What are your "quirks"?

[CaptainInsano]

What are things you do that others would consider a "quirk"? For example, here's me...

I have a tiny piece of glass lodged in my right heel, which the skin healed around it leaving the glass permanently lodged in there. I forces me to walk tippy-toe on my right foot and normally with my left foot. When I stand, I shift most of the weight on my left leg. However, it's not noticeable.


I dislike dry foods (chips, crackers, pop-corn).
My nose bleeds almost everyday (usually in the shower).
I like to start inquisitory threads about your personal life.

[dogfood]

I tend to make flippant responses, often subtlely sarcastic, in the lounge.

[Craig D]

Parker
you leave that glass in there and it can work it's way up and start cutting things you don't want cut. Seriously. Get it out.

[Blue]

i have the tip of a HB pencil lodged in the center of my left hand. To this day you can see the color difference. Its been there since i was maybe.. 11 or so.

[CaptainInsano]

Parker
you leave that glass in there and it can work it's way up and start cutting things you don't want cut. Seriously. Get it out.

Thanks for the advice. I really should get that thing out. However, it's been in there for years. If anything it's annoying, but yeah, I'll get it out when I can afford it.

Here's another...

I can't drive automatic.

[fersteger]

I got lead stuck in both legs right above the knee, from holding pencils there for some reason and a 'friend' sat on me, this was in sixth grade and there have been dark spots there ever since.

[asoir]

Great thread!
Parker- it must be incredibly hard to get used to walking like that...that's crazy!
Dogfood- yes, we see a lot of them nowadays ;)

For myself...I can't think of any... I've used my right arm for nearly everything nowadays, and if I do weights, I unfairly concentrate on my right, which causes my right arm to be substancially larger than the left :| Need to even this out ASAP :P

[jubilee]

how odd. I have the tip of a pencil in my right ankle that I've had since I was 9. my mother jabbed my foot with a very sharp pencil one day to get me to quit sitting on my foot.

my other quirks. I eat everything in tiny little bites. It takes me forever to finish even a small plate of food. I clench my hands a lot so my fingernail marks are on everything : steering wheel, stylus. .... And I tend to (still) sit on my right foot.

[Midnight]

I occasionally read threads like this.

Bizarre behaviour.

Mid.

[CaptainInsano]

I shave my facial hair in the shower without shaving cream.

(say that 10 times real fast)

[talmir]

99% of my curses have something to do with the devil or hell.. But thats just my language doing that to me.. The word shit sounds like kookur (kúkur) so thats just a silly curse. "Helvíti hafi það!" is a much better curse ("let hell have it")

[Redder]

I usually play as a hot, gorgeous, barely legal, big breasted, scantly clad, amazon women in most MMO games. Strangely people give me gold and enchanted items for free.

[scumgrinder]

i give items for free to MMO transexuals

[algebra]

I tend to sit on my right leg if I'm a bit nervous

I bite my fingernails a lot lot lot and I have to stop. Haha.

[Cthogua]

When I spin records I tend to grind my teeth (I spin drum and bass, so that makes sense I suppose :shrug: ) I also like to dance when I paint at an easel. I don't know if this is the product of ADD or what but I also hum to myself CONSTANTLY, if I'm not listening to music I'm listening to myself hum it.

[oracrest]

quirks huh? heres what I got......

one of my eyelids is sticky, like if i open my eyes real wide, my right top eyelid will subtely "pop" off of the skin just below my eyebrow. the other eyelid never does this. Its not noticable at all, but feels kinda annoying sometimes, cause i can feel it stickin'

I get motivated to do things when i am neglecting something else, for example, just the other day, I turned on the shower, then went into my room and read 30 pages of a book, then jumped in the shower. dont know what is up with this. Another good example, I had planned on going straight to the gym, but am now typing this.... :P

I have a huge glasses fetish...

Dunno if this counts as a personal quirk, but I am something like Ethan Allens 11th great grandson... or somewhere around there....

[DSillustration]

i have the tip of a HB pencil lodged in the center of my left hand. To this day you can see the color difference. Its been there since i was maybe.. 11 or so.
i have the very same thing...
in my nose.
for real,
right on the tip.

its the source of my pencil-power ;)

i also make an inordinate amount of sound effects while i paint.
something my students continue to find amusing.

[Jason Manley]

how odd. I have the tip of a pencil in my right ankle that I've had since I was 9. my mother jabbed my foot with a very sharp pencil one day to get me to quit sitting on my foot.
.

i have the same thing too...but in my shin...a bastard in fifth grade gave me the stab in the leg. haha. got to love friends in elementary school. so friendly.


i like to eat my frosted shredded wheat with the sugar side up. probably the only OCD wierd thing i do...it started off for good reason...if the sugar pokes out of the milk then it doesnt melt...but i use so much milk it doesnt matter. still..i flip those bastards white side up every time.

heh

[arghmisfit]

yeah in third grade this girl stabbed me in my thigh with a pencil... and the led is still in there

i was suprised to see so many of you have been stabbed with pencils :O

my feet are pretty much always cold now ever since a bad shroom incident..

[CaptainInsano]

i like to eat my frosted shredded wheat with the sugar side up. probably the only OCD wierd thing i do...it started off for good reason...if the sugar pokes out of the milk then it doesnt melt...but i use so much milk it doesnt matter. still..i flip those bastards white side up every time.

heh

hehe... that's freakin weird, man.

whenever I eat ramen, I usually seperate the noodles into a seperate bowl and leave the soup base in another bowl. Then I "dip" my noodles into the soup.

oh, and whenever I finish drinking anything out of a soda can, I always wiggle the tab off and let it fall into the empty soda can. I love that tingling sound it makes.

[DavePalumbo]

I have to say that it's a quirk of mine to not have a bit of graphite lodged in me someplace, judging from the rest of you.

I dislike salad dressing, and am very picky with sauces on certain foods, which some people find odd.

I compulsively read in the bathroom, even if all I can find is the label on a shampoo bottle (I never used to be a bathroom reader until I lived with my brother and he left his MST3K episode guide in there)

I have a tendency to meticulously arrange my silverware at resteraunts, though to what ultimate arangement I'm not certain

dunno, it's hard to think of what quirky things I do because I've been living alone long enough that everthing seems totally normal. I bet I do tons of weird shit though.

[Autarkis]

oh, and whenever I finish drinking anything out of a soda can, I always wiggle the tab off and let it fall into the empty soda can. I love that tingling sound it makes.
I do that too. All the time.
When I sculpt with plastecine, I do little weird appendages that i fix on my face for a couple minutes while i work. It's easy access clay ;)
I eat mayo with anything. Seriously. :P

But i have no lead, or any drawing material stuck in me, weird that nearly all of you have that!

[Advocate of Fate]

I, too, have a piece of lead in my right knee. I got stabbed. Its the latest fad, everybody's doing it.

I constantly have a small part of a random song stuck in my head that loops seamlessly on for anywhere from 5 minutes to most of the day. I dont know why im 'listening' to what I listen to, but ill just have some random track playing in me noggin. Sometimes instead of just part of one song, itll be parts of a couple songs smushed together. Constantly; it seriously never stops. Right now im listening to the tail-end of one of the pre-choruses from Croakies and Boatshoes, by Between the Buried and Me.

I cant drive automatic either.

I enjoy chewing on putty erasers more than i do gum.

Im right handed, but im left foot dominant.

[WildSpruceMoose]

Ok, mine's a wierd one. The closest thing I can relate it to is graphomania, where a person feels compelled to write all the time. Except mine has taken a different form...
http://www.visiblesurface.com/retep/origins2.jpg

Whenever I'm not drawing, but I have a pencil in my hand--I draw these things. Its wierd because all through school I did them through lectures and lessons, pages FULL of them, and they've transformed over the years. I think it was my will to better my chicken scratch handwriting(which is how it started) So it was writing at first http://www.visiblesurface.com/retep/origins.jpg

combined with my will to draw, and its taken a more graphic approach. They are wierd, but when I'm procrastinating, or listening to a prof/teacher talk and I have a writing instrument in hand I'm probably drawing these. Its not some little doodle I occasionally do, its a compulsion. You may think its smaller than it actually is..but I'm not joking about the scale of how many of these things I've drawn since the early years. I've literally drawn tens of thousands over the years. Pages full to the brim! I think stress also plays a role in how often I draw them, as I drew them when I was bored waiting for things to load but I also draw them when I'm having difficulty with an assignment.(chronic nail biter and jaw grinder too) It has a cure, and that is drawing subjects I want to, anatomy studies, life drawing, etc. I also draw them on a scrap piece of newsprint pad when the model isn't at pose!

There, now you know the scary truth. Sorry you asked?

[hurricane]

1. i must check my frontdoor 3 times as im leaving home or i'll go crasy...
2. i'm ALWAYS carrying a sketchbook, even if im going shopping...
3. i sleep ~3 hours per night or skip a night then sleep the next one...

got more, too scared to post em :P


cheers

[CaptainInsano]

1. i must check my frontdoor 3 times as im leaving home or i'll go crasy..


cheers

holy crap, me too. And then at work/school I wonder, "did I lock my door" and it bothers me for the rest of the day.

[DavePalumbo]

I, too, have a piece of lead in my right knee

please people, lets not dramatize. If you've had a piece of lead stuck in you for the past decade, you're a corpse. Graphite.

[timpaatkins]

Maybe he got shot?
Drive by penciling, ya know, Its toughh over the pond.

[darth massacre]

LOL, some of you guys do seriously funny OCD things without being too OCD.

I don't believe I have many quirks.
- I gotta finish a packet of chocolate when I start it (just like guerilla warfare, easy to start, not so easy to stop).
- I dislike it when my toys are touched by someone else....at all....don't even ask for permission because you're not getting it.

But for most other things I couldn't be bothered with.

[ApolloNuevo]

Whenever i'm really focused or stresseed I constantly find myself signing w/ whatever hand is not occupied (just alphabetical) ...and usually it's signing the majority of what i'm thinking or saying

I take lots of showers, they help me focus. I dunno, it's weird, I can be totally wigging out and a quick 5 mins in the shower and i can go for several more hours. doesn't work just to wash my face though, gotta be the whole thing.

If i get really irritable I just eat really salty food and drink lots of water and i'm fine in a 1/2 hour or so.

all artists are crazy in their own way.
-apollo

[Ilaekae]

I like everything on my plate all mushed together and preferably covered in gravy. That way I don't have to look at my plate when I eat...and it's a big 8" diameter yellow plastic bowl, never a plate.

I talk to myself in different voices. I even argue the fine points of something I'm working on. It's a real bitch when I lose...

I can't start anything, no matter what, until everything I'll work with is clean and neatly arranged. Then I might work for 7 or 8 days straight and the entire house/office turns to one huge shithole. Then I take a week off, clean up, and start the whole thing over again.

I can't stand to watch any movie or TV show if I don't catch the very beginning. If I'm even 30 seconds late, I'll just turn the whole thing off.

I go nuts when I get near anything that has the consistency of Jello--hate it...EEEe-YUUUck


ADD: And just to prove I'm as normal as the rest of you, I have embedded in my body in various places...

7 graphite pencil points
3/4" total of glass in three places
5 pieces of steel under an 1/8" long
2 pieces of lead (yeah, real lead--they're bullet fragments)
the broken off tip of a stilleto in one of my ribs
and at least 14 pieces of wood, all so deep they aren't worth removing

and there might still be a 1956 quarter somewhere in my digestive tract. I don't remember it "leaving..."

[jubilee]

damn.. so I am guessing the metal detectors at airports are a bitch to get through.

/agree on Jello. who invented that crap.. blech.

[evildisco]

I am a neurotic perfectionist.
When I draw, I smoke 300% more than when I do nothing.
I always have to have the last word and unfortunately it's a bad thing most of the time.
I get completely irate for the smallest things.
I have chronic bruxism, which means I grind my teeth at night in my sleep, result is that my canines are completely blunt.

[Idiot Apathy]

I too am cursed with graphite; forearm. Can't remember how, but I've had my fair share of pencil stab-fests.

I'm technically a schizoid but it's not me who's messed up it's you (We're just more evolved :P). I say technically because I find it interesting to push myself in directions that my "subconsious" stays away from. It's research...

[CaptainInsano]

I take lots of showers, they help me focus. I dunno, it's weird, I can be totally wigging out and a quick 5 mins in the shower and i can go for several more hours. doesn't work just to wash my face though, gotta be the whole thing.



me too!

I like everything on my plate all mushed together and preferably covered in gravy. That way I don't have to look at my plate when I eat...and it's a big 8" diameter yellow plastic bowl, never a plate.

I talk to myself in different voices. I even argue the fine points of something I'm working on. It's a real bitch when I lose...


hehe, I like to have everything pureed together and I just drink it out of a straw.

I don't necessarly talk to myself, but sometimes I stare in the mirror and make this high-pitched demonic voice and say, "I want chocolate! gotta have chocolate!"

[Julianna]

I am not cool like the rest of you where I have a piece of lead or graphite stuck in me somewhere. I have jabbed myself with some pencils and some pens in the past but nothing every stayed.

Perhaps getting a piece of lead stuck in you makes you a better artist, because all the good artists that I've seen here seem to have lead stuck in them...coincidence?
(not saying that all the 'good' artists here are the ones with the lead in them, because I think everyone here is good...great..superb..etc.)

As for my quirks, (no one may care or be interested but I'm trying to fit in anyway), I tend to look at myself in the mirror or a reflection alot. I am kinda self-concious.

I also have a thing for peanutbutter sandwiches. Just bread and peanutbutter. Not the crappy Skippy stuff, but the kind where you have to stir it.

When I sit down every so often my leg will twitch or move or swing. There is a phsycological thing associated with this behavior, where it means that you want to be somewhere or do something else other than where you are at the time....

I always eat my food too fast and often end up with hiccups, and I worry that I'll end up like one of those ppl who have hiccups for years and end up on Ripley's or Guiness or something.

[Interceptor]

On my home stereo, I'll only turn the volume up in incriments of 3..

I have a habit of bowing to people when i thank them, because of martial arts.

I ALWAYS do a thorough check on my bed (especially my pillow) for spiders before I go to sleep.

I always take the wrapping off of presents very neatly, I never rip it off.

Everytime something touches one of my piercings, I check all of them and make sure they are tightened.

I always check my electronic portabes every so often, (cell phone, ds, psp, etc) to make sure the screen is'nt cracked ( bad experiences )

And this one is strange, but my puppy absolutely HATES winnie the pooh. My sister had a stuffed pooh bear for when we first got the pup. And she tore it to crap. Then, one day I was flipping channels and she saw pooh, and went balls out. it was odd.

[jfwalls]

You mean THIER is actually THEIR. Damn.

[Floris Didden]

2. i'm ALWAYS carrying a sketchbook, even if im going shopping...

Same.

- I'm a grammar nazi about other peoples speech. In dutch there are a lot of popular errors, like saying the equivalent of "He is as tall as mine". Probably because my mother used to correct me whenever I said those things myself, it really bothers me now when other people rape the language :P.

- A lot of my internal dialogue is in English, eventhough I'm not a native speaker.

- I was tested as dyslectic in high school when I was having trouble with French and German, but I managed to get a perfect score on all but one of the final exams for english ... I became sloppy since then.

- I'm going to find someone to stab me with a pencil now.

[|NTeRN]

i have the tip of a HB pencil lodged in the center of my left hand. To this day you can see the color difference. Its been there since i was maybe.. 11 or so.

i have the smame thing but the right hand

i have a dent in my shin from snowboarding. some asswhole cut me off before a rail and fell, i tried to get out of the way in time... didnt... flew up and landed on all my weight on my shin. thank god i didnt break my leg but if you run your finger along my shin bone theres a nice sixed dent there

i cant wiggle my right pinky toe cause i broke it in half while playing water polo my junior yr (i was kicked, it was sticking out sideways... it was gross)

i can also move my left linky finger without moving any other finger.

i have a question mark shaped scar from when my bro thro me thro glass. and when i hold up my arm theres a big indentation taht isnt there on the other side. ( it starts right below the end of my collar bone.)

and parkerd why dont you just dis that thing out? i mean if its not that deep id just pry in there and yank that sucker out.

[Cthogua]

I ALWAYS do a thorough check on my bed (especially my pillow) for spiders before I go to sleep.



Hehehe I do the same thing. I've seen FAR too many Discovery/Learning/Animal Planet shows on spiders and other creepy things. I always pull the cover off my bed and shake it out before getting in it...Saw one show where a guy got bit by a Funnel Web Spider that was just chillin in his bed...<shudders> A friend of mine got bit on the neck by a spider that was in his lab coat and he started hallucinating....it was actually kinda funny...Am I a bad person for finding my poisioned friend funny? :P

[dfacto]

I have a tiny piece of glass lodged in my right heel, which the skin healed around it leaving the glass permanently lodged in there. I forces me to walk tippy-toe on my right foot and normally with my left foot.

Seriously get that taken out. The fact that it forces you to walk differently is a clear indicator that it shouldn't be there.

My nose bleeds almost everyday (usually in the shower).

And that's not healthy either... Have you had that checked out?

My quirks:

-Pencil lead splotch in the crease between my pinky and palm on my right hand.

-For some reason I've gotten into the habit of tearing off precisely 2 squares of toilet paper, folding them in a certain way, and then wiping. I always fold them the same way, allowing me to get 2-3 or even 4 good wipes out of the paper if need be.

-When sitting down I often put my right foot under my left and apply pressure. I also have nervous legs and I shake them (up and down motion) all the time, often driving people near me crazy.

-I take stairs 2 at a time; always (unless the stairs are blocked or I'm walking with someone), and often at a run.

-I don't bother using shaving gel. With my pseudo lincoln beard it's just too much of a pain to put the gel on, shave without cutting into the beard, and then wiping. I just shave while my stubble is short and it's fine.

-I can't stand massages unless I have a sore back. The pressure doesn't feel good, but annoys the hell out of me instead.

-When holding my hand out flat with all fingers together, I can't bend my thumb all the way in without the tip of my index finger bending inwards. Something must have fused in there...

-My ribcage is bent. My right side is a tad higher, and my arcus costalis (the part that goes down from the sternum on each side) is indented on my right side. Doesn't cause any problems though.

-I would never slit my wrists. The idea gives me the heeby-jeebies, whereas other common suicide methods don't.

[peterhurman]

when i was 14 i had my groing points drilled so i wouldnt grow anymore. doctors thought i could have grown to seven feet tall. i havent grown since i was 14 and im six foot five feet tall

- my alarm clock never wakes me up. i always wake up like five minutes before it goes off even if i am super tired.

- i never wear socks

[Steph Laberis]

I have a tiny piece of glass lodged in my right heel, which the skin healed around it leaving the glass permanently lodged in there. I forces me to walk tippy-toe on my right foot and normally with my left foot. When I stand, I shift most of the weight on my left leg. However, it's not noticeable.


Hah, ya know, I walk toe-to heel naturally, it's just the way I laerned to walk. Because of it, I have scholiosis, so when I was 10 or so my Mom put me through physical therapy to try and correct it. Only did half the job, so now if I'm not paying attention, I walk toe to heel.


-Nothing is lodged in me. No leads, glass, alien tracking devices, etc. I did swallow a dime when I was 6 though and earned the nickname "Parking Meter" for a little while.
-I have a nervous sniffle. Gets annoying fast.
-I can handle nails on a chalkboard, but I HATE licking popsicle sticks. UGH!
-I have very prehensile toes and can move each independently, pick up things, etc. I can't climb trees very well though.
-I talk to myself in the car and/or shower. Freelancing is lonely. :(

Edit: OH! I managed to fracture my foot with a Wacom tablet! Dropped the damn thing, the corner caught the top of my barefoot, hurt tons at first but I tried to ignore it... months later I find out that the hard lump it left on the bone was a hairline fracture. Mind you, this was a wee tablet (6x9) so I obviously need more calcium...

[4rt-r41d]

I also have to check the frontdoor like 2-3 times, often by trying to kick it in, before i go, otherwise ill think of it all the time till i check it again.

i never carry a sketchbook, unless i know i need it, ive been trying to change the happit, no succes so far.

i always end up in either movie, religion or workout discussions with every new person i talk to,

sometimes, i can just start celaning my room (does not matter if its clean or not),

and yeah, im a low eater. and it does not help that i eat 7 times a day.

and i think thats about it

[Jens]

no lead remains in me but as a kid I fell down with a pencil in my hand and the pencil pierced right through my tongue..

there's no mark left though, tongue heals pretty well

[Molly]

hehe funny thread....

Rubber. Rubber gloves - marigolds to be precise...any talk of rubbery things - I hate the sound it makes when squished about; Also, if an infant is 'biting' their dummy/pasifier (sp), the sound, the thought of the action; ergh - i get this funny sensation in the back of my teeth and in my ears, my face contorts and, and, and... its affecting me whilst typing this...hiieeeek!!!:x

Please, if your near me dont even talk about it, my partner does it on purpose cos he thinks its well funny....

(tho, he hates the sound of nails being filed so....)

Mx

[XXXJanitorman]

I'm the "baker" ( Theres nothing artistic about what I do, so its not really bakery but I make desserts) at a restaurant. All day I'm dealing with extremely hot pans and I often times burn my forearms and wrists. They sometimes leave huge scars, I call them my battle wounds because they look like someone hacked me with a sword (Most of them are fading though :( ). Anyway, sometimes people ask me how I got them and I usually say that I cut my wrists just so they think I'm crazy. I dunno why I do it, but I feel really good afterwards. Maybe I am crazy.

Also, I can hold a naturally serious face around strangers. So I often times tell lies to strangers for my own amusement. Like, I told some ditsy girl in my class that I just got out of juvy for killing my parents. She totally bought it.

[dogfood]

My chunk of graphite is in the meat between thumb and index finger on my left hand.

I am constantly checking to make certain I have my wallet. This often is in the form of a sudden spasm and leads to me touching my butt quite often.

Analogies jump out of me more than methane.

I've worn a POW/MIA bracelet for over 17 years, only removing it four times.

I subscribe to the ParkerD school of shower shaving. It's much closer.

I still enjoy driving my '91 Integra, which I've been driving for over 15 years.
(for those unable to drive an automatic, can you drive a manual transmission? Because that just sounds silly)

I didn't check my bed for spiders until I found one a few weeks ago. I walked through a very strong web strand and happened to lift up the covers, only to find Shelob snuggling in for a nap. A few days later I went to itch my neck and killed another rather large spider that had just landed there.

The non-word "irregardless" is like fingers on the chalkboard (or Molly's rubber).

[MoP]

I sometimes repeat a sentence I've just said, under my breath but apparently audibly, without realising it.

Whenever I look at long-ish, interesting words, I automatically try to find silly but plausible anagrams for them. I'm getting quite quick at it now.

Dogfood amuses me. Wait, that's not a quirk, that's standard!

[WildSpruceMoose]

I'm the "baker" ( Theres nothing artistic about what I do, so its not really bakery but I make desserts) at a restaurant. All day I'm dealing with extremely hot pans and I often times burn my forearms and wrists. They sometimes leave huge scars, I call them my battle wounds because they look like someone hacked me with a sword (Most of them are fading though :( ). Anyway, sometimes people ask me how I got them and I usually say that I cut my wrists just so they think I'm crazy. I dunno why I do it, but I feel really good afterwards. Maybe I am crazy.

Also, I can hold a naturally serious face around strangers. So I often times tell lies to strangers for my own amusement. Like, I told some ditsy girl in my class that I just got out of juvy for killing my parents. She totally bought it.

Haha, I worked in a bakery too. Got many a burn scar, but never told anyone lies about how I got them. Battle wounds of working in the service industry, you've earned em! I also talk to myself when no-one else is around, or I don't think anybody else is around, like Ilaekae. Unless I'm drawing/browsing the internet etc, doing something, if I'm alone I'm probably talking about some arbitrary topic and arguing quite avidly to myself. This was a bad thing for me when I did work at the bakery, because I'd start my day an hour or 2 before everyone else on weekends...and oh boy were there some awkward moments with people coming in and hearing the final lines of some of my arguments...haha. I think its improved my rhetoric though, and I'm doing pretty well in composition and rhetoric class at my college.(mandatory english "breadth course for illustration :/ )

I'm a chronic wallet/key checker. I just touch my pockets with my hands to make sure its all there. Always worried people will think I'm...not feeling around for my wallet and keys if you know what I mean. No lead imbedded in me, but my jaws are a wreck from grinding my teeth. Well, I'm off to find a sharp pencil now, bbl =P

[evildisco]

IRREGARDLESS

I remembered, I hate the feeling of nails on nylon, just thinking of it makes me quiver.

[Floris Didden]

I am constantly checking to make certain I have my wallet. This often is in the form of a sudden spasm and leads to me touching my butt quite often.

Ooh, that reminds me. I have this habbit of checking if I still have my wallet and phone in one stride while walking. The wallet is in the left backpocket and the phone in the right front pocket, so I can like touch em slightly while walking to see if they're still there. So yea,

[dfacto]

I'm a chronic wallet/key checker. I just touch my pockets with my hands to make sure its all there.

For sure.

[Slash]

I remember stabbing a girl with a pencil back in school.. i think it was third or fourth grade. Her name is elisabeth. I wonder if she ever got out that lead.


I sometimes make sound effects while im drawing. But most of the time i talk to my drawings/paintings. So im all like "Ha! you like that line? want another one just like it?" or "Damn red! you sure look good next to that gray!, i need some more of you!" "FUCK YOU! Did i tell you to go that way? Now im gonna have to erase your ass!"

[evildisco]

I sometimes make sound effects while im drawing. But most of the time i talk to my drawings/paintings. So im all like "Ha! you like that line? want another one just like it?" or "Damn red! you sure look good next to that gray!, i need some more of you!" "FUCK YOU! Did i tell you to go that way? Now im gonna have to erase your ass!"

Hahah that made my day.

[Blue]

Aside from the pencil tip in my hand..

-I tap my feet to drum beats whenever i am bored. (habit ever since i started playing drums)
-I think about the future so much most of my friends have yelled at me about it.
-Any video game i play i have to beat within the first few days of owning.
-I always have to be listening to music, even in class...so my ipod gets heavy usage.
-I carry around my laptop and wacom tablet instead of a sketchbook and pencil.
-I need to have sex 3 times a day when i have a girlfriend or once for a minimum of 4-5 hours.
-I tend to over-focus on women in general. If i am single i am doing everything in my power to meet new women, even if it means knocking on random doors in my dorm.

A some more too, but i think thats enough personal info for the day. :)

[CaptainInsano]

I always spell THEIR ; as THIER and need to use a spell check to correct it :P lol

I'm always spelling "tounge" wrong... did I just spell that wrong?


i can also move my left linky finger without moving any other finger.

and parkerd why dont you just dis that thing out? i mean if its not that deep id just pry in there and yank that sucker out.

wow, me too (about the left pinky finger). It freaks my friends out. That piece of glass is lodged in my heel pretty deep and the skin of my ankle healed around it and hardened up. It's been in there for a few years. But yeah, I really want to get it out. You guys are making me paranoid about it now.


And that's not healthy either... Have you had that checked out?



About the nose bleeds, it started when I was about 7. I've gotten nosebleeds almost everyday, usually in the shower, but sometimes I'll go months without a nosebleed (during the summers). The doc said I have a lot of blood vessels on the surface of the skin inside the nostril. So when the shower steam gets in my nose, it softens the inside of my nostril and starts bleeding. When I lived in Seattle it bled A LOT, because it was so cold it would freeze the inside of the nostril and crack the skin. Honest, once I had a nose bleed last 45 minutes!



I am constantly checking to make certain I have my wallet. This often is in the form of a sudden spasm and leads to me touching my butt quite often.


Damn man, I do the same thing, irregardless that I have wallet chain. I'm also checking to make sure I have my cell phone.

On more, the sound of a drum/bongo/pencil tapping on desk, being tapped lightly puts me right to sleep. Don't know why. I can feel part of my brain literally tingle. But it doesn't work if I'm the one tapping the pencil. someone else has to do it.

[DavePalumbo]

My nose bleeds almost everyday (usually in the shower)

for about a month, I had this problem in highschool. Don't know why, but all of a sudden I just started getting nose bleeds at random. I went to a doctor who stuck a burning (chemical burning) wand in my nose and that was that.

7 graphite pencil points
3/4" total of glass in three places
5 pieces of steel under an 1/8" long
2 pieces of lead (yeah, real lead--they're bullet fragments)
the broken off tip of a stilleto in one of my ribs
and at least 14 pieces of wood, all so deep they aren't worth removing
and there might still be a 1956 quarter somewhere in my digestive tract. I don't remember it "leaving..."

that must have been one hell of a party...

[Farvus]

-I take stairs 2 at a time; always (unless the stairs are blocked or I'm walking with someone), and often at a run.

I do that too. Recently even while walking downstairs.

When I go out, I almost always take my bag with me. Even if I don't have anything to carry. That's strange...

In addition while going somewhere where I don't have to hurry, I might suddenly start to run like I'm late. I do this only while going alone :P

[asoir]

And I tend to (still) sit on my right foot.
Woah, same! Gives you pins and needles after a while though :needle:

-Whenever i'm really hot I tend to think of nails scratching a blackboard really hard, gives you goosebumps and makes you feel slightly cold!
-Click my fingers a lil too often, especially my thumbs.
-I can move my shoulder around! Very annoying however, since if I make an odd movement with my arm, it comes out slightly, and I can't control my arm for a few seconds, hurts a bit too.
-I've always wanted to punch someone right in the nose.
-Rap lyrics always randomly pop up in my head, and I normally just say it out loud, which kinda confuses people sometimes :dur:
-6'3 at 14, but there's still taller people in my class :P

[CCThrom]

I have a habit of bowing to people when i thank them, because of martial arts.

I often have to fight down the urge to bow when greeting or thanking someone outside of the dojo... sometimes I forget and find myself bowing anyway.

I have NO pieces of glass, metal, or graphite lodged anywhere in my body... damn, I feel like a freak.

I often compulsively pluck facial hairs.

I can take scratching chalkboard and squeaky balloon noises, but what makes me totally cringe is biting on a piece of paper, cardboard, or even worse - tinfoil... eeergh, gotta be real careful about unwrapping pre-packaged food.

For some reason, my fingertips often have dry peeling skin, I don't know if it's got anything to do with drawing a lot.

[Carnifex]

haha,lots of good ones here. let's see...
at breakfast,i will always sit on my left foot while having the right knee drawn up to my chin.doesn't work the other way round though.
i almost always sit on my left foot. if not, i will almost always cross my legs in some way. if i can't do that i will slide up and down the chair all the time.
i always scratch away skin around my fingernails,sometimes i do it too much and get raw red flesh around them,but as fast as it's healed i will start scratching again.on top of that i most often forget to clean my fingernails,so they look rather gross sometimes.
when nervous,i scratch away skin even more.
i constantly need to move my fingers.(hence the scratching)if there's nothing i can move around i will start picking my nose until i find something that i can roll around(only sometimes).luckily i most often carry around a key that i can abuse.
i almost always have music in my head,either some song that repeats over and over,or a cd,or just a drumbeat. i most often start to drum with my fingers then according to the rythm in my head,or i just randomly drum around,which annoys my sisters to no end.
somehow i wait with everything till the very end. if i have to clean my room,or get food or get up,i will wait and do tons of other things until i'm almost too late.it's somehow stuck in my head. if you want something done from me immediately you have to remind me multiple times,increasing in force with each one. with other people i'm very impatient though.
sometimes i'll start to speak to myself in multiple voices(in english),commenting my mood,where i am and stupid stuff like that.(under my breath of course,unless i'm alone).
when browsing through people's artworks here on the forum i will sometimes start to make very strange noises,inventing new curses for astonishment ("holy moo cow batman!") or just chuckling crazyly.(this involves the artwork being really good of course).
sitting in front of the computer(whatever i'm doing) i will start talking to myself most of the time. most of all when playing a game. strangely enough,almost always in english.
i have stopped using shaving cream,i just wet my chin and the shaving apparatus(?) constantly and start.
i can stand the sound of nails on board,but not the look of it.seeing it makes my fingers tingle and i make jerking motions,accompanied by "ouuuh" sounds.

edit: oh,and i can bend my arms so much they point into the opposite direction. and i can move my right pinky finger without moving any other.

whew,well i guess that's what i notice most on myself.

[Steph Laberis]

My god, more people coming out of the woodwork with leads in their hands. I feel left out...

I did forget one of my favorite quirks. I can make a farting noise with my palm and my eye socket. Sounds kind of like an armpit fart.

It's a great ice breaker at parties.

[Redder]

i give items for free to MMO transexuals

No really I am a hot, gorgeous, barely legal, big breasted, scantly clad, amazon women in real life.

[Ilaekae]

I just remembered one that is so normal to me, I forget it's weird...

I can't talk while walking down steps. Not up, just down. 20 years ago, I had a teeny tiny accident with a bike and some railroad tracks, and my knees are all fucked up. When I walk down stairs, I have to actually consciously "lock" my knees or I'll take a header straight down the flight. When I'm talking to somebody, I'll forget to do this. Going up the steps is no problem because of the way the knee works.

[Flake]

All my stuff must be in the "correct" pocket in my trousers.

Left- Wallet
Right- Keys, Lighter
Left thigh pocket- phone, tobacco, gum
Right thigh pocket- anything else.

I also get twitchy if I'm wearing clothes without enough pockets and I'm another one who obsessively checks the front door is locked, cooker switched off etc.

[flatliner]

-I take stairs 2 at a time; always (unless the stairs are blocked or I'm walking with someone), and often at a run.

yep, me too. And when I try to take them one at a time, it takes to long (not that im in a hurry). If I can, i'll the steps three at a time to make up for it.

Also:
-I dont have opposable thumbs, they dont bend @ the joint below the nail.
-On both feet, my two middle toes are webbed together.
-Sea weed freaks me out.

[redehlert]

-For some reason I've gotten into the habit of tearing off precisely 2 squares of toilet paper, folding them in a certain way, and then wiping.
ROFL - I do the same damn thing! I'm very precise about it too.
-When sitting down I often put my right foot under my left and apply pressure. I also have nervous legs and I shake them (up and down motion) all the time, often driving people near me crazy.
One of my good friends does this. Not stop with the legs.
-I take stairs 2 at a time; always (unless the stairs are blocked or I'm walking with someone), and often at a run.
Same here, although I understand it isn't good for your pelvis and pelvic muscles to take them 2 at a time. Whatever...it's faster. :)
-I don't bother using shaving gel. With my pseudo lincoln beard it's just too much of a pain to put the gel on, shave without cutting into the beard, and then wiping. I just shave while my stubble is short and it's fine.
Same here in the shower. Steam and water works just fine. However, I do shave with gel.

Okay...now for my biggest quirk....I think I may trump ya'll.
I have trichotillomania (chronic hair pulling). Here's a snippet of info on it:
an impulse disorder that causes people to pull out the hair from their scalp, eyelashes, eyebrows, or other parts of the body, resulting in noticeable bald patches. It is currently defined as an impulse-control disorder, but there are still questions about how it should be classified. It may seem, at times, to resemble a habit, an addiction, a tic disorder or an obsessive-compulsive disorder. It is estimated to affect one to two percent of the population, or four to eleven million Americans.
http://www.trich.org <- this is more info on it.
By the way, nail biters and skin pickers out there --- you're in the same boat as me. :) Welcome aboard the ewww ship lollipop.

Cheers,
D

[DavePalumbo]

I have a habit of bowing to people when i thank them, because of martial arts

I do this occasionally, mostly only with people who I'm not sure understand me. Especially if I'm in another country, even one that everyone speaks english. I think I got the habit visiting Japan a couple times. Now whenever I talk to someone who doesn't speak English very well, I punctuate everything with lots of smiling and bowing. I even caught myself doing this when I was talking to a guy in one of those giant mascot suits (because they aren't allowed to talk, though I'm sure he understood me just fine)

[Quicksilver]

...I am constantly checking to make certain I have my wallet. This often is in the form of a sudden spasm and leads to me touching my butt quite often....
...I sometimes make sound effects while im drawing. But most of the time i talk to my drawings/paintings. So im all like "Ha! you like that line? want another one just like it?" or "Damn red! you sure look good next to that gray!, i need some more of you!" "FUCK YOU! Did i tell you to go that way? Now im gonna have to erase your ass!"
LMAO. You guys are so funny xD I'm glad I decided to some to these forums more frequently.

I bow to say thanks and such too, but mainly because I find it more respectful. I don't think the Vietnamese bow as much as the Japanese though.

That reminds me: I tend to make Japanese grunts (nm, oh, etc...) and say "Hai" to my parents when they speak to me in Vietnamese and think (not speak - I realise what I'm doing in time, thankfully!) in Vietnamese (vung = yes, khoe = no, blah blah) when answering my Japanese teacher. >_< I'm not as bad now, but it was a bit confusing, and amusing, at the time.

My favourite quirk is being able to whisle in my throat. God knows how it actually works, but I can anyway, and it's pretty quiet so it's more of a personal thing. I used to blurt out swear words via 'whistling' when I was little to avoid getting told off and to cool off a bit when I was pissed off, lol. It annoys my sis. =)

I can also bend all of the top joints of all of my fingers without using the other hand. That goes through my sis too, haha.

I tend to bop or sway to things or to myself, mainly when I have to wait for something. People either find it cute or really weird.

I hate walking down stairs incase I fall, unless its the stairs in my house.

I make sounds when I make a mistake (mainly when playing the piano - not too sure if it happens when drawing)

I'm in a world of my own when I walk alone, which is weird 'cause I used to be uber cautious about EVERYTHING around me.

I don't slouch. Ever. I can keep my back straight for ages and still be fine.

Aaaaand that's all I can think of right now.

[Flake]

I'm in a world of my own when I walk alone

I do that so often that people I know think I'm ignoring them, I'm usually not, I'm just in my own weird little "thinking about stuff" bubble..

I did it the other week in a bar, six people I know very well, sitting not fifteen feet from where I was standing, didn't even see them for about an hour..

-Flake

[Advocate of Fate]

i, too , am a chronic checker of my wallet and phone. I always have the contents of my pockets in the same place too.
Front right pocket: chapstick, keys, cell phone, pen (only one), any change i might have
front left: orbit gum.
back right: wallet
back left: nothing usually, but if ive got my pencil case or any loose papers they get put there.

[endercoskun]

- my alarm clock never wakes me up. i always wake up like five minutes before it goes off even if i am super tired.

same with me :teeth:
i always feel like my mobile phone is vibrating.
i take more than 5 litres of liquid per day ( and i spend a considerable amount of time at toilets :nohope: )
i get really uncomfortable even nervous when someone takes my photo.
i always feel like i have forgotten something when i get out of home.
i'm left handed, and i write vertically/top down by flipping the page. (i can write the normal way, but in a totally different style and also have difficulties on certain letters)
i have been stabbed by a pencil too, but i don't know if i got any amount of graphite on my body somewhere :P and i've once stapled myself (don't ask)
i whistle A LOT.

[Advocate of Fate]

hey, carni, thats pretty cool. Its cool to know im not the only one with constant music running through my head. Ive gotten it to the point that i can control it, like if i want to listen to a specific song i can do it. Ive pretty much elimnated the need to get an ipod. if i try real hard, i can get two songs to play at once. its pretty dang nifty.

[Quicksilver]

hey, carni, thats pretty cool. Its cool to know im not the only one with constant music running through my head. Ive gotten it to the point that i can control it, like if i want to listen to a specific song i can do it. Ive pretty much elimnated the need to get an ipod. if i try real hard, i can get two songs to play at once. its pretty dang nifty.
I do that. =) That's probably why I don't mind working in 'silence' then. It seems like everyone in college either has an ipod or an mp3 player. Sometimes they try and get me to listen to stuff 'cause they think I don't like music. :^^;:

[Crane]

Wow, wat a great thread.

Let me add to the lead gang, in my left arm, a kid stabbed me about 3 years ago, can still see it, i consider it my tattoo.

I can move many parts of my body extremely quickly, and tend to do it all the time.

i wear them rubber braclets on both my wrists, about 16 each and 4 four barbed wire ones between them, since i put them on i have no removed them and doubt i ever will.

i have a wrist band my girlfriend got me for a present, which i wear on my left wrist, if i take it off apart from when i sleep i feel naked and insecure, and i feel cold, actual temperture cold.

I wear my watch on my right wrist, apparantly this is a girls way of wearing it ?? i'm a guy despite my gender bending avatar, which once tricked davi into thinking i was my gf and asked for a kiss for changing my username.. lol

I keep my wristband in my beanie, which is another present from my girlfriend, under my pillow when i sleep.

I walk 4 metres per second most of the time

I love the feel of pins and needles, especially moving when its realyl bad hehe

I hit myself in the thigh, or slap, for a long time cause i like the feeling

I can pop my ears without holding my nose, i can also do this thing where i seem to close something in my ears, the opposite of popping them i guess, and i can block out sound, or at least muffle it, useful for when i was shooting my gfs dads gun.

I tend to make my nostrels move when i'm talking to people, and just randomly too.

I have never shaved with shaving cream, no point, besides the smell makes me sick

the smell of washing up liquid and other stuff like it makes me sick, hoorah for dishwashers.

I use at least 10 pieces of toilet paper per wipe lol. wat the hell can i do with one tiny piece..hu..

I know every creaky floorboard, every wall, stair, thing.. in my house, in the dark, since i am always sneakign around to get food or something.

I love singing all the time, even tho i can't sing hehe. or beat boxing, even tho i hate beatboxing or rap... lol

I really hate getting on the bus with skool kids.

I pretend to have fone calls with my girlfriend.

I talk to myself, have arguements and explain to myself about something i already know since i'm explaining it.

I go commando in summer time, and if i don't have to go out in winter.

I star gaze for ages, puts me into a fantasy world like no other.

I always pick up sticks and swing them round ninja style.

I tend to always throw things up in the air makign them twist and turn before catching them, like them barkeepers in vegas who do the kool tricks.

I love my hoodie, its hood is so huge since its american and my nan found it on a coach, i love having it up and pretending i'm a demon or ninja or somethign in degiuse.

I sing evanescence songs, especially my immortal in amy lees voice :S

I like playing with lighters and knives, i tnd to break everyhting i get my hands on, don't let me need a watermachine, i will use up like 20 cups in 10 mins. the other day in college i put two chairs next to each other, ut a few pencils on the backs of them then broke them in half with a wooden stick.

If something on my body hurts, i don't like it, but i will keep making it hurt because i like it... weird i know.. lol

i like making myself burp.

i can never sit in one postion for a long time, i have to change, put my legs under me, etc etc.

I have the shakey leg thing, and love doing it for long periods of time.

I can move up the stairs real fast using all 4 limbs, this is standard for me.

I rub the side of my cats head and shoulder fast then stop and let him fall over hehe.

I can make my tongue into a clover shape, make it go really fat, turn it upside down, but only if i do it right side flipping, can't do it left.

I can do the worm with my fingers.

I like opening my window, lieing there till i'm freezing, then getting into my covers.

I sleep inside my duvet cover, i feel uncomfortable and open if i don't.

I kiss my girlfriends pic every morning and every night when i'm not with her, only after i clean my teeth tho.

i steer convs very sneakily towards a subject where i can talk about my girlfriend :D

I like making people believe things, like i'm bisexual or gay or something, since i am very convincing. I am an expert liar, and i lie all the time, but only to get me outta trouble or something, or to get somethign i want, i will never lie to people i really care about, like my gf.. lol i am very honest, i will keep secrets, i will help people out, be kind, blah blah. lieing is just a useful thing to be good at.

I hate using other peoples ideas, i will always want my own ideas no matter wat.

i hate sharing things, like a room, or a set of books, if i have book one and 3 of a series and my dads bitch of a gfs son has book 2 and 4, i will need to get them because i like having the whole thing for myself, not because i am selfish, i will lend people things, give them money etc etc, only if i know them well tho.

i only know my gfs bday, 25th of jan, mine 24th of jan, my mums, new years day, and my dogs, god rest her sweet soul, xmas day.

I hate xmas. i hate gettign people cards, waste of money.

I love customizing my pens, even bic pens.

I write or engrave T4A or I love Arina in nearly everything i can.

i twirl my pen or pencil all the time, but can only do one pen trick.

i've had somehwere between 7500-8000 orgasms since i was 10.

Thats all i can think of, i'm sure you got bored ages ago.

great thread!.

[dfacto]

By the way, nail biters and skin pickers out there --- you're in the same boat as me.

Yup, forgot about that one. When I'm stressed my hand just wanders to my forehead and searches for something to tear up.

[redehlert]

Just for you, dfacto:
http://www.psychnet-uk.com/dsm_iv/skin_picking.htm
You're human after all. :)
Cheers!
D
ps. I'm one of those chronic songs in the head people.

[Ilaekae]

Gawd, I hope there's a shrink somewhere takin' this all done. Hate like hell to have it go to waste... :b

[dfacto]

Hmm, my skin picking isn't as bad as the stuff in the article. Though I do crack my knuckles a lot.

That's another quirk I guess.

Gawd, I hope there's a shrink somewhere takin' this all done. Hate like hell to have it go to waste...

Ughh, I hope not. Else there's prescription drugs for everyone!

[timpaatkins]

Great, I like picking my eyebrows, and now I find out its a mental disorder? AND to cap it all I dont have any lead in my bod. Im actually all of a sudden jealous of my mate who has.

I always walk everywhere really fast, stems from me "powerwalking" but I do it in everyday life,when im ot in a hurry and get EXTREMLY annoyed when people arent moving as fast as me...

Jumping knee

I also have a tendancy to walk around fast, looking really hard and seroius, superior to everyone else, until I see some special person, like a sweet old lady, or a really nerdy kid, or somethng like that, then I think to myself "You wanker, these great people deserve a smile dmn it, who he hell do you think you are" and then I smile and I feel great for the rest of the day.

And another horrible thing: Since my GF dumped me (4 years ago) sometimes when I watch TV or something and some sappy moment comes up, I can literally within a second well up with tears, like an emotional tripfall, and I just barley make it without tears rolling down my cheeks. Then I hate mysefl for almost crying to crap films...

Obsses over my ex.
And talk about her almost as often as Black Neon Chaos talks about his current.

[redehlert]

Great, I like picking my eyebrows, and now I find out its a mental disorder?
lol. at least you have a good mindset about it. for most, there's a lot of stigma around it. some peeps only do one particular area. i saw this one young girl who literally had a reverse mohawk (picture that for a second) and was just as happy as a clam.

another quirk i have: i tend to hold my breath alot.

cheers!
d

[timpaatkins]

At least I dont do that... But I went through quite a big depression a few years ago due to said GF, and that was the wort period of my life. I remeber one day standing in the shower, looking at my hands and seeing that they were coverd in hair. Those bastards decided to bail on me! So its started to grow back, but Im extremly paranoid about it, and constntly check if its falling otu by putting my fingers through it. Like every 5 min. Now im thinking that I catually am pulling it out in the process... Hmmm

I also have a great one, I love drinking Nescafe whils drawing, but I get so caught up in what Im doing that it constantly goes cold, so I go to reheat the cup in the micro. I do this 4-6 times, before deciding to make a fresh cup. And then the whole process starts over again.

But I love the feeling of time just disappearing (not when Deadline is impending of course!)you know looking up and wondering how 4 hrs just passed like in 10 min.

[timpaatkins]

And i use fancy words even though sometimes im not 100% sure im using them right. but most people dont have a clue anyway, they just sit on their swivelchairs spinning like tops when my lips start flappin fancyspeak.

[ceberae]

:x at the number of people with graphite wounds.

Little quirks:

* I cannot wear any jewelery or watches. Having anything on my wrist annoys the hell out of me. I carry my watch in my bag or pocket.
* Can crack all crackable joints except my fingers. When I crack my knees or wrists I have to repeat the action 3 times.
* Every autumn I have to buy a new pair of gloves because I lose them every winter.
* Ditto for carrying a sketchbook everywhere. I don't leave home without it.


My favourite quirk is being able to whistle in my throat. God knows how it actually works, but I can anyway, and it's pretty quiet so it's more of a personal thing. I used to blurt out swear words via 'whistling' when I was little to avoid getting told off and to cool off a bit when I was pissed off, lol. It annoys my sis. =)No way! And here I thought I was the only one doing that. My mom finds it very annoying, because the sound is very high-pitched. Thankfully for her, I cannot do that 100% of the time. Some times I can, some times I can't. However, once I do start I cannot stop.

[CaptainInsano]

I also have a great one, I love drinking Nescafe whils drawing, but I get so caught up in what Im doing that it constantly goes cold, so I go to reheat the cup in the micro. I do this 4-6 times, before deciding to make a fresh cup. And then the whole process starts over again.


hehe, me too.

[|NTeRN]

im also constantly cracking my joing. from the tips of my fingers, to my knuckles, to my back, hips, and ankles and toes.

i also need pitch black and a fan on me to sleep. if not then i dont.

[Crane]

I also LOVE eatting frozen peas

I'm like 95% immune to headaches and sickness.
and i always managed to somehow look pale when i was faking it to get outta skool.. workedl ike a charm everytime. :yayca:

[Necronomicouch]

Whenever I put down a glass of whatever I'm drinking, I check the palm of my hand, /especially/ if there's condensation on it. I'm not looking for anything particular I just always check

I never like to drink out of the same glass. If I'm at a restaurant or at a friends house I don't wig out nearly as much but if I'm at home if I get a new drink I get a new glass. This is mainly due to the thought that sometime between me finishing the last cup of whatever I drank and the new one, bacteria has had time to grow in whatever remaining droplets that were in it, so I get a new cup. This is why I keep a lot of those red and white beer cups on hand so I don't have to do so many dishes.

(Dogfood I'm with you on this one) I periodically tap my right butt cheek in a wallet checking motion cuz thats where I carry my wallet, but I sometimes do it way too often even if I'm wearing pajama pants with no back pockets

I'm really creeped out by anything going near/touching my eyeball. Ever since I saw "Fire In The Sky" when I was little I've seriously freaked out so its kind of hard for me to put on eyemakeup or get a makeover at a shopping mall.

I don't like swimming in water that has sunken or otherwise submerged man made machinery like airplanes or ships or even skittering pool filter. It freaks me the hell out. For example, if you tossed me in the water at Disneyland's submarine ride I would probably pass out from terror of all the friendly little sea monsters and plastic sharks surrounding me.

I always have to sleep with something covering me, even if its only a sheet and even if its really hot.

Whenever I think of an unpleasant thought or embarrassing thought when I'm alone, I count backwards from ten very loud.

I sometimes move my butt cheek muscles to the tune of music. I've tried hard over the years to stifle this though so I don't do it at inappropriate times.

I give personalities to numbers/colors/inanimate objects. For example my keys are real bitches and don't even get me started on the number 9. Numbers, letters and words also have assigned colors to me, but that's something else entirely.

When I was younger if my hand brushed up against something I had to touch that object with every finger of mine before I could continue on. Thank god I got over /that/.

[endercoskun]

i like to open up and examine the parts of mechanical stuff, especially pencils.

there is a popular exeggerating phrase in turkish among my generation; "as ... as an animal" (i.e. as big as an animal, as beautiful as an animal, etc.) i always think which animal is that, and i usually ask that aloud. most people find it annoying :teeth:

i favor my left hand in some stuff (writing, drawing, brushing teeth...) and right hand in some other stuff (using heavy tools, playing basketball, eating...). tho, i can use both hands fairly well. kinda like semi-ambidexterous.

[dfacto]

I can't stand having anything between my toes. Flipflops drive me up the wall.

[0kelvin]

I'm really creeped out by anything going near/touching my eyeball. Ever since I saw "Fire In The Sky" when I was little I've seriously freaked out so its kind of hard for me to put on eyemakeup or get a makeover at a shopping mall.
Oh no! I had finally gotten over how much that part of the movie creeped me out and now you've gone and resurfaced it! It was just so... eeergh! They put a needle in his eye!

I give personalities to numbers/colors/inanimate objects. For example my keys are real bitches and don't even get me started on the number 9.
I did the same thing with numbers all through school, although it's subsided a lot since I graduated and don't do math nearly as often. I never trusted 9 either. See, even numbers were nicer than odd numbers, and 9 was like ruler of the odds. But 5 was the badass. He was like the Fonz.

Actually, now that I think of it, their personalities were pretty much dependent on how difficult they were to add. The harder it was to do math with the number, the more unpleasant the number's personality was. Interesting...

I have no graphite or other foreign objects lodged in my body.

When I mix a Slurpee, I worry more about colour theory than taste.

I hate telephones.

I have a large wad of gum on my desk that is currently larger than my fist and is steadily growing bigger and bigger. I call it Katamari Gumacy.



0kelvin

[Profil]

Hmmm. I guess I don't listen to the text that often of songs. I listen more to the whole thing rather than focusing on the text, so you may find me singing the same part over and over again, the part I snapped up.

[Hyskoa]

I always wear my wintercoat, even in the middle of summer.
Somehow you don't notice the heat after a while.

I always light up a cigarette or ten when watching Great Teacher Onizuka as a tribute.

also, when I'm not typing, I'm always constantly throwing something in the air.
Can of coke, tv remote, eraser, clock, powerball, you name it, I'm usually bouncing it into the air.

Also², I never have more than one song in my mp3 player's list on infinite repeat.
For example, the song superheroes from daft punk has been on my mp3 player for the last 7 months.

[Jason Manley]

a few more....you all are hilarious. some of the things mentioned made me think of what i do....my key phrase...keys wallet phone..keys wallet phone...keys wallet phone...i lose everything. that phrase keeps me from being locked out of my house etc...hehe

what else....little things...when my hands are dry i put my thumb inside my fist and hold...no idea why. just do.

i have ADD...and if you spent any amount of time with me you would see it. i can skip all over the place...once i get focused people try to talk to me and it takes me twenty minutes to realize anyone said anything...that whole world disappearing thing...but i can also go for weeks without being able to focus at all...zero...and that gets me kinda down...especially if i want to paint. so, i learned to time manage..if im not able to focus, i do something that takes little focus..when the time comes when i can feel my focus coming on, i take advantage of it.


When there is something, someone, some goal, that I want, I find it hard to sleep, or do anything but work toward that which I am thinking about or yearning for. I have to watch this as it can lead to being a bit burned out...but it also keeps me pushing toward my goals.

[Carnifex]

oh yeah,just remembered:
i also take steps 2 at a time as often as possible,even downstairs.
when i see a surface,i almost always know what it must feel like. when it doesn't feel like i imagined i get pretty surprised.
i almost never listen to lyrics of a song. that's why i rather dislike german-singing bands,because i can perfectly understand what they're singing and loose focus of the music itself.

[Necronomicouch]

i almost never listen to lyrics of a song. that's why i rather dislike german-singing bands,because i can perfectly understand what they're singing and loose focus of the music itself.

Coincidentally this is exactly why I /prefer/ to listen to German bands/industrial music, because I don't know what theyre saying ;) Its kind of a mood killer when the really awesome tune is supplemented with really stupid lyrics, so if I don't know what they're saying then it just sounds like part of the tune rather than words.

[DavePalumbo]

of course, it's pretty sweet when the really awesome songs happen to have really well written lyrics. I will settle for no less. Except some Japanese garage and punk I listen to, which probably has pretty dumb ass lyrics, though this is in the foreign language safe zone.

I had finally gotten over how much that part of the movie creeped me out and now you've gone and resurfaced it! It was just so... eeergh! They put a needle in his eye!

flashed me back to the fist time I ever saw Zombie 2. The zombie is pulling the girl's eye towards that huge splinter in the door and you keep expecting the scene to cut and it never fuckin cuts! Skewers that eyeball! Whhhaaaa! That Fulchi is a madman.

I thought I'd never be able to wear contacts because I couldn't touch my eye even a tiny bit, but after a week of practice it wasn't no thang at all. I can prod that fucker like nobodies business now.

[Quicksilver]

...No way! And here I thought I was the only one doing that. My mom finds it very annoying, because the sound is very high-pitched. Thankfully for her, I cannot do that 100% of the time. Some times I can, some times I can't. However, once I do start I cannot stop.
Cool! So I'm not alone XD yeah, tis a funky quirk, methinks. I think by whistling like this my pitching has gotten really good - if you play a note in my range I can sing it in tune perfectly (not to brag ^_^;; ). Plus, since I can barely whistle normally, it's a subtle substitute for singing/humming.

I don't have any graphite or any other foreign material lodged into my body. I must be so weird. I'm not a true artist!! ;__;

My body is shit-slow at reacting to things like fatigue or activity, so I can stay up really late, say, after jumping about at some gig and walking about a lot, and be perfectly fine at 7am or whatever the next morning (or rather, later in the morning). Tis great sometimes, but if I've been working a lot without taking breaks or relaxing it all piles up and hits me in one blow.

[aweshux]

I subconsciously avoid sidewalk cracks when walking down the street.

Whenever I hear about something occuring on tv or radio and they list the time of the day the occurence happened, I'll say out loud to myself or whoever is around what I was doing at that exact time as well.

-Example-

-TV reporter : " ...at 10:34 AM the jet crashed killing all 156 people on board."
-Me: "AHHHH ... I was cleaning my sink when that happened."

Then everyone else within earshot looks at me labels me under 'retard' in their mental filing cabinet.

[one2hit]

[B] I forces me to walk tippy-toe on my right foot and normally with my left foot. When I stand, I shift most of the weight on my left leg. However, it's not noticeable.


do you have back problems at all? cause if you do, that's probably why...and if you are having back/posture problems, I'd get that glass out asap.

[Lady Medusa]

Nice thread :)

When I was a kid (6-7) I got a pencil stuck in my left hand. I still got a grey little dot there, but it's barely visible.

I only exit my house when I've been out of shaving foam-thing and blades for my legs for a long while and when I'm forced to (family going on vacation, grandma coming (I don't want her to buy thing I don't want for me :/), job interwiev, and dentist appointment).

I'm Shizoid

I check the Job Listings forum 10 times or more a day even though I know there isn't much activity there, particularly in the weekends, were usually there is no activity at all. I also have other forums and sites I do the same whit.

I usually feel sick in clothing and shoe shops after a long while (10 mins-1 hour+) because of the smell/air in them and just for the fact that I hate shopping.

[Skuli]

wow this is kinda getting old but yeah my friend stabbed me with a pencil... in class...I was tired, strected out, he thought I was gonna slap him or something and reacted by slapping my hand away, unfortunatly, he was holding a pencil at that moment. Mine is not in there anymore though, or many some bits of it but I think I scratched most of it out of there.
I have this thing about anti theft things in stores, the ones that beep if you try to steal something, it's not like I'm stealing stuff it's just..I feel very uncomfortable walking through these.
I bite my lip all the time if I'm nervous or if I'm concentrating hard on something, and I also stick my tongue out when concentrating. That looks kinda bad when you'r 15 in model drawing class:^^;:.
I loose concentration very fast and I always have to be drumming something with my fingers or whistling...aaaand one more, I crack my fingers ALL the time. *crack*

[stoph]

I hate walking down stairs incase I fall, unless its the stairs in my house.


so.. you enjoy falling down the stairs in your own home? interesting.

as for me, i always go to write the word "bite" with a "ght", so it becomes "bight". dont know why. if i think of two words at once that are to be written following one another, my brain likes to find a word that combines a majority of the main letters of both words. for instance, when writing "as for me" up the top, i originally wrote "as more". think im a tiny bit dislexic, but its a recent development (only this year).

i cant keep still when playing trumpet. ive seen many MANY performers that remain like a statue when playing, but i cant help but sway on the spot when i myself perform. its really noticable when viewing any footage of my school band, wherein ill be the only one thats either bobbing up and down or swaying from side to side involuntarily. its subtle, but still noticable.

[Carnifex]

rofl i'm just trying to imagine what that looks like. must be like simpsons.

[asoir]

so.. you enjoy falling down the stairs in your own home? interesting.

as for me, i always go to write the word "bite" with a "ght", so it becomes "bight". dont know why. if i think of two words at once that are to be written following one another, my brain likes to find a word that combines a majority of the main letters of both words. for instance, when writing "as for me" up the top, i originally wrote "as more". think im a tiny bit dislexic, but its a recent development (only this year).

i cant keep still when playing trumpet. ive seen many MANY performers that remain like a statue when playing, but i cant help but sway on the spot when i myself perform. its really noticable when viewing any footage of my school band, wherein ill be the only one thats either bobbing up and down or swaying from side to side involuntarily. its subtle, but still noticable.

Dude i'm so gonna spell it bight now, thanks a bunch :(

[Vix]

- Like all other people here, I have the tip of a HB pencil in my left hand.

- I also check my wallet/phone/keys all the time.

- Of all the stuff I draw, the best pieces were always the ones I made at very late hours..

- I always switch the TV on when I come home even when I know i'm just going to sit by the comp and totally forget about it.

[S.C. Watson]

This is by no means an exhuastive list, and will most likely be updated;

- When getting ready for bed, I neatly fold my t-shirts, and toss everything else in a heap. Havne't figured that one out yet.
- I eat maybe one real meal a day, forget to eat the rest of the day.
- I'd much rather spend money on a good restaurant than on souvenirs.
- I hate spending money because I always feel that I spend too much.
- I love ice cream and gelato
- I make no judgements about anyone. I start every off at "10" and let them tear themselves down.
- I'm the only pessimistic optimist that I know. If asked, I describe myself as a realist.
- I, too, have a piece of pencil lead lodged in my hand - between my middle and ring finger on the right hand from 7th grade when the kid ahead of me in class turned around out of the blue and stabbed me with his mechanical pencil. I still have no idea why he did that.
- My left thumb is double jointed. My right is not.
- I drink at least one full pot of coffee a day, and love double tall mocha breves'. With a shot of caramel.
- I feel that I am more creative when I draw on lined or graph paper.
- I don't do self portraits. At all.
- I often identify trends before they are trends, but have yet to figure out how to capitolize on this.
- Things are pretty well meaningless to me. Even seriously expensive ones. Works of art (paintings, sculputre, etc.) are not viewed as "things".
- I love a coppella (sp?) singing above all.
- I favor Folk, singer/songwriter musicians over contemporary.
- I love miniatures.

[Steph Laberis]

When I mix a Slurpee, I worry more about colour theory than taste.


You are my hero of the day.

I'm also a skin picker. I would never shave my head, if for no other reason than the fact that it's probably covered in tiny scars from my highschool picking days.

I too curl my tongue out the corner of my mouth when I'm thinking or bored. Thing is, I only started doing this a couple of years ago when I read "Memoirs of a Geisha", because Pumpkin used to do it all the time and it sorta stuck with me.

I sing with better pitch and volume in a foreign language rather than in english. I sing a lot of Japanese songs and because I don't understand all of the lyrics, the words simply become syllables and it sort of clears my mind, rather than worry about the meaning of what I am singing.

[asoir]

Jeez, lots of people have lead-ed hands! I'm a lucky one, although when I was around 5 a fat girl closed the door on my pinky :(

[m3ntor]

I wear my watch on my right wrist, apparantly this is a girls way of wearing it ??
I was under the impression that one wears their watch on the hand they don't write with.

I give personalities to numbers/colors/inanimate objects. For example my keys are real bitches and don't even get me started on the number 9. Numbers, letters and words also have assigned colors to me, but that's something else entirely.

Good to know others do this. It only dawned on me that I do this the other week, and I thought it odd. I also assigned days, months, and subjects colours. Physics is green. Maths (probably calculus) blue.:^^: Not just general colours either. They are very specific shades.
Giving inanimate objects personalities really helps. You can praise stuff when things go well, and yell at them when they don't. Problem being inanimate objects don't feel pain.

In my head I view time as some strange continuum. Like a clock, with the hours in the same places, but three dimensional and sort of helical. The same applies to the week and year. Except the year is not so circular. Hard to explain. Time also seems to have colours assigned to it.

I have a mark on my foot from where a pencil got to it way back in school. Barely visible.

When I walk my ankles usually click. My toes sometimes do this too. Sometimes when walking at speed I sound like a damn train.

I always cut the ends of sausages. I don't really know why. I think it's 'coz there seems to be a higher proportion of bone fragments near the ends.

On the same vein, I cannot eat food that has the wrong texture or sounds funny when eaten. Like Onion: I cannot stand that meaty crunching.

I never take the bus. I'd rather walk or take the train. No matter the distance. And trains just ooze class.

Ice Cream in a bowl must be eaten with a teaspoon. It lasts longer.

I've got into the habit of checking that everything is still in my pockets and on my belt. Phone, ipod, wallet, knife, etc. And I keep my wallet in my leg pocket, so I inagine this looks a bit strange.
I always think I can feel my phone vibrating on my belt. Even when I'm not wearing it.

The food on my plate must be arranged in a particular way. Meat on the left, Potato/chip on the right, and soforth. If not I feel disappointed throughout the whole meal.
And Fish and chips (eaten out of the paper) must be arranged too. And look natural, as though it was just opened and fell that way.

When I have Marmite on toast the Marmite must be applied in dots and not spread.

I cannot stand round neck tops. They feel too tight; I'm always pulling at my neck. Yet, if I have to have a shirt buttoned to the top I have no problem.

Nothing surprises me (regarding news and people telling me things). I tend to feign surprise and such because I think thats what people expect.

I'm left handed, but Right eye dominant.

I really hate anime, Japanese cartoons and like. Surely they're in violation of the San Francisco Treaty?

I really hate smokers. Especially those who smoke on busy streets, and walk as fast a you do so you can't pass them. It makes you want to take to them with a large warhammer and then burn their eyes out with their own cigarette. But I suppose that's a natural reaction. :S

I seriously dislike the idea of chippie sandwiches these days. They were fine when I was young, but these days the very thought makes me feel sick. *ugh* That crunchy sound...with bread. *See above about food textures.

Sometimes (usually) I like to do things the hard, long way. Something about that extra pain and effort makes things so much more rewarding.


This is getting too long. I think I'll leave it at that. Perhaps I'm stranger than I thought. *ponders*

[llothcat]

Whenever I have a full tank of gas, I must drive. I loath getting off the freeway, because I wanna see what's next around the bend. It also helps me to think....All except for heavy traffic jams--I can't wait to get out of traffic jams. I once went to Big Bear, a mountain around here, and ended up not stopping in Big Bear City like I intended. Instead, I went all the way to Victorville, and almost didn't stop. I nearly ran out of gas then, and it just plain scared me. I mean, do you want to push your car along in the middle of BFE just on a stupid-o whim, ei not wanting to stop, not even for gas??

I also like to wrestle(or is it box?) with my cat. I have scars all over because of that. I've done it since my parents allowed us to have our first cat at age 9. It used to get mistaken for the mental disorder they call scarring, I believe. I'm way past my teen years, so, nope, it's not a phase. The cat, it seems, adores me, or perhaps my thumbs(insert cat joke here). He waits for me every day at my parking spot. Poor thing must be mental.

And, nope, no lead here./m\

I do share some quirks with others, and would post 'em, but that would be repeating what's already been shared.

[aweshux]

HA! I had to go to Victorville once (don't ask) and just kept going ... all the way to Vegas.
Ended up with a lot of thinking and about $200 richer too .Those were the days.

[Quicksilver]

so.. you enjoy falling down the stairs in your own home? interesting.
Nuuuuu, I think it's because I feel safer at home, and I'm so familiar with the surroundings so I'm not afraid to run. =)

As for moving when playing an instrument - that just helps portray emotion in your music, doesn't it? If I'm really into a piece, I'll sway a bit when playing the cello. It really helps and the sound can be incredible. I do it automatically when playing the piano, heh.

[cheybea]

When brushing my hair or doing anything to my hair...I "chew" on my tongue.
Whenever I eat ice cream I HAVE to have a glass of milk afterwards.
My right leg gets pins and needles when I work to long on the computer...it happens even when I don't sit on my foot.
Pencil marks? yeh I got one..right index finger..its sexy =P

[bizarre]

physical- piece of graphite stuck in my left middle finger. Diana Robinson did it. 4th grade.
4 false teeth, 2 metal. all broken in fights.
any scar on my body never fades. i think i still have the scar from my circumcision. looks like they cut me with a chainsaw and stitched me up with rope. Damn Korean doctors.

[one2hit]

o__O doesn't every cut guy still have that?

[bumskee]

nose bleed since my brother smacked it when I was 12.. so whenever I am tired my nose will start bleeding before anything.

I suffer from sleep paralysis or night terror or 가위 ..

I bite my nails..all of it..really bad..

I sit on my left leg..

[sve]

I love taste of ham combined with a raspberry jam.

I tend to jump with my thoughts and topics of conversations when I talk to people. It drives them crazy.

I eat fast, talk fast and don't like when my plans have to be changed.

I don't like to walk without any purpose, I need to go somewhere.

I hate phones.

I prefer city street to any park or forest.

I don't like horror movies, even the very naive ones I watched with blanket over my head.
Sveta

[Slash]

I bite my nails all the time, until i get into the skin and it gets sore. After im done with my nails, i start biting my guitar calluses. I dont bite my index, long, and ring fingernails on my right hand, i use those for playing guitar. But when they get too long i bite them, too much every time.


I never had an infected wound. I've never bothered cleaning any cuts i recieve, but still it heals up just fine.


When i enjoy two different things at the same time, (like a smell and sound) it sticks to my memory like super glue. For example, when i hear a part from dennis leary's "no cure for cancer", i instantly remember the part of half-life where you have to go through some waste disposal area. (with the big containers filled with green, radioactive stuff.) Or if i smell exhaust, and see red light at the same time, i remember a conversation i had with a friend, down to his tone of voice and facial expressions.

[Slash]

I love taste of ham combined with a raspberry jam.


I hate phones.




Haha! i love that too! And waffles with cheese and caviar!



Oh, and dont get me started on phones. I hate them too. When my friends ask me why i dont turn on my cellphone my answer is "because then people will call me on it."

[dogfood]

HA! I had to go to Victorville once (don't ask) and just kept going ... all the way to Vegas.
Ended up with a lot of thinking and about $200 richer too .Those were the days.
I pity da fool who stops in Victorville! (having grown up in Apple Valley)

[S.C. Watson]

I
HATE
the
sound
of
styrofoam
rubbing
together

[DavePalumbo]

as of a few days ago, I wear two pairs of pants. Seems reasonable to me (seeing as its cold outside and getting colder every day) but people seem confused by it. I guess it's a bit quirky that my over pants have the option for belt or suspenders (Swedish military pants of some sort with metal buttons around the waist) and I opt for the suspenders. It feels like they're keeping me warmer. It also makes me feel like a lumberjack.

[dogfood]

It also makes me feel like a lumberjack.
And that's OK.

[S.C. Watson]

And that's OK.
LOL :tihi:

[trev]

Hmm, well Ive got quite a self depreciating sense of humour, and I tend to pace back and forth or wander around the house when when Im on the phone.

Sadly I have no graphite embeded in my skin ;)

Thats about it. o.O

[redehlert]

I hold my breath alot.
When I fall asleep, I'm on my back and I cross my ankles (more often than not I also like to fold my arms over my chest). Morbid, eh?

When I was a kid I was usually not tired when I was sent to bed. I'd make myself tired by rolling onto my stomach, hold my breath and beat my head into my pillow as many times as possible before I'd have to breathe again. How's that for fucked up? My record was over 100 'head bonks'. :)

Cheers,
D

[Lone Wolf]

You guys are a bunch of crazy moherfuckers.

Here's mine:
-I have a pencil lead stuck in my palm, no idea how it got there.
-Get addicted to video games, and practically go blind playing them.
-Always fix my spelling before i finish writing. and when i do write it's all a bunch of crap because i'm typing to fast.
-I hate it when people blow throught straws, i hate that sound of air throught it.AWWWW!
-I carry too much shit in my pockets:wallet,knives, keys,gum,phone, candy, paper,old receipts,loose change,3 pairs of gloves.

[CaptainInsano]

I just noticed this about myself:

I always put 3 ice cubes in my cup. Not 2, not 5. But 3.

I turn the volume up/down in increments of 5.

[creatix]

1. I feel very uncomfortable putting on the same pair of socks that I had on when I take them off. Not uncomfortable mentally or anything. I don't feel like its OCD as I don't need to change my socks all day. Its just IF I take them off, it just bugs me to put them back on. Even if I had them off for 10 minutes. They have to feel new and fresh.

I'm not talking about dirty socks and wearing them for 2-3 days in a row. I mean I put on a pair of socks to head to run to the store real fast. I get home, sit down to relax and remove my socks and shoes. I realize I forgot something from the store and have to head back out. 99.9% of the time I'll run into my bedroom, grab a new pair of socks and put those on.

I can wear the same socks all day and I CAN put them back on if I have no choice (camping or something) but in general if a new pair is around - I'll put that on. I literally have about 35 pairs of socks in my drawer. Something about crisp, clean socks I guess.

2. I eat my meals in about 2 minutes or less. I dont consciously think about it and I don't try it as a competition to beat everyone else. I just know that I sit and eat, I get up and my wife/son/mom/dad/sister or whoever I am with is like "WTF? You're done already?" I do this every meal, every single day.

3. In my mind, I spell out the words on billboards that I see when driving long distances.

[Advocate of Fate]

just noticed this today.
when im bowling, i take EXACTLY 7 steps on my approach. if i dont, my throw is fucked up and ill probably gutter it.

[redehlert]

i suck with time limits. it's not like i panic, but i think more about the time limit rather than just getting down to business. i get frustrated. for example, drawing with 15 minutes as a time limit. or, being tested for my gre back in '94 prior to grad school - that test is more complex than an act or sat, but you get the idea. oy.

[CRØW]

I love this thread. I've always noticed that artists tend to be quirky people.

So were to begin...
• I do have OCD, I tend to wash my hands alot. this is mainly a problem in the winter as the skin on my arms looks ashy and my hands crack and bleed alot. Unfortunately I am powerless to repair the damage as the feeling of lotion on my skin totally weirds me out.

• I am the same way about my socks too, I usually put a new pair on if I have just taken a pair off and need to go out again. Though I don't find this weird. It has to do with the socks cooling off after being against your skin. It causes condesation in the sock fibers making them feel cool and damp.

• When I was a kid and played D&D I loved making character sheets, I'd spend forever carefully writing all the information out, but it had to be on 3-hole punched notebook paper. Because of this I love notebook paper to this day, though I haven't used it in years.

• I love to put grape jelly on my eggs, sausage patty, & hashbrowns, butonly when I'm eating out. Never at home. Though I've done it since I was a little kid. My wife likes to tease me about it, but I know deep down she secretly wants to try it. :P

• I tend to talk to myself in made up languages, while I'm doing this I am rehearsing in my head what I would say the words mean if someoe asked me. I secretly like to believe that they are words from a forgotten language that is buried in our subconscious memory.

• I am also a leg twitcher and do not realize I do it, my wife gets onto me all the time at the theater because I unitentionally irritate those around us.

• I tend to space-out frequently, I don't realize I do this either. I even have times when I feel like I'm watching myself from outside of myself.

• I dream about sword-fighting all the time. Literally I have a running sword-fight going on in my head all of the time. However both of the combatants are so skilled they almost never make contact. They are constantly flowing around each other.

• I also want a suit of samurai armor. Which I'd prefer to hand stitch myself. If I had it I'd wear it all the friggin time.:teeth:

• I do not have any pencil lead stuck in me, but I caused my brother to stab himself in the back with a No.2 pencil when we were kids...does that count?

• I have to constantly check my pockets for my keys and my wallet. It gets worse with age. I now constantly check my pockets when we are at the movies, dinner, driving around...whatever. I also feel naked without my keys. Whenever I go on a trip I argue with my wife because I want to take them, and she is afraid I'll lose them if I do.

• I think pickles are the most unholy abomination before God I can think of (at least in the food arena.)

• I never discuss Politcs with anyone. I also will never discuss religion or Star Wars with anyone other than My best freind & my wife. Though I can't talk to her about the prequels, even though they are as good as the original movies.

• I adore books, and the thought of people reading them in the bathroom makes me violently ill.

• When I need to put a number in a drawing I tend to pick numbers that are magic. 3, 5, 7, & 13 are particular favorites. Especially the numer 5 as It has the most distinct shape, and is the only number that you can use to draw Snoopy wearing a hat.

• I prefer to listen to movie scores while I draw, unless I'm trying to draw something scary or evil, then I break out the TOOL.

• I also daydream that I am really an ancient being and that my current life is a disguise I wear until such time as I am needed. I know it's not true of course, but I like to imagine "what if..."

• I hate wearing things on my wrist, but I love watches. :S When I do wear a watch I wear it on my right wrist. This is because my dad is left handed. You normally wear your watch on the wrist opposite your dominate hand. However I wear it on my right because That is the way I always saw it growing up. It feels weird having it on my left.

• I could go on but i'm probably boring you. However for my finale I have one last quirk...

I can cause my eyes to visibly vibrate. Unfortunately I showed my mom this trick once when I was a kid and ended up with glasses, even though I have excellent vision.

Well hopefully I'm not TOO weird for you guys...:nohope:

[redehlert]

since Crow brought up the number 13, i figured i'd share this interesting item in my history: my birthday is june 13. on my thirteenth birthday it was friday, june 13 (cool huh!?!)... it got to be over a 100° that day back in lovely elgin, illinois and i had a new football that popped due to the heat. i like to think it hit 103° that day. :) it's my golden number and has always been a favorite of mine.
cheers!
d

[MarkHarchar]

I hate when little noises occur in my car that I can't account for. It drives me crazy.

I'll also sit down on the floor of the shower in the morning rather than stand up because it takes less energy...

The sheets on my bed need to be perfect smooth and even when I get in bed.

I don't like celery in my macaroni salad because crunchy things shouldn't be mixed with squishy things.

I believe I have Seasonal Affective Disorder and become a miserable bastard when the sun doesn't shine.

[nacho]

I sit in the shower too, sometimes. I do this because I fell asleep quite a few times while standing in the shower and hit my head hard.
I'll also shower after taking a bath. I like to take a bath to relax, but I don't feel clean afterwards.

I often talk to my cat, most of the time I just randomly swear at him. In english, although I'm german. "What's up fucktard?", "Time to eat cuntfart!" It's all in good fun though. He does it, too.

I hate to laugh in front of the computer, I force myself not to laugh at funny stuff on screen.

[flatliner]

The sheets on my bed need to be perfect smooth and even when I get in bed.


ha, im the opposite - i see know reason to tidy my bed. Whats the point? im only gunna mess it up when I go to bed.

when listening to music through ear plugs, I have to have the left one in the left ear, and the right one in the right ear even if music isn't in stereo, or there's no difference in comfort, I just can't have them in the wrong ear. The worse thing is the little L and R designating which is which have almost gone on my current pair through wear and tear - so I have to hold them up close to the nearest light source to double check I got them right.

[timpaatkins]

Ill tell you one of my moms annoying quirks. I mean she is an excellent cook, BUT she cannot deviate or experiment from a given recipie, even down to replacing wholefat creme fraice with half fat. If itsin the recipie its the law. That really annoys me.

[CGMonkey]

I get anxiety attacks whenever I think of an embarrassing moment, and I consider most moments emberassing.. Like when thinking back ofnwriting this will certainly make me very uncomfortable and I often "shout" or make loud noises because I want the thought out of my head. And coordinated body moments.

NO ONE KNOWS THIS. I´m a rather normal person, I swear!

[Evil_Sloth]

Whenever I break up with girls I spend the next couple of months being paranoid that they are going to sleep with my friends to get revenge on me. Also some times I cant get to sleep at night because i imagine my bed is on the edge of a cliff and it will fall off if i roll over.
Also I love dancing at parties, which used to be quite embarrassing but now it seems to be cool the older you get up to a certain point or if you can dance well.

[timpaatkins]

Cg monkey, isnt that whats also known as Tourettes?

[dfacto]

I just noticed this about myself:

I always put 3 ice cubes in my cup. Not 2, not 5. But 3.

I turn the volume up/down in increments of 5.

Right. One... two... five!

Three, sir.

Three!

[flatliner]

I get anxiety attacks whenever I think of an embarrassing moment, and I consider most moments emberassing.. Like when thinking back ofnwriting this will certainly make me very uncomfortable and I often "shout" or make loud noises because I want the thought out of my head. And coordinated body moments.

NO ONE KNOWS THIS. I´m a rather normal person, I swear!

huh, i think i do that - although not to the extent of an anxiety attack. when I remember an embarssing moment I'll shake my head randomly, or say something aloud just to get rid of the thought.

I get anxiety attacks when something gruesome happens in a movie. It dos'nt have to be actually shown either, or even in a live action film (I have had an anxiety attack from watching a gnarly bit in a manga movie before). But I never knew that they were anxiety attacks untill now :dur:.

[worxe]

Nail biting, and biting the 'corner'.. skin where my fingernails sit

Usually have thoughts of embarressing moments and beat myself (not litterely) up over it for doing whatever was done at that time and the way i could have resolved whatever had occurred. Happens always when im trying to get to sleep, so fucking frustrating sometimes.

On the subject of women, whenever I see a gorgeous girl in my class, I always think that im simply not upto scratch and that id just embarress her and myself, and again beat myself up for it.

Dont have any lead pieces stuck in me or anything, the only injuries that i've had was a fractured thumb that is now triple-jointed, and my knee that once snapped inward (my left leg clicked and buckled inward toward my right leg) and ever since then ive been scared shitless it was going to happen again every time I do anything even half-strenuous like sports or something that itll buckle again, because I dont want to have to snap it back into place like the last time, my mum said my face was completely pale after I came out of the room, but yeah, constant thoughts of it snapping inward again or in some other funky direction.

Another annoying thing that occurs frequently is whatever I do or anything I say is accompanied by incessant/flooded thoughts of what will/would/could conflict with whatever I do or anything I say and lead to a thought of an embarressing moment of what I would think would happen at the time.. either that or Im not sure how to explain it.. I guess an example would be just last night actually, after work we had a christmas party, the business I worked at also had my dad and my brother working there aswell, so I went with my family, aswell as everyone else involved.. this party being at some uber hotel with waiters/waitresses that totally went out of their way to offer you drinks or anything to eat, another chair or foot rest (like i said, uber hotel =S, never been to one till last night ). Anyway, got late at the night, me not having the confidence to dance sat at the table on my own whilst everyone else was on the dance floor enjoying themselves, whilst im sitting there even sweating at the thought of the hundreds of different ways I would make a mistake, fuck up or make myself look like the laughing stock for the year.

I also talk to myself, though luckily noone's sprung me.. yet, I just hate the thought when your in a room and the doors shut, and when you've finished whatever you were doing in the first place AND talking to yourself, you look back and you find the door open, or something like that. Jesus that scares me..

[tullie]

I often talk to my cat, most of the time I just randomly swear at him. In english, although I'm german. "What's up fucktard?", "Time to eat cuntfart!" It's all in good fun though. He does it, too.


Lmao.

~I can't concentrate unless I have a can of coke.

[CaptainInsano]

I hate when little noises occur in my car that I can't account for. It drives me crazy.

I'll also sit down on the floor of the shower in the morning rather than stand up because it takes less energy...
.


The car thing, that bugs the hell out of me too.

I usualy sit in the shower as well. But most of the time it's because I'm hung over.

[CGMonkey]

Cg monkey, isnt that whats also known as Tourettes?

Well maybe, but I can control.. it´s something I do willingly to get it out of my head in a weird sorta way. I think I could develop it to the extent of a Tourettes disorder.

[armando]

I often have to fight down the urge to bow when greeting or thanking someone outside of the dojo... sometimes I forget and find myself bowing anyway.
.

I haven't taken martial arts lessons in nearly a decade, and I still slightly do it. Once a martial artist always a martial artist. When I'm pissed off and there's no way for me to let off steam, I start thinking up elaborate fight scenes with me wasting a bunch of people like a movie. They can get pretty gory, like ripping off limbs, but my imagination is weak and fuzzy like everyone else's, so it's not that graphic.

[armando]

Usually have thoughts of embarressing moments and beat myself (not litterely) up over it for doing whatever was done at that time and the way i could have resolved whatever had occurred. Happens always when im trying to get to sleep, so fucking frustrating sometimes.

On the subject of women, whenever I see a gorgeous girl in my class, I always think that im simply not upto scratch and that id just embarress her and myself, and again beat myself up for it.



I've been working on the rethinking the embarrassing moments thing, there's shit I've been thinking about for over 10 years, I'm getting better though. I had mild agoraphobia(spelling?) for about a year, I'd freak out when I went outside, I couldn't breath it felt like I was going to die, but I could overcome it sometimes by will power.
I'm the same way with girls, it's pathetic. There's this girl at the YMCA I go to, and everytime I try to talk to her I freeze up. This chicks hot, like spontaneously combust if you look at her for too long. Anyway I'm over that shit as of today, I've been hiding myself for too long, and I owe it all to you guys. Oh yeah, sometimes when I get nervous a song I don't like will start repeating in my head.

[SillyLing]

I carry a stuff animal around with me. Even though it's rather large. =) It's my baby.

Without it I have these panic attacks... O_o; I start running around like a
mad women and start searching for my stuff bear even tho it's at home.

o.o; I can't stop my feeling from acting that way.

[NOOSE]

WOW soemone count up all the Pencil tattoos whats it at? add me to that list,...I deflected an attack in grade 7 with my wrist, its still there.

I wasnt going to post till I read some of these and some were strangly erie!

lol..for Jason: I flip all my mini wheats, frosty side down, have since they came out, I belived that the frosting will desolve in the milk and be absorbed more evenly into the rest of the peices, I also dont like crunchy and mushy textures in my food, and this helps keep that consistant...

when I get realy bored I like to invent a kind of God complex,...I sometimes get the feeling I have created every one and every thing around me just to keep me sane because in reality im probably all alone on a rock in space. I try to trick myself into seeing signs that its true... and sometimes it can get freaky, I once almost convinced my wife and her friend! lol

I belive people I have met in my dreams realy exist...

I often examin peoples signitures to see if they involve an X or a + as the prominant figure, (to me this is important)

-for the last 2 years have been collecting data based on a personal theory the effects of different earthly climates on the human body, and global colonization just to help me pinpoint the origional climate and design of the planet I belive humans came from. Right down to the molten core size to style of plant growth and water temp and food sources.

I also put alot of stock in Deja vu. :)

[A.Cerasoli]

Lets see.. I twitch a lot from heavy drug use in my teens. (Damn I regret that now). I also can not sit still...ever, for instance, If I'am sitting at a desk and talking to someone I'am either drawing or twirling something around my finger or figeting. (hope I spelled that right).

[seth1]

I got a piece of lead in my right hand you can see it prefect... I also have a little scar on the bottom of my palm and i forget about it and think it is dirt and try to get rid of it tell i remember it is a scar...

I wont anwser a phone for the life of me, or talk on one.....
I cant stand the littlest things touching my ribs
I have to be listening to music when i draw and if someone touches the music or changes the voulme it makes me mad
I dont like using cups so i usally just drink out of the tap
I use a fork to eat every thing
When i get nervous i turn really red and i turn reder becuase i know i am getting red
I dont like to have my sheets or pillows or any thing on my bed orderly if it is ill jump on it and mess every thing up and then throw the pillows on the bed...
I allways have to read some thing in the bathroom to even the shampooh bottles or novels and i just get caught up and sit there for ever
When i look at people or any thing it turns into a comic like sincity or i just zone out and star into nothing...
When i am brushing my teeth and after the cold water i allways like to drink it and then when i wake up i piss for a couple minutes it's like never ending..

[Morbid]

I have many quirks, some have developed and got really complex. Kind of like games that go on in my mind, with rules and stuff.

For example I always walk equally many steps with each of my feet on every kind of ground, like 2 steps each on some gravel, then 3 each on the grass and so on. There are many exceptions or should I say excuses, for when i cant keep it up, like I can do a "double step" with one foot, which I then have to compromise by making one with my other foot later... wierd I know.

[dfacto]

I think a psychiatrist could keep himself busy for a really long time with us.

[NoSeRider]

My quirk is I made threads about my quirks.

I think I did enouph psycho babble........keep in mind I use to surf a lot. Now surfers are posturing ego maniacs, so I can easily revert to that behavior.

[Necronomicouch]

I get anxiety attacks whenever I think of an embarrassing moment, and I consider most moments emberassing.. Like when thinking back ofnwriting this will certainly make me very uncomfortable and I often "shout" or make loud noises because I want the thought out of my head. And coordinated body moments.

NO ONE KNOWS THIS. I´m a rather normal person, I swear!

I do the same thing. I count backwards loudly from 10 when I want to forget a bad or embarrassing thought.

[TechLoveAffair]

I got a million of em. I swear I could write a book with all the wierd crap I catch myself doing.

When I was little I used to have horrible night terrors that monsters would come out of the dark from another dimension. Or that my house would eat me like on that episode of Doug where he was watching that little house on the prairie horror movie and the entire cabin came alive. Freakin scarred me. Anyway, I have a big, curvy Egyptian knife I take with me whenever I go outside at dark, even just to take the trash to the curb. And no matter how much I try to fight it, whenever I'm coming back inside through the doorway I inevitably tense my entire body up, swing my head around, check for monsters/zombies/murderers/whatever, swing the door shut, lock both locks, and, knife at the ready, make a slow sweep of the house for intruders. Too much Resident Evil for sure.

On a related note, after reading The Zombie Survival Guide, and not to mention having played through every single Resident Evil game since I was six, I'm terribly afraid of a zombie outbreak, and I tend to dream about it a lot.

Ever since I saw the movie Cabin Fever(man, what a disgusting movie!), I've been mildly paranoid about deadly diseases. Not so much anymore, but there was a time I'd fear eating or drinking anything cause it might make me projectile vomit my intestines.

I sometimes put myself through strange tests with insane consequences for failure, like "Quick! Flatten out the comforter and cover yourself with it all the way then tuck the edges in, before this commercial's over, or a monster's gonna wrap its arms around you from under the bed and eat you!" They just pop into my head, seriously. And when I'm done with it I'm like, 'Wait, what did I just do...? Did I seriously just do that? Wierd...'

If I stare off into space and don't focus on anything, I can see little really tiny, opaque purplish specks bouncing off of eachother. They look like particles whizzing around on the surface of my eye or something, and I usually notice them at least once a day. Anyone else ever notice this?

I'm sometimes consumed by an incredible rage, then self-hatred, and then a deep, burning depression, out of nowhere, and I seriously have no idea why.

I toy with the idea of having a split personality too often for my own good. Also, sometimes I'll catch myself talking to myself, like when I'm doing something boring and I'm all alone. And while I'm talking to myself I'm only vaguely aware of it.

I want to be an honorable but deadly warrior! Or a ninja!

My mind works way too fast for me. Like if I see an attractive girl, images swirl through my head that are schway inappropriate for this board, like instantly.

I talk to my cat in what little German I know. "Wie bist du Katze? Gut? Gut!" I'm not even sure if it's right but it sure is fun :D

My left arm's a little thinner than my right because one of the counselors at a Tennessee YMCA tripped backward over me when I was six and cracked my arm right below the shoulder. Ouch! Strangely enough it seems to be a bit stronger too.

I secretly want to be a super-nerd, but I know I'll never get laid again if I pursue my passion :(

I tend to place things at right angles to other things around em. Especially if it's pencils, pens, etc. with the edge of a desk or notebook.

I choke up and blush around girls that are attracted to me, but not girls that aren't. Call it a sixth sense, but it sure as hell doesn't get me dates.

I usually cry(or get close to it) when I watch big medieval battle scenes.

I sing silently to music in my head all the time, especially in front of mirrors.

When I lift weights I make horrible faces. And when I do something physically stressful I get this wierd light red discoloration on part of my chest, like the top part of a toga.

My body hair grows in about an eighth-inch to the right.

I'm left handed :P

I freakin hate talking on the phone!

[sly's hand]

Well I am pretty sure this would qualify, I have a tendency to mimic almost everything I see that I get along with, people, drawings, accents, mannerisms, and sometimes without really knowing until it has happend for a few minutes... There have been a few instances where I hold onto a saying or even an accent twinge for longer than I care to mention :^^;:

I tend to pick at things that I think are broken till they actually break... that one is starting to piss me off :p.

that is all I can think of for now :S

[broken lizard]

i don't have that many quirks, i just do a ton of wierd things.
i actually share a few quirks with Mikecorriero, MoP and Asoir.
here's mine, anyway:

Physical:
my teeth are unnaturally pointed and sharp, and i have six canine teeth.

my hair grows freakishly fast.

i have a lot of scars, but i don't have any on my face.

my natural expression is a deep scowl.

mental/habitual/whatever:
when trying to sleep, i mathematically work stuff out. like how many seconds father christmas has to deliver presents and stuff like that.

if i have a song in my head, it kind of flows into another song. like they begin blending into each other.

if a sketchbook has writing on the front i can't draw in it properly.(this doesn't matter if i wrote it or had anything to do with it being there)

i keep whipping out my swisscard for no reason.

i use a clockwork pocketwatch. (i'm thirteen and don't wear a waistcoat)

i can't stand wearing rings.

i find it a lot easier to draw in biro/pen and mechanical pencils. wooden pencils seem odd and irrite me.

i'm constantly trying to find something good to call myself. i don't know why, but my name seems innapropriate(birth name)

i always sleep on my right side.

i feel naked when i'm not wearing jewellery.

i much prefer talking to women than men.

[armando]

I sometimes put myself through strange tests with insane consequences for failure, like "Quick! Flatten out the comforter and cover yourself with it all the way then tuck the edges in, before this commercial's over, or a monster's gonna wrap its arms around you from under the bed and eat you!" They just pop into my head, seriously. And when I'm done with it I'm like, 'Wait, what did I just do...? Did I seriously just do that? Wierd...'



I used to run through the hallway at home and jump up and slap the top of the doorway to hit an invisible safety switch so monsters wouldn't get me when I moved through different rooms when I was a kid.

If I stare off into space and don't focus on anything, I can see little really tiny, opaque purplish specks bouncing off of eachother. They look like particles whizzing around on the surface of my eye or something, and I usually notice them at least once a day. Anyone else ever notice this?



Mine are red, sometimes white. I hate talking on the phone too.

[VirusArtist]

I
HATE
the
sound
of
styrofoam
rubbing
together


UAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHRRRGGGGggghhhhhh... had to skip reading the following posts, just to write "yeah.. me too... its horrible"... just thinking about that sound makes me pose like an idiot due to mental pain and disgust...

sometimes i wake up, punching the wall without reason...

i tend to have a faible for absolute nonsense (listening to the spongebob credits and the music from level 2 of earthworm jim right now) /m\

I barely sleep...

most of the time I quote the simpsons when trying to give helpful advise (aint that odd? or did I just realise that the simpsons are an infinite source for good advise? dunno)

I am missing two front teeth- some punk beat me up with a piece of wood when I was 6... my upper row of teeth looks like that of a carnivore. no signs of pencil tips in my body though... guess I got lucky :P

I am night-active and very sensitive towards the sun, although I am neither a goth or a vampire.

temperatures above 20 degrees celsius are instantly draining my energy...

I am shy, but dont show it ;)

Thats about it... further information about myself propably would lead to a mob gathering in front of my door, demanding the blood of the antichrist :devil:

Cheers,
Etienne

[ruzkin]

I have no pencil lead in me... I did however stab a kid in the neck with a pencil, back in the third grade.
The worst part of it was that I thought I'd escaped his wrath when I moved overseas in the 5th grade to Vienna... then when I came back to Australia and started at a new school, guess who was in the same class as me?

[Morbid]

I have a splinter of bone in my right elbow. The doctor says its not worth taking out though. Kind of irritating sometimes when it locks up...

[Rebecca]

Okay, I used to have a piece of graphite stuck in the palm of my left hand, but after the skin had healed over it, It was too painfull so I used a graphite pencil to get it out! :) a scar remains.

When somthing freaks me, out, or if I hear somthing that sounds painful, or see something that looks painfull in a movie (Like the girls fingernails in The Ring), my feet go into spasms, and i get terrible foot cramp! I hate that :o

The thought of foot cramp gives me foot cramp!

:(

I hate mushrooms, they should be banned! (sorry for those who like them)
I'm a carnivore, I hate most vegetables. the only vegetable I like is... potatoes, I guess! :S

[Blahm]

i pooh on my tippy toes.

[redehlert]

now that sounds like a problem, blahm. why would anyone want to pooh on their tippy toes. then you're walkin' around your house with pooh on your toes. hahahahahaa.....

[Blahm]

being on your tippy toes helps the pooh release. silly.

[osgoon]

when i go jogging i flinch at every leaf and piece of wood cause im always afriad its a dead animal.

im deadanimal-o-phobic

[Layil]

Heh, these are great people! Ye gods, what a neurotic bunch we are...im glad im not alone!

herm, lets see...

I also avoid stepping on the cracks of the sidewalk, unless i have something else to focus my attention on.

I have an irrational fear that cars are going to run over my heels and snap my achilles tendon when im crossing the street. Im also afraid that i will trip and crack my front teeth when going up stairs.

I grind my teeth alot, to the point that i have to have my dentist redo my fillings every few years.

I usually only capitalize the first letter of a sentance and never use apostraphies unless im writing for business or some other formal thing. This is partially intentional, due to the wierd layout of spanish keyboards (now its just habit and laziness). This drives people nuts, which is funny cause im actually an apostraphy nazi and am always correcting peoples grammer.

I am double jointed in my elbows, knees and fingers and very flexible everywhere else.

My face is totally assymetrical, i look like two different people cut in half and stuck together.

I am talk to myself constantly, usually in different voices and characters, often lecturing or arguing with myself, either outloud or in my head, depending on whos around.

I mumble. alot.

I carry a sketchbook of some kind or another around all the time because if i dont ill want it for something.

Ive subcounsciously trained myself to always keep everything in the same place so i dont have to think about where i put it cause im a space cadet and id lose everything otherwise.

The feel of dry wood in my mouth makes me cringe and gag (i always dip my chopsticks in my drink before using them), so does dry paper rubbed on glass (like when youre windexing a window and the papertowel dries out) eeeeeek!

[Blahm]

when i go jogging i flinch at every leaf and piece of wood cause im always afriad its a dead animal.

im deadanimal-o-phobic

that made me laugh.

[Blahm]

The feel of dry wood in my mouth makes me cringe and gag
eeeeeek!

your probly not alone in this. Zingger!

[Avetice]

i hardly ever sleep on a bed anymore
this has been a trend that pretty much took over last winter after the san fran workshop and hasn't stopped yet. Either my room is too messy and im too busy to clean it (everything on the bed) or Id just rather sleep on the floor so I dont sleep in too late. I think it also was budding all through college when i had to learn how to take naps so they wouldnt turn into 5-7 hour sleep
and i've pretty much habitually wont sleep on a bed anymore till i get a job in the biz and have my own bed
im always double,triple, quadruple checking my fly to make sure its zipped after ive gotten out of the bathroom
i punch a baby everytime i hear eye of the tiger
i do the carry a sketchbook EVERYWHERE thing...except the shower, bathroom yes, shower no, even movie theatres and church
...and i have to play a game straight through, of course i have to work and i dont play them unless im on a break from school

[romance]

When there is something, someone, some goal, that I want, I find it hard to sleep, or do anything but work toward that which I am thinking about or yearning for. I have to watch this as it can lead to being a bit burned out...but it also keeps me pushing toward my goals.

Same Here. Gotta love tunnelvision.

Some other quirks of have.

I HAVE to listen to a whole album straight through.
I clench my teeth when drawing.
I can only drink milk if it's in a coffee mug.
I loathe cheese.
When doing details in a drawing, I'll put my face about 6-inches from the paper. As if it helps me see them :P
I feel embarrassed seeing people on TV do embarrassing things.
Sometimes I talk in third person.

And... like many of you. I have more than enough pencil marks in me. I recall the days of the foolish pencil 'wars' like they were yesterday. Wait a second, that was yesterday. :P

I'm sure there is more, but either they don't come to mind or I don't know about them yet.

-Rob

[haribubba]

hmmm i have the graphite in my hand too. stabbed my self with an oriole #2. it was upside down in my pocket, and i jammed my hand in there.

my feet very rarely see the light of day, and NOONE touches them ever. but on the good side they are smoothe and perfect.

i pace a lot, i mean A LOT.

silverware rubbing together makes me twinge.

i have very little chest hair.

i have a whole lot of leg hair.

i used to constantly have dreams that im trying to make up my bed but it keeps collapsing because its too fragile. same with that crazy dream that everything has large black scribbles on it.

i love macaroni and cheese (from teh box of course) with ketchup.

it REALLY pisses me off when people put trash in the sink (paper towles, soda cans, etc. i mean come on the trash can is like 3 fucking feet away goddamnit!)

[That fat kid]

I have a complusion to buy art supplies I'll never use...I have about 10 boxes of ebony pencils, and 3 pallette knives....I've never used a pallette knife in my life...and more oil paint mediums than I can shake a stick at....

I tear up when I see the sun setting on the ocean

I have to have a death grip on my pillow with both arms to sleep....

[Interceptor]

I have a complusion to buy art supplies I'll never use...I have about 10 boxes of ebony pencils, and 3 pallette knives....I've never used a pallette knife in my life...and more oil paint mediums than I can shake a stick at....



I'm the same. I still have about 18 of the 20 tubes of pink lead that I ordered. used them for one piece, and I doubt I'll ever touch them again.

[Jonoy]

I call tha shots on television programs which irks the peeps I know greatly...
then when I am right they get down-right p!ssed... (not that I am always right, right)

[glikster]

I used to run through the hallway at home and jump up and slap the top of the doorway to hit an invisible safety switch so monsters wouldn't get me when I moved through different rooms when I was a kid.

I used to jump when going through doors, too, until 12th grade when I jump-kicked a door open (it was in school and had the pushbar in the middle)... I also slammed my forehead into the top of the door frame and had to get stitches.

I feel like it's my responsibility to relax other people, even when I don't know that they're upset. When I fell into a bonfire and took a cab to the clinic with two friends, I was making jokes during the ride because I thought they might
have been freaked out.

I have this obsessive fear that those close to me will die. Not vaguely, but whenever something comes up that could possibly pose a threat (think my wife driving to the grocery store) I get serious anxiety. Forget about hearing my daughter coughing at night.

o__O doesn't every cut guy still have that?
No, they don't.

[Carnifex]

i can't stand the sound of someone typing on a keyboard. if that's the only sound around me i will go crazy unless i put on some music.

[enigma]

I have a complusion to buy art supplies I'll never use...I have about 10 boxes of ebony pencils, and 3 pallette knives....I've never used a pallette knife in my life...and more oil paint mediums than I can shake a stick at....

I tear up when I see the sun setting on the ocean

I have to have a death grip on my pillow with both arms to sleep....


lol~ That's similar to me buying almost every game that i find interesting after it's released and never getting around to playing them :\