Peculiar People Day

[Shorty]

I received an email from Mental Floss notifying me that it's Peculiar People Day!

So, nerds, what makes you peculiar?

[Araciel]

Pen and paper RPGs... Apparently they're so weird.

[Psychotic]

I collect nose hair trimmings from famous people. The pride of my collection is one from the guy who played Crabbe in Harry Potter!

[Shorty]

Do you use them to concoct Polyjuice potions?

[Loony BoB]

I am exactly normal. This day is obviously not for me.

[Psychotic]

I am exactly normal. This day is obviously not for me.

You just had to one-up me by having a real hair collection didn't you?

[Sephex]

When I am really drunk or ambien is hitting me really hard, I am absolutely convinced that my cat can understand English. So I end up talking to the cat for a couple of hours telling her it's cool if she speaks my language at me because sometimes she is vague on what she wants by standing around and meowing. I promise her I won't tell nobody. It doesn't help that when I do this, she sometimes gets wide eyed and darts out of the room.

She knows.

[Pumpkin]

I am a food separatist. This apparently makes me peculiar. Sharky's dad treated me like some rare species when he saw me separating my food.

I don't want my food to touch if it isn't supposed to touch!

[sharkythesharkdogg]

Let's stand together and end food apartheid.

Solidarity, brothers and sisters.

[Heath]

For about a year I was a regular on PostCrossing and amassed quite a large collection of postcards, which I think people thought was a bit peculiar. My postman certainly did.

[Parker]

cool a day where annoying lolrandom people can be even more random and whacko and weird and lolpeculiar and irritating to me

[Ayen]

Having to look up the word peculiar.

[Calliope]

For about a year I was a regular on PostCrossing and amassed quite a large collection of postcards, which I think people thought was a bit peculiar. My postman certainly did.

This may be my new favourite website.

[Bunny]

I've been here since 2006.

[noxious.sunshine]

Sometimes I still roleplay. In a chat room. With a very old friend. We're rarely on at the same time when we're both available (and in the mood) to do so. I've never admitted this to anyone ever, actually.

Also, like most people here in EoFF, I listen to an extremely wide range of music- from pop to rock to "truck driver country" to Japanese Rock & Pop, K & C-Pop, to Spanish Cumbia, Bachata, Reggaeton, Duranguense, Rock, etc, and "Old School" Rap.. I've also got some other stuff on my iPod as well.

I'm intermediately fluent in Spanish. I consider myself more on the Basic level, but to every non-Spanish speaker, I'm totally fluent. I also tell everyone that I specifically speak Mexican Spanish. That's the dialect I know best. Yes, Spanish is widely spoken in many different countries, but there are different words for different things and I know the Mexican terms for them.

I also know how to cook authentic Mexican food. My rice and beans are just as good as any Mexican grandmother's. That actually might be overreaching a bit, but every non-Mexican that's had my Mexican cooking has said that it's better than anything they've ever had in a restaurant.

I've had so many non-Hispanic people be like "OMG EW. Do you like -think- you're Mexican? 'Cuz that's kinda really gross." 'cuz of those 2 things plus my daughter is 1/2 Mexican..

Plus I guess the fact that I'm so open & honest about things .. Like I don't care if people know that I've gone through a couple of drug addictions or that I've been in an abusive relationship or that I've done pretty much everything I've done. I try not to talk about those things as much, but I don't hesitate to be like "Oh this one time, I was really tweaked out and this happened".

Those things, I guess, make me peculiar.