Things you do/like that other people think are weird

Capt'n Midnight

Bibliomania

ohthebaby

If I'm walking outside and I see a big dried up leaf on the ground, I just have to step on it. I just have to hear that crunch under my foot. It's actually really terrible when walking in the country, I do zig zag all over the road trying to get the biggest ones.

There is also only one cup int he whole house that I drink out of.

And I bring a hot water bottle to bed every night, even in the summer.



Sometimes even I don't know why. Just have to or something bad will happen.

SoWatchaWant

If I think of a word, I automatically make the twitchy movement with my fingers as if i were typing it, even when away from the computer.

Nolanger

Walk around the city - the offical word is vicambulist.

Carsinian Thau

Talk to myself.

Also, I like to eat a second dinner at about two or half two in the morning. Then I watch some House MD and go to bed.

big dan

Milk doesn't taste as nice from a mug as it does from a glass.

4zn76tysfajdxp

I only drink tea from light-coloured mugs.

holystungun9

Please tell me someone else does this. I am a cornflakes fanatic and I cannot eat them soggy so I add my milk and crunch them up alot before eating them. I think I picked this habit up as a kid when my teeth or gums hurt but I still wanted to eat my cereal. Please try it everybody and tell me if it's a better eating experience or not. You get so many more cornflakes in your mouth in bulk.........so good!!!:)

sam34

big dan wrote: »

Milk doesn't taste as nice from a mug as it does from a glass.

+1

and a glass of cold milk is the only drink that can accompany a mars bar.

DirkVoodoo

I put soy sauce on a lot of food, always when there is rice and sometimes on pasta. People give out to me when I put it on curry.

Wurly

I have a bit of an obsession with stationary. I've so much of it that I stole from old workplaces. Post it's, pens, paper clips, drawing pins. Dunno - just love it. Can never find a pen when it matters though.

As per a previous post - I HATE when the corners of my bread aren't buttered. It's so lazy and who wants to eat dry crusts? Grrr..

I am constantly smelling my hands. Be them clean, dirty, used to scratch somewhere:o - whatever. Love smelling them.

I am also guilty of leaving the tea bag in. I love strong tea and you just cant get it strong enough when you take the tea bag out.

I'm not mad on the summer but love a freezing, dreary winter when it gets dark early in the evenings. Dark mornings are great too.

I really don't like beaches. I would much prefer somewhere grassy instead.

Just this morning I had a weird breakfast - a toasted bagel with extra light philadelphia, topped with a drizzle of honey. Surprisingly yummy.

I love all the token 'horrible' foods - gherkins, onions, pickled onions, beetroot, vegemite, olives etc etc. YEsssssss.:D

big dan

Watermelon tastes like cucumber.

Pygmalion

I also love eating chocolate chip cookies like cereal, just amazing, and if you leave them in the milk for a few minutes they pretty much just turn into a very sweet mush with chocolate chips, honestly the nicest thing I've ever tasted (or at least in a tie for first place with Jerk Chicken, but you can't really compare them).

I sometimes just "forget" to eat, I rarely feel hungry and generally when I eat it's just forcing myself to because it's been too long since I last did, not because I actually feel like eating. That said, I can gorge myself on crisps and **** no problem, and once I start eating I don't mind it.

I pace back and forth all the time, especially if I'm talking (cannot stand still while on phone) or listening to music, a lot of the time I'll pace back and forth listening to music having little conversations in my head with people I know, as some people said before it's usually people I'll be meeting up with soon and topics that i think will come up (though they never do), or it can just be weird stuff, and I occassionally just say the same sentence over and over again in different ways until it "sounds right", changing wording, tone, speed, making arm gestures or facial expressions. Hopefully I don't do this loudly, I'm honestly not sure.

I rock back and forth or side to side a lot, it relaxes me for some reason in the same way pacing back and forth does (but generally I pace when I'm thinking or talking, I rock back and forth when I'm just sitting around bored).

I love to stand with my left arm straight down by my side (hand in pocket) and my right arm across my back, holding onto my left elbow.

Wash my hands too much, and constantly smell them, if they ever smell or feel unclean I go wash them again, can happen like 3 or 4 times in 10 minutes or not at all for a couple hours. I don't shower obsessively and in all other ways I'm ridiculously messy.

Constantly look for patterns everywhere, especially when numbers are concerned, and when I see a big odd number I tend to check if it's divisible by 3, 5, 7, 11 or 13 in my head, generally don't go any further than that, but if any of those do divide into it I feel better knowing that it's not prime, I feel uneasy not knowing so it bothers me if none of those divide into it, though not enough to make me keep going usually.

Hmmm, that was quite a lot, kept thinking of things

browner85

mmmmmmmmmh some wierd ppl on this!!!:eek::rolleyes:

Sangre

InFront wrote: »

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Odd superstitions... if I'm going for a job interview or an exam I'll set myself a challenge - e.g. unless you see three red cars on the way/ pass three coffee shops/, things will go badly. No idea why but it matters at the time.

Its because you want to pass responsibility onto some factor that is outside your control. You don't want to be the source of your own failure.

Probably why you're religious.

fuzzywiggle

Cracking every joint in my body almost daily

daisy123

Sometimes if I hear a word or phrase, I trace out the letters in the air with my foot.

Then, if I think someone has copped, I just wiggle my foot in no particular fashion, so they think its what I was doing all along...

I also hate doors open in rooms, except the bathroom door, which I prefer open (only when there's NO chance of someone walking by!).

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Sangre wrote: »

Its because you want to pass responsibility onto some factor that is outside your control. You don't want to be the source of your own failure.

Probably why you're religious.

Every bloody thread....

I can't drink out of little cups (I only like mugs), or eat with big spoons. I hate sitting or standing stationary somewhere where people could walk behind me. I do this little counting thing in my head "1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9,10, 9, 8, 7..." when I'm waiting for something to happen, like for the ads to end or to get somewhere on the bus. Nobody, and I mean NOBODY can touch my feet, if I'm sharing a bed I always have to be the "big spoon" so that their toes don't brush against the soles of my feet at any point.

RedNiamhy

illiop wrote: »

I also have imaginarey conversations in my head. I started when I was younger and really shy, it was kinda like practice.

I go through past convertations in my head ALL THE TIME. I think about how they could have gone better or what I SHOULD have said.

Also, if I'm reading something that describes a facial expression I have to recreate it. Try to do it discretely if I'm in public. Don't think anyone has noticed me doing it yet. [/COLOR]

Trí wrote: »

As per a previous post - I HATE when the corners of my bread aren't buttered. It's so lazy and who wants to eat dry crusts? Grrr..

I am constantly smelling my hands. Be them clean, dirty, used to scratch somewhere:o - whatever. Love smelling them.

I am also guilty of leaving the tea bag in. I love strong tea and you just cant get it strong enough when you take the tea bag out.

Just this morning I had a weird breakfast - a toasted bagel with extra light philadelphia, topped with a drizzle of honey. Surprisingly yummy.

I have to have my bread/toast/scone buttered to all the edges. If it isn't, it isn't buttered as far as I'm concerned!!!
As far as toast/bread toppings goes I love banana and jam - on bread or banana and honey - on toast.
My tea has to be REALLY weak - bag taken out as soon as water is poured in.

Also, if I have an itch on one side of my body I have to scratch the same spot on the other side of my body too.

bubblicious

liah wrote: »

I wash my pots before I eat the food I created in them. Figure I might as well since I'm there, and whatever's in it is easier to wash off because it's still warm, and it gives my food adequate time to cool to the perfect temperature.

Flawless system tbh.

Totally agree, my housemates can't understand it but it makes cleaning up sooo much easier and quicker!

I can't stand ad's, I tend to mute the tv when they come on.

I also hate sitting down with my feet on the floor. They have to be tucked under me - luckily I'm small enough to carry it off!

Super-Rush

I talk to myself...a lot.
You know those things in your cutlery drawer that keeps the knives etc in separate sections? Well mine has to go knives,forks and big spoons from left to right. If someone messes this up i have to kill them fix it.
I have to beep the horn on the car 1 mile into any journey or something bad will happen.
I like lettuce sandwiches.
I like duck eggs.
I like cold chicken curry on toast.
Sneezing and counting the sneezes, 14 in a row is my record.

mariaalice

someone said this already .....i like reading maps espishley ones of ireland...the tourist maps of Dublin are my favourit ...didnt realise this was weird untill now::(:(

LD 50

Going to the cinema on my own. Everyone thinks its weird.

lanternchikk

Collecting and fixing lanterns.

Lady Athame

I like to have a bannana and kiwi sandwhich (taste of the exotic as I like to call it)

FruitLover

5318008! wrote: »

your ma.

also poo sex.

I like to combine the two.

karlog

I like to stand close to people and smell them

Spastafarian

stovelid wrote:

Reading maps of any kind: street maps, ordinance survey, atlases, etc.

I stare at maps for hours. Mainly street maps though... I'm pretty sure I'd be fairly well able to find my general way around most major cities in the world.

Spastafarian

LD 50 wrote: »

Going to the cinema on my own. Everyone thinks its weird.

It's not wierd! It's way better! I don't get the having to go to the cinema with friends thing, what's the point? You can't talk to them.
It's especially good if you go in the middle of the day during a weekday and have the whole cinema to yourself.

aligator_am

InFront wrote: »

I wonder how many of us poor souls are passing each other on the street, searching earnestly for that last good-luck-bicycle or lucky red car.. normal folk just don't understand the implications!

For some reason I've always had a preoccupation with my future wife. If I'm bored, I close my eyes and click something on the internet or open a random page on a magazine - the figure looking back at me will be what my future wife looks like, or she will have similar features/ hair color/ level of prettiness. I have no idea why I do this weird thing, it's just a frequent habit:o

Sometimes I'm pretty chuffed by her looks, sometimes not - those are the bad days.

LOL, sweet Jebus plz tell me u weren't doing this then opened a page with Susan Boyle on it!!! :P

Raemie

After reading this thread i feel very normal altogether! But one of the things i do is crack my toes - basicly all i have to is scrunch my foot and my big toe gives a really loud crack. It annoys me so it must drive everyone else up the wall. I try not to do it too much but my toe can feel very uncomfortable untill i do it. Most of my joints creak and crack, I'm only 20, that doesnt bode well for the future!

mikemac

LD 50 wrote: »

Going to the cinema on my own. Everyone thinks its weird.

Not weird at all, keep going my friend

liah wrote: »

I wash my pots before I eat the food I created in them. Figure I might as well since I'm there, and whatever's in it is easier to wash off because it's still warm, and it gives my food adequate time to cool to the perfect temperature.

Flawless system tbh.

+1 (though I'm not the first to quote you)
It's a great system

As for me, I bite my nails
But wait there's more, I'd bite on the skin around my nails too, sometimes my fingers bleed.
I'm not the only to do to do this, been plently of threads in Personal Issues forum, none started by me.
But yeah, I do it home, at my office desk and on the bus. Probably freaks people out, I better sort it some day soon.
Probably a nervous habit, I do get stressed and worry over every small, stupid thing in my life, a lot of which I can't control

anti chris-t

pmg58 wrote: »

I do this too, always thought I was the only one...I also add up numbers of letters in a sentence, always prefer to get even numbers, or multiples of 3.

i always count the amount of numbers in a sentance and prefer it when it the number finishes with 8, i'll even repeat the sentance in my head several times if i like the sentance

anti chris-t

RedNiamhy wrote: »

Also, if I have an itch on one side of my body I have to scratch the same spot on the other side of my body too.

i do that too if im lying in bed and i touch a spot on one side of me i have to touch myself in the same spot on the other side

Porkpie

I leave all my used cutlery in a jug of water and keep them there until I bung them into the diswasher. The water prevents all the butter and gunk from drying on, making it easier to get them clean.

redapple

If I am sitting on public transport and in a bit of a daze, perhaps I am a bit anxious or nervous about something that day, I will start counting out words on my fingers. I dont even notice I am doing it. But for example I will see a sentence written somewhere and I will keep counting the words till I finish on my last finger. I dont move really but maybe my finger slightly move...Gosh I must have OCD in a mild form.

m3llowship

I love the feeling of slowly emptying a bucket of water over my fingers.

The feeling as it runs by is fooking lovely!

stovelid

NBB Bohs wrote: »

get this, i actually support an irish football team!!! this seems alien for a lot of irish people, yet is the norm for every country throughout the world except in parts of Asia.

Your posts aren't really getting the point across.

You should consider hiring a skywriter.

brummytom

Don't know if it fits in this thread.

But you know at barbers, when they use that razor/shaver thingy with the little clip-ons to shave the back of your head (I have a short back and sides);; my spine just seems to spasm during this.. anyone else get that? I just have to pretend I've got an itch or something because it makes me squirm

Latchy

Blowing bubbles with chewing gum and chewing to loud ( which annoys the feck outta everybody) so I have learned to chew like a hollywood model

Fiddling with the ol hair ( on my head)

Leaving the house and returning just as quick ( it's my ocd )

keeping my used razors seperate from my unused ones ( like I need to know which is which in case I run out )


more to come ...

IvySlayer

brummytom wrote: »

Don't know if it fits in this thread.

But you know at barbers, when they use that razor/shaver thingy with the little clip-ons to shave the back of your head (I have a short back and sides);; my spine just seems to spasm during this.. anyone else get that? I just have to pretend I've got an itch or something because it makes me squirm

Spasms can just happen, ie when they use the small razor to do my sides, I get a weird vein shaking near my temples. Remember, the spine is where the spinal cord is and how the body sends signals, could just be sensitive in that area.

Better than people thinking you're wierd, because I was reading one topic in AH, and some person said something about a danger **** under the the fabric. Cue me a few days later getting my haircut and I suddenly think about that post and I get the giggles. Barber thought I was a right nutcase.

Foxx92

When on a bus I always think of what I should do if theres a crash like an escape route.

brummytom

I keep thinking of weird things....


We've a tressel-type thing (like zig-zag wood) that we hang the mugs off.. they all have to be facing left, I hate it if they don't.

I sing to myself all the time.

I imagine myself having conversations with people, and think about what they'd say and what I'd say back :P

Sometimes in school I imagine a nutter coming in and trying to kill us and what I'd do...

Pighead

Whenever Pighead is arguing with his ladyfriend he'll occasionally turn to his left and lowly whisper something like "Yeah well that's not what she was saying yesterday. She seems to have changed her tune today" or " I don't know why she's even arguing with me, she knows rightly that she's in the wrong"

This sends her bonkers and she ends up screaming something to the effect of "Who the fcuk are you talking to when you do that Pighead" She thinks it's a bit strange but it's a pretty good tactic as it usually results in her storming out of the room thus leaving Pighead alone in the television room free to watch whatever he wants.

browner85

karlog wrote: »

I like to stand close to people and smell them

errrrrr i would a kept tha one to myself!!!!!!! lol

swingking

magenta73 wrote: »

bananas and cheese and onion crisps sandwiches

---

yum

but also some people think I'm weird because I am absolutely terrified of balloons----and no, I didn't have a scary experience with a balloon when I was younger!:(

Feel your pain my friend

Novella

I like to organise things! Ya know, I like all the cereal packets in the press to go in order of height, with the same side of each packet facing out, as in the nutritional guidelines side must ALWAYS face in!

In the drawer, I like knives, forks, spoons, left to right!

I just like things to have a specific spot, can't stand anything to just be thrown somewhere, ugh!!!

Novella

brummytom wrote: »

I imagine myself having conversations with people, and think about what they'd say and what I'd say back :P

Just saw this now but, hahahahahaha! I do this too!

IvySlayer

I like having subtitles on.

My hearing's fine though.

Abi

Novella wrote: »

I like to organise things! Ya know, I like all the cereal packets in the press to go in order of height, with the same side of each packet facing out, as in the nutritional guidelines side must ALWAYS face in!

In the drawer, I like knives, forks, spoons, left to right!

I just like things to have a specific spot, can't stand anything to just be thrown somewhere, ugh!!!

I knew a guy like that once. He died.