I recently saw an ad for biscoff and I was surprised that people would eat them randomly. The only time I ever eat biscoff is on a plane when the flight attendant gives me some. Don’t get me wrong I absolutely love them but I rarely think about it as something I can just go buy in a store. Seeing the ad was so jarring because to me it doesn’t feel like something I should eat a lower altitudes
I like to grab door handles with my just my index and pinky fingers. I don’t know why. I’ve been doing it since I was a kid. It just amuses me a little. I think I started doing it pretending to be an alien.
Like devil horns style?
Yeah
Pick some fresh berries from my balcony planter. Do a little happy dance while eating them.
I’m a 50+ y/o man.
I love this for you. What kind of plant is it? I’m slowly building my own balcony garden.
Wild strawberries grow small and give very tasty little fruits. They are easy to grow on a balcony though quite dramatic and need plenty of water when there is sun and heat. First year they didn’t give almost any fruit but second year on I have a handful of harvest daily all of late summer. Very satisfying.
I’ve tried having small bushes of goose berries but they got hit with mildew, probably because there wasn’t enough exchange of air.
Try different things, see what works where you are.
My dad’s and I both occasional partake in a specific ritual that goes as follows:
- Crack open an ice cold Coke Zero (also works with coke. And probably other colas).
Take a few sips while you either pull fresh from the garden or out of the fridge:
- Radishes
Wash them up. You can slice, quarter or leave whole.
Get snacking.
Enjoy your fresh, slightly spicy (or really spicy depending!) radishes with your cold bubbly coke.
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Wait.
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Burp
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Transcend this mortal plane, bask in the glory of the radish and coke burps that follow.
Fin
When browsing through used books, I try to guess which year the book was published based on typefaces, graphics, etc. and check with the copyright date on one of the front pages. For books published after ~1960, my guess is usually good to within 4 years.
I do this too, usually because I’ve run across an odd word choice or turn of phrase. I am way less accurate though.
I like barking and do it well enough that some dogs bark back to me. Most won’t, but some also have funny reactions.
It’s more of a stupid habit, but I always lock my car twice. I know pressing the button once locks every door, but I can’t stop myself.
It’s not stupid. Most cars will signal whether or not they are locked properly on the second press.
That’s true, that’s a really good point. I just never see anyone else do it but me.
Mine locks on the first press, then beeps to confirm on the second (within a timer). I press it twice because every once in a while I’ll mix up the buttons and actually hit unlock, which has a different confirmation beep.
A few years ago I decided I wanted to improve my hand flute skills and began consciously practicing daily. Since then, I have developed the habit of playing the hand flute automatically when my hands are not busy.
When I become aware of my hands, I need to position them so that my fingers wouldn’t interfere with each other if they were ten times their length. I think something happened to me when I watched Edward Scissorhands.
Tapping the top of a beer can before opening it.
It’s polite to knock first.
Hah, that’s good. Thank you for that 🍻
Biscoff and tea pair well!
While lounging, I will interlink my big toes. I honestly didn’t know I did it until my wife saw it and with a look of horror asked what I was doing 😆
All square snacks must be flipped into the mouth. Bite edge of snack, flip it (somehow, I got no idea. that’s my mouths job), chew. Repeat.
Eat chips and crackers normally. Square though? Must flip!
I love Biscoff cookies, but had never had them outside of a snack on a plane either. First time I realized they sold them at stores was when my local Costco started carrying them in giant boxes, which is a little like being Sir Gallahad the Chaste, and stumbling into the castle Anthrax.
Aldi has a pretty goof knockoff version in normal size packages if you have problems with moderation 😉
But to answer your question, a long time ago, my wife and I did the “Love you”, “Love you too”, “Love you… three?” thing, and apparently got up to 5 before we decided it was silly. Many years later, “Love you five” is the normal response to “Love you”.
that is so cute tho lol
I don’t know, everything I do could be silly, but it’s normal to me
I’m not superstitious, but when I’m walking on sidewalks or tile floors I have tended to try to avoid cracks or lines. It’s an easy but engaging puzzle to try to do it while maintaining a normal gait, like the ambulatory equivalent of Sudoku.
Then, one day, my high school geometry teacher taught us about angle bisectors and the game changed permanently. Now, in addition to visible lines, any line intersections now produce invisible bisector rays that must also be avoided. I made a picture to show where you can’t step on a sidewalk. It has been decades since high school geometry and I still try to avoid bisector lines any time I’m on a suitable floor. I have never added another rule to the game since, and it wasn’t til this post that I thought about how strange that is.
