What's your quirk?

[wallyinnc]

I could never leave a tangled phone cord alone or the perforated sides on printer paper, when they still had that.

What is your idiosyncrasy?

It is my 100th post, I thought I would stick my neck out in the Chillout Room

So, you can post here or tell me to go start a "New Group for 200 Post Users in Seven Forums"

 

[Dinesh]

Congrats on the 100th post mate.

 

[wallyinnc]

Thanks a bunch!

 

[Kari]

So, you can post here or tell me to go start a "New Group for 200 Post Users in Seven Forums"

Long time no see, Wally. This one is becoming the joke of the forum, I see

Mine is always to check my keys. I have always the feeling I forgot or lost my keys, even it has never happened.

Kari

EDIT: Congratz for the 100 posts!

 

[wallyinnc]

Thanks Kari. Missed you. And I posted before getting to the rough part of that thread, I am jut waiting for the bashing...

 

[Tews]

No bashing allowed ... I have that on good authority!!

 

[SquonkSC]

Mine is to always open up every machine or apparatus right after I bought it. :huh:
I have to see what's inside.

 

[wallyinnc]

No bashing allowed ... I have that on good authority!!

 

[holo88]

i like making little statues out of random stuff on my desk.

can you say m-e-d-i-c-a-t-i-o-n?

 

[Antman]

Mine is always to check my keys. I have always the feeling I forgot or lost my keys, even it has never happened.

I always eyeball my keys in hand before I close a locking door.

I loathe litter and will accost anyone I see who should throw trash on the ground in my field of view.

I like farting on, or accidentally stepping on the feet of, people who are rude or discourteous at the market or mall.

I say hello to everyone I make eye contact with. If I am reasonably confident of their native tongue, I like greeting them in their language.

I kneel down to speak to children or persons who are in a wheelchair.

I will not eat at a buffet. If there is a sneeze guard, there is no Antman.

I have a few more.

 

[wallyinnc]

I knew I could count on you, Antman!

I loathe litter and will accost anyone I see who should throw trash on the ground in my field of view.

That is no quirk, that's just right

I say hello to everyone I make eye contact with. If I am reasonably confident of their native tongue, I like greeting them in their language.

Boa Noite e ate' logo!

 

[Antman]

That is a tough one. I have not spent enough time in the Portuguese speaking countries of South America to determine by sight if a person might speak Portuguese rather than Spanish. Don't want to get that one wrong.

It would be like saying 早晨好 to someone from Japan. The last man that knocked me down was Japanese. I never saw his foot.

 

[Kari]

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It would be like saying 早晨好 to someone from Japan. The last man that knocked me down was Japanese. I never saw his foot.

Question 1: Not knowing Japanese, are you sure you would not be knocked out when saying this?

Question 2: If you are knocked out more often after saying something in the other persons language, shouldn't you first consult a dictionary before saying anything?

Kari

 

[mickey megabyte]

antman doesn't need to consult a dictionary, he writes them.

 

[Antman]

早晨好 is Chinese.

 

[Tews]

My #1 pet peve is getting what I pay for .. case in point ... I pay extra for a 30Mb line ... I expect to get it ... this morning, I'm not even getting 3Mb... I plan on bending the ear of my ISP ...

 

[wallyinnc]

早晨好 is Chinese.

I was told Kanji and traditional chinese ideograms look pretty much the same. As I can only recognize 出口 and 入口, I can't really tell the difference. I only know you should avoid calling someone's mother a horse when trying to say good morning in Chinese. Is that what 早晨好 means in Japanese? Or he just got ofended by Ni Hao instead of Ohayou gozaimasu?

 

[wallyinnc]

That is a tough one. I have not spent enough time in the Portuguese speaking countries of South America to determine by sight if a person might speak Portuguese rather than Spanish. Don't want to get that one wrong.

It is really not possible. The Brazilian population being a mixture of White European, Black African and Native South Americans, you can imagine you can find pretty much all looks. I used to be thought to be Dutch when I was there (until I opened my mouth). I have Brazilian friends you would swear they come from India.

We are anyway pretty used to people not knowing we speak Portuguese and not Spanish, since everybody else South of Texas does. But a Brazilian will answer "bom dia" if you say "buenos dias"...

 

[Tews]

My #1 pet peve is getting what I pay for .. case in point ... I pay extra for a 30Mb line ... I expect to get it ... this morning, I'm not even getting 3Mb... I plan on bending the ear of my ISP ...

I guess the old addage about the squeaky wheel works... they sent a tech out and replaced the modem, gave me some free credit, and all is good...

 

[Antman]

...Or he just got ofended by Ni Hao instead of Ohayou gozaimasu?

He was offended because I was "seeing" his girlfriend.