Interesting Facts About You That Few People Know About

[thestrangequark]

not being funny, but why?

The documentary was about multiple personality disorder and child abuse. My mom had MPD.

The documentary won an Emmy.

That it did. I have only just recently seen it; for a long time the extent of the footage I'd watched was the TV trailer, which included a touching slo-mo of my sister and I running into our mom's waiting arms.
As a kid it was quite easy to accept that my mom was a multiple. There were other people living inside her that would sometimes come out and play/talk/whatever with us, and that was just how it was. They had different voices and likes and dislikes, some of them couldn't see without strong glasses, others couldn't see with the glasses on, and so on. It's only now that I think back and realize how odd it really was, especially as all but one of the alters has integrated and I can see bits of all the others in her now. She is not the same people she was when I was a kid.

 

[Niorah]

I've made a study of Ancient Egyptian fighting styles, and arranged museum demo/re-enactments of it.

I find this terribly fascinating, do you perchance have any videos to share?

 

[Lonemagpie]

I don't know if htat's a good thing

...Or a bad thing.

I think he was just surprised that the guy with no pulse/respiration/etc who'd been levered out of a wrecked (crushed!) car responded to a proclamation of death by sitting up in the ambulance, gasping for breath (on account have having been unable to breathe for a while because the driver and his seat had squeezed all the air out of my lungs and applied so much pressure that they couldn't take any in - and yes, there go the ribs...).

And, according to my wife - cos I have no recollection of doing something so anorakish - touching my face and asking if it had changed. Sadly I seem to have the cheapo regeneration package, without even the new teeth.

The other time, FWIW, was chicken pox as an adult, and the fun of having a temperature over 111 for more than a week. (108 for a couple of hours is generally the human limit!) The doctors said it was the most impressive case they'd ever seen. Thankfully it burned so hot that it didn't itch too much.

 

[Lonemagpie]

I've made a study of Ancient Egyptian fighting styles, and arranged museum demo/re-enactments of it.

I find this terribly fascinating, do you perchance have any videos to share?

No, but I do occassionally do it at conventions

 

[Lonemagpie]

I've died twice.

But now the Slayer line runs through someone else.

Actually it's more like Highlander, I think - I was born in Scotland, have a ponytail, wear a leather trench, and know how to use swords...

 

[Niorah]

I've made a study of Ancient Egyptian fighting styles, and arranged museum demo/re-enactments of it.

I find this terribly fascinating, do you perchance have any videos to share?

No, but I do occassionally do it at conventions

Well then it might be an idea for the next time you organise it, to have someone take a video of it, you know, for posterity. And for people like me who would love to see it but live way too far for participating.

 

[Chekov's Phaser]

The documentary was about multiple personality disorder and child abuse. My mom had MPD.

The documentary won an Emmy.

That it did. I have only just recently seen it; for a long time the extent of the footage I'd watched was the TV trailer, which included a touching slo-mo of my sister and I running into our mom's waiting arms.
As a kid it was quite easy to accept that my mom was a multiple. There were other people living inside her that would sometimes come out and play/talk/whatever with us, and that was just how it was. They had different voices and likes and dislikes, some of them couldn't see without strong glasses, others couldn't see with the glasses on, and so on. It's only now that I think back and realize how odd it really was, especially as all but one of the alters has integrated and I can see bits of all the others in her now. She is not the same people she was when I was a kid.

Wow, that's fascinating. I think I remember watching that back in the early 90's. Was it one of the American Undercover series of HBO docs.?

 

[Lonemagpie]

I find this terribly fascinating, do you perchance have any videos to share?

No, but I do occassionally do it at conventions

Well then it might be an idea for the next time you organise it, to have someone take a video of it, you know, for posterity. And for people like me who would love to see it but live way too far for participating.

I'll definitely look into that next time I do any Egyptian stuff - the subject of the workshops and suchlike that I do varies from time to time.

 

[RevDMV]

So Lonemagpie what was it like being dead?

 

[captcalhoun]

She is not the same people she was when I was a kid.

now there's a sentence you don't read very often...

 

[Kestra]

Dunno about interesting, but ...

I can sleep with my eyes open.

Unless I try to control it, I read naturally at incredibly fast speeds.

I don't know if I can get hangovers. The times that I've been mind-numbingly drunk, I generally just wake up drunk and happy the next day as well.

I studied and performed a style of classical Indian dance known as "kathak" for a good part of my life.

I almost always keep my toes crossed.

Anything to do with vampires initiates a ridiculous fear response in me and I have no idea where this originated.

I eat cheeseburgers upside down.

If it weren't for the influence of my family, I'd most likely never have gone to college or been in a committed relationship.

 

[Lonemagpie]

So Lonemagpie what was it like being dead?

As Spock said, it's pretty hard to go into without a common frame of reference. From my POV... Not unpleasant. Just... fascinating, intriguing...

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

So Lonemagpie what was it like being dead?

As Spock said, it's pretty hard to go into without a common frame of reference.

You mean we'd have to DIE to discuss your insights on DEATH?

More facts about me:

- I'm afraid of ladders. I won't get up on them to save my life.
- I tend to speak in random accents. I'll pick up bits and pieces of them from various sources (for example I watch so much Red Green that I sometimes sound Canadian). Sometimes I'll have two or three in the same sentence.
- I'm a hypochondriac on the level of Reginald Barclay.

 

[1001001]

My grandmother, mother, and I were all born in the same hospital.

Only one hospital in your town too, huh?

I was born in Los Angeles.

I guess I should have put that in there. No it wasn't a one hospital town.

 

[Jenee]

I drowned in a previous life.

 

[DarkHelmet]

I don't know if I can get hangovers. The times that I've been mind-numbingly drunk, I generally just wake up drunk and happy the next day as well.

You're young. Wait another 8 or 10 years.

 

[P0sitr0nic]

Im hypoglycemic.

Ive also never had a hangover, despite trying multiple times to drink my body weight in hard A.

 

[Kestra]

I don't know if I can get hangovers. The times that I've been mind-numbingly drunk, I generally just wake up drunk and happy the next day as well.

You're young. Wait another 8 or 10 years.

I don't intend to drink like that anymore, let alone in ten years!

 

[Lonemagpie]

So Lonemagpie what was it like being dead?

As Spock said, it's pretty hard to go into without a common frame of reference.

You mean we'd have to DIE to discuss your insights on DEATH?

Well, I can tell you there was no tunnel of light thing, and no seeing my life pass in front of my eyes thing (which is a relief, cos I'd have been bored stiff. I mean, I hate hearing my voice on a tape, so that'd really have pissed me off...)

 

[Lonemagpie]

Im hypoglycemic.

Ive also never had a hangover, despite trying multiple times to drink my body weight in hard A.

Same here, actually. I don't get drunk in a behaviour-affecting way, but I can throw up if I mix spirits with soft drinks. And, not being drunk, I don't have the luxury of not knowing what I'm doing - I get to experience every moment of it in perfect clarity...