Things you do that you feel are normal/logical but others view as weird

wilkie2006

When I go grocery shopping, generally I buy exactly the same item in multiples of 2 (e.g. 2 bottles of shampoo, 4 tins of beans, 2 bottles of ketchup, 2 tubes of toothpaste etc). The reason is so it's easier to balance my bags when I'm walking home. Makes sense, no?

My girlfriend thinks this is one of the weirdest things she's ever heard (and has started calling me Noah). Is it odd? I guess I could balance the bags in a more conventional way but I don't think it's a big deal; I'll end up using the duplicate stuff at some stage.

Is this weird? Anyone else have any routines that others say are strange?

billybudd

Driving southbound on the northbound side of the m50, get some terrible weird looks.

Dotrel

billybudd wrote: »

Driving southbound on the northbound side of the m50, get some terrible weird looks.

Tell me about it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7N81H8KF9c

effluent

The volume on my car radio has to be set on an even number. If I found out it was on an odd number I'd just feel weird

TeddyTedson

We did this just the other day:eek:

im invisible

starting threads that have been done already this week...

PseudoFamous

The volume on the tv must be a multiple of 5.

DWCommuter

I work.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Watch porn on the net.

Opinicus

PseudoFamous wrote: »

The volume on the tv must be a multiple of 5.

Exactly! Except for the big TV which is also ok on 27.

Because 27 is just the perfect volume for that TV.


Also: just realised it's 3 cubed, may have found some universal constant or something, off to do research, back later.

TeddyTedson

I have a notepad I use for keeping a few notes on people I know, nothing amazing written in it really, just money I'm owed, arguments pending, ways individuals have wronged me and nice things people have done for me too. Just little notes, I'm not writing down full blown profiles about people...yet It just helps me remember things though I otherwise might forget. I was thinking though, if I ever murdered someone and the DailyMail got wind that the police found this notepad in my house, they would go to town on me. I can just imagine the headlines. :rolleyes:
I also sometimes go to take a piss, and stand over the bowl and imagine I have 5 seconds to piss in the face of someone who has wronged me. I imagine they are taunting me and unless I time it just right a perspex screen will appear and shield them from (and I can't believe I actually have a reason for saying this now) being blasted with my piss.
I have a few more sexual ones that I won't go in to. But we're all a little psychotic weird in our ways to some extent.
I'd love to hear what psychotic weird ways others might have. :D:pac:

dvpower

wilkie2006 wrote: »

When I go grocery shopping, generally I buy items in even numbers - usually in 2s or 4s (well, stuff that isn't perishable). The reason is so it's easier to balance my bags when I'm walking home. Makes sense, no?

My girlfriend thinks this is one of the weirdest things she's ever heard (and has started calling me Noah). Is it odd? I guess I could balance the bags in a more conventional way but I don't think it's a big deal; I'll end up using the duplicate stuff at some stage.

Is this weird? Anyone else have any routines that others say are strange?

Get your girlfriends to carry a bag each and you won't have to do a thing.

wilkie2006

TeddyTedson wrote: »

I have a notepad I use for keeping a few notes on people I know... arguments pending, ways individuals have wronged me ...Just little notes

My mate used to do something like this. When we pi$$ed him off he'd write a note about us in his phone and assign the offence a value of 1-10 to indicate its gravity. Eventually he'd import the lot into an Excel document and calculate who, according to his experiences, were the people he disliked the most. After about 6 months of this he texted one of the lads to say he'd reviewed their friendship comprehensively and decided he was terminating it. He was fair though; he offered the guy 5 days to appeal the decision and said he was willing to make the "evidence" available to him if he wished to see it.

Chuck Stone

I organize mannequin parties.

Just me and the lads/ladies.

wilkie2006

dvpower wrote: »

Get your girlfriends to carry a bag each and you won't have to do a thing.

And thereby shift the problem of balance elsewhere? Hmm, I like it.

Celly Smunt

I view Ireland on a map as being on the far left,like:



IRELAND

---

ASIA

---

AMERICA

Not :

AMERICA

---

IRELAND

---

ASIA



i'm a freak.

WindSock

I don't like to stand in doorways and keep to the side of escalators when I am not walking up or down them. Pretty left of field, me.

newmug

wilkie2006 wrote: »

When I go grocery shopping, generally I buy exactly the same item in multiples of 2 (e.g. 2 bottles of shampoo, 4 tins of beans, 2 bottles of ketchup, 2 tubes of toothpaste etc). The reason is so it's easier to balance my bags when I'm walking home. Makes sense, no?

I was going to say that yes, this is fairly weird. I mean, how heavy can a bag be that you need to "balance" it? And then you increase the weight upon yourself by 100% just to correct the percieved extra effort you need to exert to keep the first bag "balanced"?


But then I read these:

TeddyTedson wrote: »

I have a notepad I use for keeping a few notes on people I know, nothing amazing written in it really, just money I'm owed, arguments pending, ways individuals have wronged me and nice things people have done for me too. Just little notes, I'm not writing down full blown profiles about people...yet It just helps me remember things though I otherwise might forget. I was thinking though, if I ever murdered someone and the DailyMail got wind that the police found this notepad in my house, they would go to town on me. I can just imagine the headlines. :rolleyes:
I also sometimes go to take a piss, and stand over the bowl and imagine I have 5 seconds to piss in the face of someone who has wronged me. I imagine they are taunting me and unless I time it just right a perspex screen will appear and shield them from (and I can't believe I actually have a reason for saying this now) being blasted with my piss.
I have a few more sexual ones that I won't go in to. But we're all a little psychotic weird in our ways to some extent.
I'd love to hear what psychotic weird ways others might have. :D:pac:

wilkie2006 wrote: »

My mate used to do something like this. When we pi$$ed him off he'd write a note about us in his phone and assign the offence a value of 1-10 to indicate its gravity. Eventually he'd import the lot into an Excel document and calculate who, according to his experiences, were the people he disliked the most. After about 6 months of this he texted one of the lads to say he'd reviewed their friendship comprehensively and decided he was terminating it. He was fair though; he offered the guy 5 days to appeal the decision and said he was willing to make the "evidence" available to him if he wished to see it.

Now THAT is weird. Reminds me of the Fr. Ted episode with Graham Norton in the caravan.

Senna

Serious deja vu in this thread

Chuck Stone

Domo230 wrote: »

I get a lot of funny looks when I read on the bus. Bus folk don't like readin folk.

Pay no heed - they're just bus **** and jealous of your scholarly attributes.

Reamer Fanny

Domo230 wrote: »

I get a lot of funny looks when I read on the bus. Bus folk don't like readin folk.

Buswankers

The King of Moo

I pronounce the word "liquorice" as it looks- "liquoriss."
Have done since I was a kid. It just seems to sound better and make much more sense than "liquorice!"

Domo230 wrote: »

I get a lot of funny looks when I read on the bus. Bus folk don't like readin folk.

Book wanker! :pac:

MrJoeSoap

wilkie2006 wrote: »

My mate used to do something like this. When we pi$$ed him off he'd write a note about us in his phone and assign the offence a value of 1-10 to indicate its gravity. Eventually he'd import the lot into an Excel document and calculate who, according to his experiences, were the people he disliked the most. After about 6 months of this he texted one of the lads to say he'd reviewed their friendship comprehensively and decided he was terminating it. He was fair though; he offered the guy 5 days to appeal the decision and said he was willing to make the "evidence" available to him if he wished to see it.

Sheldon Cooper?

J K

Domo230 wrote: »

I get a lot of funny looks when I read on the bus. Bus folk don't like readin folk.

Well. Looks like we got ourselves a reader.

/hicks

im invisible

Domo230 wrote: »

I get a lot of funny looks when I read on the bus. Bus folk don't like readin folk.

you should really stop reading out loud,

Pdfile

TeddyTedson wrote: »

I have a notepad I use for keeping a few notes on people I know, nothing amazing written in it really, just money I'm owed, arguments pending, ways individuals have wronged me and nice things people have done for me too. Just little notes, I'm not writing down full blown profiles about people...yet It just helps me remember things though I otherwise might forget. I was thinking though, if I ever murdered someone and the DailyMail got wind that the police found this notepad in my house, they would go to town on me. I can just imagine the headlines. :rolleyes:
I also sometimes go to take a piss, and stand over the bowl and imagine I have 5 seconds to piss in the face of someone who has wronged me. I imagine they are taunting me and unless I time it just right a perspex screen will appear and shield them from (and I can't believe I actually have a reason for saying this now) being blasted with my piss.
I have a few more sexual ones that I won't go in to. But we're all a little psychotic weird in our ways to some extent.
I'd love to hear what psychotic weird ways others might have. :D:pac:

is teddy short for ted bundy ??

pmcmahon

pmcmahon wrote: »

I view Ireland on a map as being on the far left,like:



IRELAND

---

ASIA

---

AMERICA

Not :

AMERICA

---

IRELAND

---

ASIA



i'm a freak.

I see these maps fairly often.. Love them and must buy one.
Like this but with full detail.
http://www.wall-maps.com/World/NGPacCenterPol.jpg

Pherekydes

effluent wrote: »

The volume on my car radio has to be set on an even number. If I found out it was on an odd number I'd just feel weird

PseudoFamous wrote: »

The volume on the tv must be a multiple of 5.

Mine has to be set on a prime number. :eek:

I play fantasy football. I've won my league 3 times and finished 2nd in the last five years.

astonaidan

Play Boy/Girl, Supposedly its not cool after primary school

TeddyTedson

newmug wrote: »

I was going to say that yes, this is fairly weird. I mean, how heavy can a bag be that you need to "balance" it? And then you increase the weight upon yourself by 100% just to correct the percieved extra effort you need to exert to keep the first bag "balanced"?


But then I read these:






Now THAT is weird. Reminds me of the Fr. Ted episode with Graham Norton in the caravan.

It's not really weird though, just more efficient than most.
It's like an ultra effective diary

wilkie2006

TeddyTedson wrote: »

It's not really weird though, just more efficient than most.
It's like an ultra effective diary

Cheers. That what I think. Maybe I'm super evolved...?