What are your small compulsive behaviors?
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@the_quiet_one I don't delete most emails. I just read/mark read. I only delete spam emails.
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@benjamin-hall said in What are your small compulsive behaviors?:
@the_quiet_one I don't delete most emails. I just read/mark read. I only delete spam emails.
Ah, I see. Interestingly, part of my insane habit is due to the fact that I can visually see which emails I've read and, therefore, which are "more" important. But, that doesn't mean I don't use the star to mark emails. That's for "really important."
I know it defies logic and when I think about it, it's a ridiculous system, but for whatever reason it doesn't bother me enough to change. That's all I'll say about it, though. I think I've triggered you enough.
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@anotherusername said in What are your small compulsive behaviors?:
if something says to boil for 11-13 minutes
If something says to boil for 11-13 minutes, I must boil it for 12 minutes. If something says to bake for 22-25 minutes, that pisses me off because I must bake it for 23.5 minutes and since my oven's timer doesn't go in increments of less than a minute I have to use the microwave's timer for the last leg.
@the_quiet_one said in What are your small compulsive behaviors?:
I will say that on my phone, I like to keep my call list and text messages to zero.
Any unread count I have must be 0. With my iPhone this drives me crazy because it has counts everywhere. All notifications must be dismissed, I must have no pending meeting invitations, no "missed calls" (go in and view details on each one to clear them even if I'll never call them back), no unread messages in my Inbox, no unread text messages.
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Food cannot mix.
I save the best flavors to eat last.
I separate Skittles by color.
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@heterodox said in What are your small compulsive behaviors?:
@anotherusername said in What are your small compulsive behaviors?:
if something says to boil for 11-13 minutes
If something says to boil for 11-13 minutes, I must boil it for 12 minutes. If something says to bake for 22-25 minutes, that pisses me off because I must bake it for 23.5 minutes and since my oven's timer doesn't go in increments of less than a minute I have to use the microwave's timer for the last leg.
I'm impressed that your oven is so... average.
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Car temperature 69 degrees all summer, 72 all winter.
Dual zone must be on, both temperatures must match, and both temperature knobs have a flat facing straight upwards. As they are Rotary encoders with exactly one click that faves straight up, this is difficult to achieve. Automatic blend door and fan speed control must be on.
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I breathe in, then out, every few seconds. I really wish I could break that habit.
Also, I eat food and drink liquids. I'm pretty sure that if I can get past that first one, I can beat those, too.
And I apologize, a lot. Sorry.
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@karla said in What are your small compulsive behaviors?:
I separate Skittles by color.
Who doesn't? I don't want green apple mixed with grape. Yuck.
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@the_quiet_one said in What are your small compulsive behaviors?:
@karla said in What are your small compulsive behaviors?:
I separate Skittles by color.
Who doesn't? I don't want green apple mixed with grape. Yuck.
The rest of my family just grabs handfuls.
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@the_quiet_one said in What are your small compulsive behaviors?:
@karla said in What are your small compulsive behaviors?:
I separate Skittles by color.
Who doesn't? I don't want green apple mixed with grape. Yuck.
You mean they have different flavors?
:trolleybus:
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@anotherusername said in What are your small compulsive behaviors?:
the key to lock my front door turns one way to lock the deadbolt and the other way to lock the knob.
Hmm. IIRC depending on the design, if you invert the bolt part of the deadbolt it would reverse the direction you turn, but this doesn't work on all types...
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@anotherusername said in What are your small compulsive behaviors?:
@the_quiet_one said in What are your small compulsive behaviors?:
@karla said in What are your small compulsive behaviors?:
I separate Skittles by color.
Who doesn't? I don't want green apple mixed with grape. Yuck.
You mean they have different flavors?
:trolleybus:
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@benjamin-hall said in What are your small compulsive behaviors?:
@the_quiet_one I don't delete most emails. I just read/mark read. I only delete spam emails.
I use read to determine if I've read them, and use done/not done to know if I care anymore. Google Inbox rules.
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@anotherusername said in What are your small compulsive behaviors?:
@zecc said in What are your small compulsive behaviors?:
@tsaukpaetra said in What are your small compulsive behaviors?:
@zecc said in What are your small compulsive behaviors?:
@benjamin-hall said in What are your small compulsive behaviors?:
I have this with timer durations and alarm times. Must be in 5 minute increments and end with 5 or 0. When I had an alarm clock that had a 7 minute snooze it was quite aggravating.
You'll think I'm a monster, but I have the opposite compulsion. Alarms I have set in my phone (most inactive): 6:31, 6:53, 7:01, 7:11 (very convenient), 7:23, 7:42, 7:51, 8:01, 8:29, 8:41, 9:01, 9:11, 11:38, 12:10 (woah), 12:58.
That ordering! I hate you right now.
Wait, what? It doesn't sort them by time automatically?
It can. I just chose not to. Because I love that the devs let me have that option.
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@the_quiet_one said in What are your small compulsive behaviors?:
I'm the guy who has emails dating back to gmail's registration, starting with "Welcome to Gmail. Email from Google" and an unread count exceeding 12,000.
You must not be subscribed to many mailing lists....
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@benjamin-hall said in What are your small compulsive behaviors?:
@the_quiet_one said in What are your small compulsive behaviors?:
@magus same here. I'm the guy who has emails dating back to gmail's registration, starting with "Welcome to Gmail. Email from Google" and an unread count exceeding 12,000. If anyone asks why my answer is "I don't give a fuck"
The only reason I purge my voicemails is because there is a tight limit. Otherwise I'd have an archive of them too.
I...I just can't. The bold portion hurts me physically. I have to keep my unread count at 0 whenever possible. Seeing kids with their mail icon (they all have ipads) showing 999+ is painful enough.
I shunt most of my unreads into folders, so the main "Inbox" doesn't have nearly that many though...
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@the_quiet_one said in What are your small compulsive behaviors?:
@benjamin-hall said in What are your small compulsive behaviors?:
@the_quiet_one I don't delete most emails. I just read/mark read. I only delete spam emails.
Ah, I see. Interestingly, part of my insane habit is due to the fact that I can visually see which emails I've read and, therefore, which are "more" important. But, that doesn't mean I don't use the star to mark emails. That's for "really important."
I know it defies logic and when I think about it, it's a ridiculous system, but for whatever reason it doesn't bother me enough to change. That's all I'll say about it, though. I think I've triggered you enough.
I dis-label emails that have been dealt with, effectively "deleting" them. Other than that, unread is un-dealt-with, Star is "Dealt with for now, follow up or keep in mind for later". Of course, read status applies to starred items too.
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@e4tmyl33t said in What are your small compulsive behaviors?:
@benjamin-hall Volumes must be an even number or a multiple of 5.
@the_quiet_one said in What are your small compulsive behaviors?:
I cannot wear shirts with freshly washed hair. It has to be completely dry before I put one on. Same goes for resting my head on a pillow.
Filipino family? They tell you in all seriousness you'll go blind if you go to bed with wet hair.
@gąska said in What are your small compulsive behaviors?:
Because there's only one answer
+1
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@pie_flavor said in What are your small compulsive behaviors?:
Google Inbox rules.
Yes, they are useful for sorting email.
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@zecc said in What are your small compulsive behaviors?:
@pie_flavor said in What are your small compulsive behaviors?:
Google Inbox rules.
Yes, they are useful for sorting email.
Only a moderate because yes, the entirety of Google Inbox is useful. These poor fools, still using the Gmail client.
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@tsaukpaetra said in What are your small compulsive behaviors?:
@the_quiet_one said in What are your small compulsive behaviors?:
I'm the guy who has emails dating back to gmail's registration, starting with "Welcome to Gmail. Email from Google" and an unread count exceeding 12,000.
You must not be subscribed to many mailing lists....
I don't even get a number:
Did find the first one though:
And yes, it's the welcome email, dated 10 Feb '05.
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@karla said in What are your small compulsive behaviors?:
I separate Skittles by color.
I line them up by colour (colour wheel order, anticlockwise from green to purple) in 5/6 of a hexagon (I was thrilled when I heard they were bringing out blue skittles for a limited time, but then I had some and the blue ones turned out to be horrible :(), with all the S's facing up and any damaged ones on the outer row.
Then I eat them in a specific order... I drew a diagram, as it's a little complicated to explain in words:
Edit: what edit? You didn't see anything.
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@carrievs You've skipped 22.
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@pie_flavor said in What are your small compulsive behaviors?:
@zecc said in What are your small compulsive behaviors?:
@pie_flavor said in What are your small compulsive behaviors?:
Google Inbox rules.
Yes, they are useful for sorting email.
Only a moderate because yes, the entirety of Google Inbox is useful. These poor fools, still using the Gmail client.
I think you ed.
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I don't have much in the way of compulsive behaviors, so long as other people don't move things from where I've put them. Seriously, I can easily remember where things are even when they appear to be in no particular order at all, but if people move things around I have huge trouble finding anything; I'm not even too happy with housekeeping making the bed and tidying up the bathroom in my hotel room, and I know ahead of time that they're going to do that.
Also, I like to group my paces when I'm walking in groups of three. But that's just sensible.
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@dkf said in What are your small compulsive behaviors?:
I'm not even too happy with housekeeping making the bed and tidying up the bathroom in my hotel room, and I know ahead of time that they're going to do that.
I leave the DND sign on and tell the front desk I don't need housekeeping.
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@karla That's OK for a day or two, but with a longer stay I want them to tidy up. Even though it drives me mad…
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@dkf I want them to clean (and bring me new toilet rolls and teabags), if I'm there longer than a couple of days; I just don't want them to move my stuff and not put it back. If I put the bath towel on the back of the door and the hand towel on the towel rail, then that's where I want them and you shouldn't swap them over.
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@tsaukpaetra said in What are your small compulsive behaviors?:
@anotherusername said in What are your small compulsive behaviors?:
the key to lock my front door turns one way to lock the deadbolt and the other way to lock the knob.
Hmm. IIRC depending on the design, if you invert the bolt part of the deadbolt it would reverse the direction you turn, but this doesn't work on all types...
That was my next thought, as I was thinking about it yesterday... maybe the deadbolt part can be reversed. I haven't tried it yet.
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@carrievs said in What are your small compulsive behaviors?:
@karla said in What are your small compulsive behaviors?:
I separate Skittles by color.
I line them up by colour (colour wheel order, anticlockwise from green to purple) in 5/6 of a hexagon (I was thrilled when I heard they were bringing out blue skittles for a limited time, but then I had some and the blue ones turned out to be horrible :(), with all the S's facing up and any damaged ones on the outer row.
Then I eat them in a specific order....
I'll dump out a few and sort them into sets of flavors: various lemonades, lemon-lime (back when green was lime instead of apple), two of one color and one of another to make a "sandwich", one of each flavor, etc. I do the same things with M&Ms, but they all taste the same.
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I almost cannot resist this:
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@tsaukpaetra said in What are your small compulsive behaviors?:
@benjamin-hall said in What are your small compulsive behaviors?:
@the_quiet_one said in What are your small compulsive behaviors?:
@magus same here. I'm the guy who has emails dating back to gmail's registration, starting with "Welcome to Gmail. Email from Google" and an unread count exceeding 12,000. If anyone asks why my answer is "I don't give a fuck"
The only reason I purge my voicemails is because there is a tight limit. Otherwise I'd have an archive of them too.
I...I just can't. The bold portion hurts me physically. I have to keep my unread count at 0 whenever possible. Seeing kids with their mail icon (they all have ipads) showing 999+ is painful enough.
I shunt most of my unreads into folders, so the main "Inbox" doesn't have nearly that many though...
At work, I used to have about 10 folders for different kinds of messages, and would make an auto-move rule whenever I saw the same kind of message for a second time in a month. I ended up with 30 rules and about 3 messages to my main inbox per month.
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@parody said in What are your small compulsive behaviors?:
M&Ms... all taste the same
STONE THE HERETIC!!@
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@tsaukpaetra said in What are your small compulsive behaviors?:
@the_quiet_one said in What are your small compulsive behaviors?:
I'm the guy who has emails dating back to gmail's registration, starting with "Welcome to Gmail. Email from Google" and an unread count exceeding 12,000.
You must not be subscribed to many mailing lists....
I was mistaken. I actually have 19,000 unread emails.
Originally I didn't have many mailing lists, and I was actually more diligent in keeping my read count to 0. I ran out of fucks to give sometime 10 years ago.
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@anotherusername said in What are your small compulsive behaviors?:
@parody said in What are your small compulsive behaviors?:
M&Ms... all taste the same
STONE THE HERETIC!!@
There's definite difference between the chocolate, peanut, and crunchy varieties. But I've never tasted any between the colour.s
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@karla said in What are your small compulsive behaviors?:
I separate Skittles by color.
I eat them by organizing them into groups consisting of one of each color:
- Grab handful
- Isolate one of each color into a group
- Eat group
- Repeat with rest of handful
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@gąska said in What are your small compulsive behaviors?:
@tsaukpaetra said in What are your small compulsive behaviors?:
@benjamin-hall said in What are your small compulsive behaviors?:
@the_quiet_one said in What are your small compulsive behaviors?:
@magus same here. I'm the guy who has emails dating back to gmail's registration, starting with "Welcome to Gmail. Email from Google" and an unread count exceeding 12,000. If anyone asks why my answer is "I don't give a fuck"
The only reason I purge my voicemails is because there is a tight limit. Otherwise I'd have an archive of them too.
I...I just can't. The bold portion hurts me physically. I have to keep my unread count at 0 whenever possible. Seeing kids with their mail icon (they all have ipads) showing 999+ is painful enough.
I shunt most of my unreads into folders, so the main "Inbox" doesn't have nearly that many though...
At work, I used to have about 10 folders for different kinds of messages, and would make an auto-move rule whenever I saw the same kind of message for a second time in a month. I ended up with 30 rules and about 3 messages to my main inbox per month.
Page 1 of 3.
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@tsaukpaetra it's easier to write rules if everyone's email is in the same domain.
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@karla said in What are your small compulsive behaviors?:
All bills have to be facing the same way in the same orientation.
My mom knows I do this, so one time when I gave her a stack of bills that weren't all the same direction, she knew I must have had some other pattern to it. I did: every fifth $20 was face-down. (That made it easier to see how many hundreds there were.)
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@da-doctah said in What are your small compulsive behaviors?:
When there's a hall light with a switch at each end of the hall, both switches have to be "down" for off. Even though the light is also off with both switches "up", this upsets the fabric of reality.
There is one light in our house that has three separate switches, and regardless of the positions of the other two, toggling any one of them also toggles the light. All three down is off. Any odd number up is on.
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@djls45 said in What are your small compulsive behaviors?:
@da-doctah said in What are your small compulsive behaviors?:
When there's a hall light with a switch at each end of the hall, both switches have to be "down" for off. Even though the light is also off with both switches "up", this upsets the fabric of reality.
There is one light in our house that has three separate switches, and regardless of the positions of the other two, toggling any one of them also toggles the light. All three down is off. Any odd number up is on.
That's proper. What drives me crazy is when an even number up is on. (Zero or both, since they usually just have two switches.) Then all switches down is on -- one has to be up to turn the light off. So freaking wrong.
All switches down (or, hell, up if you prefer) should be off, then each time you flip any one of the switches the state of the light will be reversed.
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@Karla said in What are your small compulsive behaviors?:
Food cannot mix.
Unless they're designed to go together, like in a taco salad or a casserole.
I save the best flavors to eat last.
Which is not necessarily always dessert...
I separate Skittles by color.
Those have different flavors.
Now, M&Ms also have to be organized, but there's no flavor difference between the colors (that I have ever been able to tell).
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@pjh said in What are your small compulsive behaviors?:
And yes, it's the welcome email, dated 10 Feb '05.
7/28/04.
MY GMAIL PENIS IS LARGER.
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I have to take stairs two at a time whenever possible. If they are too deep or too tall for that (or I'm carrying a large/heavy load), then I just use every step. If I otherwise don't have enough momentum built up to start off with two, my right and left legs have to match in the number of steps they take on the stairs.
I always put toothpaste on my toothbrush, then get it wet with the running water from the faucet, then shake it once or tap it lightly against the edge of the sink to get rid of excess water, then I can start brushing my teeth.
My wife get her toothbrush wet first, and then puts the toothpaste on it.If I'm driving somewhere, I always feel better if I'm on a route where I stop for as little as possible. If there's a long wait at a light, especially if there's a lot of cars lined up and I can't get through on the very next green, I'll much prefer to take an alternate route, even if it means I might arrive a little bit later. I feel like I'm getting there faster.
My keyboard can't have crumbs or hair on it. The keys and the mouse also can't have grime on them. The desk itself has to be clean too. I'm constantly wiping lint off my desk or blowing dust off my keyboard.
There was a time when I would only wear socks on the same foot. I had actually marked them to differentiate left from right so I could maintain that through the laundry. I stopped when I realized that they were wearing out faster at the big toe and at the same spot on the heel.
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I use the archive feature in GMail, but only for emails I'm "done" with. This results in old family emails I never responded to being left in my inbox for years because I never get around to looking at them, but I still have less than 150 emails in my inbox.
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@blakeyrat said in What are your small compulsive behaviors?:
@pjh said in What are your small compulsive behaviors?:
And yes, it's the welcome email, dated 10 Feb '05.
7/28/04.
MY GMAIL PENIS IS LARGER.
Dammit!
Though that begs the question: Why did I put in 2002 if that wasn't the year it was created? :/ There's literally no other significance to that year...
Edit: Fucking Snipping Tool overriding my clipboard just because I focused on it...
Edit: edit: oh FFS, that was when I created the recovery account in 2005 which is literally useless because everything is forwarded back to the 2002 account.
Remind me again: howbeit that only my Microsoft and Yahoo accounts are the ones that got hacked?
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@blakeyrat said in What are your small compulsive behaviors?:
@pjh said in What are your small compulsive behaviors?:
And yes, it's the welcome email, dated 10 Feb '05.
7/28/04.
7/08/04.