Tell Us One Weird, Odd or Strange Fact About Yourself ?

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Ideologue

Quote from: Brazen on April 14, 2011, 03:59:43 AM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on April 14, 2011, 02:11:08 AM
Quote from: Brazen on April 14, 2011, 01:34:43 AM
I can feel colours with my fingertips.
How?
Nothing supernatural, if you get two things otherwise exactly the same, such as gaming pieces or Smarties, the different colours feel subtly different, probably due to the chemicals used. Try it and see. Yellow is an easy one to start with, it feels slimy. Blue is slightly rough. Red is smooth. It takes practice.

Different thermal properties?

Do you also have a "radar sense"?
Kinemalogue
Current reviews: The 'Burbs (9/10); Gremlins 2: The New Batch (9/10); John Wick: Chapter 2 (9/10); A Cure For Wellness (4/10)

Razgovory

I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

Ideologue

Kinemalogue
Current reviews: The 'Burbs (9/10); Gremlins 2: The New Batch (9/10); John Wick: Chapter 2 (9/10); A Cure For Wellness (4/10)

MadImmortalMan

Quote from: Razgovory on April 14, 2011, 12:54:20 PM
I think that's called Synesthesia.

Yeah, I've heard of people who "see" the sounds they hear when their eyes are closed. Their senses kind of bleed over into each other.
"Stability is destabilizing." --Hyman Minsky

"Complacency can be a self-denying prophecy."
"We have nothing to fear but lack of fear itself." --Larry Summers

Viking

Quote from: Brazen on April 14, 2011, 09:38:12 AM
Quote from: Viking on April 14, 2011, 08:51:45 AM
I spent the first year of my life living in a pre-fab house on the grounds of a nuclear research facility.
That explains a lot. Let me guess, all your relatives are just five-foot nothing, right?

No, we are all this big...
First Maxim - "There are only two amounts, too few and enough."
First Corollary - "You cannot have too many soldiers, only too few supplies."
Second Maxim - "Be willing to exchange a bad idea for a good one."
Second Corollary - "You can only be wrong or agree with me."

A terrorist which starts a slaughter quoting Locke, Burke and Mill has completely missed the point.
The fact remains that the only person or group to applaud the Norway massacre are random Islamists.

Ideologue

Quote from: Viking on April 14, 2011, 01:02:27 PM
Quote from: Brazen on April 14, 2011, 09:38:12 AM
Quote from: Viking on April 14, 2011, 08:51:45 AM
I spent the first year of my life living in a pre-fab house on the grounds of a nuclear research facility.
That explains a lot. Let me guess, all your relatives are just five-foot nothing, right?

No, we are all this big...

Ellipsis-sized?
Kinemalogue
Current reviews: The 'Burbs (9/10); Gremlins 2: The New Batch (9/10); John Wick: Chapter 2 (9/10); A Cure For Wellness (4/10)

szmik

Quote from: Neil on September 23, 2011, 08:41:24 AM
That's why Martinus, for all his spending on the trappings of wealth and taste, will never really have class.  He's just trying too hard to be something he isn't (an intelligent, tasteful gentleman), trying desperately to hide what he is (Polish trash with money and a severe behavioral disorder), and it shows in everything he says and does.  He's not our equal, not by a mile.

Savonarola

In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace—and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock

Malthus

Quote from: Savonarola on April 14, 2011, 04:05:21 PM
I can twiddle my thumbs in opposite directions.

I can too!

The trick is that they cross each other twice each rotation.  ;)
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane—Marcus Aurelius

Savonarola

Quote from: Malthus on April 14, 2011, 04:10:54 PM
Quote from: Savonarola on April 14, 2011, 04:05:21 PM
I can twiddle my thumbs in opposite directions.

I can too!

The trick is that they cross each other twice each rotation.  ;)

My Grandmother was Canadian, maybe it's a racial trait. :Canuck:
In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace—and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock

Malthus

Quote from: Savonarola on April 14, 2011, 04:16:13 PM
Quote from: Malthus on April 14, 2011, 04:10:54 PM
Quote from: Savonarola on April 14, 2011, 04:05:21 PM
I can twiddle my thumbs in opposite directions.

I can too!

The trick is that they cross each other twice each rotation.  ;)

My Grandmother was Canadian, maybe it's a racial trait. :Canuck:

I admit, with some shame, to have derived some sadistic pleasure from showing others how to do it and then watching them be unable to.  :blush:
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane—Marcus Aurelius

Strix

My co-workers think I am the biggest left wing on the fringe tree hugging liberal in the office.  :nelson:
"I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left." - Margaret Thatcher

Malthus

Quote from: Strix on April 14, 2011, 04:21:07 PM
My co-workers think I am the biggest left wing on the fringe tree hugging liberal in the office.  :nelson:

That may very well be true ...  ;)
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane—Marcus Aurelius

Siege

I went to the national rifle competition last year, where the 100 shooters with the highest score become the President's Hundred.
My score was number 978.
Shamefully defeated.





"All men are created equal, then some become infantry."

"Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who don't."

"Laissez faire et laissez passer, le monde va de lui même!"


Count

I am CountDeMoney's inner child, who appears mysteriously every few years