Weird things about yourself

[Assassin in Burgundy he/him]

Hello fellow Sharders,

This thread is fairly simple. What is the wierdest or stupidest thing you've done, what you've eaten, or anything that you're fairly sure no one else, or at least not very many people, have done. I'll start.

When I went to Peru, I ate Guinea Pig. It tasted like really rich chicken, but was about as bony as a fish.

So, what have you done? Most ridiculous answer wins a 100% possession-free cookie!

[Stick. she/her]

4 minutes ago, Assassin in Burgundy said:

Hello fellow Sharders,

This thread is fairly simple. What is the wierdest or stupidest thing you've done, what you've eaten, or anything that you're fairly sure no one else, or at least not very many people, have done. I'll start.

When I went to Peru, I ate Guinea Pig. It tasted like really rich chicken, but was about as bony as a fish.

So, what have you done? Most ridiculous answer wins a 100% possession-free cookie!

Is this what it looked like 

Disturbing image:

Spoiler

 

[Assassin in Burgundy he/him]

Yeah. It was a bit more complete though, and had more of a neck.

[KnightRadiant she/her]

Well... I've had a chicken poop in my pocket.

[Sunbird she/her]

A praying mantis once jumped onto my face very unexpectedly.

And because I know you're all thinking it, no, I did not scream and swat it off. My mom was present and I asked her to coax it to walk onto her hand instead.

I frequently pick up small snakes when I see them in the wild, once I've gotten a good look at them to make sure they're not one of the venomous kinds.

I once caught a small snapping turtle on a fishing pole by accident. Getting him off the hook was interesting; he didn't want to unclamp his jaws.

If I see a turtle crossing the road, I will almost always pull over and rescue it. I did this once with a VERY LARGE snapping turtle and managed not to lose any fingers.

[Delightful]

I stood at the Jordan River where Jesus was baptised and waved at the Jordanian soldiers and Taiwanese tourists on the other side. 

And I saw and heard the Syrian civil war.....from safely behind the Israeli border. 

And I crawled through a tiny rock tunnel into a small cave where my ancestors hid out when fighting the Romans. 

Basically Israel is an awesome country. 

[Dani she/her]

I, once, accidentally killed a pigeon...

But it was its fault.

[WayneSpren he/him]

1 minute ago, Daniyah said:

I, once, accidentally killed a pigeon...

But it was its fault.

I once counted to 12000, but skipping every number that had '14' in it.

I don't know why.

[Delightful]

5 minutes ago, Daniyah said:

I, once, accidentally killed a pigeon...

But it was its fault.

How?

3 minutes ago, DelightfuI said:

I once counted to 12000, but skipping every number that had '14' in it.

I don't know why.

A young relative of mine thinks that's a hilarious game, but he does it with 5's. 

 

I have another weird one! So there's this idea that if you learn something 100 times great but if you learn it 101 times it'll stick forever. It's supposed to mean going above and beyond, not 101 literally, but ten year old me took it literally. 

I was reading a book where there was this ridiculously named dragon and I wanted to see if the 101 thing was true so I said the name 101 times. 

Ureychyoburenitho. 

I can't forget the name now no matter how much I try. 

Edited August 24, 2016 by Delightful

[WayneSpren he/him]

Just now, Delightful said:

How?

A young relative of mine thinks that's a hilarious game, but he does it with 5's. 

You mean, he does it frequently?

The poor child.

[Delightful]

2 minutes ago, DelightfuI said:

You mean, he does it frequently?

The poor child.

Umm I'm not actually sure. It might have just been the game of the weekend. 

[WayneSpren he/him]

I was just concerned for his safety-I barely made it out alive.

[Delightful]

Just now, DelightfuI said:

I was just concerned for his safety-I barely made it out alive.

The numbers threatened you? Did 7 eat 9?!

[WayneSpren he/him]

1 minute ago, Delightful said:

The numbers threatened you? Did 7 eat 9?!

Worse.

[Dani she/her]

I took a shower at night, and then went to the balcony to put my towel out to dry. I didn't switch on the balcony lights, and so I didn't see the pigeon sitting there on the drying stand where I was putting my towel. It came at my face, flapping its wings, I panicked and starting shrieking and slapped it away. Hard. It laid dead on my balcony for two days before someone disposed it.

[Delightful]

You have a powerful slap . 

I pity anyone who gets on your bad side. 

[Dani she/her]

11 minutes ago, Delightful said:

You have a powerful slap . 

I pity anyone who gets on your bad side. 

Hahah  

[Sunbird she/her]

11 minutes ago, Delightful said:

You have a powerful slap . 

I pity anyone who gets on your bad side. 

Well, that, and birds have fragile bones.

25 minutes ago, DelightfuI said:

Worse.

I see your Yoda meme and raise you this Yoda meme:

[Stick. she/her]

24 minutes ago, Delightful said:

You have a powerful slap . 

I pity anyone who gets on your bad side. 

It kinda reminded me of the Lord Ruler killing Kelsier XD 

[Sunbird she/her]

2 minutes ago, I_am_a_Stick said:

It kinda reminded me of the Lord Ruler killing Kelsier XD 

It reminded me of an extra in some of the Lego video games called Super Slap. Most of the female characters will slap enemies if you get close enough for hand-to-hand combat, and most of the time you have to hit them a couple of times before they die. But with Super Slap turned on, you slap them once and they explode into Lego pieces immediately. XD

[Pestis the Spider she/her]

I have a tendency to walk into things by accident. There were so many situations when I walked into something, hit my head with a loud BANG and didn't even blink. And then everyone is like "OMG, Pestis, are you all right?!", and I don't do anything, because I am so used to walking into things by accident, that I see no reason to react unless it really hurts. O.o

[Mestiv he/him]

I can do this

 

[TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her]

I have seen some weird things in my travels. 

For instance, while I was taking Bruce through Texas, we passed through one of those Nowheresville towns that are basically just a combined gas station/grocery store and some houses lurking just out of sight. This one advertised diesel fuel and fried chicken, but the sign maker apparently didn't believe in commas, so it seemed to advertise diesel fried chicken….which sounds like what would happen if Hagrid branched out into Southern cooking. 

While driving through Nevada with my parents and siblings, we passed a door. No house. No fortress. Just a steel-reinforced door in the side of a hill in the middle of the desert. 

While passing through Eastern Oregon on our way to the coast, we passed a truck with the words FLASH ME written in the dirt and grime. My brother's male friend lifted his shirt, earning a thumbs-up from the trucker.  

One year, my family took a vacation to the Oregon coast. A real vacation, not a trip to spend more time than we want with relatives we don't like that my parents for some bizarre reason call a "vacation." But my parents and younger sister were leaving a few days before us, because my brother and I had to work, so the two of us drove to Newport, Oregon by ourselves. Now, my parents always say we're going to leave "bright and early," and they'll give some easily attainable time, like 9 AM, as their goal. This goal is always missed by at least 45 minutes because Twimom takes twice as long as me and my sister to get her hair and makeup done and likes to rush around the kitchen with her hair still wet and her makeup half-applied blaming the rest of us for putting the whole family behind schedule. 
But this time, it was just my brother and I. So we decided that, darn it, this was our first real vacation for as long as we could remember, and we were going to make the most of it, which began with arriving at a reasonable hour. So we rose around 4 in the morning and were out the door by 5:15. Not even the street lights downtown were fully functional yet; every stop was a four-way stop, which we never had to wait long at, as ours was close to the only car on the road. We made it to Newport by 3:30 that afternoon—a record for our family that has never been beaten before or since. 

Edited August 24, 2016 by TwiLyghtSansSparkles

[Orlion Blight he/him]

Sometimes, when I sip beer or tea, I'll whisper "I love you."

I do like a good beer or tea

[Sunbird she/her]

I am weirdly obsessed with music written in unusual time signatures.

"The Rocky Road to Dublin" is mostly in 3/4 time, with a 4/4 measure thrown in about once per verse.

"I Am The Doctor" uses several different time signatures, including 7/4, 4/4, 3/4, and 7/8.

"Dulaman"... 90% of the time you can't even count this one in quarter notes. It's constantly changing time: 5/8, 7/8, 6/8, and it's very fast.

"Panic Attack" by Dream Theater switches between 4/4, 5/8, 12/8, and 3/4 multiple times, and different sections of 12/8 in different parts of the song aren't even always at the same tempo.

"Dirty Second Hands" by Switchfoot... I don't even know what time signature this one is in most of the time.

Whenever any of these songs comes on my MP3 player, I kinda just want to stop what I'm doing and drum along with it. And then play the song again.