I thought it'd been a while since I last thread-spammed something here, so I'd might be forgiven for this one:
Seeing as most of the very intelligent TAs are regulars in here, I'd thought it might be funny to hear whether some of you occasionally/regularly exhibit irrational or downright stupid behaviour. I mean wouldn't it be fun knowing that Shakka always returns to his car to check whether it's locked - twice. Or that George Smiley uses more money on buying "X-men" comics than he gives to charity?
Of course, the non-intelligent PFRs are welcome to post as well - just keep your confession to only a few examples.

Just to radiate some vulnerability and get the ball rolling, I'll start by giving a couple of examples of my own:
1: I spend huge amounts of time reading (and less frequently posting on) TA. I take this time from the pool of time I should be using on coming up with ideas for completing my thesis. I hope any future employer would love to get referred to TA
2: I sometimes get scared in the dark when I'm outside alone. Fearing something supernatural, although I see no reason why something supernatural (in particular) should want to harm me, let alone care about me.

That's it. Sorry I haven't got an article we can tear apart - maybe I'll find one if this doesn't take off... (threat).

I cry when I whack it.

^^^ Excellent - that means you won't reproduce, right?

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Originally posted by trancaholic 2: I sometimes get scared in the dark when I'm outside alone. Fearing something supernatural, although I see no reason why something supernatural (in particular) should want to harm me, let alone care about me.

I'm kind of the same, but only usually when I go to bed early and wake up in the middle of the night from a deep sleep. I'm not sure what it is, but I always feel anxious and uneasy and usually have to stick the light on and read or watch a DVD for half an hour or so before I can go back to sleep. I don't believe in ghosts or fear anything specifically, but I really, really don't like waking up in darkness for some reason.

Some other weird behaviour I exhibit, off the top of my head:

- I often dance around the room, by myself, to the music I have playing on winamp.
- I hate speaking on the phone. I'm fairly social in real life, but I just cannot hold a conversation, for some reason, over the phone.
- I often come close to tears watching humanitarian disasters unfold on the TV, but I can't remember feeling in the least bit sad when my own relatives have died.

That's about all I can think of for now actually. Guess I must be fairly normal apart from all that...

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Hmm, let's see...I'm kinda afraid of being home alone during the night. Especially when I'm in a bedroom. But that's kinda related to a really wierd experience I had as a kid. Once I woke up during the night and I saw something that looked like a 10cm high black triangle that was between my bed and the bedroom wall. I was kinda scared by it but I went to sleep because I thought it was some weird shadow or something. Then the next night I saw two such triangles just standing there. Again, I was scared but convinced myself that it was a shadow. But the night after those triangles were raised a bit and I realized that the whole structure looked like a wolf face with red glowing eyes looking at me. I totally panicked and closed my eyes because I was afraid to look at it. Then 5 minutes later I opened my eyes and it was still there. So I sat still in my bed not moving till the morning. And the next night same thing happened. That went on for a few nights and it suddenly went away. A few days later I saw again that one black triangle and after that nothing ever again. And ever since that incident (about 15-20 years ago) whenever I wake up I always check out the wall next to my bed to see if there's that glowing eye wolf. And I still don't know what the fuck that thing was. I dunno, I was never prone to hallucinations or anything.

Aside from that...hm...I'm afraid of spiders. And I was afraid of mirrors when I was in early puberty. Really stupid, and I can't understand why. I think it was because of some horror movie where there was something with mirrors, but I can't really remember what...

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ooh, the phone thing...that really pisses me off. esp with a girlfriend. i carry it often as it has a calculator and the time...but i freakin hate using it. and i usually dont pay my bill until they cut it off.

other than that, it may not be a quirk but im obnoxiously calm and logical most of the time. which leads to heavy drinking. (tho drinking doesnt seem odd around here)...it sucks when you take your rage out on your own body tho...hehe|

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Originally posted by DrUg_Tit0 And I was afraid of mirrors when I was in early puberty. Really stupid, and I can't understand why. I think it was because of some horror movie where there was something with mirrors, but I can't really remember what...

Candyman or Poltergeist III? The latter scared the hell out of me when I first watched it. Still think it's one of the severely IMDB-underrated movies of all time.

As I'm alone in Manhattan, I've been buying and reading a lot of books to while away the time, including one on sleep/dream research. Apparently there's something called "night terrors", which are like nighmares, except that they do not happen in REM-sleep and mostly affect children. According to my book, a child awakened in a night terror can take up to 10 minutes to become aware of where it is and who is around it. Maybe that can explain your triangular wolf experiences???

Renegade: I have the phone thing as well. I just can't see the point of these long phone conversations, as I prefer to meet up in real life instead. Adding to that, I'm horrible at chat-room like dialogues, such as those taking place using text messages on the phone. Somehow I'm unable to communicate my thoughts in just a couple of lines, and my humour doesn't take off under these circumstances.

Hmm good post. Ok well here's one thing:

I like scary movies but they really scare the crap out of me, especially in a theater ... in other words, I'm a big wuss, but not such a wuss that I'll close my eyes. What I find myself doing during the buildup to the scary parts is that, in order to diminish the scariness, I will typically close one eye or squint really really hard. I find that by doing these foolish things, I'm self concious of the fact that I probably look like an idiot which helps to "get out of it" and remove myself from the moment so to speak. Thus I'm able to actually watch the scary parts though I'm usually punctuated with violent jerking movements at the crescendo.

Another thing, apparentely I alter my facial expression whenever I look in a mirror. I don't notice it but my ex will swear by it. I dunno I guess, I raise my chin ever so slightly. Since I unconsciously do it before I look in the mirror I guess I'll never be able to witness it in action.

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Originally posted by trancaholic Candyman or Poltergeist III? The latter scared the hell out of me when I first watched it. Still think it's one of the severely IMDB-underrated movies of all time.

Oh, I don't know really. I would like to watch it again, but then I don't think I'd be as scared anymore as I was when I first watched it. And I can't find all of those Poltergeists on divx, I only got the first part.

But now that I'm thinking..there were several horror movies that I watched which had some situations with mirrors. Maybe it was a combined effect...

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As I'm alone in Manhattan, I've been buying and reading a lot of books to while away the time, including one on sleep/dream research. Apparently there's something called "night terrors", which are like nighmares, except that they do not happen in REM-sleep and mostly affect children. According to my book, a child awakened in a night terror can take up to 10 minutes to become aware of where it is and who is around it. Maybe that can explain your triangular wolf experiences???

Hmm, yes, I guess that could be a reasonable explanation. Sounds a bit more logical than being harrassed by an evil glowing-eye wolf-like phantom...then again, who knows?

I'm kinda thinking, I never tried to wack the thing or something..wonder if that would make the night terror go away And sometimes when I'm bored I'd kinda like something like that to show up again to kill the boredom. So that we may have a chat or something. I'm wondering what evil shadow wolves (not the ones from the forum) with glowing eyes do in spare time...They can't be scaring kids 24/7...maybe they have families of little evil shadow wolves to take care of..and maybe teen shadow wolves become good for a while as a show of their rebellion against the society...

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Renegade: I have the phone thing as well. I just can't see the point of these long phone conversations, as I prefer to meet up in real life instead. Adding to that, I'm horrible at chat-room like dialogues, such as those taking place using text messages on the phone. Somehow I'm unable to communicate my thoughts in just a couple of lines, and my humour doesn't take off under these circumstances.

Oh, yeah, those sms messages suck totally. Whenever I try to write something funny it ends up utterly lame and people usually misunderstand it.

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Bunch of fucking wierdos.

Jesus, what the fuck is wrong with you pussies?



















Okay, I got one - I bite my nails down to the friggin' core during very nervous times. My KU Hawks sucked ass this year in the Tournament, so you can imagine my 10 stubbies after that debacle game against Bucknell.

Oh yeah, one more - I'm also a jaw clencher at night, again especially when there's a descent amount of stress like right now - I'm a month out of quitting my job, going back to school for 3 years, and building up a huge fucking student debt that'll take many many years to pay off along with our mortgage.

Yea debt! It's the American way of life!

Gosh, I feel so naked now!

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Originally posted by trancaholic I mean wouldn't it be fun knowing that Shakka always returns to his car to check whether it's locked - twice.

That's only because somebody broke into my car years ago and stole all of my CD's and golf clubs. All because of a faulty door lock that didn't lock when I locked the rest of the doors. I'm curious how you knew that.

Actually, I don't do that, but the story was true. Funny you would say that!

Much like Opus, though probably with more regularity, I am an avid fingernail biter. Sometimes it's not just my nails, but the cuticles and that meaty bit of skin around the tips. When I'm stressed, it's much worse, but usually it's just a bad habit that I need to break.

Hmmm...what else...Tito mentioned being afraid of the dark outside alone because of some supernatural possibility. I can't say that I haven't shared the same fear from time to time--absurd as it may be. I can work myself into a near panic if I think about it enough.




Now I feel exposed.

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Originally posted by Shakka Hmmm...what else...Tito mentioned being afraid of the dark outside alone because of some supernatural possibility. I can't say that I haven't shared the same fear from time to time--absurd as it may be. I can work myself into a near panic if I think about it enough.

I sometimes intentionally do that when I'm far away from home and have to walk all the way back. Then the journey isn't as boring

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