Your foibles, curious habits and general strange things you do...

**Lionel Ritchie** · 05/08/2007, 9:23 AM

I never, ever buy milk in see-through plastic cartons and won't use milk from one.

I'm sure I've loads more as I'm sure we all do but it's sunday morning and my brain is fried.

**Anto McC** · 05/08/2007, 10:45 AM

I hate sitting with my back to a door, it freaks me out no end. Sometimes it's unavoidable and i spend the duration looking behind me.

**superfrank** · 05/08/2007, 11:03 AM

I'm constantly checking the time. I can't sleep if the curtains are closed. I wash my hands after I brush my teeth.

All I can think of for now.

**LeixlipRed** · 05/08/2007, 11:09 AM

Yeh I hate milk in plastic cartons too. Tastes horrible. Refuse to buy it which causes arguments on holidays with mates who want to get a huge cheap carton of the stuff. I also cant eat bisuits, cakes or chocolate without milk to dip them in. I'm addicted to milk is the key

**Lionel Ritchie** · 05/08/2007, 11:47 AM

Originally Posted by LeixlipRed

Yeh I hate milk in plastic cartons too. Tastes horrible. Refuse to buy it which causes arguments on holidays with mates who want to get a huge cheap carton of the stuff. I also cant eat bisuits, cakes or chocolate without milk to dip them in. I'm addicted to milk is the key

It's caused by Vitamin D. If the milk is exposed to daylight -which it is on any shelf in a supermarket or shop it starts to turn. Refrigeration is pointless if it's not kept in the dark.

I also check milk cartons for suspicious "plumpness". If they're too firm then the chemical reactions have started.

**LeixlipRed** · 05/08/2007, 12:20 PM

Ah it all makes sense now. I always thought it the plastic that made it taste different. So that's probably why coke from a bottle and a can tastes different. Damn, I hate when I miss obvious stuff like that. Makes me feel stoopid

**strangeirish** · 05/08/2007, 12:47 PM

I won't drink Guinness from a plastic cup. Also, I hate being late.(And no,I'm not female!)

**Lionel Ritchie** · 05/08/2007, 12:50 PM

Originally Posted by LeixlipRed

Ah it all makes sense now. I always thought it the plastic that made it taste different. So that's probably why coke from a bottle and a can tastes different. Damn, I hate when I miss obvious stuff like that. Makes me feel stoopid

It's also a reason why many drinks are sold in green or otherwise tinted bottles.

Plastic containers shouldn't affect taste but metal ones most definitely do with some drinks.

I'd notice no difference in taste whatsoever in some lagers whether they came from a bottle or tin ...Budweiser, Miller, Heineken.

But with ales ...particularly Newcastle Brown but also Bass, Smithwicks, McArdles etc... there is simply no comparison between the two with the bottled being vastly superior to the tinned.

**half_full** · 05/08/2007, 2:04 PM

having curtains open at night with lights on inside(the way people from the outside can see in but you cant see them

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sitting near/beside an open door aswell

**Neish** · 05/08/2007, 2:30 PM

Originally Posted by LeixlipRed

Yeh I hate milk in plastic cartons too. Tastes horrible. Refuse to buy it which causes arguments on holidays with mates who want to get a huge cheap carton of the stuff. I also cant eat bisuits, cakes or chocolate without milk to dip them in. I'm addicted to milk is the key

Yeah agree about the plastic milk cartons, hate lateness too, I'm always on time when meeting mates in the pub etc. although this usually means I sit waiting on my own on the hu*es for ages.

**GavinZac** · 05/08/2007, 2:57 PM

sitting at a messy table/desk.

i simply have to tidy it up, be it monday morning in work or saturday night in a indian fast food place.

i think it might be OCD or something.

also, despite being a preacher of reason and logic, and generally despising superstitions, i cant help but blame particular scarves for poor runs of form.

**Mr A** · 05/08/2007, 3:10 PM

I hear than GavinZac, I pour scorn on superstition and religion, yet can't help feeling ****ed off when seeing a single magpie on the way to a match, and sometimes find myself choosing what gear to wear based on the results the last time they got an outing. It annoys me that I do this- yet I continue.

**sligoman** · 05/08/2007, 3:15 PM

I can't help but check that doors are locked. When heading out, even though I know I locked the back door, I still have to go back and check it again

. Same with doors of my car.

**osarusan** · 05/08/2007, 3:19 PM

Originally Posted by GavinZac

sitting at a messy table/desk.

i simply have to tidy it up, be it monday morning in work or saturday night in a indian fast food place.

i think it might be OCD or something.

Originally Posted by sligoman

I can't help but check that doors are locked. When heading out, even though I know I locked the back door, I still have to go back and check it again

. Same with doors of my car.

Ever seen "As Good As It Gets"?

**sligoman** · 05/08/2007, 3:24 PM

Originally Posted by osarusan

Ever seen "As Good As It Gets"?

Nope. Summarize it for me?

**osarusan** · 05/08/2007, 3:27 PM

A guy from Sligo* has OCD and has to check the locks repeatedly,
among other things. He also sleeps with Helen Hunt.

*Might be wrong about that bit.

**sligoman** · 05/08/2007, 3:29 PM

Originally Posted by osarusan

A guy from Sligo* has OCD and has to check the locks repeatedly,
among other things. He also sleeps with Helen Hunt.

*Might be wrong about that bit.

I'm willing to accept OCD for that perk

**biscuit** · 05/08/2007, 4:29 PM

i have to do evrything in threes...when i play footie (in goals) i do knees up three times, sise to side 3 times, hit each post and the crossbar 3 times...if i dont il hav a bad game!freaks me out!

**MojoPin** · 05/08/2007, 7:11 PM

im a bartender by profession at the moment anyway but ive noticed that nearly everybody who walks into a bar sits at the dirtyest table or place in the place.. np matter if the bar is completly empty and there is one seat where a guy was sitting but he had already left the new customer will makea bee line for dirty seat.......

why is this?