Hahahahaha.

I call BS on that.

Isn't this how they are meant to be eaten?

Hahah, I do this too. I picked it up from MadQuack...

My dad hates it when I do it.

I push them all.

you know, I thought so... but all my friends make fun of me when I eat them that way. Apparently their favored method of eating them is "gnom gnom gnom",

I count stairs too!

I also usually have to get a new glass every time I'm done drinking out of it (I'd drink the whole glass, usually filled with water, then an hour later go get another)

I only microwave thing for prime numbers of seconds. It needs about 25 seconds? Not so! It gets 23!

When I'm watching something on a TV I fiddle with whatever remote I have by taking the batteries out and putting them back in over and over.

This one isn't so obsessive, but when I'm a passenger in a long car ride I pick a spot on a window or windshield and do the thing where you move your head so the dot doesn't hit anything outside the window.

HAH! I do that too and this is the first time I've ever heard anyone say this before.

click / touch / tap / toss everything

stretch / crack body

sing / scream / moan

in my gaming days i would attempt to 'quicksave' before going around corners

i too, in the passenger seat, move my head to align objects in foreground with objects in horizon as car moves

in fact i played a platform scrolling game as a speck of dust jumping from hillside to hillside

i too set microwave, volume, and other times to prime, or at least odd, numbers

i too excessively reset calculators, software...

check my alarm

sip glass of water, get new glass

clear throat

tongue teeth

take pencils, pens, remotes, and other devices apart and put them back together again

jump around, walk backwards / sideways, visualize tiles / cracks in different patterns

mute television, radio, computer

Of course there's also my UnrealED habits, like constantly pressing Ctrl+L to save because autosaves have always caused me more trouble than they should.

And that has made the letter L disappear!



... not just L though. Stupid sucky letters wearing out. :|

I'm a counter. I have a hypersensitivity to yellow frequencies of light, as such I can "see in the dark". It's more like "make out shapes rather clearly" in what most people would consider complete darkness.

Because I've broken far too many a toe by relying on this ability, I've started counting EVERY STEP and memorizing where things are. My girlfriend hates it. The furniture can NEVER move, and if it does, I pace.

Thinking of pacing, I pace while I'm on the phone. I can't stop.

I wash my hands twice after using any public restroom. I won't turn the faucet off without a paper towel in my hand. If they only have electric dryers, it's not my water bill.

I often do the cracks thing (but I'll add to it counting the tiles).

Triple click member as well

I pop my knuckles at the slightest sound of anything that resembles a joint popping.

Chapstick and pen drive in front left pocket, keys and pen in front right, wallet in back right, random crap in back left.

Bills must be face up and forward in my wallet arranged smallest to largest front to back.

I'm hygrophobic. Because of that I do all sorts of obsessive things that relate to wetness. click for definition

I constantly smell my hand while thinking. It's a habit my dad has and I follow.

I can't play anything on my guitars before I play some semblance of a scale.

My earrings must have the balls directly in the center of the bottom of the hoop.

I'm sure there are more. I have major OCD.

I just realized that I read every post of any non desktop-related "Post Your..." thread mostly to see how my quirks fit into society as a whole.

Toady I realized that if I see someone doing something that I could take advantage of to kill them (such as wearing a belt around one's neck to be silly) then I will try and think about whether or not I could do it at thaqt second and get away for it.

I also arrange money head towards wallet opening, small to large faces towards inside of wallet.

I also must drink some liquid after every cigarette.

what does ctrl shift r do?

You can program it (in Microsoft Word) to recount the words in your document.

I hate the volume controls with only the bars!! Some of them are really small and it takes ages to count them to make sure there's an even number

I don't have time to read the rest of the thread, but mine are too many to mention. However, I will list 4 that have plagued me for years...

• From elementary to middle school, I used to count everything in my class rooms (ceiling tiles, bricks, dots within individual ceiling tiles, floor tiles, etc.). It wasn't until I reached high school that I realized that this was a problem and eventually forced myself to stop doing it.
• I do this pattern obsessively with my hands. In my mind I picture a pyramid shape and if I tap a surface with my fingers or even in the air (it matters not), I form this shape over and over and over again. It's 5 taps across, 4 taps back, 3 taps across, 2 taps back, and 1 tap across.
• When I'm driving my car, every 60 seconds or so (used to be like every 30) I have to touch my emergency brake to make sure that it's deactivated. I don't normally know I'm doing it until a passenger tells me. Some days I can consciously think about not doing it and I won't.
• The most bothersome one lately is that when I'm driving, I start to feel a bit uncomfortable and I obsess about my lower right rib and have to twist it. So, when I'm driving down the road, I'm constantly moving my shoulders up and down, one at a time, which probably appears that I'm dancing.

I was once the quicksave master- like, for non auto-fire weapons? I'd quicksave between shots. Automatic fire is used in 3-5 shot bursts unless the target is really huge/close. Grenades are not to be used under any circumstances while I have 50% or fewer. Death is an acceptable alternative. Even on the end boss. Why? Because later I might really need them. I've gotten better about that now. Curiously, I almost never save documents/posts while I'm working. Only if I leave the computer, and not always then. You'd think I'd learn, since I've gotten screwed a number of times on that**.

I also do walking patterns occasionally, and highlight text, but not with triple-click. This does not recognize natural breaks in text like phrases/sentences, it just does it by line. Text must be highlighted manually to ensure proper isolation.

**Geb hates this one- if a window/program is not in use, it gets closed. I'm done with a website? Close the browser. I can open it again if I want to go to a new site. Even if I know I want to go to a new site, provided there is any sort of pause, window gets closed. Conversely, Geb never closes a browser for any reason.

I do the money thing- highest bills in the back, receipts go in the front, since they are the lowest-value pieces of paper in the billfold section.

I don't do the headlights thing, but I'll check every few minutes to make sure I have my wallet while driving.

I also bite open my cokes from time to time, but I'm not really obsessive about it.

My clipboard has to stay clear of anything larger than a link, but can never contain just a space. I have to clear it with a letter or punctuation mark. Also, when checking spelling in a post by typing it in word, I have to copy/paste the correct spelling back into the post, even if I had it right all along. And of course I spam the clear key on calculators. It's the only way to be sure.

Finally the one that I'm sure Geb was waiting for (i.e. why he demanded I reply to this thread): I search for things by scent, if and only if they have no detectable scent. I react badly to perfumes and artificially scenty things, so if I think something has a scent, I breathe in through my mouth/out the nose while looking for it. If however I know that what I am looking for does not have a detectable scent, like my car in a parking lot, vegetables in the frozen-foods section, dishes in the cabinets, papers in my notebook, etc. then I will attempt to catch it's scent while looking for it. The fact that I've accidentally gotten strong whiffs of perfume and consequently had a great deal of pain while doing this has not dissuaded me in any way.

Hmm, I didn't remember my quicksave obsession :|

Apparently I'm so used to them I can't remember any :p

i can't use keyboards with the tiny backspace and huge enter key of doom

if i'm waiting for a class to start and the teacher isn't there yet, i'll go for a walk outside in the hall even if theres only 2 minutes to class.

random zombie checks on the shower when taking a leak, just a quick punch to the right

yea, i can't think of anything else

I talk to myself when I'm thinking.

I ALWAYS leave my browser open. When windows starts, mIRC starts, and then Firefox. Regardless of whether I plan on using it or not. I also don't close any tabs until the tab bar starts getting too small to be useful (or scrolls).

I can't stand still, especially while on the phone. Sitting, I'm okay.

I am a member of the "Even only" volume club. Damn my car radio!

I love to stack stuff. It's my main organizational technique. Cans don't apply, though.

I have also done the "pick a spot on a window" thing, although rarely.

I constantly left click empty areas too, both to deselect and to make scrolling work.

My floor cannot be grimey. If I suspect it is, I will clean it. (Having sugar spilt on a floor is something I dread.)

In my car, the volume can only be on even numbers after 5 (6,8,10,12...etc.) but can be on any number after 5, not including 5 or 4 (1,2,3). >_>

The counters have to be clean in my house. I seriously go crazy if the counters aren't clean. Same goes with dishes, but to a lesser extent.

The dishes have to be put back in a particular order. No one ever seems to follow this order, so I tend to re-organize the dishes a lot. It seems to annoy a lot of people when I do.

When I buy veggies or fruit, I have to take all the little stickers off them before they go to their respective drawer or bowl. (This came from having a roommate who would always put the stickers on the counter when she got a piece of fruit. This kind of goes back to my counter thing.)

I bite my nails. (When I run out of nails to bite, I bite my knuckles.)

I check my wrist watch obsessively. I always need to know the time.

My rings have to be in the same order every day, and facing the same way. My bracelets have to be in the same order as well (white braclet, watch, metal bracelet.)

There are probably a lot more, but those are off the top of my head. I'm kind of a cleaning nut. >_>

I was highlighting Freelancers post as I read this.

I bite my nails too, except when I run out of nails to bite I bite the top layer of skin off the tips of my fingers.

I constantly clear my clipboard.


I eat deserts in layers (e.g. when I eat a piece of apple pie I eat the top first, then the filling, and then the bottom crust.) Sometimes I do this with pizza too.


Whenever I cook something I have to wash the dishes I used to make it immediately.

I do some of the common things mentioned on this thread, like the clipboard thing, selecting text, and quicksaving.
I pace a lot. Sometimes I get out of my seat and walk through my house almost without thinking about it.
I have a tendency to choose the colour of my clothes based on the day of the week. Lately I haven't had a regular cycle, though.

I habitually explore the acoustic properties of nearby objects by tapping on metal railings or poles, or pieces of wood, for example. This tends to annoy people.

I whistle a lot, usually making bird noises. Sometimes I find myself doing this in situations where I shouldn't - like in a silent classroom while doing a test.

I like to walk backwards. I do it whenever I can get away with it.

I go around calling perfect strangers crazy. BTW, you people are nuts.

Couple more:
Immediately after I delete something, I empty the recycle bin. I realize this defeats the purpose, and I could just do shift+del, but I never do.


I chew pens/pencils like crazy. Most of the time I have to stop using pencils long before they're spent because I've chewed them so much they're uncomfortable to hold. I also have a wire cemented to my bottom teeth (kind of like a permanent retainer), I tongue it constantly.

Whenever I use the kitchen sink I wring out the sponge, hold it under the tap, wring it out again, and put it on top of the sink to dry. The fact that other people don't do this is extremely disgusting.

The "recall" button on the TV has to be full of channels I watch. My current TV actually recalls the last three channels, which is kind of handy, but kind of an annoyance. I have to find three things I want to watch at any given time. Sometimes I use the preview channel (tv guide channel) as my third.

I also count stairs. And it bugs me when there is an odd number, and I feel the need to announce this people.

Also, I walk on my toes. It's really only noticeable when I'm bear foot, and then my heels don't touch the ground at all. It drives other people nuts when they notice it. When I run, I have to make a conscious effort to make my heels hit the ground first, then my toes, or else I end up running with a boxers stance.

My gandmother's house has 14 stairs going up, and 3 stairs that lead outside.

Our house has 14 stairs also for some reason., and 2 steps outside.

IT IS VERY STRANGE.

(Our school has 3 flights of stairs between 3 sets of floors, and the middle one has one step more than the upper and lower flghts, which is odd).

Oh, did I mention I have tourettes syndrome which includes having OCD as one of the symptoms? I could list all of my ticks that are pretty much the same thing as an obsessive compulsive behavior but that would take too long to list (not to mention embarrassing).

Thought of some more..

If i'm walking somewhere I always go as fast as possible (without actually running) even down to taking the racing line through corners. :p

I cannot sit around doing nothing. If I'm waiting for something (lunch to cook, a game to install, a friend to come over) I *have* to do something. Usually: Throwing a ball against the wall, juggling or shuffling cards.



That reminds me.. I *always* Shift-Del out of habbit. Occasionally followed by a lot of swearing.

Oh, this one is fun. I'm cursed with overwhelming curiosity. By this I mean whenever somebody (be it in RL, on TV, in an internet discussion, whatever) mentions literally *anything* that I don't have some knowledge of, I immediately have to look it up. Wikipedia, imdb, acronymfinder, and urbandictionary are used constantly by me. I also have an unbelievable retention for this crap, which basically means I'm filled to the brim with useless trivia.

Personally, I'm an order nut (though I do the highlighting while I read thing also). My CD collection, computer games, books, DVDs. . .everything is in alphabetical order. And when I get a new DVD, I can spend hours reworking it so that movie sequels do not end up on the next shelf away from its counterpart.

Stacks of paper, piles of letters, etc, all have to be neat.

In fact, I do most of the same things as all the rest of you. Weird.

I pop as many joints as possible as often as possible...I don't like the feeling that the joints can't flex like they should. Mostly my fingers, wrists, and neck.

Yeah.

Did you know this depletes cartilage? If you really hate the idea of immobility you should break this habit. Not only do you look dumb doing it, you'll thank me later on.

I have a severe lack of cartilage in my right knee from breaking it, and I can tell you that sometimes it just won't move at all. Or it won't move right. Or it'll just plain throb and hurt. Sucks.

i do that if i'm watching movies and am online

*BAM* IMDB trivia!

i can't stand being alone in a room or area without having something to do, i'll wander or look around if said place has stuff to wander and look around at

see:

it is the same with me.

This is so a myth. There's no real evidence to suggest that cracking anything causes it to deplete the cartilage.

At most, the cartilage is simply worn down more because of the repetitive movements, but that can be done the exact same way by walking a lot.

More than likely you just have issues with the knee, nothing related to cracking it.

DAMN!