Admit Your Bad Habits

[trekkiedane]

/.../ checking the cooker 50 times /.../

I think I should go to bed or stop watching TV when reading posts... I could have sworn you wrote you checked the hooker 50 times

 

[Holdfast]

I could have sworn you wrote you checked the hooker 50 times

That would be ridiculous.

The handcuffs are unpickable; she's going nowhere.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Hanging up rudely on cold callers.

That's a BAD habit? I'd call it a good one.

 

[trekkiedane]

I could have sworn you wrote you checked the hooker 50 times

That would be ridiculous.

The handcuffs are unpickable; she's going nowhere.

Maybe she -like I- carries a handcuff key around...

 

[Miss Chicken]

I meant to ask you in the other thread - why a handcuff key, and do you have the handcuffs to go with it?

 

[trekkiedane]

I meant to ask you in the other thread - why a handcuff key,

To always know where there is one.

and do you have the handcuffs to go with it?

Of course.



Handcuffs can be quite a sensual toy -if you know what I mean- but it's a good idea to always have a spare key somewhere safe (or you could just use the same model the police does (which I do) - but that could end in quite embarrassing ways).

 

[Holdfast]

I could have sworn you wrote you checked the hooker 50 times

That would be ridiculous.

The handcuffs are unpickable; she's going nowhere.

Maybe she -like I- carries a handcuff key around...

I'd like to see where she hides it.

boom-boom

 

[trekkiedane]

^Probably in a place similar to where Captain Jack Harkness hides his back-up gun...

 

[Miss Chicken]

Or where Immortals hide their swords.

 

[Amaris]

I talk to myself.
I think out loud.
I wash my hands a bajillion times a day.
I frequently use nonsense words like bajillion.

 

[thestrangequark]

I used to slash my arms with a modelling knife, cos I thought it made me like an Indian...

Dot or feather?

I am confident the answer will elicit further hilarity either way, so feel obliged to ask.

I think the way the American Indians do it, they cut the vein or artery and spray people with the blood.

Do we?



I'm a bit of a nail-biter as well, and a minor procrastinator. However, I'm hesitant to call the latter a bad habit, as I tend to produce my best work in a rush at the last minute, so ultimately it's actually rather constructive.

I sometimes scratch myself absentmindedly when I'm anxious, and often when I am asleep, so much so that I wake up having scratched my arms or back to bleeding. I'm not itchy, and I have no skin problems, I suppose I'm just stressed.

 

[farmkid]

Too much time on TrekBBS.

 

[Tora Ziyal]

Too much time on TrekBBS.

Took the words right out of my mouth.

 

[TorontoTrekker]

I talk to myself.
I think out loud.

Who doesn't? I'm a Web developer, and I'm sure I drive the people around me crazy with my constant swearing and muttering things like "What the hell?" when things go weird on the sites I work on.

I wash my hands a bajillion times a day.
I frequently use nonsense words like bajillion.

There's nothing nonsensical about "bajillion" - it's a 1 followed by a squillion zeroes.

I see there are a lot of nail-biters in this thread. I used to bite mine a lot, but one day I just got tired of it and stopped. I will still bite one off if it tears (which generally only happens when I'm bowling, so it's not something I can let go until later).

I'm a terrible housekeeper - I know I need to clean, desperately, but I have trouble finding the energy to do it, probably because I'm so tired on the weekends that I generally sleep 11-12 hours a night. (I only get about 4 or 5 hours per night during the week, and my commute is nearly 90 minutes each way - and this week I was at the office for a total of 59 hours. So it's not laziness - it's repaying the sleep debt. But with all the meetings and such I have on weekends, it makes it hard to find time for housework. Or laundry - it usually piles up until I have about 8 loads to do, and then I do it all at once. Having no clean socks or underwear left is a great motivator.)

I'm also a smoker - strangely, I seem to smoke more during the week than on weekends, as I go through about two-thirds of a pack a day during the week and half a pack a day on weekends. It's probably ChrinFinity's fault... though since she blames me for her having started in the first place, shortly after we started working together, I suspect it's a mutual thing.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I am not emotional or outgoing enough. I know I shouldn't be like this, but a lot of times, normal things like small talk just irritate the living shit out of me.

 

[Mr Silver]

I used to have a habit of twirling my hair, eventually it got so bad I was picking hair out, at one stage I made an entire bald patch..

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

Hanging up rudely on cold callers.

That's a BAD habit? I'd call it a good one.

It goes against the traditional (and obsolete) British way of dealing with strangers -- aloof and reserved, but polite. However, life's too short to spend it listening to these time wasters. The first time that I put the phone down on one of them, I felt almost physically sick with guilt -- talk about Skinner conditioning.

 

[RandyS]

Is calling attention to the fact that I'm perfect a bad habit?

I don't think so.

 

[Amaris]

Who doesn't? I'm a Web developer, and I'm sure I drive the people around me crazy with my constant swearing and muttering things like "What the hell?" when things go weird on the sites I work on.

You know, they say talking out loud is okay, it's when you answer yourself is when you're crazy. Is it wrong that I not only answer myself, but I explain where I went wrong with the initial question?

There's nothing nonsensical about "bajillion" - it's a 1 followed by a squillion zeroes.

Oh, good. I knew it had to be real, and not just a random All Bran that had fallen into my bowl of Cheerios.

I see there are a lot of nail-biters in this thread. I used to bite mine a lot, but one day I just got tired of it and stopped. I will still bite one off if it tears (which generally only happens when I'm bowling, so it's not something I can let go until later).

I'm a terrible housekeeper - I know I need to clean, desperately, but I have trouble finding the energy to do it, probably because I'm so tired on the weekends that I generally sleep 11-12 hours a night. (I only get about 4 or 5 hours per night during the week, and my commute is nearly 90 minutes each way - and this week I was at the office for a total of 59 hours. So it's not laziness - it's repaying the sleep debt. But with all the meetings and such I have on weekends, it makes it hard to find time for housework. Or laundry - it usually piles up until I have about 8 loads to do, and then I do it all at once. Having no clean socks or underwear left is a great motivator.)

I know how you feel. I'm OCD, but I'm so busy I'm usually exhausted. So I'm too tired to clean up, but my brain will not stop bugging me about cleaning things up!

I'm also a smoker - strangely, I seem to smoke more during the week than on weekends, as I go through about two-thirds of a pack a day during the week and half a pack a day on weekends. It's probably ChrinFinity's fault... though since she blames me for her having started in the first place, shortly after we started working together, I suspect it's a mutual thing.

I have one cigar a year. I get a Green Apple cigar for my birthday. Then I drive around town with the windows down, cigar in my mouth and yelling "it's my birthday!" to people at stop lights.

 

[scotpens]

I tend to show up late for appointments and social meetings, though my punctuality has improved a bit over the last few years. I suppose I just march to a different drummer -- unfortunately, he has no sense of rhythm.

My housekeeping is all over the place, literally and figuratively. I'm either OCD neat or, more often, a total slob, to the point where bills are paid late because I can't find the paperwork.

When it comes to organizing my computer files, I’m Felix. In my apartment, I’m Oscar.

I don't like to wear anything more than underwear when at home.

I sit at the computer naked.

Or where Immortals hide their swords.

Yeah, I always wondered about that. Wouldn’t a guy look a bit suspicious wearing a long overcoat -- in 90-degree (32º C) heat in July?

I am not emotional or outgoing enough. I know I shouldn't be like this, but a lot of times, normal things like small talk just irritate the living shit out of me.

That pretty much describes me too, but I don’t let it bother me. That’s because I’m a geek.