Baraka_Guru

List the things about you that are odd (or that you perceive as odd).

What about you is different from the mainstream, your peers, or simply those around you?

1. I've never owned a car, and I've rarely driven one; I only recently got my driver's licence and I'm well into my thirties.
2. I rarely watch TV, and have done so since I was a teenager.
3. I'll eat just about anything. There are few things I won't eat, even if it's cheap/crappy. The only time I complain in a restaurant is if I didn't get something and I really wanted it.
4. It's nearly impossible for me to get bored; being bored is a state that's foreign to me.
5. I didn't lose my virginity until I was in my twenties.
6. I was married and divorced by my mid-twenties.
7. I have both a college diploma (business) and a university degree (liberal arts) but earn a salary that would barely place me in the middle class.
8. I have five siblings.
9. I don't get out much; I interact with very few people week to week.

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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön

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

Mathilda

I didn't own a car till I had kids, till then it was bike all the way.
And I could have said the same about tv till about three years ago.
American husband changed that one.

My list:

1. I spend most of my time on a computer.
2. I earn more than my husband.
3. I'm a woman who pays child support.
4. My children's mother tongue is different from mine (meaning I speak a different language to them than what I grew up with)
5. I'm obese.
6. I'm a woman who hates shopping.
7. I don't have friends. (by choice)
8. I don't drink coffee because I don't like it. That's probably the weirdest thing of all.

aberkok

1. I'm a musician who likes to wake up before 8:00 a.m.
2. I might be able to have up to 3 citizenships.
3. Until recently I would always "invert mouse" in games.
4. I'm vegan.
5. I'm a vegan jazz musician.
6. I'm a healthy jazz musician.

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snowy

1. I'm left-handed.
2. I also will eat anything.
3. I like sports more than my husband does.
4. I like studying and read journal articles about research in my field for fun.
5. I am perfectly happy staying home all day.

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If I am not better, at least I am different. --Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Hotmnkyluv

1. I prefer trackballs to mice.
2. I "like" the smell of asparagus pee.
3. I scratch the inside of my ears with my car key.
4. I can snore sitting up, standing up, on my side, or even my stomach.
5. I snore so loudly that I wake myself up.
6. I have to stand to pee. Even if I'm SCUBA diving, I have to stand on the bottom to pee.
7. I actually liked 'Waterworld'

lunxpress

I’ve been able to stand on my head since first grade.
I can play the piano with my feet. Taught myself to do this when I was young and needed another player for chopsticks duet.
I have been on TV, but I never watch it, either.
I watch more porn than the average male (I'm female).
I have no tattoos.
I secretly adore funerals.
I am a Water Witcher.
I thought Osama Bin Laden was a hottie.

Charlatan

I make my living, in part, by watching television.
I've been married three times to the same woman.
I have piercings despite the fact on the surface I don't look the type.
I wear a bow tie to work, just about ever day.
I cry over sappy movies.
I live abroad and don't have any plan to move 'home'.
Frequently, I know more about my new home than people who have lived here all their lives.

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- Old Man Luedecke

EventHorizon

1. I have no idea what I want to do with my life
2. I am scared out of my mind when it comes to going to war (if i ever get that far)
3. I enjoy meeting new people for the sake of knowing how they can benefit me
4. I read alot. the ink on paper kind of writing is what i like to read
5. I keep a betta fish, a bonsai tree, and a lucky bamboo

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Quote:

Originally Posted by canuckguy Pretty simple really, do your own thing as long as it does not fuck with anyone's enjoyment of life.

Sheepy

I LOVE the smell of my own farts. Sometimes i will fart in bed just to keep it stored for that much longer.

I get paranoid sometimes that i'm about to have a heart attack.

When i'm walking in town i sometimes take a large step when i pass taller people than me just to feel less intimidated.

You know the times where you ran around as a kid by yourself playing with your imagination? I still do that when people aren't around.

chinese crested

*I have a soft spot for elderly dogs, and believe they all deserve a lap to die on - so often there are periods when I have smelt of dog wee - but I didnt care, because it meant the dog was living and still fighting death.
*I like beating death in skirmishes - although I know in advance the war is lost when it comes to my little canine friends - but winning a skirmish. Hurrah!
*I interact with few people - out of fear and therefor choice.
*Although I fear confrontation, I go in like a smiling assassin to get animals out of danger and to get them help.
*I still call my old gal in - although she is in a box on a shelf next to the sofa with her lead on top. I sometimes walk around talking to my late father out loud and its always upsetting - but maybe thats because when I am down I feel the need for my dad, for the company of my dead.
*I try to be kind and generous, although I dont have much.

amonkie

I talk to myself much more than the average person

I read magazines backwards

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StanT

I ride a big, loud motorcycle and wear a 20 year old leather jacket. The laptop strapped on the back ruins the effect.

I live in a log home in the mountains, heat with wood, and chase bears out of my garbage. I also have broadband.

I have an engineering degree, work a high tech job, and refuse to own a cellphone.

My espresso machine cost twice as much as my TV.

The_Jazz

I'm up before 5:30 AM every day and start working as soon as I leave the house.
I can't ignore a ringing phone.
I hate groups of people but love individuals.
There are only 2 golf courses that I've played on that wouldn't be better cross country courses - Pebble Beach and Shinnecock.
I am a creature of routine.
I worry very much about the future of this place. It's kept me up at night.

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"There ought to be limits to freedom." - George W. Bush
"We have met the enemy and he is us." - Pogo

mixedmedia

I love the show "Hoarders."
I am a digital hoarder of music and images.
I eat huge sourdough pretzels every day.
Like snowy, I love to study.
I hate carbonated beverages.

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Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats. - Diane Arbus
PESSIMISM, n. A philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile. - Ambrose Bierce

roachboy

1. i think that i am the sanest person i know.
2. i speak in baroque sentences.
3. sometimes i imagine myself to be invisible.
4. i like routine except when i don't.
5. i still describe myself as a vegetarian even when i am eating a veggie burger with bacon. i won't throw myself out of the club and there's nobody else to do it.

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spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear

it make you sick.

-kamau brathwaite

MeltedMetalGlob

After reading this thread, I realized I got nothin'...

(shakes head ruefully)

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Kookookachoo

1. I don't have a tv.
2. I've lived the bulk of my adult life in countries other than my native country.
3. I made my first webpage when the only browser available was Netscape.

Poetry

1. I analyze social/sexual interactions and presentations obsessively. Sentences like, "I'm thinking I need to wear more expensive-looking accessories to offset my minimalist and clean-cut wardrobe in order to appear higher status and therefore gain access to potentially higher status mates" come out of my mouth. Often. (That sentence was taken from last night, actually).

2. I'm incredibly sexually experienced. Enough so that I get random emails from people I don't know and referrals from friends to counsel and/or teach the inexperienced or the insecure of both sexes.

3. I eat out alone a lot, usually with a good book. I go to movies alone a lot, as well.

4. I have two AAs, a BA, two years of school past my BA in order to qualify for a graduate program (that I was just accepted into, yay!) and no student debt.

5. I voluntarily spent almost a year couchsurfing around Los Angeles about two years ago. I sometimes think of going back to it, because it was such an interesting experience.

6. I love to drive. Long roadtrips by myself, commuting to work, whatever, I love it.

7. I can't see in 3D. My eyes don't quite work together. It's not noticable, unless I'm on your badmiton team... then you're fucked.

8. I hang out on porn sets every chance I get. I'm totally fascinated by the behind the scenes work and socialization.

9. I don't drink alcohol, smoke, or do drugs, and the only caffeine I intake is from the occasional cup of hot chocolate.

10. I pick my partners based on intelligence, life experience, and sexual experience. The higher they rate in each, the less looks factor in until they are barely a consideration.

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levite

I'm a broadsword-fighting, adventure-novel-writing, porn-loving, pot-smoking rabbi.

What about me isn't odd?

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Dull sublunary lovers love,
Whose soul is sense, cannot admit
Absence, because it doth remove
That thing which elemented it.

(From "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" by John Donne)

noodle

I talk to my cats like they're people. Because they understand me.
I'm not afraid of death... I've kissed dead kids goodbye.
Between family and friends, I've been to over 50 funerals... closer to 80, I think.
I don't want kids of my own, but love working with them.
I can get lost in a book for days... even one I don't necessarily like.
I'm compulsively disorganized.
I'm totally addicted to kettle corn (not mass produced), raw carrots, and pepitas.
I like my bourbon straight... which apparently is odd for a chick.
I don't eat chocolate.
I love picking apart people's personalities, thought processes, and behavior patterns. And I do it ALL of the time, in every scenario. I have a theory about every single person I've ever come into contact of any kind more than once.
I know there's more... even S's sisters have proclaimed me "weird."

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raeanna74

I'm blonde.
I'm nerdy.
I say Warsh (not wash) and Saireal (not Cereal), and Davenport (not couch) and Macadam (like the inventor John McAdam, not Blacktop).
I like computers and animals.
I like retarded kids.
I am a girl who likes spiders and is not goth.
I'm sure there's more, I've been told. I just think and do things kindof wierd at times. Then there's my pre-teen/teen daughter who recently asked me NOT to go on a field trip cause I sometimes "am wierd..."
According to her there's TON'S of it but she won't tell me what...

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My Karma just ran over your Dogma.

Martian

Wrong adjective. The word you're looking for is awesome.

As for me, I have a thing about people who use the word 'loose' when they mean 'lose.' It's getting worse, by which I mean I see that fucking error everywhere. C'mon people, this isn't hard.

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I wake up in the morning more tired than before I slept
I get through cryin' and I'm sadder than before I wept
I get through thinkin' now, and the thoughts have left my head
I get through speakin' and I can't remember, not a word that I said

- Ben Harper, Show Me A Little Shame

Baraka_Guru

Yes, I think it's reaching epidemic proportions.

I think it's because of the pronunciation variance. It's not like people confuse choose and chose nearly as much.

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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön

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

grumpyolddude

I text with proper grammar.
While decidedly non-religious, I have a daughter studying to be a Christian missionary, and I couldn't be more proud.
Despite working all of my life on and around automobiles, I find most motorsports to be a boring waste of time... especially NASCAR and CART. The Gran Turismo games are awesome, though!

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Giant Hamburger

I like how hot the car feels when you first get in after it has been in the sun for a while.
That's it.

Ourcrazymodern?

I like being odd, unless you have all day.

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Grasshopper Green

I drive, but I've never owned a car. I'm 33. The other things apply to me as well. In my late teens and early twenties, I went several years without turning a television on other than to watch a movie, and nowadays the main reason I watch TV is for soccer. I'll go weeks at a time without turning it on for any other reason, and usually the other reason is to watch a movie. I work from home and many days the only people I see are my son and husband.

These apply to me as well:

- With few exceptions, I hate the romantic comedies and other chick flicks my girlfriends drool over
- I rarely wear makeup
- I'm in a 15+ year relationship and am happy
- I despise 99% of dogs; I tolerate the other 1%
- I skipped the teenage experimentation/rebellion thing and didn't start drinking until I was legally old enough to do so
- I rarely speed when I drive. When I do speed, it's unintentional

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Formerly Medusa

fresnelly

1. Salespeople and suit-wearing business people intimidate me.
2. I've had some staggeringly lucid deja-vu moments in my life but have since forgotten them.
3. I have very little self-control when appetizers are on the table.
4. I never "sowed my wild oats" and don't' regret it, although I do kind of resent it.

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Shadowex3

1. I have no ocular dominance... or at least I seem to be able to "swap" which eye I'm relying on almost at will.

2. Similarly I was born ambidextrous but writing left handed, forced to learn to write right handed, and continue to write right handed but do many things ambidextrously.

3. I shave with a straight razor (goes with waistcoats and celibacy outside of long term relationships as maybe more retro than wierd but whatever)

4. Didn't get my drivers license until after I was 21 and still don't own a car

5. I don't eat "corn". If it's got corn or a corn product on the ingredients list more than HFCS somewhere I probably won't eat it. Same goes for Soy.

6. My arms and legs are wierd. I'm extremely out-toed to the degree that pointing my toes straight forwards turns my knees too far inwards to be able to functionally walk or duck, and my lower leg is offset at the knee outwards and backwards a bit so it looks like bowleggedness.

7. I can dislocate a lot of my joints under the weight of that limb alone, it can be painful trying to sit or stand but because of #6 I can't wear any kind of knee brace, they don't fit. I really need to be careful with it because my muscles are just fine.

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Fremen

Even after all of these years on here together, I still am not comfortable enough with you people to share my oddities.

Except my in-ability to grow luxuriant facial hair.

I still love you guys, though.


/hold me?

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chinese crested

Fremen - so you always have sand in crevices and you drink your own pee. You could have shared - not the pee - although maybe some would have thanked you for the offer.

Cynthetiq

I'm very assertive, except for things for me, then I'm demure and shy.

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ngdawg

I tell people I gave birth to my own grandchildren (because I was old enough to be a grandma when I had them).
I went to school at age 49 and changed my entire career two years later.
I have 3 gray hairs (but get "accused" of dyeing it strictly because of my age)
I got my first tattoo 7 years ago.
I am the only smoker on earth who gags at the slightest hint of coffee.
I am left handed and could not teach my kids to tie their shoes.
I write for a motorcycle magazine yet the only experience I had actually driving a bike left me with a titanium ankle.
I enjoyed the movie "Popeye".

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ella1985

I earn more than my husband
I hate shopping
I always to change something in my life, begining with house
I love black chocolate and never eat mealk chocolate.

zenda

I wear my hair in a pony tail, not because I particularly like it, but I am so allergic to my own hair that it saves me a lot of grief.

I enjoy reading carry-out menus so much that I lose the urge to phone in an order and cook up something myself.

I indulge myself in surprised perplexity whenever I watch Joe Rogan commentating for UFC, and face the fact that, on account of his other jobs as a comedian and host of Fear Factor, I have had more exposure to his work than to that of any other performing artist, apart from Amanda Tapping.

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Strange Famous

1 - I would guess if I was being honest I would say I probably suffer from bouts of quite deep depression. Both my parents have been diagnosed with it and on anti-depressants... I just choose to deal with it on my own

2 - Everyone who has ever asked me about it assumes I am an only child, but I am not.

3 - I wrote an (unpublished) novel at 18 called "Cancer". It was shit.

4 - I have a fairly extensive knowledge about Antartic exploration, Jack the Ripper, the American mafia from 1930's-70's, ghosts and hauntings... and maybe a dozen other pointless things that does me no practical use.

5 - I believe certainly that I know who Jack the Ripper was.

6 - I hero worship Duke William of Normandy and have done since about age 12. I consider him to be the greatest leader and military general in history. I have ridiculed Genghis Khan in the presence of people who admire him for no better reason than he is ranked as a more difficult opponent than Duke William on the chess agame on my Blackberry.

7 - I feel almost like Ivan from The Brothers Karamazov was written about me.

8 - I was a communist when I was a student. These days I cant be bothered to believe in any ideology

9 - I desperately want to have true faith in God (maybe this is the same as point 7...)

10 -I have two tattoo's based on "The Catcher in the Rye" and also a Viking war banner.

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"Do not tell lies, and do not do what you hate,
for all things are plain in the sight of Heaven. For nothing
hidden will not become manifest, and nothing covered will remain
without being uncovered."

The Gospel of Thomas

cadre

I wasn't going to post because so many things are odd about me that I wouldn't know where to begin. But here are a few things:

1) I love cars and motorcycles, real ones. I can rebuild a motorcycle by myself and I have taken first place against men twice my age at the races.
2) I tinker, right now I tinker with a reef aquariums and I have been known to design them from the glass up.
3) I am getting a pet octopus, because I think they're cute.
4) I love sex and I don't mind talking about it, graphically.

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MSD

I am a socialist yet vehemently defend the rights of capitalists to make money (as long as everyone's basic needs, including healthcare and education are met.)

I am a liberal and a gun owner.

I am a terrorist sympathizer (according to the standards set by the US government.)

CinnamonGirl

1. I don't like onions, or lettuce. (Everyone says, "but lettuce doesn't taste like anything!" Yes it does. It tastes like lettuce, and that is very distinctive to me.)
2. I can't sleep with the closet door open.
3. I rarely listen to a full song on the radio. I'll sing along for a bit, then change the station.
4. I have very intense, realistic dreams. Nearly every night, and I've NEVER realized I'm dreaming until I wake up.
5. I like making out more than sex. (I mean, I love sex. I just love making out MORE.)
6. Every book series I own has to match-- as in, all paperback, all hardcover, or all the same covers/editions.
7. I sing to my dog. He has a "bedtime song," very simple and silly, but when he hears it, he goes straight to bed. (there's also a song about him being the "fluffiest, ruffiest puppy," but that's more general affection and doesn't produce any results except tail wagging.)
8. I can't play 3D games, they make me sick. Lately, I've been playing Majesty and Roller Coaster Tycoon. I'm rather unhappy about being unable to play Portal.
9. I'm thirty years old, but when it comes to things like science museums, bubbles, fireworks, puddles, and swings, I immediately revert back to being twelve.

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

ring

Nothing. Is that peculiar?