Are you a weirdo?

[Lichtie78]

I set an alarm for 3.30AM every morning so I can wake up and go back to sleep

[Cosmic Joe]

If we are honest about it,  most fitba fans (ie fanatics) are probably on some kind of spectrum. Obsessive behaviour related to a bunch of guys kicking a ball about once or twice a week for a living. Not normal behaviour by any stretch of the imagination...

[Dee Man]

3 hours ago, weirdcal said:

Would you believe me if I said no?

No.

[banana]

2 hours ago, Lichtie78 said:

I set an alarm for 3.30AM every morning so I can wake up and go back to sleep

This is fucking genius 

[Guest Moomintroll]

I set an alarm for 3.30AM every morning so I can wake up and go back to sleep

Fonk you to shizz, I usually wake up around about then for no reason then cannot get back to sleep.

[tarapoa]

11 hours ago, Angusfifer said:

If we are honest about it,  most fitba fans (ie fanatics) are probably on some kind of spectrum. Obsessive behaviour related to a bunch of guys kicking a ball about once or twice a week for a living. Not normal behaviour by any stretch of the imagination...

We have yet another sword of damocles hanging over us at work, putting salary, benefits, pension etc at risk yet again - but quite frankly if Devlin is declared fit for Sunday, all will be okay in the world as far as I'm concerned.

 

[tarapoa]

6 hours ago, Moomintroll said:

12 hours ago, Lichtie78 said:

I set an alarm for 3.30AM every morning so I can wake up and go back to sleep

Fonk you to shizz, I usually wake up around about then for no reason then cannot get back to sleep.

See the thread on getting older - and this happening without any need for the assistance of an alarm clock.

[SlipperyP]

My Uncle in Queensferry used to have one whole wall of the dining room wall papered with an OS Map of Lothian, Fife and surrounding area. It was quite an old map (pre M90 and Forth road Bridge anyway) and was fascinating to look at.  Used to spend ages standing on the dining chairs looking at it when I was wee. My cousins sold the house when my Aunty and Uncle died. Pretty sure the map was still there when it was sold.

Love a good map.

I have road maps on 1 wall of our house here (office). It has Scotland, NSW and Thailand.

Boy loves it, ecstasy for me. Hours I can sit and stare are the B8039.

 

Google maps is like one big porn mag for me

[Melanius Mullarkey]

58 minutes ago, tarapoa said:

We have yet another sword of damocles hanging over us at work, putting salary, benefits, pension etc at risk yet again - but quite frankly if Devlin is declared fit for Sunday, all will be okay in the world as far as I'm concerned.

 

He'll be there m9.  Only 2 sleeps to go. 

[Hedgecutter]

17 hours ago, throbber said:

Anyone who doesn’t appreciate a good map is a weirdo IMO.

I like finding out film locations and then looking the places up on Google Maps. But that’s probably a pretty normal thing to do nowadays.

I can find out a P&Ber's exact address from a picture they've taken of a tree in their back garden.  It's fun and highly satisfying. 

I imagine this to be a pretty normal thing to do too.

[tarapoa]

18 hours ago, welshbairn said:

I spent my childhood staring at globes and maps deciding where I would finally escape to when the grown ups couldn't stop me. Was gutted when they changed the name of Lourenço Marques to Maputo, just wasn't the same. Pissed off now that they've been changing all the Indian names, have to google a news story to find out where the f**k they're talking about.

 

I went to South Africa last year, which was my first visit to Africa.

Whilst South Africa is a mixed bag (a lot of it could easily be UK/US/Oz)  - when driving from Johannesburg to Kruger, the motorway signs as you got further east started to mention MAPUTO 462 and the likes.

Nothing in South Africa had made things so "African" as this - even the lions and rhinos in Kruger.

You're right though - Lourenço Marques had that certain magic about its name - a wee bit like Peking, Bombay, Madras and Calcutta did, before they pissed about with those names.

[throbber]

I often wake up in middle of the night and stare at something in the room thinking that there’s a person standing there watching me. Last night it was the wardrobe I was staring at as the way the light was shining onto the label of my jeans resembled eyes and I was staring right at it and when my Mrs asked what I was doing I said “I wish that guy would stop looking at me.” Obviously very creepy for her but I am never scared by it and it’s just a bit of a weird dream that I’m not quite snapping out of. It’s usually the curtains I’m staring at, one time I was certain there was a woman holding my baby there and when the same thing happened and I told my girlfriend that the nice lady was holding our daughter for us she was properly freaked out by it. Don’t think it makes me a weirdo though!

[Sergeant Wilson]

1 hour ago, throbber said:

I often wake up in middle of the night and stare at something in the room thinking that there’s a person standing there watching me. Last night it was the wardrobe I was staring at as the way the light was shining onto the label of my jeans resembled eyes and I was staring right at it and when my Mrs asked what I was doing I said “I wish that guy would stop looking at me.” Obviously very creepy for her but I am never scared by it and it’s just a bit of a weird dream that I’m not quite snapping out of. It’s usually the curtains I’m staring at, one time I was certain there was a woman holding my baby there and when the same thing happened and I told my girlfriend that the nice lady was holding our daughter for us she was properly freaked out by it. Don’t think it makes me a weirdo though!

Throbber  comes up on the rail and is ahead by a nose.

[hk blues]

On 30/11/2018 at 00:11, throbber said:

 

I don’t think you’re a weirdo I just think it’s saddening how many people there are who feel uncomfortable about about a parent kissing their child on the lips. The pic Beckham posted is so inoffensive as well, it’s not like his eyes are closed and he’s slobbering all over her like some people are trying to make out.

 

I'll admit I didn't look at the pic before posting - I just think in general it's strange to kiss kids on the lips but the pic is entirely innocent as the lips are pursed.  Nothing to see there. 

[throbber]

I'll admit I didn't look at the pic before posting - I just think in general it's strange to kiss kids on the lips but the pic is entirely innocent as the lips are pursed.  Nothing to see there. 

He posted this one earlier this year and it came under fire:



As could probably have been expected lots of people have posted pictures of themselves kissing theirs kids on the lips, I think the guy doing it whilst he and his daughter give the middle finger are taking it a bit too far tbh.

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.thesun.co.uk/news/7869756/defiant-dad-shares-pic-kiss-david-beckham-harper/amp/

[hk blues]

2 minutes ago, throbber said:

 

He posted this one earlier this year and it came under fire:



As could probably have been expected lots of people have posted pictures of themselves kissing theirs kids on the lips, I think the guy doing it whilst he and his daughter give the middle finger are taking it a bit too far tbh.

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.thesun.co.uk/news/7869756/defiant-dad-shares-pic-kiss-david-beckham-harper/amp/

 

The above pic is stepping towards uncomfortable territory for me t.b.h.

I suppose all families have their ways - naturists are all for letting it all hang out but that's not for me or my family (thank goodness) 

[8MileBU]

There’s a fella at my work who’ll always stuff his rubbish in pockets. I.e. if he’s just finished his mars bar, rather than either put the wrapper at the side of his desk to bin next time he’s up or just taking it over now, he’ll stuff it in his pocket. And I don’t mean fold it and put it in his pocket, no...scrunched and rammed in the pocket like a child would. I find it weird.
There’s another boy who brings a pack lunch every day (not for me, but fair enough). He’ll open it, unwrap his chocolate biscuits, then stand them in his box like wee soldiers while he eats his rolls.
Two examples of the weirdo’s I work with, as I know they’re weird I know I am not.

Stop staring at folk eating you fucking weirdo!

[throbber]

The above pic is stepping towards uncomfortable territory for me t.b.h.
I suppose all families have their ways - naturists are all for letting it all hang out but that's not for me or my family (thank goodness) 

I can see why people think that pic is a bit uncomfortable tbh, it’s not so much the kissing it’s the sunset in the background that makes it look like the sort of romantic pic you would take with your wife.

It’s also pretty creepy to go out of your way to kiss your child on the lips and take a selfie of it for attention.

[JamieT1314]

Another lover of maps here. Once spent an afternoon on google maps traversing the canal network of great britian. Pretty sure got from london to glasgow, spotted a few nice boozers on the way.
There is a pub on the cowal peninsula that has the toilet covered in maps, great idea.

[Honest_Man#1]

1 hour ago, throbber said:

 

He posted this one earlier this year and it came under fire:



As could probably have been expected lots of people have posted pictures of themselves kissing theirs kids on the lips, I think the guy doing it whilst he and his daughter give the middle finger are taking it a bit too far tbh.

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.thesun.co.uk/news/7869756/defiant-dad-shares-pic-kiss-david-beckham-harper/amp/

 

Still kissing your 16 year old child on the lips is weird IMO.