uncle phil

i'm just odd..

i mean, shit, just look at me...

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"We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done."
- Robert S. McNamara
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"We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches...
We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles."
- Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message"
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never wrestle with a pig.
you both get dirty;
the pig likes it.

ring

We hid our bicycles behind the Odd Fellows Hall.
Keeping ourselves flat against the building we crept around,
waiting for them to come out.

We were expecting something grander & much more mysterious than the familiar
faces of the town ministers, the butcher, the pharmacist, and car salesmen.

Shadowex3

Had the same problem with virtually all games after the Halo Fratbrahs took over. Have you tried forcing the field of view to be much wider? By default even Valve sets it at 75 or lower nowadays, many console-centric games are as low as 65, and old PC games used to be standardized at 90. Fixing that alone and disabling bloom has helped a lot of people completely eliminate motion sickness from playing.

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james t kirk

I've never been married, and I have no children. Sometimes at my age (46)when I tell people that, I get "the look of concern"

Despite the above, since age 17 I've pretty much had a steady woman in my life at all times and I've been truly in love with 3 different women in my life.

I pined for an ex GF from age 23 to 32 (thought about her every day).

I like animals more than I like people.

I am a single male who has pet cats. (I'd have a dog too, but work....)

I feed the local raccoons even though they say you should not. (I don't care what they say)

I don't particularly like children.

I've never even tried a single drag on a cigarette, never taken a hit on a joint, never tried any drug ever and seldom drink alcohol. (Often times people think I am an alcoholic because I don't drink.)

I am a perfectionist

I take too long to get things done (always have), but it will be done right.

I despise perfume of any kind.

People who speak loudly drive me crazy.

I don't socialize well in large groups, but do very well in small groups.

AmerikanPaladin

1. I work in with large groups of people all day and have been told I'm good at it, but I dislike humanity
2. Prefer animals to people
3. Think bagpipes sound great
4. Kilts are cool
5. I am tend to be non-emotional about things
6. Retarded people are funny as hell (I worked in a group home for a few years, one of the best jobs I've had, watching a retarded person to an impresion of a retarded person is the funniest thing ever)
7. I have kids, but don't really like kids (Found that out after I had kids)
8. I know God loves me because he gave women breasts

Lindy

We can be so different and yet so alike.
1) I love to drive. I take long cross country road trips because I absolutely hate to fly. I've driven since I was 15 (farm to school permit)
2) I rarely watch TV. Sometimes it stays off for a week or more.
3) I don't eat rice, potatoes, or anything made with white flour or high fructose corn syrup. I've followed a high fat low-carb ketogenic diet for over five years.
4) It's nearly impossible for me to get bored. Boredom is as foreign to me as Albania or Zanzibar.
5) I lost my virginity on my fifteenth birthday.
6) I was married and divorced by my mid-twenties.
7) I'm a numbers nerd to the point of being OCD about measuring and counting things.
8) I wear a size 32d bra, definitely different from my peers.
9) I can't pass up a pun or word play. I bought my last couple of 32d bras (which can be hard to find) at the Nordstrom Rack store, which I thought was hilarious.
10) I'm strongly introverted with people I don't know, especially small groups of strangers.

In spite of all that, I have gotten to really like myself. The only thing I'd really like to change about myself... I would like to be... taller.

Lindy

chinese crested

James T Kirk - '(I'd have a dog too, but work....)
Right now I suspect some elderly or infirm person near you is looking into the eyes of their beloved canine companion and wondering if they are being fair on the dog keeping it when they cant exercise it. If you fancy the odd bit of canine companionship - why not look at charitable providers of this sort of service in your area if you miss walking a dog and having a confidant with big brown understanding eyes, but cant have one of your own. Just because you cant keep a dog doesnt mean you cant share a bit of canine happiness.
Also well done you for choosing not to keep a dog because your circumstances are not right for one at the moment. I picked up one American Bulldog that had been kept on a balcony and deprived of water as it was thought by the owners to be a good way of stopping this starved animal from peeing in the house. Sometimes I want to lobotomise people and stop them from breeding. I dont think that is odd - is it?

Plan9

There is an idea of Plan9; some kind of abstraction constructed of dreams and memories, duct tape and cans of tuna fish. But there is no real me: only a scrawny entity with a patchy beard and brutal tan lines, something illusory that longs for things it cannot have again and hungers for purpose in world driven by money stuffed in a cubicle coffin. And though I can hide my worried gaze, and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are polar opposites... I am a sellout. I will do the job you don't understand in the place you don't understand. I have all the characteristics of a human being: blood, flesh, skin, hair; but not a single, clear, identifiable emotion, except for hunger and disgust. Something wonderful is happening inside of me and I don't know why. My nightly lust has overflown into my days. I feel so damn thirsty, on the verge of crushing a fifth by myself. I think my mask of sobriety is about to slip. I have to return some videotapes. And just cool it with the anti-Semitic remarks.

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Whatever you can carry.

"You should not drink... and bake."

dlish

Plan9, you sound like the Terminator...


1) I love Terminator I
2) I live in a different continant to my wife and son
3) I like doing things people think is crazy
4) I am planning more crazy adventures that make most people think i belong in a mental institution
5) I have a high threshold for pain
6) I dont watch TV
7) I dont drink soft drinks
8) i dont eat chocolates or lollies, or anything sweet for that matter
9) i cook my own dinner every single night and rarely eat out during the week

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An injustice anywhere, is an injustice everywhere

I always sign my facebook comments with ()()===========(}. Does that make me gay?
- Filthy

cadre

Patrick Bateman, is that you?

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robiitis

Most of odd things about members in here doesn't seem so odd, but I'm not here to judge

- I threw my TV out when I was 11 years old and up til now (11 years later) I haven't watched it.
- Having gasoline in my car makes me ignorant fool who doesn't speak to anyone, but just driving around with no final destination
- I don't like sex , even it's fantastic in most cases.
- I don't believe in religion or resurrection , but I do believe that I was participating in WW2 in my previous life !

This post definitely will be edited so I can add more odd things and facts about myself which just don't come up in mind atm.

MeltedMetalGlob

I don't know if I could bear that.


Actually, I could get on by if my old lady wanted to live elsewhere but left my daughter with me.

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dlish

its tough, i must admit. thats why i have resigned from work a few days ago and decided to head back to sydney.

with another one on the way, its going to be even tougher.

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An injustice anywhere, is an injustice everywhere

I always sign my facebook comments with ()()===========(}. Does that make me gay?
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MeltedMetalGlob

Does that mean a congratulations is in order?

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dlish

it does! October seems like the likely month.

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An injustice anywhere, is an injustice everywhere

I always sign my facebook comments with ()()===========(}. Does that make me gay?
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Baraka_Guru

I thought of another one:

I have been with my common-law wife for over 10 years, and yet we don't have an anniversary, nor have we ever celebrated one.

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—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön

Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot

Ultrabum

I didn't lose my virginity until I was twenty one.

The tendons in my fingers and toes do not reach to the end joints so while they bend, I cannot bend them. As a consequence the joints at the tips have no definition. No wrinkles.

My right ear is inside out. Sort of. (just the fleshy bit.). It's genetic. My twin brother has it too and i have passed it on to my middle son.

I can't drive.

I also cannot see in proper 3d. Although my glasses correct it, I don't like wearing them.

I have Meares-Irlen syndrome.

I am dyslexic. Probably dyspraxic as I am one of the most accident prone clumsy people I know.

Girls in school and college never wanted to go out with me. Hence the late loss of my v plates. Despite the fact I look like Matthew Fox. Actually my wife says I'm better looking but she wouldn't kick him out of bed.

In my family, in my generation, I'm the only male to have produced sons. No pressure then.

kramus

I'm pretty straight-forward. The label boring would probably be used before I was called odd. That said, it has been reported that when talking/listening to people I sometimes focus with a "psychotic" intensity. Which I'm told is off-putting.

I am a driveler. Apparently. When I talk, I do go on. Who knew? Read the rest of this entry and tell me what you think.

When I walk I mosey. As in amble. As in, gaze amiably about while strolling along. No vigorous stride for this fellow.

I don't like eating fried eggs in the outdoors. I don't even like eating them beside an open window. Something about the way the moving air mixes with the eggy taste in my palate grosses me out.

I get hiccups when I eat banana bread.

I don't like phoning people to ask for things unless it's ordering food. I also don't like writing to people or walking into someone's business and asking for something. I cannot do sales, even selling myself. It actually makes me physically ill.

I like to know there is a bathroom within a reasonable distance. I was a bed-wetter when I was a kid, and road-trips would go on without stopping until after I peed my pants. That, coupled with the abuse and ridicule of my family around that subject when I was young has left me very aware of just where the washroom is at all times.

I have one short-sighted, strong eye and one far-sighted, weak eye. I never got glasses till I was 18. So my brain never learned how to synthesize the images into a 3D view of the world. Which explains why I can only catch frisbees, and that I regularly see things that either aren't there, or are more solid to others than to me. I see images within images because both eyes send separate signals which (especially when I'm tired) superimpose upon one another and cause ghosting.

I only got a high-school diploma and was a blue-collar worker all my life, but my Lady complains that when she is writing orientation pieces for patients I am unable to proofread for her, because I don't have a "normal" vocabulary. We actually played a game she invented on our first date - Dictionary Games - where she would pick a word at random from the dictionary and I would tell her what it meant. I aced them all. For some reason I have the largest functional vocabulary of anyone she's ever met, and she spent almost 20 years in the post-secondary system working on multiple degrees.

I always know what the dog wants. I can just hear her breathing in the next room and I know what is going on with her.

Apparently I have chameleon prosidy. As in, the rhythm and tone of my speech changes drastically depending on who I am talking with. If I'm with a mechanic I talk one way, while with a landscaper it is slightly different. In a group of artists or at a doctor's conference and I sound different yet again. The only time the changes stand out is if someone is with me in each of those contexts.

I have a constant background hum of imagery running through my head. It influences the way I see things, relate to things, and think about things. I am possibly the most visually creative person I've ever met. I've never figured out how to turn that into gold, though (see my social anxiety entry).

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I'm going with this - if you like artwork visit http://markfineart.ca

AgentNerd

Out of the ordinary nice guy.. People aren't use to that these days..

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Sheepy

I'm short sighted but don't like wearing glasses or contacts because i find i can have more confidence approaching large groups since i can't make out them! (especially girls )

Lucifer

Wild things attack me when i go outdoors. Seriously. You name it, it's come after me. I was once chased up a hillside by a herd of goats. One time, Seamaiden and I were hiking in the woods, and I had about 15 big buzzing bugs flying around my head. She was 5 feet ahead and had nothing around her. I looked like a walking plague of Egypt.

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I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.
- Job 30:29

1123, 6536, 5321

girldetective

When I was a kid we played leper.

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As far as possible, without surrender, be on good terms with all persons...be cheerful; strive for happiness - Desiderata

dlish

i wash my hands religiously every day. im paranoid about where my hands go and what they touch...i usually try and wash my hands anytime i enter the house, and i always wash my hands whenever i go to the bathroom

obsessive? maybe..odd? not to me, but it seems like its odd to a lot of others i know

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An injustice anywhere, is an injustice everywhere

I always sign my facebook comments with ()()===========(}. Does that make me gay?
- Filthy

CinnamonGirl

Hmmm...interesting. To be honest, I wasn't too upset about it until Portal came out, but I'll have to give it a shot.

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I love reading everyone's lists! Some more for me:

10. I love going to concerts, but I very much dislike hearing live versions of songs on the radio.
11. I like lima beans.
12. When I'm drunk, I have a very pronounced southern drawl. I also pick it up subconsciously when I'm around people with a drawl. It's not a problem now that I live in NC, but I had to be really careful when I lived in Ohio, as travelers thought I was making fun of them.
13. I still throw Buffy quotes into everyday conversation, even though the show ended eight years ago.
14. I like my pizza really doughy. When I worked at a pizza place, the cooks would half-cook it for me

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"...for though she was ordinary, she possessed health, wit, courage, charm, and cheerfulness. But because she was not beautiful, no one ever seemed to notice these other qualities, which is so often the way of the world."


"Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?"

Jove

Everything.

ZombieSquirrel

Why you're my hetero lifemate....
The Southern (not really southern. More "appalachian" I only say this because I would get corrected all the time for calling it Southern. Perfectionist theatre profs.) drawl can be explained by WHERE we grew up in Ohio. A good deal of the older folk from our hometown migrated there from Kentucky to get a job at the steel mill. The accent just sort of stuck. Your stepdad definitely has it. I definitely have it when I am intoxicated and throw out weird euphemisms. I get made fun of a lot for the things I say out here in Oregon.


Why I wonder why you are my hetero lifemate...
The song switching thing is what drives me the most insane and will result in a hetero lifemate divorce. That or Eden. Probably Eden.



I have no concept of what is odd, so I can't really respond. I read the entries and don't think they're odd. Someone else would have to say what's odd about me. I'm sure Cinna could comment....but she's too nice. ;-)

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counterpoint

After reading some of these responses, I feel a tad bit more 'normal' in society's standards.

1.) I walk a bit oddly, due to a foot injury as a kid.

2.) I often find myself arguing back and forth in my thoughts, which actually make me angry-looking when I approach people, even when I'm not.

3.) I'm a perfectionist... especially at work. I don't leave until things are to my expectations (within a reasonable time span of course).

4.) I smoke my cigarettes down until I burn my lip half the time. Most reasonable smokers would put them out at the first sign of a warming filter; not me!

5.) I'm rarely ever bored. Even if I have nothing to do, I find entertainment staring at a blank wall.

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hambone

1. I get more pride from my wife's employment than I do from my own.

2. I get turned on by nylons, which itself is not too odd. I love wearing them myself, which unfortunately is. My wife allows it whenever, but I feel alone in that no one truly understands, myself included.

3. I feel a need to try every new type of soda I come across.

4. I don't like sharing too much about myself, but the things I do are usually way more personal than people are used to.

5. I am adopted and don't have a desire to meet my birth mom, but consider her one of my heroes.

6. My only real career goal is to be good at what I do. I seem unable to define what I REALLY want that to be though.

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Nothing to cry over"

Not Me

I am new here.
I am an ordained minister, but after reading a few of my posts, you will either forget that or not believe that.
I don't like chocolate and eat very little of it.
I drink a lot of diet coke.
I find things humorous when nobody else does.
I don't like sharing things about myself.

Ourcrazymodern?

Heh, I dunno, but I just had to edit something, because it was more stupid than not.

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