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Post by Incog Neato on Jun 2, 2008 18:16:51 GMT -5
Say, anyone afraid of heights?
I've been on rollercoasters, ferris wheels, the observation deck of the Statue of Liberty, the top of the World Trade Center, and airplanes and I've never felt sick or weak or anything.
BUT! I'm afraid of heights *if* I'm standing on a narrow base (like the top of a ladder or a top of a stool) or angled bases (like the roof of my house).
Because of this weird fear, I'm always nervous when changing light bulbs or removing/replacing a fire alarm.
（￣へ￣）
(.... I hate anime? These damn text substitutions for emoticons can be more annoying than the emoticons themselves. )
Almost forgot to mention that I'm afraid of ice AND heat/fire. I am scared as hell to slip on ice and freak out if something like a speck of cooking oil happens to hit my skin while frying food and stuff.
Oh, I'm also afraid to put food into boiling water or a plate of food onto a rack to steam while water is boiling.
I actually prefer to cook with long sleeves and sometimes even with gloves on. :P
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Post by Ascended Mermaid on Jun 2, 2008 18:24:27 GMT -5
Heh. I'm afraid of heights when on roofs and ladders. I always have this fear that ladders will pull an Ernest on me.
As such, when I used to work at Rite Aid, I had to ask for help when putting up or taking down displays from the top shelves. It could be due to my height (6'3 1/2") that my perception makes me think that I'm up higher than I really am; as my eye level isn't equivalent to the eye level of shorter persons.
On one hand, I hate being a wuss.
I remember gym class, when I was in high school, the rock wall... oof! I climbed maybe three or four different rock thingies (eq. 3-4 feet off the ground) before wimping out.
Come to think of it, heat does weird things to me. Heat makes me nauseous. Water makes my legs itch. Occasionally, I'll feel like it's raining cold mist or hot ashes when it really isn't. When I flick my ashes, occasionally I'll get hit by a little spark and jump.
I have a tendancy of losing my cherry. Happens often. Maybe because I'm so OCD about flicking my ashes.
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Post by Ascended Mermaid on Jun 2, 2008 18:31:01 GMT -5
I hate bees or anything that randomly appears in front of my face. I can kill spiders, but not when lizards are standing right next to them; compassion. I hate children of the earth (10-legged spider-like creatures) and vinagren (ugly scorpion creatures which smell like vinegar). I kill flies with two swatters at a time.
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Post by Justin on Jun 2, 2008 22:09:28 GMT -5
I hate bees or anything that randomly appears in front of my face. I can kill spiders, but not when lizards are standing right next to them; compassion. I hate children of the earth (10-legged spider-like creatures) and vinagren (ugly scorpion creatures which smell like vinegar). I kill flies with two swatters at a time. I second that motion. If I had my way, Wasps would have been rendered extinct a long time ago. |
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Post by Yakra on Jun 3, 2008 17:51:10 GMT -5
I am.  Both ways! That is, standing on top of a high building and looking down, or standing below a gigantic monument/building/tower/blah, my knees feel like they're going to collapse under me! Odd though how I'm utterly fascinated by bridges. Especially railway ones! I'm such a wimp.  I'm scared of large bodies of water too! Dams, lakes, seas! So fun to stare at and feel one's knees collapse all over again! (...If I was Adol, I probably wouldn't even have made it to my first adventure! A dead rock in the sea I would be!) There aren't any tornadoes here but these days earthquakes make me nervous. Surprising, considering I almost slept through the one that destroyed half the country! Only woke up because the skylight fell down! Bugs don't bother me much though. I used to be finickier, but ever since I started working in my studio/sun room (which is like... stuck to the garden!) at night, ushering out hordes of them has made me very indifferent. Cockroaches though I cannot stand! |
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Post by Falcom Director of Fanservice on Jun 4, 2008 2:01:15 GMT -5
I hate insects when I am indoors. Especially in my own home and triple so when I am in my chambers, where I will typically destroy them on sight.
Outside, they don't bother me much.
Also while driving I am neurotic about looking both ways before going on at an intersection with a stopsign. This extends to when one of the directions is a dead end or has no road. I also do this when in the front passenger seat.
I've had a couple car accidents =[
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Post by FM-77AV on Jun 4, 2008 2:59:38 GMT -5
(.... I hate anime? These damn text substitutions for emoticons can be more annoying than the emoticons themselves. ) Hey, don't blame me.  Deuce's the one who added those.  |
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Post by Varion on Jun 6, 2008 16:11:38 GMT -5
What the fuck is wrong with you guys, beer is the shit!!!!! If by 'is the shit' you mean 'tastes like shit', sure! Tried more than enough random varieties at parties already and every single one of them was disgusting. And the only thing I can think that qualifies is sleep. I need pretty much absolute silence to sleep - if anyone's talking nearby, the television's on in another room, or anything small like that it distracts me and I'll lie there for sometimes hours unintentionally listening to it. Really annoying to say the least, because I have trouble sleeping at the best of times. That's it though. Oh, and as of the past few months I sleep with the covers over my head. It's warmer that way. Also, I get unusually irritated by random small things. Like Hepburn romaji (that one where they throw unnecessary macrons around). And the term 'hentai games'. And random unnecessary Japanese words in English sentences. And ^ _^ faces.  Oh, and I'm not sure 'difficulty socialising offline' counts as a quirk. 'Cute things make me happy' certainly doesn't ;p |
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Post by Justin on Jun 6, 2008 23:35:12 GMT -5
Yeah buy you are from England, and I have tons of family there too. The beer is not as good as it is here, and you guys drink it warm. I know if you came here and had an ice cold coors, you may change your mind.
I am not surprised though, because my dad absolutely hates beer. He only drinks rum.
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Post by Ascended Mermaid on Jun 7, 2008 1:34:34 GMT -5
Heh, yeah. I remember before I got out of my apartment, the couple (which was a big no-no; that was a gov. sect!) who lived in the room on the other side of mine... ugh. Noisy sex. All the freaking time. I'd smack the walls, (To the point where I actually had to buy some plaster... oops!) I'd blast my music, I'd do everything in my power to shut them the hell up. I even started to imitate them loudly. I resort to all sorts of rude gestures when someone's disrespecting rules and regulations, which ultimately end up disrupting my sleep. Hell, I even came out with a broom stick (no, I did not say "This... is my BROOM stick!") on "nights" (more like 2:00-3:00 AM) when people would blast their damned rap in their freaking cars and shout all the way from downstairs and in hallways to get someone out of their apartment. Believe me when I say you DON'T interrupt my sleep; that's a big nunuu. I'm not sure whether or not I should move this one to pet peeves though, since it's a response to a post on this thread. Hrm... |
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Post by Incog Neato on Jun 7, 2008 8:40:19 GMT -5
(.... I hate anime? These damn text substitutions for emoticons can be more annoying than the emoticons themselves. ) Hey, don't blame me. ;) Deuce's the one who added those. ;D But don't you have the power to change them!? At least make them goofier! Anyway! I have another oddity! I blast music in the morning! On my way to work! And that's 6:30 AM! Today, I had Nightwish's End of All Hope playing nice and loud at the traffic light near work with other cars around. Fun times. :D |
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Post by Varion on Jun 7, 2008 9:40:57 GMT -5
What inhuman monster gets up before 6:30am?
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Post by Ascended Mermaid on Jun 7, 2008 10:10:10 GMT -5
My old neighbors, apparently. Thugs, druggies, sluts, gangstas and your otherwise typical "hood-folk" seem to be greatly attracted to government run/min. wage/special case/section 8 apartment facilities; I was living far from the ghettos in that town, mind you. People like them give people like myself (who actually have a go at an honest living) a bad name. They blast music, do private deals, have noisy sex, party, and god knows everything else they do under the moon at such ungodly hours. Mind you, those complexes are STRICT, so I can understand tiny incidents and bending the rules a little... but when you break them constantly at 2-3 AM, I lose control and hope to god they're evicted by the following afternoon. Oh, and VISITORS. In god's name, it's ridiculous having your neighbor's visitors knock on your door at some ungodly hour to ask you wtf they went off to. I have no business with the neighbors so of course I'd be pissed if I had to wake up and answer the door to be asked inane questions, all while I have to open my Domino's store in 4-5 more hours. You'd think that people would be a little more considerate. NO. They don't care about you and the fact that you fucking work for a living. They just want to pester you about your neighbors of whom you know jack shit about. At 4-5 in the morning. Seriously, if people aren't getting evicted, can I please just pop them in the head as I please?! Hopefully my landlady gets replaced by a more strict manager. Everyone thought she was a bitch; but they were all breaking more rules than I can count. If they think she's a bitch, just wait until they get evicted... I'd love to sit there, blow smoke in their direction, and glare at them as they pack their shit and go. ...of course, I'm not there anymore. See? I do think about things in my past, and how I'd change things, almost to the point of being OCD. |
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Post by Ascended Mermaid on Jun 7, 2008 10:24:46 GMT -5
Quirk: I don't have a driver's license, and I don't plan on getting one. Cars scare me. People IN cars scare me. People scare me period. Furthermore, I'm traumatized by the rollercoaster of a test drive I had when my sister attempted to teach me how to drive. It was a quiet, private road, and some asshole gets up behind me at fucking 60 MPH!
As I attempt to escape these monkey effers and center the car in the lane, I almost hit a mailbox, almost drive into the ditch, and almost crashed into Ted's bar & inn. X) Instead, I gunned it to Ted's bar, and hit the brakes like a son of a bitch when I got to the parking spot. Parked, got out, and had a cigarette. My sister was full of shock and fear, and has since said she'll never take me out to drive again.
It was that exciting and freaky; perhaps even moreso than my words describe. The shock and horror factor was unbelievable.
More reasons I refuse to get a license:
- Gas. Too expensive.
- Insurance. Too expensive.
- Car payments. Too expensive.
- Car maintenance. Too expensive.
- I've been in numerous car crashes with my relatives. I was just the passenger.
In the end, it just doesn't seem worth it. If it doesn't eat my wallet first, I'll either have my license taken away for reckless driving or I'll get in more crashes than I could possibly afford.
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Post by Incog Neato on Jun 7, 2008 11:35:59 GMT -5
What inhuman monster gets up before 6:30am? Well, aside from the weirdos Maggot knows, when you have to get to work by 7:00 AM, you must wake up at a decent time to eat and get dressed!!!! I actually wake up around 5:00 AM to get ready for work because I like to take things nice and slow. Really slow. I don't like to rush! Rushing can give me tummy aches. :((((( |
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Post by Ascended Mermaid on Jun 8, 2008 4:11:21 GMT -5
I bring antacids with me to work; for some reason, I've always had stomach issues at work, so ummm... yay antacids. I swear I'll be "that guy who drinks pepto bismol at work". I'm not sure how common this is, but I get sick at work; alot. If it weren't for antacids, I'd be out of the job. Another quirk? I talk about my past in present tense. I'm not a very "tense" person, obviously.
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Post by Yakra on Jun 8, 2008 9:12:26 GMT -5
Anyway! I have another oddity! I blast music in the morning! On my way to work! And that's 6:30 AM! I go to sleep by 6:30 AM... :-/ (Even 8 at times, if a huge deadline is coming up!) And I don't know how to drive either! (but that's not an quirk. I just don't have the time to learn! D: ( And am too greedy to buy meself a car!)) |
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Post by Varion on Jun 8, 2008 11:18:40 GMT -5
I go to sleep by 6:30 AM... :-/ (Even 8 at times, if a huge deadline is coming up!) See, this is the way to do it. None of this waking up in the morning nonsense. |
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Post by Ascended Mermaid on Jun 8, 2008 11:27:44 GMT -5
These days, I just sleep whenever want. I often tell myself Ï... ...what is it with ' and " causing ï and Ï? Ugh... anyway, I often say I'm not tired yet. I was gonna "" quote it, but my keys are being funky, resulting in some odd letters. ë"wä"d"f"g"c"x"z"pï Seems to do it with vowels... I'm amused quite easily.
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Post by Nalacakes on Jun 17, 2008 6:46:30 GMT -5
Umm...like some of the rest of you, I don't drink alcohol of any sort. I did, during my early teens, when I was basically going through a whole 'I'm going to be really cool and fit in!' phase. But when I was about seventeen, I realised that I didn't really enjoy it at all, and decided to stop. I suppose I've never actually drank in the eyes of the law. ^_~ And I'm not sure if I ever will...
I wear my glasses pretty much all the time. I don't really need to. My eyesight is quite good without them for everything except very small text. But I've worn glasses since I was about nine years old, and it just feels strange to me now to have them off. I guess I'm in a minority in that I kind of like glasses? They make people's eyes look softer and less intimidating for me...
I sing to myself. Lots. Silly little songs with made-up, meaningless lyrics. Or simply a tune set to something I need to remember. I don't have an especially bad voice, but it's certainly nothing I should be showing to the world on a regular basis. Still, it helps me focus somehow. ^^;
I talk to machines when I'm working with them. Especially computers. Stuff like 'Why are you having so much trouble opening a silly internet browser. Are you sick?', 'Where did you put that file? I know I didn't move it...', or 'I plug this cable in here, right? If you shock me I'm going to be so mad...'. My friend pointed it out about a year ago when I was fixing her computer, though, and since then I've become kinda self-conscious. ;__;
I kind of...forget which hand is my dominant one a lot. Sometimes I write with my left hand, and sometimes my right. I use a mouse with whatever hand happens to be closest at the time. I brush my hair with my left hand, but my teeth with my right. And when I play the piano, my hands don't seem to be able to make up their minds about which one is stronger, and which one still needs work.
I'd like to say I'm ambidextrous, but that sounds so grandiose. I think I'm closer to ambilackofdexterity. I know how to use both hands equally badly. ^^; I'm extremely clumsy and ungraceful with both hands, but I can just about get by with either.
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Both ways! That is, standing on top of a high building and looking down, or standing below a gigantic monument/building/tower/blah, my knees feel like they're going to collapse under me! Odd though how I'm utterly fascinated by bridges. Especially railway ones! 
Deuce's the one who added those. 
