Am I odd?

I sing Methodist hymns in the shower each morning. I am not a Methodist but I belt them out for all they are worth. Particular famourites are "Who would true valour seek", "And can it be?" and "O, for a thousand tongues"

. . . so what are your peculiar habits that nobody else knows about?

Your kidding right? Your one of the most oddest people on TT...

I can't sing, so therefore I am not odd.

well, for starters, I have only one song that I sing in the shower, and that is the Star Spangled Banner. I don't know why this song, as I am not particulary patriotic, or why only this song, as I must know the words to hundreds of songs from start to finish.

I won't let anyone help me in the kitchen because what you think I mean when I say "cut thinly" or "dice coarsely" is different to what I actually mean when I say "cut thinly" or "dice coarsely", and you are likely to cut it in some weird direction, so better than me hovering over you to make sure you do it exactly to my control-freak standards is me just doing it myself. God help you if you think you're getting anywhere near the spices. Nearly everyone I know, knows this about me... and for some reason loves me anyway.

It's a fun activity to memorize all the train stations on a particular u-bahn or s-bahn line, even if that information is of almost no use to me whatsoever.

I will not brush my teeth unless I'm taking a shower or washing my face. If I have time only to brush my teeth but not for bathing, I won't do it at all.

I am a compulsive writer... if I have hours to kill, I can sit down with a journal and write until my hand falls off. I also have five journals, all of which have specific purposes, e.g., one for home, one for unterwegs, one for short stories, etc. They all look different and are filled with the most preposterous garbage you've ever seen.

I'm terrified of moths and butterflies but not particularly upset by spiders. I let most spiders live in my house until they start annoying me, then I usher them outside in a drinking glass and set them free.

I make lists. Obsessively.

Currently on the go are the following lists:

To Do this weekend
To Do before the end of the month
To Do eventually, but need doing
List of birthday presents already bought, and for whom
List of Christmas presents, ditto
List of things I should have done for work (this used to be a list of things to complete before maternity leave)
List of vocabulary I need in the hospital
List of phone numbers I need in the hospital

There are others, but I can't remember them right now.

Well, I thought that if BTC had to ask the question then he may have already answered it as well. Of course my vote was yes at the time. However, after reading Dessa's little quirks, IMHO we have a new winner at this point.

About once a year I like to play my Top Gun DVD on the TV whilst wrapped in clingfilm, the vacuum cleaner nozzle attached to my nuts, and with the power turned on full.
"That's right Iceman, i'm dangerous"!!

aaahahahahahaha!! i loves it!

im a weird one, for sure.

See, I don't see anything wrong with Chocky's input.

No need to list I am probably the most normal guy on this board.

LOL!! We have a winner!

If I posted my own strange secret habits, they wouldn't be secret any longer, now would they?

I talk to myself. Usually only when I am alone but sometimes also if I am out walking or riding my bike. I think there's quite a few other people who do this because I have seen some so I am not sure if it's really that weird. Sometimes I also talk to my car. I do not talk to my bike for some reason but I did talk to a house that I owned but I do not talk to my current apartment. I also talk to my cats and occasionally I talk to other people as well.

You should make a list.

You're right. I'll get right onto that.

I post on TT

My list would be too long.

But I guarantee I could take the cake, well ok except perhaps with chocky and his vacuum obsession.

Just to drop a few
1. I count things, everything either in three's or fifteenths
2. I am a list whore like llees, only I am worse I have lists of my lists and organize them in binders and if one thing changes I rewrite the list.
3. I organize things along straight lines and get extremely upset when things are not reset as previously designated.
4. I organize everything. Even earrings by the style of hook
5. I read magazines backwards. Not the articles but as a whole.

Well that is just the tip of the iceberg. But I think many of you already figured out I am special

What about stud earrings?

i read magazines backward, too. There's something about flipping the pages left to right that is very satisfying. shoulda moved to japan instead.

I like to sing and dance like a maniac while driving in the car.

I'm a chronic masturbater.

I need a bit of background noise to fall asleep.

'Am I odd'?

Is needy self promotion an oddness?

Well I actually want to create a system for them I am looking for parts. Right now I have them organized hanging on a handkerchief by style size and color Now that is unless they are part of a set. Jewelry sets are treated differently os that they are easily found as a unit.

I want to find either a stud earring organizer or make one myself.


I prefer blaring 80's music and dancing like a maniac in my living room, usually in underwear.

I compulsively add the digits (and numerical equivalents of the non-German letters) in nearly every auto license plate I see. My goal is to do it faster and faster. Sometimes while driving somewhere I suddenly realize I don't remember the last few kilometers.

I take the UBahn more often now.

ha ha ha ha ha ha ha - are you being serious?

I'd really love to meet some of you babes, Ha!

I'd heard you were pretty bad...

From the empirical evidence I've gathered by observation since joining TT only a little over 6 months ago, very few posters are normal. If they are normal, then I'm odd. Which of course I'm not. No way. No Brit is odd: other nationalities are. Any posters proved to be odd yet claiming to be Brits must by definition be lying or suffering delusions of grandeur. QED.

I eat the dead skin of my feet calluses. They're pretty gross but if you marinade them in hoi sin they can be quite lovely

nice.

I am sure that thought is going to invade my dreams in some sick or traumatizing manner combined with chockys saranwrap.

I daydream an awful lot. I often imagine I'm fighting with people (physically). I often 'wake up' out of my day dreams when I realise that my arms and legs are jerking out wildly. This always seems to happen in public places. Luckily no-one seems to notice. Alternatively I have very funny daydreams of kicking some idiot's ass and end up giggling insanely. Unfortunately people notice that kind of thing

My family reckon I've loads of strange habits. M boyf says that when he has to find something that I've lost, the best way to find it is to ask himself ''where would be a strange place for it to be?''. Bingo it's nearly always there.

I leave used tea-bags in the freezer and fill the fridge with bowls of various fruit in water (strawberries, blueberries, apples, grapes...)

I reckon I'm pretty normal for TT standards though

I am curious what os the logic behind the tea bags in the freezer?

eye cooling treatments?

Me at the Baltic Sea last month..:

@ serena jean, got it in one. I used to get a lot of styes - hot water and cold tea bags help.

Bell,

I sing "How Great Thou Art" in the shower for no religious reason.

We must be related. Do you reckon there is a support group out there for us?

oooo, yes I also sing "How Great Thou Art" and "Great is thy faihfulness!" too..

On a different note I also on occasion sing the Pakistan national anthem (in Urdu) and "Tomorrow belongs to me!" from Cabaret.

I will only write with one specific brand and model of disposable ballpoint pen. The ink must be black.
I wear sunglasses in conditions others find way too dark.
I will only replace pieces of clothing and accessories with exactly the same brand and style, even if I have to go on Ebay to find discontinued items.
I mostly listen to classcal music, but only play 1970s disco music whilst driving.
I reset the trip odometer when I fill up the gas tank and fill up only after it hits 500km even if the warning light is blinking at me.
I sometimes play a game whilst working outside where I sing showtunes and standards but try to shoehorn in pidgin German lyrics. Today I hit a wall and had to go inside to translate "When I take you out in the surrey with the fringe on top".
I collect airsickness bags of the world.
I make it a challenge and try to walk out with visitor badges as souvenirs.
I never remove my diving watch. Ever.
I carry a dog dirt bag in my pocket when I walk the dog and end up picking up every piece of litter I see.
I turn on the shower and then quickly step out of the stall for a moment until the water comes up to temperature, and get incredibly annoyed if I'm splashed on the legs by the initial lukewarm spray.
I cannot fathom how anyone can eat grapes with seeds in them.

I just spent 20 minutes typing this instead of doing something productive.

I am crying with laughter. What a song title for a naked shower singer!

I laugh outloud on the U-Bahn, either at what I'm reading or at random situations.

"All we like sheep" would clearly be worse.

sings:

O for a thou-ow-ow-ow-owsand to-ongues too-oo sing
My great redeemers praise
My grey-ay-ay-ay-ayt redee-eemers praise
The Glories aw-aw-of His stre-eh-eh-eh-ength and throne
The wonders of his grace, the wonders aw-of his Grace. the wo-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ahnders of his Grace!

May I suggest Salve Regina

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Here's the translation.


Better sung at night.
Enjoy your shower.

I just checked it out on wiki. Singing Methodist tunes while in the shower is totally common.
Whilst jumping off stuff is odd. Go figure.
Take care,
space

I don't find that odd at all.

Ok, now I will have "How Great Thou Art", playing in my head all night long. Thanks!

I do like to talk to myself, and am thinking about getting a fake phone thing to wear on my ear, so folks will think I am talking on the phone. When kids were small, it was nice to have a stroller, cause then folks think you are talking to the baby.

I talk to food. Though this sounds odd, it comes from the days of being a grill cook, and this helped me keep 20 or 30 orders of steaks, etc. in order. I have no idea why saying it out loud helped me, but it did. Have seen other cooks do this too. Unfortunately, it carried over to my home life. When flipping a burger and it doesn't quite go the way it should, I have been known to ask it, "If I had wanted you to go that way, I would have turned you that way" or something along those lines. Is this odd?

It is fun to make words or phrases with German license plates. Started with the kids when they were learning how to read or as a fun game while traveling, and now can't stop.

Always keep my spoon in my coffee cup.

Be careful not to poke your eye out.

" Oh lord my God, when I in awsome wonder, consider all..."

Then sings my soul.

I don't think it's odd but then I talk to a lot of things myself. Normally not food though but I think it's normal to talk to your work. I worked on a CNC machine for several years and she was a bit tricky, one of them Italian ladies. I am pretty sure she had a soul because when I started working with her, as soon as the guy who trained me went on holidays, she pulled all kinds of stuff she'd never pulled before just to give me a headache. I found out later that she does it to all new guys. I told them you have to talk nice to her, like "baby, why do you do this to me? we don't have time to play right now". It really helps.

I used to know a telephone mechanic who would talk to the telephone wires when he was connecting them. Like "hey little guy, where do you come from?". He also said it helped, in any case he was well known in the community for quality work.

I'm reclusive and prefer to spend time by myself. I like people, but I don't like having many friends as then I have to make time for them in my life and feel guilty when I can't share my time with them.

I also prefer to live my life with spontaneity, instead of doing a lot of planning.

Can we get a round going of "Rock of Ages" now too!

I collect socks.
I've been known to spend my grocery money on chocolate, and then eat cereal and milk for the week.
I have 30 different types of tea on my shelf, of which I only ever drink 3.
When I deal cards, if there's a picture on the backs, they must all be facing the same direction. Those cards with fun facts about what-have-you on them? They have to be facing the same direction, doesn't matter if it's upside down, just so long as ALL of them are upside down. Likewise with beer coasters. They must be facing the same direction, and be properly aligned.
The shower is just about the only place I DON'T sing. Anyone who this embarrasses isn't worth being friends with.
I have a collection of teacups, some of which I've had since I was very young, which I am fully willing to pack and move with again and again and again. One of these has moved with me 19 times.
I collect spoons, the ones whose shape please me.

Like LavenderRain, I have friends, but I keep a distance from all of them. I deliberately make time in my life so I can sit for hours just thinking with no other stimuli (eg Ipod, book, TV). If I sniff once then I have to sniff four more times to make five. If I cook a meal then I will wash my hands at least 25 times during the preparation, but perversely I would gladly stick my hand in the toilet bowl and then lick it to get a laugh of friends. I don't really like people in general, but I love animals. I generally can't relate to human pain and find it doesn't move me on any level, but if anyone so much as lunges at a fly near me then they will be met with stern criticism. I haven't owned a TV for four years and I don't miss it. I don't read the newspapers because I don't trust the media. I think that this world is all wrong, and the people that know me think I'm either joking or dillusional!