What’s something you do that would make other people think WTF?
Microwave a piece of cheese for a few seconds before eating it. I like room-temperature cheese.
I warm wrapped cheese (cheese sticks, baby bells) in my pocket before eating. If I’m feeling fancy or rushed I’ll plop it into a cup of hot water. I feel a microwave would be too inconsistent, with cold spots and melted spots; I want the cheese to be uniformly soft.
I’m already married, but will you also marry me?
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Mmmhmm
I didn’t realise it was strange until my sister complained about it being incomprehensible gibberish, but I listen to podcasts at at least double speed.
One of the characters on the Hideous Laughter podcast Interlude episodes had long pauses between words so I kept speeding it up until they stopped bothering me. Then everything else sounded weird at normal speed and I’d get bored during the pauses between people speaking, so now they’re all on 2-2.5x speed.
I got a spectrum diagnosis as a kid, but worked really, really hard to get good at socializing. Part of that, and something I still do to this day, is to run lines like an actor when I’m alone, or think I’m alone. I’ll say the same thing again and again in different ways, until i’ve found the “performance” i like.
I say something unique to myself (like the date or something I’m working on today) when I lock the door, so that I can think back to that moment later in the day and remember that I locked the door. Otherwise I start worrying about if I locked the door or not.
I’ll start using this trick today
I point at things I want to remember like that. Same concept, memory for actions is much better than remembering thoughts.
I eat apples as a whole. It recently confused some of my new co-students :D
Like you eat the core as well or that you pop the whole apple in your mouth?
I meant that i eat everything except the litte stem on top - and in multiple bites of course :D
When I’m alone I’ll wear a full suit, because dressing up makes me feel nice, but I lack the courage to go full “retro men’s fashion enthusiast” and dress up like it’s 1939
Bet you look Dapper AF.
Lookin good bro
I wish lmao
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Have a look at Darcy Clothing! They produce clothes styles from c.1600s to 1950s. There’s some nice stuff there for both men and women. Comfortable and stylish, imo. Example: https://www.darcyclothing.com/apps/bundles/bundle/24247
Man, acquiring the pieces isn’t even the hurdle I’m trying to cross right now. It’s straight up a matter of confidence. Like. People will see. And they’ll ask stuff like ‘what’s the occasion’ x.x
I totally get where you’re coming from. Try to remind yourself that:
a) life is fleeting. We’re only here for a brief moment, so why let lack of confidence stop us from doing what we want to do?
b) if anyone judges you for your fashion then they’re a sad cunt and their opinion is therefore meaningless
:)
Yeah, that’s the whole being confident in your own skin thing. Tricky. Why not try clean, neat casual clothing first, like jeans/slacks, nice shirt, good shoes and put on a nice ‘internal’ suit first, good manner, curtesy/politeness, easy demeanor, well groomed, etc. that reflects what you want to be, or the reaction/response you seek from others. For those not terribly fond of the limelight/attention, any forced affectation will be pretty hard to carry. Sometimes it’s just easier to blend in, depending on town, city, country. Sorry, got lost pondering your predicament. Hmm, tricky. Good luck.
Who needs a reason to look good?
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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
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Overthink everything
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.
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.
When I read the IMDb trivia about a movie or series, it means I really enjoyed it. It’s like, my stamp of approval.
I do the same but with interviews with the people that made the movie, especially the writers.
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.
Cheese toasty.
That’s the one. Never heard it called anything else here in New Zealand
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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.
the only reason to call it that is to correct others on trivial bullshit.
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.
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?
I grew up in the Midwest and we call them toasted cheese. In my family, it kind of morphed into 1 word though-- toastacheese
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’!
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.
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.
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As an Aussie, this is totally normal and beats getting skin cancer. This is normal for most Aussies as you can literally feel the sun burning you skin some days.
The joys of living closer to the hole in the ozone layer!
Are you even an Aussie if you don’t own at least one Bunnings hat!
I’m rocking a Mitre10 hat at the moment, it was free, and a hat is a hat!
Haha that’s very acceptable, and the sophisticated choice of hat IMHO
Coming from a place where skin cancer is more of a when you get it and not if you get it. This is normal as can be.
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Or ants? Like in a science/research capacity?
I shave the parts of my chest within 10cm of my nipples, so that suction toys stay on properly.
