Weird personal habits - Page 2

Non-renewable resources indeed. Her ecological footprint is amazing.

This must mean Fleed has never met anyone he disliked.

I beat off in the shower and bust in toilet paper, which I immediately throw into the toilet so that my supersperm doesn't clog up the drain and turn into a gigantic, semi-pearlescent symbiote.

What the hell...

If there's a number on any audio playing device that gives you the volume level, I need it to be on an even number or an increment of five. So 2,4,6 etc or 5, 10, 15, etc. I can't stand seeing it on an odd number. I've casually grabbed the remote somtimes at work to correct this. I don't know why I need it like this but I do.

I close my eyes when I brush my teeth.

I apparently also move my hands a lot when I talk.

Wow... you and I are a lot alike, Kate.

And Brendan stole my audio volume freakiness! Though not exactly. I've actually explained this on another thread. My car stereo's volume goes to 30. 15 is usually a solid number for me. Straight down the middle. If I need to turn it down, I don't like 14 and I don't like 13. The next one down is 12. 11? Don't make me laugh. 10 is the next good one. Then 8. Then 5. Anything lower... I might as well just turn the whole thing off.

Exactly! I mean, we're playing to *win*, right?

Is the same bag used again and again? Oh I also don't read long ass posts. Sorry, if it'll take me over 30 seconds to read what you've written in the forums I'll just skip it.

Once again in the same thread I am too slow. It seems joeypants has similar eating habits as me. Now I feel a little better about it all!

I masturbate with my pinky finger out. To feel fancy.

Ugh... now I can't get that image out of my head...

It's 40% laziness, 35% germophobia and 25% the satisfaction I receive from drinking that way. I used to have a nalgene that I got from summer camp, but after a while it started to smell funny, and I've since learned it was poisoning me with some weird plastic. I'm all for water bottles (and if I have purchased a bottled water or something, I'll refill it and use that for the night instead), but bacteria build up in bottles after a while, and I can't fit my hand inside to clean them out. I'd use a dishwasher, but currently I don't have one

For the record, as far as 'carbon footprint' is concerned, I'd much prefer a water fountain I just can't afford to install one


PS Plus I've really only been doing it in the past year and change that I've been living on my own, so it's not that many bags, and ideally, I don't wake up every night in search of water. I try to hydrate before slumber
The worst are RED BOX DVDs. I saw one recently that had 14 minutes of unskipable trailers. The menu button wouldn't skip them, nor would fast forward. Chapter skip didn't work and neither did turning it off and on. That's seriously bogus IMHO

EDIT: MBN, you couldn't use the same bag again. I take one, fill it half way or so and zip it closed

I would be pulling my hair out! What I used to do (it didn't always work) with my old Toshiba DVD player was to use its programming feature to put in the TITLE and CHAPTER number. Usually the main feature is TITLE 1 and CHAPTER 1 (though not always). I'd just put that in and the disc would go straight to the movie. But that started working less and less.

I also used to press STOP during the trailers and then PLAY to resume. That would sometimes skip to the movie. But at some point they prevented DVD players from stopping at all during the ads.

Ugh.

That was the other thing! I couldn't even stop the DVD. IMHO, that's where it crossed the line, the fact that they hijacked my DVD player and I couldn't even press "stop". What's next, you can't eject?

I have a TOSHIBA A3 HD-DVD player, and it works much like what you describe. If I press stop, and then play, and *then* chapter forward a bunch, I can somehow circumvent the ads and skip straight to the film. That works most of the time. When it doesn't and it kicks me to the menu, I try to avoid the warnings ETC using the method I previously laid out

PS My "chapter title search" thing on my HD DVD player is too complicated, I don't know how to use it, plus, some DVDS seem to have multiple "title one, chapter one" numbers, the warnings are their own seperate title one chapter one (which I've noticed while watching DVDs with the "display" function up)

14 minutes?!

I don't get too upset with the Redbox rentals when they force the ads, because I am paying a dollar for a new release. When they disable the fast-forward feature, that gets to be a little humorous just in how far they will go.

What's next? Will they come in, hogtie me to the sofa and use toothpicks to keep my eyelids from closing during the trailers?

My standard practice now is to start the dvd/bd up well before I am actually planning to sit down and watch the film. I let the trailers and everything play through on the player before I even turn the tv on. Meanwhile, I'm cleaning up, responding to a weird thread about weird people with their weird habits, or some other essential task....

Why not get a cigar cutter and not freak them out so much? Although you may have a completely different problem with people seeing you trim filters with a cigar chopper.

I try to do what you just said about letting it "warm up" before I go sit down to watch as well. When I remember to do it, that's probably the best method. I've got SPEEDRACER in there now (gave up at the 33 minute mark last night around 2 30 AM, picking it up again this evening)

Re: RED BOX TRAILERS, When it got to around minute 11 or so, I became truly flabbergasted and genuinely curious to see how far they'd push it. My guess was 12 minutes, but it ended up being like 14 30 something, as I recall. The worst part was that around minute 9, I'd tried my "stop start" method hoping to just skip them entirely (which usually works) and instead it kicked me back to the beginning of the trailers. I almost did tear my hair out McNooj style at that point

I open my bananas the wrong way around, always have. I bite the bottom and peel it that way, I think it's because when I was a kid I accidentally squished the tops of a few trying to open them the normal way. I get weird looks from my friends but whatever, it works.

Ok, so I tried Kate's ziploc water thing. It's actually oddly satisfying, but I can't see making a regular thing with it.

It's like drinking from a teat, presumably.

Yeah, I got the same issue. The volume has to be within 5 - 20, 25, 40, etc...

Also, if a closet door or cabinet door is open, I need to close it.

Because I'm a frugal bastard.

And now the satisfying part is less odd.

Since I have been out of work I talk to my cat.... a lot.

When I was a wee little shaver, I could never pass through a doorway without jumping up to touch the top of the crown molding, which usually resulted in me having to do about 5-10 chin ups as well. But then, a molding finally gave way... and I came to with birds chirping around my bruised and aching noggin. To this day, not a crown molding exists that doesn't mock me.

Gmail chat or similar media: I can't stand people who type long shit without giving a fucking enter in the middle of the long "paragraphs".

You are all loony toons. Carry on.

You people are all freaks with mental problems. No offense.

I absolutely refuse to use anything other than the Queen's English when texting. I do not use LOLspeak. My 60 year old father does and it irritates the piss out of me.

I'm currently conversing with a young woman I just met and it may not go any further because of the ur, 2, u, etc.

This is not OCD. It's common sense. l33t speak is god awful.

I was merely commenting on Feral's post. He's the freak.

Thirded. I don't use it, don't respond to it. That's not a weird personal habit, it's common decency.

Everytime someone bumps this thread I jerkoff everywhere.

Wait, what?

A Camelbak water bottle might be the thing for you, Kate. You have to bite the nozzle in order to get any water. Later, just clean it by soaking it in hot water. I use it while running.

Weird habits: When reading anything, I have to read the whole thing. Endpaper, copyright, acknowledgments, title page, excepting the table of contents. Probably comes from semesters of gaming the assignments so that I have less to do later.

When walking to a public destination, I get the Ocarina of Time overworld music in my head. Likewise, when completing a test or long paper, I start thinking in Star Fox boss music.

If a big event's coming up, I'll cut a mental trailer for it, sometimes with choral music.

I never gave this much thought before, but I think I'm the same.

This made me laugh, not least because I'm - yep - the same.

I'm wild for tailing off in conversation, adding little muted addendums in a very Scott Pilgrim fashion. It's one of the reasons I got such a kick out that trope when I started reading the books; hey, this thread's kinda comforting noitisn't.

I'll just change the topic of a conversation if I'm bored.

I'm right handed, yet write in a left handed fashion.

Being left-handed, I flip scissors upside down to cut things. I get more strange looks over this than almost anything else I do.

I have a tendency so sit crouched in my desk chair when I'm writing. I've been told I look like an oversized ape when I do this.

Surely we can't let this stand... ?

Only have one that I can think of. Whenever I speed through a yellow light, I'll kiss my right hand and touch the ceiling of my car to ward off cops. Been working for over 25 years.

As for the rest of you all: Wayofthefuture, wayofthefuture, wayofthefuture . . .

She hasn't said anything bad yet.

I would get along with Anderson just fine if he happened to not like me. I find that I feel very weirded out when someone refers to me by name. Particularly when it comes to people I know well. I much prefer it when people just call out to me and say "Hey," instead of "Hey Joon."

Then I get all Dodson on them and say, "You shouldn't say my name..."

I've refused to casually use l33t speak all my life. The only time I dare use it is when the actual use of it has some kind of purpose. I do it because I find the whole thing obnoxious to begin with and because I don't want to get in the habit of using them. Because I easily could. Because I'm lazy. But for now, my stubbornness trumps my laziness.

As for dexterity with my hands... I'm generally left-handed. I write and draw with it. When it comes to eating utensils, I can use both hands. Chopsticks too! I've played tennis left-handed, throw a baseball with my right-hand but bat with my left (I think).

I chew lots of gum but don't like to waste it. So I often end up sticking it someplace and forgetting about it. Gross, no? At restaurants, I'll forgo decency and stick the gum onto my cup so I can chew it after I'm done eating.

It's weird to be that cut and dry about it. Plus, my whole first point only works in verbal communication.

Verbal communication was what I was referring to as well.

I compulsively make to-do lists. I can't function if I don't make one, and the more things I cross off the more I consider my day productive. I never let anyone read my lists and I get really upset when people do, even Patrick. That's mostly because I put some totally obvious things on it (eat breakfast, get dressed, etc.) so I can cheat a little and I think people think I won't eat something if its not on my list. It's also because I'm a little paranoid that people will read them and be able to find me when I don't want them to.

I can't fall asleep in complete darkness because I am still afraid of the dark. I need to be able to see some kind of light source from where I'm laying. I have a night light in my room, but mostly I've been watching Arrested Development on my computer and falling asleep to that. That happens nearly every night, so I've seen each AD episode at least twenty times each.

I've self-diagnosed myself as hyper-vigilant, so that's probably where a lot of that stuff and more of my other weird habits come from.

Oh, and I also have completely involuntary music cues in my head when I come in contact with a certain person or thing. For example, whenever I encounter Patrick's one-woman League of Evil Exes online or in person, I hear this or sometimes the first ten seconds of this . When I encounter an attractive man or woman I hear 1:03 - 1:18 of this. It just happens.

I do this too, but I go a step further and start beatboxing or humming the song or movie theme. Involuntarily. My friends complain about it and I don't even realize I'm doing it.

Wait... you sometimes DO NOT look like an oversized ape?

...I'm hating you from 1,400 miles away.

De Niro in AWAKENINGS.

Wait, you're in Tucson?!

Yup, this. Ever since someone told me the "step on a crack, break your mother's back" thing. Innumerable other counting/balancing/matching games, though I remember the ones from when I was younger as being much more elaborate.

I must untangle phone cords so that they spiral consistently.

I can't stand to be barefoot indoors and/or in bed. Socks always.

I have a red glass marble that I've carried everywhere for 30 years.

I'm a sick man.