Tell us something about yourself!

Petrie. · **Reply #680 on:** July 20, 2009, 08:07:20 AM

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"I just took a geranium to the cranium!"

That would be a custom title (what's below your avatar) in a heartbeat at another board where they sometimes just take stuff you say and make them your custom title. I don't do that here, but that's too funny to be overlooked.

Malte, what has history taught you about electric sockets?

Petrie. · **Reply #681 on:** July 20, 2009, 08:10:15 AM

Oh yeah, gotta post something about myself.....

If we're putting up incredibly stupid stuff now, I got one. We had a wood firestove at our old house and on this iron stove we had some weird temperature guage. Well when I was about seven or so I wanted to see if that really moved or if it was stuck while there was a fire going.

Ow ow ow is all I got to say.

Malte279 · **Reply #682 on:** July 20, 2009, 12:13:51 PM

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Malte, what has history taught you about electric sockets?

It has taught me that I can electrocute myself on it and live to tell the story

Hmm... I wonder what happens if I put the key of my door into that socket but before I do that I still need to find out if casting tin is indeed more dangerous than boiling coffee

Noname · **Reply #683 on:** July 20, 2009, 06:16:08 PM

I once accidently cut myself with a utility knife... I think that is what it was called...

tempestwheel · **Reply #684 on:** July 20, 2009, 06:20:54 PM

Slasher films are my favorite film genre.

lbt/cty_lover · **Reply #685 on:** July 20, 2009, 06:21:00 PM

Wow. What happened to this thread. Everyone is talking about how they have hurt themselves.

Pangaea · **Reply #686 on:** July 20, 2009, 09:25:38 PM

^ You said the same thing when everyone was talking about their alcohol preferences.

I know the tidbits we post about ourselves in this thread aren't supposed to follow any particular pattern, but I think that when people read someone else's post(s), they often get "inspired" to post a fact about themselves in a similar vein, forming chains of mini-topics. If other posters seem to have a subject going, I'm usually not one to break it, though when it comes to conversations, I'm something of a master at setting the topic adrift (usually inadvertently).

Cancerian Tiger · **Reply #687 on:** July 21, 2009, 12:13:50 AM

Somethin' I find strange is how I can run for six miles without one mishap, and yet I can't barely make it through or even out of my house without some kind of mishap (usually tripping) happening :blink:.

Noname · **Reply #688 on:** July 21, 2009, 12:28:01 AM

I used to take lithography classes, but gave them up when I learned that I had no talent or real interest in them...

Cancerian Tiger · **Reply #689 on:** July 21, 2009, 12:38:31 AM

Quote from: Petrie,Jul 20 2009 on 07:07 AM

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"I just took a geranium to the cranium!"

That would be a custom title (what's below your avatar) in a heartbeat at another board where they sometimes just take stuff you say and make them your custom title. I don't do that here, but that's too funny to be overlooked.

It's in my signature now

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I am not squeamish and can tolerate a LOT of nasty sights and smells, but the one smell I can't stand is that of formaldehyde (ya know, the liquid morticians preserve corpses with). It gives me a migraine and makes me nauseated

. During my Human Anatomy and Physiology course, I had to sit next to buckets full of dissected pigs submerged in formaldehyde for three weeks

. It was so bad the entire biology building smelled of it.

Noname · **Reply #690 on:** July 21, 2009, 12:43:09 AM

Wow. And I thought the time I dissected a frog was a bad thing... lol.

Pangaea · **Reply #691 on:** July 21, 2009, 02:20:19 AM

The only time I ever had to dissect anything was during an Animal Biology class I took in the spring of 2006 as a college prerequisite. While I have a relatively strong stomach, I can't say that I enjoyed cutting apart dead animals (especially with the dull dissecting scalpels we had to use). But, like Cancerian Tiger, it was the smell of the formaldehyde that got to me the most.

(I think I'm allergic to the stuff.)

Noname · **Reply #692 on:** July 21, 2009, 08:58:51 AM

I can't stand the smell of formaldehyde myself... I smelled it before... there was a lab once where we saw a partially bisected human brain in a jar of it... ugh.

In other news, my palm pilot crashed and now, when I turn it on, there are all sorts of weird colors around what looks like a smudge... and hitting reset doesn't work...

Mirumoto_Kenjiro · **Reply #693 on:** July 21, 2009, 11:16:06 PM

^The only thing I ever cut up was a live lobster for cooking school. I'll never be doing that again.

My favorite bug is a praying mantis.

Serris · **Reply #694 on:** July 22, 2009, 02:06:51 AM

I am not averse to dissection but the smell of formaldehyde can get me extremely ill (nausea + massive headache + nasal burning + dizziness).

I ate a Thresher Shark for dinner today.

I love seafood.

Pangaea · **Reply #695 on:** July 22, 2009, 03:39:35 AM

Quote from: Serris,Jul 22 2009 on 01:06 AM

I love seafood.

Me too. I'm especially partial to crustaceans, though I can't stand the thought of selecting a live lobster from a tank to be cooked. Even if they're all destined for the dinner table anyway, I'd feel too much like an executioner.

(But that's just me; I can understand that large edible arthropods don't elicit the same sympathetic connections in most people.

)

Quote from: Serris,Jul 22 2009 on 01:06 AM

I ate a Thresher Shark for dinner today.

A thresher shark? :blink: What was that like?

Littlefoot1616 · **Reply #696 on:** July 22, 2009, 05:43:15 AM

I've only ever been to one live concert in my life. At the age of 10, I went to see the late Michael Jackson at Wembly Arena in London back in 1995. It's the only one I've been to so I have to say it was my best one

Paradise Bird · **Reply #697 on:** July 22, 2009, 08:32:18 AM

I enjoy studying languages.I also like to eat well.........
Snakes
Steamed Worms with Centipede Wine
Monkey Brain
Nasi Lamak

Alex · **Reply #698 on:** July 22, 2009, 12:20:56 PM

I was born on one of those Friday the 13's. That's about all I got.

Amaranthine · **Reply #699 on:** July 22, 2009, 03:31:06 PM

I hate when people say, "be a good girl", I just feel weird when people say that, even if it's not directed at me...