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Creatures of Habit

lostwordslostwords Registered User regular
edited August 2010 in Social Entropy++
So we all have set habits and compulsions that we do every day. Some can be harmless, like touchign the roof of your car when you pass a yellow light or always having a 20 ounce coffee to start your morning. Or it can be a little gross and somewhat harmful, like smoking or nail-biting. (i do all those, which I need to change probably)

While watching a bit of Obsessed on A&E and thinking about the OCD episode of True Life, I thank my lucky stars i'm not obsessive-compulsive like those on the show, who kinda have their lives run by their habits and all.

There's also everyday routines that we all find ourselves in, like I always start the day with coffee and a cup of chobani yogurt with kashi bits. I figured i'd change it up, but its been like 3 months and i've had the same breakfast pretty much everyday, and i'm still not bored of it.

So yeah dudes, what habits do you have that you've noticed? Trying to change? Does it bother you or people you know? Any particular everyday routines you find yourself falling into?

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  • Garlic BreadGarlic Bread i'm a bitch i'm a bitch i'm a bitch i'm a Registered User, Disagreeable regular
    edited August 2010
    i'm unpredictable so that assassins can't follow me

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  • HacksawHacksaw J. Duggan Esq. Wrestler at LawRegistered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Well I keep coming back here. I guess that could be considered a habit.

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  • OmegaTofuNinjaOmegaTofuNinja Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    keith has a habit of being unpredictable, it's really annoying and bothersome to us assassins

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  • MysstMysst King Monkey of Hedonism IslandRegistered User regular
    edited August 2010
    I stroke your hair while you sleep

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  • CrackedLensCrackedLens Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    i have a few:

    i routinely count words or syllables in what i say

    tv volume has to be on even numbers, or mulitples of 5

    i bite my pinky nail only

    i have a routine of cracking my fingers, wrists, neck, elbows, knees, and back in the morning

    my shower always has the same routine: scrub face, shave, brush teeth, wash body, wash hair. anything outside of that routine is weird

    things either need to be lined in some sort of uniform fashion or completely random, not a little bit of both

    i have more...

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  • bongibongi regular
    edited August 2010
    Sometimse I take my pants off before I poop

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  • KarlKarl Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    I'm constantly planning escape plans for whatever situation I'm in, in case heavily armed mercenaries/terrorists storm in and try to kill me.

    Like i'm in a club dancing and everyone is happy and smiley where as i'm kinda frowning and casing the place for escape routes whilst dancing badly.

    Don't judge me, you all do it too.

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  • lostwordslostwords Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    bongi wrote: »
    Sometimse I take my pants off before I poop

    In public bathrooms? You freak!

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  • .Tripwire..Tripwire. Firman Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Karl wrote: »
    I'm constantly planning escape plans for whatever situation I'm in, in case heavily armed mercenaries/terrorists storm in and try to kill me.

    Like i'm in a club dancing and everyone is happy and smiley where as i'm kinda frowning and casing the place for escape routes whilst dancing badly.

    Don't judge me, you all do it too.

    I ready myself to "counter" spontaneous stabbings from people I pass by or who are near me in stores or movie theatres or whatever. Not all the time, but when I think of it. Always with hobos though.

    You all laugh, but when that one rare occasion finally does happen?


    I will probably get stabbed.

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  • The Boy SatelliteThe Boy Satellite Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    lose my mind every day to keep it fresh.

    but really but that was actually true but i eat the same breakfast every day and the same lunches in rotation and sit in the same places on break and pour a glass of milk before bed every night with the same amount of lights off and on and lose every game of starcrafttwo the same way.

    D:

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  • HacksawHacksaw J. Duggan Esq. Wrestler at LawRegistered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Mysst wrote: »
    I stroke your hair while you sleep
    So that's why my scalp smells so heavily of steers and queers every morning.

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  • gruggrug Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    i shit at my workplace every morning.

    I eat pineapple pizza nearly every day now. It's freaking me out.

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  • BelruelBelruel NARUTO FUCKS Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    when I turn off the lights in the house to go to bed (so it is very dark) I run my middle and index finger of my right hand down the hallway wall for 3 seconds until I reach the bathroom doorway, take a step across the hall to my room, then grab my bedroom's doorway and touch the doorknob with my left hand. then I take 5 steps to my bed's ladder, grab the top of the ladder with my left hand. right knee up on the mattress, then get cozy.

    the same thing every night for years now.

    also when I am the passenger in a car my eyes follow the curb and dip down for driveways. I also count things, blinking for each count. sometimes mailboxes, or blue cars, often trees.

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  • gruggrug Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Loft bed or pedo?

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  • BelruelBelruel NARUTO FUCKS Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    loft bed, it's a pretty badass bed actually.

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  • BelruelBelruel NARUTO FUCKS Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    also all the lights/computers in the house must be turned off before I head for bed (if I am the last one awake).

    I can't abide wasted energy.

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  • gruggrug Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    I can't abide unmolested what?

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  • BelruelBelruel NARUTO FUCKS Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    you're a strange fellow.

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  • SeñorAmorSeñorAmor !!! Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    my shower always has the same routine: scrub face, shave, brush teeth, wash body, wash hair. anything outside of that routine is weird

    Same. Top to bottom. Shampoo, conditioner, body wash, face wash, rinse it all off. Same way, every day.

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  • ukiyo eukiyo e Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    I wouldn't consider myself to be OCD, but I do have strict routines. I try to do everything in as optimal a way as possible in order to save time and energy, from setting my clothes out the night before to putting my rail pass in my wallet a specific way so that it's easier to swipe through the reader when I get on the subway. I strive to live life deliberately.

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  • BelruelBelruel NARUTO FUCKS Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    I always have to go a bit differently.

    Shampoo hair, rinse, conditioner hair and leave it in while I wash my body, shave, wash my face, then rinse with warm water, then as cold as I can stand. (it's good for your hair)

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  • lostwordslostwords Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    My morning showers need to be quick. I do shampoo hair, then soap down body by working my way down, then face wash. Leave the serious rinsing for the end. That means my showers take like 3 minutes, which some people have told me is too fast and possibly gross, but whatevs. Showers in the afternoon or evening after a workout or sweating all day is just me with the water running for 20 minutes, then leisurely do the hair, body, face thang. Maybe throw in a quick whacking section for variety

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  • #pipe#pipe Cocky Stride, Musky odours Pope of Chili TownRegistered User regular
    edited August 2010
    I have this weird habit of wanting to violently strangle people who use the acronym "OCD" as an adjective.

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  • .Tripwire..Tripwire. Firman Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    I've never understood how people are comfortable jerking it in a shower stall or tub that's shared with other people. I mean, I find another dude's semen just as objectionable as peepee, and you certainly wouldn't expel that in the shower! Or maybe you would?!

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  • ChicoBlueChicoBlue Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    I ejaculate at least once a day.

    At least.

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  • Sara LynnSara Lynn I can handle myself. Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    I habitually sit at the computer like a fucking idiot. I can't ever sit with my feet flat, I always have one knee up or I'll rest my bent leg on the arm of the chair, and then I wonder why I have chronic calf pain in that leg. I wish I could sit normal but doing so makes me want to crawl out of my skin.

    Oddly, this is not a problem anywhere else. Just my computer chair.

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  • gruggrug Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    I pretty much what it everywhere. No foolin. Work toilet, shower, spare room at friend's house, living room, kitchen, street, behind a bush, etc.

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  • .Tripwire..Tripwire. Firman Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    This is bad news for my moderate germophobia. The world is like a slip and slide of all you guys's ejaculate.

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  • gruggrug Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    More or less. Sorry for being gross. Night.

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  • The Boy SatelliteThe Boy Satellite Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Sara Lynn wrote: »
    I habitually sit at the computer like a fucking idiot. I can't ever sit with my feet flat, I always have one knee up or I'll rest my bent leg on the arm of the chair, and then I wonder why I have chronic calf pain in that leg. I wish I could sit normal but doing so makes me want to crawl out of my skin.

    Oddly, this is not a problem anywhere else. Just my computer chair.

    this, this. right now my left feet is curled with my tops of my toes pushed down against the tiles, while my right leg is underneath me on the chair. can't ever sit just... normal.

    similiar problem in bed, so when i was in the hospital a few weeks ago, they expected me to just lie flat on my back all night and not move, or the drip would come out. that was mental torture, like, absolute anxiety. can't explain it, but i just...couldn't. needless to say, the drip came out painfully, a lot, and was replaced, a lot. I NEED TO MOVE DAMNIT.

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  • celandinecelandine Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    I'm a creature of habit -- not so much because I like routines, but because I'm extremely forgetful, and I need to streamline practicalities to the point that I don't have to think about them.

    For example, I have to have exactly one purse that always contains all my things, and I have to take it every time I leave the house/dorm room, otherwise I'll forget my keys. I avoid accessories that can be put on and taken off in the course of a day -- bracelets, sunglasses, etc -- because I'll lose them. I like to go to the gym already wearing my gym clothes (instead of changing in the locker room) because I'm bound to leave something in the locker room. I always pack light on trips, to minimize the number of things I need to remember. And so on.

    I can be kind of rigid about this sort of thing, because I have a rough sense of how many details I can keep in my mind at once, and it's not very many.

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  • WimbleWimble Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    don't worry tripwire my ejaculate is antibacterial so I'll just have to cum on everything and you're safe

    work in progress though

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  • #pipe#pipe Cocky Stride, Musky odours Pope of Chili TownRegistered User regular
    edited August 2010
    .Tripwire. wrote: »
    This is bad news for my moderate germophobia. The world is like a slip and slide of all you guys's ejaculate.

    the more you try to avoid germs, the more likely you are to die from curable disease or infection!

    germs are fine, guy. there are more bacteria cells in your body than human cells!

    #pipe on
  • The Boy SatelliteThe Boy Satellite Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    all this talk of ejac

    all this talk

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  • BeastehBeasteh THAT WOULD NOT KILL DRACULARegistered User regular
    edited August 2010
    I bite my nails a lot

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  • #pipe#pipe Cocky Stride, Musky odours Pope of Chili TownRegistered User regular
    edited August 2010
    I think maybe after my last post, Tripwire walked into an incinerator somewhere.

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  • BeastehBeasteh THAT WOULD NOT KILL DRACULARegistered User regular
    edited August 2010
    have to be humping the quilt sideways facing away from the wall with 2 pillows, sit so far back in my chair I'm practically reclining

    I have been known to fall asleep in the shower

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  • .Tripwire..Tripwire. Firman Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    No some rude dudes have probably expressed semen all over it.

    I guess it's not so much germophobia, health-wary, as it is EWWWWOPHOBIA, because



    bukkake

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  • BerkBerk THE BUDGIE SMUGGLER Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    firman come to vancouver with me.

    we can reminisce about old times.
    like when you saw a dick.

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  • .Tripwire..Tripwire. Firman Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Being near dicks or talking about dicks is I guess my greatest habit of all.

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