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Yeah, I think you mean women are weird. Men spend a long time trying to figure out what makes a woman happy, truth is no one knows the answer!
What do you find weird in everyday life?
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Yeah, I think you mean women are weird. Men spend a long time trying to figure out what makes a woman happy, truth is no one knows the answer!
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Hmmm... I made one post..
"Yes but at least cats get on with it themselves. Unlike the vast majority of dogs, which are totally pointless, messy and irritating. What I find wierd is why anybody would keep a dog as a pet at all."
So.. let's break that down...
"Yes"
So I was actually conceeding the point that Vandenal made,
"but at least cats get on with it themselves. Unlike the vast majority of dogs, which are totally pointless, messy and irritating."
This is my opinion which I believe I am allowed to not only have, but also share,
What I find wierd is why anybody would keep a dog as a pet at all.
Concluding statement totally inline with the thread title and not contradicting what Vandenal or any other poster said previously said at all,
So quite why I ('and people like me', which is who exactly?) deserve to be singled out for being called "a bunch of stupid children".. I am not so sure...
care to explain?
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I find it weird why people buy nice cars like BMW M3's, Mazda RX8's, Focus ST's and so forth and keep them outside on a narrow road where bin lorries have to squeeze through, yet their (usualy locked) garages are full of old junk, empty boxes, broken kids toys and a 50 quid lawn mower. This is the very scene down my road.
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I find it weird when small, petite women decide they're ugly. I mean damn, if anything they're hot. Like light-years from anyone, but somehow someone says the word "fat" and they just go in a corner.
Luck. I always overthink and have faith that my luck is awful. Luck is just really weird.
Luck. I always overthink and have faith that my luck is awful. Luck is just really weird.
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Just trying to get people to compliment them usually.
"Im so fat"
"You're not"
"Thanks"
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You can share your opinion, but the way you worded it sounded more like a flat out insult aimed at dogs and their owners instead of just stating how you feel about owning a dog.
That'd be like me saying I find it weird that anyone likes BMW's because they're heavy and pointless and stupid. I don't think that, but a BMW fan would probably take offense at that. In the same way I was annoyed by your post. But lets just leave it at me taking your post the wrong way and move on, because I don't want to be responsible for killing a thread.
And the "others like him" just refers to all of the people who argue about personal preferences over the internet. I'm just so tired of it I overreacted a little.
But since I'm here ill contribute. I find it weird that people come to a complete stop at a roundabout even thought there aren't any cars in it and the sign clearly says "Yield".
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The Piano starts on C because C Major is the only key without any accidentals, because of this it is generally assumed to be the 'neutral' note as such, and having the low E on Guitars is actually a modern alternative tuning variant, as drop D is the originally tuning method. The low E was simply chosen for convenience of fingering.
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Fair enough, I try and limit my emphatic defense of the BMW brand to the 'Cars in General' thread anyway,
.. what I do find weird though... well two things actually.. David Lynch's Eraserhead.. and secondly, why do couples who profess to madly in love argue so much... (he says as he listens to his housemates screaming at each other).
*The latter is more of a rhetorical question to be fair.
Giving more relevance to the words being spoken rather than the -give away- gestures that say something quite different.
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Actually the lying language hypothesis, by E. H. Sturtevant, resonates more strongly with me. In this view, language has emerged to hide selfish motives revealed by gestures.
In essense I find it a fail of education to understate insticts and overstate social behaviour. We are reptilians in brain cortex, that can't be changed. Insticts (including paying attention to gestures, not just words) should not be diminished, but rather filtered through culture.
If you bury your insticts, you are fighting yourself. If you, on the other hand, filter and enhance the more relevant ones (e.g. altruism; used in group competition) you are a rainessance man.
Currently many, if not most, people are really medieval personalities with advanced technology. Oscillating between unharnessed instincts, black & white, fight or flight mentalities; and mind-burning theory, culture above introspection.
Nothing can beat the combination of the two. Nothing. Look around you at the most successful people (less corruption), businessmen, athletes, scientists, artists, visionaires, writers, inventors, leaders and humanists. They use their complete self.
And even if you don't become a leader in your field you can still become "MVP in your own mind" (Michael Jordan).
I think the above statement is as powerful as it gets.
Follows needless brainstorming, highlight to read.
Actually the lying language hypothesis, by E. H. Sturtevant, resonates more strongly with me. In this view, language has emerged to hide selfish motives revealed by gestures.
In essense I find it a fail of education to understate insticts and overstate social behaviour. We are reptilians in brain cortex, that can't be changed. Insticts (including paying attention to gestures, not just words) should not be diminished, but rather filtered through culture.
If you bury your insticts, you are fighting yourself. If you, on the other hand, filter and enhance the more relevant ones (e.g. altruism; used in group competition) you are a rainessance man.
Currently many, if not most, people are really medieval personalities with advanced technology. Oscillating between unharnessed instincts, black & white, fight or flight mentalities; and mind-burning theory, culture above introspection.
Nothing can beat the combination of the two. Nothing. Look around you at the most successful people (less corruption), businessmen, athletes, scientists, artists, visionaires, writers, inventors, leaders and humanists. They use their complete self.
And even if you don't become a leader in your field you can still become "MVP in your own mind" (Michael Jordan).
I think the above statement is as powerful as it gets.
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The mysteries of the unspoken language.. I think I agree with what you are saying, but those savvy with body language are able to deceive on two fronts.. trust what you know, not what you see or hear?
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Random signs/pointless warnings I used to find weird, huge commercial skips with a do not enter or a step down transformer with a electrocution warning or packs of nuts warning it may contain nuts. Silica gel in rice cracker packs that shouldn't be consumed. Weird English translations, not that I encounter them much but I did like reading this:
from my TV set.
from my TV set.
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I find it weird that my NTSC DVD Player plays movies in PAL format. Shouldn't it show up scrambled on my tv or something? I mean I am using a regular RCA Audio/Video cord, it is weird.
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OAPs who go shopping at the weekend or just before the store closes. Or both.
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Also, being able to understand sentences written backwards easier than normal written sentences is a weird thing I face in everyday life. For example, I can read and understand the sentence 'He jumped into the ocean.'...BUT having it written as '.naeco eht otni depmuj eH' and reading from right to left is easier and quicker for me to read. I'm sorry if this makes absolutely no sense, even I think its weird.
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Forgive me if I forget the proper scientific term, but spiders set an anchor on a branch, then let out a flyer or a trailing thread that's carried by the wind. Once it snags and pulls tight, the spider crosses to the other point and reinforces the anchor at the other end. They then go to the middle of the line and drop down to find a third anchor. They then link all three anchors with a triangle of lines, which they weave their orb between.
(Sorry for any inaccuracies... it's been a long time)
This spider apparently released into a wind going the wrong way, then kept recrossing the line and dropping down looking for a third point, but never found it... since the stupid thing was about three floors off the ground...
Yet drop D still isn't A. Or even C... It does give the guitar a nice voice...
Still... C Major only has no sharps or flats because those sharps and flats are where tradition puts them. On a fretboard, you can't even see sharps or flats.
So... why do common notations start with C Major? It might be convention, but I've always found it weird.
Must not like cellphones. I loved my old Nokia 1610, 6110 and 6210. Simply because they offered a lot of features for the time. Couldn't tell you the model number of my first cellphone, because it had absolutely no redeeming qualities going for it.
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It's because its generally easier for most instruments in concert pitch to play in C Major, because their is no key signature to have to remember, and most stringed instruments have open strings on natural notes, so it avoides the need to play awkward finger extensions when you could play open strings. B Major for example is extremely awkward on the Cello because all the open strings become sharpened. C Major is a diatonic scale, like all other major and minor scales, that is based on Ionian mode, which is what Heinrich Glarean called his new authentic mode that he invented in 1547, stating that all major scales go Tone-Tone-Semitone-Tone-Tone-Tone-Semitone, and that all minor scales go Tone-Semitone-Tone-Tone-Semitone-Tone-Tone.
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One thing I find weird is why when you work behind the counter in any retail environment, when you say 'I'm sorry I can't do <thing that you want>' (because it's not physically possible), they always reply with 'what do you mean, you can't do it?'. It's almost like it's an immediate right to what they want....
As an example, I work in a betting shop. Some times, when I have paid out a lot of money and not taken enough back in, I run out of money, or have very little spare. So why, when you come in with a bet for £500 from another shop, cannot you not understand, first time around, when I say 'I can't pay you out, I have no money to pay it out'?
Please don't think this is a rant, just a comment on the stupidity and inability to empathise of the general public. I cannot understand why some people are incapable of empathy...
As an example, I work in a betting shop. Some times, when I have paid out a lot of money and not taken enough back in, I run out of money, or have very little spare. So why, when you come in with a bet for £500 from another shop, cannot you not understand, first time around, when I say 'I can't pay you out, I have no money to pay it out'?
Please don't think this is a rant, just a comment on the stupidity and inability to empathise of the general public. I cannot understand why some people are incapable of empathy...
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I think its wierdnnot using tunnel vision when im walking somewhere, amazing what you discover by looking around as you walk.
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Brits or maybe just Londoners almost whispering 'thanks', for example when someone holds a door open. I even noticed it today on the tube when I gave up my seat for a lady.
Never noticed it before but it was pointed out to me by a visitor as being very British. I'm sure it's just a London thing, never saw that in the Midlands or further north.
Never noticed it before but it was pointed out to me by a visitor as being very British. I'm sure it's just a London thing, never saw that in the Midlands or further north.
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Its weird when you are in public. You look around and realize that 50% of the people you see are FREAKS!!!!!
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Why is it that we drive on parkways, and park in driveways?
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Not quite, I live in Brum, I always say thank you for people holding doors open, etc. I also hold doors open, give up seats, etc., and usually get a thank you. I think the issue comes from one of two issues; either ethnic minorities who can't speak English, or don't seem to have manners in the country they come from; or 50-70 year old men who seem to live in a perpetual sense of misery and bad temper. I think the reason why we say it quietly is because we are humble as a nation, and don't like to draw attention to ourselves, and our receipt of unwarranted good turns (despite those good turns just being good manners).
