Society & Culture Things you do/did that you probably think no one else does

[beez]

When convenient, I keep my take away coffee cup and bring it home, then use it to consume instant at home. Feels better than drinking out of a mug.

 

[Zach Package]

i buy smooth peanut butter (preferably the whipped kind), and then chop up my own peanuts to make crunchy peanut butter

 

[TassieEagle]

When I buy a newspaper, I never pick up the top one on the stack - always one a couple of 'papers down. Same with deoderant/body spray - always from a few rows back on the shelf.

If I have to walk in front of someone in a shop when they are looking at something, I always say "Excuse me."

I do that with nearly everything from the supermarket. The milk is fresher, the bread is fresher and with all the non perishables I see the front one as display stock

 

[Quivorir]

i buy smooth peanut butter (preferably the whipped kind), and then chop up my own peanuts to make crunchy peanut butter

Why?

 

[Zach Package]

Why?

Had this awesome peanut butter from america once which is just streets ahead of anything else I've ever had, so now I just recreate it.

 

[Engimal]

I do interviews inside my head as if I were famous and being interviewed for MTV, 60 minutes or some bullshit.

 

[Cruyff14]

Doss is it possible to merge this thread with part one?

 

[Doss]

Doss is it possible to merge this thread with part one?

'tis indeed now, good sir.

The old one was locked because of the 1,000 post limit that existed under the old VB software, but such annoyances no longer exist.

Curiously enough, I also found a second 'part 2' that I've merged into this as well.

 

[Cruyff14]

Just read through the first 15 pages or so, there's a heap of stuff I can relate with.

The most amazing ones:

• Having to touch something with your other hand/foot to even things up. It got really bad a few years ago, not as bad now but still happens a fair bit. Like if I'm walking past and I accidentally brush something with my right hand I have to go back and brush it with my left hand in exactly the same position. Honestly thought I was crazy and the only person who did this.
• Playing backyard, loungeroom, hallway footy etc. Backyard was epic. Had the grand ambition of recreating every game ever played in my backyard lol. Started in 1897 - loved playing as Fitzroy Would always commentate. Looked stupid when I was intercepting the other team (I was both teams of course ) Was playing an exhibition match once with Richmond. Smashed a window and blamed Brad Ottens, not myself
  Had spreadsheets and everything. Loved it but stopped once I was about 12.
• Loungeroom footy usually involved a small soft footy or a balloon. Would always take screamers over the couch, landed on mattresses piled on top of each other. When I wasn't playing loungeroom footy it was "don't let the balloon touch the ground" or balloon volleyball. Still bust out the balloon volleyball occasionally before we host an event where the couches and tables have all been moved away.
• Hallway footy was where you gathered up all the socks in the house, closed all the doors in the hallway bar one and then tried kicking the "ball" (socks) through the door. Increased degree of difficulty by having to use rebounds.
• Eating peas or corn without swallowing. Do this every time. I cringe thinking about chewing the peas/corn and all the juices going into my mouth. Moreso the peas than the corn. Just don't really like either.

A couple of my own:

• Pong cricket. Could be played in the hallway, loungeroom, backyard wherever. Had epic tournaments with mates and only stopped after about year 8. Doesn't really get old. The best thing was getting a heap of swing with the ping pong balls and bowling them out for ridiculously low totals. A caught and bowled was rare so always used to celebrate those. Used those mini bats you get for signatures as the bats. My mate had about five of them, all different brands so we would use the brand that the batsman plays with. Epic. Also manipulating the ping pong ball by dinting it and then putting it in the oven was always fun.
• Whenever I find a stopwatch I always try and start/stop it at the shortest time possible. Best ever was six milliseconds (00:00:06). Don't think I'll ever get near that again. What always sucked was when the stopwatch had a dodgy button and you couldn't press it twice quickly. Annoyed the shit out of me.

Hopefully I'm not alone on those last two

You freak Gibbsy.

This thread is sick

 

[Total_Juddshanks]

Depant before shit and repant straight afterward

Concur (although imagining your post read out aloud in Earvin Magic Johnson's voice is highly unsettling).

Two pieces of logic to this. Firstly, it prevents your pants from draping onto what is probable the least clean part of the bathroom floor, the immediate drop zone in front of the toilet where careless pissers are likely to have fallen short. Secondly, it completely frees up your legs so you can position them for maximum expulsion.

I would feel very very unclean if I left my pants on.

 

[kfc1]

Concur (although imagining your post read out aloud in Earvin Magic Johnson's voice is highly unsettling).

Two pieces of logic to this. Firstly, it prevents your pants from draping onto what is probable the least clean part of the bathroom floor, the immediate drop zone in front of the toilet where careless pissers are likely to have fallen short. Secondly, it completely frees up your legs so you can position them for maximum expulsion.

I would feel very very unclean if I left my pants on.

So where do u place ur pants during the shit?

 

[Freofalcon]

I walk around at night and take cuttings off peoples Frangipani trees and replant them in pots at home. I then sell them at swap meets. You can get good coin for Frangipanis.

 

[Cruyff14]

I walk around at night and take cuttings off peoples Frangipani trees and replant them in pots at home. I then sell them at swap meets. You can get good coin for Frangipanis.

Lol.

Really?

 

[Freofalcon]

Lol.

Really?

Yeah. Next time you are at a nursery, check out how much they go for. I don't hack their tree to bits. I take a few cuttings from places you won't even notice.

 

[Total_Juddshanks]

So where do u place ur pants during the shit?

Hang them on either the behind door coathook or fold them and hang them on the (door)knob.

 

[Howard Littlejohn]

Oh good, another person who failed 'Basic Shoelace Tying' in Primary School. I don't feel like such a social outcast now.

I passed it in primary school. At about age 20 however I woke up still rather intoxicated, having forgotten how to tie shoelaces and having to hand in a uni assignment that morning (This was long time ago people, it had to be handed in in person and on paper at the start of a lecture - its how hey made us turn up 2-3 times a semester). I made something up that looked vaguely right, and have had to use that method ever since.

 

[dales.girl38]

One thing I do that my friends think I'm stupid for - I always put my handbag etc. on my passenger seat, rather than the floor of the car, but my car always beeps for having a 'passenger' not wearing a seat belt. To counter this, I always have my passenger seat belted up, which annoys them when they then sit in a seat that is already belted up.

In my defense, my handbag is not as heavy as a person. Probably.

 

[Stratton_Gun]

One thing I do that my friends think I'm stupid for - I always put my handbag etc. on my passenger seat, rather than the floor of the car, but my car always beeps for having a 'passenger' not wearing a seat belt. To counter this, I always have my passenger seat belted up, which annoys them when they then sit in a seat that is already belted up.

In my defense, my handbag is not as heavy as a person. Probably.

Regardless of whether it's a person or an item; safety comes first

One of mine. According to Shell this is weird. After eating a muffin or a cupcake, I eat the paper thing at the bottom because it tastes so good

 

[Shell]

Paper is not food you psycho...

 

[Cruyff14]

Don't think he means he eats the paper. Think me means like licking a plate etc.

 

[Shell]

Don't think he means he eats the paper. Think me means like licking a plate etc.

I said the same thing- no, he eats it, consumes it... however you wanna say it.

 

[dales.girl38]

One of mine. According to Shell this is weird. After eating a muffin or a cupcake, I eat the paper thing at the bottom because it tastes so good

I think you mean according to everybody, that is weird

 

[Quivorir]

Regardless of whether it's a person or an item; safety comes first

One of mine. According to Shell this is weird. After eating a muffin or a cupcake, I eat the paper thing at the bottom because it tastes so good

Thats not weird. Thats ****ed up. You need to go on that Strange Addictions show, paper is not food.

 

[SpaceCow]

That's pretty ****ing weird, man...

 

[Shell]

We should call SG Ralph.

"Miss Hover, my worm crawled in my mouth and then I ate it. Can I have a new one?"