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The 20 random things you may not have known about me... thread.
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Mate, double standards make the world go 'round.
There is a difference...between a short WTF or LOL and constant OMFG STEAM ROXSORZ TEH BIG ONE!11111
Those three things I can completely relate to
And even those aren't enough, by all accounts...
Sad, but true. I hates me some snoring.
I do, my dad lived in UAE for almost 5 years.
iGary said:
I'm the same, I can't sleep if there's any noise.
However, I apparently snore loud enough to be heard 300 miles away
How much brushing are we talking about here? How long for each day and how many days/weeks/months?
hrmmm
1) 5 years ago, I hated Apples. Today I hate PC's.
2) I'm a gadget freak. I need gadgets.
3) If it's electronic, I must hack it. From my Tivo to my Car.
4) I've been fixing things since age 7
5) I never graduated high school
6) The school yard bully is now my gardener
7) I'm a work-at-home Daddy
8) I'm Italian, Irish & German
9) I only drink in Vegas. Never, Never, NEVER beer.
10) I lived in my car for 6 months, but never missed a day of work
11) I can put 10 rounds in the 10-spot at 50 meters. (sharp shooter)
12) I was at Bill Gates house for the Windows 95 Launch
13) I'm a slob. I can't seem to keep things clean
14) When I clean, I can't stop until everything is done... I start with my desk, then the whole house, even my car
15) I've never held a job outside of the computer field
16) I passed a kidney stone at 14
17) I love Red Robin's Teriyaki Chicken Burger
18) I was addicted to Dr. Pepper. (Seriously - took me 12 weeks to get off of it) I drank 6~9 cans a day
19) I was born and raised in Southern California - I don't think I will ever leave
20) I didn't learn to read until age 9 (severe dyslexia)
1) 5 years ago, I hated Apples. Today I hate PC's.
2) I'm a gadget freak. I need gadgets.
3) If it's electronic, I must hack it. From my Tivo to my Car.
4) I've been fixing things since age 7
5) I never graduated high school
6) The school yard bully is now my gardener
7) I'm a work-at-home Daddy
8) I'm Italian, Irish & German
9) I only drink in Vegas. Never, Never, NEVER beer.
10) I lived in my car for 6 months, but never missed a day of work
11) I can put 10 rounds in the 10-spot at 50 meters. (sharp shooter)
12) I was at Bill Gates house for the Windows 95 Launch
13) I'm a slob. I can't seem to keep things clean
14) When I clean, I can't stop until everything is done... I start with my desk, then the whole house, even my car
15) I've never held a job outside of the computer field
16) I passed a kidney stone at 14
17) I love Red Robin's Teriyaki Chicken Burger
18) I was addicted to Dr. Pepper. (Seriously - took me 12 weeks to get off of it) I drank 6~9 cans a day
19) I was born and raised in Southern California - I don't think I will ever leave
20) I didn't learn to read until age 9 (severe dyslexia)
My first 20 things was over a year ago. I was thinking about doing it again on nov 13, but that thing "life" got in the way and all.
New 20 things: 2006 edition.
1. I'm an aspiring hand model. (Apple, please hire me.)
2. I played the violin for 12 years and viola for two. Notice the past-tense. Injury. I cry a little at classical music sometimes for this very reason.
3. My favorite musician is Ben Folds. He is a musical genius. He bounced a stool off a Steinway grand's keyboard and got away with it.
4. My 2nd favorite musician is Barry Manilow. He is also a musical genius.
5. If I had the skill, I'd be a professional cake decorator. Alas, I do not know how to work with fondant. (Link goes to cake I decorated)
6. I'm lactose intolerant now, but only occasionally.. about 4 times a week. Whaaaat?
7. I popped out a paper in an hour and a half.. I got an A on it (it was about plato and geometry). I spend 12+ hours on another? got a B- (about medea)
8. I'm an 84-year old woman trapped in an 18-year old body: I have something close to arthritis that likes to flare up at not good times. If it drops below 75°f, my arms are useless.
9. I'm a Finance Major, Global Energy Management concentration in the Honors college at uni. It sounds much more impressive than it actually is.
10. I plan on getting a Ph.D. in economics. My paternal uncle and late granddaddy both hold Ph.D.s in economics.
11. If I had the money, I would fly to Madrid, Spain. Not for the architecture, history, or culture, but for sunflower seeds. Pipas G, Sabor Tijuana are amazing. I've spent the last year of my life trying to find them in the US to no avail. My friend from Spain brings them back to the country for me, but she hates Spain and is never returning. *cries*
12. My notes for lecture have doodles in the margins if the lecture gets a little slow. Some highlights: a turtle, Socrates beating up another philosopher, and my favorite, Pope on a surfboard.
13. when I'm tired and writing something, I spell things the british-english way.
13a. When I'm tired and writing, I tend to use alliteration (unintentionally!)
13b. Same thing with rhyming words...
14. I think I'm in love with a sandwich.
15. I have school spirit. I go to football games. This makes my maternal uncle very happy, but confuses the living spit out of my friends.
16. I tell my nephew half-way insane things. A highlight-- if he didn't burp or fart, he'd explode. I then overhear him telling my mom that he's "glad [he] just burped, now [he] won't explode!!!"
17. When I was in Vienna with my symphony, we were within walking distance of an Apple store. With very VERY little knowledge of the German language, I was able to hunt it down in less than 10 minutes. I saw my first MBP in Vienna. Guten Tag, Intel!!
18. I drive a Hyundai Accent. I love him. His name is Max_Hyundai. He's a tiny, tiny car. If he were a dog, he'd be that tiny chihuahua that barks like he weighs 200 pounds.
19. I have a kitty named Danger. Next cat we get, I demand he be orange and be named "Evil". This would make me 3 or 4 different kinds of happy!
20. Someone on the boards makes me highly, incredibly, very, exuberantly happy.
*wipes sweat from palms, tries to slow down heart beat*
New 20 things: 2006 edition.
1. I'm an aspiring hand model. (Apple, please hire me.)
2. I played the violin for 12 years and viola for two. Notice the past-tense. Injury. I cry a little at classical music sometimes for this very reason.
3. My favorite musician is Ben Folds. He is a musical genius. He bounced a stool off a Steinway grand's keyboard and got away with it.
4. My 2nd favorite musician is Barry Manilow. He is also a musical genius.
5. If I had the skill, I'd be a professional cake decorator. Alas, I do not know how to work with fondant. (Link goes to cake I decorated)
6. I'm lactose intolerant now, but only occasionally.. about 4 times a week. Whaaaat?
7. I popped out a paper in an hour and a half.. I got an A on it (it was about plato and geometry). I spend 12+ hours on another? got a B- (about medea)
8. I'm an 84-year old woman trapped in an 18-year old body: I have something close to arthritis that likes to flare up at not good times. If it drops below 75°f, my arms are useless.
9. I'm a Finance Major, Global Energy Management concentration in the Honors college at uni. It sounds much more impressive than it actually is.
10. I plan on getting a Ph.D. in economics. My paternal uncle and late granddaddy both hold Ph.D.s in economics.
11. If I had the money, I would fly to Madrid, Spain. Not for the architecture, history, or culture, but for sunflower seeds. Pipas G, Sabor Tijuana are amazing. I've spent the last year of my life trying to find them in the US to no avail. My friend from Spain brings them back to the country for me, but she hates Spain and is never returning.
*cries*12. My notes for lecture have doodles in the margins if the lecture gets a little slow. Some highlights: a turtle, Socrates beating up another philosopher, and my favorite, Pope on a surfboard.
13. when I'm tired and writing something, I spell things the british-english way.
13a. When I'm tired and writing, I tend to use alliteration (unintentionally!)
13b. Same thing with rhyming words...
14. I think I'm in love with a sandwich.
15. I have school spirit. I go to football games. This makes my maternal uncle very happy, but confuses the living spit out of my friends.
16. I tell my nephew half-way insane things. A highlight-- if he didn't burp or fart, he'd explode. I then overhear him telling my mom that he's "glad [he] just burped, now [he] won't explode!!!"
17. When I was in Vienna with my symphony, we were within walking distance of an Apple store. With very VERY little knowledge of the German language, I was able to hunt it down in less than 10 minutes. I saw my first MBP in Vienna. Guten Tag, Intel!!
18. I drive a Hyundai Accent. I love him. His name is Max_Hyundai. He's a tiny, tiny car. If he were a dog, he'd be that tiny chihuahua that barks like he weighs 200 pounds.
19. I have a kitty named Danger. Next cat we get, I demand he be orange and be named "Evil". This would make me 3 or 4 different kinds of happy!
20. Someone on the boards makes me highly, incredibly, very, exuberantly happy.
*wipes sweat from palms, tries to slow down heart beat*
Perhaps not a good combination anyway.
Cake decorating can be fun, but it would probably not be a profitable profession -- too labor intensive. I bought my wife cake decorating lessons, and all the equipment you need, when she got interested in that as a hobby. She learned a lot and I gallantly volunteered to eat the test cakes.
Now she has a photo book of all the inventive cake decorations she's done, but she'd still not want to work as a cake decorator.1) I taught my self to be left handed
2) I use cliffnotes often and then get A's on the report
3) I must have a fan running near me in order to sleep
4) I got introduced to macs by my church in '99
5) I watch no tv, though i have a 37" lcd in my room
6) I have osgood schlatters which prevents me from running competitively
7) I get distracted way too easily
8) If i own it, its been dissembled at least once.
9) I am a compulsive electronics buyer
10) I think the creators of the dmca should burn in hell, but the dmca doesn't stop me.
11) Am a prankster and a jokester
12) Love sushi
13) Don't believe in luck
14) I could give a damn what you think about me, unless its nice
15) Most things can be solved by science and math, not all
16) Get frequent head aches, sometimes migraines. Not anymore, cuase too much caffeine
17) Most thing I learn are through the hard way.
18) Absolutely hate liars, but am a compulsive one myself.
19) would rather be cold than warm
20( Love to be and think different.
21( will Give anything a shot
22) have really bad gramer and spelling skills, but you might have noticed that already...
23) recently found out I am red green color blind
2) I use cliffnotes often and then get A's on the report
3) I must have a fan running near me in order to sleep
4) I got introduced to macs by my church in '99
5) I watch no tv, though i have a 37" lcd in my room
6) I have osgood schlatters which prevents me from running competitively
7) I get distracted way too easily
8) If i own it, its been dissembled at least once.
9) I am a compulsive electronics buyer
10) I think the creators of the dmca should burn in hell, but the dmca doesn't stop me.
11) Am a prankster and a jokester
12) Love sushi
13) Don't believe in luck
14) I could give a damn what you think about me, unless its nice
15) Most things can be solved by science and math, not all
16) Get frequent head aches, sometimes migraines. Not anymore, cuase too much caffeine
17) Most thing I learn are through the hard way.
18) Absolutely hate liars, but am a compulsive one myself.
19) would rather be cold than warm
20( Love to be and think different.
21( will Give anything a shot
22) have really bad gramer and spelling skills, but you might have noticed that already...
23) recently found out I am red green color blind
1. I was born in my parents' bed, not a hospital.
2. My Dad delivered me while on the phone with the police.
3. The phone was in a different room, so he had to run back and forth.
4. I secretly love to pour sugar in my tea, and it makes me feel ashamed, like I'm less hardcore than other tea lovers who only drink their tea black.
5. I like PCs as well as Macs
6. I want Vin Diesel in my bed, but I don't want to have sex with him.
7. Cuddling > Sex, 1000 times over.
8. Sometimes babies creep me out.
9. You can get me to do almost anything for a pint of vanilla ice cream.
10. I leeeeerv to sing, but I'm not good at it
11. I'm a total loser - my biggest desire is to get married and live with the man I love in a nice apartment. I want a refrigerator I can stock and a house I can clean. I want to buy sheets, and spray down the windows and tables with multi-surface cleaner. I want to vacuum.
12. One night stands never seem worth it to me.
13. I jack off way too much, and usually I do it to distract myself from something I should be doing.
14. I wouldn't touch a vagina with a 10 foot pole. Wrapped in plastic.
15. If I were straight I'd definitely be a breast man, as opposed to an ass man. I loooove nice, muscular pecs. I like to squeeze them, I like to bite them, and I like to fall asleep with my head resting on them.
16. I cry like a baby during sad movies.
17. I love insensitive jokes. Jokes that are politically incorrect totally tickle me.
18. The closer I get to graduating, the more and more I want to open a porn shop or go into the sex industry as a business owner.
19. I'm not wild about actually having sex (although I certainly don't dislike it, and with the right person it's great). I just like talking and being surrounded by it.
20. Sometimes when I'm bored and the weather is okay, I put on something trashy and revealing and I walk around Chelsea (the gayest area of Manhattan) just to get attention.
Gosh, now I totally feel like cuddling.
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2. My Dad delivered me while on the phone with the police.
3. The phone was in a different room, so he had to run back and forth.
4. I secretly love to pour sugar in my tea, and it makes me feel ashamed, like I'm less hardcore than other tea lovers who only drink their tea black.
5. I like PCs as well as Macs
6. I want Vin Diesel in my bed, but I don't want to have sex with him.
7. Cuddling > Sex, 1000 times over.
8. Sometimes babies creep me out.
9. You can get me to do almost anything for a pint of vanilla ice cream.
10. I leeeeerv to sing, but I'm not good at it
11. I'm a total loser - my biggest desire is to get married and live with the man I love in a nice apartment. I want a refrigerator I can stock and a house I can clean. I want to buy sheets, and spray down the windows and tables with multi-surface cleaner. I want to vacuum.
12. One night stands never seem worth it to me.
13. I jack off way too much, and usually I do it to distract myself from something I should be doing.
14. I wouldn't touch a vagina with a 10 foot pole. Wrapped in plastic.
15. If I were straight I'd definitely be a breast man, as opposed to an ass man. I loooove nice, muscular pecs. I like to squeeze them, I like to bite them, and I like to fall asleep with my head resting on them.
16. I cry like a baby during sad movies.
17. I love insensitive jokes. Jokes that are politically incorrect totally tickle me.
18. The closer I get to graduating, the more and more I want to open a porn shop or go into the sex industry as a business owner.
19. I'm not wild about actually having sex (although I certainly don't dislike it, and with the right person it's great). I just like talking and being surrounded by it.
20. Sometimes when I'm bored and the weather is okay, I put on something trashy and revealing and I walk around Chelsea (the gayest area of Manhattan) just to get attention.
Gosh, now I totally feel like cuddling.
e
aww. your not a loser, you just have odd wants. Well in #11 anyways. Most of your list is cool in my books. If that means anything to ya
#2 broke my heart, my right hand is totally buggered and I can't play for more than a couple of hours, ever since I got hit by a certain car coming home from a certain macrumors picnic and got rather drunk.....
#6, I used to be now I'm not, but I've stayed near vegan anyway.
#8, Snap, I'd try and get yourself diagnosed for raynauds, I have it and that's what happens to me, it's just usually below 75 so that lasts for the winter/spring/autum
Perhaps I've watched too many shows that feature cake decoration and I've romanticized the idea a bit, but it sounds like something I could do. Even though I spent hours and hours on that Spongebob cake, only to have it cut apart, the time flew by and I loved doing it! If the economist thing doesn't work out... hahaPerhaps not a good combination anyway.
Cake decorating can be fun, but it would probably not be a profitable profession -- too labor intensive. I bought my wife cake decorating lessons, and all the equipment you need, when she got interested in that as a hobby. She learned a lot and I gallantly volunteered to eat the test cakes.
I didn't know that existed... I'm writing that down and taking it to a doctor next time I go. It seems very close to what I have to deal with! Thank you!!
From an emotional perspective, why eat scraps when you can have a buffet? That is my thoughts on one night stands.
Indeed, they are never worth it and cause more problems in the end than the temporary, but often exhilarating, addictive, highly enjoyable, animalistic, raw, lustful, pleasures it provides with no-strings attached.
(edit: above was a joke. I've never had a one-night stand and basically don't believe in them.)
luv ya bunches! xoxoxo
Me too!
Talk about going full circle...
Agreed (at least until I'm legal
)
It's fairly common, one of our very own Demi-Friends (guess who
) has it.<3 cuddling. and them really gentle, slow kisses that make all your insides melt.
Same here. Now I just gotta find me a girlfriend...
Time for christmas...
1. I have never been impressed with Sony's PS series.
2. Ninja works it.
3. I am drinking Coke right now.
4. I have just starting doing my christmas shopping.
5. Christmas=Anything apple
6. I want an iPod+Nike kit, even though I never run.
7. I sometimes talk like an aussie mate.
8. Right now I am watching the boondocks.
9. I hate that show.
10. I also like Southwest Airlines.
11. I also enjoy rubbing that in iGary's face.
1. I have never been impressed with Sony's PS series.
2. Ninja works it.
3. I am drinking Coke right now.
4. I have just starting doing my christmas shopping.
5. Christmas=Anything apple
6. I want an iPod+Nike kit, even though I never run.
7. I sometimes talk like an aussie mate.
8. Right now I am watching the boondocks.
9. I hate that show.
10. I also like Southwest Airlines.
11. I also enjoy rubbing that in iGary's face.
1. I get annoyed with ads that are played over and over.
2. I am rather sleepy right now.
3. I HATE MSN but use it anyways because all my friends use it.
4. I am a digital musician. My name is ElectronicDevil Music.
5. I like shiny things
6. I HATE Paris Hilton.
7. I use the word "meh" wayyy too much.
8. I love the Daily Show and Colbert Report.
9. WE ARE MARSHAL!!!!!
10. WTF mate?
11. I never promised I wouldn't stop posting random facts about me!
12 I have Officially posted 84 facts about me.
2. I am rather sleepy right now.
3. I HATE MSN but use it anyways because all my friends use it.
4. I am a digital musician. My name is ElectronicDevil Music.
5. I like shiny things
6. I HATE Paris Hilton.
7. I use the word "meh" wayyy too much.
8. I love the Daily Show and Colbert Report.
9. WE ARE MARSHAL!!!!!
10. WTF mate?
11. I never promised I wouldn't stop posting random facts about me!
12 I have Officially posted 84 facts about me.
vniow #21:
I and I'm sure many many many other members of this forum don't need over 80 random things in a thread which is only supposed to be around 20 (exceptions noted).
I and I'm sure many many many other members of this forum don't need over 80 random things in a thread which is only supposed to be around 20 (exceptions noted).
Great thread!
Here goes:
1. Only 8% of my desk is used, rest is just empty space.
2. I have two chairs, one for my butt and one for my feet.
3. I sold my Xbox and got an Xbox 360, yet I only have one 360 game.
4. I cry whenever I hear the DMB song "Sleep to dream her".
5. I usually sing when jogging.
6. I'm going to a Dave Matthews concert this March in Copenhagen.
7. I have a tendency to spam alot whenever I join a forum (yes, here too )
8. I really hate people who don't move their chairs in after eating, really.
9. After I turn 25, I promised myself I will never be employed, only employ.
10. Now I'm halfway through.
11. I object music pirating in any way, and really want to shoot people when they do it.
12. I can play "Neon" by John Mayer on guitar, but not the chord B.
13. I despise all computer mice but the Mighty Mouse.
14. I think the video player in iTunes is gay.
15. I have once been in a Scientology center for a schoolproject, and saw a slave with a vacuum cleaner taped to her back.
16. My phone (Siemens MC60) is dying, and I want an iPhone now!
17. I think MSN is gay, AIM/iChat is way better.
18. I helped my mom order my christmas presents this year.
19. I want the Mac market share to stay below 8%, so we can avoid too many problems, like more viruses.
20. I love pianos.
Here goes:
1. Only 8% of my desk is used, rest is just empty space.
2. I have two chairs, one for my butt and one for my feet.
3. I sold my Xbox and got an Xbox 360, yet I only have one 360 game.
4. I cry whenever I hear the DMB song "Sleep to dream her".
5. I usually sing when jogging.
6. I'm going to a Dave Matthews concert this March in Copenhagen.
7. I have a tendency to spam alot whenever I join a forum (yes, here too
)8. I really hate people who don't move their chairs in after eating, really.
9. After I turn 25, I promised myself I will never be employed, only employ.
10. Now I'm halfway through.
11. I object music pirating in any way, and really want to shoot people when they do it.
12. I can play "Neon" by John Mayer on guitar, but not the chord B.
13. I despise all computer mice but the Mighty Mouse.
14. I think the video player in iTunes is gay.
15. I have once been in a Scientology center for a schoolproject, and saw a slave with a vacuum cleaner taped to her back.
16. My phone (Siemens MC60) is dying, and I want an iPhone now!
17. I think MSN is gay, AIM/iChat is way better.
18. I helped my mom order my christmas presents this year.
19. I want the Mac market share to stay below 8%, so we can avoid too many problems, like more viruses.
20. I love pianos.