Twisted obsessions

Got anything weird or special obsession? Like a heroes skill what no one needs or shouldn´t have? I got one. Let me take a few minutes of your time and explain.

When ever I watch TV, I count words from subtitles and try to make 24 out of them. Sounds quite simple and harmless, though weird. I have been doing this as long as I can remember, prolly from like 7-years-old.

Now let me try to explain it, it doesn´t work quite well in english, but I put it on finnish too so you get the idea.





United Kingdom A homeless man was walking in the forrest, watching the airplane on the sky. 13 words

Finland Koditon mies käveli metsässä ja katseli taivaalla olevaa lentokonetta. 9 words




Now lets divide words in to smaller pieces.



United Kingdom A home less man was walking (You can "cheat" with "wall" and "king" if you want to) in the for rest, watching the air plane on the sky. 17 words

Finland Kodit on mies käveli metsäs sä ja katseli taivaalla olevaa lento konetta. 12 words

See, now we have a lot more words which we can use!




Now lets search for "hidden" words. Haven´t done this a lot in english though.



United Kingdom

Walking = walk (duh), ing (as in some corporation-thingies).
Rest = re (re), st (short from "street")
Plane = pl (polak), an (duh), e (extacy)

3 words---> 7 words

Finland

Taivaalla = taivaal, LA (Los Angeles)

1 word-----> 3 words

Kinda bad sentence :/ But there could be like KO = knock, out, SEN = "äs", en... etc etc.




Are you still following me? Good. Now lets use sentences together.



1st sentence 3 words, 2nd 4 words, 3rd 5 words and 4th 2 words.

So we can take them and make a calculation: (3 + 4 + 5) * 2 = 24


But you can´t use minus or divide on this, IT IS FORBIDDEN!




Now few special ones.



You can use plain numbers as in one word, as a number to add, or even to multiply the sentence or the number you have calculated so far.

You can break shortenings in to words if you want to (ie = two words, etc = two words).




You can use any of those, none of those or some of those how ever you want. There is some more tricks, but they are in my head and quite hard to explain.

I hope I ruined your movie-watching experience if you start to think this even 10% as much as I do :)

Got anything like this in your head? Any ideas about this one? Should I really see a shrink?
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Wow, you need help lol.
That's hard dude, rly hard!
You can pass the time on bus / walking around too by this thing! Just count sings, company names, advertisement etc.

I could make another journal from cars registerplates, I got a system for them too :)
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haha, seems you have watched that jim carreys film, i liked it too mate. :)
Except I started like 15-years before that movie :/
Parent
Nothing that compulsive or w/e it's called :x

Only weird thing I did since I was a baby till about 15y was to constantly nod my head against the pillow till I fell asleep >.<
That's some whack talent you got dude o.o
Not sure about "talent" :C
Parent
I often say the alphabet backwards, because like 10 years ago there was a contest and the one who would say it the fastest would win a big prize ( can't remember what).

It became worse when I even did it with how u spell it... sorta hard to explain...

it goes : ...arr - ess - tee- you - vee- double you - eks - why - sed

and I say : des - yahw - des - ooy lbud - eev - eet- se - ra-

It sounds a bit random :<
I see what you mean :)

You like palindromes in general? I some times pass time by making those, usually hangovered in car or somewhere where there is nothing else to do. Finnish is such a good language for those.

"Atte kumiorava, varo imuketta!"

"Ella jaha, ala purra jarrupalaa hajalle."

;)
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yea german is better for that aswell, sorta hard in english.

I also swap letters in words sometimes.

l becomes h; n can be m,or u; r can be h or l; b can be p,d, or q; and some other stuff I can't think of atm.

sometimes I think when I just would use the time I spend withthinking about bullshit like this to think about more, well, 'meaningful' things I'd be a bit more delighted :D
Parent
Yup :)

Luckily most of my twinks come from my subconscious so I don´t have to think them on my own :P
Parent
that's weird, lol. My obsession is pretty usual. Im always checking do I still have my phone/keys/wallet in my pocket.
same, I only lost a phone once ( well I basically threw it into the river when I was drunk) and I basically never forget keys, wallet or mobile :O)
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I once thought I had my wallet lost at school so I panicked for two hours then I realized I had it in the wrong pocket.
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i have the same obsession as you two. :)
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I think it's more like a good habit than an obsession :O)
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Agree. But there's no actual need to check your pockets like every minute =d
Parent
I do that too. I wouldn't call it obession, though. :q

I'm pretty fussy with pretty much everything, which seems to be an obsession for me.
The problem is that I often kind of lose my concentration because of it.

Just a little example:
Gaming feels awkwar if my mousepad isn't exactly in its hypotethical place.

Sure that's not the most disturbing nor heaviest case!
i've seen a documentation about a perfectionist. he basically wasn't able to make decisions at all. e.g. he couldn't decide which barber (hair- cutter) he would go to because he couldn't judge which one was the best depending on different factors.

or, he wasn't able to eat, because he couldn't decide what. when he decided he wanted to eat a banana he wasn't sure how much. so he wanted to exactly eat half the banana. when he found out the only libra he had was broke he had to send away the filmcrew because he wanted to go in his room and wait until he was nearly starving to have a justification for randomly eating what comes to his mind ...
Parent
I don't have problems deciding what to do, but to do all the already-decided things kind of prerfectly.

Another example:
I hate when my irc or winamp isn't in the middle of the screen :< It's pretty frustrating sometimes.
Parent
I have to fit my winamp, msn-chat windows, poker tables etc to fit well in the screen, every space between windows has to be the same. Then if another window pops out, I get so annoyed for organizing everything again.
Parent
Ye, kind of same for me. I always close windows, which aren't necessary, though.

I guess I'm a kind of perfectionist... in a sane way.
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im always naming shortcuts and everything else really nice ;D my hard drive is good organised, i always close windows, which aren't necessary(like u), my mousepad has to be always closest to the edge of desk as possible :D etc.
but anyway in rl im really lazy and careless so thats funny :)
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I have an obsession, that I need to organise things. Even when I was a kid I sorted my legos in different size and colour. It has gotten a bit less, growing older though.
gotten a bit less? not spending that much time around legos anymore? :D
Parent
Small steps. Now he is getting away from Denmark Legoland by moving towards Finland Reindeers.

Though I except that he brings some original stuff form Denmark with him.
Parent
No, I'm not going to Finland :-/

I was only there for a weekend, for the TKB 10 year party.
Parent
Oh, weren´t you supposed to go to the TKK? Or am I mixing you with someone else?

But then that means that you are too fond to Denmark Legoland to leave it behind...
Parent
Yeah, I was suppose to go to TKK.

I cancelled it though.
Parent
Oh, too bad :/
Parent
I have a lot of obsessions, some seem really simple but literally make me want to rip my hair out. I'm an extreme perfectionist as well, if I do something wrong it will haunt me for years (seriously).

By the way, 3 + 4 + 7 x 2 = 21 (or 28) right? :D
Sounds familiar. Being a kind of perfectionist is probably the reason why I am so good at mother tongue. I don't even remember the last time I did a typo in an essay. :d
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Haha :D Whoops.

Edited. And I am supposed to be good on maths.
Parent
28? A;SD;A;SD;ASD;AS;D

You suck nigga -,-
Parent
If you do (3+4+7)x2 it's 28 niggaaa
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I know but it's without ( ) so pls get skill?
Parent
Aren´t you supposed to do "*" -calculations before + and -, even if there is no ( )...?
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* comes first if it's like 3+4+7*2 --> 3+4+14 = 21

But if it's (3+4+7)*2 --> 14*2 = 28

you have always calculate ( ) first

Then * and /

Then + and -

imo :)
Parent
That´s what I said. Though I first had wrong numbers on the journal :)
Parent
Lol! I count the total letters in subtitles if the film/program fails to otherwise entertain me. I have to end up with a number that ends in 0 in order to stop counting. This has enabled me to insta-recognize the length of words :d
One of my weirdest obsessions comes from the fact that I've heard quite a vast number of songs but I'm horrible at remembering names. When I hear a song that I've heard before and I KNOW I've heard it but I can't remember the name, it really bugs me and I will go to extreme lengths to figure it out.

I recall staying up for 7 hours once trying to find the name of this one song which I'd heard many times before but for some reason I couldn't remember what it was called :(
I have the same with peoples' voices. They're just a lot harder to find. Today when I woke up I finally found someone's voice whose name I totally forgot (in connection to that voice that is). I only had two sentences I could recall with his voice, so that made it extra hard. I also had no lifelines to use because it wasn't someone from my family >_>

Took me a good 2 weeks. Funny thing is I haven't seen that guy for ages but the voice just randomly blurted up in my memories. :D
Parent
Pls someone fire Thomm... He's becoming cf addicted
Got nothing else to do at work :/

Except facebook.
Parent
Thats what im saying
Parent
Oh, I read "help Thomm" :D
Parent
i have an obessesion with little things such as tunrning the volume up, the number can only finish in 5 or 0.

i also do something similar to you but i read a sentence and then find the middle letter (if there isnt a middle letter then i divide the ammount of letter equally on both sides.

i have to have one cigarrete in the morning.

when im ussing the toilet i sometimes flush it before im even finnished =O.
5,0 or 2 - but that's because of my radio, honest!
Parent
i always empty my pockets when i know im gonna stay somewhere longer than a x amount of hours..
obsessions/habits are weird.

EDIT: i always light a cigarette when im nervous for like, a war or shizzle.
i usually end up only lighting it;p..
Xfire: full of weirdos.


When i was a kid and i was in a car, i had to "click" my right foot toes to the ground whenever we were in the center between 2 street lamps on my left or right, and I did it until there were no more lamps on the road. I stopped this when i was 13 or smth.
When I am cycling around, I am constantly watching ground and avoiding my pedal to be at the lowest point if there is any stripes/lines/something under it. I have to swirm around with bike to make my pedaling not to hit on them, since it is cheating to just roll over them without pedaling and I have only one gear in my bike.
Parent
eheh i had the same whenever i saw stripes/lines etc, but i just countered it by not pedaling over them :-D. cheater
Parent
halleluja then im not the only one done that :)
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OMG I WAS GONNA POST THAT :DDDDDDdd
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I only had an invisible person running next to the street over houses and poles and such :)
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Mario kinda? That's what I imagined.
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Too much nintendo when we were young I'm afraid :(
Parent
Indeed, one of the few things I remember from early childhood (~4) is my dad coming home with the SNES, which kinda saddens but also scares me.
Parent
Need to wash my hand as often as possible :I
:D What was going through your mind when you thought it'd be a good idea to post this?
Why not? I am bored at work, I need some entertainment.

EDIT: And I don´t need a good idea to make a post, just something different than random pic- or youtube-journals.
Parent
True true, I have to say its defiently more entertaining than the "Wiesek busted, Ovr busted" threads

That obsession is quite weird though 0.o
Parent
Obsession, I don't know..

I wrote a "Do you want to be a millionarie"-game in Java at the age of 11. Parsing series of questions, all graphical output coded by hand (no widgets used), a seperate thread for changing the background color, even an own thingy for making new series of questions.. Can't find it anymore though :(((

I were writing C programs for generating prime numbers at the age of 15.

Could you call that an obsession, or just overall geekyness?
It is way beyond geekyness if it does include any Java on it :/

We need an exorcist here!
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D:
I haven't touched java for 8 years, am I healed?
Parent
You can heal, but the scars won´t go away...
Parent
Idd, the scars won't go away..
So since we're learning JSP @ uni right now, I keep cursing at those ugly Java-isms that language is infected by :(
Parent
Got some strange thing too, my TV is a bit weird so I need to press the clock thingy on my remote (which shows the time on your TV screen) before the screen is actually good (no idea why lol) anyway, whenever I press the clock thingy I have to wait untill the last 2 digits are the same, ie: 00, 11 , 22, 33, 44, 55 before I can press it again to make the clock go away. : C
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