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10 facts meme » April 24th, 2008 · See comments
I was tagged by the lovely Daniela to write about 10 facts, habits, goals, or other stuff about myself. I think I’ve done something like this before, so I hope I’m not about to repeat myself!
I’m fascinated by torture. I especially love reading about medieval torture methods. They had some twisted people back in those days! I love it. Yes, torture is a horrible thing that I wouldn’t wish on anybody, but there’s just something about a rack and some thumbscrews that has me intrigued.
I suck at reading. I try to read books, but I usually always fail. Hell, I haven’t even finished HP7 yet! I buy books with the intention of reading them, but I never seem to be able to manage it. I find myself reading the same paragraph over and over again, and not taking in any part of it.
I feel like everyone’s sister. My closest friends are all either only children, or have a single brother. Looking at the statistics, that’s eight people I can think of off the top of my head. I get on great with every single one of them, and I think that’s partly because I adopt the “sister” role that they don’t have otherwise.
I’m a very calm person. I’m nearly 21 years old, and not once have I lost my temper with anyone. I don’t even yell at people. It’s so strange to me when I hear about people having screaming matches with siblings / parents, because that never ever happens with me. I’m far too calm for that sort of anger.
I’m a massive High School Musical fan. I have two Zac Efron calendars, DVDs of both movies, a High School Musical (HSM) book, and HSM sticker album, HSM hairbands, and HSM bracelet, and HSM bag, and HSM pencil case, and some HSM postcards. I’ve also had HSM chocolate lollipops, and I have both movie soundtracks on my iPod.
I live in the countryside. Like… deep in the countryside. I can walk for ten minutes from my house and I’ll end up in the middle of nowhere. Our town is famous for being “near” things, and I kind of like that. We’re close enough to things to be able to access them, but far enough away to have plenty of empty space.
I have an oyster card. An oyster card is a way to get cheaper transport around London, which is weird because I don’t even live in London. I’m not even a regular visitor. And yet, I still have an Oyster card!
I can’t click my fingers. I hate the fact that I can’t click my fingers. I’ve tried so many times, and I’ve had various different people try and teach me, but nothing works. I’ve even tried different techniques, but nothing works! I fear that my fingers will eternally be silent.
I can say the alphabet backwards. In primary school we had an “elite” club, where in order to join, you had to be able to say the alphabet in reverse order. I was the first member when I was 8 years old, and I haven’t lost the talent since.
I write HTML like I write English. It’s a language which comes naturally to me now, and on more than one occasion I have found myself “closing” my written paragraphs. I even tried to italicise my handwriting once, but needless to say – it didn’t work. I guess my notebooks don’t interpret HTML in the same way my browser does!
As is the law with memes, I now have to tag people. And in true Calm Banana tradition, I am tagging you.
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I’ve just done it, so I don’t see why I need to be tagged
I can’t say alphabets backwards D: Teach me!
O_O Torture scares me.
It troubles me that anyone would be interested in torture, medieval or not.
There is PLENTY going on right NOW, and that really disturbs me.
Battle re-enactment is another thing I feel is unacceptable.
Sorry to rant, it just makes me sad.
Reply: Hey Peter, you don’t need to apologise. I didn’t mean any offence by describing my fascination. I know that there’s a lot of horrible stuff going on in the world right now, and I don’t mean to glamourise that in any way.
Medieval Torture Device or Bed Bath & Beyond Gadget?
Reply: I scored 90% on that.
I can never think about facts about me. Seriously. If you don’t know anything about me, just ask. But, chances are, you already know everything about me.
YOU CAN’T SNAP YOUR FINGERS?! I can with my right hand. My left hand is useless. You can chop it off for me.
You’re like my sister.
But in an incestuous kinda way. Ew. I just grossed myself out. LOL.
The alphabet backwards? :O That’s something… I’d like to hear.
Torture makes me happy in pants
Your little paragraph on torture made me squirm. *shudder* Anyway… lately I have sucked at reading too. But I am determined to change this. (I won’t be reading any HP, but if I can change so can you
).
Also, while you may be calm in your offline life. You are incessantly yelling online.
Gah….you like tortute?? O_O Wouldn’t you have loved to live at the Roman gladiatorial games, then?
Ah, so that’s where ‘Calm Banana’ came from?
The last fact made me LOL.
Eh… you like torture? Me too. I can read about torturing and it’s equipments for hours without being bored. I guess I just like history.
But High School Musical? I don’t believe it…
*sorry, I forgot to insert the word historical in between about and torturing.
Does that word even fit?
You are fascinated by torture? Blimey, that’s the complete opposite to me then.
Eh, I would try to teach you how to click but it doesn’t work being online, hah.
Man! I’m 20 and I still can’t say the alphabet backwards! Clearly I fail at being elite!
I have the ability to say the alphabet backwards too, but I wasn’t able to do that until 12. xD
I’m fascinated by torture and old torture methods as well! I thought it was just me and my morbid self. =S