What are your small compulsive behaviors?
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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.
Based on (I think) my oldest gmail account you've got me beat by about 2 months. Although I didn't keep the welcome email -- that's just the oldest emails I've actually got.
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Yo, i'm new here.
Well, i always wanted to be everything perfect. My father and grandmother have problems with hearing, so since i was a kid they were telling me to "speak properly" because they couldn't understand me well. I remember when a speech therapist was checking all kids in kindergarten to see if anyone has problems with speaking, and i was fine! I just have a quiet voice... at 13-16 i really started to have real problems with speaking. Like, i was trying to speak, but my brain didn't allow me to do this. I was even struggling to say "I'm present" while a teacher was checking the student's list. I started to stutter.
Right now, I speak better but still stutter sometimes, especially when i say some long words. So... yeah, i guess i may say it's my compulsive behavior.
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@blakeyrat said in What are your small compulsive behaviors?:
7/28/04.
MY GMAIL PENIS IS LARGER.2 January 2010: an email reminding me a password will expire in 3 days.
My penis uses an unambiguous date format.
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@zecc said in What are your small compulsive behaviors?:
My penis uses an unambiguous date format.
Oh yeah that was such a confusing date format. I forgot for a second that there were 29 months in the year.
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@scarlet_manuka said in What are your small compulsive behaviors?:
(Are light switches there normally up-is-on? Here it's normally up-is-off, though of course either is possible.)
This is so fuckin' wrong, I can't even...
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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.
That's (one of) my husband's 'twitches'. I'll twitch those switches to watch him twig out over it .
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I have another compulsive behavior: ever since YouTube added the red bar below video thumbnails that shows how much of the video you've watched, I feel compelled to watch the whole video just to make all the bars fully filled. If I don't like the video, I skip to 30 seconds or so before the end so it has time to post the progress before the video ends.
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@adie said in What are your small compulsive behaviors?:
since i was a kid they were telling me to "speak properly" because they couldn't understand me well.
Were you involved in this?
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I always take my keys out of my pocket as I arrive at my apartment building's front door.
Never mind that the main door is unlocked via keypad and I'll only need the keys after an elevator ride.
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Reminded by @boomzilla's right click thread.
I'm a mouse reader. I always highlight the paragraph I'm reading on a PC. Websites that pop up a tweet button or similar therefore really annoy me
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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.
Yeah! And it's not just skittles; why is it (apparently) so difficult to produce a grape candy that actually tastes like grapes, rather than chemicals?
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@boomzilla said in What are your small compulsive behaviors?:
I almost cannot resist this:
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@djls45 said in What are your small compulsive behaviors?:
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.
Yes. Anything that makes me brake is .
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@masonwheeler 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.
Yeah! And it's not just skittles; why is it (apparently) so difficult to produce a grape candy that actually tastes like grapes, rather than chemicals?
I agree that grape flavor never actually tastes like grape (or perhaps it tastes like grapes after you magnify the subtle taste it has and add a bunch of sugar to it or something) but I actually don't mind the taste of fake grape. Green apple on the other hand, blech.
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I want things to line up nicely â my earlier comment about window edges onscreen is really just a form of this. This isnât necessarily the same as exactly ordered or even square, but (for example) as Iâm typing this I noticed one of the three small models (as in scale models) I currently have sitting between my keyboard and computer was crooked compared to the other two, so I paused typing and put it in line with the others again.
I also concur in eating things by colour, though (usually) only if the flavour is different. I donât care about M&Ms or Smarties, but Skittles, jelly beans, etc. I tend to eat in same-sized groups (two or four, usually) of the same colour, or of compatible colours/flavours: orange and yellow, sure, but green and red, probably not unless theyâre the only ones left. Some types of liquorice I eat in a fixed order based on their shapes, for example:
(I think â Iâm not actually sure because I donât have any at hand to do this semi-subconsciously with.)
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@masonwheeler said in What are your small compulsive behaviors?:
Anything that makes me brake is .
Like corners, steep hills with a low speed limit and getting to your destination?
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@gurth said in What are your small compulsive behaviors?:
Some types of liquorice I eat in a fixed order based on their shapes, for example:
(I think â Iâm not actually sure because I donât have any at hand to do this semi-subconsciously with.)
Do you use this with Chicken McNuggets? They apparently come in four standard shapes: the ball, the bell, the bone and the boot (the bone is alternatively known in Canada as the bowtie).
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@zecc said in What are your small compulsive behaviors?:
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.
I have lost the principle that alarms should be multiples of five minutes. There has to be a good reason though.
One of my alarms is set to 07:11, that's because the train leaves at 07:32 and twenty minutes were determined to be unduly stressful. The other alarm is set to 07:42. That one is a radio-alarm and was installed during the first weeks of the new US-President. Back then a violation of international protocol was still news. So I was often woken up by the words "Donald Trump has..." which was a bad way for setting the mood of the day. After some experimentation 07:42 seems to be the sweet spot where there is at least five minutes of music ahead.
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@da-doctah said in What are your small compulsive behaviors?:
the bone is alternatively known in Canada as the bowtie
It must be the extra politeness.
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@da-doctah said in What are your small compulsive behaviors?:
Do you use this with Chicken McNuggets? They apparently come in four standard shapes
I wouldnât know what shapes they come in because Iâve never had any in my life. So no, I donât :)