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Discussion in 'General' started by Steve @ CCL, 7 Jul 2011.

  1. Steve @ CCL

    Steve @ CCL CCL Tech. Support

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    Not sure how well this thread will do or if it's been done before but here goes. Kinda self explanatory just a random fact about your self, it could be anything as long as it's true.


    For example I'll start....


    My chest hair grows patchy. :sigh:
     
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  2. confusis

    confusis Kiwi-modder

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    I have two children, age 1 and 2
     
  3. SuicideNeil

    SuicideNeil What's a Dremel?

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    I can do the Vulcan greeting, with both hands.
     
  4. Pete J

    Pete J Employed scum

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    I can make my eyes vibrate rapidly in a small movement from side to side
     
  5. Teelzebub

    Teelzebub Up yours GOD,Whats best served cold

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    I can stand on my hands but I have to take my boots of because it hurts them when I stand on them lol
     
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  6. Steve @ CCL

    Steve @ CCL CCL Tech. Support

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    Hey I forgot I could do that too!! Just remembered, thanks for reminding me. I do it by going cross-eyed so hard that my eyes go brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr left to right if that makes sense ha ha.

    I've got another one. I can wrap my either of my arms all the way around the back of my head and round the front to touch the ear on the same side, so my right arm round the back, under my neck and touch my right ear. Freaks people out quite a lot.
     
  7. Pete J

    Pete J Employed scum

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    Makes perfect sense! Apparently it's something to do with strong eye muscles, or at least that's what I remember one of my teachers telling me about 20 years ago. I just tried looking it up to see if it has a name but I can only find a disorder called 'strabismus', which is an involuntary action rather than controlled like we can do. Either way, don't do it too much - it can damage things!
    That's pretty weird! I'm guessing you must have a thin and flexible build?
     
  8. Gunsmith

    Gunsmith Maximum Win

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    due to a car crash some 13 years ago i can crack my neck like people crack thier knuckles, great for expressing boredom in meetings.
     
  9. Psycho

    Psycho Average

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    If I shave my beard it grows back again in 1~2 weeks (And I mean full length).
     
  10. Bitemebad91

    Bitemebad91 What's a Dremel?

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    I like toast :p
     
  11. Pete J

    Pete J Employed scum

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    I can do that too, though not due to a car crash, just due to doing loads of stretching when I was younger. Wonderful for making people feel icky when the room is silent.
     
  12. outlawaol

    outlawaol Geeked since 1982

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    Both of my thumbs are double jointed. And I can do the rapid eye movement thing too. :)
     
  13. erratum1

    erratum1 What's a Dremel?

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    I have some grey hairs. :(
     
  14. C-Sniper

    C-Sniper Stop Trolling this space Ądmins!

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    Rapid eye movement thing here as well.

    I had my pilot's license before my driver's license
     
  15. Malvolio

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    When I was 16 I weighted 285lbs, and was horribly inactive (nearly as round as I was tall). I'm now 25 and weigh 155lbs, doing a minimum of an hour of strength and endurance training every day on and off the bike. So I'm basically bone and muscle with maybe about 6-7% body fat.

    After all this, you know what I've realised? When I rub my hands over my legs I can feel the muscle tissue beneath the skin and it feels really icky. Feeling and seeing my bone structure as I now can doesn't bother me, but the texture of my muscles under my skin bothers me for some reason.

    Strange, right?
     
  16. The_Beast

    The_Beast I like wood ಠ_ಠ

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    I can do that too, it REALLY creeps people out
     
  17. confusis

    confusis Kiwi-modder

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    I lost 30 kgs (66lbs) last year without changing diet and exercise.. 97kg (213lb) => 67 kg (147lb) in 3 months without any concious effort.. stress may have contributed though. Still hovering around 72-75kg (160-165lb ) which is nice.
     
  18. BentAnat

    BentAnat Software Dev

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    I get up at 5AM and do an and a half of work before going to the day job an hour early. Then I go home after 10+ hours there, and work for another hour.
    What's strange about that? I enjoy the extra hours, and get things done that way. Both in my freelance work, as well as at my day job.
     
  19. Kovoet

    Kovoet What's a Dremel?

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    Everyone has a natural talent and mine is art (not modern at but stuff like live portraits and landscapes)
    But do not do it as the only rich artists are dead ones.
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    I used to swim cor my country at a world class level. And when I was at my peak I could do 100m in just 52 seconds, roughly a second off the world record pace and I was only 18.
     

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