How Deep is Your Eccentricity?
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Lately I am having to park dead straight on my driveway.
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When I eat Skittles, I eat them one color at a time, in ROYGBIV order. Oh, and in groups of four Skittles at a time.
omg. when i was about 14/15 at a church camp. this chick i knew would only eat blue M&Ms. i don't know why because they're all chocolates in different colours rather than different flavours like skittles..
You're fucked up…..
I know, right? That’s not multiplication, just adding 2 instead of 1!
hahaha well it goes 2,4,6,8,10,12,14,16.. and some times i get distracted and forget what number i get too..
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When I eat Skittles, I eat them one color at a time, in ROYGBIV order. Oh, and in groups of four Skittles at a time.
So you…mix flavors? ??? ??? :o
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Mix flavors? What kind of an animal do you think I am?
It's four reds at a time until they're gone, then four orange, etc., etc…
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I do this with pretty much every candy I eat (most notably Sour Patch Kids or Gold Bears), except I just eat em in order of preference. It does shift, but the one thing for sure is that I'll always eat orange SPKs last
My big one is that I have to put my left shoe on first. I remember hearing when I was a kid that some baseball player did it for good luck (as they all do via various superstitious methods), and my brain was just like "Yes. I'll do that." Now, 30ish years later, I literally can't do it any other way. The few times I've caught myself putting on a shoe with the right foot, I stop and do it "correctly," haha…
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Not that I'm big on candy, but red+purple Skittle "sandwiches" are palatable.
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First, what a relief to know that everyone else is nuts too. I could have my own private forum to list all of my eccentricities. My wife calls it "hoarding," I call it "archiving." She calls it "neurotic," I call it "eccentric." So right there, did you see? I MUST put the commas and periods inside the parentheses and, furthermore, I must use the Oxford comma (that's the one that goes before the "and" in any proper list.) (<–-and that's the proper place for the period inside the parentheses.) Shall I go on?
Also, very, very well-made things. Japanese national treasure traditions, bespoke Saville Row, boutique brewed IPAs, you name it. I don't need to own these things but I do need to obsess over them. Shall we add boots, jeans, leather jackets, and bicycles, especially older classic race bikes from 1940-1980? Books. I'm a Sanskrit professor who teaches Hinduism and Buddhism, works in Classics too: I love old dictionaries, smelly old books from India (the bindings, the paper), and reprints from Japan. Put the utter chaos of India next to the perfect order of Japan and that pretty much describes my "eccentricity."
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@profdbrk …...I was listening to Gyles Brandreth on BBC Radio London this morning, he has a new book out and was talking about the Oxford comma. Very interesting.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/oct/10/have-you-eaten-grandma-gyles-brandreth-review
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That's a fine piece, @bryaneidins70. I lament two features of Mr. Poole's article. First, he writes that he took up his mechanical pencil to festoon his margins. Sigh. Any proper obsessive uses a #2 wooden pencil and while this is not rocket science or Sanskrit, one might look to the Japanese made Mitsubishi HB 9852 or others from Staedtler, Tombow, or Uni. (<–-N.B, proper Oxford comma.) We Americans are good at pencils too, as well as the aforementioned IPAs mentioned in the previous post. Look here:http://nymag.com/strategist/article/best-pencils-for-students.html for an article about finding a felicitous pencil. Once we have that eccentricity under management what you really need is a proper pen knife, the sort that allows you to sharpen your own wooden pencils again and again by hand in between composing sentences. This is particularly helpful if you are translating Sanskrit or Greek and thinking about what the words could mean. 'Gives you a moment to pause and obsess.
In addition, I cannot share Mr. Poole's lament over what he deems Mr. Brandreth's "political correctness." He writes quoting, “The Brandreth Rule is simple: at all times avoid racist, sexist, homophobic, and transphobic language – and, when in doubt, err on the side of sensitivity. In my book, bigoted language, and language that can be perceived as bigoted, is bad language […] Good communication is about courtesy and kindness as well as clarity and getting your message across,” and thinks Brandreth has gone a step too far. But I demur. All constructive communication is alert to others' receptivities; to wit, be polite, make your point without ad hominem defamation, and expunge the tawdry codes meant to incite or elicit reaction. If anyone needs a good example of ever-proper decorum, one need only have received an email from Iron Heart. Our hosts know from civility without ever making it look like an effort. Now that's eccentricity worth keeping around.
