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Seriously, tell us all something about yourself and why something about you is odd compared to everyone else. I'll start.

I have two beds I regularly sleep in in my house. One in my bedroom, a king (that I regularly share with my girlfriend) and a double that I keep in my...well, video game/nerdry office I guess (I have a work office on the main floor) in the basement. My gaming PC and consoles and shit (Warhammer stuff) are all in there too. Sometimes I just want to veg out in my basement room in a bed playing video games. I sleep there maybe 1/3rd of the time (as little as I actually sleep).

This is something nobody I know finds normal.

I replaced the chair at my computer in my home office with a recliner, I basically sleep here in my office every night thanks to GERD and the general quietness of my basement compared to the upstairs.

Until the little woman came along, I almost never slept in a bed. I slept on my own couch 90% of the time.

Also, I can raise one eyebrow (my left) extremely easily and often do so without realizing. But I have to concentrate very hard to raise only my right eyebrow. But I can wiggle my right ear independently, or both, but not the left ear alone.

When I drink beverages from a small aperture (sodas, coffee from lidded cups), I do so from the side of my mouth, so as not to obstruct my view forwards. I've done it as long as I can remember, but I always get comments on it.

Also - even though I know he will come here, sure as I can find a fire ant bed whilst wearing sandals - Yoshi's not allowed to post in here.

I don't know how weird it is, but I have a morning routine, and if it gets mixed up I forget stuff. As in, I will forget to put on deodorant or make coffee. I don't have to do things in order, but I have to do all the bathroom stuff at once or all the kitchen stuff at once. Before I was married I forgot to eat breakfast all the time.

Right before I walk out the door I have to do a pat down to make sure I have all my stuff (keys, wallet, cell phone) and then think about hygienic things (teeth brushed, deo, etc). It's not like I am rushed. I could get up at 5 am and still forget stuff.

drawn_inward said:

I don't know how weird it is, but I have a morning routine, and if it gets mixed up I forget stuff. As in, I will forget to put on deodorant or make coffee. I don't have to do things in order, but I have to do all the bathroom stuff at once or all the kitchen stuff at once. Before I was married I forgot to eat breakfast all the time.

Right before I walk out the door I have to do a pat down to make sure I have all my stuff (keys, wallet, cell phone) and then think about hygienic things (teeth brushed, deo, etc). It's not like I am rushed. I could get up at 5 am and still forget stuff.

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That doesn't strike me as odd... or, at least it happens to me all the time as well. Maybe we're just both odd in that way. But studies have shown human memory to be context-based and location linked, so it seems to me perfectly logical that if you leave the bathroom without putting on deodorant, you're very likely to forget to do so at all.

Frank said:

Seriously, tell us all something about yourself and why something about you is odd compared to everyone else. I'll start.

I have two beds I regularly sleep in in my house. One in my bedroom, a king (that I regularly share with my girlfriend) and a double that I keep in my...well, video game/nerdry office I guess (I have a work office on the main floor) in the basement. My gaming PC and consoles and shit (Warhammer stuff) are all in there too. Sometimes I just want to veg out in my basement room in a bed playing video games. I sleep there maybe 1/3rd of the time (as little as I actually sleep).

This is something nobody I know finds normal.

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If I had a large enough house, I would definitely have two beds to regularly use. That sounds great; I would never have thought of such a thing, but now I feel a modicum of envy for you.

Apparently I talk out of the left side of my mouth, and smile lopsidedly, with the left side much higher. It's not intentional, and if pointed out I can consciously talk/smile 'normally', but it just seems to be the way I speak.

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I have to do a pat down to make sure I have all my stuff (keys, wallet, cell phone)

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I do this throughout the day. Any time I leave a place (even my desk at the office), any time I arrive at a new place, etc. I also always keep everything in certain pockets and panic when they're not there. I've freaked out about losing my keys when I couldn't feel them in my left pocket... They were in my hand.

I have absolutely no sense of time. I have to set reminders and alarms on my phone if I have to do something at a specific time, otherwise it will whoosh by. I also have to be very careful not to procrastinate because of this, because if I decide I'm going to do something -tomorrow-, that tomorrow could turn into weeks.

I have no internal monologue. I kind of do, but I talk to myself a lot, especially when out shopping.

I've mentioned this before, and I think it was Bowie who pointed out it was a "thing". I like to pick and pull. I always pick at any scabs I have, and I like to pull out my hair. Now that I'm getting older I have plenty of nose and chest hair to pluck. If I grow my facial hair at all, and itch on my face leads me to plucking out the hairs there. I used to pull at my eyebrows, but not so much now. I just love the feeling of the hair slowly pulling out of my skin.

Oh, and you guys already know about the teeth thing, right?

Edit - heh, stienman remembers.

Ok, Ill bite. I find myself counting syllables by clicking my molars together, first left then right. Not sure why. I prefer it to be an even number of lefts and rights.

Krisken said:

Ok, Ill bite. I find myself counting syllables by clicking my molars together, first left then right. Not sure why. I prefer it to be an even number of lefts and rights.

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I DO THAT TOO! I've done that exact thing since I was in kindergarten. I also tap my left and right index fingers to count syllables. Awesome.

I don't think this is odd, but a lot of my coworkers do. I just nerd out about food a lot. We just had a teacher pot luck this afternoon, and I was asking all these elaborate questions about how they prepare their food. They just kind of stare blankly. The kicker was when I said, "I'm going to marry this brownie and have a romantic honeymoon with it." I'm glad I got laughs and not disgusted stares. I just get really psyched when I talk about food preparation. Not weird for a culinary school dropout, but weird for a lot of teacher/parents who worship the mighty crock pot. (No disrespect intended. God bless the crock pot.)

Krisken said:

Ok, Ill bite. I find myself counting syllables by clicking my molars together, first left then right. Not sure why. I prefer it to be an even number of lefts and rights.

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Well thats not odd at all.


I'm a huge fidgeter. I've been given multiple fidget rocks but they're just not the same. It needs to be some random item.

I compulsively break bills and hoard change, which I roll and... hoard mostly. I should really get over to the bank.

I can snap all of my fingers on both of my hands. And tend to do so, all at once.

I always want my left foot to be "final" one to push myself up stairs. So it's not the last foot on a stair, but rather the first one to the final level surface (or landing, if multi-part stairs). How I start doesn't matter (can be either), but I "want" to end on my left foot as the final one on the "level" part of where I'm going. So if I've been on stairs multiple times, I always run them the same way once I've figured out the number. Bonus that it's sometimes a different "starter" foot if I'm taking them two at a time, and to make the two-at-a-time "perfect" sometimes you step to the first start to start, not the second, so you can end on a "double" rather than end on a single at the top. I'm not so OCD that it is "omg my day is ruined" if I do it wrong, it just feels like it breaks my stride or something. So I want it to be "proper" if I can.

So ya... stairs are a thing for me.


And I'm with ya blotsfan. I'm the same with fidgeting. Drives my wife banannas.

I agree on the fidgeting thing... drives my wife berserk. My grandmother, when she was alive, would constantly fuss at me about it.

Ravenpoe said:

I have absolutely no sense of time. I have to set reminders and alarms on my phone if I have to do something at a specific time, otherwise it will whoosh by. I also have to be very careful not to procrastinate because of this, because if I decide I'm going to do something -tomorrow-, that tomorrow could turn into weeks.

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With you on that. Advantageous from a "I legitimately have to think about it to remember how old I am" standpoint, lousy for things like deadlines (which matter to other people, but not me).

If I drink pop/soda from a can, I will merely crack the seal enough to get at the contents, but not enough to open the actual mouth, and then drink the contents by pulling them through the crack via suction or by pressurizing the can (by shaking it slightly or blowing into it) and tipping it so the crack is at the bottom. It's a little noisier than normal and tends to confuse people (because the can still appears to be closed), but I adopted this method after accidentally trying to drink a live carpenter ant that had gotten into a can I had left out overnight. Bonus benefit: If I knock the can over, it doesn't immediately spill its contents all over whatever was underneath.

--Patrick

I wish I never had to sleep. Ever. That I could just stay awake 24/7, no repercussions. I talk about it often, what a waste of time sleep is to me, if only I didn't need a little of it here and there, there's so much more I could do. You can probably guess I'm a morning person as a result. And everyone hates me for it.

When I'm bored or upset, I do chores.

I don't know what else is weird. I know other people find me weird, but because they don't give me a context as to what is normal or divulge what it is they find weird about me, I don't really know. My wife would be better at listing things that are weird about me.

I talk to myself quite a lot, out loud, usually in private but I've been known to be caught muttering to myself.

I am with @Quotemander Prime on wishing I never had to sleep. I definitely agree feeling like it is a waste of time, but also, for years sleep was a very unpleasant experience. I have dreadful insomnia, so I would go to bed, not fall asleep for hours no matter how tired I was, and if I did fall asleep, I'd wake up every hour or so and struggle to fall back sleep. On top of that, I had night terrors well outside the normal age range and frequency. All of this made me hate sleep even more. Nowadays I've found a combination of meds that help me fall and stay asleep, and I can actually wake up refreshed. It's quite amazing, actually: until earlier this year, I hadn't had a 'good' sleep that I could remember. So I'm no longer hateful toward sleep, but I do still think it's a waste of time. I wish I could have those hours to read or write or... do... stuff.

I love sleep. Can do it at any time, any where with little to no effort. Used to sleep standing up at school between classes; just lean against the locker and nap.
I also have to sleep with my feet uncovered and my head covered. Something about having the ability to jump up and run if I have to, very strange.

I don't have a filter between my brain and my mouth. My counsellor once told me "You have a tendency to over-communicate." If I'm thinking something, I just say it, regardless of the consequences unfortunately. If you want an honest opinion on something, most people know to come to me. It's resulted in a couple career-limiting moves. I'm a shameless flirt also as a result.

THC has no effect on me.

Adam said:

I love sleep. Can do it at any time, any where with little to no effort. Used to sleep standing up at school between classes; just lean against the locker and nap. I also have to sleep with my feet uncovered and my head covered. Something about having the ability to jump up and run if I have to, very strange. I don't have a filter between my brain and my mouth. My counsellor once told me "You have a tendency to over-communicate." If I'm thinking something, I just say it, regardless of the consequences unfortunately. If you want an honest opinion on something, most people know to come to me. It's resulted in a couple career-limiting moves. I'm a shameless flirt also as a result. THC has no effect on me.

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I have the same filter problem. If I think something, I tend to say it. Sometimes if it's a conversation that was planned ahead of time (a meeting or what have you) I can prepare myself ahead of time and not say dumb shit. Spring something on me and I have to be really careful.

I continually fail at legitimately trying to pick things up off the floor that are small. I always drop them after a few inches and have to try again, Usually several more times.

I often sing my commands to my kids.

"Pick up the clothes!" would be sung with two eighth notes and a quarter in monotone for the first three words, then a half note for the last word, ascended a couple of notes. Longer phrases often involve well known tunes and require more adlibbing to finish the musical phrase at a reasonable spot.

Occasionally they sing back. "I don't want too!" "Then go to bed...!" (which, of course, would involve a descent as a negative phrase)

I'd like to hear stienman's "Nocturne of the Butt-Whupping" when they misbehave.

stienman said:

I often sing my commands to my kids.

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Here you go (skip to 1:00).

--Patrick

I'm sure I have some oddities, but I can't think of any off the top of my head. But I am right there with Frank and others about having two separate beds. There's the queen-sized four post canopy bed that I share with my wife most nights, and there's the shitty little twin bed in the room with my computer. For me though, the reason was that there's a nice 3 inch thick foam pad on the queen-sized bed that's extravagantly comfortable most nights, but is occasionally too soft for my back - and also because it took several years of our living together (and even most of the first year of our marriage) before she had adjusted to being able to sleep in the same bed as someone else.

1. I always eat small things (grapes, breath mints etc) in even numbers. Either two or four in my mouth at once. I used to chew them evenly on both sides, but since I messed up my teeth on my left side I can only chew with my right now.

2. I like to plan out soccer formations, tactics, and strategies in my head. Most of them suck though.

3. I talk to myself, to the point of having heated arguments with myself, even in public.

4. I prefer the Sega Saturn over the Sony Playstation.

5. Last one's a bit NSFW:

I carry around an eraser that I think is lucky because one time I lost it and then found it again, and when I went to my car my lights were on for five hours and the battery wasn't messed up. If I can't find it before I go out I'll spend HOURS looking for the thing.

I used to wear two completely different color shoes when I went out. I only quit not because I hated doing it but because my white pair of shoes basically DIED and new shoes are 40 dollars, why the hell are shoes so damn expensive? Its either be true to my style, or save money and my cheapness outweighs my styleness.

When needed somewhere in a hurry in short distances I do not run, I gallop. Its just a natural thing I do by this point, I have done it for years.

I have a twitch on occasion, though not as often as when I was younger.

I believe in the reptiloid conspiracy to a tee one because the idea that alien monsters are the reason for the world being horrible is comforting, and two the hope that my inner ten year old wants to blast an alien with a ray gun.

I am afraid of Mark Wahlberg. I do not know why, hasn't done anything to me.

And that's pretty much the tip of the iceberg.

Officer_Charon said:

Also - even though I know he will come here, sure as I can find a fire ant bed whilst wearing sandals - Yoshi's not allowed to post in here.

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Didn't listen. Heh.

Yoshimickster said:

When needed somewhere in a hurry in short distances I do not run, I gallop. Its just a natural thing I do by this point, I have done it for years.

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This one made me laugh.

Its a thread called "Reveal how odd you are" like I wouldn't jump at the chance!

Edit: Whoops, I meant gallop.

Yoshimickster said:

I believe in the reptiloid conspiracy to a tee one because the idea that alien monsters are the reason for the world being horrible is comforting, and two the hope that my inner ten year old wants to blast an alien with a ray gun.

I am afraid of Mark Wahlberg. I do not know why, hasn't done anything to me.

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I feel like these are pretty obviously connected.

stienman said:

I often sing my commands to my kids.

"Pick up the clothes!" would be sung with two eighth notes and a quarter in monotone for the first three words, then a half note for the last word, ascended a couple of notes. Longer phrases often involve well known tunes and require more adlibbing to finish the musical phrase at a reasonable spot.

Occasionally they sing back. "I don't want too!" "Then go to bed...!" (which, of course, would involve a descent as a negative phrase)

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I... might have to try this. Rhiannon apparently has issues hearing stuff unless it's in a certain register (either that, or she figures that she can ignore my wife, and only respond when I pull out "Daddy voice," in which case, she's gonna figure out real quick that's a bad idea...)

Cary does the same thing...it's all fun and games until Kati screams or dad bellows. I assume he's just testing his boundaries, and that it will eventually end, but that doesn't make it any less annoying right now.

I used to think I was odd because my ideal schedule seemed to be for my sleep cycle to be from 2-3a to 11-Noon, and I don't mean like a preference, I mean that this is what my body/mind actually preferred. But then I learned (just a month ago, at that) about DPSD, and now I don't feel special any longer.

--Patrick

I would like to see everyone naked at least once. It's not even a sexual thing. I just honestly wonder what everyone I meet would look like naked.

I like threads like this, because all we really learn is that everyone and no one is odd. We're all united in our quirks.

I LOVE pillows. I used to sleep with 6, one of them being a ginormous body pillow. But, when I got married, I downsized to 3.

I refuse to sleep unless I've read from a book. And it doesn't matter how late I get home, I will always read before I go to bed. I even take books on vacations with me and to conventions so that I can read at night. I may miss a night here and there, but really I've read pretty consistently before bed for YEARS. Probably since I was 10 or younger.

Officer_Charon said:

Rhiannon apparently has issues hearing stuff unless it's in a certain register

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I know you're just referring to selective hearing that all kids (and most adults) have but I know that my youngest brother, who had a severe speech impediment as a developing toddler (and had a lot of difficulty learning to speak entirely), was later found to have an actual hearing issue that required surgery to fix that was the cause of his problems.

Cajungal said:

I like threads like this, because all we really learn is that everyone and no one is odd. We're all united in our quirks.

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You like playing with human teeth too?!

I visualise the letters of the words I speak, so everything in my head is 'written' while I talk. I think I developed this habit when I was young and had figured out that 'sound it out' was seldom good advice, so I would just challenge myself to know how to spell anything I said. But now it's wholly automatic, I can't stop!

Frank said:

I know you're just referring to selective hearing that all kids (and most adults) have but I know that my youngest brother, who had a severe speech impediment as a developing toddler (and had a lot of difficulty learning to speak entirely), was later found to have an actual hearing issue that required surgery to fix that was the cause of his problems.

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We've not ruled that out, either. We're wrangling with some medical paperwork, working on getting her a hearing assessment.

Cajungal said:

I like threads like this, because all we really learn is that everyone and no one is odd. We're all united in our quirks.

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I would temper that a bit. I'm sure there are things that we could each say about ourselves that would get us avoided, or even shunned/outcast.
I think this would be more a matter of everyone having their "triggers," rather than being genuinely unloveable.
I have long hair, for instance. There are those who can't stand long hair on guys and find it disgusting. To each their own. I certainly don't eat babies*.

--Patrick
*Not baby humans, at any rate.

PatrThom said:

I certainly don't eat babies

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I can attest to this. Also the long hair bit. If @Enresshou hadn't hacked off his dreads we'd have a significant portion of the long haired halforum males in Michigan.

stienman said:

I can attest to this. Also the long hair bit. If @Enresshou hadn't hacked off his dreads we'd have a significant portion of the long haired halforum males in Michigan.

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Long hair makes you odd -and- makes you live in Michigan? I'm gonna hafta move.


Also, dear god, I can see my receding hairline.

I have extremely narrow ear canals. To the point that if I go swimming or take a bath and don't dry my ears out after, I will get an ear infection. Also, I can't use cotton swabs. They just compact everything down like musketmen tamping down gunpowder.

General Specific said:

I have extremely narrow ear canals. To the point that if I go swimming or take a bath and don't dry my ears out after, I will get an ear infection. Also, I can't use cotton swabs. They just compact everything down like musketmen tamping down gunpowder.

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No one should use cotton swabs. I've discovered this the hard way.

Ask any ear doctor, and they'll tell you not to put anything smaller than your elbow in your ear.

Yoshimickster said:

I believe in the reptiloid conspiracy to a tee one because the idea that alien monsters are the reason for the world being horrible is comforting, and two the hope that my inner ten year old wants to blast an alien with a ray gun.
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is it ok if i steal this one? ive always wanted to raygun aliens too.


to contribute: sometimes i make myself sneeze, usually using a key or pencap. i dont know why, it just feels good to sneeze i guess.

Ravenpoe said:

No one should use cotton swabs. I've discovered this the hard way.

Ask any ear doctor, and they'll tell you not to put anything smaller than your elbow in your ear.

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Ever since I found natural ear tastes gross in my teenage years*, I clean mine pretty well on the outside, and use a qtip a day for the ear canals. Never had any compaction problems, and as a side benefit I've never had internal itching since then. But I must have larger ear canals than some, as the qtip isn't a snug fit, and I don't go in very far, nowhere near the eardrum.

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I used to use car keys on my ear canals.

Gurpel said:

sometimes i make myself sneeze, usually using a key or pencap. i dont know why, it just feels good to sneeze i guess.

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Too bad people aren't still widely in the habit of using snuff.

I like to open my chips/crackers/etc. from the bottom of the bag instead of the top. That way I get all the crumbly bits out of the way first, so that the further I go along, the more perfect my snacks become.

--Patrick

Gurpel said:

is it ok if i steal this one? ive always wanted to raygun aliens too.


to contribute: sometimes i make myself sneeze, usually using a key or pencap. i dont know why, it just feels good to sneeze i guess.

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I have a photic sneeze response. If you don't know what that is, it's sneezing whenever you are suddenly exposed to bright light. About 1/3rd of people have it. Most people who don't aren't even aware of its existence.

Bowielee said:

I have a photic sneeze response. If you don't know what that is, it's sneezing whenever you are suddenly exposed to bright light. About 1/3rd of people have it. Most people who don't aren't even aware of its existence.

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I only know what that is from Pete and Pete

Bowielee said:

I have a photic sneeze response. If you don't know what that is, it's sneezing whenever you are suddenly exposed to bright light. About 1/3rd of people have it. Most people who don't aren't even aware of its existence.

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Me too. So does my son. We would actually clear out his stuffed up nose by turning on the light when he was a little baby waking up in the middle of the night.

Now that's convenient! Our most recent baby had congestion for the longest time.

It's obviously a genetic thing, because it runs in my family. I wonder if it's dominant or recessive.

My theory about what causes it is that there's some sort of crossed sensory perception mechanism between the olfactory and optic receptors. Nobody knows for sure though as there's been very little research done about it.

Bowielee said:

It's obviously a genetic thing, because it runs in my family. I wonder if it's dominant or recessive.

My theory about what causes it is that there's some sort of crossed sensory perception mechanism between the olfactory and optic receptors. Nobody knows for sure though as there's been very little research done about it.

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That is along the lines of one of the leading theories, from what I recall.

Of course, I get my mutant power, and it's being able to make myself sneeze on cue.

lame.

I'm convinced magic is real. I just haven't figured out how to make it work yet. The rational part of my brain, of course, knows this is silly.

fade said:

I'm convinced magic is real. I just haven't figured out how to make it work yet. The rational part of my brain, of course, knows this is silly.

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Depends on what type of magic you're talking about. Many versions are downright sciency, they just deal with energies we don't have.








YET!

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I'm convinced magic is real. I just haven't figured out how to make it work yet.

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Same with telekinesis, etc. I'm convinced that if someone could demonstrate it for me, and show me how it is done, that I could replicate it. And that the only reason I can't now is because I've never done it to know exactly what to do. You know, like a backflip.

--Patrick

Science is working on the TK thing. There's a helicopter that reads your thoughts and responds accordingly. If I weren't at work, I'd get the link.[DOUBLEPOST=1380935716,1380935669][/DOUBLEPOST]Keep in mind that Alchemy and Philosophy are what eventually became Chemistry and Psychology.

Bowielee said:

Science is working on the TK thing. There's a helicopter that reads your thoughts and responds accordingly. If I weren't at work, I'd get the link.[DOUBLEPOST=1380935716,1380935669][/DOUBLEPOST]Keep in mind that Alchemy and Philosophy are what eventually became Chemistry and Psychology.

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That's more Steve Austin-level technology than PK/TK. Still falls under Clarke's third law, though.

--Patrick

It's become pretty obvious that if humans can imagine it, we can pretty much make it happen provided we can find the means. Many things that exist currently were things that people thought were impossible at one point in time, from Airplanes to Cell Phones.

Bowielee said:

Depends on what type of magic you're talking about. Many versions are downright sciency, they just deal with energies we don't have.








YET!

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If only someone would write a poorly updated webcomic about that...

You could call it Far, or Fad, or something...

Bowielee said:

You could call it Far, or Fad, or something...

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Fap?

--Patrick

PatrThom said:

Fap?

--Patrick

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I know about that one. Fun times. Gets kind of messy at the end, though.

I talk while I type important emails. Its embarrassing.

I get disproportionately annoyed if I go out for dinner and wind up eating something I could have made better at home - especially if it's a nice restaurant and the cost of the dinner is more than I would have paid in groceries. For this reason there is only one local restaurant that I'll go to for steak, one place I'll go for Italian, one Thai restaurant, two Japanese places, one Indian place, and no Chinese, Pizza, or Mexican restaurants that I'll choose to go to. And the only reason I'll go to the Japanese places are for sushi (which I can't cook at all), and ramen (because I haven't taken the time or effort yet to learn to make ramen noodles from scratch).