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Zdrok
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Title says it all. A fetish is a thing that you do for no reason or an object that you have an odd devotion and obsession to.

I've a few.

-I tend to wear my baseball cap A LOT; if you'd meet me in real life, I'd be wearing it.
-I call everyone 'buddy' or 'champ'. I don't know why, guess it's in my nature as being a Pittsburgh native (we're all nice people here).
-I wou;d like every day to be a sunny day. Dunno why, guess I have that seasonal depression thing or whatever.


So, what is your fetish, or random thing that you do?

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I really like rain, or when it's overcast outside.

No joke.
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Zdrok
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Interesting...

...champ.

Yinzes better redd up this room and I'll buy us some jumbo.
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I would accept that if you were an adult, ie, older than me...
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I prefer winter/overcast days over summer, maybe because I hate the heat and humidity around here.

That's not really a fetish though...hmm...Well, I think I may have some form of OCD, though you wouldn't know it looking at my room. If something doesn't line up with everything else (for example, books on my desk at school), it doesn't "feel" right and I have to fix it.

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i eat about 4 apples a day, sometimes 5.


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AaronG
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I also love rain. I love jogging in the rain.

My fetish is girls. Is that unusual for a guy? haha.


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I prefer cold, overcast weather. I want to see my breath in front of me. Nature's colours are much more vibrant when it's overcast in my opinion, and I just enjoy being alive more when I walk to work in those conditions.

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Lets see hmmmm.....

I cant where a shirt size over small or i feel really crappy.

Im very anal about my look.

Um, i spray tan....

Theres tons of things..haha

Oh i too prefer Rainy or foggy days over anything.

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Rain is awesome. It brings out the best in me. Sitting inside with a cigarette and a warm cup of tea watching and listening to the rain is bloody brilliant. I have many traits which most of my friends know me by but it's not something simple as just something i wear all of the time, but mainly an ideology or emotion i live my life by.
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Every time I open a Cream Soda bottle (amazing stuff!) I blow across the top of the bottle and watch the smokey stuff come out.

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Gil Galvanti
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Quote: "I just enjoy being alive more when I walk to work in those conditions."

Did you find a new job somewhere? Or are you referring to when you used to walk to work at EA?

I'm OCD about the volume on the TV being on an even number, and I also try to avoid parking space lines on the pavement.


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Quote: "I prefer cold, overcast weather. I want to see my breath in front of me. Nature's colours are much more vibrant when it's overcast in my opinion, and I just enjoy being alive more when I walk to work in those conditions.
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x100,000,000

I LOVE Rain... Not sure why... I LOVE waking up to it raining outside.
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Apple Slicer
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Wow. What the heck is wrong with people these days? Liking rain?

I live in Oregon, perhaps the most depressing RAINING place on earth. I'd give anything to actually see SUN.
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-I always wear a pair of biker gloves.
-I love rain too!

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AHHHH!

lol.
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Wow you guys are freaks I hate the rain... then again, I live in the rainiest state in the continental US (Twilight (Washington)).

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Benjamin
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I love the sun and the rain. Cloudy days suck.

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I wear sunglasses even when its not even that sunny, just so I can look at people without them knowing I am.

I also always wear black (despite not being a goth or an emo)

And t3h rain makes me code better !
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Quote: "I love the sun and the rain. Cloudy days suck."


Ditto, with he sun, I like sitting outside with a good book and some decent music playing in the background. It's a shame that the UK doesn't get much weather like that, fingers crossed for a good summer this year.


As far as clothes items go, I always wear a leather cowboy hat, for one thing it keeps the hair out of my face and for some reason I've become attached to it, considering it cost me £25, it's not worth being a shelve sitter.

I call people 'mate' and 'dude' and love hugging people, a bit of love and social connection can make you all feel fuzzy on the insides.



And I am glad that this is what this thread is about, because when I read the title I was thinking of something else.

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i hate rain by itself but love storms. if theres no rain then i want it to be sunny.
that said i preffer to spend my weekends sleeping without a tent in a forest with rain, hail, snow and howling winds, (and probably only getting an hours sleep per night max) than my own warm, comfy bed. <3 military training.
i always say cheers instead of thanks
i always say good morning no matter what time of day, unless im in a mad mood, in which case i'll just say "yeright?"
the most deciding factor in a girls beauty is her nose.
im currently addicted to Oceanlab - Good Day. I have a music addiction, silence makes me feel uncomfortable.
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Rain is awesome.

I have a fetish for any constructive activity or learning stuff. If I don't do that, I feel all bad and non-fuzzy inside. That I'm wasting my time on things that doesn't really matter.

I have a fetish for making people think something that isn't true. Not by lying, but by using words that is technically "neutral", but still implies different things that most people will fall for. The process can span years, as I slowly show them how wrong they were. Like a finely-constructed long-winded "pwnd".

I have a fetish for fetishes too.

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Pus In Boots
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Am I the only one who thinks that title sounds just a little creepy, given that the term fetish doesn't always refer to your preferred form of precipitation?

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Zdrok
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Quote: "the most deciding factor in a girls beauty is her nose"


Hahahahaha. Well, buddy, I think the most deciding factor is her eyes. Definetly.

Today it's a sunny day in Pittsburgh (60'F) and I wore my baseball cap virtually all day (like always). If I could wear it in school, I could, but I want to be gentlemanly, so I take it off.

Another fetish of mine is the band Boston and their song Peace of Mind. Dunno why, but at 2:25-2:45 (yes, I'm listening to it right now), it reminds me of a sunny day and I constantly rewind back to 2:25 so I can replay it. You may think I'm autistic, but I'm not. Feel bad for 'em though, but they're just like us - only with an odd brain defunct or something; I'm no biologist.

And if you want to listen to Boston's Peace of Mind, it's right here.

Have a nice day.

Yinzes better redd up this room and I'll buy us some jumbo.
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Rain is the shiz that makes the world spin. At the end of a school day, if I have to put up a chair up, EVERY chair has to be up. and all the chairs have to be PERFECTLY aligned to the desks their sitting on.
I like to doodle, if you look in any page of any notebook, you will find countless drawings of the wierdest stuff. Theres actually a bunch of funny stuff in there, little cartoon comics that make fun of whatevers on my mind, its mostly politics or school. I always capitalize a name, including chatrooms and emails. That may not seem wierd, but non of my friends do that, its just me. I feel like its a huge respect issue. Again, something my friends never do, but I do, I say the Pledge every morning in school, by myself. Again, respect thing.


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Mr Tank
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Favourite fetishes:

High heels
Superheroines
Martial arts
leather/pvc etc
fitness

Least favourite:

* Mod edit, adult releated subject *

Just IMO.

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Tip-less woollen gloves from the Army Surplus shop

Rolled up sleeves on my school blazer and long sleeve shirts.

Ibanez guitars.

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NeX the Fairly Fast Ferret
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Perfectionism. It's why I never get anything complete; I work at an agonisingly slow pace but everything works spectacularly that I manage. I can't leave something be. It has to be precisely what I wanted.

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Tom J
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Quote: "Perfectionism"


Same here, although it feels more like OCD than a fetish.

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RedneckRambo
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Quote: "Am I the only one who thinks that title sounds just a little creepy"

I was going to say the exact same thing. Fetish is usually used as a dirty-ish word. Title should just be like, What's your obsession? Or something like that lol.

Back on topic though, I really don't have any obsession I just play a lot of games and mind my own business lol.

Quote: "Perfectionism. It's why I never get anything complete; I work at an agonisingly slow pace but everything works spectacularly that I manage. I can't leave something be. It has to be precisely what I wanted."

Exactly how I am, type 1 on the enneagram test! lol
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Quote: "I really like rain, or when it's overcast outside.

No joke. "


same.

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Bed - I love it

Eating chocolate spread with a spoon - Yum.


Random things that i do.

Get extreamly paranoid when stood next to a window at night. (you never know who could be there ready to shoot you :S).

Subconciously avoid stepping on lines on the path (I hate lines...)

Freak out when someone faces a shiny chair towards me. (I hate them too)

Acctually name/talk to random objects when im lonely. (especially my screen lol..)


Theres countless more odd things that I do which I have no idea why.

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Apple Slicer
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Quote: "Get extreamly paranoid when stood next to a window at night. (you never know who could be there ready to shoot you :S).

Subconciously avoid stepping on lines on the path (I hate lines...)"


Same. My big one is, when on the road, I HAVE to read peoples bumber stickers, and if I cant, I think about it the rest of the day.
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If a mod sees this, may you change the title to What's your obsession or weird thing that you do?

Thanks.

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Mr Makealotofsmoke
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Quote: "Get extreamly paranoid when stood next to a window at night. (you never know who could be there ready to shoot you :S)."


good, its not just me , but it dont get extremely paranoid

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I wont walk into a room if the curtians arnt closed.

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When I was little I used to sleep facing my bedroom window, because I thought that a cereal killer would climb up the side of my house into my room while I was asleep, and I wanted to be able to see him coming...

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Actually come to think of it, I do have an obsession weird thingy. Whenever I go out to eat, I can't have my back face the door or the people in the restaurant. I have to see everyone at all times.
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Quote: "Whenever I go out to eat, I can't have my back face the door or the people in the restaurant. I have to see everyone at all times."


I'm the exact same way. I always end up sitting at the very corner of the table with a perfect view of the entire table and restaurant.

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I have an OCD where everything has to be either on or off, true or false, never like, half way or something (e.g. the dimmer-switch for my light, I just always have it on or off, never in between) ... or for things like volume controls (with numbers) they have to be in multiples of 5s or something to that effect. (I couldn't stand having the TV at, say, volume 29, it'd drive me insane xD)

I also for some reason have to ensure my sub-woofer volume control is turned as far up as it can, even though I never touch the control. - Whenever I turn the sub-woofer off with the switch, I just automatically attempt to turn the volume control regardless of it not moving. :S

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Quote: "they have to be in multiples of 5s or something to that effect"


Same here, it just seems... comfortable.

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I love skiing! Its the one sport thing that I am really really good at! I'm on the national team! And I go around the world just so I can ski and train!

I love the sun, its sunny here alot, but at the same time there is rain, which I love also, I love the blistering heat, swimming etc.
But then you run out side in the rain ad its awesome

Yeah....
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Whenever I'm using the microwave, I'll tap my hands really fast to try and make the time fly by faster. Doesn't really work, though...

I can't really think of anything else. I am a bit of a perfectionist, but only in the sense that I have to get everything perfect the first time, mainly because I hate having to re-do things...

And yeah, the title of this thread could be better.



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I'm *really* fidgety in long, boring meetings. I tend to nod off easily so I have to fidget to stay awake.

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That is not what a fetish is

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Oh really? I looked it up, and it was the only word I could find in my memory (as I am absent-minded).

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when i was little i slept facing the wall so i wouldnt see the closet because of the boogey man...

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I like moist overcast weather, makes the air smell funny

I also like walking long distances alone listening to music thinking about stuff. I would always walk from one end of the town to another and back. And its hard for me to be alone without my mp3 player.

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Quote: "I'm *really* fidgety in long, boring meetings. I tend to nod off easily so I have to fidget to stay awake."


I'm the same way in school. If I don't roll my fingers or tap my feet I'll doze off in a matter of minutes.

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Night in cities. Makes me feel awesome somehow.
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