Give one odd, strange or weird fact, or perhaps a secret, about yourself.
I went on a bus the other day and I had this strange uncomfortable feeling, couldn't work out why.
Anyway, once at home it dawned on me I hadn't been in a vehicle for a while; because I haven't had to go to London for work or pleasure recently, I buy many things via the web and if I l need anything else I have two large conurbation within 20 miles, I can basically cycle most places. Socialising by bicycle is a doddle in this country.
So a quick check of my bike journey records ( :nerd: ) reveal this odd fact about myself, previous to the bus journey I hadn't been inside or used any form of motor vehicle for ...... 291 days. :huh:
I can lock my fingers, and bend them backward.
I'd like two strange facts. Nothing weird or odd though, please. :x
I'm a closet right-winger, affraid to affirm myself. There, I said it, it feels good.
Second fact: I'm a shy guy in real life, I hate speaking in public, I'm not comfortable in a huge crowd, I prefer smaller intimate meetings with my friends than huge parties with 60-80 people.
Sometimes I dream music in my sleep. Complete symphonic scores on the fly. I can never remember it all when I wake up, but someday I may get rich if I can get my hands on a dream recorder.
When I was a kid I had a pet petrified frog named Herman.
Quote from: viper37 on April 13, 2011, 08:46:55 PM
Second fact: I'm a shy guy in real life, I hate speaking in public, I'm not comfortable in a huge crowd, I prefer smaller intimate meetings with my friends than huge parties with 60-80 people.
I imagine that would be a common trait among people who like to post a lot on some forum.
I have a very big cock.
I make my own dishwasher detergent and laundry soap. :)
Quote from: MadImmortalMan on April 13, 2011, 08:52:13 PM
Sometimes I dream music in my sleep. Complete symphonic scores on the fly. I can never remember it all when I wake up, but someday I may get rich if I can get my hands on a dream recorder.
Dream recorder?
Quote from: jimmy olsen on April 13, 2011, 09:39:55 PM
Quote from: MadImmortalMan on April 13, 2011, 08:52:13 PM
Sometimes I dream music in my sleep. Complete symphonic scores on the fly. I can never remember it all when I wake up, but someday I may get rich if I can get my hands on a dream recorder.
Dream recorder?
Yeah. Of course, my wife might not like everything that it picks up. :unsure:
Sometimes I like licorice.
Quote from: Siege on April 13, 2011, 09:13:05 PM
I have a very big cock.
you really, really want Marty to hit on you?
I'm hung like a Snuffleupagus. But only I can see it.
I enjoy gardening.
There are currently 7 cats and a dog residing in my house.
I can feel colours with my fingertips.
I went to see my first ballet / opera (don't remember which it was) performance when I was 5.
As a kid, I had my own mini puppet theatre scene.
Quote from: MadImmortalMan on April 13, 2011, 08:52:13 PM
Sometimes I dream music in my sleep. Complete symphonic scores on the fly. I can never remember it all when I wake up, but someday I may get rich if I can get my hands on a dream recorder.
Hey, I've done that. Or it feels like it; there's this weird mental music that comes on with tremendous number of instruments that comes on, right before falling asleep. I can never even remember the tune.
Also, I have stupid hair, which is why I've shaved my head for the most part of the last five or so years.
I liked the old thread on the old Languish that I may be making up from whole cloth where we made up strange facts about other people.
E.g., "Mongers is a bisexual: he has sex with bicycles."
Quote from: Ideologue on April 14, 2011, 01:56:21 AM
Quote from: MadImmortalMan on April 13, 2011, 08:52:13 PM
Sometimes I dream music in my sleep. Complete symphonic scores on the fly. I can never remember it all when I wake up, but someday I may get rich if I can get my hands on a dream recorder.
Hey, I've done that. Or it feels like it; there's this weird mental music that comes on with tremendous number of instruments that comes on, right before falling asleep. I can never even remember the tune.
Also, I have stupid hair, which is why I've shaved my head for the most part of the last five or so years.
Too much negro blood, huh?
Quote from: Slargos on April 14, 2011, 02:07:11 AM
Quote from: Ideologue on April 14, 2011, 01:56:21 AM
Quote from: MadImmortalMan on April 13, 2011, 08:52:13 PM
Sometimes I dream music in my sleep. Complete symphonic scores on the fly. I can never remember it all when I wake up, but someday I may get rich if I can get my hands on a dream recorder.
Hey, I've done that. Or it feels like it; there's this weird mental music that comes on with tremendous number of instruments that comes on, right before falling asleep. I can never even remember the tune.
Also, I have stupid hair, which is why I've shaved my head for the most part of the last five or so years.
Too much negro blood, huh?
Arab and Berber, possibly.
I can exhale through my tear ducts if I pinch my nose shut.
Sucks when trying to blow your nose.
I'm an adult in love with Lego Technic.
L.
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.
I'm good enough at this that friends won't let me pick a gaming piece from a bag to see who goes first.
Fuck you facebook hating sharing asshole.
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.
I'm good enough at this that friends won't let me pick a gaming piece from a bag to see who goes first.
You know you'd make a quite credible modern marvel comic superhero. :D
Quote from: Grey Fox on April 14, 2011, 06:26:50 AM
Fuck you facebook hating sharing asshole.
It's
arsehole. :bowler:
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on April 14, 2011, 01:14:24 AM
There are currently 7 cats and a dog residing in my house.
(https://languish.org/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimages.wikia.com%2Fsimpsons%2Fimages%2Fd%2Fd1%2FCrazycatlady.jpg&hash=65d78b491a87e73fd46fc8770ce541c8da3eb69a)
Here's my fact.
I spent the first year of my life living in a pre-fab house on the grounds of a nuclear research facility.
I have no spleen.
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?
Quote from: Barrister on April 14, 2011, 09:33:44 AM
I have no spleen.
What, then, do you vent on defendants? :(
Quote from: Malthus on April 14, 2011, 10:27:10 AM
Quote from: Barrister on April 14, 2011, 09:33:44 AM
I have no spleen.
What, then, do you vent on defendants? :(
He vented too much one day and his spleen blow out. Now he has to drip bile, i'm afraid :(
Quote from: Pedrito on April 14, 2011, 03:32:44 AM
I'm an adult in love with Lego Technic.
L.
Nothing strange about that!
I'm still in love with it too, and I haven't played with them for at least a decade.
Same name and birthday as my father. Weird shit shows up on my credit score sometimes (car bought before i was born).
I can't smell sulfur compounds. for example skunk smells sweet to me.
I feel uncomfortable wearing a non-green or grey shirt, so I more or less never do.
I hate having short hair, and it is normally to my shoulders. Since a couple months ago it is shorter than it has been in my living memory.
In happier times, amongst my favourite things was to have my hair brushed. It could never quite be brushed long enough to suit me.
Quote from: HVC on April 14, 2011, 11:25:21 AM
I can't smell sulfur compounds. for example skunk smells sweet to me.
There goes a job in the perfume industry. :(
Quote from: Malthus on April 14, 2011, 11:39:38 AM
Quote from: HVC on April 14, 2011, 11:25:21 AM
I can't smell sulfur compounds. for example skunk smells sweet to me.
There goes a job in the perfume industry. :(
What, you mean eu de Pepe Le Pew wouldn't sell like hotcakes? :(
I've had teachers who thought I was mentally retarded.
Of course many you probably won't find that surprising.
Can't think of any.
chicks dig me
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"?
I think that's called Synesthesia.
I think it's called a man without fear.
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.
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...
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?
I hate people :yucky:
I can twiddle my thumbs in opposite directions.
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. ;)
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:
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:
My co-workers think I am the biggest left wing on the fringe tree hugging liberal in the office. :nelson:
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 ... ;)
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.
i can't smell
Quote from: Rasputin on April 14, 2011, 12:08:23 PM
chicks dig me
Sorry to hear that.
Perhaps if you behaved more gallantly, they wouldn't keep coming after you with a shovel.
Quote from: Siege on April 13, 2011, 09:13:05 PM
I have a very big cock.
Didn't realize they let you keep farm animals on a military base.
Quote from: Savonarola on April 14, 2011, 04:05:21 PM
I can twiddle my thumbs in opposite directions.
i can too. i didn't know it was rare :unsure:
I took an online Jeopardy tryout test years ago. You need to get 35 right out of 50, and I was 28 correct answers short of that target. :blush:
Quote from: DGuller on April 14, 2011, 05:46:24 PM
I took an online Jeopardy tryout test years ago. You need to get 35 right out of 50, and I was 28 correct answers short of that target. :blush:
How is you being stupid a "Weird, Odd or Strange Fact About Yourself" ?
:P
Quote from: jamesww on April 14, 2011, 05:49:46 PM
Quote from: DGuller on April 14, 2011, 05:46:24 PM
I took an online Jeopardy tryout test years ago. You need to get 35 right out of 50, and I was 28 correct answers short of that target. :blush:
How is you being stupid a "Weird, Odd or Strange Fact About Yourself" ?
:P
Hey, I got to put my teachers thinking I was retarded in.
Quote from: DGuller on April 14, 2011, 05:46:24 PM
I took an online Jeopardy tryout test years ago. You need to get 35 right out of 50, and I was 28 correct answers short of that target. :blush:
I bet you epically failed on the pop culture questions.
Quote from: citizen k on April 14, 2011, 05:52:00 PM
Quote from: DGuller on April 14, 2011, 05:46:24 PM
I took an online Jeopardy tryout test years ago. You need to get 35 right out of 50, and I was 28 correct answers short of that target. :blush:
I bet you epically failed on the pop culture questions.
Is there such a thing as "especially failed" when you get 7 out of 50 correct?
Quote from: citizen k on April 14, 2011, 05:52:00 PM
Quote from: DGuller on April 14, 2011, 05:46:24 PM
I took an online Jeopardy tryout test years ago. You need to get 35 right out of 50, and I was 28 correct answers short of that target. :blush:
I bet you epically failed on the pop culture questions.
I tried to get on college Jeop once and the sports questions just nailed me.
I used to be involved in the Federalist Society, in a pretty significant way.
I still retain a certain fondness for Leo Strauss.
Quote from: The Minsky Moment on April 14, 2011, 06:03:49 PM
I used to be involved in the Federalist Society, in a pretty significant way.
:o
Quote from: Ideologue on April 14, 2011, 06:05:52 PM
:o
Turns out it can be treated with standard antibiotics.
I think that's why the right is so opposed to making health care more available.
I was interested in the Federalist Society, before I found out it didn't exist to teach people how to be more like Alexander Hamilton. :(
Quote from: jamesww on April 13, 2011, 07:31:00 PM
So a quick check of my bike journey records ( :nerd: ) reveal this odd fact about myself, previous to the bus journey I hadn't been inside or used any form of motor vehicle for ...... 291 days. :huh:
What do you do when it's raining?
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on April 14, 2011, 06:33:26 PM
Quote from: jamesww on April 13, 2011, 07:31:00 PM
So a quick check of my bike journey records ( :nerd: ) reveal this odd fact about myself, previous to the bus journey I hadn't been inside or used any form of motor vehicle for ...... 291 days. :huh:
What do you do when it's raining?
It doesn't rain that often, though yesterday I got wet, it's not a problem, the right gear and a warm house to go home offer a nice solution.
Quote from: The Minsky Moment on April 14, 2011, 06:03:49 PM
I used to be involved in the Federalist Society, in a pretty significant way.
:lol:
My urethra has two openings at the tip of my penis...
Not sure if it is weird, but I was once arrested at a demonstration. :homestar:
What were you demonstrating?
Quote from: Razgovory on April 18, 2011, 12:23:28 PM
What were you demonstrating?
My youthful stupidity and my weird attraction to anarchism.
Some people actually give me money for my paintings.
Quote from: Norgy on April 18, 2011, 12:26:07 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on April 18, 2011, 12:23:28 PM
What were you demonstrating?
My youthful stupidity and my weird attraction to anarchism.
We all do foolish things in our youth.
There hasn't been anything remotely weird, odd or strange about me since, oh, 1998.
Quote from: Razgovory on April 18, 2011, 12:50:27 PM
We all do foolish things in our youth.
And in adulthood. :Embarrass:
I used to make sculptures of elephants out of clay for a living.
I'm rather boring. Can't think of any real stand out things about myself. um.... I once blew up a car?
Quote from: Tyr on April 18, 2011, 03:58:00 PM
I'm rather boring. Can't think of any real stand out things about myself. um.... I once blew up a car?
You mean as a terrorist act, or just for assassination?
Quote from: DGuller on April 18, 2011, 04:00:32 PM
Quote from: Tyr on April 18, 2011, 03:58:00 PM
I'm rather boring. Can't think of any real stand out things about myself. um.... I once blew up a car?
You mean as a terrorist act, or just for assassination?
:rolleyes:
It was an inflatable toy.
You guys have the most suspicious minds!
Quote from: jamesww on April 13, 2011, 07:31:00 PM
Give one odd, strange or weird fact, or perhaps a secret, about yourself.
I went on a bus the other day and I had this strange uncomfortable feeling, couldn't work out why.
Anyway, once at home it dawned on me I hadn't been in a vehicle for a while; because I haven't had to go to London for work or pleasure recently, I buy many things via the web and if I l need anything else I have two large conurbation within 20 miles, I can basically cycle most places. Socialising by bicycle is a doddle in this country.
So a quick check of my bike journey records ( :nerd: ) reveal this odd fact about myself, previous to the bus journey I hadn't been inside or used any form of motor vehicle for ...... 291 days. :huh:
Apparently at least two of my friends think that keeping a record/spreadsheet of ones bike journeys is rather odd. :gasp: Who knew.
Quote from: jamesww on May 13, 2011, 03:11:22 PM
Apparently at least two of my friends think that keeping a record/spreadsheet of ones bike journeys is rather odd. :gasp: Who knew.
Make that three. :)
Despite living really close to America from 1998-2002 & 2005-now I haven't been there since 98. Not once. Not because I dislike going across the line, I used to go to SF, Seattle etc all the time... I just haven't.
I have dreams so vivid I can't tell them apart from real memories sometimes. I once took an ex-girlfriend on an excursion to a new Indian restaurant that had opened up, only to realize when we got there, after 15 minutes of driving up and down the street looking for it, that it didn't exist. :wacko:
I sleep with one eye open, due a injury suffered when I was 5, or rather injuries I suffered both when I was 4 and 5 year old. Still got the scars...
I can turn both thumbs around in their sockets so it looks as if they are grossly misplaced. :hmm:
And dislocate my thumb joints.
Quote from: Mr.Penguin on May 13, 2011, 11:06:02 PM
I sleep with one eye open, due a injury suffered when I was 5, or rather injuries I suffered both when I was 4 and 5 year old. Still got the scars...
Does the one eye get crazyass dry during the night? I've got a problem with slightly bulging eyeballs from my hyperthyroidism and I've got to cover it in slimey goop at night or I dry out like a dessert.
Quote from: Admiral Yi on May 14, 2011, 12:04:44 PM
Quote from: Mr.Penguin on May 13, 2011, 11:06:02 PM
I sleep with one eye open, due a injury suffered when I was 5, or rather injuries I suffered both when I was 4 and 5 year old. Still got the scars...
Does the one eye get crazyass dry during the night? I've got a problem with slightly bulging eyeballs from my hyperthyroidism and I've got to cover it in slimey goop at night or I dry out like a dessert.
I prefer my desserts to be moist too - perhaps with whipped cream or maple syrup. :mmm:
Quote from: Mr.Penguin on May 13, 2011, 11:06:02 PM
I sleep with one eye open,
Do you grip your pillows tight?
Quote from: Barrister on May 14, 2011, 12:19:16 PM
I prefer my desserts to be moist too - perhaps with whipped cream or maple syrup. :mmm:
Baked Yukon? :)
When I was used to drink a lot more than I do now, I was known because I snored so loudly that I was heard from outside the house in the street.
L.