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I lock my tyranids in a vault. Not to prevent people from stealing them, its so they don't get out. saftey first you never know when they might come to life and eat your dog or something.

pinoypower wrote:I lock my tyranids in a vault. Not to prevent people from stealing them, its so they don't get out. saftey first you never know when they might come to life and eat your dog or something.

I do that, but, in a case with a vietnam jungle diorama, except it's hundreds of nids versus a unit of 10 dark angels scouts.

pinoypower wrote:I lock my tyranids in a vault. Not to prevent people from stealing them, its so they don't get out. saftey first you never know when they might come to life and eat your dog or something.

I think as long as you keep them away from cupboards you'll be fine.

and don't feed them after midnight.

I talk to myself. Constantly...
I will only drink soft drinks through straws. I always have at least one straw on my person at anyone time.
and not something that i do but for some reason has occurred, I have brought 12 Wii games yet i dont have a Wii console... go figure?

dogma wrote:

pinoypower wrote:I lock my tyranids in a vault. Not to prevent people from stealing them, its so they don't get out. saftey first you never know when they might come to life and eat your dog or something.

I think as long as you keep them away from cupboards you'll be fine.

Very subtle drop there

I LOVED THAT BOOK! '

I am obsessed with minihammering.

I even made a tiny-hammer RPG here on dakka, big success until WARORK's tanith blew up my garage...

If a lamp has a twist knob as i turn it off i have a vision of my house on fire and i turn the lamp on again and back off to properly seat the knob in the off position. If i miss i turn the knob anywhere from 2 to 7 times on/off/on/off.

I drum with my feet and fingers when thinking or just wasting time. Ive become rather good at it TBH

I have a lot of strange little habits, which I mainly attribute to my ADD:

My main problem is an extremely low boredom threshold, which leads to a lot of behaviour that some might consider odd. When I get bored (which is often), I tend to 'affectionately antagonise' people - touching/hugging them, singing to them (usually including the person's name), making up weird little nicknames for them, talking in strange/foreign accents (usually an Ulster accent), generally taking the piss. I am usually a total pain in the arse on long car journeys, so I usually take a book with me wherever I go. I often make outrageous/offensive statements. In fact, this goes some way towards explaining my posting habits here - I have difficulty focusing for long periods of time, so that allied to the other stuff means that most of my posts here are short and offensive/outrageous/sarcastic. When I'm bored I like to shake things up and see what happens.

Strangely, drinking alcohol seems to lessen it. Smoking pot makes it worse, though it does help me focus, which is surprising.

I'm also a check/re-checker. The worst thing is my alarm - I check and re-check it over and over again before going to sleep. I also check and re-check that I've locked doors, turned taps/gas off etc.

I talk and sing to myself, especially when performing manual tasks.

I hate talking on the phone. It often makes me extremely irritable.

I obsessively spray myself with deodourant/cologne during the day, as I am paranoid about body odour.

I hand-write in block capitals.



Yep, I'm a bit of a nightmare. I do usually make a big effort to be polite IRL though, as any Dakkanauts who have met me will attest to.


P.S. To further illustrate my focus problems, I had to have a short break in the middle of writing this post.


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Oh, and KC? I do the drumming with my fingers thing too. I put that down to being a drummer for such a long time. It's actually a good way to practice patterns.

Sounds like you have an OCD alby, (I have one too)

thats short for 'Obsessive Compulsive Disorder'

I have ADHD, ie. bouncing off the walls a lot.

I somehow manage to turn off alarms while asleep, whether it be by pressing a button or unplugging the clock.

I make up little songs about everything.

I salivate excessively, and so I need to keep paper towels next to the bed and change my pillowcases frequently.

I paint and read with my glasses off even though if I held the item in question at the proper distance, i wouldn't need to. I just have to have them right in front of my face.

I obsessively pull out my nose hair. One of these days, I'll get all of them, I swear!

I drop F***-bombs with no consideration at all for anybody's delicate sensibilities. F***!!!

warpcrafter wrote:I salivate excessively, and so I need to keep paper towels next to the bed and change my pillowcases frequently.

I drool in bed a lot too.

biccat wrote:

bunnygurl wrote:I have to do things in even numbers, ex. when I eat I have to take an even number of bites from what I'm eating. Each bite must be chewed on the opposite side of my mouth that the previous bite was chewed on ending on an equal number of chews for both sides. Any volume (tv, stereo) must be kept at an even number.

Ugh, blasphemer.

Everything should be done in prime numbers.

As stupid as this may make me sound...I can never remember what the prime numbers are. Never could in school, never can now.

Prime numbers greater than 11 are the bane of my life.

I have a deep disliking of candles. They're tricky little buggers, infernos waiting for happen; as soon as you turn your back they're strike and torch everything.

Every candle needs to be throroughly contained, never left unsupervised, and always lit with a long match, and even then i'll stare at it to make sure it doesn't wobble or try anything.

you know when you melt wax on a hot plate? like those scented candles? i like sticking toothpicks and the tip of my finger in the melted wax.

Albatross wrote:
My main problem is an extremely low boredom threshold, which leads to a lot of behaviour that some might consider odd. When I get bored (which is often), I tend to 'affectionately antagonise' people - touching/hugging them, singing to them (usually including the person's name), making up weird little nicknames for them, talking in strange/foreign accents (usually an Ulster accent), generally taking the piss. I am usually a total pain in the arse on long car journeys, so I usually take a book with me wherever I go. I often make outrageous/offensive statements. In fact, this goes some way towards explaining my posting habits here - I have difficulty focusing for long periods of time, so that allied to the other stuff means that most of my posts here are short and offensive/outrageous/sarcastic. When I'm bored I like to shake things up and see what happens.

I do this too, now that I think about it, minus the singing, and plus compulsive smart phone usage.

I hate talking on the phone.

I also drum my fingers and feet.

I drool when I sleep.

I pick at the skin of my finger-tips when I'm bored, have caused them to bleed at points.

I like to make dialogues in my head about various things, creating characters and adding accents. Sometimes I say them out loud to entertain myself or others.

I doodle on my tests to jog my memory(computer tests and scantrons are my worst performances).

When I have the radio on, the volume has to be at increments of five. My taurus has a radio with circles and a square to represent 50% volume, I have to keep it at the square.

I like looking at pictures of dead bodies because I like to see how many possible ways people can be killed or mangled, and more importantly I like to see how people try to fix them.

I don't cry when watching war movies, but watching documentaries will bring a tear to my eye.

I've talked myself into believing that there are no such things as 'regular' shapes..... Spheres can't exist....

I was having a debate and realised with practically all shapes there will be a minute error on at least one length or angle if not them all...... As far as I'm concerned regular shapes and especially Spheres dont exist, False Spheres do and one day- due to the laws of probability the perfect sphere will exist. How sad is that?

Habit wise, I tend to tilt my head to the left when i'm thinking and right when i'm annoyed. I will never order a moche, as Im never satisfied with my pronounciation, even though its my favourite and I hate using 'thaw'- my accent destroys it. Oh and I won't eat a parmo in a burger bun.

i need to be ten minutes early for everything, its gotten so bad that i'm now twenty minutes early just so that i can be ten minutes early being ten minutes early

I fire arrows into a foam deer target whenever the "Lawn Patrol" comes around. They give you a "Lawn Fine", and if you don't fix your lawn, you don't get invited to the Tea Socials (That's what they call them. Idiots.)

They've stopped coming, but the target is still being shot at by me on the day where they used to "fine" my family. It's good practice.

halonachos wrote:...When I have the radio on, the volume has to be at increments of five. My taurus has a radio with circles and a square to represent 50% volume, I have to keep it at the square...

Thats funny, so do I! It just pains me to turn it up or down to the volume that I need, instead I watch the number and place it at increments of 5 then listen to make sure it's loud enough or not.

Chowderhead wrote:I fire arrows into a foam deer target whenever the "Lawn Patrol" comes around. They give you a "Lawn Fine", and if you don't fix your lawn, you don't get invited to the Tea Socials (That's what they call them. Idiots.)

They've stopped coming, but the target is still being shot at by me on the day where they used to "fine" my family. It's good practice.

...were the hell do you live? are lawn is always either dead or overgrown,and no one says anything to us.

I think about murder all day... murdering telemarketers. LEAVE ME IN PEACE!

Nah, but they are annoying. This kinda comment gets me weird stares.

I tend to make inappropriately timed comments, usually fairly dark ones.

I'd love to have the space and ability to fire arrows at something; as it stands, I can't afford the equipment or any club memberships I need. Being able to practice in my own time would be sweet.

I stare at chicks through aviators.

I also like to look at myself in a mirror. And smell myself.

I stare at you through aviators.