Yeah. So I thought we could use a thread where we discuss our little quirks and odd habits. The things we do for no damned logical reason. Some of mine are:
When I am in the car I will either finish the song playing or when I get back in the car restart the track. I can't just come back whenever and listen to half the song.
When my ADD kicks in and I have to move and shuffle around I do it in counted sets. Like I'll move all my toes four times.
...I fix the mistakes in other people's work when they send it to me to read.
Very compulsive about my jewelry as well. Always have to have something on both wrists, balance I guess. Also feel naked without a necklace. Years of habit, I guess.
Also, when I have a sandwich or something...I tend to disassemble it, then eat it.
Where do you want me to begin?
1. I tear my food apart (ie: burgers, sammiches, hot dogs, etc) anything you'd bite into which is an old habit left over from when I had braces in Junior High that never left.
2. I only eat cereal and ice cream with a spoon. Anything else I use a fork. I will refuse to eat soup, Gumbo, stew, etc. unless I have a fork.
3. If I'm writing I have to be listening to music at full volume or else I lose concentration. If the song is an influence to my writing I'll repeat the same song or part of a song about fifteen times before I decide to switch songs or let it play through.
4. I have to have absolute silence if I'm driving to work in the mornings mostly because I'm half asleep and the last thing I want to hear is music or some prick on the radio.
5. I'm also anal about my accessories. Always have to have on my necklace and earring and ring. If i wear bracelets I only wear them on my left arm. Unlike Joyce--I hate balance lol.
6. I fucking HATE the number 222 (It haunts me--I swear it.)
1) Cannot stand balance. Have uneven numbers of tattoos on either side of my body... and different numbers of rings in each ear. Everything is asymmetrical.
2) I also cannot stand only hearing half a song. I always restart the song when I get in the car. Never listen to the radio for that reason.
3) Sometimes I need silence to write. Sometimes I cannot stand silence when I'm writing. Depends on the piece... and the mood.
4) I also take apart sandwiches. I also rip toppings off pizza... eat them and the cheese... then roll up the crust and eat it.
5) I cannot stand the "drumstick" side of the chicken wing. I only like the side with the 2 bones.
6) I need music on to fall asleep.
7) The number 333 is something I require. I have to note it when that time passes while at work.
8) I eavesdrop on EVERY conversation going on around me at work... because I have to know if people are mentioning me.
9) I always correct grammar/spelling/etc when writing with someone. Sometimes I edit everything so it flows. I can't stand it if it doesn't.
10) I generally loathe everything I write about an hour after I post it.
11) I can spend an hour doing a graphic because I have OCD... and cannot stop if it's not done.
At the gym, if I'm loading up a bar, the 20k plates have to match EXACTLY or I'll wait around until some thick piece of shit has finished using his bar with un-matched weights so I can set my bar up how I like it. It really pisses me off because although they all weigh 20k, some are from different brands and thereby slightly different sizes etc. Pisses off my training partner too.
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I know better than to list all of my quirks. You'd all think I was INSANE.
Damn it, Nicolle. :P You got to it before I did.
I am insane. I'm cool with that. :)
Insane can be a good thing...as long as you're not psycho-bitch insane.
Me, I'm Perfect in every way... My Mommy told me so :)
Perfectly insane, maybe. :P
I hate everything with no knowledge of it sometimes... And still hat it once I know of it. Kinda a dick that way.
Also, I will sit and watch a move, and pick it apart piece by pieve as we watch. Even on the first viewing of said film.
I change my kid's clothes once they come over from their dad's house. Clean or not, I just can't help it.
I have to have the TV on when I'm listening to music. I have it muted, but I have to be able to see the movement out of the corner of my eyes.
If I have mashed potatoes with my dinner, they're ALWAYS the first things I eat. Doesn't matter what else is there.
Hrmm...I always watch my movies with the subtitles on. Always like to know exactly what they're saying...especially because people around me have loud fucking mouths. Grrr.
I do that too.
Quote from: Ainsley Lake on December 30, 2009, 05:00:59 PM
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I know better than to list all of my quirks. You'd all think I was INSANE.
I totally just snagged that for my wallpaper.
If you can tell that you're insane, are you really insane?
Depends on which mental disorder you are suffering from.
Another quirk: I will when randomly looking at a block of text (usually the title of a book) count the letters and find the "middle point"
Another one, is I meticulously peel almost all the white stuff off my oranges/tangerines/etc.
I peel and eat limes like oranges. I will not peel tangerines, oranges or clementines... I cannot stand that smell under my nails so I have Mark peel them for me.
Yes, I'm a spoiled little princess. :)
You get the smell under your nails? What are you doin' to them?
Just gonna hazard a guess and say she's taking them apart with her fingernails. :D
So do I and I don't smell nuffin'.
Quote from: Jackson on December 31, 2009, 08:48:54 PMYes, I'm a spoiled little princess. :)
That phrase with your avatar makes it sound so damned funny and wrong.
Quote from: Ryann on December 31, 2009, 09:12:20 PM
So do I and I don't smell nuffin'.
Then you have no sense of smell... because there is oil in citrus peel that stinks. And I can't stand it. Especially those clementines.
I remember the smell of Clementine on my fingers...
"Oh my Darlin', oh my darlin' oh my darlin' Clementine...."
*Ahem*
We now return you to your scheduled programming...
for a long time i couldn't write drunk. for a longer time, i couldn't write sober. now i just... prefer not to write sober, but i can. some of the absolute most genius-fantastic stuff i've written i was dead plastered.
if you poured jack daniels on anything, i'd ingest it. jack in pepsi, cool. jack in coffee, pretty good. jack in hot cocoa, alright. jack on pulled pork? sure, it might go. jack on smoked pineapple? hmmmm, weird, ah well, it's jack. jack in a milkshake? ew, that's kinda curdle-ey, isn't it?--GIMME NAO. jack on the corpse of my six-month-dead grandmother... well, perhaps. how ripe's she smelling? you know, i wouldn't want to puke up the jack. that'd be alcohol abuse.
i feel WEIRD if i don't drive at least an hour out of town once a month. i blame this on custody visitation bullshit from age two to sixteen, though i'm sure wrestling didn't help it either.
i eat ravioli the exact same way every single time-- i bite off the edges, then peel back the flat 'lid', then bite off the sides, then eat the middle bit. i don't know what started it, but it's contagious-- my old roomie now can't eat ravioli any other way either.
i eat a can of chef boyardee something (spaghetti and meatballs, beefaroni, ravioli, ONLY the original styles) at least once a week. sometimes once a day. it's not so much that i adore them, more like they're my own personal MREs. they're fast to heat up, undemanding in texture, inoffensive in flavor, and they've got protein, fat, and carbs all in them. they're also high in calories-- should be bad but when you forget to eat all day and don't have the time or want-to to eat real food, it's perfect.
every other room in the house can be absolutely trashed, to the point where walking without shoes is a hazard to your imminent well being, but THE KITCHEN AND DISHES WILL BE CLEAN, AND ALL POTENTIAL PEST-FOOD WILL BE PICKED UP. PEEEEEEEERIOD.
i have a song for everything. everything. try me.
Quote from: V on January 01, 2010, 04:13:39 PMi have a song for everything. everything. try me.
What song do you have for when you are filming your underage sister having sex with a goat as the key scene in your next "home movie" that gets sold by men whose real names you don't know for legal purposes?
Quote from: The Wandering Bard on January 01, 2010, 05:26:09 PM
Quote from: V on January 01, 2010, 04:13:39 PMi have a song for everything. everything. try me.
What song do you have for when you are filming your underage sister having sex with a goat as the key scene in your next "home movie" that gets sold by men whose real names you don't know for legal purposes?
Everybody's Working For the Weekend by Loverboy.
spiral just pwned any response i'd have.
if i were to attempt, i'd say either fiona apple's 'criminal' or genitorturers' 'kabangin' all night' or motley crue's 'this ain't a love song'.
or for max smirks-- donna summer's 'she works hard for the money'.
When I post, I make it worthwhile.
Quote from: V on January 01, 2010, 04:13:39 PM
i eat ravioli the exact same way every single time-- i bite off the edges, then peel back the flat 'lid', then bite off the sides, then eat the middle bit. i don't know what started it, but it's contagious-- my old roomie now can't eat ravioli any other way either.
:D i want to go eat ravioli like that now...
My boyfriend just pointed out that I count things apparently. ...I got bored...so I started counting all the BBs and change I could find in my house.
22,765 BBs....and about $86.73 in change.
...damn.
oh, i reread EVERYTHING i do over and over. i know a good deal of it's picking out what worked and what didn't, but other than that i'm not sure. i reread it before it's posted and i reread it probably no less than three times after i post it (albeit not in a row).
Quote from: V on January 02, 2010, 10:37:11 PM
oh, i reread EVERYTHING i do over and over. i know a good deal of it's picking out what worked and what didn't, but other than that i'm not sure. i reread it before it's posted and i reread it probably no less than three times after i post it (albeit not in a row).
I do that too.
Quote from: Shane Sanders on January 02, 2010, 05:09:39 PM
Quote from: V on January 01, 2010, 04:13:39 PM
i eat ravioli the exact same way every single time-- i bite off the edges, then peel back the flat 'lid', then bite off the sides, then eat the middle bit. i don't know what started it, but it's contagious-- my old roomie now can't eat ravioli any other way either.
:D i want to go eat ravioli like that now...
Good, I'm not the only one who eats it that way.
I'm so anal I just had to fix the quote tags in that post. Is that sad?
Nope. Just the cdo coming out in you. :P
Totally.
Okay...I know I'm not the only one that does this.
But foreign films and such...I always have to watch the movie subbed. Dubbed movies annoy the fuck out of me when the lip movements don't match the words. Can't even watch the old Godzilla movies.
And on that note, a few of my favorites? Les Pactes des Loup (topless Monica Bellucci, ftw) and Pan's Labyrinth. lol.
I hate reading movies. I was so angry when my mom dragged me to see The Passion of The Christ... and we were sitting in the back, and I forgot my glasses. Yeah, that was a fun headache from squinting.
I sat up front during that movie...
I saw that movie with a fellow pagan out of sheer morbid curiosity. We laughed at parts that were just down right ridiculous....talk about a two hour snuff film. lol. An old lady threatened to smack because I wasn't crying.
Bah.
Ooo, ooo! I have a quirk I can admit to that you guys won't think makes me totally crazy.
If I have a thought that matters to me when I'm on a message board, I'll write it. I just made a thread in my military wives forum about people's fairy tales, because I wanted to write about how Sean and I met and the beginning of our relationship. The reason? There was a thread asking how long you know your husband before you got married. I had to think about when things happened, so I ended up typing it all up and making a new thread.
See?!? See how stupid long that explanation was!?
I have issues about HAVING to have the captions on the TV and during movies and what not. I absolutely just cannot comprehend anything if I'm listening and watching. I guess its my ADD or maybe I just have selective hearing--I dunno. I have to read the shit while I'm watching it. You'd be surprised what you actually DON'T hear in movies by reading closed caption. Then of course it does fuck up at times or they change the way something is say--bleeps are put--it has draw backs don't get me wrong.
(Especially if it's stand up--you know the punchline before it happens.)
But I guess it's because I have a thing about my Japanese anime and video games being in its native language--therefore I HAVE to read text on regular basis to enjoy anything I'm watching or playing? I dunno--lol it actually helped me learn to read faster.
Quote from: Sinn on January 03, 2010, 09:15:17 PMLes Pactes des Loup
see, i knew there was a reason why i loved you. between that and Libertine, well, are you up for a civil union? ;D
i too have to watch with closed captioning. i chalk it to half being hard of hearing and half because... that's how i learn... like in school a lecture did me almost no good, just gimme the damn chapter to read already.
I only care about subtitles when it's anime with completely assfucked the studio should be ashamed of themselves butchered translation. Or a foreign film since I wouldn't understand the audio anyway. But I almost never watch those.
I learn by giving a crap. Which rarely happened in school.
Bad retail jokes.
"No price tag on it? MUST BE FREE HUURRRRRF DUUURRRRRFFF"
"Is this your...*Puts Caruso shades on*...BEST BUY?! HAAAAHUFOEFLEHGEKAJGH"
I think I should be able to charge you MORE for making these horrible jokes, and I hope you choke on your 360 controller.
Quote from: V on January 05, 2010, 09:29:15 PM
Quote from: Sinn on January 03, 2010, 09:15:17 PMLes Pactes des Loup
see, i knew there was a reason why i loved you. between that and Libertine, well, are you up for a civil union? ;D
i too have to watch with closed captioning. i chalk it to half being hard of hearing and half because... that's how i learn... like in school a lecture did me almost no good, just gimme the damn chapter to read already.
Civil union sounds great. ;) lol. I hated lectures, never learned a damn thing unless I read the book first.
Not so much a quirk but some of the various "things" that kept me from enjoying efeds as the writer in me was driven insane by it: Lazy show writing causing lack of continuity. An example
WWE has Cena wrestle some super gimmick high violence match on PPV. He does massive spots and "goes to the limit". Next night on RAW Cena shows up limping and if he does wrestle moves slower and sells the injuries during the match. Yes he still wins but they make a point of it was a harder victory to nab. GOOD
Efed PPV has a guy in some super over the top gimmick would kill someone in real life even being "scripted rasslin" match that lasts eight pages of description and has the guy taken off in an ambulance even as the winner. Guy shows up for a regular card a couple days later not only being super fine and showing no signs of pain or lingering injury in the player-written segs but the staff written results have him fighting fit as a fiddle with no wear and tear. BAD
In short continuity and editing are our friends and fed heads that won't tweak a seg or think through a match are bad.
Not so much a quirk but one of the various "things" that kept me from enjoying efeds as a visualist...
Silly images without a flesh and blood person to referance. An example:
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I agree with your sentiments, Dave. I always try and sell whatever's happened with Jax in feds. Case and point being Jax wrestling hurt, or even with a cast on his arm in HiWF. That's why our schedule is "relaxed" in character, to allow our fighters time to recover from most of their injuries before they're brawling again.
Quote from: Big Ed Johnson on January 07, 2010, 05:45:32 PM
Not so much a quirk but one of the various "things" that kept me from enjoying efeds as a visualist...
Silly images without a flesh and blood person to referance. An example:
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WIN
ROFLM....... oh wait never mind.
*hands Edd his cookie for impressing the ass-kissing marks*
"Yay!! A Cookie!!"
Oh bloody hell, these are NOT raisins....
Quote from: Big Ed Johnson on January 07, 2010, 05:45:32 PM
Not so much a quirk but one of the various "things" that kept me from enjoying efeds as a visualist...
Silly images without a flesh and blood person to referance.
if they drew it as a representation of their character? i'm game.
if they took an animated character up as their pb, just about any scene or match they're in feels like a missing reel from Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
also, Sephiroth is one of the most annoyingly overused pbs of all times in my countdown.
another efedding pet peeve: every time this writer hears the newest released nu-metal single, they change their theme to that. despite how it's on a couple dozen movie trailers and radio rotation. or, they steal someone real and mainstream's current or longterm well known past theme. if you're not playing randy orton in a canon fed, then don't steal his fucking theme, i don't care how much you like him.
people not selling injuries from show to show's a big annoyance of mine. or people who show up that nobody in the fed's ever heard of, and they ABSOLUTELY EXPECT you to sell them and put them over as a legend. or, people who commit crimes on camera. or, feds who have an everything-written-is-automatically-on-camera rule.
Quote from: V on January 08, 2010, 03:43:59 PM
feds who have an everything-written-is-automatically-on-camera rule.
QFT. That's why I left WfWA. After they told me that my whole "rape" angle was written in a rp so it was common knowledge even though it was off cam. Yeah. Fuck them for being retarded.
Shorter Quirks thread: We are all F-ed up one way or another.
those bath poof things unnerve me. i'll remove my roommate's from the stall by the string-thingie before i take a shower just so i don't accidentally bump into it. it's creepy. why would i wanna rub something all over my body that looks like a furby? washcloth for me.
oh, i'm also afraid of John Ritter. and i'm so not joking. he just really, really creeps me out. that smile with the glassy eyes and his big white chicklet teeth... *shudder* i can't watch anything with him in it. i can't even sit in the same room while it's on, even if i'm doing something else.
I get unnerved by people talking a different language (like around here usually Spanish) in public. It makes me want to get paranoid when I see five Mexicans walking around where I work and not a single word of English comes out of their mouths.
Quote from: The Wandering Bard on January 21, 2010, 01:37:52 PM
I get unnerved by people talking a different language (like around here usually Spanish) in public. It makes me want to get paranoid when I see five Mexicans walking around where I work and not a single word of English comes out of their mouths.
I always assume they're talking about me and saying mean things I don't understand. :'(
That's why it's a good thing to learn at least a few bits of Spanish. If you learn at least a little bit, enough to understand key words and answer back to them...they'll usually shut up and walk away. :P
Fight smart.
Bwahaha.
*resurrects*
When I'm putting results together in my fed, everything has to be consistent. Seriously. Everything. I often stay up until 8am fixing little tiny errors in HTML. The match header has to end in a single line break, a lot of people have started doing 2 and I have to correct it. Also have to change whenever MS Word changes the quotation marks and apostrophes to it's own format... I have to put it back to a normal one so it fits the rest. I'm really anal about consistency. I wish I wasn't, but I am.
If I'm collaborating for someone else and their roleplay, I correct their errors. I don't like typos or misplaced punctuation.
I have a habit of checking the front door is locked 3 or 4 times a night. Sometimes I'll be in bed and suddenly wonder if I locked it, even though I know I did. I have to get up and check. Same with turning off the oven and the heating. I've been halfway to the bus stop and had to come back home to make sure I turned off the heating quite a few times. Almost always finding that I DID so it was a wasted trip -_-
And peeves...
I HATE the little "tear here" thingy on biscuit packets that NEVER work. I tear and the thing just rips off in my hand. They never "tear there". Stupid things.
Fed-wise, I hate people who no-sell shit, or change/dictate what happened to suit their character after it was already written in a different way. You end up reading two different sides to things and not knowing which one you should work with or mention.
Man United fans. The majority of them are arrogant bastards XD Impossible to have a football discussion with because their team is the best, all their players are the best and they have no flaws.
Haha yeah I hate folks that try to spin everything that happens in the fed to suit their own whims and make themselves look good. Though I think my favorite "efed abuse" is folks that rp as a heel (bad guy), act like a heel in all their own segs, are nowhere near the top of the card yet every time they come to the ring they get a bigger face pop than Stone Cold Steve Austin and The Rock put together. It's like "Dude you aren't the top guy in the fed. And you aren't FACE". Play your alignment. Also with that "undue pop" is folks that come in and act like because they were World Champ in their previous fed their first seg should have them getting that huge standing ovation pop. Seriously this isn't the Monday Night Wars and you aren't Bret Hart jumping ship.
Is it a "quirk" to never ever forget or forgive when someone does something to piss you off quite deliberately? People who bitch and whine and then duck for cover before anyone can reply to them really fuck me off. If you haven't got the courage to say whatever it is you're saying TO the person you're saying it about, then you should just STFU, IMHO. Keyboard warriors are the lowest of the low. Haha. ;)
Also, people who run their own feds and then join someone else's just so they can bitch and whine and moan about how they don't like the way it's run are pretty fucking lame too. If their fed's so fucking awesome, why would they even need to join another one to begin with, if not just because they love the bitching and whining and moaning and throwing a fit when they don't get their own way? Makes ya wonder, doesn't it?
Not so much a quirk but, I get uberly frustrated when a piece I'm working on doesn't turn out the way I want it to.
Grrr.
Quote from: Osbourne Kilminster on March 23, 2010, 03:41:36 PMIf their fed's so fucking awesome, why would they even need to join another one to begin with
not my argument, no matter what's been said in the context of it, but...
because some people are unwilling to do some things with their own characters in their own feds? for example, i personally purposefully try to keep my character/s in my fed out of the main events and out of singles title scenes and am (sssh!) getting to the point of only booking my own if it supports another player. it's a personal and controversial decision every fedhead makes, because even if everyone inside your fed knows you earned the spot, those looking for a place to play who see that from the outside aren't likely to assume the same thing. there's an awful lot of people out there who start an rp as a place just to push their own characters-- luckily, most of those places die off fairly soon. most.