Hi,
I'm going to copy Ell and start a thread where people kind of list things. This thread is about strange facts about ourselves.
Me first:
I live up the street from my grave.
Hi Rebis,
Sorry, but what the? How do you get to live near your grave? Is it a family crypt or something? I hope I'm not being disrespectful, but it just threw me alittle. :)
I am strange, so that's fact number one.
Fact number two is that I suffer from vertigo and claustrophobia!
Quote from: Rebis on November 19, 2007, 07:04:11 PM
Me first:
I live up the street from my grave.
Hmmmmm Rebis, I think you might win for the strangest fact ;) :-\
Z
I have eaten dog and iguana before.
... and liked it.
Well, it's really not all that strange, but I'm alektorophobic. It's spilled over into a strong aversion to the sight, smell, and thought of eggs. I've been this way since I was small.
Posted on: November 19, 2007, 09:54:15 PM
Quote from: Ken/Kendra on November 19, 2007, 07:46:11 PM
I have eaten dog and iguana before.
... and liked it.
What does iguana taste like? What kind of texture?
Quote from: buttercup on November 19, 2007, 07:37:16 PM
How do you get to live near your grave?
it's a little-known fact, but Rebis is actually a vampire. and stays up in the wee hours of the night listening to
Songs for Drella.
Iguana was real stringy and made spicy. The village person caught a giant wild iguana that morning just for us, from the jungle. Tasted like lizard.
The dog tasted like... Lassie, Rin tin tin, Old Yeller, or Cujo.
Quote from: Ken/Kendra on November 19, 2007, 08:01:36 PM
The village person caught a giant wild iguana
i love it when the village people catch giant wild iguanas!
I totaled the drivers ed car, the week of september 11 2001, and it was the fault of the other driver.
I can draw everything good that happened to me in the last 3 years back to a personal message I recieved on a webcomic's forum that I no longer frequent on October 11, 2004.
Quote from: buttercup on November 19, 2007, 07:37:16 PM
Hi Rebis,
Sorry, but what the? How do you get to live near your grave? Is it a family crypt or something? I hope I'm not being disrespectful, but it just threw me alittle. :)
I am strange, so that's fact number one.
Fact number two is that I suffer from vertigo and claustrophobia!
Never fear asking a question, Buttercup.
My SO and I purchased our plots which happen to be maybe 1/4 mile from our house. Since I'm sure that's where I'm going to end up, I figure I can consider it my grave. I've actually considered going up there and digging it myself, but then I'd have to spend a lot of time maintaining it's structure.
I just recalled that when I was a teenager, I jumped down in an open (unoccupied) grave just up the hill from where I will be. I must say that the earth was quite nice.
Hi Rebis,
What a great idea! It's such a wonderful thing to do, especially as a couple, it means you must be soulmates and together forever, how romantic! :)
Quote from: buttercup on November 19, 2007, 10:35:59 PM
Hi Rebis,
What a great idea! It's such a wonderful thing to do, especially as a couple, it means you must be soulmates and together forever, how romantic! :)
Thank you. I can never explain to people how I feel about her.
I used to own my own my own coffin. I was going to use it as a coffee table or a toybox if I ever had children. I sort of mislaid it.
Quote from: Kaimialana on November 19, 2007, 09:45:08 PM
I totaled the drivers ed car, the week of september 11 2001, and it was the fault of the other driver.
Dang, that must of been unnerving, in addition to the tragic events at the WTC Twin Towers, Pentagon, the planes that collided, and the one that crashed to the ground.
KK
Quote from: Ken/Kendra on November 20, 2007, 07:35:38 AM
Quote from: Kaimialana on November 19, 2007, 09:45:08 PM
I totaled the drivers ed car, the week of september 11 2001, and it was the fault of the other driver.
Dang, that must of been unnerving, in addition to the tragic events at the WTC Twin Towers, Pentagon, the planes that collided, and the one that crashed to the ground.
KK
I think the car accident was quite a bit more unnerving for me actually. If you don't watch television then you are pretty isolated from the general coverage of what goes on. I also live 1000+ miles from NYC, and had never been there at that point.
Still, weird coincidences. My life is full of them. Maybe its one of those "law of fives" things, but still interesting.
I caught a Robin with my bare hands when I was 6 years old. I let it go after showing everybody I could find.
Quote from: Pica Pica on November 20, 2007, 05:39:31 AM
I used to own my own my own coffin. I was going to use it as a coffee table or a toybox if I ever had children. I sort of mislaid it.
Mislaid it? Don't worry, it's probably in the back of your sock drawer, along with that full-scale model of the Great Pyramid and the double-decker bus you got for last Christmas.
Interesting fact about me? I was the Drum Major in my High School Band, but secretly wanted to be one of the twirlers.
Another fact, probably not as interesting...I am, and always have been, afraid of heights...but only to the point where I am sure I would not survive, then I'm OK (well, better anyway)
....Laurry
I had a grooms lady at my wedding. Not so strange for an androgyne I reckon, but pretty strange to the traditionalists.
That seems to be the best I can do. I don't think I am all that strange :(
I've played dungeons and dragons and other roleplaying games with the same people, almost every week, for the last 18 years...
I used to play clarinet in an orchestra. Now that's wierd!
Quote from: NickSister on November 20, 2007, 04:12:32 PM
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That seems to be the best I can do. I don't think I am all that strange :(
I've played dungeons and dragons and other roleplaying games with the same people, almost every week, for the last 18 years...
I think you hit strange with this. It's not the games, it's the almost weekly thing for 18 years that throws me.
Quote from: Nero on November 19, 2007, 07:55:00 PM
Well, it's really not all that strange, but I'm alektorophobic. It's spilled over into a strong aversion to the sight, smell, and thought of eggs. I've been this way since I was small.
Posted on: November 19, 2007, 09:54:
Alektorophobic, I had to look that one up, aversion to chickens. And eggs? wow that would be hard for me, I love eggs and chickens. Roosters are another matter, they can be very aggressive and will try to claw your eyes out given half the chance! :)
Rebis loves chickens, thinks they're better than people.
I left the coffin in a props cabinet where I was keeping it, then caught dysentery and then moved while still ill, there was not enough room for the coffin and that was a year and a half ago.
The robin thing is cool, i once saved a robin from my dog. Stupid robin that my dog was ever in a position to be a threat.
Squishing tomatoes was once my job.
I have been attacked by more different varieties of poultry than anyone I have ever heard of.
Thank you for not writing that you squished poultry and was attacked by tomatoes.
Well, this isnt exactly my part of the forums but I couldnt resist LoL... I have a bunch of them...
1: Ive been dead atleast twice... Once in my sleep and once I was killed in the hospital.
2: I have no fear of death, only perminant personal injury...
3: I have a threshold for pain far higher than anyone Ive ever met or heard of...
4: Ive broken multiple ribs... and shattered both wrists multiple times... but never had them treated... <no insurance>
5: Ive only been to the hospital twice in my life... When I was born, and when my friends drug me there against my will <and look what they did, they killed me LoL>
6: I have SEVERE arachniphobia... Ive stripped totaly thinking there was a spider in my clothes and Ive cleared a 12 ft wall to get away from one... Sence HRT I now totaly freeze and start crying...
7: Ive fallen off multiple buildings ranging from 1-3 stories... and survived relitively unhurt... <Maby thats why all my bones hurt now LoL> but I fell off a 1ft step stool and knocked myself unconcious...
8: I desided I wanted to learn to play the drums when I found out the high school I was going to be atending had an all girl drum corps <I allready played the flute and the piano>... and I wanted to join <they wouldnt let me >X(
9: I talk too damn much LoL...
Quote from: Rebis on November 21, 2007, 06:32:36 PM
Thank you for not writing that you squished poultry and was attacked by tomatoes.
Darn it, you didn't ask why anybody would pay me to squish tomatoes. The fun of having had this job is that people ask that, and I can reply by crowing triumphantly, "FOR SCIENCE!" Weirdly, people often accept that as perfectly sensible, and do not question the scientific value of a squashed tomato.
I was once attacked by a Whistling Swan, but the worst poultry to be attacked by is a peacock. I once inadvertantly produced a hilarious forum-post describing this, on a forum that censored itself for swearing and didn't render it 'pea****' but '*******.'
*******s can fly, you see, and when a ******* attacks you, it makes a dreadful noise and then springs up into the air and hits you in the head. This is horrible.
my first ever job was rubbing cow fat onto old books in an airtight vault with the door open.
i have never knowingly been paid to squish a tomato or poultry.
Hi Doc,
I just assumed that a tomato squishing job was a food factory thing.
That peacock story was funny.
Hi Lynne,
You have scared me. If we ever meet, I'll be looking over my shoulder for something terrible to happen any second.
Posted on: November 21, 2007, 07:08:07 PM
Quote from: Pica Pica on November 21, 2007, 07:08:06 PM
my first ever job was rubbing cow fat onto old books in an airtight vault with the door open.
i have never knowingly been paid to squish a tomato or poultry.
had the fat been first removed from the cow?
unfortunately :(
I have no gag reflex, which for someone who's attracted to women or female-bodied persons... really has no use for me ^_^ A waste of talent which I might one day learn how to sword swallow :3
I once worked at a strip-club....NOT as a stripper tho! ;D :o
I can add to the scarry bad things happening strange facts LoL...
Ive seen a ghost, and she follows me... though I havnt seen her in the last few years. (I know shes around though)
So far Ive counted 137 scars on my body... and Thats just my arms face and neck... most of them are small though from puncture wounds... Oh and I survived a stabbing when I was in elementry school... (The knife was too short to do any serious damage where it pierced)
LynnER, I can honestly say I don't envy you at all...
I once fell OUT of an attic.
When I was four, I fell and hit my face full force on the solid bottom part of a couch, creating quite the bloody mess.
And I'm not afraid of anything except those ginormuous striped spider-looking crickets (I think they are called Camel Backs)...had several unfortunate run-ins with them in my teeny apartment this past summer...one even got on my bed *SHUDDER*
I saw "Tim", the ghost of a young boy who plays in Waverly Hills Sanotarium in Louisville! He couldn't have been more than 2 feet from me!
As for weird...I WATCH people play D&D every Thursday night at the university...and I'm not a student there.
I saw a spirit materialize hover momentarily and the disappear one morning when I was in the military. We were preparing for being in the field and I saw the spirit right in the middle of the back of our APC.
I was not on drugs and I don't think I'd been drinking the night before. for once.
A couple of strange ways I've hurt myself:
I once hit myself in the back of the head with a hammer as a small kid (a bit too enthusiastic with the swing :P). I bled from that...
I've kicked myself in the head at Tae Kwon Do. Pretty darn hard, too. :-\
In spite of everything, I've never broken a bone (fortunately).
When drunk I get very affectionate and get this strong need for hugs. Not romantically; I just need hugs. I've hugged random strangers lots of times. When no one will hug me anymore, I've been known to settle for cushions, TVs, wheelie bins, etc.
Oh well, better than getting violent when drunk, like some people get.
I've played lots of D&D games but they've never lasted more than a few sessions (one day I'll get a dedicated group together). Congrats to NickSister!
One time I was really really drunk. I went down to the swimming pool in the apartment complex where I lived. There was a woman in there swimming and she was really really pretty. I thought she was beautiful so I wanted to touch her (not in a bad way). When I asked her if I could, she pulled me into the pool and walked away.
Weird thing... I never considered myself weird.
I have a fear of heights yet enjoy free climbing and rappelling.
I have a fear of confined spaces yet was fine with living on the ship when I was in the Navy.
A pull-over top will give me a panic attack.
I love my pets more than most people
I miss playing dungeons & dragons
I can remember bad things that happened to me in the past 48 years but have a hard time remembering the good times beyond a couple days.
The last one bugs me the most.
Karen Lyn
I got attacked by a goose once, those suckers bite, hard!
I've broken 4 major bones, 3 of them wrists, (right wrist twice, left once) .. I averaged a broken bone every 9-10 months for a few years there. The injuries were from rollerskating (twice), cross country skiing (yes..) and I broke my ankle falling down the stairs.
The day of my first communion a crystal lamp fell on my head... large gash in my scalp, had to be rushed to the ER, and immobilized on a backboard with a firefighter holding my head still so they could suture... The lamp didn't break O.O .. still got the scar!
I have never liked full sugar soda... I never even HAD full sugar soda until I was in college, my parents always bought diet, so thats what I drink..
I am -seriously- afraid of the dark. . . . Yes, at 26 years old. .
I was riding my stepmoms horse, and she decided she wanted to take a roll in the sand.... with me on her back.... I jumped... quickly o.o
Quote from: LynnER on November 21, 2007, 06:40:39 PM\
1: Ive been dead atleast twice...
I don't want to sound like a jerk, but what's it like?
Um, strange fact about me... I can tie a knot in a cherry stem with my tongue. ;D
For some reason I tried to post here..and it wouldn't do it so here I am typing it all again :(
Once when I was about 4 or 5 I fell off our porch swing and hit my forehead full-on on the concrete. As far as I know I had no concussions and such.
When I was around 5 or maybe before, I don't remember, I got caught in an electric fence that was on. I've got some kind of marks from it, I'm not sure if they are some type of electrical burn or scarring from the sharp, pointy bits of the fence.
And the other major injury that I remember is getting hit in the head by an aluminum baseball bat from my brother's backswing. For some stupid reason I was walking with my eyes closed, and I walked right into it. :(
I'm worried about those head injuries :O Maybe they made me crazy?! :D
I am afraid of spiders/creepy crawly bugs, heights, darkness and deep water or water that I cannot see the bottom to.
While I was still in high school people that I knew or had class with thought I was a pothead because I slept in class a lot. I've never done any sort of hallucinogenic drugs, ever. Go figure :P
Pickles and cheese or turkey and peanut butter are odd combinations, but I have found them to be good!
pickle and cheese is a standard, but turkey and peanut butter...weirdo.
Quote from: Pica Pica on December 07, 2007, 04:41:18 AM
pickle and cheese is a standard, but turkey and peanut butter...weirdo.
I've never heard of anyone where I live liking pickles and cheese :O Maybe they just don't talk about it...
well, you can have a hamburger with pickles and cheese on it, so it's not a stretch to imagine pickles and cheese on their own. Plus Europeans have ways that go back to before inventions like refrigerators, so I think they tend to have a greater variety of eating habits due to centuries of habit. Like when I ordered fish in Germany and it was an actual fish with a head and all it's bones. That wouldn't have been so bad, but as I was picking at it, it asked me if I had the time.
Just my opinion
Cheese and pickle and or pickled onions are a traditional part of a ploughman's lunch.
what's a ploughman? (or am I just an idiot?:-\)
I tried a new snack a couple days ago. I marinaded raw carrots in soy sauce then dipped them in honey and sprinkled on a generous portion of pepper. I thought they were excellent but keep in mind this is a person who mixes chocolate syrup with mustard.
:)
Karen Lyn
I steam carrots and put A-1 steak sauce on them...
When I was a young teenager (like about 14), I got stuck on an old wooden door that was pulled by the current out into the bay. I had to get off of the door because I knew it was going out. I was treading water in the ocean for a while and figured I was going to die, but it didn't bother me. I felt bad because I knew my mother would feel bad, but otherwise, nothing. I wasn't suicidal either.
The strange fact I think, is that I was not scared.
Eventually, somebody came out in a motor boat and picked me up.
A ploughman is a man who ploughs. Obviously.
Quote from: Pica Pica on December 08, 2007, 05:45:24 PM
A ploughman is a man who ploughs. Obviously.
oh, that. over here we do not plough, we plow. we thought whatever your man was doing, it rhymed with cough. first he coughs, then he ploughs.
-ell
Quote from: Phate on December 07, 2007, 04:29:55 PM
Quote from: Pica Pica on December 07, 2007, 04:41:18 AM
pickle and cheese is a standard, but turkey and peanut butter...weirdo.
I've never heard of anyone where I live liking pickles and cheese :O Maybe they just don't talk about it...
Maybe everyone is pregnant in this thread >:D
y2g
I love being up high. My favorite job in my profession is working the truss spot, where I sit in a chair 25-30 feet over the stage and run a spotlight. Getting to that chair is a bit like a combination of mountain climbing and cave exploring. However on a good night like a few weeks ago I can spend the entire show looking down Amy Lee's shirt (Evanescence).
I guess the strange fact is that I'm one of the few people I know that have both a real phd and a journyman's card from a major craft union.
Quote from: y2gender on December 08, 2007, 06:15:45 PM
Quote from: Phate on December 07, 2007, 04:29:55 PM
Quote from: Pica Pica on December 07, 2007, 04:41:18 AM
pickle and cheese is a standard, but turkey and peanut butter...weirdo.
I've never heard of anyone where I live liking pickles and cheese :O Maybe they just don't talk about it...
Maybe everyone is pregnant in this thread >:D
y2g
I hope to god I'm not :P
Posted on: December 08, 2007, 08:34:37 PM
Quote from: KarenLyn on December 08, 2007, 03:20:09 PM
I tried a new snack a couple days ago. I marinaded raw carrots in soy sauce then dipped them in honey and sprinkled on a generous portion of pepper. I thought they were excellent but keep in mind this is a person who mixes chocolate syrup with mustard.
:)
Karen Lyn
That actually sounds good, the carrots that is. Well I dunno about the pepper, but who knows!
Now..chocolate syrup and mustard..lol.
Quote from: y2gender on December 08, 2007, 06:15:45 PM
Maybe everyone is pregnant in this thread >:D
Not without a miracle from God...
1) I have 9/11 all around me in my family and friends. Birthdays on 9/11, special events on 9/11, and so on ... events on 11/9 sometimes also. A Muslim damaged my car, stole my wallet on 11/9. It keeps coming back.
2) I'm afraid of small things like a mailbox without knowing what is in it or the reaction of a person, but I'm not afraid of big things. If I would be on a plane with hijackers I wouldn't feel one bit nervous, in fact it would give me energy ;
3) I'm afraid of spiders; It used to be very bad but now I only strongly dislike them;
4) I have seen the near future in a dream. I saw my wife before I saw her in real.
Quote from: buttercup on November 20, 2007, 04:29:32 PM
Quote from: Nero on November 19, 2007, 07:55:00 PM
Well, it's really not all that strange, but I'm alektorophobic. It's spilled over into a strong aversion to the sight, smell, and thought of eggs. I've been this way since I was small.
Posted on: November 19, 2007, 09:54:
Alektorophobic, I had to look that one up, aversion to chickens. And eggs? wow that would be hard for me, I love eggs and chickens.
i wonder what Nero had an aversion to first: the chickens or the eggs? (Rebis loves chickens).
How did this chicken loving thing get started about me? I thought it was well known my attachment is to simians.
it's not all about you loving them, you know. there are also statements to the effect of: Rebis hates Chickens. so, can you kindly tell us what it all means?
Where did the "Rebis hates chickens" stuff come from?
Are you all writing down everything I say?
Quote from: Rebis on December 10, 2007, 09:43:27 PM
Where did the "Rebis hates chickens" stuff come from?
Are you all writing down everything I say?
sorry to drop a dime on anybody, but i think you should direct that question toward Pica Pica.
and now i'm going to the store and then to the library, with a girl blouse on and girl sweater, and my boobs sort of noticeably um, protruding. it will be my first time this far 'out' in my neighborhood. -- i mean, i wore an even girlier blouse to my psychiatrist's office, and people
did stare. but i think they sort of expect the unexpected in
that office... anyway, my psychiatrist took one look at me and said "You're in a
good place. it's so nice to finally see you smile."
I just remembered that I once declared my opinion that all birds (except the almighty penguin) are winged freaks and ought to be feared for they have no souls. In fact, If I had the bread, I'd put a bounty on all of their little feathered heads.
So, I guess by extension, it may be assumed that chickens are, in fact, my sworn enemies.
Thanks for reminding me. I've decided to change my position on gun control. This is urgent, I suggest that you look for some books in that library that may help us find a spell to rid the planet of all birds except the almighty penguin.
and if anyone gives you any crap about the blouse, it's probably because they have bird brains.
Rebis
I dunno, there was a thought in my head somewhere that you shared a flat with some chickens once.
No. That was Nyeti Nyeti or The Middle Way
I actually suspended my bird hate in order to defend the little creeps from being declared not sentient. Perhaps I had gone insane or I was feeling particularly girly.
I literally don't feel human instead I feel like a robot when I bind myself
Quote from: OtokoSuki on December 11, 2007, 08:48:41 PM
I literally don't feel human instead I feel like a robot when I bind myself
I'm sorry. I'm a male body, but it makes me sad to hear you say that. I can understand it even though I don't have to do it.
Are you looking into surgery?
Rebis
Quote from: Rebis on December 11, 2007, 10:48:53 PM
Quote from: OtokoSuki on December 11, 2007, 08:48:41 PM
I literally don't feel human instead I feel like a robot when I bind myself
Are you looking into surgery?
Rebis
Yes! I want mastectomy asap :'(because of the way I bind myself, I wouldnt be surprised if something broke...There are already scars from it that look like I already had surgery, its disgusting...
Sometimes I can pull off a convincing enough meow that makes some cats meow back, acting as if I said something they understood. :o
Quote from: Attis on December 14, 2007, 12:41:47 PM
Sometimes I can pull off a convincing enough meow that makes some cats meow back, acting as if I said something they understood. :o
Me too! I've lived around cats ever since I can remember and spend a lot of time with them, so I learned how to meow pretty convincingly, lol. I use to trick people with it because I would meow when no one was watching and they would look around to see where the cat was that did it. :D
This will sound disgusting but I LOVE popping pimples...mine and other peoples. I can't stand to see them sit there and brew. I have to get rid of them or I will think about/stare at it all day!! :laugh:
strange but true
Eeew, pimple popping...
I always wear my socks inside out. I don't like feeling the seam on my toes.
we are unique people, aren't we...
:D
I just mentioned this on another thread, but I really think that I'd like to be a guru...or just an important figure in humanity...(I don't want much, do I? heh)
i can touch my tongue to my nose for real
Hi OtokoSuki
I sure wish there was something I could do to sooth your pain, as it is all I can do is send you a a big (((((cyber hug.)))))
With love
Cindy
I hang out with strange people and I have this thread to prove it. :laugh:
Well you can hang out with me I have been considered strange most of my life anyway I have no plans on changing that aspect of me anytime soon, it wouldn't be fun anymore. Being normal is boring.
Cindy
being normal almost destroyed my soul.
strange fact:
My soul is suing me for back pay
Hi Rebis
I wouldn't even know what normal is. Things and circumstances are always in constant motion and in a state of constant change. We are pretty well forced to follow the change or the entire human race would not be here. They would have gone extinct after that huge asteroid hit the earth and created a global ice age.. Is the Universe really made out of rocks? But hey, wouldn't you and I have fun with an entire planet to play on. Anyway you are way too much fun, I would miss your silly sense of humor ;D
Cindy
Thank you, Cindy. You're sweet. :)
If it's any consolation, I think you're strange.
Hee, hee, hee. That I believe was what both Rebis and I had agreed on my gallant prince charming Pica Pica.
Tea at 7:00pm sharp will be served in the court yard. White Cydonian tea freshly picked and exported from Mars. Just leave your suit of armor at the coat check.
Cindy
Quote from: Rebis on December 22, 2007, 11:20:52 PM
being normal almost destroyed my soul.
strange fact:
My soul is suing me for back pay
mine too...i keep telling it that if it will just figure out time travel, i could go back and do things the way i should have the first time. :laugh:
When I was a young creature, I thought God was watching all the time, so I was ashamed and embarrassed every time I had to use the bathroom.
Quote from: Rebis on January 11, 2008, 01:22:02 PM
When I was a young creature, I thought God was watching all the time, so I was ashamed and embarrassed every time I had to use the bathroom.
So now what? you just let it all hang out?
*sorry! i'm crawling back to my little corner now.*
Both my wife and youngest daughter tell me i'm weird, so I ought to be able to come up with something strange. I don't know if this is it: the story of how I saw two young kids die.
I was out bike-riding one cold, sunny November day with a friend (my closest friends tend to be female, as was this one). We took a shortcut through a condo development built around an old quarry. The quarry pits had been turned in lagoons used by residents for motorless boating. Two kindergarten-aged children, visiting relatives, had launched a rowboat parked on the shore of one of these lagoons and were stranded in the middle, oarless.
My friend and I ran to the shore just as the two stood up in the boat. We yelled for them to sit down, but the boat tipped and they fell in. Wearing winter coats, they sank instantly. I took off coat and shoes and jumped in while my friend ran for help. You write about being afraid; I was sure they would grab onto me and we'd all go under. Unfortunately, I couldn't find them, and the police divers spent about 30 minutes looking until they found the bodies.
The mental image of them going under with no struggle sticks with me. How close death and life can be, and how irrevocable the transition!
May you all live long and love,
Simone
the house i grew up in had lousy plumbing. the one toilet would always clog up. So to fix this i had this funny hand gesture thinggy that i would do every time i flushed that toilet. I would move my hands in a swirling motion and say "down down".
i thought I had magical powers to "will" the toilet to flush, since every time i did that, it worked.
potty talk ;-)
Hi Simone
There was nothing weird about jumping in freezing water to try and save a couple of young children's lives, I believe that is a very brave and and selfless act on your part. I have had only one experience that has some similarities to yours but this was in June.
A friend of mine and I were camping by a river near Morristown Tennessee and these kids came onto the grounds in their noisy hotrod. Where we camped was just a vacant piece of property and they built there camp about twenty feet from ours. One of them decided to go for a swim and my friend and I sat there watching the kid dive under then come back up, at this point we thought he was playing a game with his friends, as they stood on shore laughing at him.
On the kids third time down he didn't come back up. My friend and I just peeled our clothes and shoes off leaving them in a trail behind us. We dove down many times but could not see anything, the water was just to muddy. I jumped into my car and drove to the closest house and called the police. The police didn't waste time getting there and they must of hooking for close to an hour before they finally found the body. I could swear it was no further then a couple of feet from one of our dives.
I know how you feel hon and I do empathise with you.
Cindy
I awake with a fully mature palate. Traditional Western breakfast foods which are soft and easily digested hold no appeal. I prefer to eat what would be typical fare for lunch or dinner. One of my fave foods upon awakening? A cheese burger, medium rare, with all the fixings and plenty of jalapeños.
-Emerald :icon_mrgreen:
Quote from: Emerald on January 11, 2008, 08:37:05 PM
I awake with a fully mature palate. Traditional Western breakfast foods which are soft and easily digested hold no appeal. I prefer to eat what would be typical fare for lunch or dinner. One of my fave foods upon awakening? A cheese burger, medium rare, with all the fixings and plenty of jalapeños.
-Emerald :icon_mrgreen:
You are weird. i like that.
-ell
I have never tried to save someone from drowning, but I have used a toilet.
Quote from: ell on January 11, 2008, 08:40:40 PM
Quote from: Emerald on January 11, 2008, 08:37:05 PM
I awake with a fully mature palate. Traditional Western breakfast foods which are soft and easily digested hold no appeal. I prefer to eat what would be typical fare for lunch or dinner. One of my fave foods upon awakening? A cheese burger, medium rare, with all the fixings and plenty of jalapeños.
-Emerald :icon_mrgreen:
You are weird. i like that.
-ell
Pssst.... eccentric my dear, eccentric... never weird. :angel:
-Emerald :icon_mrgreen:
I once had a job where I hid in binbags and jumped out at people 20 quid a jump.
I have taken a portrait of a witches coven.
I have worked in a Saint's House as a shop, 'cos they got the wrong house.
I once woke up with no trousers or underwear and no recollection of taking them off.
I once was Discordian, but grew up.
I once had a greyhound race named after me.
erm....
Oh yeah, I once had people queue up at the stage door to get my autograph.
I once carried a christmas tree into a cornershop and hid it in the corner of a theatre.
I once did a play in latin and in fishnet stockings and suspenders.
I like the music of Rolf Harris.
I once did a performance where there was one audience member, they never came back.
I have acted as a neutron.
I have fed a man mini doughnuts on a wooden spoon.
erm...
Quote from: Pica Pica on January 11, 2008, 08:59:45 PM
I once woke up with no trousers or underwear and no recollection of taking them off.
that is very American Werewolf in London. did you also awake in a zoo?
and gol' darn it, Pica, can you please explain why your androgyne graphic bears the sign of a cross rather than the female symbol?
Hi Pica did Lady Macbeth steal your trousers on you again?
Cindy
I didn't learn to drive until I was in my 20's.
I passed the drivers exam in West Germany when I was 19, but didn't know how to drive. I never got to the road test. Thankfully.
One time I was in a nightclub in Germany with some friends. The place had 2 bars, but one was closed. I went behind the closed one and sold shots to people for a mark.
I accidentally used the powdered form of tear gas on a bunch of guys who were taking a shower.
Quote from: ell on January 11, 2008, 10:48:37 PM
and gol' darn it, Pica, can you please explain why your androgyne graphic bears the sign of a cross rather than the female symbol?
Cos I drawed it myself and it was the closest I could get. What would make it more female looking?
Quote from: Pica Pica on January 12, 2008, 04:58:01 AM
Cos I drawed it myself and it was the closest I could get. What would make it more female looking?
the comb intersects the handle of the mirror at the halfway point, thus:
(https://www.susans.org/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.co.uk%2Fradio4%2Fscience%2Fmedia%2Ffemale-sign2.jpg&hash=7dbf0e6a2ab12049034a469407a19a4c3564c02b)
well, if you look at the arrow of the male, it doesn't intersect either. And both those points are paler than the central circle with the bindi spot thing. Sposed to be that the circle with the spot (the astrological sign of the sun) is the androgyne one - where men can have mars and women venus.
I want Mars, that's my pet planet. ;D
Cindy
Quote from: cindybc on January 12, 2008, 05:41:37 AM
I want Mars, that's my pet planet. ;D
Cindy
Cindy, how do you keep Mars on a leash??!! ;)
y2g
PS, I like Pica's androgyne logo!
I guess my icon this time should be a sheepish grin (I'm not sure which that is). This posting is about the aftermath of making my last posting. You may remember that about six years ago I was diagnosed as ADD. That would be consistent with my cluelessness regarding time management and priorities.
I came out of the basement, where my computer is, to discover two angry, glowering women (my wife and our 18-year-old daughter). It was 7 pm. They expected dinner to be served, and I hadn't even started. Nor had I cleared and set the dining room table. Fridays (Sabbaths) I make roast potatoes and chicken and sauteed garlic spinach.
It turned out well, though. We ate in a small, quiet, local Italian restaurant that serves excellent and authentic food (and I promised to make the chicken for tonight's Patriot game--don't let me forget!). The talk was important covering many of the issues in our lives.
At one point, when the daughter lamented the passing of her birthday, my wife said the entire month of January was her birthday-girl month, until February which is my wife's birthday-girl month. I asked which was my birthday-girl month, and they turned on me, saying "You don't get a birthday-girl month." That led to a discussion of my weirdness. It felt great to talk about it openly.
Finally, they agreed to share a dessert. My wife wondered if it would be too much, and my daughter responded: "That's why we bring Dad along--to eat what we can't." And that is one reason I need to keep working at UPS.
Celebrate our strangeness (and keep kids alive and lively),
Simone
We had a chat about time keeping a while ago. I can't remember what was said. I know that mine is dead shoddy...anyone else?
according to george carlin, there is no time...who better to go to for philosophical discussion than george carlin? ;)
I got a bite on my finger from my uncle's stupid gerbil and it wouldn't let go.
who is george carlin??
Quote from: Pica Pica on January 13, 2008, 10:55:20 AM
who is george carlin??
here he is in action. (parental warning for language.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KVTfcAyYGg
Hi all, here is another one to put along side Ell's video. I tried twice to watch it but it was just to violent for me. I can only say is watch it if you can, because the message is at the end, it is supposed to be a good one. Again I warn that it can be painful for those that are sensitive.
http://zeitgeistmovie.com/index.html
Love
Cindy
Quote from: Pica Pica on January 13, 2008, 10:55:20 AM
who is george carlin??
seriously? he's a comedian...check youtube...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFmRypAYz_E
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16Rxys_uBsw
He's hilarious. I like his older stuff better than "life's worth losing," which is the video that ell put up...life's worth losing is still very carlin, but not funny...more performance art than stand up, I guess...
it doesn't seem to be crossing the pond very well. I didn't even get to the end of the clip.
1) I almost drowned when I was 8, and don't remember how I got out or exactly what happened after - I got afraid of water ever since and won't typically go in water much deeper than my height (this includes lakes, deep swimming pools, beaches far enough from the coast).
2) I got a head injury at 4, rammed into a pole on the back slide of a slope, my brother rammed into me, and me in the pole, in one of those 2-seated sleds
3) I have an extremely good memory, yet can't remember most of my childhood. I could cite you stuff about videogames in extreme details, my school stuff (history, maths etc) but not how I was when I was 6, or 14.
4) I can put numbers to alphanumeric orders of letters and vice-versa, I also developed this with regards to keyboard order (q=1 w=2 etc). I can do it almost in real time, it's scary to some (I can converse that way relatively fast).
9 - 3 1 14 - 3 15 14 22 5 18 19 5 - 20 8 1 20 - 23 1 25 - 18 5 12 1 20 9 22 5 12 25 - 6 1 19 20 (This is: I can converse that way relatively fast, dashes represent spaces) -
keyboard version (qwerty only): 8 - 23 11 26 - 23 9 26 24 3 4 12 3 - 5 16 11 5 - 2 5 11 5 - 2 11 6 - 4 3 19 11 5 9 24 3 19 6 - 15 11 12 5
5) Animals typically love me, yet I've not been in contact with that many. I prefer cats.
6) I learned English as a second language and speak it fluently, and have since 10th grade (enough so that my English as second language grades were perfect in 10th and 11th grade).
7) I use both 'styles' of orientation when moving about. I have a mental map and rely on landmarks both, but I can't read maps. I have to have physically explored a place and I go by memory.
8) I have expensive states (lolita fashion where ONE outfit can cost you 500+$ for example) yet live a minimalist lifestyle and have been used to poverty.
9) I like to collect things (not everything, only some things) and am a perfectionist (bad combination, financially anyway).
10) I managed not to even hear of transsexuality before I was 22.
11) I lack common sense and knowledge people take for granted is sometimes something I don't know (and that's not jargon). I didn't know what a blouse was until my 20s, what a petticoat was until I got one myself, at 24.
12) I defy social norms consciously or not (sometimes I'm unaware of them).
13) I never punched anyone even in good fun.
14) I can read doctor prescriptions with no problem.
15) I've wasted a keyboard by puncturing and erasing some of the keys.
16) I walk in a weird way.
17) I declared bankrupcy for over 20,000$ Canadian 3 years ago. I worked in cheap-paying jobs to get the necessary credit. I learned my lesson, but what's weird is how I got so much credit in the first place.
Quote from: cindybc on January 13, 2008, 03:36:43 PM
Hi all, here is another one to put along side Ell's video. I tried twice to watch it but it was just to violent for me. I can only say is watch it if you can, because the message is at the end, it is supposed to be a good one. Again I warn that it can be painful for those that are sensitive.
h---ttp-://zeitgeistmovie.com/index.html
Love
Cindy
I don't believe in that video, Cindy. Sorry.
There's a lot of bad stuff happening in the world, but there's also a lot of good to balance it. The video is designed to manipulate emotions and to heighten a sense of fear.
It's propaganda. Don't let yourself be manipulated by it. There are a lot of good things in the world and people should always remember that.
Rebis
Thanks Rebis for clarifying that. I tried twice to watch it and could only get into five minutes of it and had to click it off. And thanks about the reinforcement on the good things on the world. Sometimes I think I'm just a dumb girl having dumb emotions, but I know that isn't true. I use to hate my feelings. I am thankful I found you guys. Thanks
Cindy
Quote from: cindybc on January 14, 2008, 03:22:10 PM
Sometimes I think I'm just a dumb girl having dumb emotions, but I know that isn't true. I use to hate my feelings.
Cindy
Cindy
Pay attention to your emotions and intuitions. Look inside for their root message. If you ignore them, they will bubble to the surface in the guise of reason.
I come out of a German Jewish community that as much as any values reason at the expense of emotion, mysticism, and "superstition". It's easy to see that bubbling up in others, harder to see it in myself.
I also sense we live in a world that is beyond the power of our rational mind to comprehend. When we have gone as far as reason will take us, we need to take a leap of faith and rely on our nonrational side.
As for the video, your comments convinced me I didn't need to watch. Male though my body is, I'm sensitive too.
In my short time here, I have found you to be consistently wise and insightful. Keep writing from your heart. I am coming to rely on it.
Warmest regards,
Simone
Thank you Simone Louise
Your post is about all that made sense today and brought me up some.
Cindy
Always focus on the positive. Mother Teresa said that she would never attend an antiwar rally, but if you had a peace rally, to let her know (well...I don't have the exact quote, but that's essentially it)
...I didn't watch that video. I started to, but I feel that it's better to think of peace and happiness and stuff. :laugh:
Thanks Jaimey hon.
There was a time I would think that I was a week person because I didn't want to look or listen to hurtful mean stuff people say or what is shown in a dumb movie, video, etc. It also tears me apart when I experience violent or painful visions where I am helpless to do anything except send prayers. It is nice to know that there are other empathic people here. I use to have a couple of groups I use to go to, but they have died off. I sometimes feel like I am alone. Thank you Simone and all in this androgyne group for the kind words and support.
I did have the opportunity this evening to speak at my own Metaphysical meetup group. It helped to make me feel better.
Cindy
You're sensitivity is one of your greatest strengths.
I have a big fat mouth which always gets me in trouble.
Not always: the same mouth also asks good questions and makes nice points. Frequently, even.
Nfr
Yer mouth might be fine, but your fingers have a jeckell and hyde element.
Quote from: cindybc on January 15, 2008, 11:56:00 PM
There was a time I would think that I was a week person because I didn't want to look or listen to hurtful mean stuff people say.
I find that other people's negativity just brings me down, so I listen, but I don't keep it...if that makes sense...
Quote from: Pica Pica on January 16, 2008, 07:33:26 PM
Yer mouth might be fine, but your fingers have a jeckell and hyde element.
your pic looks like you've had a little jeckell and hyde experience yourself... :D
Hi Jaimey
It makes a lot of sense, but the trick is is to not let you fool yourself into thinking and feeling that it is your baggage. And yes grounding and shielding helps a lot when one is in such a situation but not able to extricate themselves from it physically right away. But then if one doesn't feel right about going someplace where there is going to be negative energy then don't go, *period*.
Cindy
I'm addicted to sex.
What does that eat in the winter?
I just didn't really care for it before SRS and post with fully functioning parts. Just got my reasons.
Cindy
Quote from: cindybc on January 16, 2008, 09:51:09 PM
Hi Jaimey
It makes a lot of sense, but the trick is is to not let you fool yourself into thinking and feeling that it is your baggage. And yes grounding and shielding helps a lot when one is in such a situation but not able to extricate themselves from it physically right away. But then if one doesn't feel right about going someplace where there is going to be negative energy then don't go, *period*.
Cindy
I'm pretty good at that whole "in one ear and out the other." Just ask my mom. >:D
Don't worry hon, if you are truly an empath you will learn different skills on how to manage different negative energies without the use of shields. Projecting is one method I use.
But in order to be able to do this you need to bee in reasonably good cheers or in at least a positive frame of mind then you may project this energy to others around you. I find that one of the best method of projection is to send subliminally how you desire those folks to see you.
Cindy
Once. I looked in a mirror and saw an old woman's head.
You really should put that thing away Rebis - it creeps me out too.
Can't. I had the head grafted to my neck. Maybe I could wear a double hoodie.
Hi Rebis
I have seen many weird things in a mirror while meditating, it was using this very method when I actually had a personal encounter with the innerself. A little girl about 7 years old, so vividly real that my entire body was tingling with this experience. I don't do as much meditating now, I am spending more time now trying to teach others what I have learned. I see where we have kind of taken over this thread with discussions of the phenomena of Empathy. For any that maybe interested we have an Empath's and Empathy thread in the Spiritual forum in this message board.
Cindy
strange fact...
I have extremely vivid dreams, and when I first wakeup I can not tell the difference between reality and dream. Sometimes dreams seem more real than reality. It can be fun sometimes, but the nightmares are the worst.
cough syrup makes me loopier than alcohol...and I take it at work...muwahahaha.
Quote from: shawnael on December 03, 2007, 06:36:58 PM
Um, strange fact about me... I can tie a knot in a cherry stem with my tongue. ;D
Hester, welcome to One-Eyed Jack's ;)
Strange facts...
* I was born blue and not breathing
* I've fell from rooftops, been in several car and motorcycle accidents and participated in (forced) schoolyard fights but never had a broken bone in my life. I even fell head first from the top of a bunkbed when I was little but just gashed the skin. I guess they didn't call me Ms. Glass...
* I used to accompany my father to the tops of 20 floor buildings on a regular basis. This mostly cured my vertigo.
* I've been trapped in a malfunctioning elevator by myself... and escaped on my own. I've also ridden on the tops of elevators.
* I went through a bad electrical shock and came out unscathed. The doctors told me I was very lucky.
* I live over 5000 miles from where I was born
Quote from: soldierjane on February 22, 2008, 03:16:09 PM
Quote from: shawnael on December 03, 2007, 06:36:58 PM
Um, strange fact about me... I can tie a knot in a cherry stem with my tongue. ;D
Hester, welcome to One-Eyed Jack's ;)
Strange facts...
* I was born blue and not breathing
* I've fell from rooftops, been in several car and motorcycle accidents and participated in (forced) schoolyard fights but never had a broken bone in my life. I even fell head first from the top of a bunkbed when I was little but just gashed the skin. I guess they didn't call me Ms. Glass...
* I used to accompany my father to the tops of 20 floor buildings on a regular basis. This mostly cured my vertigo.
* I've been trapped in a malfunctioning elevator by myself... and escaped on my own. I've also ridden on the tops of elevators.
* I went through a bad electrical shock and came out unscathed. The doctors told me I was very lucky.
* I live over 5000 miles from where I was born
Ooh fun stuff! And I have had similar things happen (maybe we are karmic twins). I was born blue and not breathing, have been in similar accidents (besides the motorcycle) and never a broken bone. No vertigo or elevator experience though... I have been electicuted several times, and am not obsessed with electricity (and own a van de graff generator). I'm not that far from my birth place though.
(does being able to tie a cherry stem in a two knots count for anything?)
So, how did you escape from an elevator? Out the top?
Quote from: Kir on February 22, 2008, 03:29:33 PM
Quote from: soldierjane on February 22, 2008, 03:16:09 PM
Quote from: shawnael on December 03, 2007, 06:36:58 PM
Um, strange fact about me... I can tie a knot in a cherry stem with my tongue. ;D
Hester, welcome to One-Eyed Jack's ;)
Strange facts...
* I was born blue and not breathing
* I've fell from rooftops, been in several car and motorcycle accidents and participated in (forced) schoolyard fights but never had a broken bone in my life. I even fell head first from the top of a bunkbed when I was little but just gashed the skin. I guess they didn't call me Ms. Glass...
* I used to accompany my father to the tops of 20 floor buildings on a regular basis. This mostly cured my vertigo.
* I've been trapped in a malfunctioning elevator by myself... and escaped on my own. I've also ridden on the tops of elevators.
* I went through a bad electrical shock and came out unscathed. The doctors told me I was very lucky.
* I live over 5000 miles from where I was born
Ooh fun stuff! And I have had similar things happen (maybe we are karmic twins). I was born blue and not breathing, have been in similar accidents (besides the motorcycle) and never a broken bone. No vertigo or elevator experience though... I have been electicuted several times, and am not obsessed with electricity (and own a van de graff generator). I'm not that far from my birth place though.
(does being able to tie a cherry stem in a two knots count for anything?)
So, how did you escape from an elevator? Out the top?
Hi Kir :)
Oh neat, can I cackle madly and claw my hands to the sky while you have your Van De Graaff on? CAN I GET SOME PICTURES TOO?? :P
No, the elevator didn't have an escape hatch, just a top service hatch which could only be opened from the top of the car (useful, huh).
It stopped almost in between floors and the elevator doors opened halfway with a sort of letterbox at the top remaining which gave to the upper floor. What I did was to use the inside opening mechanism of the upper floor door to open it and climbed out as quick as I could. It was fun!
Two knots? Wow :D If you can do it with your tongue, Blackie can get you a spot at Jack's ;) (Twin Peaks reference)
I need double anesthesia for it to work. Not that the person administering it ever believes me. >:(
For years I had no feeling in my shins. I could hit them with anything and not feel pain, some feeling has returned.
I have seen 3 tornadoes at once, 2 of which were on the ground. Apparently this is extremely rare.
I would love to go storm/tornado chasing and have considered buying a junk car to do it , the cars take a beating from hail. Oddly enough, I can't find anyone willing to go with me. :laugh:
We used to chase them in Iowa. Matter of fact, Twister was filmed in part near me. Only we didn't use a beater, we used big motorcycles. We were crazy.
I have been going through some really funny emotions lately, laughing, crying like I'm lost. I sometimes I doubt myself. At times I feel that I still don't fit anywhere. I don't feel a bit like I'm a girl yet I have been one for 7 years, but even those seven years feel surreal, then I look in the mirror and I see a woman. At this moment I feel numb, not here nor there. I know that my wonderful silly sense of humor is still in there. I only need to keep digging and I know I'll get there eventually. I also love Cindy and in no way, no how, am I ever letting her go even if I could I could, I cannot, no way. I am who I am, and I am woman.
Cindy
Quote from: ell on February 22, 2008, 04:15:38 PM
Quote from: Jaimey on February 20, 2008, 08:12:29 PM
cough syrup makes me loopier than alcohol...and I take it at work...muwahahaha.
please don't do that.
cough syrup, esp. dextromethorphan, can be quite dangerous.
it is also contraindicated for people (such as myself) who are taking an SSRI
-ellie
but if i don't take it, the people calling in say "bless you" to my neighbor every time i cough (i work in a call/claims processing center). it has helped tremendously (even if it does cause me to stare at the computer blankly for several minutes before realizing that i should be doing something).
...i wish they could make it taste better (BLECH!)
Quote from: ell on February 22, 2008, 10:41:31 PM
ok...why are you coughing so much?
ah. the weather. i just had a cough. it started with my sinuses and then moved into my chest. bleah. but it's getting better. don't worry. i wouldn't take that nasty stuff without a good reason. i couldn't even sleep because of the coughing before i got the medicine, so it's all good. i just think it's funny that it makes me loopier than alcohol.
Quote from: ell on February 24, 2008, 05:32:00 PM
Quote from: cindybc on February 22, 2008, 05:20:46 PM
I don't feel a bit like I'm a girl yet I have been one for 7 years
Cindy
what? you "don't feel a bit like a girl"? am i reading this correctly?
yes ell you are reading that correctly
Hi it just happens that even a post op sometimes can have her doubts, I have no idea why. That's gets scary maybe I have been feeling like that because I have been reading to much about that kind of thing happening. So there are times I just feel negative and other times I am on my knees thanking Got for who I am. It was meant to be, and everything is as it is supposed to be.
Cindy
Hi Ell hon I be OK. estradiol valerate injectables one miligram every two weeks I just get to feeling scared sometimes. Just need to have Wing Walker hold me in her arms sometime that helps to continue to embrace the person I am.
Cindy
Quote from: cindybc on February 24, 2008, 07:35:07 PM
I just get to feeling scared sometimes.
Cindy
A ha! I have it! I know what you are! You're human. :icon_yes: I think we all have moments like that. It would be weirder if you didn't. ;)
Thanks Jamey
Well spring has arrived here in Vancouver sunny and 60F. I I been doing a lot of walking. I even went on a little exploration in a close by wooded area. I was just sitting enjoying the warm weather took a deep breath and felt this wonderful feeling going through me and just wanted to just stay there and savor every little tidbit of it. Spring what a wonderful elixir. And Paula got her papers today for the surgery. Everything is beautiful.
Cindy
Quote from: cindybc on February 27, 2008, 09:19:30 PM
Thanks Jamey
Well spring has arrived here in Vancouver sunny and 60F. I I been doing a lot of walking. I even went on a little exploration in a close by wooded area. I was just sitting enjoying the warm weather took a deep breath and felt this wonderful feeling going through me and just wanted to just stay there and savor every little tidbit of it. Spring what a wonderful elixir. And Paula got her papers today for the surgery. Everything is beautiful.
Cindy
*GASP*When I took my last walk, it was 20 degrees... :icon_anger: I want warm weather!!!
:icon_shakefist: I shake my fist at you, Mother Nature! (...i'm such a weirdo...)
Cindy cups hands together and aims towards where Jamie lives, the weather Genie knows where to find you. I take a deep breath and blow warm spring weather to Jaimie's house. ;D ;D ;D
Cindy
well we are having a nice day if we get to 15
Cindy cups hands together and aims towards where Pica Pica lives, Don't worry, the Weather genie's have a GPS implanted in their wings, they know where to find you. I take a deep breath and blow warm spring weather to Pica Pica's house.
Cindy
Quote from: cindybc on February 28, 2008, 02:07:11 AM
Cindy cups hands together and aims towards where Pica Pica lives, Don't worry, the Weather genie's have a GPS implanted in their wings, they know where to find you. I take a deep breath and blow warm spring weather to Pica Pica's house.
Cindy
Cindy, don't forget poor Zythyra (and Rebis too) in the frozen, snow covered northeast.... supposed to be below zero tonight, not including windchills.... brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Z
I've slept in a graveyard ... twice.
Posted on: 28 February 2008, 08:25:26
Okay, maybe slept isn't the right word ... cringed?
Quote from: Zythyra on February 28, 2008, 08:15:23 AM
Cindy, don't forget poor Zythyra (and Rebis too) in the frozen, snow covered northeast.... supposed to be below zero tonight, not including windchills.... brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Z
The 5°F around here in Massachusetts is not much better. My fingers were quite numb this morning while unloading packages. And all the flowers were in Next Day Air boxes. But wait, it's supposed to get nearly up to 40 this weekend. We could have a lovely walk in the woods--trudging through the snow.
Simone
Quote from: Simone Louise on February 28, 2008, 09:23:50 AM
Quote from: Zythyra on February 28, 2008, 08:15:23 AM
Cindy, don't forget poor Zythyra (and Rebis too) in the frozen, snow covered northeast.... supposed to be below zero tonight, not including windchills.... brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Z
The 5°F around here in Massachusetts is not much better. My fingers were quite numb this morning while unloading packages. And all the flowers were in Next Day Air boxes. But wait, it's supposed to get nearly up to 40 this weekend. We could have a lovely walk in the woods--trudging through the snow.
Simone
February ends. March begins. must ... make it ... through ... to May.
Quote from: Rebis on February 28, 2008, 12:26:53 PM
February ends. March begins. must ... make it ... through ... to May.
They're calling for yet more snow tomorrow night up here... snowfall this winter is breaking previous records from the 1870s!!! It's still February for a couple of more days <z paces the floors, cabin fever setting in>... yes ... March must.... come ...... soon! ..... gasp.......................
Z
Quote from: Zythyra on February 28, 2008, 01:05:03 PM
They're calling for yet more snow tomorrow night up here... snowfall this winter is breaking previous records from the 1870s!!! It's still February for a couple of more days <z paces the floors, cabin fever setting in>... yes ... March must.... come ...... soon! ..... gasp.......................
Meanwhile, February here in London has been the sunniest on record, the winter the mildest on record, spring was already springing in early January, and there are MOSQUITOS!!! And here I thought, leaving South Africa and coming to the frigid, mysterious North, that I'd not have to worry about ...
"zeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee"
At three o'clock in the morning.
Noisy, bloodsucking little bastards. And of course, since I try not to kill things, it's rather a mission getting them out the bloody window...
Cindy cups hands together and aims towards east where all who reside on this thread, don't worry, the Weather genie's have a GPS implanted in their wings, they know where to find you. I take a deep breath and blow warm spring weather to all.
Cindy
Posted on: February 28, 2008, 03:05:42 PM
Psssssssssst, I hope the weather gods don't find out I might get my fingers slapped. ;D
Cindy
Posted on: February 28, 2008, 03:07:44 PM
Hi : Lady Amarant
parasites, yuck, filthy things. But outside of the parasites I wouldn't kill anything, I only just have to put my hand next to an insect in the direction they are going and they climb up on my hand then I just walk to the door and let them go. I also attract butterflies and dragonflies. I have done the same with hornets and bees.
This really beautiful dragonfly landed on my hand last summer it was real pretty metallic blue color, I got curious and brought it into the house to show to Wing Walker to see if she knew what kind of dragonfly it was. she didn't know so I walked back to the door when I got there it just up and went.
I even had me a pet skunk that use to reside under the deck and she would stop and put her two little paws on the first step and sniff then look right at me for a moment or two then left.
Not just animals and insects respond to my energy we had this tree next to the house that was in poor shape and all that first summer I would go out in the morning and hold it's branches with both my hands for a few minutes, closing my eyes I would picture it in my mind as healthy and green.
By the following summer that tree was the healthiest in the neighborhood. I attract little kids too, where ever I go where the are kids, places such as McDonald's etc. See that was what I missed about Ontario more then anything else, I missed my little friends. I certainly don't miss the winters.
Cindy
It appears your spell sent all of their bad weather here.
We are getting snow...
Time to hack those GPS satellites and reroute the genies.
Quote from: sd on February 28, 2008, 06:06:19 PM
It appears your spell sent all of their bad weather here.
We are getting snow...
Time to hack those GPS satellites and reroute the genies.
And of course, whatever you get comes to me...It was warmer today though! There was sun!!!
Quote from: Jaimey on February 28, 2008, 07:42:42 PMThere was sun!!!
Sun, what is that?
Oh, right, that is that bright thing in the sky, travels east to west...
The sun god hates the midwest.
Bow your heads and chant after me;
Ra!
Ra!
Ra!
Ra!
Still snowing?
Damn.
Okay, new plan, virgin sacrifice!
Quote from: Zythyra on February 28, 2008, 01:05:03 PM
Quote from: Rebis on February 28, 2008, 12:26:53 PM
February ends. March begins. must ... make it ... through ... to May.
They're calling for yet more snow tomorrow night up here... snowfall this winter is breaking previous records from the 1870s!!! It's still February for a couple of more days <z paces the floors, cabin fever setting in>... yes ... March must.... come ...... soon! ..... gasp.......................
Z
I suggest we send some troops out to winter's rear where they can cause a diversion while we mount an all out attack on winter's front.
Quote from: Rebis on February 28, 2008, 08:45:20 PM
I suggest we send some troops out to winter's rear where they can cause a diversion while we mount an all out attack on winter's front.
Great idea Reeb! ...now which of these silly piles of snow is the front and which is the rear????? ::) :D
Z
PS, speaking of strange facts, apparently John McCain might be one of us!!! :o see this news thread https://www.susans.org/forums/index.php/topic,28184.0.html (https://www.susans.org/forums/index.php/topic,28184.0.html)
Quote from: Zythyra on February 28, 2008, 08:48:00 PM
Quote from: Rebis on February 28, 2008, 08:45:20 PM
I suggest we send some troops out to winter's rear where they can cause a diversion while we mount an all out attack on winter's front.
Great idea Reeb! ...now which of these silly piles of snow is the front and which is the rear????? ::) :D
Z
Yes. They do all appear similar, don't they?
I'm going to say something to aggravate everyone: Here, south of boston, we have like no snow. It's cold, but our snow tends to go elsewhere. Somebody told me we got a record snowfall this year too, but it must have been in other places.
Unless I've gone (more) insane and have gone snowblind. >:D
Quote from: Rebis on February 28, 2008, 08:52:10 PM
I'm going to say something to aggravate everyone: Here, south of boston, we have like no snow. It's cold, but our snow tends to go elsewhere. Somebody told me we got a record snowfall this year too, but it must have been in other places.
we stole your snow and brought it up here... hehe >:D
Z
I was wondering who that was with the overloaded hatchback.
Quote from: Rebis on February 28, 2008, 09:03:54 PM
I was wondering who that was with the overloaded hatchback.
LOL
Luckily it has "snow" tires.... ba doom.... :D
Z
At least snow+cold makes sense. It's just cold here! We have snow flurries, but it never sticks. We had sun today too! It was fabulous! I just took a walk (at 10 PM) and it wasn't that cold! (of course, it could be that I'm drunk, but we'll pretend it's the weather!).
maybe it's not that cold because all you did was walk across your living room. :laugh:
The sun came out, but only for my drive home into it.
We had low 40's today (friday here still, barely).
We get mid 60's Sunday YAY!
Then snow again on Monday ???
Ok, who's playing with the damn thermostat?
Seriously I wish that it would get nice where you are all living. I am grateful and happy to be living here. In Ontario it was getting that I simply didn't have any resistance left to fight off the cold. I only had two choices either stay in the car or stay home. At least my home in Ontario had lots of windows and it was bright but I would feel lonely when Wing Walker was out.. This apartment is like a cave, kind of gloomy with all the windows are inside window wells. But I am grateful to have a home, it is sufficient for now. I came here mainly to get out of the cold. At least it is nice to be able to go out without freezing my tush off. I go everywhere Wing Walker had to go I don't like being alone in the apartment. I like razzing Wing Walker with my sense of humor.
Cindy
I actually like cold weather and snow, I just wish they'd come when they're supposed to...you know, in dec. and jan...winter should be moving out now, since it's techinically march (I need to go to bed, but I'm just too wound up...)
May you have sweet wonderful dreams Jaimey
Cindy
That genie must have listened to you! It was warm all weekend!!! YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And thank you, I did have sweet dreams. :laugh:
Any more for any more?
Quote from: Pica Pica on December 22, 2010, 06:15:48 PM
Any more for any more?
Sure.
At one point in my life the last 3 places where i had lived had caught on fire, and one place caught on fire twice. All but one of the fires happened in the deep of the night when i was asleep. One fire involved a water heater; I was about 5 feet away from it. Had it exploded i wouldn't be typing this right now. None of the places had a working smoke detector (they didn't have smoke detectors back then), it was by the grace of God that i managed to get out each time.
Needless to say, i'm now paranoid about fire.
Hmmm,
I used to have pet mice
I've been to Alaska (it smelled of fish, granted it was the coast)
I lived in Germany for 4 years
I've always loved graveyards; they don't creep me out at all.
I played clarinet, basoon and baritone horn in school band
I'm a furry (German Shepherd) and own a fursuit (i can post a pic if anyone wants, haha)
I wear a dog collar to bed, and recently started wearing the tail from my fursuit to bed too. Sometimes i wear the paws also. It's really comforting to me, even though completely weird to anyone else i'm sure X3
Oh yeah, and always sleep with a husky plushie because it is in place of my mate/fiancee (Whos a husky furry) since he lives 6 states away.
wow, i don't think i'll be looked at the same after saying all that X3 oh well
rexgsd, my bestest friend is a cat. The one of my sister has a husband who is a dragon. She claims to be a fairy, but she does that just to feel spechul. I am an angel.
i live on a small island in the Caribbean and am a minority
I hate cats but like dogs
i have multiple sclerosis
i'm vegetarian except for occasional sushi
i haven't worn shoes in 5 years
i don't own a television set
i drive on the left
i play trombone
i am getting old
i am undecided about fruitcake
i am an atheist/zen
i eat one meal a day
i question my sanity
I guess this could be classified as "strange", once my empathy surprized me because I saw in my minds eye a fellow member from a different forums aura, his aura was lovely deep red and gold. We have this thread where we practice on each other for fun to help develop our gift better, I told him what I saw and he told me that red is his color.
I'm a boy that wears girl's clothes.
I guess that whole "Girl stuck in a boy's body" doesn't count as strange around here, does it?
Hmmm. I might be strange because I do not consider myself strange.
-Sandy("I'll take Circular Logic for $200")
cool ZaidaZadkiel =)
yeah, i feel i am a dog, or have a dogs soul in someway. so does my mate. so i guess that's why it makes me feel more comfortable to wear the tail and paws since it feels so much more natural X3 kinda like the same reason i wear a packy and bind to feel more male and like myself, i suppose =P
I'm perfectly normal.
(my therapist said that the other day)
My therapist is not normal.
If I'm normal, then why do I have conversations about things I find abnormal?
Because my therapist is not normal.?
I suppose, if she was, she probably wouldn't be a therapist.?
Strange fact about just last week......
my dreams...and fantasies of a sort, not sexual ones. I was always male in those.
I think it was a hint.
1)I was told I probally wouldn't live out the year and there was no hope in lasting 3 year- that was about 17 1/2 years ago.
2) I'm always crying in kids movies
3) I was 24 before my first (and only) mouth to mouth kiss (but I didn't enjoy it)
4) I Lived with my parrents till about 2 months before my 30th B'day.
5) It appears That I am the only transitioning M2GQ person in Queensland, Australia
6) I prefer the term "weird" over "Unique" any day
the weird facts about me are only weird because society insists everybody who isn't normal is weird
WHAT me strange nahhh just because i have never been in a relationship longer than 2 months doesn't make me strange and just because i like to caregive the elderly surly isn't strange and just because i love to work hard and sleep hard and dream hard isn't very strange and just because i have given away all my money many times in my life helping others isn't strange and just because i have been homeless too many times and yet had money but chose to help others isn't strange and just because they say i am bipolr and am attracted to the disabled who i could help isn't strange and just because i can survive in practically any god forsaken place and just because i have slept in sheds and worked for people as their slave and even payed them my pension to do so isn't like totally weird is it? Ok so maybe that last one is taking things a little off balanced but hey they needed the money and help and well i usually did leave after 6 months when they told me they didn't have room for any more friends in their life but they loved my hard work. There were only about 6 of those people in my life.
Ok so maybe i am strange but its on a spiritual note where i live life for the experience verses my own superficial gain. It has allowed me to feel like a 20 yr old and be healthy and feel like a child with an open heart and know that somewhere out there, there is someone who will one day compliment me and well share forever above together. :angel:
PS: I have always said i produce 10 times more than i consume and those who can, Should, for those who can't or won't . I would rather be someone offering with a handout verses seeking a handout.
NOTE: These days i do tend to pick out users pretty fast and mostly help people who truly need help so my judgement has improved ;D
Holy Thread Resurrection, Bat Man!
Hmm...I want to be a famous novelist. I write in the realm of magical realism...and when I do get famous (gotta be positive, right?), I think I'd like to push some gender buttons. 'Cause pushing people's buttons is FUN! >:-)
Not strange, but not 'average' I suppose: I'm hard of hearing. Anyone else deaf/Deaf/Hoh?
When I was little, I used to think that if I planted cheerios I could grow doughnuts.
Quote from: VanOcc on January 02, 2011, 10:17:40 AM
When I was little, I used to think that if I planted cheerios I could grow doughnuts.
That might be the best thing I've read all day! :laugh:
For about a week, every time I've gone into my kitchen, I've started singing Queen's "Radio Gaga." :icon_headfones:
Hey i use to dig graves at a jewish cemetary which was right around the corner from where i lived and i could dig a grave in 2 hours time and I also owned a 1933 buick meteror hearse with a straight twelve cylinde engine which had a babys casket in it and a case of embalming fluid so we soaked some pot with the fluid and got high smoking it ohhh to be a dumb teen again NOT!!!!
I have multiple sclerosis and I'm also a black belt in Tae Kwon Do. ;D
I am extremely superstitious about gnomes. Garden gnomes have to be named promptly or they cause mischief. O_O
I have a zombie aloe plant I resurrected from the dead (it was brown, I greenhoused it). I talk to it like it's a person and I think it understands me.
I have a giant pet rubber duck called Dave, who is openly gay and has a crush on Ryan Reynolds. Dont believe me?
(https://www.susans.org/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi1186.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fz365%2F00abee00%2FIMG0048.jpg&hash=c004f7621cadb71aed63be2b6f4982642f1198c8)
Also I have a scar on my foot that looks like a dimple from dropping my very heavy bed on it over two years ago. I have big hands and feet for my height. I learnt how make and do a variety of things (from making scarves to building fences to landscaping to painting and decorating) from the jobs ive had since dropping out of school at 14. I am soon going to college to become a hairdresser.
I have scars that I don't have a real clue as to how they got there.
But then, I spend most of my day without a clue.
I'm also hugely scar-ed.
I've got tons of scars, half of which I forget where I got them from.
Anyway, I'm a furry. I'm also a member of the therian/otherkin community.
And I really, really want to work at a funeral home and help embalm people. Or I want to perform autopsies.
i HAVE A TON OF SCARS tooo ??? ohh but i know how they got there :embarrassed: cutting up :embarrassed:
Have never asked a girl out on a date in my life despite having 19 relationships (not that im counting) been engaged 4 times married twice and have 6 kids from 3 different woman.
I belly dance in the shower almost every morning. I switched over from tango after an accident with the shower curtain.
when I was on grade 7 school camp one morning I woke up under my bed - Lucky I was on the bottom bunk
I have a birth mark shaped like Taiwan on my left shin.
You are not weird Kinkly, you're just from Queensland! Hope you escaped the floods.
The thought that there is a place named Queensland must give people here a chuckle.
I have double-jointed thumbs.
I try to always give positive responses to people who are feeling down but the biggest irony is my own depression.
I have a fascination with hands. :icon_eek:
Quote from: justmeinoz on January 30, 2011, 06:18:22 AM
I have a birth mark shaped like Taiwan on my left shin.
You are not weird Kinkly, you're just from Queensland! Hope you escaped the floods.
The thought that there is a place named Queensland must give people here a chuckle.
I am weird and proud of it. I much prefer the term weird over any other word meaning "different"
please don't deny me the language that feels right for me
I wasn't directly effected by the floods.
did you know Queensland was the last state in Australia where it was legal to be a Queen,
Homosexuality was decriminalized 20 years ago but to get that through parliament they had to exclude Trans people, if I remember the numbers correctly that didn't change for another 12 years.
Quote from: LukasGabriel on January 30, 2011, 07:45:06 PM
I have a fascination with hands. :icon_eek:
Me too! Hands are wonderful!
Hands that do dishes as soft as your face....but what if you have a scaly face?
Quote from: Pica Pica on February 05, 2011, 11:07:49 AM
Hands that do dishes as soft as your face....but what if you have a scaly face?
That would be unfortunate! And probably painful. :'(
I've decided to grow a beards so I can look like Henry VIII
I do the dishes with my face
I think the dishwasher would be fun to take a shower in if the drawers were taken out and you don't use the harsh chemicals. Bring a flashlight, maybe a strobe. Wold also need a bottom platform so the wirly thing goes around.
I have almost perfect pitch.
I have had a pet dog every day of my life.
I kick ass at making paper snowflakes.
Quote from: Julian on July 29, 2011, 11:00:43 AM
I have almost perfect pitch.
I have had a pet dog every day of my life.
I kick ass at making paper snowflakes.
Are you available for voice work? I'm not kidding. There may be little to no compensation but it's for a creative project.
Coincidentally, having your own paper snowflakes is a must.
Quote from: Rebis on July 29, 2011, 11:13:21 AM
Are you available for voice work? I'm not kidding. There may be little to no compensation but it's for a creative project.
Coincidentally, having your own paper snowflakes is a must.
My interest is piqued. I've a bit of a fear of hearing my own voice recorded and played back, but at the same time I've always wanted to do some sort of voice work.
Quote from: Rebis on July 29, 2011, 11:13:21 AM
Are you available for voice work? I'm not kidding. There may be little to no compensation but it's for a creative project.
Coincidentally, having your own paper snowflakes is a must.
Tigress and the U-Fraidees?
Quote from: Pica Pica on July 29, 2011, 11:24:53 AM
Tigress and the U-Fraidees?
Yes. Dear sweet Tigress.
I can PM you, if you'd like, Julian.
I'm getting rid of the beard, it is too hideous.
You should place it in a bag and mail it to someone. Maybe a museum.
or create another vest from it.
No - nobody should ever find out, it's worse than the elephant man.
Package it with some double sticky tape, and I bet some guy on here will buy it off of you.
No, it is the medusa of beards, it'll turn people into stone.
Quote from: Lee on July 29, 2011, 07:25:38 PM
Package it with some double sticky tape, and I bet some guy on here will buy it off of you.
I learned how to do a wolfman costume from a friend. She showed me how to apply Human Hair with spirit gum.
We did my entire face, it takes time, but the effects are amazing!
She used to do theater makeup for a living. She turned me into a girl one day. I will never forget it, looking into the mirror and seeing
a female me. I was stunned, and then realized that I wasn't very attractive. She told me if she had more time, she would go over
make-up tips, do's and don'ts and she would do a much finer version another day.
Ativan
My socks never match.
I get so addicted to video games that I have forced myself to stop playing them. It's been a year. :O
My Strange Fact has to do with how I first started going into ladies restrooms.
One of my first (dumb) jobs was a route job where I drove to businesses around town changing the those little wall-mounted deodorizers. I was like 19 years old and overcoming the awkwardness of this was no small feat for me. I always had to knock and yell "serviceman" before entering. If there was a reply, of course, I waited. Once in awhile someone didn't reply and embarrassment ensued. In retrospect, I think the fact that I had fairly feminine looking hair below my shoulders probably helped, though. If I'd girled up just a little more I'm sure I could have just passed for a "servicewoman".
@Lyric - I love your name. :)
Did girls really freak out that much? It doesn't seem like such a big deal to me. :o
I can easily why someone would find it uncomfortable came into a bathroom like that. I would but that might because I don't like public bathrooms at all.
My hair length goal is knee but I will settle for classic length.
I used to be in the Society for Creative Anachronism. My main focuses were buying knives, drumming, and partying. I once drank 7 full-sized bottles of cheap Asti Spumante (someone needed the empties to rack wine they were making), followed it up with Killian's Irish Red, and followed that with Budweiser. It was at that point I realized I hadn't set up my tent and wasn't able to. I slept on a garbage-strewn picnic table with flies buzzing around.
My first job was with a "direct mail marketing" firm, in other words, junk mail. The boss kept buying weird old computer hardware from bank auctions. We had this old line printer where the ink ribbon was a giant spool the width of the page... and its motor had died. Nobody made replacements for it. Instead junking it or getting the motor fixed, I had to turn it manually with my thumb on the edge of the gear.
We also had jobs where our customer was paranoid and refused to send us their mailing lists on disk or tape... so they sent us printouts instead, which I had to key in since OCR was really lousy at the time.
On the flip side, a prestigious tennis academy sent us their database including unencrpyted credit card numbers of very wealthy people sending their kids halfway around the world for summer camp.
Quote from: Rebis on July 29, 2011, 05:35:57 PM
I can PM you, if you'd like, Julian.
I'd like that. :)
Well now, I was thrown out of a Mission Church for not following their leader.
There is a name for that in religious terms but that's aside.
It turned out that these folks became a full on sect with their "preacher teacher" having 6 or 7 wives. They had to leave the country (SA), and made each follower to sell off all their belongings when going to Switzerland.
There, after some time, they were going to be extradited, send back to SA.
I lost track of them. Poor souls.
Initially all this was pretty traumatic but as it turns out, I WAS ONE OF THE LUCKY ONES.
Axelle
PS: Sometimes not to be good can be a good thing too...
PS: Sometimes not to be good can be a good thing too...
And other times it's just awesome!
I got spanked by my dad when I was twelve....for what you ask,
SOmeone ate the $1.50 can of frosting and I wouldnt fess up.
WORSt DAD EVER!!!
When I was little and would get angry, I'd slam the door to my room. This drove my mom crazy... so she'd make me open and close the door quietly 100 times. That was probably the punishment that bothered me the most of any in my childhood, but after a couple times I got the message.
(Today of course this sounds like something to do for XP and loot...)
I went to a conservative, evangelical Christian college, a place where my mind should've been kept closed and validated and sheltered within the safety of the campus grounds... and yet it's there that I met the person who helped me open my eyes to new points of view for the first time and start questioning things like I never had done before.
In an age where ADD and ADHD are probably over-diagnosed, I somehow was labelled as "immature" in kindergarten and it wasn't until I was 21 that they realized I have ADD.
I sat my mom down and made her teach me the alphabet. I also practically toilet trained myself. It's not that my mother is inept in any way, on the contrary she's a fantastic mother. I was just progressing much quicker than I should've been.
Oh, and I like the taste of metal. I used to suck on a safety pin and can latch and unlatch it in my mouth with ease and without pricking myself. :3
and yet it's there that I met the person who helped me open my eyes to new points of view for the first time and start questioning things like I never had done before.
Once in a while you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-hunter/garcia
"Tasting metal" makes me recall, that I loved to lick the brass railing in staircase in our house.
That was my idea of a water-sucker lolly pop, yummy. It was shortly after WWII of course. No such stuff as ice-cream... gotta be kidding!
Axelle
Quote from: jordonna10 on August 01, 2011, 05:55:22 PM
I got spanked by my dad when I was twelve....for what you ask,
SOmeone ate the $1.50 can of frosting and I wouldnt fess up.
WORSt DAD EVER!!!
You're lucky you aren't my child. I would have made you eat 3 more cans and then took you out for Ice-Cream.
Quote from: Rebis on August 02, 2011, 11:42:36 AM
You're lucky you aren't my child. I would have made you eat 3 more cans and then took you out for Ice-Cream.
Heres the thing....I didnt eat it. I wasn't about to admit to something I didnt do.
I'm sorry, I had thought you did eat it. I would still take you out for ice-cream
Not sure how this got onto a subject of Dads, but mine is a strange man, obsessively ordered. When I was a teenager he didn't talk to me for nearly three weeks because I put my boots at an angle under the coats instead of flat next to each other...bless him. A fantastic man, but a little frustrating to live with.
I dislike handshakes. I have a severe phobia of being crushed by large people. I find the tinkling of bells and chains to be very soothing. I can put both of my legs behind my head at the same time.
when Im drunk...I like to hug people....I also like to tell girls at the club that they are pretty...even though Im completely lying. I just love the reaction they give me.-___-
Im so ashamed....
Quote from: sunny-side on August 02, 2011, 06:58:26 AM
In an age where ADD and ADHD are probably over-diagnosed, I somehow was labelled as "immature" in kindergarten and it wasn't until I was 21 that they realized I have ADD.
Me too! I was just a bright but inattentive kid until I was diagnosed late in high school.
Strangest fact? I've got 12 toes. ;D
Next one is probably my strange body proportions. I'm 5'11" with an armspan of 6'8", giving me a bit of an ape-like appearance. But that length is also why my arms are so thin.
Then there's my strange eyesight, where I can't focus on any two colors at once. I'm nearsighted on the cool end of the spectrum (blue, purple, green etc.) and farsighted on the warm end (orange, red, yellow, white). Can't wear glasses because there's no way to correct everything and I can't wear contact lenses because my eyes are very flat. Nobody manufactures contacts for people with flat eyes.
Finally, I have sensory integration disorder, which causes my moods to erupt if presented with the wrong stimulus. I can't handle overhead lighting or certain timbres of music (think Broken Wings by Mr. Mister or anything by REO Speedwagon). I'll erupt into tears instantly if I hear them, no matter what mood I'm in beforehand. That's why I always have my Zune and headphones in my purse, because I need them to walk through stores. But if a store has bad shadows due to its lighting scheme, I have to leave.
EDIT: I forgot to include that I was born in a town called Normal. ;D
Quote from: jordonna10 on August 03, 2011, 05:35:06 AM
when Im drunk...I like to hug people....I also like to tell girls at the club that they are pretty...even though Im completely lying. I just love the reaction they give me.-___-
Im so ashamed....
I never thought of that. I'm going to do that if I ever leave my house again.
Quote from: jordonna10 on August 03, 2011, 05:35:06 AM
when Im drunk...I like to hug people....I also like to tell girls at the club that they are pretty...even though Im completely lying. I just love the reaction they give me.-___-
Im so ashamed....
I would be ashamed too
Quote from: Zoë Natasha on August 03, 2011, 12:00:43 PM
Finally, I have sensory integration disorder, which causes my moods to erupt if presented with the wrong stimulus. I can't handle overhead lighting or certain timbres of music (think Broken Wings by Mr. Mister or anything by REO Speedwagon).
Me too! I don't have a diagnosis, but I'm sensory defensive and fluorescent lighting makes me insanely anxious.
I love horror movies, especially from the 80's, and the only one that's ever scared me is ET o__o
i'm horrified of him. I went into my favourite halloween store about a year ago and when i walked in it was my worst nightmare (next to the real ET =O), a lifesize replica of ET sitting on the counter o-o it took me a minute to get inside, where i bolted in as fast as i could. i had to do the same when i left since it was the only exit. watched it a little bit, then made a run for it, looking behind me after to make sure it wasn't following me -.-
Wow, I never thought of ET as a horror movie. I had to look it up and IMDb lists it as 'drama' and 'adventure'. It's supposed to be heroic or something. But I can feel you. It's not ET, but I'm going to freak out if I ever see that African doll from the Karen Black deal back in the 70s.
That African doll has since learned English as a second language and is a prominent member of the republican party in the state of Florida.
This comes from Trilogy of Terror (1975),
http://blackhorrormovies.com/trilogyofterror.htm (http://blackhorrormovies.com/trilogyofterror.htm)
You can find the entire thing - it's only like 10 minutes long or something - on utube.
I hate kidz bop with a passion. ::)
True Tekla, i didn't even think of that. ET isn't (supposed to be) a horror movie, it's a kid's/adventure movie. But it's horror for me lol
Quote from: tekla on August 04, 2011, 09:49:58 AM
This comes from Trilogy of Terror (1975),
http://blackhorrormovies.com/trilogyofterror.htm (http://blackhorrormovies.com/trilogyofterror.htm)
You can find the entire thing - it's only like 10 minutes long or something - on utube.
lmao at the captions.
Yeah, not the most serious site, but it is an andro thread.
Quote from: jordonna10 on August 04, 2011, 03:12:50 PM
I hate kidz bop with a passion. ::)
If we're going there... Polyphonic Spree makes me want to claw out my eyes. Which really doesn't help, but is easier than clawing out my ears.
There's a questionable Chinese/pan-Asian/American buffet that I have a habit of going to for lunch since it's near the office and a handful of the hundreds of items they have are edible. What makes the place stand out is the number of times they play this horrible, badly accented childrens' choir rendition of "Happy Birthday To You" where you can't even tell who the subject of the birthday wishes is. I think it's "...happy birthday dear Earth..." but it could be "dear us" or "eat dirt" or "bee vlorg" or anything really.
Last time I went there, they managed to play it four times within a half-hour timespan.
Quote from: foosnark on August 04, 2011, 11:16:29 PM
If we're going there... Polyphonic Spree makes me want to claw out my eyes. Which really doesn't help, but is easier than clawing out my ears.
I used to love them, saw them live in Coventry and got involved in a Polyphonic Spree moshpit - it was utterly exciting and uplifting and left me feeling breathless - I can see how the relentless positivity may get on your tits though.
We went to an eat all you want vegetarian place the other day, all tofu meat and stuff...nice, though salty.
Quote from: tekla on August 04, 2011, 09:49:58 AM
This comes from Trilogy of Terror (1975),
http://blackhorrormovies.com/trilogyofterror.htm (http://blackhorrormovies.com/trilogyofterror.htm)
You can find the entire thing - it's only like 10 minutes long or something - on utube.
I've seen it off and on over the decades. Because I'm old. I may actually be living with that doll. :o
I live with this doll...
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She's called Daisy, I say she's my muse. She hasn't shown me any displeasure yet.
I don't know, Pica... Daisy looks highly suspicious to me! Better make sure you keep all sharp objects and blunt instruments of doom away from her...
Hmm, random strange fact? :laugh:
I love chickens! I have fifteen of them waddling around the yard right now and they'll hop into my lap and beg for treats, and they'll follow me around and fly up onto my shoulders...they're my little feathered minions and they love me. >:-) My friends think I'm crazy, but maybe they're right. :P
Other people love cats, dogs, horses, other animals...but me? Chickens are my favorite pets of all.
Quote from: Laurry on November 20, 2007, 03:51:14 PM
Mislaid it? Don't worry, it's probably in the back of your sock drawer, along with that full-scale model of the Great Pyramid and the double-decker bus you got for last Christmas.
Interesting fact about me? I was the Drum Major in my High School Band, but secretly wanted to be one of the twirlers.
Another fact, probably not as interesting...I am, and always have been, afraid of heights...but only to the point where I am sure I would not survive, then I'm OK (well, better anyway)
Every time on football field having to play I wanted to be in the middle of the cheerleaders as one of them. During PE it took all I could withstand not to walk into the girls dressing room to join in. But I knew I would be dismissed from school. Looks like you would have made a nice twirler. Have fun now girl friend
....Laurry
Quote from: sunny-side on August 05, 2011, 02:25:04 PM
I don't know, Pica... Daisy looks highly suspicious to me! Better make sure you keep all sharp objects and blunt instruments of doom away from her...
Keep her away from your credit card, too.
Feathered minions?
I feel another version of the apocolypse coming up.
Daisy said that I can't trust people like you, she says that the only reason she wants my credit card is because I am so clumsy and forgetful she wants to keep it safe...she also says she has her eye on you.
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keep it safe
Keep it secret, keep it safe.
Quote from: tekla on August 06, 2011, 07:50:48 PM
keep it safe
Keep it secret, keep it safe.
Daisy has the Precious now? What a nasty, tricksy hobbit. Doesn't Pica know that hobbitses are not to be trusted? Tch.
Back on topic, odd thing about me is that I have read everything by Tolkien, lol. Either that or I've read almost everything and have missed something along the way but when I find it, I'll read that too :D Also have read the Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings at least three times through. What a silly hobbit I am :D
I seem to read LoR about every 5 years or so, no matter if I need to or not. Read it the first time in 7th grade, so that's 8 or 9 times. It keeps its strength through repeated readings. I was told once that JRR was a hunt and peck typist who used only two fingers and it took him 13 years to type out the manuscript.
The eye of Daisy is upon me.
which, oddly enough, falls within the scope of this topic. :)
Quote from: tekla on August 07, 2011, 03:53:23 AM
I seem to read LoR about every 5 years or so, no matter if I need to or not. Read it the first time in 7th grade, so that's 8 or 9 times. It keeps its strength through repeated readings. I was told once that JRR was a hunt and peck typist who used only two fingers and it took him 13 years to type out the manuscript.
I totally agree. Each time I have read it I've noticed something else, and reading all of his other middle earth books just lend even more depth to the trilogy and I notice even more. There's so many big timeless lessons in them too, it's fantastic.
Also weird about me is of all the fantastic male characters in all those books, I had to go and become attached to.. not Aragorn, not Legolas... but Faramir! I was so ticked off when the movies messed him up. Ah, oh well. So glad I'm not the only LotR nerd in here, haha. :D
The more I read it the more I'm convinced that the real hero is not Frodo, but Sam.
And, while we're on the subject. OK, they chucked the ring. The mountain is exploding. Certain death is imminent. And, POW! here comes the eagle to save them. Now wait a moment. Nice as it was to save them after they ditched the ring, where the hell was that eagle when they were trying to get into Mordor? Could have shorted the entire deal by several volumes.
Why didn't they just melt the ring down, like at the end, in the first place? It's not like the technology was beyond them...how'd they make it in the first place? And why didn't someone just sell tickets to have a peek or even a touch? I sure as hell would have been using it to make money and get the fck out of that weird place first thing. I also would have screwed with those dead spirit things like crazy. That would be fun, I could do that all day and not get tired of it. It'd be like slapping republicans all day.
Ativan
Well it's the elves that are the real Republicans of the LotR. They create the evil, they are unwilling to destroy it, and they sit and posture and then bug out. The only thing they are missing is a big speech about family values. Oh, wait, they have that too.
But thinking back, I'm pretty sure the ring can only be destroyed where it was originally forged, so that's in the cracks of Mount Doom. So, OK, riddle me this... if the elves were so smart, how did they ever think that a ring of total power, made in Mount Doom could ever be a good thing? How in the hell does that scenario ever end well? Fools, playing with powers they could wield, but never rule.
You are correct. Maybe the birds just couldn't get that close to the doom, until it was melted again.
Damn, just not going to hijack today :(
Ativan
So help me, if I have to read those stories again................Although the fellowship of the ring is on somewhere on Satelite TV everday here....
Quote from: Sarah7 on August 07, 2011, 09:15:23 PM
Sauron forged the One Ring by himself. Only the other rings of power were forged with the assistance of the elves.
This. Sauron at the time was playing "good guy" and trying to make amends for evil that had been done. So he started making rings of power for everyone as a token of, well, "see I'm a good guy now, I'm making you gifts!" The elves were suspicious and so they made their own and didn't let him touch theirs, which is good because he tainted the others. The ones he made for the dwarves made them overly greedy and dig too deep, that's how the balrog in Moria was awoken. The ones he made for the men turned them into ringwraiths. And the one ring to rule them all he made in secret.
Quote from: tekla on August 07, 2011, 08:06:29 PM
The more I read it the more I'm convinced that the real hero is not Frodo, but Sam.
I'm 100% with you there! Sam was pretty much awesome.
Quote from: So and so on August 07, 2011, 09:02:21 PM
You are correct. Maybe the birds just couldn't get that close to the doom, until it was melted again.
Damn, just not going to hijack today :(
Ativan
I always figured this. They probably would've been shot down or something. There was total chaos going down on the side of darkness at the time they finally swooped in for the rescue. If they had tried it before, they would've been noticed, but who cares about some eagles flying in when your leader is freaking out and dying?
Also, sorry for the whole veering off topic thing. Um... >>;
Strange fact: I taught myself html and css. I'm still just an amateur but I know more than the average bear. There we go, back on topic, lol.
Moria scared the hell out of me when I read LotR as a kid.
My copy of Return of the King -- from a fancy boxed set, handed down by my dad, which had seen better days but had cover and box art by Tolkien -- had a printing error. A couple of lines during the siege of Minas Tirith were repeated.
Also, sorry for the whole veering off topic thing.
That's what andros do, we veer .... alot hehe
I almost never sit "properly" in a chair. Sideways, sitting on one foot, slouching way back, and/or one leg over the arm depending on what kind of chair it is.
I have a standing desk at work, but I picked up a comfy barstool so I don't have to stand all the time. Right now I'm turned sideways, I have one foot up on another desk and the other foot crossed under it on the back of another chair. No wonder I keep having back problems...
Take care of your back, trust me.
Quote from: espo on August 08, 2011, 10:04:19 AM
Also, sorry for the whole veering off topic thing.
That's what andros do, we veer .... alot hehe
So I'm noticing, lol :D
I have one nearsighted eye and one farsighted eye. Much of the time I wear one contact lens.
Quote from: Julian on August 04, 2011, 04:22:54 AM
Me too! I don't have a diagnosis, but I'm sensory defensive and fluorescent lighting makes me insanely anxious.
How about compact fluorescents? Do they give you the same problems?
And something strange about myself I forgot to put in my first post... I've got six nipples, three on each side. The extra ones aren't very interesting though, just like little moles that form lines down my chest. :laugh:
Quote from: Zoë Natasha on August 08, 2011, 04:04:02 PM
How about compact fluorescents? Do they give you the same problems?
Not necessarily. I think it's mainly harsh overhead lighting that causes me problems. Big fluorescents just happen to be common in schools and offices and stores and such.
We don't call it 'veering' we call it 'conversation'.
Quote from: Julian on August 08, 2011, 04:28:34 PM
Not necessarily. I think it's mainly harsh overhead lighting that causes me problems. Big fluorescents just happen to be common in schools and offices and stores and such.
I had to ask because I'm just like you in that regard: can't stand the big overhead variety, but I'm perfectly good with compacts. In fact, over half of what's in my apartment are compact fluorescents. But they're all in lamps because I can't take overhead lights in any capacity.
Quote from: Pica Pica on August 08, 2011, 04:48:32 PM
We don't call it 'veering' we call it 'conversation'.
Vectoring
Now, to veer back to the conversation at hand, which I am sure will be momentarily derailed.
Strange facts:
I consider myself an androgyne (yes, that's VERY strange in this forum...)
I also sit in weird positions; I can do the 'normal' position, but I get uncomfortable.
I want a pet penguin called Bob.
I am the new kid around here.
I chose Valkyrie as a username because that is the name I use whenever I play video or computer games.
I love Garry's Mod (http://www.garrysmod.com/about-2/).
My ADD brain can't handle conversations that stay relentlessly on topic. I always appreciate people that don't shy from diversions and tangents. I thank them by not having my eyes glaze over mid-paragraph. It's not much, but it's something.
What's this thread about again?
Quote from: valkyrie256 on August 08, 2011, 08:49:49 PM
I consider myself an androgyne
Not an androgyne, no!
We hate dem dere scum - lynch 'em.
Quote from: Jen on August 09, 2011, 12:08:06 AM
My ADD brain can't handle conversations that stay relentlessly on topic. I always appreciate people that don't shy from diversions and tangents. I thank them by not having my eyes glaze over mid-paragraph. It's not much, but it's something.
What's this thread about again?
Haha, you and me both. I just didn't know yet how much I could do without getting yelled at to get back on topic.
Quote from: Julian on August 08, 2011, 03:41:22 PM
I have one nearsighted eye and one farsighted eye. Much of the time I wear one contact lens.
I do too! Not the one contact lens part because they freak me out, but I hate the difference in the eyes.
On the topic of eyes, I have a slight lazy eye and I worry that too many people notice. Paranoia began when I mentioned it to someone, she said "OMG I KNOW...but it's cute."
Quote from: valkyrie256 on August 08, 2011, 08:49:49 PM
I want a pet penguin called Bob.
Hi! I'm Sage. Good to meet you. I like emperor penguins the best.~ ;D What about you?
Quote from: Jen on August 09, 2011, 12:08:06 AM
What's this thread about again?
Wasn't it about adding something to your brain to keep your eyes from glazing over?
Ativan
Quote from: Pica Pica on August 09, 2011, 03:06:41 AM
Not an androgyne, no!
We hate dem dere scum - lynch 'em.
I was wondering why you were standing over there with a shotgun...
Crossbow.
Quote from: @ivan on August 09, 2011, 04:32:13 PM
Wasn't it about adding something to your brain to keep your eyes from glazing over?
Ativan
Only if you promise no needles will be involved.
Quote from: Jen on August 09, 2011, 05:48:34 PM
Only if you promise no needles will be involved.
we'll just whisper into your ear what you need to do. Ticklish, but painless
Quote from: Pica Pica on August 09, 2011, 05:27:47 PM
Crossbow.
Well, if you're trying to get rid of dem dere Androgynes, you got your work cut out for ya.
Quote from: Pica Pica on August 09, 2011, 05:27:47 PM
Crossbow.
could come down to a matter of cross sectional area. I'm a little guy, damned hard to hit, even if you made it that close. ;D
I like the thunk noise.
My weapon of choice would be a stun gun. It's more of a defensive weapon but if someone was to attack me I would totally zap their butt.
I'll take a flamethrower. Heavy? Yes. Overkill? Probably. Worth it? Yes.
Quote from: valkyrie256 on August 09, 2011, 07:37:59 PM
I'll take a flamethrower. Heavy? Yes. Overkill? Probably. Worth it? Yes.
BOY !!!
haha
I've always wanted a Harrier, but an Apache will do in a pinch. They both have a pleasing thunk to them...
Quote from: espo on August 09, 2011, 07:44:50 PM
BOY !!!
haha
Genetically, yes. Would you rather me use a more 'feminine' weapon, whatever that may be?
I'm just having fun, nothing meant by it.
Quote from: @ivan on August 09, 2011, 06:12:28 PM
we'll just whisper into your ear what you need to do. Ticklish, but painless
You've piqued my interest. :)
Hosh peesha posha :)
Lol you were right, that does tickle!
Yep,...I'm a Whisperer of sorts all right. :)
Quote from: valkyrie256 on August 09, 2011, 08:07:18 PM
Genetically, yes. Would you rather me use a more 'feminine' weapon, whatever that may be?
Omg. Way to make it all stuffy in here
In Team Fortress 2, there is a quasi-debate about whether the Pyro is male or female. They wear a baggy fireproof rubber suit and full-face mask, have a vaguely feminine shape if you're looking for it, and all their vocalizations are muffled mumbles (because of the mask) in sort of an alto. And someone has a handbag with a pink daisy on it, though that *could* be anyone's (all the other characters are definitely male). Official posts by the developers have used both pronouns.
Having played a little too much of that game in my time, and often favoring the Pyro... I can easily see a fllamethrower as a good weapon for androgynes.
Quote from: @ivan on August 09, 2011, 09:41:01 PM
Yep,...I'm a Whisperer of sorts all right. :)
I can see it now, the new hit tv show: Ativan, Androgyne Whisperer
Whisperer comes from the seemingly magical way that the new breed of horse trainers gentle a horse, there are actually several different ways to do this, but my favorite is actually whispering. When the horse is coming around being gentle, they will wiggle their lips on your ear and make a quiet nicker sound. It's like having an eargasm. I had a pair that liked to stand on each side of me and do it at the same time. Makes you very weak kneed.
Ativan
Quote from: foosnark on August 10, 2011, 08:51:32 AM
In Team Fortress 2, there is a quasi-debate about whether the Pyro is male or female. They wear a baggy fireproof rubber suit and full-face mask, have a vaguely feminine shape if you're looking for it, and all their vocalizations are muffled mumbles (because of the mask) in sort of an alto. And someone has a handbag with a pink daisy on it, though that *could* be anyone's (all the other characters are definitely male). Official posts by the developers have used both pronouns.
Having played a little too much of that game in my time, and often favoring the Pyro... I can easily see a fllamethrower as a good weapon for androgynes.
Thank you foosnark! Never thought of it that way. I have played TF2 a little in the past, before they started adding in random crap. Care to guess who I played as?
My only weapon is a dirty look. It doesn't make a thunk unless something went terribly wrong.
It would thunk me.
I'll be careful then.
A dirty look is an elegant weapon from a more civilized age. It's not as clumsy or as random as a blaster.
Quote from: Jen on August 11, 2011, 12:18:06 AM
I'll be careful then.
I have confidence in your ability to use dirty looks appropriatley.
Be warned Rebis...
Daisy's sister Rosie has arrived - and she means business.
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Oh dear! A ring at the doorbell and two become three.
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(I want 9)
Quote from: Pica Pica on August 17, 2011, 06:16:35 AM
(I want 9)
Number 9... number 9... number 9... number 9...
9 muses :)
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I am invisible to automatic faucets and paper towel dispensers. I am intermittently invisible to automatic toilets, so they keep flushing repeatedly while I'm using them but stop before I'm done. I dred ever encountering automatic toilet paper dispensers.
I am invisible to the highway patrol, which is usually to my advantage. Sadly, traffic cameras can see me.
I can sometimes, unpredictably see less than a second into the future.
Quote from: Pica Pica on August 17, 2011, 06:16:35 AM
Oh dear! A ring at the doorbell and two become three.
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(I want 9)
I LOVE how you positioned them with their arms around each other. The middle one is def my favourite but they all look so happy.
Quote from: Pica Pica on August 17, 2011, 06:16:35 AM
Oh dear! A ring at the doorbell and two become three.
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(I want 9)
Do you mind if I take the girls out for cookies? We can ride in the upper deck of a bus and view the street action while nibbling. On cookies.
the middle one is my favourite - she's the 'goer' for sure.
(L-R Lilly, Daisy, Rosie - AKA: Erato, Thalia, Calliope)
Quote from: Jen on August 18, 2011, 10:16:07 AM
I can sometimes, unpredictably see less than a second into the future.
Me too! Unpredictable clairvoyants unite!
i don't see the future, but people or birds have some times told me, probably without understanding what they were doing. like how i knew the exact date my daughter would be born. the due date the doctor gives is always uncertain, but when my chiropractor said the wrong date after just having looked at my papers, i knew she was right even though she thought it was wrong
is it strange to not have nightmares? i dream a lot, and much of it looks like it's straight out of a horror movie, but it never scares me at all. not even when i was attacked by zombies after having watched 3 twilight movies in one night. it was so refreshing to get to smash some zombie heads after those sappy vampire romances
Quote from: Taka on August 19, 2011, 01:34:14 PM
is it strange to not have nightmares? i dream a lot, and much of it looks like it's straight out of a horror movie, but it never scares me at all. not even when i was attacked by zombies after having watched 3 twilight movies in one night. it was so refreshing to get to smash some zombie heads after those sappy vampire romances
Not strange at all! I can't remember a single dream that didn't have dead things in it, and that's going all the way back to my childhood. Often, I can have a happy dream where there's a dead body laying crumpled in a corner of a room. I tend to simply acknowledge it and go about the rest of the dream. Most of my dreams are full of an unsettled loneliness and social panic, which is odd because I'm a social butterfly. The only dreams I classify as nightmares are the ones so horribly sad that I wake up crying, and those happen about four or five times a month.
I've read somewhere that dreams of death are actually supposed to be positive. I would think it depends too much on context and that dream dictionaries are bunk.
I don't tend to bave nightmares, at least not ones I remember. Irritating dreams sometimes, and night terrors or startling awake sometimes. Usually I don't remember the event at all, and even when I do I don't recall dreaming anything beforrehand.
Used to have nightmares all the time when I was a kid though. And I'd see inamiate objects come to life as I was falling asleep. For a while I had to go without posters in my room.
I almost every day dream with blood and murder. I have seen dead people irl and they feel nothing like in my dreams.
I have techni-color static(like tv static) on my vision at all times, I can look at the ceiling in the dark and have my own personal light show. The doctors arent 100% sure what it is or why its there.
I was here yesterday
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Climbed this big hill to get to it, was very hung over also. But the view was stunning from the top of the tower, could see Blackburn and such, but also as far away as Cumbria and Wales and the Blackpool tower in the distance.
Darwen Tower?
Yes.
Near the town of Darwen, which Ghandi once visited.
I have four four brothers and sisters with my youngest sister being18 years younger than me. Our birthdays range from March through December. The strange part is that they always fall on the same days of the week even in a leap year.
There's absolutely nothing strange about me hehe
Michelle - that is strange and interesting
For a punk/heavy metal/Deadhead (strange in and of itself) who prefers cool jazz and string quartets I have a real huge love of classic disco music.
Quote from: tekla on August 27, 2011, 12:58:00 PM
For a punk/heavy metal/Deadhead (strange in and of itself) who prefers cool jazz and string quartets I have a real huge love of classic disco music.
I will never forget the 'Stairway to Heaven' disco version...
I managed to lock my keys in the house this morning. My wife was upstairs, asleep. Her phone downstairs and not very loud. We have no doorbell and she can't hear knockingdownstairs with the bedroom door shut.
The bedroom windows upstairs has a screen, so can't bounce rocks off the glass. I tried hitting the siding next to it but we don't have many rocks to try and I lost a few. Finally I picked up a loose rail from our backyard deck and banged on the gutter under her window. It sounded too much like hammering, which she'd be likely to ignore, so I chaged to a swing beat. That worked. She thought I was playing hooky from work to practice taiko in the backyard for the big festival this weekend. :D
Finally I picked up a loose rail from our backyard deck and banged on the gutter under her window. It sounded too much like hammering, which she'd be likely to ignore, so I chaged to a swing beat. That worked. She thought I was playing hooky from work to practice taiko in the backyard for the big festival this weekend.
Thats funny,I like that, makes me laugh out loud.
I like the swing beat element, I would have done 'shave and a haircut'.
I am having weird feelings that something, like some kind of boundary has been crossed in my life, that when I go out more of the world sees me as female than male and thinks I am weird when I do male things. I really never thought I would say this. It really seems strange because I have never taken hormones or had any surgery. Does this mean guys are checking me out. This is a whole new thing for me to deal with. Its not that I don't want it, I do. But, I never really never thought it would happen. I know I never got that guy dressed as a girl look. But when I go out with my girl friend because I am twenty years older I was asked if she was my daughter. Do people really think I am her mother? We both are home bodies and do not club, but stay home with the kids. But, this whole thing is really new to me. Some how it also confirms for me that I have always been female and people have seen that in me and therefore I was never really taken seriously as a male. The thought of it kinda makes me feel girly and sexy. But, somehow, it still feels sorta surreal.
Hmmm....there's plenty strange about me but...which to pick! :laugh:
I can't stand cupboards to be left open...and my wife can't seem to stand to have cupboards shut...
I get annoyed by clutter to the point that it would drive me bonkers if I let it...so instead, I choose not to even *see* the clutter in my home and I just don't touch it. Because if I do...I'll spend the next...too many hours...scrubbing the bathroom floor on my hands and knees. (and I'd really rather not.) In a house of two people, two cats, two dogs, and I literally lost count of how many chickens...(they're not in the house properly...but close enough that much of their dander and whatnot gets tracked in..) I've just given up. Our house isn't messy but...ah hell that's really not the point here. *hem*
The way I explain things seems to strike people quite odd. *shrugs* makes sense to me...
My paternal grandmother's maiden name was a variation of my paternal grandfather's last name, Scottish and Irish respectively.
Despite being an I.T. professional, I go months without using my home computer (iPad doesn't count).
I can't move my right eyebrow, but I can move my right ear.
My brain has a tendency told hold ridiculous chunks or random data. For instance, despite only seeing a few reruns years ago, I have the lyrics to the opening theme song of Giligans Island committed to memory.
Quote from: Photonic Soul on September 22, 2011, 11:12:18 PM
My paternal grandmother's maiden name was a variation of my paternal grandfather's last name,
Hmm, mine too.
I use a large deep chamber type porta potty for my poo and separate my pee (with plastic bag with holes in it lined in chamber potty which flows to a lower area) which twice a week gets mixed with wood ash and sawdust for fertilizer. the poo gets burnt with wood in winter. In summer it gets composted to be used on fruit trees. I also pick my nose when i am clogged up, but i also use paper towls to blow with every morning and let them dry to be reused. I use paper towels ripped in 3 to wipe the pee area (which i fold around my middle finger) and i let them dry to reuse, the slightly damp ones really work great to wipe after pooing. I take a bath with bowls and clothes once a week unless i get too dirty or sweaty. When i am clean i am very very clean. When i am dirty i am stinky and my underarms stick together from sweat. Thank God i am a country gurl ;D
NOTE: Its not as bad as it sounds and i do eat great and i do grow most of my food and cann lots of it or dry it or store it in root cellar. I am healthy as can be and so is my 88 yr old mom who lives with me. She doesn't reuse her wipes or nose blows, i do because i am cheap. My mom actually uses folded paper towels in vagina area to keep her dry which is better than toilet paper which sticks to that area unlike paper towels. We also have the cleanest water here from my springs and creeks and well. Our air is also super clean. Our food is organic and our dairy comes from an amish farmer. One day i will have a flush down compost toilet, but right now i get by.
I used to hang around -- lurk, mostly -- on a Discordian forum.
All I remember from it is someone who declared his intention to eat time, in all caps, and a recipe for "cat in water and carrot and dirt."
I loved that place.
Quote from: foosnark on September 23, 2011, 12:11:13 PM
I used to hang around -- lurk, mostly -- on a Discordian forum.
I used to be a big contributor, my version of the Myth of Starbuck is still floating around there.
My left thumb has an extra tendon - so my snuffbox has compartments :).
I have a strange phobia if that counts--
I have emetophobia D: (fear of vomiting)
- i like to listen to one song on repeat for weeks on end
- when it comes to sharing the bed, the cats always win <_<
- no one else has my mixed up accent
- i prefer to write fanfiction than do actual work :P
- my iphone seems to have attached itself to my hand permanantly
- i have such a tiny head that there are no gas-masks at work that fit me
There are no gas masks at my workplace that fit me either. Not that we have gas masks...
My head is extra-large. I have trouble finding hats that fit.
yeah, no hats fit me either, but opposite reason of course ;).
I have a third nipple although thankfully it's barely noticeable. On my left hand side a few inches below the conventional one...
Quote from: mimpi on September 27, 2011, 11:13:24 AM
I have a third nipple although thankfully it's barely noticeable. On my left hand side a few inches below the conventional one...
Is it sensitive like the others? I knew someone who had two extra, but they weren't sensitive at all.
Quote from: Beth Andrea on September 27, 2011, 12:06:42 PM
When I used to live in Idaho (way out in the woods), I used to work outside (in the garden) in the nude...always thought that was a kinky-weird thing for me to do, but I did it anyway....then after we moved, my wife "confesses" to me that she used to work in the garden nude.
She said she enjoyed the sunshine on her body, and was all innocent-like...but when I told her that I did the same thing, she looked at me like I was a perv or something...
If it weren't for the law (and sunburns!), I'd probably spend more time outside in the nude.
After i transitioned i went to key west and spent many days there nude because they have nude clubs etc and well it was fun.. and most of the men were gay so they didn't bother me.. :)
Quote from: Amazon D on September 27, 2011, 12:12:24 PM
After i transitioned i went to key west and spent many days there nude because they have nude clubs etc and well it was fun.. and most of the men were gay so they didn't bother me.. :)
Sounds like you're another Fantasy Fest enthusiast. I've got to make it down there one day.
Quote from: @ivan on September 27, 2011, 12:03:58 PM
Is it sensitive like the others? I knew someone who had two extra, but they weren't sensitive at all.
Hehe! Although sorely tempted to invent something outrageous I'll give you the true answer. No, it isn't. :)
Quote from: mimpi on September 27, 2011, 11:13:24 AM
I have a third nipple although thankfully it's barely noticeable. On my left hand side a few inches below the conventional one...
Wow, like Scaramanga and Anne Boleyn.
Quote from: Pica Pica on September 27, 2011, 02:04:09 PM
Wow, like Scaramanga and Anne Boleyn.
Had to Google that first one, how did you know I was a FSB operative? ;) As for Ann Boleyn didn't things end less than pleasantly or am I getting the wives mixed up.
Well, she lost a little weight at the end of her life, a pound of ugly fat, as the old joke goes.
That sounds harsh, was wearing Fat Face jeans today. Not a good sign.
Edit: Apart from the third nipple I'm also missing an organ. No, it's not that one, nor a Fender Rhodes either... :)
Does this organ have a name sounding like pages at the back of a book, appended on?
Quote from: Pica Pica on September 28, 2011, 01:45:40 PM
Does this organ have a name sounding like pages at the back of a book, appended on?
No. Close, but no cigar! One might say that one couldn't vent it anymore...
Good thing you are not the owner of a medieval mind, that was one important organ. This make you get colds easy?
Quote from: Pica Pica on September 28, 2011, 03:05:02 PM
Good thing you are not the owner of a medieval mind, that was one important organ. This make you get colds easy?
How did you know that? That's true, one's immune system is severely lowered and I'm meant to take penicillin every day (don't) and have vaccination against pneumonia and meningitis which I have done for the last few years. Had Hodgkin's Lymphoma when eighteen and in those days they removed it. Have cried bucketful's of tears down the years for the scar but thankfully women have always liked it. Men are messed up on that sort of stuff.
Worst part is the problem with dental and 'other' infections. Have a dental abcess and toothache right now and it took me three months to recover from over energetic *** with my ex this summer. SRS has always been out of the question for me for obvious reasons, sad really as it was what I wanted back at that time. I'm Androgyne for "force majeure" if you like, but I like it. :)
Dentist will give me antibiotics tomorrow so am on my second can of Zubr 1768 tonight (astaghfirullah) ;D
We did something about it at school - I'm the assistant.
Nah, role of spleen.
Though I read a lot of old books, and to have 'attack of the spleen' is to be moody/depressed/pmt - and often used as an excuse to cadge stronger drink out of someone.
That's always good although against my faith! Will probably be given Amoxycillin by the dentist tomorrow which means a dry week. Diet Coke here I come.
PMT? Yes, permanently.
Quote from: mimpi on September 28, 2011, 04:07:05 PMWill probably be given Amoxycillin by the dentist tomorrow
I'm allergic to amoxycillin. Makes me break out in hives.
Guess that's my strange fact of the day.
Quote from: Julian on September 28, 2011, 09:23:04 PM
I'm allergic to amoxycillin. Makes me break out in hives.
I had the same reaction to Kelfex when it was given to me by IV. It was a one time thing, but the pharmacy has it on file. Whenever I get prescribed amoxicillin I have to explain it to them again.
I can curl my tongue.
I'm allergic to liquid vitamins, good chance I'm allergic to the pill variety as well but I'm not taking a chance to test it.
I don't remember.
Ativan
I have an unhealthy obsession with Britney Spears.
the rest of my music's sound is nothing like her's.
Hmmm...I have a healthy obsession with Asparagus Spears.
Doesn't affect my music, that I can tell anyways.
Ativan
Affects your urine though.
mmm, asparagus.
I have a spear. It'd be pretty unhealthy if it was eaten or entered someone's ear. I'm not obessed with it though.
slow cooked over a lite flame in butter and onion. Lite cheese sauce or even crumbled. Asparagus Mmm...
I like to go out and look for the purple shoots coming up under the leaves out in the woods in spring. While checking the private Morell's stash places.
There are a type of psilocybn mushroom if you know what your looking for. They also go great with asparagus.
Ativan
I like dinosaurs.
Quote from: Pica Pica on October 02, 2011, 01:02:36 AM
Affects your urine though.
You probably don't want to know this, but a sufficient intake of asparagus leads to green and pungent semen. Do not ask me how I know.
Quote from: ZaidaZadkiel on October 05, 2011, 04:38:22 AM
I like dinosaurs.
Have you ever had one as a pet, like when you were a kid?
Quote from: @ivan on October 05, 2011, 10:42:51 AM
Have you ever had one as a pet, like when you were a kid?
no, when I was kid i was into computers and didn't care about dinosaurs or pets, really.
Couldn't even stand a tamagotchi.
Last year I had a bunch of dinosaur toys thanks to some emo friend who sort of left them at my house at the time.
I made clothes for them, they were naked :s
And we went to the beach and had beer.
Since then, I find dinosaurs to be pretty cool guys.
Yeah,...they are fun when they've been drinking ;)
Ativan
Quote from: Bombi on September 29, 2011, 10:12:57 AM
I can curl my tongue.
Oddly enough, I can curl your tongue too.
::)
Quote from: Rebis on November 16, 2011, 05:00:29 PM
Oddly enough, I can curl your tongue too.
::)
Was that you? I knew I wasn't doing it.
I am the fairy tongue curler. I come into your home at night and do my thing. Nobody leaves me coins.
I can't think of any more strange facts about myself. maybe I'm just ordinary. :o
no matter how out-of-shape I am, though, I can always bend from the waist and put my palms flat on the floor. maybe what's weird about this fact is the proportion of my friends who either can't or can barely touch their toes.
Quote from: Rebis on November 17, 2011, 09:07:29 AM
I am the fairy tongue curler. I come into your home at night and do my thing. Nobody leaves me coins.
Bwahahahaha! It's good to see you, Rebs. :-*
...I can touch the floor too, palms down! I'm probably too proud of that.
I can touch the floor with my palms and I'm not in great shape. We should all get together and walk down a street that way.
Thanks, Jaimey.
Once I was lying on the floor doing Pilates with my music teacher, and I kicked my friend in the shoulder. My leg (plus hip area, I guess) was as long as her whole body. Admittedly, I'm a full foot taller than her.
I wonder who first started using foot as a height indicator rather than a distance. Would they make people lie on the ground and line up feet to measure? Or do you think somebody decided a standard foot was a piece of wood as long as his own and declared that from that day forth or until the wood broke, that they could now measure in any direction they could think up. I wonder how long and funny the celebration was? Maybe they all made foot wood and went around comparing their foot sticks?
When i go anywhere,and have to wait for service,I go round and "Square" things up. At the chiropractors I place the magazines in the left corner of the table,ill level the pictures on the wall.(lucky i haven't crossed any flying ducks yet :laugh:)If I'm at the petrol station and i use my cc ill straighten the "pad" on the service desk.
I'm in the building trade and find myself looking at the mortar joints in brickwork...do they line up? would the doorbell be square on the wall? Is the light on the front porch centred?Is everything Balanced,and symmetrical?
Drives my partner insane sometimes cos I pick them all to her,and as we're renovating...as I'm halfway through doing something I come up with another idea to make things work better or more functional.I dont think I could make off the plan.alterations,alterations!
Kristyn
It's dificult to ditinguish the strangeness from normal. Most people seem very strange themselves to me.
Kristyn, my house would either keep you busy or drive you mad. I swear there isn't a level floor or a good 90 degree angle anywhere in the place. Some of our bookshelves are a little scary -- flush against the wall at the floor, 3 inches gap at the top, with a rug jammed under the front to stop it from tipping forward...
Older houses that have over time settle into various problems. You can use regular shimstock that you can get at anyplace that sells wood.
One house I had to put six floor jacks in the basement to hold up the floor, because I wanted to take the 6" drop out of the middle. 1/2" a day untillI was a little over a 1/2 inch to tall. Under that room I used three engineered joists, bolted every 6" in a v pattern. I dropped the jacks and the she was.
alevel floor. I used to buy, fix, sell old houses. None of them that I ever went in had more than 1 or 2 walls that were square.
I usually tell people that its the character of the house and should be enjoyed that way. To some extent, I like that.
I have the maturity of an 8 year old girl.
I had that same problem when I was 8, also.
Quote from: @ivan on November 21, 2011, 02:20:50 PM
I had that same problem when I was 8, also.
Yea but I have aspergers.
me too. (really)
Our house suffers from wonkiness due to the proximity of a bomb in WWII.
Quote from: xXRebeccaXx on November 21, 2011, 02:23:23 PM
Yea but I have aspergers.
I'll get the congratulations cake out then.
Odd fact about me: I am the only person on the entire internet with no diagnoses, pills or general intrusion, all my silliness is natural joi de vivre and all my seriousness natural meditation, and I sleep very well at night also.
I'm going to have my therapist visit with you soon......
Quote from: Rebis on November 19, 2011, 11:35:34 AM
I can touch the floor with my palms and I'm not in great shape. We should all get together and walk down a street that way.
I'm picturing it and it's hilarious. Lots of...targets.
I like our quirky, wonky old house. It's on the kind of street where every house is totally different, and all but one is over fifty. (And that one was built in the 80s and is twice the house the rest of them are, so it sticks out like a sore thumb and just makes the rest of the street that much more charming.)
Plus whatever skeevy things go on in the surrounding neighborhood always avoid our street like vampires staying away from a church.
Hehe, it feels weird to read 50 years as old. I think I've only ever lived in one house younger than 50. In a chopped up Georgian place now.
You Europeans, where you have history and stuff. :)
I hate wearing skivvies cos I get claustrophobic trying to take them off....well last time I wore one I did. I can't sleep in after 7...can go for naps anytime of the day after ten, but if I go to bed in the afternoon for a snooze, and wake up after 6ish, I can't get to sleep til about 2.30am.
I purchase my tatts tickets from the same on place Tuesday and have had til now a 1 in 3 chance of winning my money back.If I purchase any other time I win nothing.The first ticket I purchased I won enough money to purchase a tatts ticket for the next two years and not win and still be in front.That was three months ago.
Kristyn
I only have one blood relative that's taller than me, and he got it from the other side of the family. And I'm only 5'10". Everyone in my family is middling to short. I don't know where my height comes from.
Quote from: Julian on November 29, 2011, 04:05:54 PM
I only have one blood relative that's taller than me, and he got it from the other side of the family. And I'm only 5'10". Everyone in my family is middling to short. I don't know where my height comes from.
That's odd, I'm the only blonde/red-ed for at least 4 generations in my family.
Quote from: Pica Pica on November 29, 2011, 04:12:57 PM
That's odd, I'm the only blonde/red-ed for at least 4 generations in my family.
My height might come from my great (great-great?) grandmother, but I don't know if she was quite as tall as me. Ironically, she's also my namesake.
Since i have no plumbing in my house i have to haul my water to wash my dishes but thats not why i lick my plate when i am done eating ;D
I'd like to kiss a guy...but I've not come across the right one...only here. And i think he's miles away....literally ;)
Quote from: Kristyn74 on December 01, 2011, 06:25:25 AM
I'd like to kiss a guy...but I've not come across the right one...only here. And i think he's miles away....literally ;)
Miles shouldn't be a problem it's 100,000 odd miles that is problematic if transport time is less then an hour then you are closer then I am to most of my friends
I live in the county some nutjob wants to make our 51st state. Apparently the rest of Illinois can't handle us.
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/illinois-republican-wants-chicago-area-51st-state-160924927.html (http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/illinois-republican-wants-chicago-area-51st-state-160924927.html)
Illinois would be pretty sparse without Chicago...
I never dated until I was 31, and she lived 11 hours away by car until she moved in with me. But we've been happily married for 7 years, so things worked out.
Quote from: foosnark on December 01, 2011, 12:34:29 PM
I never dated until I was 31, and she lived 11 hours away by car until she moved in with me. But we've been happily married for 7 years, so things worked out.
I got married in 2000, I had to cross the Atlantic to do it and we've been married 11 years. And we have a son together.
My strange fact: Radio chatter between Pilots and Air traffic control is soothing to me.
Sometimes, I honestly just don't have anything to say...which apparently shocks people who know me. ...should I be insulted? :P
Strange that this topic died
I have out of body experiences.
I believe I have on more than one occasion bilocated.
Call me crazy.
I thought it was just my family and a-holes but I'm realizing that even the most awesome people say ->-bleeped-<- they don't mean, have no intentions of doing, all their I-love-you's were bull->-bleeped-<-. I mean seriously, I'm so mad at myself for buying it. Strange fact is that I was a pretty good liar when I was younger but have (with huge effort) overcome that 97% at least and now I see that everyone tells lies.
Quote from: Jamie D on January 26, 2012, 03:59:05 AM
I have out of body experiences.
I believe I have on more than one occasion bilocated.
Call me crazy.
I believe I'm a little bit psychic. Call me crazy. :P
Crazy
Disagree
Crazy
I spend more of my time talking to children than adults.
Quote from: Julian on January 26, 2012, 08:39:33 AM
I believe I'm a little bit psychic. Call me crazy. :P
I won't call you crazy. I know, for instance, that bilocation is physically impossible - against all all the laws of physics (and I'm an earth scientist by training). So I mentally dismiss these things. But there is something about the paranormal that fascinates me.
Case in point:
When I was working in downtown Los Angeles, I came into the office building one morning and passed by the office of one of the administrative assistants, a young lady about my age. I stepped back into the doorway and asked her, "Hey, how's your husband doing?"
She looked at me strangely and said, "Fine, I guess."
I said, "He was in an accident, wasn't he? And he's in the hospital, right?"
"Not that I know of," and she looked alarmed.
I said, "Sorry, maybe I'm thinking of someone else. I didn't mean to frighten you. Sorry." I was very apologetic.
About an hour later she came over to my shared office, white as a sheet. She asked, "How did you know A---- was in an accident?"
I said, "I don't know, I thought someone had told me." I knew her husband was a police officer. What I didn't know was they had been separated for several months.
She said, "He and his partner were in a traffic accident real early this morning. No one called me and they wouldn't give me any information. I finally had to call the wife of another guy on the force to get some info. I'm going over to the hospital right now. Thanks - however you knew."
Now there is a small chance, a very small chance, that I was mistaken about my knowledge
and the person I was mistaken about was contemporaneously hospitalized from an auto accident. I don't know how I "knew." This one still creeps me out.
Perhaps your reality is in control of the physical nature of everyone's reality. ;)
Whatanormal? :o
Ativan
Thats crazy !!
So is Quantum Jumping :D
I like to play with lightsabers
Yoda lightsaber demo (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxR9EKmCUws&list=UUqi32msQzK6Hv4HtPDPIARA&index=6&feature=plcp#)
Don't put out an eye!
I thought I'd exhausted my supply of strange facts, but I was unpleasantly reminded of another one the other day. I suffer from claustrophobia of the head. Can't stand having things close to it, but hats tend to be okay. I get really wigged out under low ceilings and I can't sleep on the top bunk unless there's easily room to sit up. I've never heard of claustrophobia manifesting like this; I'm okay in otherwise tight spaces, but I've had a panic attack from a car ceiling near my head.
I procrastinate like a mofo. ...which is why I'm on here and not writing for my class tomorrow.
Quote from: Julian on January 29, 2012, 11:09:14 AM
I thought I'd exhausted my supply of strange facts, but I was unpleasantly reminded of another one the other day. I suffer from claustrophobia of the head. Can't stand having things close to it, but hats tend to be okay. I get really wigged out under low ceilings and I can't sleep on the top bunk unless there's easily room to sit up. I've never heard of claustrophobia manifesting like this; I'm okay in otherwise tight spaces, but I've had a panic attack from a car ceiling near my head.
I have an issue similar to this. I can touch my own head and wear hats and stuff, but anyone else touching my head freaks me the f--- out. Like when people pat me head, tap my head, rest a hand on my head (I'm pretty short, fyi). I mean, I've been hit on the head a lot - dropped down the stairs as a baby, hit by a truck when I was 16, got knocked on the head with flyaway basketballs in elementary school almost daily, and had a few aggressive friendships where we'd wrestle and smack each other around and such. Needless to say, my head's a little sensitive. "Wigged out" is the only way I can ever explain the feeling of having a hand hover near my head - a shiver down my spine and I physically recoil, duck, or back away.
People think I'm a little nuts, but whatever :P
I don't like being touched, in general really. Buses are terrible, sitting on a small couch with two other people, a packed airport terminal, etc. I can deal with it, but I'm incredibly stiff and uncomfortable about it. And I get weird when people put hand on my shoulder in a comforting gesture as well. I don't really do hugs or anything like that.
I'm just a no-touchy kind of person ^.^''
I can move my ears independently, but not my eyebrows.
When I was a kid I was afraid of bubbles on pizza.
My sense of direction is so bad that I had to be born by cesarean section because I couldn't find the exit (I'm not making that up).
Quote from: BlueSloth on January 29, 2012, 08:26:16 PM
My sense of direction is so bad that I had to be born by cesarean section because I couldn't find the exit (I'm not making that up).
Haha :D
I have a great internal compass. I always know where north is, unless I'm underground.
I always know were I'm going, or at least supposed to be going, but not underground. ;)
I have a terrible sense of direction. When I was a kid and we moved into a 4-bedroom house with my grandma, I got lost in it the first day. I was convinced there was more than one hallway.
I'm not claustrophobic exactly, but I am often uncomfortable if the air is too still (especially around my face), I don't like things touching the front of my neck, and I don't like feeling that bedding is either dragging my feet down or pinning me down. The first thing I do in a hotel room is pull all the bedding from where it's tucked in.
Also I am mildly allergic to lavender, and I have Morton's toe on one foot but not the other.
I think you ought to return his toe at once.
I have rubbish sense of direction, but I enjoy getting lost, so that is alright.
My sense of direction always accustoms itself so that one place serves as a point of reference and everywhere I go in that area I know in relation to that place. Which place tends to be rather random. In the last two cities I lived in my points of reference were a bank that I didn't even use often and a liquor store that I had purchased from once when I was already drunk and had no sense of direction when I stumbled in.
my hair style's itself. I just try to tidy it up a little.
This week I am trying out this look *ponytail*
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And
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At practice last night, the director said to me: "if the sound of your voice was a musical genre, it would be ambient techno."
I'm also a furry. This is my Fursona, Miri Tekker
<---------------------
Hurray! Another furry! My fursona is Leuki (http://leuki-of-light.blogspot.com/).
I hear tumors. For quite a while a voice shouted PIECE OF S***! inside my head. I wondered where it came from but just ignored it. I had a mastectomy and was due to have a bowel resection to remove a precancerous polyp. I heard a whisper piece of s*** and realized that the shouting voice was gone. After my bowel resection, the whisper went away.
Quote from: LightlyLuke on February 10, 2012, 06:51:57 PM
Hurray! Another furry! My fursona is Leuki (http://leuki-of-light.blogspot.com/).
I hear tumors. For quite a while a voice shouted PIECE OF S***! inside my head. I wondered where it came from but just ignored it. I had a mastectomy and was due to have a bowel resection to remove a precancerous polyp. I heard a whisper piece of s*** and realized that the shouting voice was gone. After my bowel resection, the whisper went away.
You should submit your experiences to the scriptwriters for
House
Soon i will take a bath.. I haven't had a bath in almost 9 months maybe more.. I have had to use a cloth and wash basin like the olden days. My house has no plumbing except for a hand pump springbox in the cellar which is springfed and cold. I have rebuilt an old 1801 schoolhouse into a 2 bedroom 1 bath home for a family over the last 3 weeks. I will get to take the first bath ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh just about 4 days from now :)
I draw furries...
And also have an immense connection with a 13 year old character in a webcomic where everyone dies. Woops.
What isn't strange?
...still thinking...
Quote from: LightlyLuke on February 10, 2012, 06:51:57 PM
I hear tumors. For quite a while a voice shouted PIECE OF S***! inside my head. I wondered where it came from but just ignored it. I had a mastectomy and was due to have a bowel resection to remove a precancerous polyp. I heard a whisper piece of s*** and realized that the shouting voice was gone. After my bowel resection, the whisper went away.
Quote from: Jamie D on February 11, 2012, 04:30:35 AM
You should submit your experiences to the scriptwriters for House
I would totally watch that, however much I dislike House. XD
Fact 1: I can turn my tongue over
both ways with no help from the teeth. I can also roll it, touch my nose with it, make a } shape and even catch flies (OK, that last one is wishful thinking, but hey).
My fact is rubbish! Will return later with a better one. I'LL BE BACK 8)
Hrm... I sew?
I don't know how strange a fact that is. But yeah, I love sewing and my female identified friends all come to me to make them dresses and such.
Aha! Got one! (Re: bad sense of direction that people were comparing earlier.)
Fact 2: I once got lost going to a friend's house when he lives only about 2 blocks away. As in half an hour of lost. I was 16. :D
Stuff like that happens to me too. What's embarrassing is when people take a different route to a class than I do, and I walk with them and just get completely disoriented.
Surprisingly enough, I have a rather accurate sense of direction and can usually get you where you're wanting to go... even if I'm unfamiliar with the area.
I spent today dressed as a mouse in the boardroom of Universal Music. I then pretended to drink from a giant cup of tea for two hours before eating my weight in egg cress sandwiches, filling my rucksack with free promo albums and off home.
Pica, that's kind of awesome and surreal. I don't know if I'd be able to spend that much time in proximity to record company executives without asking them why they are a bunch of parasitic butt-weasels though...
I never met a single exec. It was saturday, they were at home, we were making our mad tea party film. I was the doormouse.
I haven't been warned or banned again. yet.
Quote from: Ativan on February 21, 2012, 02:16:32 PM
I haven't been warned or banned again. yet.
Conformist
Contortionist.
I can't crack my knuckles. I don't like knuckle-cracking, but I've tried a lot and I can't.
Other people can crack my knuckles, though. All my past partners have liked cracking my knuckles, and doing things like cracking their knuckles against my head. Ugh, sends shivers down my spine.
Fingers or toes?
Most of my finger knuckles won't crack, the joints have been displaced over the years of self abuse.
My toe knuckles on the other hand (LOL), are a pleasure to crack every now and then.
I think I will go and have a crack at them right now...
Fingers. Other joints crack on their own sometimes, but I can never crack my own fingers.
A friend of mine can audibly crack her spine just by twisting her hips.
My knuckles crack sometimes just when I flex my fingers. Not as much since I started playing taiko and we warm up with a lost of wrist/hand exercises that flex them though. Also I have less arthritis annoyance and less plantar fascitis... just way worse skin on my hands :P
i can do that, cracking my spine by twisting.
I have to occasionaly crack my neck.
My back will start at the bottom and crack on secquence to the top when bending over sideways. Each way.
My left knee cracks and I fall down in agony... :'(
I can crack my back and neck no problem (and loudly). Even my wrists.
Sometimes my jaw pops out of place, and it's pretty crooked. I smile a bit lopsidedly.
Quote from: Ativan on February 22, 2012, 08:31:20 AM
Fingers or toes?
Most of my finger knuckles won't crack, the joints have been displaced over the years of self abuse.
My toe knuckles on the other hand (LOL), are a pleasure to crack every now and then.
I think I will go and have a crack at them right now...
Toe knuckle cracking has been associated with insanity.
My ankles crack pretty loudly.
So did my skull once, when I stood up from a water fountain and hit a very unwisely placed shelf. My first thought was that I had been shot; I figured someone had mistaken me for someone else and I was going to politely tell them they had the wrong person and then pass out. I did neither, thankfully.
i have TMJ, though it hasn't bothered me for months now -touch wood-, but my jaw used to dislocate all the time. neither the dislocation nor the popping back in particularly hurt, some cracks did, but it'd ache pretty bad a lot.
i crack my toes.....
Quote from: Jamie D on February 22, 2012, 10:51:04 AM
Toe knuckle cracking has been associated with insanity.
The delicious insanity of toe cracking is one of life's little pleasures.
One should walk in the path of insanity on occasion.
It's a perspective that can help guide you in the pursuit of happiness.
Quote from: foosnark on February 22, 2012, 10:57:08 AM
My ankles crack pretty loudly.
So did my skull once, when I stood up from a water fountain and hit a very unwisely placed shelf. My first thought was that I had been shot; I figured someone had mistaken me for someone else and I was going to politely tell them they had the wrong person and then pass out. I did neither, thankfully.
Welcome to middle age.
Quote from: Ativan on February 22, 2012, 11:47:37 AM
The delicious insanity of toe cracking is one of life's little pleasures.
One should walk in the path of insanity on occasion.
It's a perspective that can help guide you in the pursuit of happiness.
Truer words have never been spoken.
I had no idea that I could eat as much noodles with butter and garlic, along with garlic bread as I just did. Ohhh...
I may not have to eat for a few days...
And I skipped working out today...
I feel like gravity just increased....
Ohh...
Quote from: Ativan on February 23, 2012, 06:57:54 PM
I had no idea that I could eat as much noodles with butter and garlic, along with garlic bread as I just did. Ohhh...
I may not have to eat for a few days...
And I skipped working out today...
I feel like gravity just increased....
Ohh...
The gravitational constant no doubt remained ... well ... constant.
Your mass increased thus you changed the relationship:
F = G((m1m2)/r^2)
Gravity (and time) are only constant when measured from the same relative movement through the universe.
Constant is an illusion in the idea that we tend to think of everything moving toward or away, in a fashion, from us.
Indeed, my notion of gravity increasing as a result of increased mass is incorrect, as my relative motion did not change.
In fact, my motion decreased only relative to my immediate surroundings.
I ate to much.
Ativan
Quote from: Ativan on February 26, 2012, 10:58:03 AM
Gravity (and time) are only constant when measured from the same relative movement through the universe.
Constant is an illusion in the idea that we tend to think of everything moving toward or away, in a fashion, from us.
Indeed, my notion of gravity increasing as a result of increased mass is incorrect, as my relative motion did not change.
In fact, my motion decreased only relative to my immediate surroundings.
I ate too much.
Ativan
Burp
Quote from: Jamie D on February 26, 2012, 11:14:50 PM
Burp
I loved burping when I was young, now it seems to be a means of relief, more often than not.
I think I shall swallow air and burp all I want, today.
How childishly shallow, yet satisfied with my world I will be.
Ativan
Quote from: Ativan on March 01, 2012, 09:00:52 AM
I loved burping when I was young, now it seems to be a means of relief, more often than not.
I think I shall swallow air and burp all I want, today.
How childishly shallow, yet satisfied with my world I will be.
Ativan
Nature's way of spontaneously aborting a fart.
Even before I knew what transsexual was, I was already being dressed for my future . In elementary school, it was not uncommon for me to wear tights beneath my school uniform pants. I didn't wear a sweater with my school uniform shirt as was the norm for boys, I wore a blue cardican like the girls, except mine had an embroidered teddy bear on the left breast. My lunch box had Rainbow Brite on it.
How's that for real life experience? :P
I do my crossword puzzles in ink.
I want to be an actor and singer with my own clothing line but i'm not very good at singing...i should probably work on that ~.^
Quote from: Jamie D on May 06, 2012, 04:36:40 PM
I do my crossword puzzles in ink.
My mother did that. Don't know how she could. Didn't seem to make mistakes, either.
Jamie, you're made of tough stuff.
How Tough is ToughStuff? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4iqzAmVqFA#)
Quote from: Ativan on May 06, 2012, 07:03:57 PM
How Tough is ToughStuff? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4iqzAmVqFA#)
I would prefer that no one try and drive a car over me! :o
I sometimes wish I was born a Japanese male ^///^. One who can sing and looks androgynous.
Quote from: JayKyle on May 06, 2012, 04:53:15 PM
I want to be an actor and singer with my own clothing line but i'm not very good at singing...i should probably work on that ~.^
Singing actors have a checkered history.
Case in point:
William Shatner - Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AB3uVARNhmM)
To be fair, Shatner never actually sang. Just talked over a backing track, lol.
And this is much, MUCH worse:
William Shatner - Bohemian Rhapsody (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CthW1MgWYuE#)
Hard to argue with that! :o
One should check out the original video ...
to get the full effect.
As the reviewer stated: "I really don't know what to say. I really don't."
William Shatner Covers 'Bohemian Rhapsody,' And Yes, It's Very Weird (http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2011/10/20/141551283/william-shatner-covers-bohemian-rhapsody-and-yes-its-very-weird)
Once again, reality is slipping away faster than I could have possibly imagined.
Somethings should have never made it to the internet, yet there they are...
The William Shatner albums are alive, alive I tell you!
The villagers will come with their pitchforks and torches and the castle will crumble and burn,
Yet the monster will live...
(https://www.susans.org/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.moonbattery.com%2Ffrankenstein_villagers.jpg&hash=4195806716d5d83913aff53f48938e7c559ffc83)
William Shatner doing Rocketman is the best one.
The Monster Lives!
That was a good one, wasn't it, lmao!
Ativan
O.O oh my......
Quote from: Lynn Gabriel on May 06, 2012, 09:50:59 PM
I sometimes wish I was born a Japanese male ^///^. One who can sing and looks androgynous.
Like http://sharelike.me/image/pics/VersaillessongPics1xJ9ugdU8coUMpM.jpg? (http://sharelike.me/image/pics/VersaillessongPics1xJ9ugdU8coUMpM.jpg?)
I want to be the strongest, most powerful person in the world.
I wish I was an anime character rather than human.
Quote from: Malachite on May 07, 2012, 09:49:59 PM
I wish I was an anime character rather than human.
Oh me too! Anime mad scientists can do so much more cool stuff than is actually possible in reality.
I couldn't tie my shoes or tell time until I was 14.
I didn't mention that I always thought i was an alien. Just look at my logon: a leon. :-)
I found out since that it is common for folks on the autism spectrum. There's even a website: Oops Wrong Planet.
--Jay Jay
Quote from: Edge on May 08, 2012, 05:23:36 AM
Oh me too! Anime mad scientists can do so much more cool stuff than is actually possible in reality.
Heck yeah! I'd rather train hard to practice a Kamehameha or something cool like that instead.
I also couldn't whistle until the 9th grade and it was on accident using my fingers.
If i blow my nose too hard it now comes out of my eye socket :o
Quote from: Morty on May 08, 2012, 01:24:25 PM
I couldn't tie my shoes or tell time until I was 14.
Thank god for slip-ons, loafers, flip flops, and velco. Right Morty?
Not to mention, digital clocks.
Quote from: Amazon D on May 08, 2012, 05:41:09 PM
If i blow my nose too hard it now comes out of my eye socket :o
Oh my! Stay healthy, D
Quote from: Jamie D on May 08, 2012, 09:19:33 PM
Thank god for slip-ons, loafers, flip flops, and velco. Right Morty?
Not to mention, digital clocks.
Bless zip up boots.
This hardship is actually due to my learning disability, and it's tough.
But, I've actually learned how to do these things alright, now~
Quote from: Morty on May 09, 2012, 03:04:10 AM
Bless zip up boots.
This hardship is actually due to my learning disability, and it's tough.
But, I've actually learned how to do these things alright, now~
Forgot about those!
Dyslexia?
In any case, you've overcome the hardship, and that's great.
Quote from: Jamie D on May 09, 2012, 10:48:02 AM
Forgot about those!
Dyslexia?
In any case, you've overcome the hardship, and that's great.
Discalculia, actually~
And, yes. Huzzah :)
Strange facts about jamie D .. you are a kind person always answering other peoples replies..
nowwww weeee knowwww
yourrrrr a sweetttt heart
;)
Sometimes I feel like a guy who likes to pretend to be a girl.
Quote from: Edge on May 10, 2012, 04:05:21 PM
Sometimes I feel like a guy who likes to pretend to be a girl.
And somehow I understand that...or mayhaps I have experienced/felt that too...
I have never held hands or kissed someone in a romantic manner.
I like to lift/fiddle with dumbbells and hand weights while i'm on the computer
I love reading things like these, everyone has their own quirks about them and I like seeing it when people embrace themselves like this.
Okay ah, I haven't cut my hair (not even a trim except for the bangs/fringe) for 3 years. I started when it was an inch long and told myself I wasn't going to cut it until I reached my goals. It's about mid-back right now.
Quote from: DrillQuip on May 13, 2012, 11:05:50 PM
I am indifferent to face to face social interraction. Always been like this. I didn't even begin speaking until I was 4, and it wasn't because I didn't understand language. I had no desire to engage people. I can go months, even years, not talking to another person and never feel lonely. Just knowing I have access to other people is enough for me.
The downside is it takes forever to build relationships. On the upside my social skills are being built in a really concienscious way.
Being on the autism spectrum, I understand/share a lot of this. As I have gotten older (shows you continue to learn-- perhaps even faster), I have gotten a LOT better at this. But, as you say, it is in a more conscious way.
--Jay Jay
I like my Chai tea hot, with two packets of Splenda and just a splash of low fat milk
I used to dress like a pirate on a regular basis. I've also worn a skirt made out of scarves a couple of times.
I was a hardcore bodybuilder about 13 years ago. I was pretty big back than. I had a attraction to female bodybuilders, the one's who have feminine face features & muscular body. For some reason I thought they looked hot! Especially their butt! LOL!
1. I got into a bondage "shoot" at an anime convention with a bunch of girls once. >:-)
2. I'm addicted to anime.
3. I'm addicted to yaoi roleplay (kind of like a story) and currently am suffering withdrawals from finding no one to roleplay with.
4. I once flashed 6 people at the same time. >.>
I am attracted to gay men although the mechanics of that will never happen *sigh*
My new legal name will be inspired by anime/video game characters.
Quote from: Malachite on May 18, 2012, 07:58:50 PM
My new legal name will be inspired by anime/video game characters.
What name? (If you don't mind sharing. I'm just curious.)
I have a bunch in my head right now but if I had to choose today it would probably be Malachite Vincent Zoran Lazaravich. Im still working on the last name though. I may go with a either a Russian last name or just keep mine.
Knowing me I will probably change my name several times.
Quote from: Malachite on May 18, 2012, 07:58:50 PM
My new legal name will be inspired by anime/video game characters.
>> The name I choose may or may not eventually be inspired by anime assuming I can find one that goes with the fact that I'm uber white. XD
@ GhostTown11:
-hugs-
I feel the same way. I'm heavily attracted to gay men, but it's not going to happen.
Another fact:
I have a love affair with coca-cola.
Quote from: Lynn Gabriel on May 18, 2012, 08:05:11 PM
>> The name I choose may or may not eventually be inspired by anime assuming I can find one that goes with the fact that I'm uber white. XD
@ GhostTown11:
-hugs-
I feel the same way. I'm heavily attracted to gay men, but it's not going to happen.
Another fact:
I have a love affair with coca-cola.
Coca cola will never reject us! Athough, I prefer diet pepsi myself.
Quote from: Smuffypower on May 18, 2012, 07:19:49 PM
I was a hardcore bodybuilder about 13 years ago. I was pretty big back than. I had a attraction to female bodybuilders, the one's who have feminine face features & muscular body. For some reason I thought they looked hot! Especially their butt! LOL!
Here is my bodybuilding pic. This was taken back in 2000 summer. The right pic was taken couple weeks before the left pic, because at the time my front didn't look good when I got my back pose pic taken.
(https://www.susans.org/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi1058.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Ft413%2FSmuffypower%2FJune-JulyBodybuildfrontback.jpg&hash=01b98ab32f10962f3a3020882fd9a567b7f9b68c)
When I went back to college, my school friends didn't believe I was into bodybuilding.
Quote from: Smuffypower on May 18, 2012, 08:09:49 PM
Here is my bodybuilding pic. This was taken back in 2000 summer. The right pic was taken couple weeks before the left pic, because at the time my front didn't look good when I got my back pose pic taken.
(https://www.susans.org/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi1058.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Ft413%2FSmuffypower%2FJune-JulyBodybuildfrontback.jpg&hash=01b98ab32f10962f3a3020882fd9a567b7f9b68c)
o.o
That is a good face, not a bad one. It looks like it took a lot of work to get that built!
Quote from: Lynn Gabriel on May 18, 2012, 08:05:11 PM
>> The name I choose may or may not eventually be inspired by anime assuming I can find one that goes with the fact that I'm uber white. XD
Lol in a reverse way I kind of worry about that too. I know I'm going to get crazy looks from people. I've even thought about changing my names to either "Vegeta" or "Kakorat" LOL.
Man I want to do a bondage shoot with women at an anime convention. That sounds so cool.
Fun fact: Even though I hate my breast I want to lactate just to see what it would taste like. I've even thought about using it like a water gun lol.
Quote from: Malachite on May 18, 2012, 08:15:06 PM
Lol in a reverse way I kind of worry about that too. I know I'm going to get crazy looks from people. I've even thought about changing my names to either "Vegeta" or "Kakorat" LOL.
Man I want to do a bondage shoot with women at an anime convention. That sounds so cool.
Fun fact: Even though I hate my breast I want to lactate just to see what it would taste like. I've even thought about using it like a water gun lol.
Oh, it was so much fun. >:-) >:-) >:-) >:-) I even got my first girlfriend out of it. XD
And you are...odd. :p <3
Fact:
I have an obsession with a certain ethnicity and it doesn't bode well for me in regards to getting a lifelong mate.
Quote from: Lynn Gabriel on May 18, 2012, 08:13:16 PM
o.o
That is a good face, not a bad one. It looks like it took a lot of work to get that built!
Thanks Lynn Gabriel!
I haven't done bodybuilding in almost 13 years. But it took a lot of hard work to look like that & I admit I took steroids. I don't like how some massive huge bodybuilders say they never took steroids. I don't believe it. Now, I lost a lot of muscles but I still feel happy. I'm more emotional & have strong feelings now than before. My natural hormones are unbalanced, probably from steroids.
Quote from: Lynn Gabriel on May 18, 2012, 08:18:52 PMI have an obsession with a certain ethnicity and it doesn't bode well for me in regards to getting a lifelong mate.
Androgynous Japanese?
Quote from: Malachite on May 18, 2012, 08:04:30 PM
Knowing me I will probably change my name several times.
Heh Me too. According to my mom, one of my teachers used to get concerned because I would insist she call me by different names. I think I went by Amalthea for awhile from The Last Unicorn.
Human milk tastes bad. One can kind of do the water gun thing depending on how full they are.
Fact: I am attracted to villains. This is probably a bad thing. I am also attracted to a certain face shape.
@ Ghost:
Booo. :P <3
@ Edge:
No.
......
Yes. Omg, yes. XD
Quote from: Edge on May 18, 2012, 08:25:52 PM
Androgynous Japanese?
Heh Me too. According to my mom, one of my teachers used to get concerned because I would insist she call me by different names. I think I went by Amalthea for awhile from The Last Unicorn.
Human milk tastes bad. One can kind of do the water gun thing depending on how full they are.
I've heard that the taste ranges. My sister said it tastes like onions while I've heard that it can be as sweet as the milk leftover from cereal.
Fact: I regard Princess Robot Bubblegum as a real anime.
Quote from: Lynn Gabriel on May 18, 2012, 08:31:32 PM
@ Edge:
No.
......
Yes. Omg, yes. XD
Insatiably curious person is curious.
Malachite, the taste differs depending on what one eats, but there is also the texture.
Quote from: Lynn Gabriel on May 18, 2012, 07:46:12 PM
1. I got into a bondage "shoot" at an anime convention with a bunch of girls once. >:-)
Awwww, no fair, how come that never happens at furry conventions? :'(
Hmm.. I just thought of something. Fursuits can easily be androgynous. One more reason to get one... someday.... eventually.....
Quote from: Edge on May 18, 2012, 08:35:34 PM
Insatiably curious person is curious.
Malachite, the taste differs depending on what one eats. But there is also the texture.
Yes! One of the MtF's here said it depends on what you ate in a lactating thread.
....Lactating thread hehe That make's it sound like a thread is lactating.
Quote from: BlueSloth on May 18, 2012, 08:37:35 PM
Awwww, no fair, how come that never happens at furry conventions? :'(
Hmm.. I just thought of something. Fursuits can easily be androgynous. One more reason to get one... someday.... eventually.....
I plan on getting one for that reason. :3 :P I'll go to a convention with you and we can scrounge up some people, lol.
@ Edge:
It's a horrible obsession...and it kind of sucks. xD
Another fact:
I crosplay. A lot.
I like being hypnotized.
I sometimes try out YouTube hypnotize videos to see what they'll hypnotize me to do.
Some days, I wish I was a super villain/mad scientist and could try to take over the world, but I suck at politics.
Quote from: Edge on May 18, 2012, 08:35:34 PM
Malachite, the taste differs depending on what one eats, but there is also the texture.
Im going to be sick, what do you mean texture??? like it can be lumpy?...aw no im going to be sick.
Im more likely to be put off food because of its texture then its taste. I dont like strawberries for that reason.
Haha no! At least, it can't be lumpy and be able to come out. It would get clogged which can happen. Nah, I mean it's kind of... slimy (if that's the right word). At least, that's what I found. I only tried mine (because trying someone else's would be very gross).
Quote from: Edge on May 19, 2012, 08:35:26 AM
Haha no! At least, it can't be lumpy and be able to come out. It would get clogged which can happen. Nah, I mean it's kind of... slimy (if that's the right word). At least, that's what I found. I only tried mine (because trying someone else's would be very gross).
slimy......aw no.
I am never in my life going near anything that is slimy, can taste of onions and has come out of a nipple.
Quote from: Tom on May 19, 2012, 09:10:20 AM
slimy......aw no.
I am never in my life going near anything that is slimy, can taste of onions and has come out of a nipple.
Certain cheeses are out then.
Oh, y'all are sick....xD
:o
I prefer the term insatiably curious. :)
Quote from: Lynn Gabriel on May 18, 2012, 08:05:11 PM
I feel the same way. I'm heavily attracted to gay men, but it's not going to happen.
Quote from: skype convo
me: i'm upset because i don't have a penis
gay friend: Me too
gay friend: :(
gay friend: I'm upset because
gay friend: you don't have a penis
yeah, i know what you mean. he might have been interested if only...
Quote from: Edge on May 18, 2012, 08:35:34 PM
Malachite, the taste differs depending on what one eats, but there is also the texture.
true, but i still remember it being a favorite when i was a kid. i was so jealous of my little brother
Quote from: Edge on May 19, 2012, 08:35:26 AM
Haha no! At least, it can't be lumpy and be able to come out. It would get clogged which can happen. Nah, I mean it's kind of... slimy (if that's the right word). At least, that's what I found. I only tried mine (because trying someone else's would be very gross).
trying someone else's would be hot. i don't trust the taste of my own to be representative, since i can't even smell my own body odor the same way that others do. and it's not that slimy
Quote from: Lynn Gabriel on May 18, 2012, 08:46:11 PM
I crosplay. A lot.
lucky you. i never do that, other than last halloween when my daughter demanded that i cosplay shanks, since she wanted to be luffy
as for my own weirdness...
i used to want to grow up to become a shounen hero
but after reading things like berserk, i'd rather be the villain so i can make the hero my boytoy
Quote from: Pica Pica on May 19, 2012, 09:19:22 AM
Certain cheeses are out then.
Like these?
New Yorkers sample cheese made from human breast milk (http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/05/02/us-cheese-breastmilk-idUSTRE7413X020110502)
Quote from: Lynn Gabriel on May 18, 2012, 08:46:11 PM
I'll go to a convention with you and we can scrounge up some people, lol.
Yay! One of them should be a shark. Because... err, it's an inside joke I have with a wolf...
Also, I don't like thinking about where cheese comes from and how it's made, no matter what it is. Eww. :o
Quote from: Lynn Gabriel on May 18, 2012, 08:05:11 PM
I feel the same way. I'm heavily attracted to gay men, but it's not going to happen.
What do you mean by that? Are you saying you're attracted but don't actually find dating one to be appealing for some reason or that you're not expecting them to be attracted back?
I have the occasional tick.
I often wonder about the levels of hormones in my body, because though (as far as I know) my karyotype is XY, I have many secondary sexual characteristics of women. I have, for example, a mildly hour glass figure (hips flair out, slim in the middle) and extremely soft skin.
Quote from: dalebert on May 20, 2012, 11:39:19 AM
What do you mean by that? Are you saying you're attracted but don't actually find dating one to be appealing for some reason or that you're not expecting them to be attracted back?
I don't expect to be attracted back, at least not any time soon. I can't even remotely begin the process of transitioning until next year and then it'll be awhile until any form of surgery...I think I just have a very negative outlook on my ability to come across as male.
Quote from: Malachite on May 20, 2012, 07:17:50 PM
I have the occasional tick.
I have an occasional trick...
Okay, here's a strange fact about myself.
Sometimes I have very odd feelings of total disassociation from the entire human race. People seem like... insects, like... ants, I guess. Scurrying around, going about their business. And I feel utterly detatched from it. Like watching from somewhere else. Somewhere... outside the world. This usually happens when I'm out somewhere and watching people walking by; the hustle and bustle of daily life. It's most strange. Thankfully it doesn't last long.
Quote from: Sephirah on May 22, 2012, 08:21:56 PM
Okay, here's a strange fact about myself.
Sometimes I have very odd feelings of total disassociation from the entire human race. People seem like... insects, like... ants, I guess. Scurrying around, going about their business. And I feel utterly detatched from it. Like watching from somewhere else. Somewhere... outside the world. This usually happens when I'm out somewhere and watching people walking by; the hustle and bustle of daily life. It's most strange. Thankfully it doesn't last long.
Wow! I get this... I hope you're not as weird as me in other ways, also.
Well, maybe I do hope... I don't know. Ants. Hmmm...
Quote from: Sephirah on May 22, 2012, 08:21:56 PM
Okay, here's a strange fact about myself.
Sometimes I have very odd feelings of total disassociation from the entire human race. People seem like... insects, like... ants, I guess. Scurrying around, going about their business. And I feel utterly detatched from it. Like watching from somewhere else. Somewhere... outside the world. This usually happens when I'm out somewhere and watching people walking by; the hustle and bustle of daily life. It's most strange. Thankfully it doesn't last long.
I feel like this all the time.
Quote from: Sephirah on May 22, 2012, 08:21:56 PM
Okay, here's a strange fact about myself.
Sometimes I have very odd feelings of total disassociation from the entire human race. People seem like... insects, like... ants, I guess. Scurrying around, going about their business. And I feel utterly detatched from it. Like watching from somewhere else. Somewhere... outside the world. This usually happens when I'm out somewhere and watching people walking by; the hustle and bustle of daily life. It's most strange. Thankfully it doesn't last long.
I like to drive up into the San Gabriel Mountains on a clear night, up near the Mt. Wilson Observatory, park and look down upon the lights in the basin below me, from Altadena to Palos Verdes, and wonder if any intelligent life exists on this planet.
Quote from: Sephirah on May 22, 2012, 08:21:56 PM
Okay, here's a strange fact about myself.
Sometimes I have very odd feelings of total disassociation from the entire human race. People seem like... insects, like... ants, I guess. Scurrying around, going about their business. And I feel utterly detatched from it. Like watching from somewhere else. Somewhere... outside the world. This usually happens when I'm out somewhere and watching people walking by; the hustle and bustle of daily life. It's most strange.
I've felt like this all my life and when I was trying to fit in it was just too hard. I felt more different to people so I was the odd one out I observed people a lot but saw them as something to try to be like. Giving up on the trying to be like others was the best choice I have ever made.
For years, I've imagined having a brother. For the first few years of imagining, he was my twin (until my mom told me I did have an older sibling who didn't survive- then I imagined him as the older sibling).
Now, I'm wondering if he is me or a part of me or if I just imagined him because I wanted someone to support me. Or both.
Quote from: Edge on May 26, 2012, 12:01:56 PM
For years, I've imagined having a brother. For the first few years of imagining, he was my twin (until my mom told me I did have an older sibling who didn't survive- then I imagined him as the older sibling).
Now, I'm wondering if he is me or a part of me or if I just imagined him because I wanted someone to support me. Or both.
Interesting. I've fantasized that I've opened a telepathic link to an imaginary woman who tells me what it's like to be female and who lets me experience it by mind connection. Makes me wonder the same things you are.
I am not sure if this is strange, but some people find it interesting. You know the saying "If I told you I would have to kill you"? Well, I don't say that part, I just call a number, enter some information, and say goodbye. Hope that doesn't freak anyone out. Just the life I have to live now.
i often fantasize about switching bodies with a guy. i even have a target in mind, if this suddenly becomes possible, a male online friend who'd like to try out a female body
I apparently make spaceship sounds in my sleep. I figured out how to set Audacity to do sound-activated recording. It only recorded 9.5 minutes out of about 6 hours of sleep, so apparently I'm no longer a loud snorer. The five years of allergy shots have worked wonders! But here are a couple interesting short clips from the 9.5 mins.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3602720/Temp/SS.wtf1.2012.05.27.mp3 (http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3602720/Temp/SS.wtf1.2012.05.27.mp3)
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3602720/Temp/SS.wtf2.2012.05.27.mp3 (http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3602720/Temp/SS.wtf2.2012.05.27.mp3)
Seriously though, I'm sure some things are made to sound weirder because all the silent gaps are automatically deleted by the sound activation.
Quote from: dalebert on May 27, 2012, 11:34:35 AM
I apparently make spaceship sounds in my sleep. I figured out how to set Audacity to do sound-activated recording. It only recorded 9.5 minutes out of about 6 hours of sleep, so apparently I'm no longer a loud snorer. The five years of allergy shots have worked wonders! But here are a couple interesting short clips from the 9.5 mins.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3602720/Temp/SS.wtf1.2012.05.27.mp3 (http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3602720/Temp/SS.wtf1.2012.05.27.mp3)
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3602720/Temp/SS.wtf2.2012.05.27.mp3 (http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3602720/Temp/SS.wtf2.2012.05.27.mp3)
Seriously though, I'm sure some things are made to sound weirder because all the silent gaps are automatically deleted by the sound activation.
Makes me think of demons that are able to come out when your consciousness is at rest. You might want to look into some exorcism just to be sure.
Quote from: Edge on May 26, 2012, 12:01:56 PM
For years, I've imagined having a brother. For the first few years of imagining, he was my twin (until my mom told me I did have an older sibling who didn't survive- then I imagined him as the older sibling).
Now, I'm wondering if he is me or a part of me or if I just imagined him because I wanted someone to support me. Or both.
Me too...at least on the twin part. I have no idea why, I have just always wished I had a twin brother and always felt I should have done.
Quote from: dalebert on May 27, 2012, 11:34:35 AM
I apparently make spaceship sounds in my sleep. I figured out how to set Audacity to do sound-activated recording. It only recorded 9.5 minutes out of about 6 hours of sleep, so apparently I'm no longer a loud snorer. The five years of allergy shots have worked wonders! But here are a couple interesting short clips from the 9.5 mins.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3602720/Temp/SS.wtf1.2012.05.27.mp3 (http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3602720/Temp/SS.wtf1.2012.05.27.mp3)
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3602720/Temp/SS.wtf2.2012.05.27.mp3 (http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3602720/Temp/SS.wtf2.2012.05.27.mp3)
Seriously though, I'm sure some things are made to sound weirder because all the silent gaps are automatically deleted by the sound activation.
As a person who is morbidly scared of Aliens that would freak me out to no end.
Oh that will do nicely for my strange fact, im scared of aliens. The long freaky variety.
Hearing power drills immediately gives me flashbacks to being in the dentist.
Quote from: Tom on May 27, 2012, 06:43:23 PM
As a person who is morbidly scared of Aliens that would freak me out to no end.
Pretty sure aliens would know to turn off my recording device if they were doing anal probe experiments on me in the night.
Quote from: dalebert on May 27, 2012, 11:45:29 PM
Pretty sure aliens would know to turn off my recording device if they were doing anal probe experiments on me in the night.
LOL :D
Quote from: dalebert on May 27, 2012, 11:45:29 PM
Pretty sure aliens would know to turn off my recording device if they were doing anal probe experiments on me in the night.
definitely
but the sounds you recorded might still be their idea of a good joke
(ever watched or read level e?)
I memorize movies as a hobby.
I'm teaching myself Irish Gaelic.
Quote from: Taka on May 28, 2012, 06:31:45 PM
but the sounds you recorded might still be their idea of a good joke
(ever watched or read level e?)
I'm a sci-fi/fantasy fiction writer and this is all fun to think about. However, my Occam's Razor conclusion is that it was probably the hard-drive spinning up after a long enough period of silence that it went into a power-saving mode.
I know, boring, right? I much better like the idea that I'm actually a cyborg--some kind of science experiment like Kyle XY.
Quote from: dalebert on May 29, 2012, 12:12:55 PM
I'm a sci-fi/fantasy fiction writer and this is all fun to think about. However, my Occam's Razor conclusion is that it was probably the hard-drive spinning up after a long enough period of silence that it went into a power-saving mode.
I know, boring, right? I much better like the idea that I'm actually a cyborg--some kind of science experiment like Kyle XY.
that boring explanation was really disappointing
but really, if you're into sci-fi/fiction you should watch the anime "level e", and read the manga (for the cute ending)
the mc is an evil genius with more interesting hobbies than taking over the world
it's one of my favorite comedies, and that author's best work in my opinion
I'll try to check it out.
I have named all my Diablo 3 characters after obscure musical instruments, yet I have been known to spend an hour trying to come up with a suitable name for other characters.
My wife named hers after varieties of cheese.
I have nicknamed some local restaurants based on not being able to recall their names in conversation. "Salad Place" is a favorite, and we're still sad that "Noodles" and "Dim Sum" have closed.
A fly just landed on my leg and I decided to karate chop it: made contact, found it knocked out on the sofa. WOO im da man!
lol I cant believe I hit it.
I dressed up as Puck for Halloween in the sixth grade. Everyone thought I was a tree.
Quote from: Edge on May 30, 2012, 04:30:28 PM
I dressed up as Puck for Halloween in the sixth grade. Everyone thought I was a tree.
whos puck?
Quote from: Tom on May 30, 2012, 08:21:16 PM
whos puck?
A faerie trickster also known as Robin Goodfellow. He is famous (at least, to some people) for being a character in Shakespeare's
A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Quote from: Edge on May 30, 2012, 08:26:09 PM
A faerie trickster also known as Robin Goodfellow. He is famous (at least, to some people) for being a character in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Oh *googles* he kinda looks a bit like a cross between the fawn in the lion the witch and the wardrobe and peter pan. Well to me hes does anyways ::)
Strange fact...I used to have a fantasy as a teenager that some scientist made a machine that could swap your gender and he just happened to be showing it off in the street. My best friend whom I was in love with wen to look and I stumbled into it and popped back out after a few moments (unconcious) as a shirtless hunk and my best friend thought I was the best looking thing she'd ever seen. How cheesy.
I can't decide if Serena from Sailor Moon should belong to Darien or Rei. The inner childhood tells met hat she belongs to Darien and fulfill their destiny of being together but the Yuri in me tells me that Darien is nothing but a liability who doesn't treat Serena with enough respect and even though her and Rei argue a lot they are perfect for year other. I'm sure if they made the series where she actually got with Rei then I would just be as goo goo over that.
Winner: Serena x Rei
This would have been more suited in the what am I thinking thread.....oh well lol. It's still a fact.
Quote from: Tom on May 30, 2012, 08:38:43 PM
Strange fact...I used to have a fantasy as a teenager that some scientist made a machine that could swap your gender and he just happened to be showing it off in the street. My best friend whom I was in love with wen to look and I stumbled into it and popped back out after a few moments (unconcious) as a shirtless hunk and my best friend thought I was the best looking thing she'd ever seen. How cheesy.
How many of you folks have seen Zerophilia? I love that movie. I've watched it way too many times. It's better than porn. I love the premise. It's about a guy who finds out that he changes genders whenever he orgasms.
It was instant streaming for a while on Netflix but apparently not anymore. :'(
Quote from: dalebert on May 30, 2012, 10:16:06 PM
How many of you folks have seen Zerophilia? I love that movie. I've watched it way too many times. It's better than porn. I love the premise. It's about a guy who finds out that he changes genders whenever he orgasms.
It was instant streaming for a while on Netflix but apparently not anymore. :'(
I have that movie. And yes, it is good. ^_^
i like bara manga
and find manly men cute
much cuter than any bishie boy
The only thing holding me back from being a supervillain is the fact that I do not live in comic book.
Quote from: Edge on June 03, 2012, 04:43:03 PM
The only thing holding me back from being a supervillain is the fact that I do not live in comic book.
Same except I'd rather be a superhero...plus I don't have powers
Strange fact: I kind of want to lose my virginity at Anime Expo. I wouldn't mind get married there since I want a cosplay wedding lol. It would be great!
Quote from: Edge on June 03, 2012, 04:43:03 PM
The only thing holding me back from being a supervillain is the fact that I do not live in comic book.
only thing holding me back from becoming a fearsome shadow assassin is my daughter
maybe it's a good thing i got her
Quote from: Malachite on June 07, 2012, 01:06:31 AM
Strange fact: I kind of want to lose my virginity at Anime Expo. I wouldn't mind get married there since I want a cosplay wedding lol. It would be great!
I think I should feel bad about how I lost my virginity to someone I didn't really like but....I find I don't care...at all. I can't wait to do the deed with someone I'm actually in love with though I wonder what that feels like.
That kind of makes me sound like I sleep with everyone, I don't lol I was just insecure back then to the point where I thought they were the only person who would ever go out with me.
I hate syrup on my pancakes. No clue why :laugh:
i like to read grammar
that should count as strange, right?
Dwelling on the definition of strange.
Perspective has a lot to do with it.
Life appears pretty absurd to me for the most part.
I subscribe to a sort of Lewis Black/Steven Wright point of view.
Dwelling on how absurd that makes me...
Ativan
Quote from: Your Humble Savant on June 11, 2012, 05:15:47 PM
I hate syrup on my pancakes. No clue why :laugh:
Ditto, even worse, I like horseradish and other spicy stuff on them. If they are leftover pancakes, add peanut butter and mayonnaise. YUM
uwaa, i just remembered i used to eat pancakes with wasabi. and mix wasabi in the mustard for hotdogs
good to see you're back, ativan
Quote from: LordKAT on June 16, 2012, 09:23:33 AM
Ditto, even worse, I like horseradish and other spicy stuff on them. If they are leftover pancakes, add peanut butter and mayonnaise. YUM
Look, I'm cool with all kinds of gender spectrum stuph but you guys are just freaks.
;)
I make coconut flour pancakes (low-carb and gluten-free) and then top them with my own homemade low-carb cream cheese icing.
I hate ice in my drinks. I love for my sodas or juice to be warm.
me too. i'd rather have whiskey without rocks
I actually think some brands of non-alcoholic beer taste better than beer beer
Quote from: Taka on June 17, 2012, 08:00:31 AM
me too. i'd rather have whiskey without rocks
I like to gargle JD double or triple shots, just for fun. No ->-bleeped-<-s.
I have never had anyone else try it, in all my years of drinking in bars.
It was always a good way to get free shots. People wanted to see it again.
I think that makes them a little stranger than me, they must have been pretty bored with their lives.
Also, if you have to have your beer cold, it probably doesn't taste good to begin with.
That's why Budweiser (the worst beer ever, still being made) only tastes good when it's ice cold.
Dark beers for me, only. 50 to 55 degrees F is about right, although some are much better at room temp.
Still Ativan
that's true. some beers really only taste like dish water with some added alcohol
Quote from: Erin_Grey on June 17, 2012, 08:13:48 AM
I actually think some brands of non-alcoholic beer taste better than beer beer
They are better, like waaaay better. Since they can't get your run of the mill alcoholics to buy them, they need to actually make them taste good to get the rest of us to drink them.
I think that's more a reflection on American beer making then anything else.
Anyone who could say non-alcholic beer is better has not drunk
(https://www.susans.org/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.yorkbrew.demon.co.uk%2FImages%2Fcenturian.gif&hash=3c729d4ba22573d1c440e7a52b0678aae61f9426)
or
(https://www.susans.org/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Ffarm3.static.flickr.com%2F2056%2F2270050788_696bab6993_o.jpg&hash=e3cd296c7723ecbd8fa35223520840d7ccad717d)
or
(https://www.susans.org/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2F2.bp.blogspot.com%2F_vaqCjVyoA_c%2FTFAt9VayhoI%2FAAAAAAAADig%2FY5MbOs5Q8E4%2Fs1600%2Ftaddy%2Bporter.jpg&hash=fd5cc800537d266e18702a6f51e057bfa8dbcae3)
I could go on, (and on and on and on).
Oh no. I've drunk, I've drunk a lot. I agree in the end non-alcoholic can't beat the real deal but some of them put themselves in the running :P
A cold corona, slice of lemon, summer night....AWESOME! :P
And another strange fact about myself: I have this almost fetishistic love for the Sweet Pea scents line in Bath and Body Works. My ex hated the smell so I had to settle for moonlight path ughh >:(
I'm spraying myself with sweet pea body mist as we speak >:-)
With more and more micro breweries popping up, beer is getting better and more available.
There are a few bars were they will stare at you strangely if you ask for a brand that is more commonly sold by the case at a discount price. I'm not sure that they even stock those 'American' beers.
I have come across and had recommended some outstanding beer over the last decade that are locally brewed.
The major breweries try to make similar beer, they just don't have the right brew masters, I guess.
Ativan
Quote from: Malachite on June 16, 2012, 11:56:34 PM
I hate ice in my drinks. I love for my sodas or juice to be warm.
I use too much ice. I fill the glass most of the way with ice before I add the drink. It's impossible for a drink to be too cold.
I was that bored at work today I managed to realise I don't actually know my national anthem and for 20 odd years I've just mumbled over the three lines I don't know.
Relating to that I also thought when we eventually get a King I wonder if the crowd at football games or whatever will forget and sing 'God save our gracious Qu-KING'
Which led to me thinking I don't think it's right that in order to show my allegiance to my country I have to say that
A) I believe in God and
B) I think the Queens tangtastic.
All of which circled round to me thinking 'wow I really am bored'.
My sense of species and personality are way stronger than my sense of gender. Sometimes, I ask my mind, "what gender am I?" and it yells back, "MAD SCIENTIST!"
Quote from: Tom on June 17, 2012, 07:16:44 PM
I was that bored at work today I managed to realise I don't actually know my national anthem and for 20 odd years I've just mumbled over the three lines I don't know.
Relating to that I also thought when we eventually get a King I wonder if the crowd at football games or whatever will forget and sing 'God save our gracious Qu-KING'
Which led to me thinking I don't think it's right that in order to show my allegiance to my country I have to say that
A) I believe in God and
B) I think the Queens tangtastic.
All of which circled round to me thinking 'wow I really am bored'.
I don't think very many people know more than the first couple of verses of the UK national anthem. Personally, I think it should be changed.
I quite like
Land of Hope and Glory. It's a lot more rousing. Although I'd re-word it for the current age.
The original first verse:
Land of Hope and Glory, Mother of the Free,
How shall we extol thee, who are born of thee?
Wider still, and wider, shall thy bounds be set;
God, who made thee mighty, make thee mightier yet!I'd change it to:
Land of Hope and Glory, is what it used to be,
Now an Orwellian nightmare, are you taking the pee?
Caged in ever tighter, when endless laws are set;
God, we're sick of Big Brother, and the mountain of debt!Go ahead, sing along. It sounds much better ;D:
BBC Proms 2011: Last Night - Land of Hope and Glory (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCx5bx-qtJQ#)
I think that the dead Nicole in Dead Space 2 is hotter than the alive Nicole.
I'm a bit of a health freak.
Quote from: Edge on June 17, 2012, 07:25:24 PM
Sometimes, I ask my mind, "what gender am I?" and it yells back, "MAD SCIENTIST!"
LOL! I have heard that genderless voice in my head say the same thing.
I never do get an answer about gender. It's only apparent between the thoughts.
Logic just seems to f* up the whole question.
Ativan
Quote from: Edge on June 17, 2012, 07:25:24 PM
My sense of species and personality are way stronger than my sense of gender. Sometimes, I ask my mind, "what gender am I?" and it yells back, "MAD SCIENTIST!"
Me too, that is the basis of my androgynity. Though mad scientist isn't mine, more Grub Street Hack.
Oh, and I would choose Jerusalem as my grand British song to use as an anthem, I love the craziness of it.
Quote from: Sephirah on June 17, 2012, 07:55:12 PM
I don't think very many people know more than the first couple of verses of the UK national anthem. Personally, I think it should be changed.
I quite like Land of Hope and Glory. It's a lot more rousing. Although I'd re-word it for the current age.
The original first verse:
Land of Hope and Glory, Mother of the Free,
How shall we extol thee, who are born of thee?
Wider still, and wider, shall thy bounds be set;
God, who made thee mighty, make thee mightier yet!
I'd change it to:
Land of Hope and Glory, is what it used to be,
Now an Orwellian nightmare, are you taking the pee?
Caged in ever tighter, when endless laws are set;
God, we're sick of Big Brother, and the mountain of debt!
Go ahead, sing along. It sounds much better ;D:
I rather enjoy national anthems. In the US, our main one was based on a old drinking song.
And I believe all Americans owe a debt of gratitude to our British cousins. If it hadn't been for the Germans, who were poorly running the UK back in the 1770's, there would be no USA, and if the Brits hadn't sacked the city of Baltimore in 1814, Francis Scott Key would not have been encouraged to set his poetry to "To Anacreon in Heaven."
Every time our team wins in a multiplayer match I salute the game until the final kill cam is done playing. If our team is the Spetnaz and they start communicating in Russian I will say small Russian phrases that I know that makes no sense given the context of the game. I just say them to feel more bad A
Quote from: Jamie D on June 18, 2012, 02:56:29 PM
And I believe all Americans owe a debt of gratitude to our British cousins. If it hadn't been for the Germans, who were poorly running the UK back in the 1770's, there would be no USA."
Well, it wasn't really the German's running it, it was third generation Germans and they had limited power. It was mainly English and Scots running it.
Plus, they weren't doing too bad, what with a cultural reformation in arts and letters, an explosion in science and a beginning to the agricultural and industrial revolutions. Poor governance of some colonies mind you.
I was in a movie about fungus zombies (http://www.chartarum.com/).
I dislike the number 3 and I try my best to avoid dealing with situations that have numbers ending in the number 3. I like the number 4.
Quote from: Edge on May 26, 2012, 12:01:56 PM
For years, I've imagined having a brother. For the first few years of imagining, he was my twin (until my mom told me I did have an older sibling who didn't survive- then I imagined him as the older sibling).
Now, I'm wondering if he is me or a part of me or if I just imagined him because I wanted someone to support me. Or both.
Weird, I've imagined having a twin brother since I was little. His appearance has changed over the years, as a child he was chubby och blond but he has becomed skinny and has darker hair nowadays. His named used to be Andreas but now it's Stephen and sometimes he's in my dreams when I sleep. Weird thing is that he kinda looks like me if I was a guy. It's probably really messed up, but I often feel i miss him, even though he never actually existed (that i know of).
I think I eat about the same amount of food as I did when I was 8. Not on purpose, my stomach just fills up so fast.
Quote from: DeadBoy on June 19, 2012, 04:14:55 PM
Weird, I've imagined having a twin brother since I was little. His appearance has changed over the years, as a child he was chubby och blond but he has becomed skinny and has darker hair nowadays. His named used to be Andreas but now it's Stephen and sometimes he's in my dreams when I sleep. Weird thing is that he kinda looks like me if I was a guy. It's probably really messed up, but I often feel i miss him, even though he never actually existed (that i know of).
Same with me. He looks the same as me if I was a guy (even down to the hair style I always wanted, but only started wearing now) other than being a bit taller. Except he doesn't actually exist. Or maybe he does. I've kind of felt like he and I are the same person. It's kind of weird and difficult to explain.
I've been calling twilight 'twi-sh*te' for that long my brain sometimes thinks that's the actual name of the movies and books.
I lived as a woman full time for a year when my wife died and I was nurturing my new daughter. I tried to cut off my genitals when I was 34. I dressed in women's clothes for 50 plus years EVERY SINGLE MINUTE I COULD (in strict secrecy).
Ya know what? I still wasn't sure I was transsexual!
Lizzy
Edge, I totally get that. My gender is Geek, mostly.
I may not be a mad scientist, but I am at least an eccentric, eclectic engineer.
Quote from: Tom on June 19, 2012, 07:22:12 PM
I've been calling twilight 'twi-sh*te' for that long my brain sometimes thinks that's the actual name of the movies and books.
We are soul mates...
my hip fat kinda bothers me :P
I still sleep with a baby blanket.
Quote from: Adam1 on June 25, 2012, 04:16:14 PM
my hip fat kinda bothers me :P
But you're like rail thin!
Actually I get that. I'm thin too, but still don't like my belly fat.
Quote from: agfrommd on June 25, 2012, 04:25:36 PM
But you're like rail thin!
Actually I get that. I'm thin too, but still don't like my belly fat.
Well the guys at NYC pride kept touching my hips and waist and kept saying they loved my girly waist lmao.
VIOLATION.OF.SPACE.
Im done being friends with gay men (ok not really but with certain specific grimy betraying gay men).
My emotions can be controlled by music (and I mean big time).. If I want to drift away on a trip there is just one thing that I need and that is music.
I'm scared of clowns but my favorite band is Insane Clown Posse.
Quote from: Tom on June 19, 2012, 07:22:12 PM
I've been calling twilight 'twi-sh*te' for that long my brain sometimes thinks that's the actual name of the movies and books.
You are now one of my favourite people.
I am obsessed with zombies, completely and utterly fixated.
I also have an obsession with face paint and dressing up, especially for sic fi conventions 8)
Quote from: Metal Stuart on June 27, 2012, 07:58:25 PM
You are now one of my favourite people
Wahay get in! Haha
I think I'm weird....I get seriously pissed off when couples kiss.
I used to think maybe I was frustrated because I hadn't had a girlfriend yet but that ended years ago and I still HATE it. I cannot tell you just how much it angers me. It's surprising because I don't really get angry in general but that just kills me. I've had to leave the cinema a few times before because people infront wouldn't stop kissing and Ice been sat there furious as hell day dreaming about biting the girls nose off and stamping on the guys face. It actually frightens me sometimes how instantly angry and violent I become because it's so strong a feeling I struggle to keep myself in check.
Quote from: Tom on June 29, 2012, 07:32:02 PM
Wahay get in! Haha
I think I'm weird....I get seriously pissed off when couples kiss.
I used to think maybe I was frustrated because I hadn't had a girlfriend yet but that ended years ago and I still HATE it. I cannot tell you just how much it angers me. It's surprising because I don't really get angry in general but that just kills me. I've had to leave the cinema a few times before because people infront wouldn't stop kissing and Ice been sat there furious as hell day dreaming about biting the girls nose off and stamping on the guys face. It actually frightens me sometimes how instantly angry and violent I become because it's so strong a feeling I struggle to keep myself in check.
I feel the same about couples. I don't mind small pecks and general cuteness but full on make outs and such, for some reason it just irks me
Quote from: Edge on June 25, 2012, 04:21:21 PM
I still sleep with a baby blanket.
I sleep with Edge's baby blanket also :o
Let's see...
1.) I have an irrational fear of garbage disposals
2.) I've managed to get a compound fracture taking a photo of someone
3.) I absolutely love the rain
4.) I get really bad anxiety when a question comes up that I can't get an answer to (I have to look it up right then unless it's some sort of existential question like the meaning of life)
5.) I learned to swim when I was 3 and swam competitively since I was 7, but I can't float
Yea...I think I'm going to stop there
Quote from: Pica Pica on June 30, 2012, 08:48:38 AM
I sleep with Edge's baby blanket also :o
*raises eyebrow*
Someone should make a smiley with a raised eyebrow.
Quote from: Alexis on June 30, 2012, 10:49:29 AM
2.) I've managed to get a compound fracture taking a photo of someone
Do tell please. :)
Somewhere I have a photo of me getting a compound fracture.
Ativan
The first time I got a nosebleed I was scared at first but then I started to like it. I actually went to the sink and let the blood drip for a few minutes. The splatter of blood in the sink looked awesone. The next time I have a nosebleed I will let it drip for longer.
I also have an addiction for peeling the skin off my lip. My lip bleeds probably twice a week from this but yet I don't care. Sometimes I will even put some salty snack or fizzy drink in the wounds to make it sting. I like the pain. Once I peeled so much skin off that my lip bled for 5-10 minutes straight. My hands looked like I performed an operation and I thought it was so cool I actually took pictures of it and my hands while smiling and still bleeding.
Quote from: Malachite on June 30, 2012, 08:12:10 PM
The first time I got a nosebleed I was scared at first but then I started to like it. I actually went to the sink and let the blood drip for a few minutes. The splatter of blood in the sink looked awesone. The next time I have a nosebleed I will let it drip for longer.
I also have an addiction for peeling the skin off my lip. My lip bleeds probably twice a week from this but yet I don't care. Sometimes I will even put some salty snack or fizzy drink in the wounds to make it sting. I like the pain. Once I peeled so much skin off that my lip bled for 5-10 minutes straight. My hands looked like I performed an operation and I thought it was so cool I actually took pictures of it and my hands while smiling and still bleeding.
:-X Ew... I'm your exact opposite as I'm absolutly disgusted and terrified of blood. It's called hemophobia.
Quote from: DeadBoy on July 01, 2012, 04:48:46 AM
:-X Ew... I'm your exact opposite as I'm absolutly disgusted and terrified of blood. It's called hemophobia.
I wonder what it would be called in my case lol.
My farts don't stink. Really. Or at least like 95% of the time. I've been saying that for a while in all seriousness but I have a friend who hangs out with me all the time and he's confirmed it. Meanwhile, I fart a LOT which is becoming a nuisance because I'm not as good as I used to be at sneaking them out quietly. I think it's all the fizzy seltzer water I drink putting gases into my stomach that have to come out somehow.
Quote from: Malachite on July 01, 2012, 04:51:29 AM
I wonder what it would be called in my case lol.
https://www.susans.org/forums/index.php/topic,42728.0.html (https://www.susans.org/forums/index.php/topic,42728.0.html)
Not something to screw around with. Keep it clean.
Quote from: Edge on June 30, 2012, 01:58:51 PM
Do tell please. :)
lol, I was backing up to get the shot in frame and fell backward over a root from a tree that had been removed, not all too well though. On the way down I tried to catch myself with my arm behind my back and I snapped both bones in my forearm. Saved the camera though :)
Oh that story gets slightly better too, after being in a cast for 6 weeks; I had it taken off and two days later I tripped, tried to catch myself again, this time not as awkwardly but the bone was still weak and I got the same break again. Another 8 weeks in a cast. I swear I'm not a clumsy person though :angel: I was just a disaster as a kid
Quote from: Ativan on July 01, 2012, 11:13:34 AM
https://www.susans.org/forums/index.php/topic,42728.0.html (https://www.susans.org/forums/index.php/topic,42728.0.html)
Not something to screw around with. Keep it clean.
>.> that doesn't really relate to me but okay
Another strange fact: I have a desire to be a Gladiator
Quote from: Malachite on July 01, 2012, 05:42:47 PM
>.> that doesn't really relate to me but okay
Another strange fact: I have a desire to be a Gladiator
That sounds cool but I like where my limbs are now. ;D
Quote from: Malachite on July 01, 2012, 05:42:47 PM
Another strange fact: I have a desire to be a Gladiator
Not something I started, is it?
Quote from: Malachite on July 01, 2012, 05:42:47 PM
Another strange fact: I have a desire to be a Gladiator
All the gay sex with other hunky gladiators part sounds pretty good but not the whole fighting to the death for the entertainment of the citizens of Rome part.
Quote from: Tom on July 01, 2012, 07:02:46 PM
That sounds cool but I like where my limbs are now. ;D
I like my limbs too. :)
@LordKAT No it happened long before that
@dalebert It's reversed for me lol
Quote from: Malachite on July 02, 2012, 03:34:56 AM
I like my limbs too. :)
@LordKAT No it happened long before that
@dalebert It's reversed for me lol
Yey for limbs.
Id like a ceremonial position where I get to wear the gear but never actually battle. But I'd like to know how to fight just incase I'm ever in a situation
I love getting ready for class in the morning.
I have two of those "scarification" tattoos on my arms.
Quote from: Malachite on July 01, 2012, 04:51:29 AM
I wonder what it would be called in my case lol.
Haematophilia? (Not to be confused with haemophilia which is a genetic disorder.)
Lamb of God puts me to sleep because I find it soothing. I'm not even sure why. Something about their music just chills me right out.
I DVR movies and watch them while I work out. I've watched more than 1500 movies this way. I keep a massive list of all of them so I won't accidentally end up watching the same movie twice.
I've never posted in here before so I'll add a couple!
I fractured my ankle when I was in high school and it healed in a very strange position (probably because I could have taken care of it much better) and on my right foot on the right side, it looks like I have two ankles.
I used to be able to blow (small) bubbles out the inner corners of my eyes.
I have spent over 500 hours in total playing The Elder Scrolls IV & V.
I used to have a crippling fear of Freddy Krueger as a younger kid which continued into my early teens.
I have a tiny bald patch on the back of my head where there is a big scar from a time when I cut the back of my head open.
I once spilled a pot of boiling water on myself and part of my left foot was/still is slightly discoloured from it.
The lead singer of one of my favourite bands from a few years back once spat in my mouth at a concert and I got tonsilitis the next day (yay for famous germs!)
...and that's all I can think of at 5AM. :D
I have just received an email from a numerologist telling me to 'be the woman who truly gets her man' & wondering what I must have clicked.
I hate syrup on my pancakes.
I prefer barbecue sauce :P
I realised today that I can't see a 'vacant' sign on a cubicle door without singing the appropriate Sex Pistols song.
My mind is annoyingly cryptic even to me.
i have a strange transqueer obsession with feminie boys boxer briefs but i dress masculine in public (and i don't wear them unless its a "special night")...not sure where that comes from...
...All of you have really awesome facts QuQ''
1.) I can pick up stuff from the floor (mostly clothes or small objects) with my feet.
2.) I once made a 6ft sword out of PVC, duct tape, pizza boxes and tinfoil. /isadork
3.) I have a phobia of spider webs, not the spiders - In fact there is an adorable jumping spider that lives in my window.
I own and have read a book called Zombies vs Unicorns. I still like unicorns, but was converted to also liking zombies by one of the stories.
I previously hated zombies.
I am slowly making it a habit to play the Sailor Moon Song "Rainy Day Man" when there's a big storm coming up that has me a bit rattled. If I ever had kids that were afraid of the storm them I'd share the song with them or share it with a partner.
Despite living in England where the most we have to contest with in terms of freak weather is a strong wind, I often worry about tornadoes. I have a reoccurring nightmare of a massive one occurring and normally sweeping off some family members who I try to save and fail.
Whenever there is a storm I look at the clouds to make sure there are no spirals forming. I have also already come to the realisation that my and other peoples only option would be to try and out run it because there's no where the shelter. Unless you live in London, then maybe you could go in the Underground...
Quote from: Tom on July 24, 2012, 07:56:52 PM
Despite living in England where the most we have to contest with in terms of freak weather is a strong wind, I often worry about tornadoes. I have a reoccurring nightmare of a massive one occurring and normally sweeping off some family members who I try to save and fail.
Whenever there is a storm I look at the clouds to make sure there are no spirals forming. I have also already come to the realisation that my and other peoples only option would be to try and out run it because there's no where the shelter. Unless you live in London, then maybe you could go in the Underground...
Do houses tend to not have basements in the UK? I've decided that if I ever buy a house, it will have a basement, but I live in the American Midwest and it's pretty common here.
Quote from: Julian on July 25, 2012, 11:08:29 AM
Do houses tend to not have basements in the UK? I've decided that if I ever buy a house, it will have a basement, but I live in the American Midwest and it's pretty common here.
Not really no. Some of the old Victorian houses have old coal cellars, haven't come across any otherwise.
A lot of London townhouses have basements though (I've lived in one, damp AND dark, yay).
But elsewhere, less common.
Quote from: Pica Pica on July 25, 2012, 02:35:04 PM
A lot of London townhouses have basements though (I've lived in one, damp AND dark, yay).
But elsewhere, less common.
Lol well London does tend to get everything so why not the best chances of escaping a freak tornado.
I live in a suburb of St. Louis. In winter 2010-2011 we had so many tornado warnings that didn't amount to anything, that we started ignoring them.
On the evening of Good Friday we could actually hear a tornado, so we ducked into the basement. Less than two miles away it destroyed homes, trashed a concrete warehouse building, and tore open the airport terminal (there's a scary video on YouTube from a surveillance camera -- it looks kinda like a sci-fi scene where a spaceship airlock is opened and stuff goes flying out).
Yet the most damage we've had to our property so far has been from hail and drought (the boards of our deck are curling up and cracking).
I can't really recommend this city for weather, but otherwise I like it :P
I prefer writing with old fashioned wooden pencils.
Mechanical ones always break and you can never tell by looking at a pen whether it will write.
Quote from: agfrommd on August 01, 2012, 05:57:46 PM
I prefer writing with old fashioned wooden pencils.
Mechanical ones always break and you can never tell by looking at a pen whether it will write.
I like old fashioned wooden pencils too. :) I don't like having to keep up with the graphite. I also like old fashioned pencil sharpeners as opposed to the automatic ones. I like actually having to crank the handle around manually.
My wife hates mechanical pencils too, but I like them for some things.
I really enjoy writing with a dip pen. I only do really basic calligraphy in an uncial hand, and with no great skill. But my everyday handwriting is capital block letters well suited to a glass pen, metal nib or bamboo brush.
Quote from: foosnark on August 02, 2012, 10:09:44 AM
my everyday handwriting is capital block letters
Mine too. My caps lock got stuck on sometime when I was a teenager. Supposedly it's a rather manly way to write LOL
EDIT: actually my letters aren't exactly blocky. They tend to get curvy, and if I'm tired or bored they get really loopy and swoopy and ornate with long curly tails and things. I guess that's a pretty good candidate for stereotypical androgyne handwriting... loopy, ornate capital letters. LOL
The feel of the paper wrapping of a crayon against my fingers makes me cringe. I can't stand it. Dried mud on my skin feels really bad also. Too dry! D:
I like the smell of a good wooden pencil. Don't know if that's strange tho.
Quote from: skyNoLimit on January 17, 2013, 06:41:56 AM
I like the smell of a good wooden pencil. Don't know if that's strange tho.
I totally get this.
I wish you hadn't said this. Now I'm going to want to go around sniffing all my pencils.
Personally, I love the smell of books. Also the feel and sight. This is probably why I still shun a kindle and have thousands of books taking up space in my spare room :)
I am quite touch oriented; when imagining things or dreaming, the visual is far less clear than how things feel to the touch (which means I can feel pain in my dreams).
I can always fly in my dreams, and usually have magical powers. My dreams always have a plotline to them, and are usually fantasy or science fiction.
I was born in a town where the sky glowed burnt orange at night over a vast industrial wasteland full of red lakes.
I'm less than 5 foot and can't reach the handrails on the tube trains.
I've been roleplaying since I was 16, originally tabletops, now mainly theatre style LARP. When I first joined the local hobby club (which was listed in the phonebook as a satanic cult), all the boys kept buying me stuff, and it took me years to work out that this was because I was the only (physically) female (I just didn't really think about gender at the time; I hadn't noticed).
I'm currently learning the flying trapeze.
My fingers bend backwards at the end.
Quote from: Huggyrei on January 17, 2013, 11:04:39 AM
Personally, I love the smell of books. Also the feel and sight. This is probably why I still shun a kindle and have thousands of books taking up space in my spare room :)
My main ambition in life is to have a room to put all my books in. I've started indoctrinating 5 year olds, taking some of my older books to school to let them touch and smell and such - they can't believe that anything can be so old, it's like bringing something alien for them to look at.
I got a kindle for Christmas, I find it especially good for downloading pdfs and digital versions of our of print books I couldn't dream of affording...and for free! I am currently reading a book called 'Aristotle's Masterpiece' which is a seventeenth century manual on sex and pregnancy - I do love old medical writing, they had such a unified view of the body that often sounde more like poetry than science.
I love to read too. Though most of them live at my family's house than in my dorm room. Otherwise, there'd be no space! :O But it's a jumble of Young Adult, Sci-Fi, and Classics. Oh, and my history books that I'm keeping instead of selling. I might have to start selling a lot of the Young Adult ones. But then, I reminisce...
I may or may not be on the sensory-processing-disorder spectrum.
"Hanging out" generally means cuddling on my Twin-XL dorm room bed with my two closest friends (semi-platonic), watching Doctor Who on my laptop. I have New Who from The Ninth Doctor till Series Five on DVD at home. Thank you, ridiculously cheap Amazon for Series one through the David Tennant Specials.
I still sleep with stuffed animals. One since I was born-a stuffed bunny named Bunny Franklin Fuzzy and a new bear called Cap van Spangled.
Quote from: Huggyrei on January 17, 2013, 11:04:39 AMI'm less than 5 foot and can't reach the handrails on the tube trains.
I'm 5' (I think) and can't reach those bars unless I stand on my toes and complain loudly
To contribute something of my own: I'm allergic to milk, though I generally regard this fact as less "strange" and more "really annoying"
I am still here, I've just been quietly elsewhere. Gender stuff isn't worrying me anymore really.
I have more or less left my previous religion (Kemetic Orthodoxy) and am now just an animistic pantheistic sort-of-shamanic Discordian-ish witch-thingie with leanings toward Faerie, so there's that.
I got a bunch of books on metalsmithing for Christmas and have started making shinies. (I HAVE AN ANVIL. That's just cool.) Thing One was a practice piece, a sort of a dangly bit with two rectangles, one black-coated copper with a zigzag scratched into it, and one shiny polished textured copper, riveted together with three different styles of rivets. Thing Two was going to be fancier but proved difficult, so it turned into kind of a pointy flower on a wire doodad. Thing Three is currently a hammered copper bowl, but I plan to turn it into the Sun after I experiment with hammered wire "rays."
My beard is starting to approach majestic length, but still not quite braidable yet. Someday!
I think copper is a really cool metal, sometimes i weld pennies together and leave them in stores need a penny jars.
I just had a good 15 minutes of laughing at how many of these I do. Thanks, I needed that...
I do pick up things with my feet, and I too also love the smell of a good, freshly sharpened pencil.
My strange thing (among many) is I dream lucidly. It is soooooooo frustrating when the dream isn't behaving well, or realistic (within the dream narrative) and I have to stop it, and start the dream all over again. I've literally said (in the dream) "That can't happen!", the dream rewinds, the "right" thing happens I say "That's better!" and move on... Sometimes I 'watch' the same dream a half-dozen times until I get it right. The upside is thinking into existence a giant machine-laser buster gatling gun in the dream where I was a giant mecha, the downside is running through the woods being chased by something then tripping and waking up so hard you bounce in the bed and wake up your partner and scare the cats...
Last night I dreamt of a stall in Borough Market selling Owl Burgers. I had a Barn Owl one, but Tawny and Snowy were also available.
I'm irritated that the US still uses pennies.
I don't just mean that I think it's inefficient that we do it, but that it's a bother that transactions and prices are overly precise like that. In fact, I'd really prefer we step up to ten-cent or 25-cent increments.
I have often wondered what it would be like to just hang out with Pica Pica for a day or two.
Owl burgers. :laugh:
And the penny thing is way past it's time. I'll go with quarters.
Ativan
I think the strangest thing about me would have to be that I dream very specific things that later come true, and in one instance only came true because I had had the dream in the first place. I also once foretold the death of a classmate in high school while reading his palm.
Another good thread that is still fun.
Ativan
Strange fact about me: =)
1, I always sleep with my right arm and clothing over my head to cover my eyes no matter if its dark or light.
2, I like almost raw meat, but cant eat mc handburgers.
3, I eat oranges every day (im too lazy and poor to make food)
4, scrathing and biting random things is my bad habbits. (specially pencils)
I have a velcro obsession. The noise and feel of tearing velcro kind of puts me into a trance. My husband has been known to purchase me packs of velcro for christmas/birthdays...such an enabler.
I'm obsessed with body modification, Mudkip and JCBs.
I have 2 scarification cuts, a tattoo and 10 piercings... So far.
I have 4 Mudkip toys, 36 cards and a Mudkip tattoo coming soon.
I have a JCB phone, t-shirt, socks, beanie hat, forklift toy, dump truck toy and even an Easter egg
So yeah, there are my obsessions... I also love The Devil's Carnival and Repo! The Genetic Opera, mostly because Terrance Zdunich (who I have named my pet gecko after). Weird things. Awesome things. Dace things.
Ever since I was a child, I have regularly practiced for the eventuality of loosing my thumbs, by performing tasks with them tucked behind the first knuckle of my forfinger.
8^/
I have a weird compulsion with symmetry. Sometimes if I touch something with one hand, I have to do the same thing with the other hand or it feels wrong. Yesterday I was on a walk and reached up to touch a leaf on an overhanging branch, and then I had to back up a few steps so I could walk down the same bit of sidewalk and do it with my other hand. I'm also really bad with left-right hand coordination.
I once danced the can-can with a scary clown.
I have a detachment disorder that makes reality feel like it isn't real.
So everything seems strange. It lasts for a few hours, then slowly goes away.
Reality is a subjective thing for me because of it.
Ativan
Quote from: Ativan Prescribed on April 15, 2013, 04:12:11 PM
I have a detachment disorder that makes reality feel like it isn't real.
So everything seems strange. It lasts for a few hours, then slowly goes away.
Reality is a subjective thing for me because of it.
Ativan
Hey, I used to have episodes like that when I was little! It was really strong and distinct, happened maybe two or three times a year at most. It went away when I was 13 or 14, and then a year later is when all the gender identity/dysphoria shenanigans started up.
Mine doesn't seem to be related to being non-binary.
It's not that uncommon, a lot of people report that it happens when they were young.
Mine just never went away.
Ativan
All the sudden, I start viewing things differently and don't seem all that...Real. Or, neither I nor everything around me exists.
On a better note, I still sleep with the stuffed bunny that I've had since I was a kid. Originally, its name is Bunny. A recent addition is a bear named Cap because it's blue with white stars.
i have one really weird irrational fear. my mind seems convinced that any engine is going to break down upon me when i least expect it, so whenever i sense an odd burnt-like scent when driving, i panic instead of realizing it's from the car i just met or the one right in front of me.
Quote from: Taka on April 18, 2013, 03:46:02 AM
i have one really weird irrational fear. my mind seems convinced that any engine is going to break down upon me when i least expect it, so whenever i sense an odd burnt-like scent when driving, i panic instead of realizing it's from the car i just met or the one right in front of me.
That reminds me...I have a huge pet peeve about talk shows on the radio using sound clips from car horns, car crashes, and traffic noises in general. I always think it's an actual car near me.
still better than being terrified of the vacuum cleaner. those also have engines, and it took me until high school before i managed to convince myself that it won't blow up in my face just because i turn it on. i've never been as scared of things like the dark or spiders or other harmless things.
Quote from: Ativan Prescribed on February 05, 2013, 07:31:47 PM
I have often wondered what it would be like to just hang out with Pica Pica for a day or two.
I have wondered the same thing. :laugh:
Probably the strangest fact about me is my alektorophobia. I guess because it affects daily life (though there are no chickens around). It translates to extreme nausea at the sight, smell, and sound (you know the sounds) of eggs. Which, horribly it seems like every individual on the planet eats.
Also, it's made me frightened of anything with feathers. Which are everywhere. Regular birds are pretty from a distance but... any closer and they give me the creeps. Totally terrifying. But I'm pretty sure it all goes back to chickens.
Quote from: Taka on April 18, 2013, 05:19:42 PM
still better than being terrified of the vacuum cleaner. those also have engines, and it took me until high school before i managed to convince myself that it won't blow up in my face just because i turn it on. i've never been as scared of things like the dark or spiders or other harmless things.
That does sound pretty intense...did you ever have something mechanical blow up on you when you were young?
I am the direct descendent of a signer of the Declaration of Independence.
I don't deal with deaths and funerals of even friends and relatives, I don't go or even acknowledge them. I know it seems terribly insensitive, cold, and selfish but I think that all the 19 and 20 year olds that got zipped up in body bags around me when I was that age myself just left a hole in my heart and I can't deal with it.
Riding a manic wave that is big enough to surf on.
I like it, but I am also working so hard in the yard, I'm hurting myself.
Nice thing about being in a manic stage is that pain is pretty much irrelevant.
Gotta run or something or everything,
Ativan
Direct descendant from the Mayor of London, during the plague.
Barbara
I'm a cousin of a rather popular third party presidential candidate.
I'm directly related to...Charo's husband, I believe?
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004819/ (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004819/)
I remember as a child hearing I was related to her through marriage and would look out for her character in one of my favourite movies, Tumbelina (she was Mrs. Toad).
LOL, I remember Charo. "Cootchy, cootchy" Argentine, I think.
Quote from: Barbara Ella on April 29, 2013, 03:47:40 PM
Direct descendant from the Mayor of London, during the plague.
Barbara
Was that the same Lord Mayor who, during the great fire said that he could piss it out?
Quote from: Ativan Prescribed on May 11, 2013, 10:24:06 AM
Right at this moment, Michele Bachmann is about 4 miles away from me.
I have been told I cannot go there. Gee,...wonder why? :icon_censored: :icon_censored: :icon_censored: and :icon_censored:
Could it be because she has a prettier face? No, No I know what it is, it's because you and she are about 180 degrees out from each other right? See I'm not as dumb as you thought! ;D
Quote from: Ativan Prescribed on May 12, 2013, 10:33:28 AM
Michele Bachmann's face doesn't fall into a category of pretty. Mine does.
In fact, in person, she is quite hard to see behind the 20 lbs of wrong makeup, that she wears.
Clowns wear less makeup, and use it better.
It is quite amazing to see sunlight penetrate the layers and allow you to see what is underneath. *shudder...
She can't hide the perpetual scowl she wears when she thinks the cameras are off.
Yes, Yes it is because we are 180 degrees apart, but she is 180 degree from human.
She seems to have severe psychological disorders, when it fact it is that she is simply void of any kind of humanity.
Consider the fact that her husband Marcus runs a gay reparative therapy business that has produced quite a few suicides.
And that doesn't seem to bother either of them in the least. A suicide factory. Family business.
Did I mistakenly give you the impression that I think you are dumb? I apologize if I did.
Ativan
No you didn't imply that I was dumb, I was baiting you and had the feeling that we were in for a good scathing Ativan style rant and you didn't disappoint me. I had no idea about the gay reparative business, OMG how sick is that? ???
Quote from: Jamie D on May 11, 2013, 02:25:28 AM
LOL, I remember Charo. "Cootchy, cootchy" Argentine, I think.
Yeah, the blonde bimbo all about my boobs type, as I recall her husband was Xavier Cugat the band leader!
I'm a crazy (but fun ;)) hippie, treehugger, and music addict
I'm deathly afraid of spiders so I recently began hanging around with local arachnids in my backyard. Theres one that's a really cool burnt orange color. but it skitters and makes me shudder.
Oh Ativan chill hon! Take a deep breath and we won't continue on with this as it obviously isn't doing your condition any good. Sorry I baited you like that! I'm in trouble here at home too because I have been mimicking the way Emily Deschanel on the TV series "Bones" talks because I think it's cute and kind of hilarious but my spouse finds it infuriating. Gotta quit irritating everyone I suppose! ;D
Quote from: Kia on May 12, 2013, 05:17:53 PM
I'm deathly afraid of spiders so I recently began hanging around with local arachnids in my backyard. Theres one that's a really cool burnt orange color. but it skitters and makes me shudder.
You are arachnophobic, they are creepy especially when you walk face first through a web. :icon_yikes:
Quote from: Shantel on May 12, 2013, 05:28:03 PM
You are arachnophobic, they are creepy especially when you walk face first through a web. :icon_yikes:
then you have to do that little "get all this evil spider crap off of me!" dance for like ten minutes. I always think they hide in my hair.
Quote from: Kia on May 12, 2013, 05:54:33 PM
then you have to do that little "get all this evil spider crap off of me!" dance for like ten minutes. I always think they hide in my hair.
I walk under the trees and suddenly there is one hanging in front of my face from the bill of my baseball cap..(shudder clap!) spider guts on my hands. :icon_clap:
I was really proud of myself the other day when one was crawling on my chest and I didn't scream and run while pounding my chest like tarzan, I got it on my finger (it was super tiny, like baby spider status) and released into the grass. :angel: I'm pretty sure spiders are my power animal, they're the only creatures that make me lose it so I decided to make my terror work for me.
Quote from: Kia on May 12, 2013, 06:26:13 PM
I was really proud of myself the other day when one was crawling on my chest and I didn't scream and run while pounding my chest like tarzan, I got it on my finger (it was super tiny, like baby spider status) and released into the grass. :angel: I'm pretty sure spiders are my power animal, they're the only creatures that make me lose it so I decided to make my terror work for me.
Yes, if you are patient and work at being brave, you can work yourself past your fears of spiders or anything for that matter.
I first leanred how to whistle by accident in the 9th grade.
I find cactuses to be calming.
I have a suede jacket (actually in my picture), that everybody pets. Usually, its a bunch of musicians, so its fun and not creepy at all. Everybody seems shocked that I got it at Goodwill (cue "Thrift Shop").
My Tabletop DMs put me in charge of mood music because I have a ->-bleeped-<- ton of show scores to fit every occasion. They continue to do this even though I troll them relentlessly with lyrical music selections whenever the plot starts to remind me of a song. (i.e. Cueing up "Following the Leader" from Disney's Peter Pan after the fourth time the party is asked to "Follow me," by an NPC within an hour. Or Yackety Sax just.... any time things get convoluted in battle.)
8^)
I can't whistle or snap my fingers.
Quote from: Edge on May 22, 2013, 09:16:22 AM
I can't whistle or snap my fingers.
Not while you're eating potato chips! ;D
I'm able to smell ketones and am able to tell if anyone has ever died in a building or a room. What's more I'm usually able to pinpoint the exact location where they died.
I can remember freaking my former wife out the first night we moved into our apartment in 1996. Lying in bed I asked her 'Who's died in this bed?'
'My great grandmother back in 1983,' she replied, 'How did you know?'
Quote from: StellaB on May 22, 2013, 09:47:26 AM
I'm able to smell ketones and am able to tell if anyone has ever died in a building or a room. What's more I'm usually able to pinpoint the exact location where they died.
I can remember freaking my former wife out the first night we moved into our apartment in 1996. Lying in bed I asked her 'Who's died in this bed?'
'My great grandmother back in 1983,' she replied, 'How did you know?'
You must be psychic?
Quote from: Shantel on May 22, 2013, 10:37:38 AM
You must be psychic?
Well yes I am as it happens. But there's also a few issues which clouds things.
Quote from: StellaB on May 22, 2013, 11:17:22 AM
Well yes I am as it happens. But there's also a few issues which clouds things.
Would you care to go into more detail? You have made me curious!
right after I lock the door when I go out, I bang on it 12-24 times just to make sure it's locked
Quote from: JulieR on May 25, 2013, 02:17:40 AM
Hoo doo that Voo doo that you do so well?
You do.
If I have graph paper, time, and nothing better to do with it, I fill pages with Celtic knotwork.
My new job blocks a lot of websites, and so while code is compiling... lots and lots of knotwork.
When I count on my fingers, I count in binary.
I can count up to 31 using one hand and more than a thousand if I use both hands.
Quote from: suzifrommd on June 13, 2013, 07:29:25 AM
When I count on my fingers, I count in binary.
That's kind of brilliant. Awkward getting some patterns of fingers to stick up though, I would think. Also, people might find 4 a little rude. :D
I can hear the buzz of florescent lights. Drives me nuts.
I can 'smell' thunderstorms long before they actually happen.
I've got four freckles on my forearm which form a perfect square.
My dermatologist is attempting to give me nice looking skin. She isn't fooling me one bit, she took one look at me and saw an opportunity for a lifetime of job security! ::)
I like lime Jello mixed with cottage cheese and crushed pineapple, topped with a dollop of mayonnaise.
I love fat free cottage cheese covered with black pepper. The neighbor said, "Ugh that looks disgusting, what the h-ll are you eating!"
Bigger salad bars often have cottage cheese as an option. I just dump some right onto the salad instead of the side, and use less dressing (usually bleu cheese or ranch).
Quote from: foosnark on June 25, 2013, 07:07:28 PM
Bigger salad bars often have cottage cheese as an option. I just dump some right onto the salad instead of the side, and use less dressing (usually bleu cheese or ranch).
Smart, I'll try it!
I like soggy cereal.
I have a fear of small round objects. I refuse to touch them. They're just... unclean... in my eyes.
Quote from: cannedrabbit on June 25, 2013, 10:55:11 PM
I have a fear of small round objects. I refuse to touch them. They're just... unclean... in my eyes.
Honey, they might be rabbit pellets and you'd be justified feeling that way. ;D Uh- OK hit me if you wish!
I collect skeletons and taxidermy dead animals I find along the road.
...It's a hobby. I just hate to see them left behind on the curb after some idiot runs them down. Animals are so beautiful and they deserve to be treated with more respect; and to be remembered. Some people are horrified when I tell them this, so excuse me if it offends anyone, but this is just something I do which I suspect may fall into the 'strange' category.
Quote from: Lajs on June 26, 2013, 11:40:16 AM
I collect skeletons and taxidermy dead animals I find along the road.
...It's a hobby. I just hate to see them left behind on the curb after some idiot runs them down. Animals are so beautiful and they deserve to be treated with more respect; and to be remembered. Some people are horrified when I tell them this, so excuse me if it offends anyone, but this is just something I do which I suspect may fall into the 'strange' category.
I wanted to be a taxidermist at one time, no what you do as a hobby is really cool!