Little quirks/obsessions you have

[Babayaro.]

An icebreaker at an Autism training day I was at today made me create this thread. Basically, we were to say what obsessions we have/things that we always do.


So what's yours?


Mine is that nine times out of ten I always have to check the year a song I just listened to/film I watched was released. And I have a thing about ages, like if I'm reading about a celebrity I will always have to google how old they are lmao.

[Liam-]

The obligatory volume having to be on an even number thing and I can’t eat a meal with a knife and fork that don’t match, I just can’t do it.

[LaLaLand]

Before I go to bed at night, I turn off all of the plugs and lights and my laptop etc and then stand by the door and go around each one mouthing "OFF" in like a tune, there's eight things so I basically stand there going "offoffoff-off-off-offOFF" in the dark like a loon! :laugh2:

But, better than my house burning down I suppose eh!?

[Babayaro.]

Before I go to bed at night, I turn off all of the plugs and lights and my laptop etc and then stand by the door and go around each one mouthing "OFF" in like a tune, there's eight things so I basically stand there going "offoffoff-off-off-offOFF" in the dark like a loon! :laugh2:

But, better than my house burning down I suppose eh!?

:joker::joker:

[y.winter]

People will find it weird but I listen to music in monthly playlists. I have a playlist for each month (filled with songs that I've been listening to in the respective month throughout the years), and I only listen to the current month's playlist.
I associate songs with time of the year/seasons/memories and it feels very appropriate doing it like that lol (and it does make you miss the songs and love them even more each year). Yeah, it's that terrible :skull:

[Ant.]

I constantly do reality checks to ensure I'm still 'here' and make sure I can think properly

Just little things like checking the time, counting my fingers, saying my birthday and saying where I am

[Matthew.]

The volume HAS to be divisible by 5!

[LaLaLand]

ALSO omg

You know when you get up in the morning and then like sort your bed out, I just shake my duvet and put it back over to cover the bed, you know the little kinks in the duvet material? I have to put my finger in them and like "push them down flat" like I'm popping them, and could honestly stay there for hours doing it! :laugh2:

This is my heaven... Phwoar! :laugh2: :

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[Epic.]

Before I go to bed at night, I turn off all of the plugs and lights and my laptop etc and then stand by the door and go around each one mouthing "OFF" in like a tune, there's eight things so I basically stand there going "offoffoff-off-off-offOFF" in the dark like a loon! :laugh2:

Still makes more impact than the volume of BBUK crowd chants

[Gusto Brunt]

I always wear a hat, even indoors.

And yes I have all my hair but people think I am hiding baldness. :D

[Strictly Jake]

I'm obsessed with making playlists for party's I never even plan on arranging. It's something I have done ever since I was a kid, in the days of making cds, bear in mind you could buy packs of 100 blank cds I would go through them in about a month making party play lists. Didn't even listen to them. Now I have Spotify I do it on that but I usually make seasonal play lists now like summer 2018 autumn 2018 etc
Also if I'm going to travel somewhere that is an hour away or more I panic if I haven't made a play list for it

Never even realised how odd that all is until now

But what it has left me with is a vast knowledge of music I'm very good at identifying a year a song was released etc

I used to collect all the now cds. I stopped at now 90 so every song before that I could identify for ages what now album it was on which Cd it was on whether it was the first or second I would be able to tell you what number track it was and which track was before and after it and for a long time I was obsessed with making playlists for the next now album up to the point I could fill a whole pad full of different drafts of it

I also have a strangely accurate memory when it comes to the x factor I can remember every detail. Less so nowadays as don't have a lot of care for it so not sure on 2015 to 2018 but the years before I remember every detail

I'm very strange just realised that!!

[LemonJam]

I subconsciously count how many stairs I've climbed.

[Crimson Dynamo]

so many things. At uni there was a triangular shortcut of 20 yards to the main building, i never used it for 4 years preferring to go square and around (no one else did) and by never i mean never.

I never ate sweets or chocolate for 10 years (with no slips) for no reason.

Every time a finish a long car journey I squeeze the car wheel and say thanks to the car.

I say the same small poem in my head every night before going to sleep and have done so since 1999.

etc

[Niamh.]

I always forget whether I turned the heater off at work or my hair straightener off at home so I have to do something different each time I turn them off so that when I leave and get that panic of "Did I turn the heater off?" I remember that I knocked on the wall or said out loud turning it off etc etc

[Livia]

I count everything.

[Niamh.]

I count everything.

I really hate counting, stock takes are literally my least favourite thing ever :laugh:

[Alf]

I always wear a hat, even indoors.

And yes I have all my hair but people think I am hiding baldness. :DYou will go bold if you constantly wear a hat.If you cover grass up and it gets no rain and sun on it, it dies, I'd imagine it's the same with hair.

[Moniqua]

I always wrap t-shirts around my head to make it look like I'm wearing a headscarf :shrug:

[Crimson Dynamo]

I really hate counting, stock takes are literally my least favourite thing ever :laugh:

how many have you done in the last 5 years?

[Livia]

I really hate counting, stock takes are literally my least favourite thing ever :laugh:

I'm do them for you!

Now we just have to find something I hate that you like doing....

[Niamh.]

how many have you done in the last 5 years?

5

[Jay28jay2]

Penny collecting. Just exchanged £101.04 worth of them the other week!

[Cal.]

I play with my ear

[Niamh.]

I play with my ear

Chess?

[Cherie]

I can't think of any :suspect: except the or where you wonder if you have left the hair straightners or the iron on...

[Gusto Brunt]

You will go bold if you constantly wear a hat.If you cover grass up and it gets no rain and sun on it, it dies, I'd imagine it's the same with hair.

:joker: Advice noted. :)

[RileyH]

I always wrap t-shirts around my head to make it look like I'm wearing a headscarf :shrug:

Weirdo

[Moniqua]

Weirdo

fook OFF or ah'll get you banned! :fist:

[Twosugars]

Always have a selection of three drinks on the go: tea (with lemon, no milk), coffee and water. Take sips of each as required.
That's bc I'm equally happy with hot or cold tea and coffee and I like to have a choice at all times.

[Marsh.]

Before I go to bed at night, I turn off all of the plugs and lights and my laptop etc and then stand by the door and go around each one mouthing "OFF" in like a tune, there's eight things so I basically stand there going "offoffoff-off-off-offOFF" in the dark like a loon! :laugh2:

But, better than my house burning down I suppose eh!?

Not you BB-crowding in the living room!

[Marsh.]

I always forget whether I turned the heater off at work or my hair straightener off at home so I have to do something different each time I turn them off so that when I leave and get that panic of "Did I turn the heater off?" I remember that I knocked on the wall or said out loud turning it off etc etc

:joker:

[Marsh.]

I always have to check the year a song I just listened to/film I watched was released. And I have a thing about ages, like if I'm reading about a celebrity I will always have to google how old they are lmao.

I'm kind of like this, I always imdb the sh*t out of anything I watch.

And if there's well known actors in them I always google to see how old they are but also to know how old they were in the film/series. Then get those little shocks like "OMG BRUCE WILLIS WAS 5 YEARS YOUNGER THAN I AM NOW WHEN HE MADE THIS!!!"

[Ant.]

The volume HAS to be divisible by 5!

all numbers are divisible by 5 :suspect:

[Marsh.]

all numbers are divisible by 5 :suspect:

The volume can't be a letter!!!

[Mokka]

Always have a selection of three drinks on the go: tea (with lemon, no milk), coffee and water. Take sips of each as required.
That's bc I'm equally happy with hot or cold tea and coffee and I like to have a choice at all times.

Which one has two sugars? :think:

[Mokka]

I'm kind of like this, I always imdb the sh*t out of anything I watch.

And if there's well known actors in them I always google to see how old they are but also to know how old they were in the film/series. Then get those little shocks like "OMG BRUCE WILLIS WAS 5 YEARS YOUNGER THAN I AM NOW WHEN HE MADE THIS!!!"

I do this to! My son just realized how bad I am at it the other night. Every show we watched I googled like 10 things about each.. and added my high end commentary based on those Google results. He was in awe lol

[Niamh.]

:joker::oh:

[Twosugars]

Which one has two sugars? :think:

not the water :)

[Marsh.]

I do this to! My son just realized how bad I am at it the other night. Every show we watched I googled like 10 things about each.. and added my high end commentary based on those Google results. He was in awe lol

My mum hates me doing it. The other night she was watching something and I came downstairs like "You know he hated making this film and only made it because he was locked into a contract" and she was like SHUT UP!!! :joker:

[Maru]

When I hear a song that "reaches" me a particular way, I have to listen to it on repeat. Endlessly. It's like I go into a meditative state.

[Babayaro.]

I'm kind of like this, I always imdb the sh*t out of anything I watch.

And if there's well known actors in them I always google to see how old they are but also to know how old they were in the film/series. Then get those little shocks like "OMG BRUCE WILLIS WAS 5 YEARS YOUNGER THAN I AM NOW WHEN HE MADE THIS!!!"

AHHHH this is literally me

[Crimson Dynamo]

I'm kind of like this, I always imdb the sh*t out of anything I watch.

And if there's well known actors in them I always google to see how old they are but also to know how old they were in the film/series. Then get those little shocks like "OMG BRUCE WILLIS WAS 5 YEARS YOUNGER THAN I AM NOW WHEN HE MADE THIS!!!"

im the same with any good looking female on tv

straight to google images to see if there are any pics of them topless

often there are

:hehe:

[Crimson Dynamo]

you have to know their full name and add the word topless after it

[Crimson Dynamo]

if no good swap topless for bikini

(top tip)

[Niamh.]

I think most people do the googling during movies thing tbf

[Babayaro.]

im the same with any good looking female on tv

straight to google images to see if there are any pics of them topless

often there are

:hehe:

"jennifer anniston tit"

[Jessica.]

I am unable to curse/swear and never have been able to. If I tried to say a word my brain thinks is inappropriate then I can't say, write or even spell it. I've been like this for as long as I can remember. I'm used to it but sometimes it's embarrassing if I can't repeat what someone said when recalling a conversation or if I'm singing along with a song I have to skip words.

I always read signs out loud when I'm in the passenger seat of cars, I don't know why.