What’s something you do that would make other people think WTF?
I don’t change my clocks for daylight saving time and live on permanent winter time all year, and just do the conversion in my head when dealing with the outside world.
For some reason this really confuses some people and I get all kinds of questions about it whenever the clocks change.
I think it’s perfectly reasonable and think people setting their clocks to the wrong time for half the year is strange.
I think you inspired me. Maybe I will try this next year too. My job allows me to do so, so why not
Go full on anarchy. When the clocks go back, you put your clocks one hour forward.
That would make me kind of proud!
When I mention that I want to try bikepacking/biketouring and mention my bucketlist route around europe (each EU country and capital string together). Peple look at me like I am ready for madhouse room.
Hell yes. I’ve been wanting to bikepack across New England
I need at least 3 pillows for sleeping comfortably. Doesn’t matter if I even actually touch them, but I do need them just in case. One primary chonky one, and 2 slimmer ones to adjust height and etc.
I lay my pillows all around me and sleep like a baby
I like that, but I prefer brie+blueberries, which is not weird for some reason.
It’s really good, strong cheese with jam is a popular side dish in some places. I would also recommend goat cheese with honey
I don’t think I’ll like it, but I really want to try this combo now! How did you come across this?
Grapes, sharp white cheddar, and crackers are delicious together, so I could see this being good
strawberries and Beecher’s Flagship Reserve Cheese. it’s like fireworks for tastebuds.
Cheddar is also good with peanut butter!
Try it with a salty white cheese like feta. Just crumble the cheese. Trust me, it’s delicious.
I also recommend tomato, onion and peanut butter (the sweetener-free version, a yank offered me a foul sweetened version of peanut butter and I now specify the one made exclusively of peanuts)
And cheese-and-honey is a not unusual school lunch sandwich option here in Australia. But then, so is cheese and vegemite.
Uhm, I really like laying on the floor with the largest bag of cat food/litter/dried corn/rice that I have available on my head.
Does the cat food/litter/dried corn/rice matter or anything that matches that consistency?
Pretty much anything that is heavy and malleable. We have a weighted blanket that I sometimes use but it’s not really heavy enough for my liking sometimes. The cat food/dog food didn’t always work because sometimes the bag is semi-permeable and you can smell the food.
In order of preference it is probably soil (loam or aquarium), Rice, and then sand.
I see.
I brush my teeth in bed and swallow the toothpaste at the end. According to the chemical fact sheet swallowing my toothpaste is well within osha defined limits for sodium flouride, and people who live in places with naturally more fluoridated water than where I am are exposed for far more than I am. so I really don’t think there is any health concern. I have been doing it for a decade now and I have no symptoms of over exposure. I find it greatly helps me fall asleep if I don’t have to get out of bed to brush.
For anyone curious, toothpaste has 1,000 to 1,500 ppm fluoride and tap water typically has ~1 ppm or less. Assuming OP swallowed a pea sized quantity of toothpaste (which is the reccommended amount for brushing) the amount of fluoride in that toothpaste would be about equivalent to drinking a cup of tap water.
pea sized quantity of toothpaste
lol and q-tips are only used on the outside of the ear. mmhmmm.
Get out of bed to brush? Why not just brush before you even get to bed?
Look, with your level of logical thinking I don’t know if this is the right thread for you
That….doesn’t seem like a high bar
I like a cup of tea (nothing caffienated) / hotchocolate before bed.
I meticulously eat all the whites off my fried eggs then shove the intact yolk into my mouth. Mostly because I hate yolking the other food on the plate and fried eggs are best hot. I have converted my husband. Everyone else seems to think it’s weird.
Yes yes yes! I knew I wasn’t alone! We can start our own community now!
Mostly because I hate yolking the other food on the plate
I’m the opposite then, I guess. I don’t need ketchup for my fries if I have egg yolk is all I’m gonna say.
No way, I do the exact same thing! My husband thinks it’s cute but still prefers his eggs scrambled.
What is the eye of the bacon?
I do this to not waste even a drop of the precious liquid flavor gold that are egg yolks.
I do this but eat the intact and nearly raw yolk first. Then maybe I’ll eat the pedestrian whites with lots of Parmesan and butter.
Yolk gang!
Thank God I’m not the only one who does this. I want to eat all the yolk, thank you very much. The stuff left on the plate is a waste.
There are dozens of us!
Eat fries first, main dish later, always. Good reason though: usually the main dish holds heat much longer than fries do, and it probably won’t get as gross as fries do.
Cold fries are tasteless and soggy. A warm burger is still good.
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I always start with veg, then meat, then carbs my beloved.
Same reason I save my roast broccoli for last
Everyone knows you eat the fries in the car on the way
to drop off the door dash. you meant. I think.
That’s compelling logic.
Masturbate 1 to 3 times a day. Sometimes with, sometimes without porn or erotic fiction. Wife doesn’t know. She’s not interested in sex. I’m 58.
Not strange. A lot of men do it. No one is ready to accept in public especially when they are in a relationship.
I’ll one-up you, and I hope nobody I know reads this. I work from home as a web dev. I have ADHD. I sometimes work deep into the night because I procrastinate all day. I’ll be working with one hand and stroking it rock hard with another, with no real horniness or need to cum for hours. It’s just like a fidgeting thing. I’m looking at code, sleep deprived out of my mind, and somehow rock hard. I don’t get it, but I’m too stressed to care.
I also (very likely) have ADHD and used to do this when doing homework for school. I think it has something to do with keeping dopamine levels up to a neurotypical level, in order to be able to focus.
You do you.
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When I type on the keyboard I often always type F at the end and immediately backspace. I don’t understand why I do it and I can’t stop doing it.
If it really bothers you, every time you realise you did this, delete the previous word before the F and retype it, maybe even a few times, while paying attention to every movement. Slowing down helps too.
cI used to start messages with ‘c’ because I learned to type by playing Minecraft and had rebound the chat button to C.
I often do the same, but with “/”.
Did you used to press / and then backspace to chat, or did you just send commands more often than messages?
Definitely more commands, but at least seding a message with / doesn’t expose my mistake. :p
I do the same thing with a space.
I have no idea why I do that and when I started
Space is for the spell checker to run on the last word.
I have
ctrl+sas a unavoidable muscle memory.Mine is ctrl+shift+s, because it saves an incremental version. This way, if the client says “Actually I preferred the bassline an hour ago, can we go back?” I can say “sure, no problem!”.
It also protects in case the file is corrupted. I know so many people who just save over the same file and it always amazes me.
I save a hundred times every 5 min. I never thought about creating 100 different files for it.
Whatever app you’re using, check the shortcuts list and see if there’s one for incremental save… it may just save you from losing many hours of work one day! Once your brain gets over the hump of adjusting the ctrl+s reflex, of course :)
Once after a particularly long and gruelling session, I tried to ctrl+shift+s a film I was watching haha.
This is wild I picked up this quirk like 4 years ago, F key even. I code so a lot of the times I’m already ending something with a semicolon, but then the line gets an extra temporary F just to be sure
I shave the parts of my chest within 10cm of my nipples, so that suction toys stay on properly.
If I have just about any kind of bread, I have an irresistible urge to dip it in liquid. Specifically, chocolate milk, apple juice, or certain types of soup. Peanut butter sandwiches too, but not in soup lol. Well, maybe?
It started in kindergarten. Every morning I’d eat breakfast at school: chocolate milk, cereal, and a biscuit. Chocolate milk goes in the cereal, eat cereal, then dip the biscuit in the milk in the bowl. This continued through fifth grade. I was pretty anti-social to begin with, but this weird quirk scared away any would-be friend who tried to sit with me. Heh.
Never grew out of it though. Now I just do it when nobody’s looking. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Try that on some olive oil!
Nothing to add, just wanted to say @Rocky60@lemm.ee this is an excellent post!
I love opening Memmy and seeing that I’ve got more replies to this post. I’m surprised people opened up as much as they have
Got to love the anonymity of the internet ey!
According to my husband and all my friends, the weirdest thing about me is my name for a sandwich.
Apparently, everyone else calls it a ‘grilled cheese’. I have always called it by it’s proper name, a ‘toasted cheese’.
If you make it in a panini press, then it is a grilled cheese. But if you make a sandwich by buttering each side and toasting it in a pan on the stove until the cheese melts, then it is a toasted cheese. But every time I say ‘toasted cheese’, people look at me as though I have grown another head.
Not really? I actually get confused if people use mixed up idioms or other weird turns of phrase. It is really only this food item in particular.
But, you don’t “toast” anything in a pan. Toasting is done in an oven/broiler type fashion (counter-top work essentially the same way), often with a grill either horizontally or vertically involved. I guess if you want to get technical about a pan-done cheese sandwich, it would be a pan-fried-cheese? Like pan fried vegetables?
When recipes call for you to cook an item in a pan without first adding oil, they say to toast it to indicate that you are applying dry heat to it. For example, most Indian recipes call for toasting whole spices in a dry pan before grinding. That is also why you can toast marshmallows over an open flame.
Bruh you just blue my mined
Edit: but you said butter it first, is that not oil?
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It is pretty weird to eat raw bread
Fresh bread is one of my favourite things in life! My dad used to get a fresh french baguette when we went grocery shopping and he and I would just eat the whole thing in the car on our way home. Lately I’ve been eating warmed (but not toasted) crusty buns with hummus. I only toast bread when it’s starting to get stale.
I grew up in the Midwest and we call them toasted cheese. In my family, it kind of morphed into 1 word though-- toastacheese
I still have what many people call my commonwealth influence and so I have a lot of names for things that people don’t understand. Chips instead of french fries, shrimp (prawn) on the barbie, etc. Some friends asked if I wanted to see the Barbie movie and I jokingly asked if they’d serve shrimp instead of popcorn, and their utter confusion sent the message clear they didn’t get it. Yup, I’m the weird one :(
That said, by now my vocabulary is somewhat hybridized.
Related to this, one of the weirdest things I do is how I like many of my foods. People are weirded out because I like… my toast to be soft… my ice cream to be half melted… my steak to be mooing (back when I active partook in that; I don’t really anymore)… my tootsie pops to be eaten in one bite… my cereal poured after my milk… my pizza with pineapple on it… my milk with ice in it… etc.
That last paragraph made irrationally angry lol.
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I also like my ice cream to be soup lol! Pineapple on pizza is okay, but I can only have small amounts of pineapple. The rest are odd, but at least you know what you like!
Pineapple on pizza is okay, but I can only have small amounts of pineapple.
Allergy or something else?
It just irritates my mouth. May be oral allergy or just a reaction to the enzymes in the pineapple. It isn’t as bad as my reaction to wine and vinegar though, so I have to see more specialists to figure that out lol.
Cheese toasty.
That’s the one. Never heard it called anything else here in New Zealand
I had a friend growing up that called them cheese toasties
Oklahoma, USA- they are grilled cheezies. I can’t call them anything else. YOU are my people.
That’s what they’re called from now on, I don’t care what anyone says.
I want a Griddle Fatwich now.
No, we grew up in the same region of the same state and haven’t moved from there. Most of our friends are native to the region as well. I have no idea why I call it something different, it is the term I have used all my life. Even my sister calls it a ‘grilled cheese’!
the only reason to call it that is to correct others on trivial bullshit.
Overthink everything
The WTF part of that for me is thinking that is strange.
My estimate would be that 20% of the population do that regularly and 80% have done it a some period in their lives.
I tend to do that also. It makes me horrible at logistics and I also consider myself a horrible driver because I expect everyone to hit me.
