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

[Mr Budda Bing]

- Eat with my hands instead of fork and knife
- Play cricket with anything I can find eg sandle, stick
- Load up my chips with soo much Chicken salt, the chips are floating in chicken salt.
- Panty sniffing

 

[Caesar]

I think we just found Troy Buswell's BF username.

 

[Mr Budda Bing]

Fapping over hot facebook pics

 

[melaniej]

Fapping over hot facebook pics

You clearly missed the Girls on Facebook thread... Otherwise you would know you are not alone.

 

[r dub 19]

I think we just found Troy Buswell's BF username.

heckin'g lol

 

[footy_4_life]

When hanging the washing out on the line i have to make sure that all items of clothing are facing the same direction.

 

[Johnson#26]

I don't do this, but if I start playing Tetris too much I'll have Tetris patterns running through my head when I try to sleep that night.

Yes sir. All through terms one and two in year 11, went to bed and immediately started playing Tetris. And I wouldn't always get the shapes I wanted either.

 

[wobblypunt]

Ha you guys should check out http://www.reddit.com/r/DoesAnybodyElse if you want to reaffirm the fact that most of our quirky behaviours are employed by many others.

I'll add one here: when you're just about to doze off but you suddenly sort of shake, or jerk. It's called a hypnic jerk and it's a very common phenomena.

 

[Plugger35]

I quite often jerk before I doze off.

 

[Geelong_Sicko]

When hanging the washing out on the line i have to make sure that all items of clothing are facing the same direction.

This is the sort of pathological behaviour inherent in serial killers. Well done

 

[Hard Ball Get]

When walking up or down stairs (usually down) I count the amount of stairs.

I have learnt that if there is x stairs then a platform more often than not the next row of stairs will be x-1.

 

[Football God]

I eat the spinkle side last

 

[JHF1870]

I'll get the ball rolling

- Have a set of scales in the bathroom, so sometimes I weigh myself before and after a shit, just for that extra sense of accomplishment.
- Must have the TV volume on an even number.
- Sleep with a pillow between my legs.
- When I was younger (still do it every now and then), used to position my arms/hands in the shower so it looked like water was running out of each of my fingertips.*

* Weirdest one.

My volume needs to be on a number I like and it must go up to that number.

Usually its goes 17,23,26,27,31,32,36,37,41,45

 

[emuboy]

When I watch an old TV show or movie set in New York City, I still find myself looking for the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center.

A couple of friends I spoke to about this said they also did the same thing, but this was years ago when the September 11 disaster was still relatively recent, so I am not sure if people still do this, or if I am largely on my own nearly a decade after the event.

 

[GoTheSwannies]

Did the raindrop thing as a kid, did the shower one at times, and regularly do the rectangles with the mouse

Every time I see my alarm clock hit 11.34 I say the word hell because that's what it reads flipped upside down
Every time I throw something in the recycling bin I recite paper in the front bottles in the back, initially I started that because it helped me remember which compartment paper/bottle went in, but instead of memorising it I always repeat the phrase in my head
When I was younger, I used to dribble a ball along the hallway pretending to be a NBA player and dunk it on top of the door frame, I used to play games in my head
Now when I shoot hoops in my backyard I give myself a set amount of shots, ie 20 field goals & 10 free frows and set a benchmark score, then provide commentary in my head as I pile on a 40 point game to win game 1 of the playoffs, if I don't reach the benchmark we lose the game and so on and so forth
If I'm eating a meal, I tend to eat things in combination eg I'll take a bite of the burger then put some chips in my mouth. I bight a piece of pork, I put some rice in my mouth. Also, with sandwiches/burgers, I always like the content to be equal, so if there's a part with alot of meat, I'll bite a bit of the bread/bun so that the meat/bread ratio is consistent

 

[GoTheSwannies]

If im lieing or sitting on the couch later at night and its a bit chilly, i have no hesitation putting my hands down my pants to keep my hands warm.

I pretend I open automatic doors with the force. It works because I wave the hand at the motion scanner and therefore the doors open in perfect timing to my hand movement

http://www.youtube.com/embed/yjTo8EirVVo

 

[AsianWithAFro]

* If I am the supermarket I always try and take the item furthest or closest to the right
* Wear the exact same jocks and socks when I watch Collingwood play

 

[Team Mo']

I do this now everytime I hold a pen...
[youtube]4cJI0QxyT9g[/youtube]

Wow. Had absolutely no idea how to do this before the video.

watched through it twice and now can do it probably 5 or 6 times out of 10...

Big help.

 

[Twist_of_Lemon]

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Once I was walking down the street with a pizza, and some guy from a car yelled at me: "Nice pizza, jackass!"
Massive WTF moment

Sorry to quote something epic old, but ****ing hell I nearly passed out laughing. That's the most random thing I've ever heard.

 

[Bulldog Breed]

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Once I was walking down the street with a pizza, and some guy from a car yelled at me: "Nice pizza, jackass!"
Massive WTF moment

****ing lol. I remember laughing at this when I first read it months ago and it still cracks me up.

At school when I was bored I would try make up footy teams of players from a certain category. For example, players with a last name starting with 'W' or players who have a first name as a surname, etc.

 

[BarneyBent]

I do so many of the things in this thread. Reading the first 5 pages, I probably did 90% of the things people said.

Also, I have a thing for powers of 2. If I'm eating chips or chocolates, etc, I have to have 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, etc. It's also often the same for kissing my gf, knocking on a door, clicking a pen, etc.

When drinking from a bubbler, I usually have to sing a verse from a song (whichever comes to mind, usually I have a song stuck in my head already so I use that) while I drink. Have to finish the verse before I can leave, or draw breath.

I sometimes imagine delivering a eulogy for myself or others. What I'd say, etc.

I can't stand being in a room with the door open.

I can't stand people using my computer. I have nothing to hide (pr0n is on an external HD), it's totally irrational, but if somebody uses my computer, I have to be there, in the room, watching them, and I'm constantly edgy. No idea what it is.

The same touchiness with my computer also applies to my bedroom. I can barely even leave my GF in there alone, and if I do it's not for any period of time. I'm fine if I'm there with them, I'm fine falling asleep while people are there, and again, I have nothing to hide. Just a weird personal space thing I guess.

I hate having the car windows rolled down.

I have a noticeable nose twitch.

I compulsively lick my fingers after eating anything that leaves residue on my hands. This is because I cannot stand having sticky/greasy hands. It distresses me in a way that is indescribable. I also have to wash my hands immediately. I don't mind having dirty hands, it's not a germ thing, it's just the feeling of stickiness or greasiness on my hands is unbearable.

When reading, I lightly but firmly grip the front of the base of my neck with the hand that isn't holding the book. I do this without realising it.

I love eating frozen peas.

I'm sure there are plenty more. Yeah, I have a bit of OCD....

 

[SebastianVettel]

Crazy how many of these things it sounds like everybody does.

A real strange one of mine is as a kid and even now I've always walked around at home (by myself, obviously) giving pretend sporting interviews to phantom questions. It's stupid, but it's become habitual.

inb4mentalinstitution

 

[BarneyBent]

Crazy how many of these things it sounds like everybody does.

A real strange one of mine is as a kid and even now I've always walked around at home (by myself, obviously) giving pretend sporting interviews to phantom questions. It's stupid, but it's become habitual.

inb4mentalinstitution

Yep, I do that to. Also occasionally do one side of imaginary dialogues, often in an accent (Irish is a favourite, though I've been doing NY ones lately).

I also often find myself acting out little things I read while reading a book. Can be really awkward when you forget somebody else is in the room, and the action makes a sound which attracts attention.

 

[Stan Van Gundy]

These are some of the weird, random things I do (probably heaps of others which I can't think of at the moment)

When I'm listening to music on my ipod, if I want to pause/turn the ipod off, the amount of time the song has been playing for has to be paused on a palindromic number, e.g 3:13.

Before I eat my chips I organise them into a row such that the shortest chip is on the left and each chip to its right increasingly gets longer.

I don't chew peas or corn I only swallow them.

I used to play dice cricket all the time in primary school. Basically you just write 11 names down on a piece of paper, roll the dice and whatever number comes up is what the player (on the paper) scores for that roll. Roll a five and the player is out.

If I've just got new cheese from the shops, I can't eat the first slice because it looks like plastic.

I like to get stop watches and try to get the time to stop exactly on 1 second.

 

[The Passenger]

just had an english mate staying on my couch through january and in his last couple of days i found out he has a crazy phobia of styrofoam.... if only i had known earlier