What is something small that you do that confuses other people whenever they see you doing it?
Mine is that I pour the milk before the cereal. people are always extremely confused by that.
I eat kiwis with the peel
Australians are next
You're going to eat Australians with the peel??
You seem confused (☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞
I open bananas by pinching the bottom instead of ripping at the top (because it works better) and people act like I’m insane.
That is how apes open bananas too.
Not that I'm implying anything of course.
How does this work with that nasty little stump at the bottom of the banana? (Which everybody knows is pure poison... TIL: AKA the 'bananus')
Easy to discard or no?
I slice it a bit above the bananus and when you peel it it comes right out. Easy peasy
Yeah, it’s easy to discard if a little bananus bothers you. But I ain’t a’feared.
Also, I’m usually making smoothies so it’s not much of a concern.
Pro Tip: another advantage of peeling the gorilla-approved way is that you don’t have to separate them when peeling multiple. I usually eat a couple one-offs while the bunch is ripe and then, before the rest get brown and mushy, peel the rest to freeze for smoothies or banana bread or whatever. You can just peel several from the bananus side and save the step of separating them.
I worked in a restaurant that served Bananas Foster so that’s actually a pro tip. You may never have to quickly peel a whole bunch at once but cooks, busy parents, smoothie artisans, etc. frequently do.
Holy shit, “bananus,” I am crying from laughing right now. Phew, I needed that!
It's how the other great apes do it too, which as far as I'm concerned is pretty much the end of the issue. It really is one of those things where there's a right and wrong way to do it.
I run my thumb up the middle splitting it into 3 slim bananas.
I set my clocks on 24 hour time. Usually gets a comment when they see it.
Started doing this since my very first watch. 24 hours in a day, why cut it in half? What is 12am or 12pm idk which is afternoon or midnight
This is anti-confusing.
'Murica
It kinda bugs my wife, but I still prefer it to 12 hour. My car, my time format.
French here, you can come viqit anytime and the only thing we might notice is that you're using clocks the right way (tm) :D
Same here. I sometimes get momentarily confused when I see 12-hour digital clocks now...
The real art is doing it with an old grandfather clock.
My job uses 24h/UTC time a lot. Love the 24h time, everything I can set to it that I use is on that format. Can’t set the coffee machine or microwave to 24h time.
UTC? Hate it. Too much math that changes with the time change and your time zone to get to UTC. Thankfully wearables and phones will often let you have multiple clocks visible.
I do the exact opposite. I think 12h clock is the only way of measuring things americans got right.
waiting in line when there are self checkouts available. I just dont like doing it.
abandoning self checkouts because the machine is yelling at you and the workers are busy elsewhere. they say self-checkout lane 7 is still blinking to this day.
Funnily enough I tend to find that if you just pick up your bags and walk away a member of staff is arrives pretty quickly. Wild, right?
"Remove item from bagging area!"
"Please wait, help is on the way... "
I like the interaction.
I use the self checkouts specifically to avoid interaction.
yo I fucking hate that rude robot lady
When eating pizza at a restaurant with a fork and a knife I start cutting bite size triangles from the center of the pizza, it's pure chaos and people lose their mind when they see me haha
I love this. I hope you also do it in an ever widening spiral?
Chaotic-natural !
I read the second half of this in Heath Ledger’s joker voice
I sigh loudly. Not vocally, but I take in a deep breath and then release it quickly. It's a tension release to me kinda like yawning but everyone around me seems to think I'm upset or frustrated when I do it.
Ever since we were graced with COVID-19, I frequently find myself taking deep breaths and exhaling as you described just to see if my lung function feels right. Realizing now that I don't even need to be infected with COVID-19 for it to have a significant impact on my mental health.
I sigh normally for the same reason, and people react similarly.
I do the exact same thing. Back in highschool people used to point it out or look at me weird or assume I was upset. My boyfriend asks me "What's wrong?" and I respond with "Uhh...nothing?"
I've done it for as long as I can remember and it feels like it relaxes my nerves.
Me too!
I hate it!
I "fold" my socks by putting one sock fully into the other sock (picture wearing 2 socks on 1 foot). This way they are together and they don't get stretched out.
People see you doing this? Are you organizing socks on the subway...?
Some of us poors fold our clothes at the laundromat.
Its hard coming up with ideas to keep my OnlyFans fresh.
Nobody has asked me questions about that
I buy 30 pairs of the same socks, so I don't have to sort or fold.
Thank you!!! There are dozens of us!!!! Saves on space too
I don't get it. You do that as opposed to ... what? Isn't that the way to do it? You put one sock into the other and then kind of fold them in on themselves.
Some people put them next to each other and fold the top inside out over the 'pair' rather than put one inside of the other.
I don't fold them in on themselves, that stretches them slightly and I don't like it, I just put one sock all way down into another sock, like the 1 sock was wearing the other sock!
I don't listen to anything while driving
I'd go crazy if I were trapped alone with just my thoughts for that long.
I've been doing that for many years to the point that people don't like to drive with me. Actually kinda nice since most people would rather just drive than ride with me
Sock shoe sock shoe.
I have to test if the pants/sock/shoe combo works before committing to the whole process a second time.
What kind of incompatibilties have you experienced?
Sock is too exposed at the top of the shoe, leading to an unexpected clash of color or style, sock is squashed up the leg by the boot and disrupts the natural fit of the pant, slouch sock (the worst), and sometimes the shoe makes the sock seam really obvious around my toenails for no apparent reason.
I've had several people comment on the way I tie my shoelaces. I can't even remember how to do it the "normal" way, but I use that knot that takes about half a second where you make both loops at once and pull them through each other.
That's a better knot as well. Holds together better comes apart without risking turning into a small tight knot and is balanced to keep one lace from getting more fatigued.
The risk of the knot becoming a real knot (it's more like a pair of slip knots normally) is from the loose end winding up going through one of the loops before you pull it. If you pull the one that went through the loop, you get a tight knot. If you pull the other one, it won't be so tight. And that can still happen with this improved method.
https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/ianknot.htm
Also relevant: https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/grannyknot.htm
I used to triple knot my shoes and they would still come untied. Then I switched to the ian knot, and my shoes haven't come untied by themselves in forever.
I'm gonna try that, thanks
I've been doing that for ~15 years and almost no one has commented on it :<
That's probably better knot anyway. Most people don't even realize they tie their shoes with a so called granny knot. The loops are supposed to sit horizontally, not vertically or at 45 degree angle.
I do that with round laces, it's much better for them than the standard. Tried showing it to my Dad once, and he could not wrap his head around it.
Yours is apparently the proper way.
That's how my dad taught me, he calls it "bunny ears." Funny enough, it took me a really long time to learn to tie my shoes because both my mom and dad were trying to teach me, but they didn't realize they use different methods and I was so confused.
I did that knot in front of a shoe saleswoman and she commented she had never seen anyone do that before. Asked me to show her again how I did it.
Brits seem to really love when I heavily salt tea and heat it in the microwave. I top it off by saying "Cheerio! Pip pip!" in my best southern drawl.
Don't know why...
I think they're amused at the person rather than the action. There's a better chance of finding rocking horse shit than a Brit truly saying "Pip, Pip", unless they're from the US or an actor in a 1950's black and white WW2 themed budget film.
I had a friend who used to say "pip pip". I also think you missed the joke.
I skip the fourth step from the bottom on every staircase. It started because multiple staircases I regularly traversed coincidentally all had spiders make their homes on the fourth step, so I'd step over them. And then I just never shook the habit.
"Mine is that I pour the milk before the cereal. people are always extremely confused by that."
You're a psychopath. lol
I pour cereal before the milk. It helps to have a mop, it's a really big mess.
Give more exact timing than nearest 5 minutes. Eg "I'll be down in 4 minutes" because I have an idea how long things actually take.
Then you must leave a path of annoyance and destruction.
as most tasks depends on many factors and if you estimated the correct prep time.
If it’s a 4 minute job on a computer and you hit a network lag, then you failed at determining factor calculation.
If you hang a shelf and estimate 10 minutes but didn’t do the prep of finding the stud then parts of the wall falls down, you failed at determining factor calculation for the task as you didn’t account prep time.
If you think you could clean a table in 2 minutes but then you realize the dishwasher wasn’t emptied, so you just left dishes on the counter for someone else to do the labour instead of accounting extra time then you failed at factor calculations.
If you determine 3 minutes to throw your laundry in the machine but didn’t factor the machine needed emptying first then you failed at factors.
Now if things are going on without a hitch, you can use time to your advantage for better preparation. If I give 10 minutes for a 7 minute task I’m gonna take that extra 3 minutes to grab a glass of water.
If however someone needs to know I will take exactly 7 minutes to hang a shit they need therapy and that stops being my problem to ‘time’ manage for them.
I too eat kiwis with skin, but apparently stranger is that I eat the whole apple, starting from the bottom working up, core and all.
i had one of those apple corer things you press down to cut an apple into slices and leave behind the core in a cylinder.
used it one day at work and started feeling more and more nauseated and dizzy right after eating the apple slices to the point i had to leave work and go home.
i googled it later and discovered apple seeds contain a small amount of cyanide. i guess normally if you don't chew them they pass through just fine no problem. but that apple corer thing had sliced through several seeds.
i've chewed a seed or two before without issues so maybe i got some mutant apple or something but fyi about the cyanide thing!
I started eating whole apples after I met someone who does. He said: "Why not? I don't have to throw away the core then!".
Ever since then I ate the whole thing.
ya know how you can like look at a light, like the sun or a light bulb, and as you move your eyes around you an kinda make shapes like whirling your eyeball around to make a circle with the light ?
well I do that but instead of just with lights, I do it with normal objects in my field of vision, and I do it really fast.
to the observer my eyes balls look freakishly fast moving, but to me I am making your head into a big star shape over and over again.
I have no idea what you're talking about...
If you look at a light, when you blink there is a shape that appears.
For example, look at a light for a couple seconds, then look at the cover of a book dead center of your vision and blink. You may notice that it's hard to immediately read the text, due to something missing in your visual field.
OP is saying they are able to imprint objects on their field of view, the same way they do with light.
Your eye flurry buddies must be living a great life
Can you make your eyes shake left and right too? Or is that what you mean? There was a sub on the R place devoted to that, /eyeshakers I think.
yeah left right up down, all over in varying ways. well thank you for pointing me in the direction of others - maybe it's not so unique after all. buuut I'm not going back to R place for some oculolinctus tomfoolery.
I can do that, I was envious of a family member who could do it when I was young and somehow taught myself to be able to do it. Though I always called it "vibrating my eyes". I can't maintain it indefinitely unfortunately
I use my indicators when reversing out of a parking spot. It’s the way I was taught, and it makes sense to me, but apparently it’s weird.
I do too. It makes sense I think, that flashing light could be the difference between a car noticing you or not if the timing is otherwise perfect for a crash.
Even better... reverse park.
You know what I hate? People using their hazards to indicate that they're loading/unloading. You can already indicate towards the pavement to do the same thing and it actually says "hey I'm just pulled in here" instead of using the "something's gone wrong" lights.
Eh, I can understand it though. Say you pull over to the right, have your right blinker on, someone behind you will not see the left light lit up, and if you are already stopped your brake lights aren't on.
With hazards, the full car is displayed.
If it's coming from a place of safety I think it's sensible. I so don't see it as particularly dangerous to adopt, other drivers slow down at most and see you and ignore you at least
That said, if we're coming from the place of safety, usually these instances the person should just fully park instead of pulling over with hazards.
I write the number 5 from the bottom up.
I put my arms in my coat in front of me then flip it over my head
Montessori coat flip ftw!
I was purely public-schooled (US meaning) and we learned the coat-flip too.
The Martin Sheen? Or something less majestic?
Roboplegic wrong-cock
I use flatware when eating everything, including finger food. My friends only made fun of me when I ate crisps with a fork.
I will remove the top bun from hamburgers and use a knife & fork to cut little wedges out of them. Fewer carbs & no sloppiness!
I ate crisps with a fork
...how?!
Slide 'em between the tines & lift
Chop sticks for chips keeps fingers clean
I like eating lemons, I've had a few today
Your dentist will love you.
How do you eat them? Like orange wedges?
I eat the entire apple, starting at the top and going in circles to the bottom.
Are you a horse?
Neigh :P
Unless you eat the stem and core, how else would you eat it?
People act like I'm a monster for eating kiwis in their entirety. Not just the skin, but even the ... Stump? Whatever the hard end but is called that presumably attaches it to the tree. It's just extra fiber!
Legs and beak too????
Even the nest.
Isn't that the stem? Or have I been calling it wrong all this time?
Stem sounds more accurate than my choice of words. But what do I know - I'm a kiwi-skin eating monster.
That's the kiwinus I believe.
Okay, that's definitely what I'll be calling it from now on. I almost want to buy some to eat at work just so I can say I'm eating kiwinus.
I eat cereal with a fork. No I will not explain further
As I have seen cereals the size of biscuits be sold to be used as cereal, I can perfectly understand.
I prefer eating only with the spoon. I'd even cut meat with it if it's soft enough
Here comes the airplane.
I do this as well, but with a fork.
I wonder if there's anyone eating knife only?
The three untenseers. We'd be unstoppable.
I wonder if there's anyone eating knife only?
Mercenaries that try to intimidate people?
Mostly old men describing pet cemeteries
Sometimes I eat an apple with a knife only, slicing pieces and sticking them in my mouth with it.
That's not even strange, the spoon is just the perfect utensil.
Are you my wife? I swear she has some kind of pathological aversion to forks.
In Southeast Asia that’s how it’s done
I microwave rice or noodles with water to make them perfect.
I need some more info on this. So you have uncooked rice and put it with with water in the microwave to cook it?
I boil eggs with just half an inch of water in a pot and the lid on.
Set a timer to 6 minutes when the water starts to boil and they come out perfect every time.
What do you consider a perfect boiled egg? I need to find a new technique - mine bounce off the bottom of the pot when the water is boiling and they crack.
Biking instead of driving places, especially in the winter.
Microwave ice cream that was scooped in a bowl for 8 seconds to soften it.
Same with a Mars or Snickers bar. Just enough to make the center melt yet keep the outer hard enough to stay together.
You could also try the Scottish method of coating them in batter and deep frying them.
I just heard of that for the first time like 2 days ago and this is the second time.
Is it a new thing? Or is it just coincidence? Lol
I have been doing it for decades.
Some microwaves have this setting builtin. Forgot what it's called though.
Blow into my cigarette before putting it in my mouth.
I smoke Parliaments, which have a little recess in the filter and sometimes bits of the tobacco get in there; I blow it out because I don't want to eat it
I thought the blow in parliaments was supposed to be cocaine stuffed in the recessed filter...
You gotta blow into it before putting blow in it. Wouldn't want to snort the tobaccy!
Those bits are probably bad for your health anyway
I didn't know fag smokers still existed.It's about a grand per 20-pack where I live.
Are you my ex?
Do you pack your cigarettes? I imagine that would make it worse.
It's rare that I have a cigarette anymore but when I do, I pack that motherfucker with a vengeance. 32 taps on my inner wrist. Why 32, I have no idea.
lol I do this with my joints
Ive dated a few Filipina women over the years. When its my turn to cook, I'll sometimes add a packet of onion soup mix to the rice cooker. Its delicious, but it triggers their FauxCD because its just wrong.
Mental arithmetic. Fast.
Correct, though? I can give answers to most mathematical problems pretty much instantly if we're not fussed about accuracy.
I am an engineer. Accuracy is irrelevant, precision counts. All figures consist of a value and a deviation.
OH yea so what 5 + 7?
Hey everyone look how long its taken @NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world to answer. Fast... Yea right
/s
Like what's an example of the most complex arithmetic you can do in your head?
Oh, look at John fucking Von Neumann over here!
a friend of mine will eat the whole sunflower seed including the shell. This confuses me.
She's telling you, "No Anal"
It's extremely painful coming out. The shells don't digest. I did this once when I was young.
My odd habbit that I hope one day someone will call me out on is that I only scoop half a jar of peanut butter or any other sandwich spread from one half of the container. Ill dig and clean our the entire side of the container and then try to scoop the rest out from the bottom of the other side to leave the pristine untouched top-side of the jar as the last part of the food that is used.
This is a reference to Calvin & Hobbs, but ive been doing it for 20 years... So... Yah...
My wife was very offended when I started doing this 3-4 years ago from learning about it in /r/CalvinandHobbs
Needless to say, I no longer do that.
Haha before you mentioned C&H I was like hey I think I remember a Calvin and Hobbes where Calvin said that's how he liked his sandwiches lol
Hello there fellow milk before cereal enjoyer
I clap with the back of my right hand slapping the palm of my left hand (Bajoran style). I don't know why but it's how I've always done it. For some reason I really hate the feeling of my palms and finger undersides touching each other.
I clap really loudly. I cup the fingers off my right hand and bang them into the palm of my left hand. Sometimes people are annoyed by my choosing because it's so loud. But we're clapping? It's supposed to be loud?
As someone who is pathologically repulsed by soggy cereal, I am with you, comrade.
There are actually cereal bowls that have two separated sides. Milk goes in one side and dry cereal in the other. You scoop dry cereal, dip in the milk, and every bite is as crunchy as the first.
When I make coffee in the morning I put in one packet of pink sweetener, then half sugarfree liquid creamer and half milk then microwave it for 30 seconds to bring it back up to temp. And sometimes a splash of a Torani flavor for absolutely no reason. Could I just use a little more creamer instead of the sweetener? Sure. Could I use even more creamer and NO milk? Sure, I guess. I just enjoy mad scientisting my coffee. Wife just sighs and gets out of my way in the kitchen.
Know how some people are ambidextrous? I'm the opposite. Ambi-sinister. I'm naturally left-handed but I'm also nearly blind in my left eye so I've picked up a lot of things right-handed over the years. It wigs people out who've known me for a while when I do something left-handed like writing.
When I eat pie, I eat it in layers: 1st the top crust or topping, then the filling, then the crust.
Neuroqueering! It gives you fun situations everyday for sure.
What does this mean? I've never heard the term before.
To keep it too simple, it's neurodivergent people not adapting themselves to the constructed social norms.
In a more elaborated definition: it's subverting, defying, disrupting, liberating oneself from neuronormativity and heteronormativity simultaneously.
When people have a brain functioning differently from the majority, you will have different behaviors not matching the heteronormativity and the neuronormativity —even if you're heterosexual. The most obvious examples are not making eyes contact, not shaking hands, stimming in public.
What the heck kind of link is that? Lol
Ddg uses a proxy thing. It's a working link though
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