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Current topic: Nervous habits
Irrational fears
Superstitions
No topic yet? How about…ALIENS?!?!?
No, maybe that’s not exactly what we want…
Hmmmmm….
Aww. i thought this was something about a magical lizard that could shape-shift.
Anyway, how about we post fun facts about the universe?
Here’s one: There are approximately 10,000 pieces of equipment revolving around the earth. About 3,000 of these pieces are satellites, the rest are odd bits of Debris.
I’ve never been on one of these threads. If the topic is currently aliens, I haven’t much to say, but I am sure that they exist in other solar systems/galaxies.
And Evie, who has posted about once, but oh well, used to have a wonderful alien voice.
I don’t know any universe fun facts, sorry.
Aliens… as in Vulcans and Klingons and Vogons and Ewoks and the Dalek?
The topic could be… superstitions?
Has anyone ever heard of the one where if, on the first of the month, you say “Rabbit, rabbit” right when you wake up in the morning, it will be a lucky month? My fifth grade teacher told me about it, and she used to do it every month. But the tricky part is, it has to be the very first thing you do, the second you’re awake. You can’t even get out of bed. Basically open your eyes and say, “Rabbit, rabbit”. It’s nearly impossible, for me, at least. Of course, I’ve never been dedicated enough to think really hard about it right before I go to sleep. That could work.
I haunt all of you. You know when you feel like there’s someone beind you? It’s me. And the guy behind me is Chuck Norris.
5-Woah. @_@ Everybody from MuseBlog should try to do that next month. *writes it on calendar*
5 – I’m familiar with a different version where you say “rabbits” right before you go to sleep and then say “hares” before you say anything else once you wake up to get the good luck. I always forget to say “hares” in the morning!
4 – And Ford Prefect!
8- Is that from the book Harriet’s Hare?
5- I know it that you say rabbit before saying anything else you get lucky.
6- Does that mean that you like Chuck Norris?
9- Oops. I thought that you meant Ford Prefect with that question.
I just finished read The Roundhill. (It took 15 minutes.) Now Evan was superstitious.
Never whistle on a ship. The reason: They used to signal commands with a whistle, called the “boatswain’s Pipe” and if someone was whistling it could confuse the sailors.
More on whistling; in Mongolia it’s considered bad luck, and will cause high winds. I don’t know why.
Hard suitcases are considered bad luck on ships.
A hatch tilted on it’s side on a ship is bad luck, and for good reason; you could trip on it.
Maybe we could expand this thread to include sayings and where they came from?
5/8-At Girl Scout camp I learned that if the smoke from the campfire is blowing in your face and you say rabbit 3 times the smoke will blow the other way.
I’ve heard that it’s bad luck to bring a woman on a fishing boat, or to leave port on a Friday. (from Deadliest Catch)
It’s bad luck at a wedding for the groom to see the bride in her dress before she walks down the aisle.The bride isn’t allowed to make her own cake or she will be doomed to hard work.If a woman is a bridesmaid 3 times she will be a spinster, unless she continues until 7 times.
13- Oh! That reminds me…
Once upon a time there were some people who wished to disprove the Friday superstition among sailors. They built a ship, named her Friday, gave her a captain named Friday, and launched her on a Friday.
She never returned.
13- You got the 13th post . . . :bigspookyeyes:
That’s sort of appropriate since we’re discussing Superstition.
14-Freaky! Since when are there captains named Friday, though? Was that his nickname?
16- His last name, I think.
It might be a myth, too, but it might not . . .
12: The hard suitcases thing makes sense; when the seas get rough, you don’t want anything hard on ship
Hey, does anyone know why when you spill salt you throw a pinch over your shoulder? I don’t, and this is a good thread to ask.
20- Hmmm… Maybe because… I dunno, but I think Friday the 13th is bad luck because Jesus was crucified on Friday, and there were 13 people present at the Last Supper.
20- You throw it over your right shoulder, to sting the eyes of the demons. :bigspookyeyes:
21- Not so religious as all that. Or at least, that’s one way of looking at it, but I heard that it’s because Friday is Freya’s Day and you don’t want to make her mad (hence the Friday part). The 13 part came because Loki crashed some party or other (Probably Freya’s) and was the 13th person at the party.
That needs polishing. I think I may know where to get a better version of that story…
Aha! “Loki crashed a party of 12 at Valhalla, which ended in Baldur’s death.” So . . . but there were other mentions 13 at the Last Supper and stuff, so that’s not the only reason. It didn’t say anything about Friday in itself, or Freya, but whatever.
22: What if you miss? And wouldn’t the demons get smart and stand behind your left shoulder? jk
I was at this hotel once and there was no thirteenth floor. It went right from twelve to fourteen. Personally, thirteen is my lucky number.
24-34 is my family’s lucky number. I think it was on the sail of the first sailboat they ever got or something. (We sail a lot)
5- I heard it was ‘White Rabbit” 3 times.
17- Well if they chose him for his name and not ability mayhaps we have the reason she never returned…
22- I heard it was left?
24- Most hotels skip it. Something about people throwing themselves out of windows… *sigh* Personally I think even if you don’t numer it 13, there’s still a floor 13 up.
Black cats=cool. Ladders=fun.
Once upon a time, at school, it was Friday the 13th. *dramatic music* And there was a girl. *gasps* Somebody was hanging papers on the wall *dundundun* and she rolled under the ladder. *screams from audience* Then, 20 seconds later, she sat on a tack. *maniacal laughter*
creepy
26-I want a black cat, and I think ladders are fun to fun under to scare ladies with huge fur coats and little yappers.
one time I was about to walk under a ladder and my mom was there and she was like, “NO DON’T WALK UNDER THE LADDER IT’S BAD LUCK!!!!!!!” I was like?? Because I’d never thought she was superstitious before. Then another time I was holding a mirror and she started freaking out because she thought I was going to break it and she was like, “YOU’LL HAVE SEVEN YEARS OF BAD LUCK!!!!’ It was sort of funny. But she has owned at least 3 black cats in her life, so I dunno . . .
This comment was (very slightly) snipped to remove profanity — Rosanne
6 — I remember having that feeling the other day. Does that mean you were in my house?
I’m going to try the Rabbit Rabbit Rabbit thing tonight/tomorrow morning. I have a soccer game tomorrow, I could use some luck.
You’re supposed to do it on the first day of the month, no?
Most superstitions have pre-christian origin.
could we include fears/ habbits
when i was younger i used to never get out of bed at night because i’d hear these awful noises(it was the plumbing) and my dad couldnt hear them(there arent anypipes over my parents room). i’d lie very still on my back with the covers pulled up to my neck until it stopped.
this may sound silly but i have a huge fear of vampires. i used to think there were vampires in my closet and my dresser, at night (still) i always have the closet doors closed tight and the dressor droors closed. i havent slept with my neck exposed for years. yes, i know, pathetic, but….
I thought there was an alligator that walked on 2 legs in my room when I was little. I wasn’t petrified by it, but it made me nervous. It paced back and forth in my room at night. Until a few months ago I couldn’t walk up stairs, I had to run. I also had to skip the last step going down. My friend JM has OCD. If you touch him he has to touch the other side until it’s “even”. I felt bad because one day a bunch of people were poking him. He also has tic disorder, but you’d never know unless he told you. I know a lot of people with weird habits.
Sometimes, when I’m in bed and I’m looking at something the way things are arranged makes it look like there’s a person there and it makes me nervous. Oh, and Kagcomix, if you’re worried about vampires hang a crucifix in your room. That keeps them away.
I’m not superstitious, but it makes me feel better to knock on wood every time someone mentions something slightly fortunate that was fairly random. That was a bad description of when you knock on wood, but oh well.
I’ve never heard any superstition having to do with rabbits. Isn’t that funny? I’ll have to try all of the ones mentioned next month. Only, of course, if I remember.
6-Does that mean you were hiding in my closet yesterday, and under the table two days ago, and hidden in the captains cabin three years ago?
35-I keep my closet door tight…not that anything remotely big enough to eat me could fit in there, but in the dark you never know…
Sometimes when the temperature is different in the built-in drawers in my room, or in the walls, you can hear this aweful cracking noise, like something cracked really fast, every now and then…
New topic stemming from this one? Irrational fears. Sort of what we’re talking about now.
When I was younger (about 6, 7 maybe), I could have sworn there were goblins under my bed. Lame as it sounds to conform the the monster-under-bed rule.
So what did I do? I stood with my ankles right next the the bedframe so if they were there, they could reach out and grab me and drag me to who-knows-where. I stood like that for a few minutes in the pitch dark untill I convinced myself they wern’t there.
Also, once or twice the night before garbage pickup day we realized we’d forgotten to take the trash can up, so my parents handed me a flashlight and told me to take it up.
Now, we do not have one of those puny 50-foot driveways most people have. We have 2, one about 100 feet long and the other about 400, sort of perpendicular then curving away from the first (so you can’t see the house). So I would have to walk up there with this huge can crunching (the 400 foot one is loose gravel) behind me giving away my position to who-know’s-what.
When I got to the top I turned the flashlight off and made myself walk down, taking my time and staying on the driveway (oddly, the grass seememed safer, with the trees and bushes and shrubs to hide in. Which should be the other way around).
Anyway. I torture the fears out of me, can’t help it. Must. Not. Show. Weakness. Gah!
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6- Ooohh….. creepy.
27- Crap. I just walked under a ladder today. *checks chair for tacks*
I had something to say, but I can’t remember what it was, darn it.
Irrational fears? Talking to people.
semi rational irrational fear: talking to your crush
I am sorry, I am having a duh moment, except the answer wont come to me. I probably will sound stupid, once again, but I am still having fun in summer vacation so my brain doesnt think as it usually does when it comes to like….school subjects etc. So here it goes…..what is an irritional fear? Is it like, something that just makes certain people feel uncomfortable, but its not like, jumping off a cliff?
An irrational fear means just that, a fear that is not justified or rational. Any phobia is an irrational fear.
Yeah, like zombies in your basement or the IMINENT RAPTOR ATTACK THEY WILL DESTROY US ALL RUN FOR YOUR L- erm, having a gun pointed at your head. Thing’s that you’re afraid of for no piticulay reason or arn’t dangerous.
46,47-Thanks!!!
I am afraid of being trapped in something small, I have claustraphobia. Is that good? I am also afraid of getting too close or touching searing hot things, and I mean I guess everyone is, but I am like…..freaked out by extremely hot objects. Weird huh?
6 – Ah, so it was you following me around today when I kept hearing things behind me!
9 – I think so!
35 – Keep garlic handy in your room, or just eat a lot of garlic bread before you go to sleep.
38 – My English teacher gave us a handout about that. Apparently people originally knocked on wood as a way of acknowledging the devils living inside the wood and thanking them for granting the people good fortune. If I can find that paper, I’ll copy it; the original explanation was of course more detailed than mine.
My most irrational fear is the fear of Tamagotchis. Those things and any similar electronic devices that have no obvious off switch and make loud noises at random times have always spooked me.
My room is seperated from the house, so every night I have to walk out there in my PJs, winter, summer, whatever. I don’t mind the dark, but I always get freaked out right before I open the door. I always feel incredibly nervous standing there on the porch, I don’t know why, but I feel like somebody’s going to jump out at me. Fridgy, is that you? ’cause it’s NOT FUNNY!!!!!!
Oh yeah, I also always think there might be someone sitting on my bed once I get I get in my room. Weird.
Oh, I just thought of another thing about bunnies/rabbits; if you’re sitting around a fire and the smoke blows in your face, yell “I hate rabbits” 3 times. It actually works a good bit of the time, it’s bizzare.
I don’t think it works if you say “pink bunnies” instead of “rabbits” though, more reasearch needed….
51- But I quite like rabbits. And what a spectacle I would make.
48-I have both…I think both are okay, because you can be injured (or trapped and starved to death) in either situation…but being in any tight place at all is way too much for me. Or crowded places, especially in buildings where I could be trapped. And noise.. I am a full-HSP, so most of it comes from that.
50-How is it separated?
I was born on January 13th so sometimes my birthday is on a Friday the 13th. I consider Friday the 13ths good luck.
What is HSP? I’ve never heard of this affliction before…
Wiki says…
“HSP can mean several things:
Hereditary spastic paraplegia – a group of inherited disorders that are characterized by progressive weakness and stiffness of the legs
Highly sensitive person – people who are more sensitive than the average human being
the High Speed Photometer – a scientific instrument formerly installed on the Hubble Space Telescope
High Stakes Poker – a televised no limit Texas hold’em cash game broadcast on GSN
Henoch-Sch̦nlein purpura Рa vasculitic disease mainly affecting children
Host Signal Processing – the use of a general purpose host hardware for performing various DSP functions, especially modem modulation and demodulation (see also Winmodem).
Heat shock proteins – a group of very conserved proteins which are upregulated during stress responses.
Hidden subgroup problem – in mathematics.al
Croatian Party of Rights (Hrvatska Stranka Prava) – a Croatian right-wing political party
Headset profile – one among various Bluetooth profiles
Hot Soup Processor – a Japanese programming language that was originally developed in 1994”
Hm, you wouldn’t happen to be a conservative from Croatia, would you, HAWK?
Spiders. Spiders scare me. I don’t even know why- they’re puny! But other than that, I don’t really have any horrible fears. Except if I watch a horror movie. 80
i am scared of spiders, not sure why, but… i am REALLY well…. not scared, but i don’t like the dark because it makes me fell like i am being watched, and it causes this weird wrenching in my stomach that makes me shiver and want to spin around to see what is behind me. nots sure for this one, either, but, i guess that is why its an irrational fear.
50- Wait, are you a sibling of FS’s?
Maybe R-tH meant he was a full hypersensitive person? This is turning into a sort of VFD thing, isn’t it?
I have an irrational fear of deer. Yes, like Bambi. They’re everywhere. They go into my back yard and act generally creepy. They’re watching me. O_O
Other than that, no. Actually, I plan on dying gloriously in an antimatter reaction of some sort.
None of my siblings are on here.
54- This girl at my camp, her violin bow snapped in half on Friday the 13th. She put it down on the chair right next to her for two seconds and someone ran by it and it snapped.
I’m always afraid I’m going to die by a car next to us exploding or something.
Also…recently I’ve been thinking there’s going to be a catastrophic earthquake of some sort. That’s what I get from living here in California though, growing up hearing people say “OMG THE BIG ONE IS COMING HEAD FOR THE HILLZ” everytime there’s any sort of earthquake.
We had a few little earthquakes earlier in July, and so I am paranoid.
53/55) I think of myself as a highly sensitive person as well, but in certain senses. For instance I have no problem with the bright lights and sirens thing, but I do have the “inner life” thing, and also need to organize my life and such things. Also the thing about knowing what would fix a situation, like changing light and stuff. I’ve always known that…
Google HSP and read more if anyone wants to know and such.
For the past… 3 months I’ve sort of felt like someone’s watching me, only more seeing out of my eyes and hearing what I hear than lurking behind a corner. No idea who, but it better not be FS. It’s ot nce to hack into peoples minds.
58- See comment 6.
wow, last night I opened the door to let my dog out, and this cicada flew in and kept flying into me and making that aweful noise. I totally screamed becuase it hit me in the face, it was nasty. My mom didnt know what happended and freaked, and I freaked becuase the cicada hit me in the FACE once again. I was afraid to open the door again, it was gross!!! There is another irrational fear of mine…..I think.
61- Actually, there is supposed to be a tsunami …. *checks calendar* … well, any day now. No, really. A really big one. They come once every 300 to 500 years and the last one was 307 years ago. I try not to think about it to much, ’cause it’s no use living my life in constant fear of the next Orphan Tsunami. Besides we live on a nice little hill a few miles from the river which is several miles from the sea. It shouldn’t really be comforting, but it is. Weird.
63- Once I had a cicada on my shoulder. I didn’t realize it, and I kept hearing a weird noise every time I moved my head.
I sometimes feel like the door is open, but when I look again it’s not. That’s neither an irrational fear nor a superstition, but it fits here anyway.
My irrational fears:
Daddy longlegs
big, empty spaces
being in a remote area
cicadas
I’m afraid of clowns ever since I saw It. And dolls. But I’m not a girl and I dont have siblings so I don’t have to worry a lot about the doll part.
And I don’t like bridges. *guess why face*
50-Are you a sibling of FS? And plus I usually listen to my radio when I’m not on the computor in my room, so I have the door closed most of the time. And at night, when I open the door, I always feel like something’s waiting behind the door to jump out and scare me. Speccially since I finished HP4.
Irrational fears?
-being touched unexpectedly. I cannot deal with people coming up behind me and tapping my shoulder to get my attention. it’s lost me a few friends
-Anything that sucks blood
-a certain IM animation that looks a bit like a blue pikachu.
-Jerry Springer
-90% of country music
If people are still confused/think I’m weird, firstly you would be righ about the latter, and secondly, I meant Highly Sensitive Person. My mom is too, and so it makes sense. Most everything affects me more, physical or emotional, although I’m not a crybaby or something thankeyou.
I think I may be a HIPWCAL, or Highly Insensitive Person Who Complains A Lot. Not much affects me when it comes to emotion, and ditto with the physical. But I complain a lot.
69-Now, when I say physical, you may be thinking of the wrong things…I hike a lot, spend plenty of time in the outdoors, and don’t mind getting a little dirty doing any sort of outside project. Mainly what I mean is pollution of any kind in th air, whether that’s normal carbon-like pollution, or a bad smell (things smell a lot stronger) and heat MAY affect me (cold isn’t so bad-especially when you get all of the normal stuff people wear in the winter on
) Mostly things just seem stronger…
Nothing in this comment was ment to offend anyone, nor was I angry with anyone while I wrote it, so if it seems that way, it was not meant to.
RtH
I’m an only child, why do you think I’m related to FS?!
I can’t stand gross smelling things. I just about throw up whenever I need to take out the compost.
I used to be really scared of the dark, but I don’t worry about it too much anymore.
My room is a seperate building that is down the sidealk from my house. it’s this way because we live in a one room 500 sq. foot house and my parents snore incredibly loudly, so much that I wasn’t getting any sleep. I like having a seperate room, I can play my music loud!! But then my boombox died, oh well……
71-Because you said “Is that you, Frigidy? It’s NOT funny!” or something like that.
Yeah, he said he haunted us all. Spooky.
70- No, that’s what I thought.
73- Not very nice of him, if you ask me. I don’t want to be haunted.
Neither do I.
Oh man, new irrational fear, being attacked by a shark. Like I said in detail on the random thread, creepy, scary, terrifying, gruesome, yet immensly interesting. Ohhh*shiver*.
66-Clowns freak me out, I swear they are all evil. Ever heard of that Gacy guy? Dont look him up if not. Sorry I mentioned it. PLEASE dont look him up. Now I feel aweful. Sorry!!! Dolls freak me out too, I had a dream that one of my porcelin (spelling? sorry) dolls came alive and attacked me, or said ‘im gonna get you’ in a really deep voice. I sold her at a yard sale, and keep the rest in a closet.
Porcelain.
Digital Spiders. Not real spiders, mind you (that would be my sister) but big, house sized digital ones *shudder* And if they jump on you suddenly… You know in the Harry Potter games? I can’t even DO the forbidden forest in CoS because of all the spiders… *cringe*
And my sister’s the same with real ones… Like, this one time, I told her there was a spider in her hair and she, like, freaked really bad.
Then in retaliation, she made me watch her play this game with all these gigantuan spiders that dropped off tree branches and stuff. Sigh…
Kakorrhaphiophobia: the fear of defeat
Panophobia, Panphobia, Pamphobia, or Pantophobia: the fear of everything
Gnosiophobia or Epistemophobia: the fear of knowledge
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37/49- im not afraid that theyre going to get me……. its complicqted
last year i had this HUUUGE fear of water id be practicaly crying when i had to go on boats, im totaly over that now. me thinks pirates 2 had so;ething to do with it. i sort of need to be even, more so when i was younger.
62- theres q book i forget the name but it was something like inside the mind of gideon raybourne qnd it was about this girl who one day found herself in this guys head, its a good book.
66- just looking at the cover of It scared me
67- i know this is random but what does your name mean? because i saw it on this sign on a rollercoaster in germany….
69- me too!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i’m scared that a really big meteor is going to hit the earth because in 6th grade my science teacher made us watch this horrible movie about how the earth is in the middle of this huge asteroid field.
i’m also scared of fire. i don’t even like lighting matches . . .
this isn’t really a fear, it just makes me really really uncomfortable, but i hate trying to go to sleep when i can’t hear anyone else moving around in the house. for instance, if i wake up in the middle of the night and both my parents are asleep, i always have trouble going back to sleep.
I have a really random fear of wolves. I have dreams about them attacking me. It’s not fun. *sudders*
I think it’s because when I was little I watched Beauty and the Beast a lot.
78-Thanks!
82-Understandible, my aunt used to have dreams that she would get up becuase she would be hungry and there would be a snarling wolf standing in the doorway (you enter the house in the kitchen) freaky huh? Sorry, guess I’m not helping….
Irrational fears:
Fascist skinheads
Communist skinheads
Adam West
The evil monkey in my closet
Jehovah’s Witnesses
Lazy paraplegic cops (THEY HAVE GRUDGES AGAINST TALL HIPPIES)
Asian trix bunny
Energeizer bunny
Cello Suite Prelude (played on guitar)
Come on! What’s wrong with Cello? On guitar though, maybe not…
84- ha ha! i have a bouncy weasel ball in my closet, not a monkey, weird what you find in closets, huh?
84: Some of those fears are not so irrational.
86: Very true. I even know some people in the closet. But I think it was a “family guy” joke.
84-some of those fears are very rational. particularly jehovah’s witnesses and skinheads.
shaving my knees, if you’ll believe it. although i do it anyway
Oh, here’s one.
Chemtrails. I can’t see a plane without watching its trail for five minutes to see if it spreads out. Stupid, I know.
Oh, I thought of another completely irrational fear of mine- going to the doctor. Seriously, though, it scares me. They poke me with big needles and make my finger all bloody. (eew, blood.) Plus, my doctor wears bifocals, so when she looks at me I get the impression that she’s glaring at me like I’m about to keel over and die. right there. *shivers* Sooo, this is not really a problem, except when it comes time to get a physical for sports. That should be coming up…*checks calendar*… tomorrow! What!? Darn.
84- Hah. Going to agree with others and say some of those make sense though.
88- Ouch. That fear is not irrationaly. Painful, though, if you don’t go v e r y slowly and carefully. Eep.
Dentists. Due mostly to my traumatic cavity that nearly needed a root canal. *scary*
:idea:TNÖ:idea:
92- Really? I had several traumatic cavities, at least one root canal, and a tooth pulled. And yet I am not in the least frightened of dentists. Anymore. When I was younger I was scared stiff. Even though they let me feed the fish once.
93-They let you feed the fish!
MY dentist doesn’t even HAVE fish in his office. Waah! 
I think the dentist is more afraid of me. I have never had a cavity, and never had braces. I don’t know why, but he’s probably wondering what’s up with my teeth!
93- mm. it’s really just fillings that get me; cleanings and stuff are ok.
lol.
I have a fear of cutting my own nose off with scissors by accident…dont laugh!!! ITS TRUE!!!
I used to have a pathological fear of elevator doors. I had nightmares about being squished. It scarred my already doomed childhood.
Ooh, another thing: I cannot eat popsicles on wooden sticks because I cannot deal with the feeling of the wood scraping against my molars. Strangely, though, I’m OK with toungue depressors, as long as they keep them away from my teeth. *shuuders*
97-I’m always nervouse when my parents stick their arms between the doors to keep them from closing-the doors usually stop, but I mean, …
*wipes extra “e” off*
92- last year my mom fell down in the dark and had to get all this tooth work, she shatered har fake tooth and messed up several others she had root canals and surgeries for ages and it kept getting infected……
Having had elevator doors close on me, I’m glad I’m not scared of them.
I have a dentist apointment this week… and then I’m getting braces. Ahhhhhg…
101-CLOSE on you? Did you live? [/dumb questions]
101-Of course, else she’s an undead, and they don’t exist. :bigspookyeyes: Weird i sawthat as “big spook yeyes” Here’s something, if I start playing a sport like football that involes throwing a ball, whenever it’s thrown to me, I’m scared it will hit me like in the head and cause a serious injury. It’s worse if it’s thrown high.
I used to have nightmares about a set of pink bedsheets. Not kidding, it used to scare the living daylights out of me., fortunately I stopped having that dream by the time I was about 7.
I had an irrational fear of escalators for a while. Except that it wasn’t irrational. When I was little I had one foot on an escalator and I didn’t put my other foot on fast enough and it was REALLY SCARY. But I was very young.
I set a trend! Yay!
103~ I used to love Baseball, but I was always scared when I was batting and the ball came flying at my head really fast. Of course, I was playing with my Dad who has notorious bad aim when throwing small spherical objects….
102- It pops back open without a lot of pressure. Getting your arm caought in a automatic car door hurts more, but it’s still not too bad.
103- Immortal, not undead. Thankyou.
I had my thumb stuck in the back door of an Econoline van once (the very back). My mom was in the house talking to some people, and I could never open those doors. OUCH.
That was connected to the cvonversation, as a matter of fact.
105- I’ve had dreams about falling off gigantic, scary escalators…. *shudders* I share your irrational fear.
106-?
mwahahaha yet again i change the subject on the chameleon thread, i did it a couple of momths ago with death….. chuckles darkly
I actually like elevators. I ALWAYS have to jump in them, even thought it’s a stupid thing to do and I’ll probably end up hurting myself when the cables break……. But what the heck, it’s FUN!!
But I’m afraid of puke green carpets. They scare the snot out of me. I’m not kidding, it’s really pathetic!!
I am terrified of cicadas after they wound up everywhere in my village. They look really creepy. My sister ate one. I don’t get how she could enjoy that.
I have an irrational fear of people posting posts that have no correlation with the thread
115-Who are you to know enough to realize? I don’t ever recall seeing you before…*checks name-changes thread*
112- :bigspookyeyes: was my invention. How Koko du Pelle found it, I’ve no idea, but who really cares?
113- I love jumping in elevators!
115- Who are you?
I’m terrified of West Virginia and Indiana.
I am afraid of getting in elevators, although I have to, I always close my eyes. I am afraid it will get stuck, and then I would get claustraphobic, and then I would like……*shivers*. I would go crazy!!!
Whenever I think of someone stuck in an elevator I think of some French movie, what was it called, oh yes! Elevator to the Gallows! It was alright, but not great.
(115, 116) Jackflap appears to be a newcomer. Welcoming committee..?
121- Right here! I just automatically assumed Jackflap wasn’t new because of the oldbie-mindset. Sorry! *pies Jackflap extra to make up for it*
I’ll pie it on the proper thread. Sorry about the it, I don’t know whether to use he or she.
117- Koko du Pelle, who should have his name spelled the way that it was before.
115- I think that we’ll get along together well. As long as you stay away from the PoPoPo, that is. You’ll most likely get an offer for that soon.
I am seriously afraid of spiders jumping on me when I least expect it. Specially when one (wolf spider) jumped out of the fridge in Canada and scared the crap outta my aunt.
105-I was scared of the end of the escalator for a while, partly because my shoe laces are almost never tied, so I take as much space between the end of the step and my shoe as I can.
115-Newbie? *pies*
123-You sound like PoPoPo is a drug or something. ‘stay away from the PoPoPo…most likely get an offer for that” lol
So tie your shoelaces!!! I hate it when people don’t tie their shoes, it’s a pain.
This thread is incredibly amusing.
125-What if I don’t feel like it? lol
1125- I know.
I have an irrational fear of cougars. Or bears. Any animal that is large enough to eat me and lives in the forest around these parts, but especially cougars. This wouldn’t be irrational, if it weren’t for the fact that I take it past, “I’m scared of cougars.” It’s more like, “I can’t go in the forest without an armed guard because there might be a cougar somewhere in the county.” And I know there is one – possibly even more than one – and it lives right. Across. The road. Oh my god save me! *dives under the bed*
Great. Now I’ve scared myself.
124: When I was little, my Grandma told me that if you don’t jump off the escalator at the end, you’ll get sucked up. I believed her, and for years afterward always jumped off the escalator. I didn’t realize she was kidding. Obviously.
I have a lot of irrational fears. i’m afraid of:
goblets
goats
sheep (because I think they’re all goats)
the exit to the CTY cafeteria last year. fortunately, they didn’t use the same door this time….
The words acquaint, contagious, shoal, coral, pedestal, regatta, pridian, satire, catenate, gluttony, vertiginous, and gardez.
cats (that one’s not so irrational…)
I have a feeling there are others, but that’s all I can think of at the moment.
115- Welcome!!! *pies*
127-That would scare me too!!!
115-PIE!
I have to lock the car door when i get in the car because I think I’ll accidentally open the door and fall out of the car even if I’m wearing my seatbelt. I also hate sitting in the front of the car, and my parents are starting to get annoyed. I’m 14 and most of my friends would rather sit in front. I’m also afraid that the school bus will flip. I have lots of fears about cars and buses but I love rollercoasters and planes and trains. I also hate dead tadpoles. I like to catch them but if theres a dead one it freaks me out. Other dead animals aren’t so bad, but tadpoles. Ew.
115- Hello.
129- Goblits? Like the cups?
We have a huge spider and web stretched across our side-door in the garage (not to be confused with the big garage door that the cars go through, this one’s normal sized). The spider is abouta half-inch big, the web about 1 and a half feet in diameter.
He wants me to move it. I probably will, maybe to the pine tree.
Ironically, me and my mom are both short, and we walked through the door a few minutes ago and didn’t even touch the web, we walked through the only gap in it without trying. My dad however hits it every time he goes through and is amazed it hasn’t crawled into his ear.
I have…a fear of crabs and there was a beach that I went to last year with my yacht club and they all went flounder fishing and I couldnt bear it so I left, there was one of those river things that go into the sea and I had left my shoes on the other side of it, anyway, there were all these holes in the beach…FULL OF CRABS!!!!
I screamed and for some reason there were these wooden posts and I climbed up one and sat for half an hour waiting for someone to rescue me, and all the crabs were swarming every where and it was so scary and I was crying and every time the post wobbled they scuttled back into their holes
UGH I HATE THEM
:spookyeyes:
I have…a fear of crabs and there was a beach that I went to last year with my yacht club and they all went flounder fishing and I couldnt bear it so I left, there was one of those river things that go into the sea and I had left my shoes on the other side of it, anyway, there were all these holes in the beach…FULL OF CRABS!!!!
I screamed and for some reason there were these wooden posts and I climbed up one and sat for half an hour waiting for someone to rescue me, and all the crabs were swarming every where and it was so scary and I was crying and every time the post wobbled they scuttled back into their holes
UGH I HATE THEM
:bigspookyeyes:
hehehe
I posted that twice (SOOOORRRRRYYY)
Yes, you did. And then you pointlessly posted that you had, which we knew. In the future, try to say that in a post with content, please. And how did Alice’s :bigspookyeyes: fit, anyway?
I have a semi-rational fear of my laptop battery dying when I don’t have a power supply, or being banned from the computer.
136- My laptop dies frequently. Well, not dies exactly, but when I close it it turns itself off rather than goes to sleep, and it doesn’t come back on unless I press the right combination of keys.
Well, at least it comes back. When I close it, it goes to sleep just fine, but when it’s opened it sometimes comes up as a black screen with lines of colour going up and sown on it. It’s often green in the middle… Anyway, the computer doesn’t even work then, because one time I could see the mouse on the screen and couldn’t move it.
What type of computer is it?
124- i repeat….. WHERE WERE YOU IN CANADA? sorry i know thats creepy stalker ish…. i; just wondering….
136\137- kagy wishes she had a laptop…… no more getting kicked off of museblog by her brother…..
Mine’s got a broken screen, but anyway… If you get to choose one, get a macbook.
Ah! Got one. Jadestoone used to have an irrational fear of quicksand after seeing it in a movie when she was younger. Someone told her there was a hand that grabed you and pulled you down… eep.
138- Macintosh PowerBook G3. From 1999.
Okay, then it’s not meant to do that. And it’s even more ancient than mine!
136- Don’t we all, don’t we all.
I’m good at getting kicked off the computer… Gar.
I wish I had a laptop. Well, college is next year. Finally.
131~ Ia ALWAYS sit in the back seat. I love having all the spece to stretch out in, since I never have to share the seat. [I’m an only child]
When I close my laptop it “hibernates”, meaning it turns off but saves whatever I was doing last. It wakes up when I open it. Exept one time when it got all stuck and I freaked out and thought it would be dead forever. That was scary.
my friend tried to teach me to dive but i have an irrational fear of my head getting to close to the warm, soft, fuzzy, welcoming concrete pool bottom.
246~ I learned to dive in a lake, it’s not hard. it’s not irrational if the pool isn’t very deep.
I had a laptop that I had saved up for, for 3 YEARS. My parents pitched in a little bit and bought it for me for Christmas this past year, and I was totally addicted to it and loved it so much. And THEN its harddrive got messed up. *cries* So now we cant find the paperwork for somereason, and we have to do that before my mom can call the company and pitch a fit since I had only had it for like 4 months before it got screwed up. *cries* Why must I have so much computer trouble?!
146-That scares me too, I never have really been one to dive into pools.
146: Me too, although I love to swim.
I feel like I should say something else…
I don’t have a laptop.
145- Exactly. It normally “hibernates,” as you call it, but recently it’s been shutting itself off more and more often, and I’m starting to worry that I’ll lose everything one of these days.
132-Yes, like the cups. When I was little one broke while I was holding it, and i’ve been terrified of them ever since. For years i wouldn’t touch them at all, now that i’m slightly (note that it’s only very slightly)more rational, I will use them when necessary, but I’m still scared.
151- Lol. Sorry, but I find that really funny. BTW, do you know what happened to PCTYD?
146- I like diving, but you don’t have to. However, I don’t relish the idea of jumping off backwards and flipping halfway around towards the board, which I have to do next year for diving.
148- Ouch. The hard drive on this one died, but one of my dad’s friends had a brand new one. Pure luck, that.
I have an irrational fear of family reunions. *hides behind the couch* Spare me!
154-Hm, I like my family reunions. I never get to see my family, I am exaggerating, but I dont get to see them as often as I would like. They always have fun ideas of things to do up their sleeves. I dont really have any family members that pinch my cheeks or kiss me to death though, so I guess that helps make the family reunions more enjoyable. Plus, there is a chance of that cute guy coming who is from my uncles band….and there is delicous home made fattening food that I rarely get to eat since it is……not so healthy. LIke the yummy cookies, fondue, cobler, coffee cake…..*licks lips*
147- the pool was plenty deep anough for diving, and was salt water meaning that you have to work exceptionally hard to so much as brush the bottom with your finger tips. doesnt make me like the warm, soft, fuzzy, welcoming, concrete pool bottom anymore.
129 – the one about the word gardez isn’t so irrational
I am also afraid of:
Mountain Dew
the word carnassial
most words from Portuguese
Principes Trioria! screamed really loudly
155- See, our family reunions are boring because I don’t know anyone and all my cousins* are either grown-up or my sister’s age, and the food is a lot less homemade than food here at home. This family reunion is going to be different, though, because it’s a different branch of the family, and because the only reason my Aunt (pronounced Awnt) made my mother go is so that the whole family could see me and my sister and comment on how we have grown since I was two days old. Grrrr.
*I only have one first cousin. She’s grown-up.
152-More or less. I think there were too many people on, and it couldn’t handle it or something….there’s an announcement on RealCTY that it should be back around monday-ish. (sorry everyone, I know this is irrelevant.)
157-No, I guess it’s not. Though some people would say that it’s irrational to fear everything related to it, like chess, French, silent letters….
Why don’t you like Portuguese?
I just thought of another fear: The sound of the bell. Those annoying little round ones that make that ding! that has made so many spellers miserable….in the last two days of May I heard that bell about 100 times, and winced at every single one of them. It is not a good thing to hear. i guess you could say that this isn’t irrational either, it’s just another thing I’m terrified of….
159- That noise sort of freaks me out too, and I’m on the other side of the screen. ‘Tis frightull. Especially the wait…
Two irrational fears I am plagued with-
-Wet basketballs
-Dead bugs*
*Not alive ones, though.
158-oh, that stinks!!!
153~ My grandpa tried to teach me how to do a backdive last summer. This brings to mind that another irrational fear of mine is…BACKDIVES! Heh, pathetic, I am.
158~ I watched Robert Moderate that post!!!! Okay, sorry.
My Family reunions are okay. Not really too much fun though, sinct to the vast majority of my family (mom’s and dad’s sides) I don’t exsist. All my cousins on my dad’s side are older, and most are really boring or rude. Except for one cousin who in the past couple years has become very cool.
Then on my Mom’s side we have the cousin from h**l, who can do no wrong, and, of corse, I can do no right. Blegh, you can see where this is going….
Irrational fear- making a complete fool of myself in front of the general public because there is a spider on my leg. Oh, wait. Nevermind. Not so irrational…XD
163- Oh yeah, I hate back-dives too.
Last night I had a dream that a spider got stuck on my face and no one would help me get it off, that is my new irrational fear, even though it is pretty pathetic.
164~ I can make a fool out of myself in front of the general public without the addition of a spider, mostly just being myself freaks people out enough…..
I get stage fright and I’m shy. I’m alwas afraid that I’ll forget everything I wanted to say as soon as I start to talk. It hapens sometimes, but I’m still afraid of it.
167- most people have some form of stage fright. i freely admit to being a theater person, but that doesn’t mean i don’t get nervous before preformances… but then the curtain opens and the show begins……. like i said, i’m a theater person.
its still a very very very very rational fear.
I have a fear of extemporaneous speaking…
168-I am a theater person too. I always freak before the recital (part of that is becuase my crushes sister is always in it) but then once I get on stage it is great. I love being on stage once I get there. But in my first recital I came on stage, started crying, ran over to my mom (she is my dance teacher, and comes on stage with the little kids so they can watch) and made her pick me up. So she danced while holding me. And then another girl started crying and ran over to my mom. So she was dancing holding me, and holding the other girls hand. It was quite humerous.
170- that sounds rather humourous. do you just do straight dance? also, what kind?
171-Yes, we just do all dance in our recitals, but there is a little bit of narration. I take ballet, pointe, tap, jazz, modern, and jumps&turns. But I take more than one ballet and pointe class. In the first recital when we are little we only do 1 ballet, 1 tap, and 1 tumbling.
I’m afraid of the phone…mostly leaving messages, but still. And I guess that’s kind of expected of someone who spends their live on the computer, talking to people they don’t necessarily know…
I’m also deathly afraid of cameras, which is bad, because my friend is shutter-happy and always manages to fit me into pictures, even when I try to hide. Thus, I opt for the edge of the frame. But I seriously RUN AND HIDE if she has a camera out. I kid you not.
I’m actually not that bad with stage fright and public speaking…which I guess totally juxtaposes with my social anxiety, but hey.
161– I like your irrational fear of wet basketballs. It amuses me, somehow XD
I have a irrational fear of needles. Like, not sewing needles but shot needles. I think that might be common though. Also I’m scared of bees and some types of spiders. Depends on where the spiders are, really. I couldn’t care less if the spider was just in some corner but if I am close to it.. eugh. Not sure if that’s rational or not though.
I have an irrational fear of never meeting NIck Jonas….ever.
What’s stupid about my stage fright is that I’m a total show off. At my last recital, I was the least scared person there, but when I was playing music, I suddenly got extremly terrifed. Weird, usually it happens in reverse.
173~ I hate having my picture taken. Unfortunately, since I volunteer at Jamestown Settlement as a costumed interpreter, people are always taking my picture. I have to remind myself that the’re taking pictures of the clothes, not me…..
I am afraid of japanese beetles. If one is in my room I will scream. The reason this is irrational is because I am not afraid of any other bug that I know of.
Is that classified as irrational???
173- I don’t like cameras either. I always look so stupid in them. Of course, that could be because I normally look stupid.
173- Me too. (Cameras and phones.)
Cmeras are not my friends. In time I have grown to face the fact that no technology will willingly cooperate for me. (I have to bribe the computer to go on MB, of course…) But I do not enjoy cameras at all.
I took tap at camp for the first time since the age of six-it was rather difficult!
I don’t mind public speaking to a lot of people, once I’ve sort of started, and everything is going well. Because I guess I like talking at people, and not talking with them…
I’m normally quiet and introverted, but I do go to drama club. I havn’t really acted on stage a lot, I narated a mini-play my friends did for the Holliday thing, and it wasn’t to bad. I do tech more though.
i like acting better then tech
159 – I am afraid of the bell too. In fact, I was terrified every time I took the elevator in that hotel, because it made the exact same dinging sound as the bell when it arrived at your floor.
Words from Portuguese have weird spellings, especially if they came from Tupi before going into Portuguese. Words like ynambu, ainhum, and muirapiranga scare me.
omg were u in the spelling bee
A 5th grader won the middle school spelling bee this year, to which I say “I am not smarter than a 5th grader”. I forget what word I got out on. Somebody got ludicrious, and spelled it like the rapper Ludacris. That was a funny one.
I’m claustrophobic, just not the crowds type. I like crowds X) Has anyone ever been to MOSI? they had these tunnels that were supposed to be like tunnels in caves…and I couldn’t go in them. AT ALL. Totally freaked me out, thought I was going to get stuck. Any space where I can’t get back out scares the crap out of me O.O Especially if my head is pointing down.
another thing is…balloons in my closet. *shudder* If you turn the fan on and only close one door of the closet, THEY WILL COME OUT AND GO TOWARDS THE FAN!!!!!!!!! *screams* XD it’s so freaky
43- OMG! XDD Alice, that’s such a coincidence, my friend and I were just talking about being afraid of talking to people today. We’re both shy, but you would never know it from seeing us talking XD we barely knew that the other of us was shy.
Anyways, we made a deal that we both :
a) couldn’t read at school for the whole first week (we’re starting high school, a very important time to talk to people XD)
b) had to talk to two different people we don’t know and at least one person we didn’t know at all each day for the first three days, and
c) we had to initiate the conversation with one of those people per day
much fun!
186-I am claustraphobic too, it stinks, because in St. Louis there is a place called the city museum where it is decorated really awesomely with all kinds of stuff that everyone climbs on and slides on and crawls inside and stuff. It isnt a museum at all. But there are so many places to crawl in, that it stinks since I cant go. The rest is fun though!
I have an irrational fear of people. In a crowd, or talking to them. And I have discovered that it isn’t just talking to people I don’t know. It’s talking to ANYONE. This is a problem.
186- I may just try that list.
I believe this thread has been on one subject for far too long. How about nervous habits?
When I’m nerve-wrackingly nervous, like before a big audition or a performance, I organize things. And considering I am one of the messiest people you’ll ever meet, this is quite extraordinairy. Like, before auditions for The Wiz, which were almost immediately after my last period (which happened to be in my theatre teacher’s room that day; theoretically, the class was Visual Art, but they somehow got mixed so I ended up getting a double-dose of drama every other day), I was straightening up her desparately sloppy costume/prop backroom, and I was hardly talking to anyone, just folding dresses and categorizing props into neat little boxes. I don’t get nervous in my room much, as you’ll see if you ever step in…
Anyway, what’re everyone else’s nervous habits? I’ve known people who bake, people who dance, people who throw balls really hard in PE (ouch, thanks to Paul being nervous about his strings concert, I almost got concussed in dodgeball)… the list goes on. But I want to hear from the MBers.
It depends. I tend to get up really early when I’m nervous, and wander around the house trying not to seem as aimless as I am. When I’m reciting, nothing is safe. If I have a hair-tie or a bracelet around my wrist, I twist it. When I was younger I would chew on the end of my sash. I think there are other things, too, but can’t remember what they are right now.
I chew on my lip when I am nervous, which isnt good. I also start doing rifs from tap class, or I put my hands behind my back.
190-I tend to wake up early too, like on the first day of school I will wake up at like 5, and have tons of time to get ready, but will still be freaking out. And I also wonder aimlessly.
I play with the end of my shirt, bite the insides of my cheeks, and crack my knuckles. I hate waking up early most of the time but if I have to be somewhere I’ll get up early because I hate being rushed in the morning. I also hum, like if I’m getting a shot I’ll do this really high pitched hum from when I get into the room until I get the shot. I’m not afraid of needles, but I hate syringes.
This guy in my English class whom we call JM has OCD, tics (like tourettes but not as bad), and some unprounouncable thing with his legs. For the OCD he has to have everything even with people touching him, so if someone taps his shoulder he has to tap his other shoulder. For tics he squints and shrugs his shoulders, but you’d never notice if you weren’t looking for it to happen.
When I’m nevous I pace back and forth and, if that should fail, I talk incessantly about completely random things. Also, I’ll wring my hands if I’m really, really nervous. I think that’s all.
When I’m nervous, but also when I’m studying late at night and trying not to fall asleep and things like that, I pull on my hair. And eyebrows. I probably should stop doing it.
I fidget, pace, and look around a lot like I’m paranoid…during camp, my nervous habit usually is shuffling a deck of cards, since I’ll always have one nearby…
I tug on the bottom of my shirt or if I’m wearing a necklace, I play with it. Not so much when I’m getting ready to give a presentation or something, but when I’m talking to someone and I don’t quite know what to say, like if it’s someone I’ve just met or a guy I like
I used to bite my pens/pencils in class constantly, but I made myself stop because that’s just kind of nasty. Now I bite my nails. Which isn’t that much better, but whatever.
HI :twisid:
I bite my toe nails
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pie me nowww
Dracasting, you’re on the wrong thread. I’m not going to moderate any more off-topic posts. Welcome back, but take it to the random thread or somewhere else, please.
194- Me too. Especially on the bottom-back of my head…after pushing my hair back.
I crack my knuckles a lot, too, or play with whatever I’m holding.
I mumble and get really awkward or get annoyingly loud and do something stupid. One of the other. I don’t like being nervous.
I chew on my hair. It’s a bad habit, that I had broken for a while, but it seems to have come back. *glares at hair*
When I’m nervous, I always play with my earrings, which is probably why they break so often. I also fidget with my Claddagh (I can’t remember if I spelled that right) ring, and find things to do (Like tying a shoe, or fixing my ponytail) so it makes it look like I’m not nervous. But I think that just makes me look scared-er.
I play with the hem of my shirt a lot, usually twisting it or something – and I tap my fingers on the table.
I always have to be doing something with my hands, though, even when I’m not nervous. I don’t know why, but they always like to be occupied.
I always itch. Everywhere. It looks really awkward. *shudders*
I twirl my pencil between my fingers.
Rolling my thumb around its socket, and talking too much.
I usually click my teeth together in time to Irish dances tat I play on my fiddle, chew on the inside of my mouth, pick at my face (very unatractive), lick my lips, look around, say umm a lot, make weird noise when I try to talk instead of actual intelligible words. I also stutter and repeat myself, if I’m talking. Or forget what I was going to say. I hate it, I feel like such an idiot hen that happens….
204~ Yeah, I get that too. I star to itch in places where…lets say it’s hard to itch in public. Very, very
I usually start playing with my hair, but I have gotten better at not doing this. I guess that spelling bees make you nervous.
Nervous habits…I bite my retainer, and part of it finally chipped off today. -___-;;;
202- Yeah, I twist my earrings. Might explain why my ears never healed properly…
203- Me too, sort of. I can’t just let my hands be idle. I pick at the grass a lot while I’m reading.
Whenever the dog starts shedding I start almost unconciously yanking it out from under the top coat. o-o I have no idea why.
I have a really bad habit of biting my nails. A lot. My nails can tell you. They are magical talking nails. Yes, they will tell you all the horrible,horrible nail biting tales. All about those math tests and…urgh.
47- hahaha… Raptors! aaah! must. not. have. picture. windows.
…ah xkcd…
and. My driveway isn’t even 50ft. it’s about oh, ten or so. Where do you live? I live somewhere fairly urban. Are you in the country or are you suburban?
181- I like tech better too!
192- When I get shots I read a book to distract myself from the shot getting.
I don’t know if it’s really a nervous habit but I play with my earrings or my necklace if I’m wearing one.
214- It’s sort of urban, but where we live is rathe rural. Our house isn’t really in one of the new subdivion things, it was built before that. Technically we’re not even in the township but are sort of surrounded by it, which basically means we don’t get snowplows.
And oh yeah, try shoveling that driveway. By hand.
214-good idea about the shots, if I get engrossed in Harry Potter maybe I wont notice…..
I tap my foot alot, and when I am nervous while I am at the grocery store I do rifs from tap class down the isles. People stare at me, but its fun to be weird in public, being normal isnt fun for me…
216: i do that too! ha ha ha!
but i do tap steps in the air next to my side with my fingers………..
lotsa fun!
it looks stupid but it’s fun!
sorry about my name back there!
217-Yep!!!
I get all shy and can’t meet anyone’s eyes. I don’t know why, but it happens a lot. And NOT because I’m telling lies!!!
220-I don’t like meeting people’s eyes. My English teacher always yelled at me for that when we’re giving speeches, but I have the biggest pet peeve about that. Unless I’m trying to seem angry or dating someone I don’t like to look them in the eyes.
I also have a pet peeve about the word rude. I’m fine with impolite but I hate the word rude. It just sounds like it should be a bad word.
What pet peeves do other people have?
DOUBLE NEGATIVES!!!!!!!!!!!
Maybe that should be on the “English As she Is Spoke” thread…. But I hate it when people use them. Grrr.
i pick/bite my nails and pick at pimples, although i’ve gotten a bit better about that. (mainly because there aren’t as many left to pick at) A lot of times it’s completely unconscious, and i don’t really notice until the nervousness has passed
pet peeves? preps. and stupid people. i know i shouldn’t dislike people just because they’re not as intelligent, but i really, really dislike having to spell everything out. and arrogant jerks who think they’re so cool they don’t even need to be concerned about cool because they have this inherent coolness that will make everything they do automatically cool. I especially hate it when they’re wrong about themselves, although it is more amusing.
223/224-I pick pimples a lot.I have them on my arms and it always makes these little red marks and people look at me weird like I shoot up drugs. Grr. Preps are ok sometimes. I don’t mind stupid people as long as they try to be smart, but if they’re just lazy I hate it. I hate when people think I’m a “bad influence” because I wear “gothic clothes”. I don’t consider myself goth, and I get good grades and don’t get in trouble and stuff. Anyway I’m going to say something else before I get on a rant for 2 hours.
I can’t stand fingers bleeding. In the movie Labyrinth of the Faun, the part that creeps me out the most is when Ofelia bites her finger to give the root blood. If she made her lip or the back of her knuckle bleed, it would have been fine, but I can’t stand bloody fingers. I also can’t stand seeing animals bleed or seeing their blood in the meat (that’s why i don’t eat beef). I’m not afraid of human blood though.
I fiddle with leaves.
I pick at pimples too. Blegh.
Hmm, that can be another peeve of mine, pimples.
Pimples = ick. I don’t pick at them though. It hurts too much.
I sometimes pick at pimples. Mostly what I do is fiddle–with anything.
I usually just fiddle with my violin!
haha, that was a good one
I fiddle with my lips while I’m deeply engrossed in a good book. Either that, I play with my ears…or if I’m being exceptionally naughty I’ll pick pimples and then yell at myself when I realize what I have been doing! Oops, that wasn’t something I do when I’m nervous…sorry.
When I’m nervous I am silent. Very silent. And when I am not nervous I am very, very, very loud and talkative.
Iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii’m Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack! Muahahahaha!
I fiddle with my lips sometimes too. I try not to chew on tem, because that usually ends up painfull, but I do a bit. I pick at pimples sometimes, but, fortunatly, my complexion is getting better again… it was clear for most of them summer, but last week it got worse, and schools starting soon.
Hey, I’m already in school, and it’s abroad, for pete’s sake. I know that sounds like I’m not enjoying it, but I actually am.
I have no nevous habits
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I am soooo sorry if this gets posted twice, the computer did something funny… but here it is:
My biggest nervous habit is picking at the sides (around the nail) or my fingers, my thumbs, mostly. I sometimes pick so much they bleed, and if I don’t realize it, it gets on my hands and then I realize it!!! Another habit (though not nervous) is: when I read, including at school, I rock back and forth a little bit. I really do not know why. I think it’s funny, though.