tell us a surprising thing about you!

[e60m5]

This won't be as surprising to some of you as to others.

I'm considering growing up. It's been a fun time so far, but sometimes I feel like a life of fun and games and living for the present isn't what I should necessarily be spending my time doing now. Going out without a care in the world, partying, getting f*cked up, kind of doesn't feel the same way as it once did... I might almost go so far as to say it leaves me feeling a little empty these days (well, that could also be the hangovers, or the mandatory walletery/financial bruising). And it's a kind of unsettling feeling... But I'm sure there's just more to life out there...

Maybe it's time for me to look at what there is out there in front of me... life is gonna change a hell of a lot for me over the coming months, whether I like it or not. There have always been nagging doubts in my mind, but maybe it's time to grow up.

You know when sometimes you get that feeling when you know that you could be so much more than you are, if only you kicked yourself in the ass and got yourself going?

I wonder where life's gonna take me next...

[4tissimo]

The 2d most famous Japanese conductor, Hiroyuki Iwaki, broke a violin over my head.

[da jake]

You have GOT to tell us more about that, 4tissimo! 

[Waldszenen]

This won't be as surprising to some of you as to others.

I'm considering growing up. It's been a fun time so far, but sometimes I feel like a life of fun and games and living for the present isn't what I should necessarily be spending my time doing now. Going out without a care in the world, partying, getting f*cked up, kind of doesn't feel the same way as it once did... I might almost go so far as to say it leaves me feeling a little empty these days (well, that could also be the hangovers, or the mandatory walletery/financial bruising). And it's a kind of unsettling feeling... But I'm sure there's just more to life out there...

Maybe it's time for me to look at what there is out there in front of me... life is gonna change a hell of a lot for me over the coming months, whether I like it or not. There have always been nagging doubts in my mind, but maybe it's time to grow up.

You know when sometimes you get that feeling when you know that you could be so much more than you are, if only you kicked yourself in the ass and got yourself going?

I wonder where life's gonna take me next...

Alas, don't we all feel that sometimes...

[Bouter Boogie]

I forgot to tell you guys that I'm also a drummer in a rockband Seriously, I'm not even kidding

[goansongo]

I can play the Ocarina....  Yeah, I became interested in playing it because Link plays it in Zelda.

[chromatickler]

i play the recorder, randomly

[Siberian Husky]

whats a recorder?


randomly

[thracozaag]

  Two friends of mine and I from Curtis seriously proposed moving to LA and becoming garbage-men in 1999.

koji

[kelly_kelly]

Two really weird things about me:

-I cannot stand catsup.

-I have a strange talent: pogo-sticking.

[diegosmom]

• I'll eat any kind of cheese. The moldier and stinkier, the better.
• I met the former Pope (JPII).
• I watched every episode of American Idol.

(ok, that last line took all my guts to admit on a classical pianists' forum!)

[Torp]

(ok, that last line took all my guts to admit on a classical pianists' forum!)

The first step to overcoming an addiction is admitting you have a problem.

[Bouter Boogie]

whats a recorder?


randomly

Type of flute, made of wood. I played it too.

[alraydo]

- I play the recorder

- I played at Carnegie Hall.  It was a recital in one of the studios upstairs, but I usually leave that part out when I tell people.  But hey -- it was Carnegie Hall.

- I can juggle

- I just got my motorcycle license, bought a bike, and ride every day

- I'm related to Edwin Gerschefski

- I'm an atheist

[jeremyjchilds]

Reeally? 6ft 4 has competition then...

Well, it if is a competition, then I think he won...

6'7 is just high enough to bump my head on a lot of things....

[Tash]

i'll tell you something random i discovered the other day- i own a bra that is 65% BAMBOO- i was like what! i have no idea where the bamboo is in it, cos it seems to be pretty normal...

another thing, cos i want to know if anyone shares this thing- i sleep without a pillow and it's seriously the most comfortable thing in the world and you should all try it!! anyone else do that?

[thalbergmad]

i'll tell you something random i discovered the other day- i own a bra that is 65% BAMBOO- i was like what! i have no idea where the bamboo is in it, cos it seems to be pretty normal...

another thing, cos i want to know if anyone shares this thing- i sleep without a pillow and it's seriously the most comfortable thing in the world and you should all try it!! anyone else do that?

A bamboo bra. You are gonna get a lot of stick for that.

I saw some edible knickers for sale in a shop i visited the other day.

I can't sleep without a pillow. I usually have 3. Plus my teddy bear as well.

[donjuan]

i'll tell you something random i discovered the other day- i own a bra that is 65% BAMBOO- i was like what! i have no idea where the bamboo is in it, cos it seems to be pretty normal...

another thing, cos i want to know if anyone shares this thing- i sleep without a pillow and it's seriously the most comfortable thing in the world and you should all try it!! anyone else do that?

my neck would be sooo sore the next morning if I did that...
I sleep on a 100$ Obusforme UltraFoam deluxe pillow.

https://www.obusforme.com/product_nav.asp?ID=47

super soft, juuuust the right amount of support, contours to my head, and never loses it's original shape.  I tell you -memory foam is one of the greatest inventions I can think of other than ketchup and toilet paper..

[Mozartian]

bamboo is a new fiber on the market, along with "soy silk" (literally made from the left-overs of the tofu manufacturing process o.O I KID YOU NOT), tencil (which is made from cellulose from trees), ingeo (made in nebraska- from corn!!! haha), silk latte (made from- milk. yeah. I'm dying to get my hands on some of that stuff) and an increasing amount of others.
It's considered a man-made/plant fiber. The process of manufacturing it is somewhat complicated to explain. At anyrate its seriously cool stuff.
Soy silk has the edge over the others, IMO, because it's a protein fiber- the first (I believe) plant fiber that you can actually dye with the same dyes as you would for fibers from animals such as sheep, alpacas, goats, etc. Other plant fibers, such as cotton and linen, require a special kind of dye.
Which brings me to a surprising thing about me- I'm into "fiber arts", big time. I've actually spun soy silk, haha. And I can take a newly shorn fleece, and do like the whole process from washing/carding/spinning/knitting into a garment.
In other words- if we ever get into WW3 and all our foreign trading is cut off, I can keep everyone in socks, lol.

---edit---
did you know that acrylic fiber is made from fossils?!?!?!

[stevie]

I harbour no surprises as an adult. What you see (and hear) is what you get. When I started school at six I decided I didn't like it and laid the teacher out with a swift punch to the solar plexus, for which act I stood in the rubbish bin for a day. I received beltings from the teacher for lifting the skirts of all the girls in the playground.

RESPECT!!!!!!! 

[stevie]

  Two friends of mine and I from Curtis seriously proposed moving to LA and becoming garbage-men in 1999.

koji

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAA

i play the recorder, randomly

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

 

[stevie]

k, i was arrested for vandalism once, and threw a metal bar at the windscreen of the car that came to arrest me

do not mess wit me 

[thalbergmad]

I got cautioned for vandalism once.

I covered my neigbours car roof with bird seed coz he parked in my place.

He did not see the funny side, but there were a lot of happy sparrows.

[nanabush]

Here's more:

-I recently dislocated my shoulder doing standing long jump  don't ask how it just happened.
-I like doing stuff that I know will have a bad outcome, for example quickly tapping the hot stove seeing if I'll burn my hand, starting food fights, trying a backflip on flat ground, calling the teacher's name with my face behind a book... It always hurts me or gets me in trouble, but I still do stupid a** things like that.
-I am f*kin scared of opaque shower curtains. (I hate the unknown)  I have one in my house, the bathroom is across the hall, if I see it closed, i'll whip it open, and when I take a shower I open the curtain and just aim the nosel more at the wall lol... but the door is closed when I take showers 
-I baught fireworks on canada day when I was 15 and shot them off the roof of my comunity center to the houses across the street.
-I am obsessed with RPG games.
-I am constantly questioning my religion, and think that I am athiest, not sure yet.

[quantum]

Non-religious people who can't shut up about how religion is so invalid or wrong or whatever annoy the fu*k out of me.

Amen. 

-I am f*kin scared of opaque shower curtains. (I hate the unknown) I have one in my house, the bathroom is across the hall, if I see it closed, i'll whip it open, and when I take a shower I open the curtain and just aim the nosel more at the wall lol... but the door is closed when I take showers

Have you ever seen the movie Psycho?



Anyways, I want to learn to play the recorder. 

I adore the sound of finger nails on blackboard. 

I eat ceareal without milk. 

Chickens are cool.

I don't drink or smoke or do drugs. 

I play clarinet. 

I love playing piano when I'm angry (it produces great music, although the piano may come out feeling a bit tender). 

[Waldszenen]

More random stuff about me...

- I am diabetic

- I was born about a week too late (as opposed to premature)

- The most I've ever won in a bet is $1,000

- I accidentally threw a stray cat into my pool when I was about 4... you can imagine how angry it was then.

[gorbee natcase]

I talk too much and I am crazy

[chozart]

• This just like randomly happened to me when I was 8/9 :
  
  I can't close my left hand to make a fist without my middle knuckle moving extremely to the left side so that the bottom of it is pretty much contingent with my 4th finger's knuckle; there is only a small gap between the tops of both then.
  It moves back into "standard position" as I open my hand up again.
  Occassionally, this hurts >_>
• I can't do the splits without dislocating my left leg o_O
• I'm allergic to mosquitoes (if I'm bitten, the bite often swells over 3 inches, so I have to take medicine and use a medicated ointment)
• I've lived in 2 places in Bosnia, 1 in Macedonia, 2 in Germany, and 5 in the USA
• I was fluent in German, but upon moving to the States, forgot it all (as I was the only one in my family that spoke it pretty well, and then my focus became learning English + getting accustomed to American schools).. sad
• I'm double jointed in every finger of both hands (so I can bend the last joints in them and yeah it looks really weird o_O)
• I was born with, and still exhibit, a natural phenomenon: my left pupil randomly dialates and shrinks back, regardless of lighting ~ you can actually stand infront of me and see it go o_O
  It doesn't happen always, but a lot ~ oddly enough though, my left eye is less sensitive to light (though in actuality, both are very much) and has better vision too (same thing here.. my vision in both is ridiculous ~ just got a new prescription: (left)-8.5 & (right)-9.0)
• I'm moving back to Europe in about 3 years; my parents will go to Bosnia, and I want to go to Spain ~ I have no clue, however, where my brother will go.. probably Switzerland/Austria/England

[Floristan]

I don't like Coca Cola. 

[thalbergmad]

It is my ambition to live in a remote Scottish lighthouse like a hermit.

[pianistimo]

why do i get the idea that quantum and thalbergmad randomly post true and false statements.  they fit it with the flow quite nicely until you think about them.  i mean, does anyone REALLY like fingernails on the chalkboard.  what kind of a childhood did you live.  that kind of person usually hates chickens and goes around killing them.  yet, you love chickens.  it doesn't fit the personality profile.

ok.  and thalbergmad has occasionally stated that he is 'looking' but not in great haste for that perfect size 8 girl.  now, is he looking for a mermaid  or what.  locked up in  a lighthouse would be a remote place to find anyone anywhere.

had to help my son rewrite an essay on dr. jekyll and mr. hyde.  wow.  i guess that it is possible to have two very separate sides of ones personality. 

mine is when i am very very tired or pms'ing.  my kids kind of see the look on my face or the inability to act on any need of theirs.  "mom, can you bring me...."  'i'm too weak.  look, i can't even lift a finger.'

occasionally the other side of my personality comes out when i talk to my mother.  she keeps writing letters (since i haven't talked to her on the phone for awhile, which is unusual) telling me that everyone she's known that has gone for a master's degree has completely gone into debt and never recouped the  money.  i want to find this out for myself.   

[thalbergmad]

Don't remember saying i want a size 8 girl. That is toooooooooo thin.

You have worked me out. I am schizo.

[quantum]

I'm not joking about the finger nails on black board.  I also love the sound of train wheels schreeching when the train turns.  I've discovered that I am able to filter out the unplesentness of various sounds, or selectively filter out sounds that I conciously do not want to hear at any given moment. 

When I was about 12 years old, there were several instances where my teacher called my name but I didn't hear it.  In all cases the classroom was extreemly noisy with chatter, and I just wanted to keep to my book.  The teacher thought I had a hearing problem and advised me to see a doctor,  but I eventually discovered I could selectively delete sounds from a particular soundscape that I did not want to hear. 

If someone in my house wanted to vaccum while I wanted to sleep it would be no problem, I would simply filter out the sound and go happily to sleep. 


As for chickens... I stand by my comment.  They are cool.   

[chopintod]

I am a diehard Pittsburgh Steelers fan even though i live in ohio; I want to become a sportswriter; I was in the top .5% of students in the nation last year (based off of standardized tests) but I decided to attend a state school known for its party reputation (#2 in the nation) because I didn't really feel like doing a ton of work.  Which leads to--->I'm lazy.    And jokes concerning 1) other people's mothers, and 2) male genitalia I consider hilarious.

Also, something that surprises me now but won't probably surprise you: I used to have extremely low self-esteem, esp. concerning body image, but have recently lost 25 pounds and am considering myself to be a rather nice-looking guy.  Now I hear such things as "Aww, he looked cute, too" when I walk by a fundraising table run by girls without contributing.

And, I'm terrified of bugs.  I'll sit there and watch someone kill a bug, but I can't do it myself....ugh....

Terry

[brewtality]

I shed a quiet tear this morning after Australia lost the Ashes. I'm no longer Australian. 

[thalbergmad]

I shed a quiet tear this morning after Australia lost the Ashes. I'm no longer Australian. 

You will probably win it back next time. Us English are world resting on your laurels champions.

It was an excellent series, almost as enjoyable as the 1981 series.

Now we can look forward to our over - paid nancy boys footballers getting nowhere in the World Cup.

[randmc]

hmmm....let's see

A Few Wierd Things about randmc
1.I write in my journal in a made up language.
2.I've been struck by lightning.
3.I have an abnormally long penis which is actually a disease.
4.I make vodoo dolls of people i hate and cast them into the fire in hopes that they will burn in hell.
5.I've been to Greenland on vacation.
6.I torture people in my mind.
7.I am an actual certified genius.

[randmc]

and oh ya

8.I have dreams about my alternate life in which I am a 13 y/o stuck in a 56 y/o's body.

[rimv2]

AHAHAHAHAHA

Randomly

At the age of five.

Kicked out a window after watching da Bruce

Still got the scar 15 years later.

Randomly

Make people intimidated by being tall dark and silent (quiet black people are scary ).

Uba Randomly

Shock goofy wiggaz by speaking articulately.

Hahahhha

Sickily

Can 540 kick your head off

[rc]

Nobody knows me here, but:

- At birth the doc said I might be brain damaged.
- I was diagnosed with a heart murmur at 13.
- I spend my free time reading classic literature, drinking tea and being a piano-hermit; But...
- I still get drunk and streak the streets more often than most. Randomly.

Going out without a care in the world, partying, getting f*cked up, kind of doesn't feel the same way as it once did... I might almost go so far as to say it leaves me feeling a little empty these days (well, that could also be the hangovers, or the mandatory walletery/financial bruising). And it's a kind of unsettling feeling... But I'm sure there's just more to life out there...

I'll bet a lot of that empty feeling has to do with being around the same people doing the same things all the time... Otherwise, growing up's a good thing.

[stevie]

i randomly shave the locals

[randmc]

^^^ :Dlmao...is that you in the blue shorts?

[stevie]

they arent shorts, thats the way my pubic hair grows 

[perfect_pitch]

Here's something that many people may not know about me...

I'M A SCOT!!!! I come from Glasgow.... Not many Scottish Piano Players that I know off, I may be the first Famous Scottish Concert Pianist   

(So please don't tease me...    )

[thalbergmad]

Here's something that many people may not know about me...

I'M A SCOT!!!! I come from Glasgow.... Not many Scottish Piano Players that I know off, I may be the first Famous Scottish Concert Pianist   

(So please don't tease me...    )

Eugene D'albert was Scottish.

[xvimbi]

Eugene D'albert was Scottish.

Emil von Sauer's mother was a pretty good Scottish pianist.

[thalbergmad]

Mendelssohn and Chopin visited Scotland.

[donjuan]

i randomly shave the locals

Strange, Steve, I didnt know you were in Slovenia.....
Come to think of it, I didnt know your name was Isaac either!

You phoney!!
 
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