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stupid sh!t you fuss over

  • 09-09-2015 7:00pm
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,434 ✭✭✭


    when im in the jacks, I use a piece of tissue to cover my hand when opening the doors and if there's none handy, then i'll very weakly grip the handle and quickly pull it. this mostly applies to toilets as they are for the most part filthy ****holes with more germs than you even know. im more relaxed in other places but will apply the tissue when I can.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,452 ✭✭✭✭The_Valeyard


    You better squeeze the tea bag before you take it out of the cup.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,037 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    Do you wear tissue boxes on your feet?


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 832 ✭✭✭Notavirus.exe


    Robsweezie wrote: »
    I use a piece of tissue to cover my hand when

    I was thinking of something way different there...


  • Posts: 26,052 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I will not leave the house without making the bed and leaving the place tidy. It doesn't happen. Ever.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 23,646 ✭✭✭✭qo2cj1dsne8y4k


    Cleaning, particularly if someone comes in through the house with shoes on. It's only recently I've got hung up on it but I'm paranoid about what's on people's shoes, what I walk in, what I carry around my house and into my bed.

    Toilet roll. I never use the first bit I rip off. I've no idea why, it's something I've always done, even as a child. Have to bin the first bit and the rest is good to go.

    My eyebrows. They're the Bain of my life. I tint, I thread, I examine, I brush them into place, I use different colour gels and powders to feather in anything that's not perfect. I swear the Sistine chapel would be less effort to paint in the mornings.

    Body hair. I CANNOT DEAL. I hate it. I get so stressed out. I have myself waxed and threading, pretty much from head to toe. And everything is perfect for the first few weeks, but then it starts to grow back and that week I'm waiting for it to go enough to wax it again, god it stresses me out. I feel like a polar bear. Then if I wax too soon, all the hair hasn't come up so I'm not as smooth for as long. It's a very stressful situation.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,361 ✭✭✭Boskowski


    You sound like a catch...


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 832 ✭✭✭Notavirus.exe


    Now that I think about it, I usually fuss about my toenails being even slightly long. And if my hair is over 1 CM long I want it cut right there and then.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,257 ✭✭✭BettePorter


    When I make a sandwich I always keep the 'round' half for last and when I eat crisps I always open the bag upside down cause I think that way they ll be more flavoursome. Don't know why. Just do!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,219 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Starting sentences with an uppercase letter.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,318 ✭✭✭✭Menas


    Tidyness at home. Everything has a place and it drives me demented when sh1t is left around. This is a problem as I have a 4 year old kid!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 895 ✭✭✭Dughorm


    Threads in after hours on boards. ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 383 ✭✭flended12


    Don't overly fuss but I eat, always eat a big mac from the top down, each individual layer at a time.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,997 ✭✭✭Degag


    Work.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,495 ✭✭✭KatW4


    Making sure that the volume on anything is on an even number.

    Feeding our pets in specific order. The kitten, the cat and then the dog.

    Using different colour pens for headings and notes. I hate anything written in just one colour because I can't see where the topic changes.

    Stupid things really but if I don't do any of it like this it annoys me! It's like an itch I can't scratch, it gnaws away at me until I fix it.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,389 ✭✭✭NachoBusiness


    When a street is pretty much deserted, I'd don't like people walking too close behind me, it freaks me out. I will actually pretend to take a call just so they will fcuk off from about me. What's really odd is when you're walking somewhere and can feel someone walking almost on your heels even though you're walking quite fast yourself, and then as soon as they get past you they suddenly start walking at the same pace as you,. Well why the fcuk did you want to get by me then you big dope?? I nick name them NCPs (needlessly competitive pedestrians).


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 255 ✭✭mattP


    At night I won't go into a room if the light is on and the curtains are open :c I turn off the light, stealthily go close the curtains and turn the light back on :F


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 653 ✭✭✭skittles8710


    Men.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,768 ✭✭✭✭tomwaterford


    My car and cleaning it...get it valeted nearly weekly...(I drive like 17 mins to/from work max)
    And even the tax/insurance discs espially I can't stand having more than one of each in the display!

    I often get in cars they'd be well clean etc perfect out and look at the window then it's like a stuffed wallet stuck to it....stresses me out way more than it should like...I'd be thinking on for ages after


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,434 ✭✭✭Robsweezie


    I hate anyone walking behind me on a narrow footpath or tight space. if its a family with kids and a buggy that's fine, or a girl walking alone or with a male companion that's alright too, an elderly person whatever, but I have this thing about ''funny'' looking men walking behind me, either on their own or in groups. if I think they look shady I'll stop to check my phone with one eye on them as they go by. sometimes people just look dodgy even when they're completely innocent.

    I would also feel uncomfortable in the feeling that im in someones way, not walking fast enough, so id stop to let people by.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13 Aoibhinn_C


    When a street is pretty much deserted, I'd don't like people walking too close behind me, it freaks me out. I will actually pretend to take a call just so they will fcuk off from about me. What's really odd is when you're walking somewhere and can feel someone walking almost on your heels even though you're walking quite fast yourself, and then as soon as they get past you they suddenly start walking at the same pace as you,. Well why the fcuk did you want to get by me then you big dope?? I nick name them NCPs (needlessly competitive pedestrians).


    I admit I do this but its not because I'm needlessly competitive or anything like that. I got mugged by a junkie years ago. It was pretty scary so now if I see someone walking behind me in the street that looks a bit dodgy looking, I'll walk a bit faster to catch up to the nearest decent looking person in front of me and walk along side them until the dodgy person is gone. It makes me feel safer so you should think of it as a compliment to you when people do that.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 228 ✭✭Sudance


    I Count the clothes pegs to ensure there's always an even number

    I Wont let strangers like builders/tradesmen use my bathroom. I lie and tell em a pack of lies, but tell them they are welcome to nip down the field....and point to the furtherst corner away.....so far away they cant work out where it is :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 537 ✭✭✭clever user name


    No shoes in the house.

    And leaving lights on when nobody is in the room.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,509 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    closing doors especially when going to bed.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 499 ✭✭Green Mile


    If I bang my left elbow on something, I have to bang my right elbow to even it out. Same If I walk and my foot doesn’t lift fully and my shoe scraps partially along the ground, I have to even that out by dragging my other foot on the ground. If I drag the second too much I have to then even that back out again with the first foot.
    I just realised I’m odd


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,947 ✭✭✭Floppybits


    Cleaning, particularly if someone comes in through the house with shoes on. It's only recently I've got hung up on it but I'm paranoid about what's on people's shoes, what I walk in, what I carry around my house and into my bed.

    Toilet roll. I never use the first bit I rip off. I've no idea why, it's something I've always done, even as a child. Have to bin the first bit and the rest is good to go.

    My eyebrows. They're the Bain of my life. I tint, I thread, I examine, I brush them into place, I use different colour gels and powders to feather in anything that's not perfect. I swear the Sistine chapel would be less effort to paint in the mornings.

    Body hair. I CANNOT DEAL. I hate it. I get so stressed out. I have myself waxed and threading, pretty much from head to toe. And everything is perfect for the first few weeks, but then it starts to grow back and that week I'm waiting for it to go enough to wax it again, god it stresses me out. I feel like a polar bear. Then if I wax too soon, all the hair hasn't come up so I'm not as smooth for as long. It's a very stressful situation.

    Good jaysus :eek:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 23,646 ✭✭✭✭qo2cj1dsne8y4k


    Did I misread the thread title? Stupid sh!t you fuss over??


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,127 ✭✭✭kjl


    Do you wear tissue boxes on your feet?

    "I got six numbers, 3 more and I would have had a full number"


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,969 ✭✭✭✭mfceiling


    Sudance wrote: »
    I Count the clothes pegs to ensure there's always an even number

    I Wont let strangers like builders/tradesmen use my bathroom. I lie and tell em a pack of lies, but tell them they are welcome to nip down the field....and point to the furtherst corner away.....so far away they cant work out where it is :)

    I love people like you. I work in construction and the odd time we will work on a "live" house ie. someone still living there.

    We clean up after ourselves, take our lunch in the van and get a tea or coffee in the local shop. We try to respect the fact that it's your home and you need as minimum as disruption as possible. God forbid we might need a wee...2nd class citizens being sent down a field.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,080 ✭✭✭✭Maximus Alexander


    What's really odd is when you're walking somewhere and can feel someone walking almost on your heels even though you're walking quite fast yourself, and then as soon as they get past you they suddenly start walking at the same pace as you,. Well why the fcuk did you want to get by me then you big dope?? I nick name them NCPs (needlessly competitive pedestrians).

    I've often thought about this but as it applies to cycling (because what else do you have to think about while cycling?)

    Sometimes you'll gradually catch up with someone on a long cycle and find that the pace you're cruising at is just slightly faster than theirs. So you're behind them, but if you overtake them it would be the most excruciatingly slow overtake in history. The only option is to make a quick burst of speed to pass them and then return to your regular pace. I wonder is this what's happening?

    Though that doesn't explain those absolute Anuses of Satan who will come up behind you when you're stopped at lights and plonk themselves in front of you, only to take off at a painfully slow speed and crawl up the road. So you wait and wait for a gap in traffic to pass them, then they do the same thing at the next set of lights.

    It takes all my mental strength not to just reach out and push them off their bikes.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,278 ✭✭✭x43r0


    The volume on anything must be a multiple of 5

    Stir the tea enough to make sure the sugar has dissolved

    Squeeze the tea bag before you take it out

    Close the cupboard/wardrobe/room door before leaving the room/going to bed

    Hold the burger upside while eating because the juices flown down and make the bottom soggy otherwise

    If I listen to a song and it ends while I'm still enjoying it I'll start it over and listen again straight away. On occasion this has repeated up to 5 times

    If eating a roast dinner, every bite must have some meat, potatoes, veg, gravy in each mouthful. Each component of the meal must be rationed carefully to ensure that the last mouthful still has equal proportions

    When leaving the house, after closing the front door I give it a push in to make sure its closed


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 284 ✭✭Jan Laco


    When a street is pretty much deserted, I'd don't like people walking too close behind me, it freaks me out. I will actually pretend to take a call just so they will fcuk off from about me. What's really odd is when you're walking somewhere and can feel someone walking almost on your heels even though you're walking quite fast yourself, and then as soon as they get past you they suddenly start walking at the same pace as you,. Well why the fcuk did you want to get by me then you big dope?? I nick name them NCPs (needlessly competitive pedestrians).

    I hate walking the same pace as people. And if I am behind people walking the same pace I get the idea I might freak them out so will quicken to walk ahead of them. But then I get tired...


    I never take the top biscuit or bread slice in an opened pack.


    If there is a bar handle on public toilets or bar toilets I will push/pull the door open with the end of the handle where I think less people have touched it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,739 ✭✭✭✭kylith


    I've often thought about this but as it applies to cycling (because what else do you have to think about while cycling?)

    Sometimes you'll gradually catch up with someone on a long cycle and find that the pace you're cruising at is just slightly faster than theirs. So you're behind them, but if you overtake them it would be the most excruciatingly slow overtake in history. The only option is to make a quick burst of speed to pass them and then return to your regular pace. I wonder is this what's happening?

    Though that doesn't explain those absolute Anuses of Satan who will come up behind you when you're stopped at lights and plonk themselves in front of you, only to take off at a painfully slow speed and crawl up the road. So you wait and wait for a gap in traffic to pass them, then they do the same thing at the next set of lights.

    It takes all my mental strength not to just reach out and push them off their bikes.
    Gods, it should be legal to beat those people with their own rear wheels.

    I take a perverse pleasure in overtaking them if they're young fellas since I'm a mid 30s woman on a granny bike.



    I used to fuss about stuff a lot more, but then I tried not giving a fck and it's revolutionised my life.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,394 ✭✭✭Pac1Man


    Sudance wrote: »
    I Wont let strangers like builders/tradesmen use my bathroom. I lie and tell em a pack of lies, but tell them they are welcome to nip down the field....and point to the furtherst corner away.....so far away they cant work out where it is :)

    I know it's your house but I really hope you're joking.

    This could end up working against you one day. It's very easy to determine whether a toilet is in working order (presuming you tell them it's broken).

    I know if I found out that the owner acted like that and then sent us on a wild goose chase to a phantom field (!!), my quality of work would subconsciously drop like a stone.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Even though I know my keys are in my bag I always check my bag just before I close the door its odd because in my heart and soul I know the keys are in my bag but I still have to check.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 754 ✭✭✭illdoit2morrow


    Seeing a dishwasher not packed 'economically'. I'll take the time to rearrange the contents to fit an extra cup or two in.

    There is a weird kind of secretive smugness once its done.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,929 ✭✭✭✭castletownman


    I don't know whether it's a case of OCD, me being overly fussy, or a completely normal thing, but in the lead up to a weekend away in an unfamilar town, I ALWAYS scope out where we are staying, how long it should take to get there, and operate like clockwork in terms of figuring out how long it takes to walk from the accommodation to the main parts of town.

    In fact, I am definitely overly fussy when it comes to time-keeping. If I was told we were leaving at 2PM, and we left a minute late, I would be fretting that we are running late, and everything is going to be knocked off kilter.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 832 ✭✭✭Notavirus.exe


    Jan Laco wrote: »
    I never take the top biscuit or bread slice in an opened pack.

    Same. I might even go as deep as to skip the first two slices!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,465 ✭✭✭CruelCoin


    Robsweezie wrote: »
    when im in the jacks, I use a piece of tissue to cover my hand when opening the doors and if there's none handy, then i'll very weakly grip the handle and quickly pull it. this mostly applies to toilets as they are for the most part filthy ****holes with more germs than you even know. im more relaxed in other places but will apply the tissue when I can.

    On a similar note, isn't it just the stupidest thing to place the push side going into the loo, and the pull leaving. Whats the bloody point of washing my hands in this case?

    I always grip the handle in the spot i think has seen the least human contact.

    Mind you, i'm not sure why i do this, as i follow a 10 second rule for food on the ground.....


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,950 ✭✭✭Mesrine65


    I section off my dinner plate, vegetables in one section, potatoes in another & meat/fish in another...

    I also eat my dinner in this order leaving the best part, meat/fish etc., until last.

    I also prefer plain white plates & stainless steel cutlery.

    I think I have a touch of OCD :o:D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,739 ✭✭✭✭kylith


    CruelCoin wrote: »
    On a similar note, isn't it just the stupidest thing to place the push side going into the loo, and the pull leaving. Whats the bloody point of washing my hands in this case?

    I always grip the handle in the spot i think has seen the least human contact.

    Mind you, i'm not sure why i do this, as i follow a 10 second rule for food on the ground.....

    They do it so that people exiting the loo don't open the door into someone walking past.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,117 ✭✭✭Melisandre121


    I can't have the volume on 13 because it freaks me out. I can't have it on 6 either. And 13 is pretty much the perfect volume when I'm watching TV at night so I usually have to have it at 12 and strain a little bit to hear.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,037 ✭✭✭duffman3833


    Robsweezie wrote: »
    when im in the jacks, I use a piece of tissue to cover my hand when opening the doors and if there's none handy, then i'll very weakly grip the handle and quickly pull it. this mostly applies to toilets as they are for the most part filthy ****holes with more germs than you even know. im more relaxed in other places but will apply the tissue when I can.


    There is a local shopping center beside me, that is designed where u don't have to touch anything, unless you need to do a number 2 and sit on toilet, but once you finish in urinal, you wave you hand in front of sensor below tap and water starts running, and the hand dryer has a sensor so runs auto and there is no door to the bathrooms :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,438 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    Now that I think about it, I usually fuss about my toenails being even slightly long. And if my hair is over 1 CM long I want it cut right there and then.

    How did you manage pre-metric?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,779 ✭✭✭✭osarusan


    It bothers me if my shoe laces are tied so that they press different levels of 'tightness' against my foot. They have to be as tight as each other.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 832 ✭✭✭Notavirus.exe


    endacl wrote: »
    How did you manage pre-metric?

    I was bald. :eek: JK.

    It has nothing to do with the number 1 CM, it's just that 1 CM long hair is just too long for my liking.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,438 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    I was bald. :eek: JK.

    It has nothing to do with the number 1 CM, it's just that 1 CM long hair is just too long for my liking.

    What's the diameter of your head? This needs an indication of proportion.


  • Posts: 21,679 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    When I wash my hair I wash each individual strand separately.

    I can only drive on a road that has blue cars. If I see other colour cars I have a kind of fit and begin to tear my hair out, strand by strand of course.

    What else. Oh yes. I take my toes off every night. The sight of them sticking out from the end of my feet makes me feel queasy.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,073 ✭✭✭Rubberlegs


    I can't bear my fingernails to grow so they have a white tip on them. The minute I see that, I have to cut them. I appreciate lovely fingernails on other women, but I can't bear the feeling of them. Especially when something gets into them like coal dust or Play Doh. Uggghh:(
    I'm fanatical about recycling, and making sure everything goes in the correct bin. The OH winds me up by shoving crisp packets or chocolate wrappers down into empty bottles. My head feels like it will explode:(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,495 ✭✭✭KatW4


    Just remembered another one. If I'm buying anything in the shop, I always go for one at the back. I never pick the one at the front. It's a habit I picked up from my mum and I've no idea why she does it!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 31,152 ✭✭✭✭KERSPLAT!


    KatW4 wrote: »
    Just remembered another one. If I'm buying anything in the shop, I always go for one at the back. I never pick the one at the front. It's a habit I picked up from my mum and I've no idea why she does it!

    Probably because people always pick up things from the front, have a look and then put them back if it's not wanted. So if its something like bread it'll be squished, or an item of clothing may be dirty from people mauling it. That's why I do it anyway!!


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