Stupid Things Everyone Does

[snappydog]

I tend to panic and think I've lost my glasses when they are in fact perched quite happily upon my face. Similarly, the old 'where's my phone?' while it's in my hand; more than once I've texted my girlfriend asking her to call my phone because I've lost it, only to realise that I must be using something to send a text...
I suspect this one might be something everyone does at some point too: spending money you know you don't have. As a student I can't really afford to spend any more money than the bare minimum, yet I too often do. Sometimes it's because I can see my rent hasn't come out of my account yet so I think 'great, I have money' despite KNOWING that I won't in a couple of days and I really ought to ensure that I don't spend so much that I can't pay my rent.

 

[CHUCKLIT]

Ahh that does make sense. However I normally remember what I need just as I leave my bedroom when normally I make the decision to retrieve something downstairs. This also makes me believe that we actually have souls, because our bodies can do so many things on its own that we aren't even aware of. Pardon this pun, but it is mind-blowing stuff.

Forgive me for this but I hate it when I see people surrendering to ignorance. Anyway metaphorically speaking the firing pin on a gun doesn't direct the bullet, but it doesn't mean it's directed by magic. Your mind is the same way. Just because your consciousness doesn't direct some of your actions doesn't mean some magical force dose.

Who says the soul's magical? Besides, my reason for thinking perhaps the soul exists is because the soul is seperate from our bodies, and has no control or inate knowledge over our bodily functions whatsoever.
I see your point though.

 

[Padwolf]

I know this is a little different but I as wasting time on Buzzfeed and I found a piece on 38 [mostly stupid] questions women ask themselves.

Spoiler

1. Should I wax my vagina?
2. Am I supposed to shave my butt hair?
3. Why is there hair growing on my boobs?
4. Why am I being so emotional?
5. Are my boobs normal-looking?
6. Why is my period stopping and starting?
7. Could I be pregnant?
8. Are these god-awful cramps normal? Should I see a gynecologist about this?
9. AM I DEVELOPING TOXIC SHOCK SYNDROME?!
10. How long can I go without shaving my legs before anyone notices?
11. Is my vagina "normal?"
12. Does my vagina feel loose?
13. Do Kegels really work?
14. Am I doing them correctly?
15. IS THAT A GRAY HAIR?
16. Can people tell that one of my boobs is bigger than the other one?
17. Should I be plucking my nose hairs?
18. Can people see my stray eyebrow hairs?
19. Why am I breaking out right now? NOT EVEN STRESSED.
20. Am I the only one with upper lip hair?
21. Should I shave my upper lip?
22. Will anyone notice if I don't wear makeup today?
23. Why did I even start wearing makeup?
24. Can you get a tampon stuck inside of you?
25. Do pieces of your tampon come off INSIDE OF YOU and float around forever?!
26. What is a yeast infection?
27. Does that mean I have actual yeast in my vagina? Like bread?
28. Should I wash my hair today?
29. Do other women fart as much as I do?
30. Do all women queef?
31. Does my vagina smell weird?
32. Has my tampon been in too long?
33. If I cough while on my period, will more blood come out?
34. Should I be losing this much blood?
35. Why can men readjust/scratch themselves but I can?t readjust my boobs and scratch my damn vagina?
36. Do people really bleach their assholes?
37. Why is only one of my nipples hard?
38. Am I the only one thinking all this shit?

I don't know, maybe I'm particularly gross but I've thought about most of these at some point in my life.
I got a bit of a laugh out of it anyway. XD

This made me giggle. I have thought about most of these at some point, too. Most of the time I'm thinking about number 35. Goddamnit the boob adjustment struggle is real!

I have a really bad habit of when the power is cut out, I try and turn on the lights anyway like a complete fool.

 

[Sigmund Av Volsung]

Hitting your head on every bloody door frame because English engineering never accounted for the fact that there might be tall people who live or will live in the country, and because of this, get constantly assaulted by door frames in a nightmarish existence of bruises on their head and a hunch because christ, everything is so FUCKING low that it feels like I am on a personalised set of The Hobbit that I can never leave no matter how hard I try and Bilbo is in the corner laughing at me like the smug prick that he is

...

*Ehem*

Mispronouncing words and forgetting how to language when playing a game and talking at the same time. Alternatively, when you have spoken for extended periods of time without stopping much.

 

[Eddie the head]

And seriously? Is that person's belief affecting you so harshly that you have to call their ideas ignorant? Some of us think there's more out there than what we can experience with our earthly senses. It doesn't mean there's anything wrong with how we view the universe.

I'd reply to this but it literally has nothing to do with anything I just said. Just a "leave Britney alone!" Your free to believe anything you want. I'm also free to call into question those beliefs.

Who says the soul's magical? Besides, my reason for thinking perhaps the soul exists is because the soul is seperate from our bodies, and has no control or inate knowledge over our bodily functions whatsoever.
I see your point though.

Ok how is that different form something that doesn't exist? This is like Car Sagan's dragon.

Spoiler: The Dragon in My Garage

 

[Ten Foot Bunny]

I'd reply to this but it literally has nothing to do with anything I just said. Just a "leave Britney alone!" Your free to believe anything you want. I'm also free to call into question those beliefs.

Let me guess - you're a militant, proselytizing atheist and skeptic who's not happy unless you're raining on the parades of anyone who thinks differently than you do. I'm not saying that you aren't free to call people's beliefs into question, but the real question is WHY do you feel compelled to do it in a situation where it's uncalled for? Why do you have to chime on a discussion completely unrelated to spirituality with the sole intention of shitting on what someone believes?

So I ask again, are you so offended by people who think differently than you do that you can't keep your mouth shut when you encounter them? It's not like anyone was shoving their beliefs down your throat, so can't you just leave them in peace instead of calling their beliefs ignorant? Or is it your goal to upset others?

 

[Mossberg Shotty]

I have a tendency to pet every dog I encounter, completely ignoring how rabid/mangy/vicious it looks. Or the odd looks it's owner is giving me.

I also feel like I bite my tongue more often than other people.

 

[JagermanXcell]

Talking so fast that eventually your mouth runs at 70mph and your words start becoming a different language. I've seen it, I've done it, it's so dumb but it's so intriguing that they justkeepgoing,notknowingtheymakenosense.
Like that.

I also hope I'm not the only one who strafes around in circles when they're bored standing still.

 

[Barbas]

(Snip).

We should start a club!

OT:

[li]Hitting your knee perfectly on the edge of an object, causing the dance of pain and stupidity.[/li]
[li]Staring at a point several inches from someone's head and making them steadily more uncomfortable by the minute.[/li]
[li]Spitting hot coffee down your front and loudly exclaiming "SHIT!" in front of the congregation.[/li]
[li]Pissing into the wind and, therefore, onto yourself.[/li]
[li]Walking around a corner and into someone's breasts.[/li]
[li]Staring at said person's breasts.[/li]
[li]Staring at that same person's face.[/li]
[li]Staring at their breasts again.[/li]
[li]Trying to walk up the down escalator for at least ten seconds before cottoning on to what's happening.[/li]
[li]Starting a fresh day by tripping over that one part of the carpet that's never been flat and tumbling down the stairs.[/li]
[li]Biting your gums.[/li]
[li]Listing things with bullet points.[/li]

I'd reply to this but it literally has nothing to do with anything I just said.[...]

You've, uh...replied. Even if it weren't steering the topic off course, though, sometimes it's just the way you say things that's important.

 

[The Artificially Prolonged]

Miscounting the number of stairs in the dark so you end up trying step on a phantom step and fall forward.

Or in one particularly dumb moment from me. Doing some house cleaning and grabbing oven cleaner instead of wood polish and not noticing until the finish on some of the wood furniture peels slightly. Saying nothing either about the fact the oven cleaner is foamy unlike polish, smells horrible and should not be inhaled. At least I opened the windows beforehand or I'd probably be posting this via a medium :/

 

[shootthebandit]

Miscounting the number of stairs in the dark so you end up trying step on a phantom step and fall forward.

On a related note theres always that moment where you give isaac newton and his entire lives work the middle finger as you fall UP the stairs. Fuck you newton and your theory of gravity Ive just fallen up, looks like the intelligent design crowd are right after all it is only a theory

 

[Eddie the head]

I'd reply to this but it literally has nothing to do with anything I just said. Just a "leave Britney alone!" Your free to believe anything you want. I'm also free to call into question those beliefs.

Let me guess - you're a militant, proselytizing atheist and skeptic who's not happy unless you're raining on the parades of anyone who thinks differently than you do. I'm not saying that you aren't free to call people's beliefs into question, but the real question is WHY do you feel compelled to do it in a situation where it's uncalled for? Why do you have to chime on a discussion completely unrelated to spirituality with the sole intention of shitting on what someone believes?

So I ask again, are you so offended by people who think differently than you do that you can't keep your mouth shut when you encounter them? It's not like anyone was shoving their beliefs down your throat, so can't you just leave them in peace instead of calling their beliefs ignorant? Or is it your goal to upset others?

Any answer I would give is inconsequential to the point at hand. If you want to argue about the existence of a soul fine, but I'm not arguing about the point of arguing.

Also look up the bias "The Illusion of asymmetric insight" because you are displaying it blatantly, and using it as fuel for ad hominem attack. Look you don't know how I, or anyone else, thinks quit acting like you do.

But if you really want an answer I don't know why I act the way I do. There's a plethora biases, social interactions, and unconscious thoughts that go into making a person's mind. My consciousness doesn't do everything. I could give guesses, but I won't ever know for sure.

In conclusion your reply here was fallacious, bias, inconsequential, and can't be answered. So basically pointless to me.

I'd reply to this but it literally has nothing to do with anything I just said.[...]

You've, uh...replied. Even if it weren't steering the topic off course, though, sometimes it's just the way you say things that's important.

Reply as in give an answer.

 

[shootthebandit]

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Can we all stop arguing. This is the sort of shit we expect over in R&P. This is a nice pleasant light hearted thread (which we havent seen in a while) and it would be a shame for it to be ruined

Im not saying any of you are right or wrong and im not having a go at anyone but I thought id say something before we get a derail and a train crash and people get warnings

On topic: theres always that moment on a saturday when you jump out of bed thinking your late for work and missed your alarm

 

[Ten Foot Bunny]

Can we all stop arguing. This is the sort of shit we expect over in R&P. This is a nice pleasant light hearted thread (which we havent seen in a while) and it would be a shame for it to be ruined

That was kind of my point in the first place... I probably shouldn't have responded to that original negative post, but it hit close to home for me. My bad. (To put it another way, I've never touched the R&P forum and never will because it would only stress me out).

OT, I did that whole "checked for mail on a Sunday" thing about 15 minutes ago. D'oh!!! I never learn.

 

[Frezzato]

Well now, it's amazing what happens to a thread when you leave and check it a day or so later. Two responses before things got negative. I'm surprised it lasted that long.

I suppose I'll add that to the list. Lashing out at other people for no reason I mean. I think we're all guilty of that at one time or another.

 

[pearcinator]

Fully knowing a glass is on the table yet accidentally bumping it off anyway.

 

[lord.jeff]

Repeatedly trying to drink from the same empty glass

Leaving yourself a vague reminder to do something and forgetting what the reminder is about, like putting an empty carton on the table so you know to go to the store for it but the next day your just wondering why you left trash laying around.

 

[lord.jeff]

Picking something okay to read. Reading a book takes time. Our time on this earth is limited. And still people struggle to finish a book that's just okay. I'm talking about when people read the latest best-seller to see what all the hype is about, and after 50 pages they'll conclude that "it's okay," and keep reading anyway. Why not find something really really good to read instead? Sure, it's not always possible to find a masterpiece just like that, but why read a book that's just okay? Do't you know that reading is meant to be fun?

If a book isn't entertaining you after 50 pages, drop it like it's hot.

I'm curious as to why you only use books in your example? The same thing gets done with TV shows and games and those can take just as long to get through.

 

[Mr Fixit]

So I was sitting home alone one day, didn't feel like gaming & the net was boring so TV it is. As I was flipping through the channels I noticed I was hungry, so I go to the kitchen find me some snacks & get a drink & return to my comfy chair to continue looking for something to watch. I reach for the remote & it's gone...

I get up look on the floor around the table it sits on, nope. I search the chair, still nothing.

Then I realize what I had done, I walk with my head hung low back to the fridge, open it up & there at eye levels sits the remote, chilling with the leftovers.

 

[EHKOS]

Finishing a webpage for the day, then looking at your tabs and opening the same one right afterwards.
I don't know if everyone has these "lock-ups" as I call them. But being in the middle of driving, talking, playing a game, and then having every bit of information you have stored and are using as RAM instantly disappear, then having to wait about three seconds while your brain has to regather and recompile it. So you're sitting there for like five seconds with your eyes wide and your mouth slightly open not doing anything and looking like a dolt.

When you're playing a video game and suddenly realize you've made the same mistake five times and that you should have learned by now to avoid that obstacle.