cael
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Post by cael on Feb 21, 2014 20:48:53 GMT -5
I told DH it wasn't just me with the evenness/sensation symmetry thing and told him about this thread. He said just because I make up people to talk to on the internet doesn't mean they're real and that yes, it's still just me.
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Post by The Walk of the Penguin Mich on Feb 21, 2014 21:01:46 GMT -5
I read The Emerging Plague while I was in the hospital in a spica cast (where I was casted from waist to toes). My orthopedic surgeon thought I was nuts. I was on the chapter about noscomial infections.
I carry on conversations with myself. I drove one coworker nuts with my conversations.
I don't puke......ever. Sometimes, I wish I could but I just can't.
I can't sleep in an unmade bed. Like others mentioned before, I'll make a bed before getting into it. If it gets too messed up while I'm sleeping, I'll get up in the middle of the night and remake it and crawl back in.
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swamp
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Post by swamp on Feb 21, 2014 21:06:04 GMT -5
I am a fountain of useless information regarding 80's pop culture.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 21, 2014 21:35:59 GMT -5
I'm really happy to hear that are other people who talk to themselves. I worked mostly alone at night for a couple of years and would talk to myself a lot . Now I'm not alone and I still catch my self doing it and prob sound nutty. I think I remember doing it as a kid too. Sometimes you can pretend you are singing.
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swamp
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Post by swamp on Feb 21, 2014 21:54:26 GMT -5
I'm really happy to hear that are other people who talk to themselves. I worked mostly alone at night for a couple of years and would talk to myself a lot . Now I'm not alone and I still catch my self doing it and prob sound nutty. I think I remember doing it as a kid too. Sometimes you can pretend you are singing. My husband talks to himself all the time. The running joke is asking him whether it is a private conversation or whether I can join in.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 21, 2014 21:59:03 GMT -5
I'm really happy to hear that are other people who talk to themselves. I worked mostly alone at night for a couple of years and would talk to myself a lot . Now I'm not alone and I still catch my self doing it and prob sound nutty. I think I remember doing it as a kid too. Sometimes you can pretend you are singing. My husband talks to himself all the time. The running joke is asking him whether it is a private conversation or whether I can join in. I have conversations with myself. I can always lie and say I'm talking to the cats but waaayyyy back when, my father had me see a psychologist because he caught me having a conversation with myself. I have/had no friends and the people I went to school with were asshats. Who else am I gonna talk to?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 21, 2014 21:59:54 GMT -5
After reading swamp's "cow lovers thread" I realize I am not nearly as freaky as I thought I was...
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Post by ՏՇԾԵԵʅՏɧ_LԹՏՏʅҼ on Feb 21, 2014 22:05:30 GMT -5
After reading swamp's "cow lovers thread" I realize I am not nearly as freaky as I thought I was... I was just there - I'll never be able to look at a cow again without remembering what I read.
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ken a.k.a OMK
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Post by ken a.k.a OMK on Feb 21, 2014 22:46:38 GMT -5
It's ok to talk to yourself. Even argue with yourself. But if you lose the argument then you may be in trouble.
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Post by NoNamePerson on Feb 22, 2014 7:41:39 GMT -5
It's ok to talk to yourself. Even argue with yourself. But if you lose the argument then you may be in trouble. I too talk to myself. And when someone say it's ok to talk to yourself as long as you don't answer, I just tell them that it is the only intelligent conversation I have had all day
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Post by Tired Tess on Feb 22, 2014 13:51:11 GMT -5
When I say "God bless you" I mean it . It's sad how many people think wishing someone good health is strange .
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Post by Sunnyday on Feb 23, 2014 15:03:08 GMT -5
I don't really care that much, but I do find it annoying that someone would bless me.
It would be like someone who practices voodoo, blessing me in some weird way.
Umm no thanks! Don't be rude by blessing me. Just tell me to have a nice day or something.
We are all really freaky in that we all post here.
And the lurkers are all freaky for watching us being freaky without actually participating.
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Post by NoNamePerson on Feb 23, 2014 16:15:07 GMT -5
I don't really care that much, but I do find it annoying that someone would bless me. It would be like someone who practices voodoo, blessing me in some weird way.
Umm no thanks! Don't be rude by blessing me. Just tell me to have a nice day or something. We are all really freaky in that we all post here. And the lurkers are all freaky for watching us being freaky without actually participating. I'll keep that in mind the next time I hear you sneeze!!!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 23, 2014 18:08:01 GMT -5
I'm a grown ass woman and I'm afraid of the dark. I have some odd habits, like being unable to sleep in a room with an open closet door or in a messy bed. I've been called weird for years for things like preferring to read a book instead of watching tv. I'm pretty use to people thinking I'm "different". Growing up, my Mom knew about most of my odd habits. She kindly referred to them as my "idiosyncrasies".
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Post by Deleted on Feb 23, 2014 18:10:11 GMT -5
I refrained from using the word "freak". In my world, freaky and weird aren't necessarily the same thing.
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Post by ginpin on Feb 23, 2014 20:19:13 GMT -5
I'm a grown ass woman and I'm afraid of the dark. I have some odd habits, like being unable to sleep in a room with an open closet door or in a messy bed. I've been called weird for years for things like preferring to read a book instead of watching tv. I'm pretty use to people thinking I'm "different". Growing up, my Mom knew about most of my odd habits. She kindly referred to them as my "idiosyncrasies". I'm not afraid of the dark, but I can't watch scary movies. I watch scary movies with my hands covering my face. When I do see a scary movie, my imagination runs away with me sometimes. I watched 'Scream' when it came out...so I was afraid to go into a dark room. I was even afraid that I would be walking up the stairs and the Ghost-Face guy would be right behind me, so I would run up the stairs as fast as I could go. I blame my scary movie fear on my BFF's older sister. When we were kids, we were watching this b-movie called The Prowler. The sister took delight on scaring us like scenes from the movie..."Oh, the lights don't work!"-"Oh, did you hear that sound?"- stuff like that. Scarred me for life.
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Post by les63 on Feb 23, 2014 20:42:32 GMT -5
I put ketchup on cottage cheese. Annnd macaroni n cheese. I love escargot and calamari. Yum! Cannot stand a dirty house or clutter. Or a stinky DH (oh, that's another thread). I believe in ghosts. I don't think the above makes me a freak tho. Not afraid of the dark; have too much crap going on in my life right now. The freaking ghosts should be scared of me right now; that's right, be very afraid.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 23, 2014 20:58:03 GMT -5
ginpin, I can't watch scary movies either. I watched Nightmare on Elm Street many years ago, and didn't sleep for a week so Freddie wouldn't get me. I hadn't seen a scary movie in years until my son convinced me to watch Paranormal Activity with him. I knew better than to watch that darn movie! 2 years later, it still creeps me out if I think about it.
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Post by Pants on Feb 23, 2014 21:42:34 GMT -5
I have to have something covering my feet when I sleep. When I was little, I believed the foot monster would come eat my feet if they weren't covered. I still can't sleep without at least a sheet on my feet, even in the hottest climates. At night when I get ready for bed I get in bed and then take my slippers and socks off, for the same reason.
Also, 100 other reasons that I'm not saying here.
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Post by sunshinegal1981 on Feb 23, 2014 21:56:27 GMT -5
Every couple of months or so, I waste a few hours surfing the pimple porn on popthatzit.com. It's absolutely glorious.
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Post by sunshinegal1981 on Feb 23, 2014 21:59:35 GMT -5
I usually know peoples cars by the license plate rather than make/model/color. It's like face blindness for vehicles. Oh is that a new car? It has the same licence plate so I didn't notice Oh man, i'm so relieved!!! I thought I was the only one with "car blindness". I can take a 10 hour trip in a friend's car, and not be able to tell you what color it was 5 mins later. Make and model? Forget it. Dh makes fun of me mercilessly.
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Post by tallguy on Feb 24, 2014 0:02:27 GMT -5
Nothing, really. I got accused of being a freak again just today, but I think I'm fairly conventional. I may do things really well for a really long time, but that doesn't by itself make them less conventional, does it?
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Post by steff on Feb 24, 2014 4:25:19 GMT -5
I had a freak moment today....well, an all day freak moment... I watched (and like actually watched & paid attention) a 6 1/2 hour rain delay for the Daytona 500. I chewed up 2 fingernails & actually wondered how high my blood pressure was the last 20 laps. I stood and screamed, yelled, jumped up and down and basically lost my shit when Dale Jr won. As hubby told me, if I could just learn to spit & scratch my balls & adjust my junk every 30 seconds, I'd be the best sports fan out there. I'm a card carry member of JrNation and my redneck/hick freak flag flew high & proud today.
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Post by mamasita99 on Feb 24, 2014 5:30:53 GMT -5
Hey me too! I only threw up once when I was pregnant, but was constantly nauseated - DH kept telling me "just throw up, you'll feel better" but it wasn't worth it! I also have zero tolerance for other people throwing up. After DH's latest surgery he was having a reaction to the anesthesia and I was so thankful his mom was there... I kept having to leave the room when he started gagging. Bad wife. And during college I left one of my poor friends to barf by herself in a Waffle House parking lot. I wanted to be the supportive hair-holding-back friend but I just couldn't deal! (I don't know what I'm so afraid of...) You think you are a bad wife?? Huh, that's nothing. My 3 yr old started throwing up one night last year and my husband was 400 miles away. I was HYSTERICAL, calling him and telling him that he has to come home NOW bc B is puking and I don't know what to do. He kept telling me that there are no flights until morning and even if he started driving, it would still take him at last 6-6.5 hrs. He then told me to calm-the-fuck-down bc I am making it worse for the kids. I started breathing a bit after that. My poor baby was all freaking out bc it was his first puking incident and here I was running around like crazy. Yeah, not a good night and not my proudest moment. Also, if I even *think* that someone might throw up - I am running in an opposite direction. Good to know DD is not alone. My dad was babysitting one day and called me at work to try to talk my DD into coming back in the house. I guess youngest DD threw up with a stomach bug, and my oldest took off out of the house. She was cringing in the carport, and could not make herself go back in. Throw up is her kryptonite.
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Post by ginpin on Feb 24, 2014 13:58:43 GMT -5
ginpin, I can't watch scary movies either. I watched Nightmare on Elm Street many years ago, and didn't sleep for a week so Freddie wouldn't get me. I hadn't seen a scary movie in years until my son convinced me to watch Paranormal Activity with him. I knew better than to watch that darn movie! 2 years later, it still creeps me out if I think about it. I tried to watch Paranormal Activity. I 'watched' the majority of it, if you can count me hiding beneath the blanket. I couldn't watch the end. My daughter said that it was freaky, and made tears come to her eyes. No thank you! I have never see any of the Nightmare, Halloween, Friday the 13th...I am just too much of a pansy.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 24, 2014 17:02:59 GMT -5
It's ok to talk to yourself. Even argue with yourself. But if you lose the argument then you may be in trouble.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 24, 2014 19:47:32 GMT -5
ginpin, I can't watch scary movies either. I watched Nightmare on Elm Street many years ago, and didn't sleep for a week so Freddie wouldn't get me. I hadn't seen a scary movie in years until my son convinced me to watch Paranormal Activity with him. I knew better than to watch that darn movie! 2 years later, it still creeps me out if I think about it. I tried to watch Paranormal Activity. I 'watched' the majority of it, if you can count me hiding beneath the blanket. I couldn't watch the end. My daughter said that it was freaky, and made tears come to her eyes. No thank you! I have never see any of the Nightmare, Halloween, Friday the 13th...I am just too much of a pansy. It's ok, I'm a pansy too! lol I only saw Nightmare because my older cousins were watching it. Never saw Haloween or Friday the 13th, or most of the other horror movies that everybody else in the world has seen. Jumping from fright is not my idea of fun. And the images stay stuck in my head to keep scaring me long after the movie has ended. I clearly remember scenes from horror movies I saw as a child. I'm pretty sure one of them is why I have an irrational fear of bugs and the others are probably why I started being afraid of the dark. I still can't shake either fear. If that's not pansy-ish, I don't know what is.
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Post by raeoflyte on Feb 24, 2014 20:32:55 GMT -5
I cant watch tv shows or movies like CSI or bones because they are too scary, but shows about vampires or witches are fine even if they are just as violent as CSI type shows.
I don't watch any horror movies though.
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Post by ginpin on Feb 25, 2014 8:19:33 GMT -5
And is it weird that I have been reading Stephen King novels since I was in 5th grade?
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Post by midjd on Feb 25, 2014 8:34:30 GMT -5
And is it weird that I have been reading Stephen King novels since I was in 5th grade? No, that makes you awesome! It was funny, I wasn't allowed to watch pg13 movies or listen to music with the parental advisory label, but my reading choices weren't policed at all, and were probably way worse than anything else I could've gotten my mitts on He is a beautiful writer though!
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