Fun Facts About....well, Ourselves!

[TishinaStalker]

I follow the seven virtues of Bushido, and try to apply them in my day-to-day life: Respect/Duty, courage, benevolence, rectitude, honesty, honor, and loyalty; gi, yūki, jin, rei, makoto, meiyo, chūgi.

I taught myself English. When I was born, I spent the entire first year of my life in a hospital due to unexplainable fevers, and my parents always had the TV on to American cartoons. From there, I started picking up on the language. My first word was "brother" and then "hermana" which is Spanish for sister. I could also read and write at a fifth grade level while in first grade; one of the things that led to my diagnosis of being autistic. One of my teachers had been talking about my "strange" behavior (preferred keeping to myself, would read about science and history at the library during recess instead of playing with other kids, and would be picked on for being weird in general by most people in my class) and my skill in language one day on her break, the school counselor overheard it, and asked my parents to get me tested for a "spectrum disorder".

I am an avid League of Legends player, and can be seen playing that almost all the time in my free time. Have been playing since season 2, and my friends always look to me for advice or opinions in lane match-ups, what's going on in the match, patch notes, etc.

It is near impossible to make me angry. The only thing that has ever made me genuinely angry this year, is lagging or disconnecting during a League of Legends match.

I value honesty above everything, and enjoy receiving criticism up-front rather than through a medium.

I do not smoke, drink or use any recreation drugs. I think some people call that being "straight edge" from what I've heard on campus? I find that term hilarious because it sounds like what is used to divide lines of cocaine, so I've never used it to identify myself because of the term "conflict of interest".

I am the youngest of three, and our skin tones are relevant to our time of birth somehow. My sister was born at noon, and has tan skin. My brother was born at night, and has the darkest skin in the family. I was born at 8 AM, and have the lightest skin in the family.

I look damn well with a "candado" (lock) as the facial hairstyle is called in Spanish. As I don't know what it's called in English, have this image of one! http://hombresconestilo.com/files/2009/06/barba-candado.png

[Frances]

I am an avid League of Legends player, and can be seen playing that almost all the time in my free time. Have been playing since season 2, and my friends always look to me for advice or opinions in lane match-ups, what's going on in the match, patch notes, etc.

You should play with us! I started a thread in the Other Games forum.

[TishinaStalker]

Definitely posted there. Thanks, Frances!

[Dea Tacita]

Redoing because I feel like I should share more than I did in my initial post.

I'm 29, and, a Syrian Arab living in Israel.

As I previously said, I'm nonalingual. The languages I speak being, in-order of learning them. Arabic, Hebrew, English, Chechen, Russian, Danish, Mandarin, the Gascon dialect of Occitain, and, Afrikaans .

I've got Huntington's disease, and until recently was unable to speak due to an injury. Which I had minor surgery on to help, and am now going through speech therapy.

Have a degree in Behavioral psychology from the University of Haifa.

Only instrument I know how to play is the Ocarina, and I can only play like 3 songs.

annnd That's all the interesting stuffs.

[Guest]

I do airsoft with my dad.

I'm 18.

Ironically, have not learned to drive yet. This winter I shall.

I work part-time from 12PM to 4PM EST as a maintenance guy and EMS responder. I help fix up shit no one else wants to, and I help old ladies up when they can't get up. Not really, but that's the extent of an EMS' usefulness on most days.

I am 75% polish. I was born in Virginia.

My social security numb- hey, wait a second...

[Rusty Shackleford]

I would say that my rampant paranoia has been downgraded to somewhat severe to mild paranoia. Meaning I no longer rig shotguns to tripwires at my front door, and such.

I've begun writing more things.

I now have two jobs because roommate got girlfriend and moved in with her.

[Guest]

I would say that my rampant paranoia has been downgraded to somewhat severe to mild paranoia. Meaning I no longer rig shotguns to tripwires at my front door, and such.

 

what kind of sane person doesn't rig shotguns to tripwires as a welcome mat

[witchbells]

I get motion sickness really, really easily. It makes some first person games difficult for me and pisses me off to no end.

I like comics. I really, really like comics. Mostly indie stuff that comes from Image, but I've read some DC and an itty bit of Marvel too.

I've actually mentioned it a few times, but I am only 4'11.

I like pepsi more than cola.

I have three entire charts of fictional crushes, separated by medium.

I like cartoons a lot. I regularly watch Sofia the First, Gravity Falls, and Steven Universe.

I've torrented and watched the Monster High movies.

I'm aiming to major in web and graphic design.

Edited November 4, 2014 by Guest

[Tainavaa]

I met one of my closer friends in my initial Army training. We tell everyone we slept in the same bed because of that. Because we did.

I, too, enjoy pepsi much, much more than coke. Dr. Pepper is the best though.

I despise Dota, but I've accrued over 1600 hours in it.

I was a foster child from age 17-18, literally two days after my 17th birthday. Not going to go into details about how it led up to that point, but I was in the foster system JUST long enough to get the sweet deal of free schooling AND getting paid TO go to school in Florida. Which is another thing that binds me to this shitty state. You have no idea just how giddy I am about the situation, though.

I don't have a religion but I do have beliefs I take from pagan religions. No I don't have an athame or book of shadows, no I don't perform rituals; Nothing against pagans that do, I just feel it's unnecessary - it's more the principle and nature of the beliefs rather than the practice that drew me to it. I have studied a bit of Wicca when I was younger; it wasn't for me.

[Baka]

I like ASMR videos of people getting their beards shaved and hair cut.

I like to write and draw short stories and comics.

[Guest Marlon Phoenix]

I have a Soviet Ushanka and civil defense stickers from the 1960's.

I'm a history major.

I have an irrational phobia of all spiders.

I identify as a Roman, am personally offended at the occupation of Constantinople by the Turks, and barbarians are one of my triggers. I go by "SPQRr" or "SPQR-kin"

[Rechkalov]

Let's see...

I'm 21. Woo, we're off to a great start!

I've attended High School of Arts in Brno with focus on Illustration/scientific drawing - from there, I went to Baťa's University to learn me self how to animate movies, but I ran away from there because I couldn't stand the marketing aspect of the thing.

I've been trying to read and if possible collect the works of humanists and humanistic socialists (I hate the labels, they are tricky as balls; we're basically talking fellows from Eckhart over Spinoza to Fromm) for more than five years now, and thanks to that nobody ever listens to me, because I'm a 'fucking commie'.

I'm halway through getting my pilot's licence, which is to say, I can safely fly and land a plane, but need to pay for a bunch more hours to meet the required limit.

I have also dropped a commission worth over 1700 euro because "I didn't feel like doing it".

Oh! And out of my three attemps at actual long-lasting, serious relationships, two of the girls ended up in mental hospital.

[SgtSammac]

New sammac fact!

I am a qualified Cadet Assistant Signals Instructor. I can teach/test from a Basic Cadet up to 2* Cadet Radio User. I can also assist in the teaching of Crossed Flag Courses (Cadet Radio User (VHF), Cadet Linesman (Field Cable/Telephones) and Cadet Signaller (HF))

[Kerbal22]

You also have a strange as hell avatar.

EDIT: Facts.

I have recently become a fan of Five Finger Death Punch and one of their songs (Wrong side of Heaven and Righteous side of Hell) inspired Artemisia Zephyr.

[SgtSammac]

You also have a strange as hell avatar.

Pink Floyd beotch.

[Skull132]

I once took an arrow to the knee.

No joke: homemade arrow fired from a homemade bow ended up with its pointy end in one of my knees (I forget which, due to it having taken place about a decade ago).

[GlamourChariot]

I once took an arrow to the knee.

No joke: homemade arrow fired from a homemade bow ended up with its pointy end in one of my knees (I forget which, due to it having taken place about a decade ago).

 

The real question is whether or not you're still able to go adventuring.

[Skull132]

Yesss. Adventure very much, be good, yes?

[hivefleetchicken]

When I was about 8 or 9, a friend of mine dropped a small boulder on my hand.

My right middle finger now has a line of scars going straight down the middle, as it literally split my finger into two large halves.

Even worse, it was on a camping trip, so the only medical treatment I got was a pat on the back.

By the time I reached a hospital, a day later, I was so tired from the pain that I slept through the entire operation of scrubbing the gravel and dirt out of my finger with a wire brush without any painkillers.

I have also broken my wrist before and ignored it for three weeks, still going to school and participating in physical education and such. I only went to the doctor after it made a snapping noise one day while I was lifting weights to discover that I would need surgery if I broke it any further.

[Jennalele]

I'm 17, learning to drive, and I live in Canada.

I can speak fluently in English, French and American Sign Language. I used to be fluent in German, but I've lost a lot. I haven't lived in Germany since I was a very wikkle Jenners.

I am close to deaf in my right ear, and it's expected to die out completely by the time I'm about 25.

I made it up to Silver star ( Third level/rank/thing ) in the RCAC program with the rank of C/Sgt, then promptly moved across the country. I never had the chance to get back to it, unfortunately.

I'm a competitive recurve archer. I once also took an arrow, not to the knee, but the shoulder, in a practice range accident. That was a fun hospital trip.

[Valkrae]

Why does everyone else have these badass injuries?

You know what? Imma tell you about my three fun hospital trips,

I had my appendix burst once, that was a fun near death experience.

Then there was the time the lymph nodes in my face swelled to the point that the doctor thought my face was going to burst.

I also almost broke my neck and died in a freak accident with a fence, bleachers, and water.

[hivefleetchicken]

My appendix exploded, too. Almost died as well. They knew something was wrong when I needed two full iv's over the course of about an hour.

Acute perforated appendicitis.

[incognitojesus]

I like Oreos and cranberry juice.

[Jennalele]

I like Oreos and cranberry juice.

 

At the same time, or separately? Because they warrant two very different reactions. O_O

[hivefleetchicken]

I can do things that I'd rather not do. Things that Incog knows about.

Shshsh.