What Weird Quirks/habits Do You Have?

[The Gentleman Scamp]

Your nipsy is your ringpiece.

[Soph]

I have to have the volume on my car stereo on an even number. If i have a passenger in the car and they turn the volume up/down to an odd number i have to move it up/down to the next even number. It pisses me off but i always seem to do it.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

ha ha ha, me too, with the tv, or stereo - it always has to be an even number. My old housemate used to drive me crazy as she always changed the tv volume to 13, which was just a total nightmare for me!! How funny we are.

Another bad habit - sticking round with dodgy people for longer than I should

[The Gentleman Scamp]

Another bad habit - sticking round with dodgy people for longer than I should angry.gif

Hey, come on - those days are behind you now my dear.

Your life is ahead of you!

Anyway, that even number thing reminds me of another quirk...

If I turn around I have to turn back again the same way as if I have wound an invisible string around myself and feel the need to unwind it.

[wilko]

Who can unravel their belly button and pullit out!?!?!?!?!?

Oh yes!

[kayo]

Somehow I'm certain you aren't the only one Chuck. 

cv

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Did you guys realise that icey is in fact her father pretending to be his daughter?

After drying myself following a bath or shower, I apply talcum powder to my armpits and sometimes on my nipsy.

In Asia I use 'cooling' talc.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Hehehe.. i do that...

Before giving a girl one of my famous 'Scampy massages' - I rub my palms together until they are almost burning, then place my hands on the girls back and knead gently.

Thay always say, "Oooh Scampy, where did you learn to massage the way you do?"

I point out that I did not have lessons but merely take all the elements I enjoy myself from the different massages I have experienced in Thailand, Sweden and China and give what I enjoy most myself.

The fingers walking up the back of the neck are a surefire winner.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I do that too.. Scampy = Kayo clone for asia?

[Abandon]

I know for a fact that all uneaten peanuts are returned to the tin and are put out again for the next customer.

They started life as chocolate covered peanuts in the OAPs home. The Grannies spat them out after sucking the chocolate off them

I have to do all my math proofs by going back to the Zermelo-Frankel Set Theory Axioms and use only formal deductions of the Predicate Calculus. 

I obsess about the consistency of the Zermelo-Frankel Axioms as this has never been resolved (and it has shown that it can not be resolved).  As such, no model has been found for set theory, and yet we make statements about sets all the time.  A deduction of a formula and its negation from these axioms would be destabilize me completely.

I constantly worry that countable models exist for the Real Numbers due to the Lowenheim-Skolem Theorem, but the Real Numbers consitute an uncountable set.

That really freaked me out - no way you could have made all that up (yeah... and I watched that movie Pi too ..shudder..)

[quadricorrelator]

It's not made up (I am not sure what "Pi movie" means").

Two months ago I was deeply disturbed and upset by the fact that the definition of an interpretation of first order logical systems relied on the definition of a set, but sets can not be defined without using set theory axioms, and those consitute a first order logical system. This seemed circular to me and drove me crazy. It took two months to resolve this conflict.

I believe that this is resolved by realizing that Interpretation Theory is developed within the framework of Set Theory. As such, it is an axiomatic theory itself, and does not require the existence of an external object called a set. It isn't explained this way in the sources I had at the time, so I had to go further (at least I think it is the correct answer).

I can't let go of this subject. Some collections of objects are too big to be sets. That is, inconsistencies arise if you view sets as collections of objects. For example, the set of all sets which don't contain themselves is such a set which causes an inconsistency. If this set doesn't contain itself, then it must be a member of itself by definition, and if it does contain itself then it can't contain itself. The resolution was the development of axiomatic set theory. But it is still not enough for me because there still exist collections of sets called classes which are larger than any set, and those objects are not expressed within Zermelo-Frankel-Cantor Set theory.

I think I can't be happy until I understand the von Neumann-Bernay-Godel axioms, which contain a theory of these larger objects (without any known inconsistencies).

It is an inward psycho-epistimilogical spiral which continually intensifies. Originally I was concerned with tensor analysis on differential manifolds, but that degenerated into an orgy of foundational worry and obsession leading to ZFC and NBG theory.

Maybe it is beyond quirkiness or eccentricity.

Edited October 30, 2005 by quadricorrelator

[Thetyim]

HELP

Ban him quick before I kill him

[OxfordWill]

by realizing that Interpretation Theory is developed within the framework of Set Theory.  As such, it is an axiomatic theory itself, and does not require the existence of an external object called a set.

I think you have a few more months of frustration ahead of you! Plus it doesn't qualify as a quirk. A quark, maybe...

[Fast Eddie]

Quadricollerator, please don't take this as an insult, but i think your chances of long term happiness will be significantly improved by seeking proffesional help.

[Old Croc]

Quadricollerator, please don't take this as an insult, but i think your chances of long term happiness will be significantly improved by seeking proffesional help.

He's not really mad. It's an obsesive desire to display to the forum his knowledge of, and the fact that he wasted several years of his life studying, some obscure mathamatical mumbo jumbo. It makes him feel superior to all the guys who kicked footballs into his groin many year ago.

The scary thing is, there are several others on this forum.

[quadricorrelator]

"Quadricollerator, please don't take this as an insult, but i think your chances of long term happiness will be significantly improved by seeking proffesional help."

Thanks. No insult taken. I've tried seeking professional help many times (for extended time periods in some cases), but could not get relief.

My thinking is this: People with emotional/mental disorders can be helped by the field of psychiatry to various degrees. Some people are lucky enough to be happy and emotionally stable (due to heredity and environment) and don't need help. Others are unhappy, but can improve with professional help and/or psychopharmacology. But, some can not be helped,or may even be hurt by professional intervention. I believe I fit into that category. The most unfortunate group are so unhappy that only suicide can provide relief from unbearable and excrutiating emotional pain.

So far, the best I can do is to pick the the least destructive object of obsession. In my case it is seems to be immersion in foundational thinking, and to pick an environment which suites me (Thailand).

-q

[Old Croc]

"Quadricollerator, please don't take this as an insult, but i think your chances of long term happiness will be significantly improved by seeking proffesional help."

Thanks.  No insult taken.  I've tried seeking professional help many times (for extended time periods in some cases), but could not get relief. 

My thinking is this:  People with emotional/mental disorders can be helped by the field of psychiatry to various degrees.  Some people are lucky enough to be happy and emotionally stable (due to heredity and environment) and don't need help.  Others are unhappy, but can improve with professional help and/or psychopharmacology.  But, some can not be helped,or may even be hurt by professional intervention.  I believe I fit into that category.  The most unfortunate group are so unhappy that only suicide can provide relief from unbearable and excrutiating emotional pain.

So far, the best I can do is to pick the the least destructive object of obsession.  In my case it is seems to be immersion in foundational thinking, and to pick an environment which suites me (Thailand).

-q

My apologies Fast Eddy. You were right the first time.

[OxfordWill]

Makes you wonder really..who has the greater 'problem'? The one showing off or the one calling him out? Insecurities abound..!

[quadricorrelator]

I am guilty of showing off at times, and insecurity (much of the time), and many other social crimes which seem to annoy people (but not cause harm). I suppose those qualify as quirks too.

[OxfordWill]

No worries quadri I was actually having a snipe at Old Croc more than you..

I have always liked Mathematicians, big up respect yo.

[quadricorrelator]

"No worries quadri I was actually having a snipe at Old Croc more than you..

I have always liked Mathematicians, big up respect yo."

Thanks. It's good to hear a few kind words once in a while.

(actually, I am not a mathematician, but just enjoy studying it)

-q

[OxfordWill]

My favourite teacher at school was for Maths..always very bad at the subject but alot of respect for anyone capable of it. You get flak just for having a GCSE around here...

[opothai]

always drinking my tea or beer from the same side of the vessel [in the case fo beer vessels, cannot guarantee the same side after a few though]

[baht&sold]

I always leave my notes to self/bills to pay/stuff to remember to do the next day right on the floor in front of the door...yet I still forget sometimes... plus, I'm completely obssesed about classified ads

Other than that (and webbed feet), I'm perfectly normal

[sbk]

"Quadricollerator, please don't take this as an insult, but i think your chances of long term happiness will be significantly improved by seeking proffesional help."

Thanks.  No insult taken.  I've tried seeking professional help many times (for extended time periods in some cases), but could not get relief. 

My thinking is this:  People with emotional/mental disorders can be helped by the field of psychiatry to various degrees.  Some people are lucky enough to be happy and emotionally stable (due to heredity and environment) and don't need help.  Others are unhappy, but can improve with professional help and/or psychopharmacology.  But, some can not be helped,or may even be hurt by professional intervention.  I believe I fit into that category.  The most unfortunate group are so unhappy that only suicide can provide relief from unbearable and excrutiating emotional pain.

So far, the best I can do is to pick the the least destructive object of obsession.  In my case it is seems to be immersion in foundational thinking, and to pick an environment which suites me (Thailand).

-q

I gotta ask, where are you from? You sound just like a guy I went to school with way back when so please, tell me, where are you from?

[daleyboy]

I am a self confessed compulsive mass debator, as it says in my avatar

[kayo]

How are you defining "compulsive" in your statement Daleyboy?

Or for that matter debater. It does appear and read as a statement of supposed fact, whereas it is, in fact quite open to debate.

I await anxiously a response. Or am I more nervous than anxious. I´m not sure...

Kayo

[Old Croc]

"No worries quadri I was actually having a snipe at Old Croc more than you..

I have always liked Mathematicians, big up respect yo."

Thanks.  It's good to hear a few kind words once in a while.

(actually, I am not a mathematician, but just enjoy studying it)

-q

Sorry Quad and Oxford, haven't caught up with this thread for a little while

You're right OW, I have my share of insecurities, but I don't try to overcome them by showing off my talents/strengths in attempts to belittle others.

A question Will. Is Oxford your home town, or is your Nic designed to show the world you attended one of the great Universities? Is it your way of overcoming your insecurities? My nic pretty well sums me up not puffs me up.

Anyway, most of the guys that had balls kicked in their groins at school are dot.com millionares now.

My quirk is that I can't stand academics who never move on!