Do you have any odd little habits or gifts that help define you as an individual? I freely admit to having several.
Two of which are:
I can always find string when I need it (it's my one psionic power).
I really, really don't like touching my food with my bare hands. I know it's sometimes unavoidable, but I eat pizza, burgers, fries, etc. with a fork.
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I really, really don't like touching my food with my bare hands. I know it's sometimes unavoidable, but I eat pizza, burgers, fries, etc. with a fork.
I can understand that one. I hate any kind of oily substance on my skin. Besides grease, it includes lotions and hand sanitizers. And oil, can't stand that either. I wash my hands quite often because of it.
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I dont like my food touching other food. And I eat one course at a time. Nothing mixes (unless its obviously supposed to like mashed potatos and gravy.)
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.
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I enjoy puns, changing song lyrics, and quoting lines from movies at opportune moments in a conversation. However, I very rarely quote Monty Python anymore.
I tend to fall asleep on long (45 minutes+) car rides if I am not driving and no one is engaging me in conversation.
I seem to be allergic to bananas and avocados, and I absolutely detest peas and mushrooms.
My skin no longer tans. I burn, peel, then return to slightly better than pasty unless I use SPF 50+ sunscreen.
I'm a walking stereotype. Skinny white guy, good at math, glasses, gamer, two major medical conditions, the whole nine yards.
I experiment with food, sometimes in ways that others find disgusting. For example I'll eat unsweetened breakfast cereal sprinkled with oil. (Once upon a time I hankered for a buttered bagel, but didn't have either. Instead of going to the store, I improvised and ended up with a tasty result.)
I enjoy well-prepared tofu -- aka fried and seasoned -- but will not eat any dish primarily composed of veggies. Also nothing rare, or uncooked. Bleh!
Despite my online handle, I don't drink. I have a bad liver due to aforementioned medical conditions, plus I just never developed a taste for anything harder than root beer.
I dance like Kimbra.
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I should also mention that I argue incessantly for the end of drug prohibition, and yet do no drugs, outside of occasionally drinking myself stupid. (Not that I havent experimented. Woooo boy, did I ever experiment. 14 years drug free now though.)
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More for me!
i always have alot to say but cant seem to be able to put the words to paper
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I have a flashlight for every room in my house, one in my car, one in my wife's car, one in my work bag, and one in my gaming bag.
When I eat Skittles, I separate them by color, throw out the yellows, then eat them in order: green, orange, purple, then red.
I try to void drinking beer out of a can: Either a bottle, or pour it in a glass (of which I have many, and they are only used for beer).
When I eat Skittles, I separate them by color, throw out the yellows, then eat them in order: green, orange, purple, then red.
I separate them into piles with one of each color in them, then eat each pile separately. If I run out of one color, I make the rest of the piles without that color, then so on until they're all sorted. Piles that are missing one or more color get eaten first, so that the piles that have all the colors are eaten last. M&Ms too.
My main problem is I probably have many quirks, but no one's really pointed them out to me so unless I see something that triggers it like AZ's post there I typically don't recognize stuff I do as anything out of the ordinary >_>
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Another of mine is how I regard cigarettes and other forms of tobacco. I hate it in any form it's offered. I've never even tried a cigarette or "dip" (as they refer to smokeless tobacco here in the South), but both my parents smoked, my sisters and brother, most of my uncles and cousins (funny how few of my aunts did, though). My mom and dad both died from smoking related illnesses.
I detest it so badly that I've actually gotten ill just by touching a cigarette or cigarette butt on the ground, and even touching a pack causes me to have to wash my hands immediately and thoroughly. And don't try to ask me to go into a tobacco store; the smell will make me violently ill.
Also, I'm an ass.
LOL, that's how one of my guys has referred to himself for years.
I should also mention that I argue incessantly for the end of drug prohibition, and yet do no drugs, outside of occasionally drinking myself stupid. (Not that I havent experimented. Woooo boy, did I ever experiment. 14 years drug free now though.)
Congrats!
I have every reason to be a War on Drugs supporter; I've never even experimented, my asthma makes smoke outright dangerous, and I know addicts. But I fully support pot legalization -- hey, it's a great source of tax revenue! -- and I'm not at all convinced that the war on harder drugs is doing more good than harm.
Oh, and summer is my least favorite time of year. Anything above 70 degrees, and I want to get in the car and migrate to Canada until September.
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I hate mayonnaise and all the people who eat it.
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I should also mention that I argue incessantly for the end of drug prohibition, and yet do no drugs, outside of occasionally drinking myself stupid. (Not that I havent experimented. Woooo boy, did I ever experiment. 14 years drug free now though.)Congrats!
I have every reason to be a War on Drugs supporter; I've never even experimented, my asthma makes smoke outright dangerous, and I know addicts. But I fully support pot legalization -- hey, it's a great source of tax revenue! -- and I'm not at all convinced that the war on harder drugs is doing more good than harm.
Pretty much this. I don't smoke, I don't drink, and what drugs I do use I don't take anything for non-medicinal purposes save caffeine. Also never experimented, nor have I even had a drop of alcohol outside Nyquil. But my strong belief in "that which governs best governs least" extends well into letting people pour all sorts of intoxicants into their systems if they want to, so long as they stay off the roads while they do it. In fact use of drugs (and alcohol) is probably among the least of "things I personally think are wrong but don't think should be illegal".
Don't tell my family though, most of them would have a conniption.
While I probably come across as socially apt here, I am very much not so IRL. For those familiar with Azumanga Daioh, I have a very similar thought process to Osaka and change trains of thought just as quickly.
When I eat M&Ms, I arrange them into a smiley face. As I begin to eat them, it becomes a frowny face. If it is something like Goldfish or Teddy Grahams, little cries of "oh noooo" will happen. This is why I sometimes avoid the teachers' lounge when I sub.
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I have no poker face whatsoever - whatever I am feeling is clearly conveyed by facial expression.
This manifests itself in the following ways:
1. I cannot convincingly lie to anybody face-to-face.
2. If I think somebody is behaving in a ridiculous fashion, I will grimace or dramatically roll my eyes without knowing I am doing it.
3. A lot of people can make themselves laugh if they think of something funny. I do this all the time and am unable to suppress it. People know me as the guy who regularly laughs for no apparent reason. Some people find it endearing or mysterious (like I am in on some joke they are not) and other people find it kind of crazy.
4. I do not play poker.
I hate mayonnaise and all the people who eat it.
{runs off and cries}
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I am almost hysterically afraid of most bugs: insects, arachnids, centipedes. Worms and fish are also really icky, though they don't actually frighten me.
My son used to have very long hair, and he was morbidly afraid that moths flying around the front porch light would colonize his hair. He'd go around and come in the unlit backdoor just to avoid them. And he's 18. So yeah, I know what you mean.
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I also have trouble with spices. Even the blandest pepper makes my nose run.
I also have trouble with spices. In that I eat so much spicy food that I've grown incredibly tolerant of it and don't really notice spiciness until well past the point of inedibility to most.
*puts sriracha on his cornflakes*
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I have a morbid fascination with blood. When I get a cut or bite, I can't help but poke at it. At the doctor's office or when donating blood, when they tell you to turn your head cause they're gonna put a needle in you and they don't want you to see.....I always look.
I have no problem raising a cow/pig/sheep, giving it a name, playing with it, then slaughtering it for meat. It's just how things are done. I was raised with a very strong sense of what each animal is used for. Cows, goats, sheep, pigs, and wild critters are for eating, horses, mules, and donkeys are for labor, dogs and cats are for companionship.
As a child, I detested pizza. I was the strange one who traded pizza for creamed peas at lunch in elementary school.
I get cranky very easily. I don't know how many times a post on these forums has given me a lasting bad mood.
I also have an inability to lie to someone's face. I also will roll my eyes involuntarily at buffoonery.
Ditto on whoever mentioned Tofu.
Go Steelers!
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No-one has a house as clean as mine; museums reference me for my domestic discipline. Why isn't your office as perfectly organized as mine? When you leave, the chair is pushed under the desk just so, and papers are stacked and the corners squared. Pencils have their own space; likewise, pens, paperclips, markers and milk. The milk is always on the second shelf, on the left, pour-spout facing rearwards. Why is the cottage cheese on the bottom shelf? It goes on the top shelf, always on the top shelf, always beside the carton of Egg Beaters. You didn't reseal the Zip-Loc of coffee. And why did you put it in the refrigerator? It goes in the freezer. Who gave you a license? The right lane is for passing, not brake-checking. Why are you braking at every traffic light? The light is green--please maintain your speed. Gods above and below, you're doing it again! Use your turn signal! Why am I the only capable driver on the entire US roadway system? PowerPoint has guides--look, your text box is off center by two points, and your picture needs to be resized so it doesn't bleed across the slide's border. This isn't hard--why are you having so much trouble? I can't eat this without utensils. You don't understand: I don't touch my food unless it has an oil-free hardshell coating, like an M&M. Yes, this is why I don't eat sandwiches in public. Are you listening to me? Why are we going to Subway? I just told you I don't eat sandwiches in public. The books go on the shelf by topic, genre, author, edition. Numbered books have priority, but are still organized by edition. Why did you push the book all the way to the back of the shelf? Didn't you notice they are all exactly equally placed one inch from the edge? Really, you didn't notice the aesthetic equality of each shelf? That book isn't even fully on the shelf--and are you eating while you read my book? Did you wipe the keyboard after you finished at the computer? I don't think you did. I have wipes, special Endust wipes just for the keyboard; they're right there, in the bottom drawer. No, the container goes on the right, beside the extra bottle of hand sanitizer. You forgot to wipe the number pad. Why are you looking at me like that? What?
No, I have no quirks.
...stuff...
No, I have no quirks.
Come visit so Mr. Nepherti can see what real Neat Freaks are like. I only do a fraction of that stuff on cleaning day, and he's telling me to calm down and quit straightening and fluffing things. Admittedly, I do fluff the same pillow 10 times if I get on a roll.
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I'm 6'0" and built like a hockey player, but I've got more health problems than most octogenarians.
Just one example of my being a walking contradiction.
I'm random... and extremely picky ~_~
Also, "Help! My Speech is going down, and I can't get it back up!"
I dislike it when a restaurant has two things that I enjoy eating because I strongly prefer to be able to just walk in and order. Two items means I have to think about it and if I'm going to spend brainpower on it why not just stay home and eat?
And I'm ridiculously picky about what I do eat. Most of the other stuff makes me sick from sight, smell, or both.
Also if my meal includes multiple items, I eat them in order. If it's a burger and fries I eat all of one before starting the other. Switching back and forth is gross.
I'm very picky when it comes to music. For example, I love Sweet Child O' Mine...until about halfway thru, when it gets all screechy. Hate screechy music.
I am almost hysterically afraid of most bugs: insects, arachnids, centipedes. Worms and fish are also really icky, though they don't actually frighten me.
Same here, although oddly, arachnids don't bother me as much as other bugs. If I see a spider in the house, I'll either let it be or carefully place it outdoors rather than squish it.
I should also mention that I argue incessantly for the end of drug prohibition, and yet do no drugs, outside of occasionally drinking myself stupid. (Not that I havent experimented. Woooo boy, did I ever experiment. 14 years drug free now though.)Congrats!
I have every reason to be a War on Drugs supporter; I've never even experimented, my asthma makes smoke outright dangerous, and I know addicts. But I fully support pot legalization -- hey, it's a great source of tax revenue! -- and I'm not at all convinced that the war on harder drugs is doing more good than harm.
Pretty much this. I don't smoke, I don't drink, and what drugs I do use I don't take anything for non-medicinal purposes save caffeine. Also never experimented, nor have I even had a drop of alcohol outside Nyquil. But my strong belief in "that which governs best governs least" extends well into letting people pour all sorts of intoxicants into their systems if they want to, so long as they stay off the roads while they do it. In fact use of drugs (and alcohol) is probably among the least of "things I personally think are wrong but don't think should be illegal".
Don't tell my family though, most of them would have a conniption.
Conservative family?
(Just guessing about that, because you never know. Recently I had someone mistakenly assume I'm a Ron Paul supporter just because I'm pro-legalization.)
1. I cannot convincingly lie to anybody face-to-face.
I find lying is fairly easy when I have time to prep. A few minutes to iron out possible inconsistencies, and gain confidence in a lie does wonders.
...I'm a good person, I really am!
I have a morbid fascination with blood. When I get a cut or bite, I can't help but poke at it. At the doctor's office or when donating blood, when they tell you to turn your head cause they're gonna put a needle in you and they don't want you to see.....I always look.
I'm not fascinated by blood, but I've been taking needles since an early age. Most of my phlebotomists know this, so they just say "Well I only need seven tubes of blood today..."
Who gave you a license? The left lane is for passing, not brake-checking. Why are you braking at every traffic light? The light is green--please maintain your speed. Gods above and below, you're doing it again! Use your turn signal! Why am I the only capable driver on the entire US roadway system?
I sometimes have this feeling too. There are two roundabouts in my town, and it drives me crazy when the car in front of me stops despite no oncoming traffic. Apparently that's not illegal, but it should be! Also, people who can't be bothered to use their turn signals or turn them off until five minutes after making a turn need to have their licenses revoked.
Conservative family?
(Just guessing about that, because you never know. Recently I had someone mistakenly assume I'm a Ron Paul supporter just because I'm pro-legalization.)
You're actually correct, so no harm no foul. I'm more of a Ron Paul type myself (very heavily on the Thoreau-esque "that which governs best governs least" and "do as thou wilst so long as it harms no other" mentalities), while most of my family is more Romney.
You're actually correct, so no harm no foul. I'm more of a Ron Paul type myself (very heavily on the Thoreau-esque "that which governs best governs least" and "do as thou wilst so long as it harms no other" mentalities), while most of my family is more Romney.Conservative family?
(Just guessing about that, because you never know. Recently I had someone mistakenly assume I'm a Ron Paul supporter just because I'm pro-legalization.)
You must be pretty peeved about the Republican bigwigs forcing the Ron Paul delegates out of this year's process, despite their own rules. I hope you haven't had to endure any recent family gatherings. :/
I have no problem raising a cow/pig/sheep, giving it a name, playing with it, then slaughtering it for meat. It's just how things are done. I was raised with a very strong sense of what each animal is used for. Cows, goats, sheep, pigs, and wild critters are for eating, horses, mules, and donkeys are for labor, dogs and cats are for companionship.
It's like you and I are siblings separated by birth and geography.
I never even tasted pizza until I was a sophomore in high school. The first piece I ate made me throw up. Now I just mainline the stuff.
I can lie like a rug, and I can completely improvise the whole thing on the spot.
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If given the chance, I will lick my plate clean. Literally.
I despise the Beatles. I note this as a "personal quirk" because it seems society has agreed that not liking the Beatles is bad and I should feel bad.
*gasp* You kick puppies too, don't you!?
(Seriously, I feel ya. The Beatles are hit or miss, and given their incredible volume of work, mostly miss.)
I'm an atheist who loves Christmas and considers Jesus to be an amazingly wise individual.
I like Xmas too, but only as an excuse to see my extended family. Yes, I mostly like my extended family. Gifts, not so much. I know what I want better than anyone else, thank you, and I never feel confident giving gifts. If I could, I'd abolish the gift-giving among adults and call it "the winter family reunion."
What makes you, you? Do you have any odd little habits or gifts that help define you as an individual? I freely admit to having several.
Two of which are:
I can always find string when I need it (it's my one psionic power).
I really, really don't like touching my food with my bare hands. I know it's sometimes unavoidable, but I eat pizza, burgers, fries, etc. with a fork.
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Are you German?
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You must be pretty peeved about the Republican bigwigs forcing the Ron Paul delegates out of this year's process, despite their own rules. I hope you haven't had to endure any recent family gatherings. :/You're actually correct, so no harm no foul. I'm more of a Ron Paul type myself (very heavily on the Thoreau-esque "that which governs best governs least" and "do as thou wilst so long as it harms no other" mentalities), while most of my family is more Romney.Conservative family?
(Just guessing about that, because you never know. Recently I had someone mistakenly assume I'm a Ron Paul supporter just because I'm pro-legalization.)
I gave up on the Repub party back in '05 or so. Been registered Independent ever since I bothered registering to vote.
Wow.. where to start on this...
I don't like to be touched. Drives me absolutely bonkers and sets off my flight or fight response. MOSTLY the fight part.
On that note i suppose its a good thing I'm asexual. (persuasion wise, not biology wise)
I really don't like listening to music the way most people seem to. Its mostly background noise to me.
Very stereotypical male emotionally. I'm lucky if i have one emotion at a time.
I eat the cheese on my pizza separately.
Vegetarian
I grow a 5 o clock shadow at 12 noon... or at least did in highschool when i said to heck with this and just started keeping the beard. It currently qualifies as small mammal habbitat.
I respect non human life a lot more than most people seem to. I have gone swimming around a frozen lake to save a goose, will often pick up earthworms on the pavement and put them in the grass, once tried to drag a beached shark back into the ocean, and will only toss spiders out the window in the summer. If it is too cold out for them they're bunking with me till the spring.
I keep my body fastidiously clean and well groomed, I shower multiple times a day and wash my hands every time they get even slightly dirty.
I always play video games on the easiest setting, unless there is some long term disadvantage in the game for doing so, like losing out on content.
I use different types of antiperspirant and cologne on different parts of my body so that each part of me has its own unique, good scent.
I talk about feelings (mine and others) more than any other person I have ever met.
I am a very physical, affectionate person, perhaps sometimes overly so. I feel like I am living proof that what gets considered sexual harassment really just does have more to do with how someone feels about the person touching them than the actual actions involved, if someday someone takes offense to my groping they will have me dead to rights, lol.
I despise the Beatles. I note this as a "personal quirk" because it seems society has agreed that not liking the Beatles is bad and I should feel bad.
You should feel bad, philistine.
I like Xmas too, but only as an excuse to see my extended family. Yes, I mostly like my extended family. Gifts, not so much. I know what I want better than anyone else, thank you, and I never feel confident giving gifts. If I could, I'd abolish the gift-giving among adults and call it "the winter family reunion."I'd say my favorite holiday is Thanksgiving for just that reason. I enjoy the festiveness of Christmas, but not the MANICFESTIVENESS of Christmas. Food + family + day off = win. Obligatory gift giving seems kind of senseless past a certain age.
Agreed. It's insane that stores are now starting with the Xmas stuff before Thanksgiving even, which is also my favorite holiday. I'm a hermit on Black Friday, and I won't listen to the radio until December 26th (aside from NPR/PRI) because Xmas songs all day every day make TS crazy!
Very stereotypical male emotionally. I'm lucky if i have one emotion at a time.
In the immortal words of Joey Tribbiani, "...I don't think I have that many levels." I do wish that my first impulse when greeting someone was a hug, because I come from a family of huggers, and I find that huggers are usually great people.
I respect non human life a lot more than most people seem to. I have gone swimming around a frozen lake to save a goose, will often pick up earthworms on the pavement and put them in the grass, once tried to drag a beached shark back into the ocean, and will only toss spiders out the window in the summer. If it is too cold out for them they're bunking with me till the spring.
I do this sort of thing, too. For spiders, though it seems to vary between species. Having once lived in an apartment where I quit counting when I killed 50 brown recluses and had to move my then pregnant wife back home to her parents' for safety's sake, I have to say they are doomed. DOOMED, I say.
In the immortal words of Joey Tribbiani, "...I don't think I have that many levels."
And unlike Joey i have no reason to fake them :)