mildly interesting

[ironymaiden]

Tell me an interesting fact about yourself and I will reply with an interesting fact about myself that I think of when I read yours. It may be entirely related, or only related in the weirdest, broadest definitions.

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[dorchadas]

My shitty mutant power is that I interfere with radio reception when at extremely short range. The summer I worked a job painting houses, the foreman banned me from working anywhere near the boombox because I'd make the music staticky.

[ironymaiden]

not exactly me, but...my family kills digital watches. both my brother and my grandmother could disrupt a digital wristwatch within a few days. my brother can send a plasma globe wild without making contact - it starts throwing filaments when his hand is about 8 inches away.

[annofowlshire]

I guess my interesting fact is that people seem to think my Life Story is Very Interesting, but I think I'm dull as dirt XD

[ironymaiden]

me too. the one that always gets me is the "you grew up on a farm?!?"

[buhrger]

a mildly interesting fact about me: i'm too paranoid to post personal information to a public post? does that count?

[ironymaiden]

I'm too paranoid to have any device in my house that listens for input - Alexa, Kinect, what-have-you - and I won't install Facebook on my phone.

[jesse_the_k]

Smart.

I'm deleting my gmail addresses in 2019, and just stepped through erasing Google's info on me. Jeez-o-pete, it's not fast.

Start here: https://myactivity.google.com/myactivity

[ironymaiden]

ugh, that's another place I need to turn off voice recording. too bad, I like their text to speech.

[solarbird]

I see ultraviolet light as ordinary visible light. I don't know how far into that range, but quite a bit more than anyone else I've met.

[ironymaiden]

I can't see the "Magic Eye" effect, with or without vision correction.

[moem]

I peed against my local tax office building once. It was harder than it sounds, because my genitals are of the 'innie' variety. But I made it work.

[ironymaiden]

on my first overnight backpacking trip (as a teen) I didn't eliminate at all, I just held it for a weekend. partly because I didn't know how to do it without making a mess, and partly because I certainly didn't drink enough water.

[moem]

I can completely see myself doing that under similar circumstances.

[jazzfish]

I was in fourth grade before I went to the same school for two years running.

[ironymaiden]

my family lived in one place from before I was born until after I finished college.

[phosfate]

I was attacked by an elephant when I was 3.

[ironymaiden]

I went missing at Circus World (a now-defunct theme park in Florida) when I had just turned five. I was drafted into some kind of parade with some clowns; they swooped me up and did NOT return me to where I started at the end of the parade. I had no idea that I was lost until my family found me again.

[phosfate]

I'm terrified of clowns and would never have stopped screaming.

[ironymaiden]

the reason I was not terrified was because a clown let me touch his hand and feel that he was a regular person in a costume. made a huge difference (I was with my parents at the time; I was also terrified up until that point.)

[phosfate]

I knew they were people under there (our local clowns are super cheap). I think the idea that somebody would choose to do that and do it so badly is part of what frightens me.

I went into a restaurant once and the local clown alley took the giant table next to me to have a meeting. Did you know clown insurance is a thing?

[ironymaiden]

makes sense to me. I'm sure they get kicked and hit all the time (in addition to the hazards of doing physical comedy).

[phosfate]

Apparently it's liability insurance for if someone is allegedly hurt by a clown gag. Like they take a piece of thrown hard candy to the eye.

[ironymaiden]

[phosfate]

oh god don't make me laugh i've got one of those four-week cough things... x_x

I visited the Faroe Islands when I was young

[jesse_the_k]

and I ate leg-of-lamb that's been hung out to age for nine months. It was actually delicious

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skerpikjøt

Re: I visited the Faroe Islands when I was young

[ironymaiden]

when I was somewhere in my teens I asked for and received the Joy of Cooking, and followed their instructions for preparing wild rabbit, which included hanging the carcass for at least 24 hours. my dad loved hunting rabbit but most of the time he gave the meat away due to game meat being the poverty food of his childhood. I wanted the experience of cleaning and preparing something dad had shot (skinning wasn't too bad but wow plucking out pellets is a PITA) . I only did it the one time, but now I know that a) it's possible in an ordinary household and b) hanging really can make a tough beast more tender without making you sick.

Re: I visited the Faroe Islands when I was young

[jesse_the_k]

Huh.

What kind of climate did you hang your rabbit in?

(The Faroes are basically a natural refrigerator: temps hover around 40° year round, and no flies have survived the Atlantic voyage.)

/yes I have the icon for everything.

Re: I visited the Faroe Islands when I was young

[ironymaiden]

it was in Pennsylvania during rabbit season, so it probably would have been during the early fall. (there is a winter rabbit season, but I remember that it wasn't freezing or snowy outside.)

[kollmm]

I have a super sense of smell, which includes the (not entirely consistent) ability to smell when women are fertile. It comes across as a very distinct smell, and I can pick it up in elevators, or wherever. It’s quite distinct, like getting smacked in the face.

Yes, I know that sounds stupid. But I’ve verified it, (although never with a random stranger because GROSS) and it does seem to be at least occasionally true.