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What stupid things do you do that no one else knows about?

627 replies

FancySomeChips · 25/09/2021 19:44

I used to be a party animal. LOVED clubbing every weekend (multiple times a week as a student), would dance for hours and laugh and laugh and laugh.

Tonight I am sitting in my cuddle chair putting chewits down my bra to warm them up before I eat them.
I’m home alone.

How life has changed.

Make me feel better, what weird stuff do you do that no one else knows about?!

OP posts:
MydogWillow · 26/09/2021 09:56

@Kissboxouting
That is so lovely.

BikeRunSki · 26/09/2021 09:57

@Pickles89, I was terrified by Narnia as a child, and am still scarred (and scared) several decades later!

Innovationstandard · 26/09/2021 10:02

Imfinallyhappy1

I like applying for jobs and interviewing. I have no intention of taking the job as I love where I work but I love prepping and asking questions and the general interview process.

This is downright odd, rest on here harmless but why on earth would you do this? You are just wasting people's time and energy, I think this is a really strange thing to do and find it a bit weird tbh.

babyfeb2022 · 26/09/2021 10:08

I'm really bad for have a full blown conversation with myself, have done it for as long as I can remember, my mum always use to take the piss and say it's because I was a only child. I'll catch myself about 5 minutes later still chatting away! Although since being pregnant and having 'baby brain' I've noticed I do this now in public, the poor women in the supermarket yesterday must have thought I was made walking round muttering to myself about what I needed for the week haha

FancySomeChips · 26/09/2021 10:09

Love the kiss box!!
@Kissboxouting

Talking and singing to pets is completely normal.
But I love to see how much love and joy our pets bring us all!

OP posts:
slashlover · 26/09/2021 10:22

If I hear a police siren then I will always make the "Duh-duh duh-duh duh" from The Bill theme, can't help myself.

Cryalot2 · 26/09/2021 10:25

Dh and I both talk to the dog.
But what no one knows is when we are at a table outside cafes and dh is getting order, I talk to the dog in fake accents. Usually quite posh Blush , sometimes using my basic Spanish. I do it loud enough thst those at the next table can hear. I have accidentally did it in front of dd once or twice, but it only the odd word thankfully.
No idea why other than I find it amusing.
If someone stops me in the street for some reason such as canvassing I also pretend not to understand . I can fluently say that I do not understand in both French and Spanish. I just wish I had a better command of both.

Spidey66 · 26/09/2021 10:27

@LadyMonicaBaddingham

I sing to my cat. About my cat. At the last count, there are 7 different adapted songs and 4 originals. I may need help...
I do that with my dog.
Coffee4Queen · 26/09/2021 10:27

I pretend I’m on Strictly & use wall corners or doors as my partner. More often than not though I use the cat tree if the the cat is on it. I do a lot of twirling around it and arm movements. Sometimes she joins in (i.e. she tries swiping my hands or hair) other times she stares at me with a WTF look.

sueelleker · 26/09/2021 10:27

@pigsDOfly

I have silly conversations with my dog.

Obviously, she can't actually answer me so I speak for both of us.

Sometimes I catch myself doing it when we're out on a walk; thankfully, no one's ever been near enough to overhear me - I live in a relatively quiet place - but it can only be a matter of time before I turn round and there's someone behind me.

I've done this with stray cats on a garden wall; then the owner appears!
Lilifer · 26/09/2021 10:31

@shouldistop

Oh god I read your op as 'things you know', not 'things you do' Blush
I did that too!!😳
Tabitha005 · 26/09/2021 10:40

When my husband is away, I eat mashed potato and gravy with cut-up sausages from a bowl with a spoon in bed for my dinner.

Practicebeingpatient · 26/09/2021 10:55

@Tabitha005

When my husband is away, I eat mashed potato and gravy with cut-up sausages from a bowl with a spoon in bed for my dinner.
This is only acceptable if you add extra butter to the mash so it becomes a gravy/butter swirl.
ThanksIGotItInMorrisons · 26/09/2021 10:59

I talk in different accents to myself , all the time. If I speak to or hear a different accent I have the most unbearable need to have to copy it. I don’t realise I’m doing it but I just have to. The world will stop spinning if I don’t. Blush I mean it I. The most complimentary way, not a piss take, I can’t help it. What’s wrong with me?Confused

theluckiest · 26/09/2021 11:08

@4BlueTowers

I can't have any part of my body hang over the edge of the mattress when sleeping. I am worried someone with an axe under the bed will chop off whatever overhangs.

I am 49.

THIS!!!!

I can't have my legs overhanging off the edge of the bed. If they do, I will be dragged under the bed and into another dimension.

I believe I saw this in an episode of Dungeons and Dragons as a child & it stuck.

I also have to be covered by the duvet completely (apart from my head). Even in the middle of hot Summer nights. I may sweat like a bastard but at least the monsters won't get me!!!

Justbecauseofit · 26/09/2021 11:17

@Theworldishard

I used to chew a few mini cheddars , then spit them out and make a sandwich by putting the chewed up lush between two new ones... So good...Blush
Omg me to!!

Just loved that mushy warm filling - amazing!! 😂😂😂

Bythehairywartsonmywitchychin · 26/09/2021 11:27

I cut my cats ears off with my pretend finger scissors, and shoot him with my pretend finger gun. I also tell him I’ve got his nose and show him my thumb. He just glares are me 😂

StorminaBcup · 26/09/2021 11:34

@Solongtoshort @kissboxouting

These are so very cute Grin

I also hate mirrors at night, it’s ok to look if the lights are on but if I see a mirror in the dark I won’t look at it.

LukeEvansWife · 26/09/2021 11:47

@Bythehairywartsonmywitchychin

I cut my cats ears off with my pretend finger scissors, and shoot him with my pretend finger gun. I also tell him I’ve got his nose and show him my thumb. He just glares are me 😂
Crying here 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
slashlover · 26/09/2021 11:48

I pretend I can't see the cat so call her and ask where she is until she either meows or rubs against my legs, I then pretend so see her "Oh! There she is!"

AngelDelight28 · 26/09/2021 11:48

When I was a child we didn't have much money. As a treat I could get one thing from the corner shop - an ice cream, a Coke, a bag of crisps or a chocolate bar - just the one thing, it could never be an ice cream AND a Coke, for example. Now that I earn my own money and am not hard-up, I revel in going to the shop and buying ALL FOUR. I then eat them all in one go. I'm 32Grin

janj2301 · 26/09/2021 11:48

re police sirens, my DH and I look at each other and both say "he won't sell many ice creams going that fast", do the reverse with ice cream vans "they won't catch many crooks going that slow". Kids think we are nuts of course

LukeEvansWife · 26/09/2021 11:50

This thread is restoring my faith in people!

Beefmeupscotty · 26/09/2021 12:09

@Neron

If there's 2 items left on a shelf, that I only need to purchase 1 of - I have to take them both. Can't leave 1, it will get lonely...

Same with food. Can't possibly leave the last sausage/potato/broccoli florrett/crisp/biscuit.... it'll get lonely. Dh tries to leave 1 just to piss me off sometimes.

Coffee4Queen · 26/09/2021 12:17

@Eminybob

I narrate my beauty/make up routine as if I’m some sort of YouTube vlogger. Usually in my head, but if I’m alone I sometimes do it out loud.
I do the same but when cooking! I pretend I’m on a cooking show. If I’m making something quick and easy like eggs and beans it’s a student special cooking show.

When my husband chops meat or chicken he pretends he’s a pervy butcher. In a deep guttural voice he’ll say things like ‘ alright darling lovely bit rump there’ and smack it or with chicken breasts ‘let’s give these a good pounding before seasoning’

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